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I discovered Eldera through a mention in the NYSARA Monday Alert. Intrigued by the brief mention, I contacted them directly and am very pleased that I took the initiative. Run by three enthusiastic people dedicated to establishing links across generations, Eldera has set up a network of mentors and children who have weekly conversations, reading sessions, and the like on Zoom. It is great for retirees like me; my mentee is a 7 year old girl from Korea living in California, who is quickly becoming "American". We have a 30 to 45 minute Zoom meeting weekly and have great fun together. I retired some 23 years ago and have been engaged in many activities; I can truly say that this is one of the most rewarding. "Francine Frank, Professor Emerita – U Albany SUNY
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Conversations and real connections across generations are happening with people from Alabama to Australia, North Carolina to South Korea and Colorado to Kuwait. Just this month, a 12 year old boy from South Korea, with the help of his mentor in Chicago, published his first book "Beautiful Teorems that Changed Math" now available on Amazon with all profits given to a pediatric cancer organization. Two people on two continents, born almost 60 years apart met on Eldera during COVID and both of their lives have changed forever and the ripple effects of their connection is already being felt.
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Pakistan–France relations are the bilateral, cultural, and international relations between Pakistan and France. The relationships are based on military, defence, cultural, educational cooperation and economic ties. Trade between the two countries is generally increasing with time.

History

The foreign relations between Pakistan and France were first established on 31 July 1951 when both countries agreed to open embassy services in each countries. France was one of the first non-Muslim states to recognize Pakistan, opening its embassy about 2 months after Pakistani independence In August 1960, a farewell trade treaty was signed; followed by import-export treaty that was concluded October 1966. During the Cold war, France considered Pakistan as "state deserving attention", and had been a major foreign supplier of Pakistan Armed Forces.

After the Cold war, France's foreign policy has been noted for decades for its
special Gaullist flavour, which was not much altered under the long Presidency of socialist François Mitterrand (1981-1995). French Presidents visited India more often than Pakistan, and Paris has never met the expectations of Islamabad regarding the U.N. resolutions on Kashmir. The relations again suffered many set back in 1998-99 when Paris saw the Kargil episode as a dangerous Pakistan initiative, considering the new nuclearised regional context. Though, France has always been to encourage dialogue between India and Pakistan, without offering mediation in such an intricate issue. There was some impatience in Paris decision-makers circles when the Line of Control was crossed above Kargil in an obviously well prepared operation.

Military and strategic cooperation
Since 1967, France had been an important partner, particularly for PAF and the Navy. In 1967, France sold first batch of its Mirage fighters as well as sold the submarine technology to Pakistan. The PAF bought second-hand batch of Mirage fighters in 1990; followed by a contract signing in 1996 for the acquisition of 40 reconnaissance aircraft. The PAF is the largest customer of France's aerospace industry with numbers of fighter and civilian aircraft having been sold to Pakistan since 1967 till the 2000s. The Navy has also an established defence connection with France, the best known purchasing of Daphné class submarine and the submarine technology transfer of the Agost class which was signed in 1994.

In 2009, France agreed to provide financial capital to expand the use of nuclear power in Pakistan. While, the officials at Islamabad termed it as "significant move", the Foreign service office maintained that: "France has agreed to transfer civilian nuclear technology to Pakistan."  The French Foreign ministry had confirmed that the country was ready, within the framework of its international agreements, to "co-operate with Pakistan" in the field of nuclear safety. "This is so the Pakistan's programme can develop in the best conditions of safety and security", the French foreign officials added to APP. After the agreement, France maintained that "this is the beginning of a civil nuclear partnership and the cooperation will be limited to nuclear safety."

In May 2011, France stopped selling heavy military equipment to Pakistan in order to ease Indian concerns. During a visit to India, the French defence minister Gérard Longuet said France did not want to be seen "feeding Pakistan's military ambitions".

Trade and economic relations
The first trade agreement was signed in 1966, and Pakistan is currently ranked as 65th import partner of France.  The bilateral trade was reached to US$313 million in 2009.

Charlie Hebdo protests
In 2020, thousands of protesters opposing France's defense of freedom of speech held rallies in cities across Pakistan, against the re-publishing of the Charlie Hebdo cartoons of the Islamic prophet Muhammed, including publishing controversial images. They called on the Pakistani government to cut diplomatic and trade ties with France, which was quickly reported on by TRT World. The protesters burnt the French flag and said they were willing to avenge what they considered to be blasphemy against Muhammed in a peaceful way.

In April 2021, the French government advised French nationals and French companies to temporarily leave Pakistan amid violent anti-French protests by the TLP party and meanwhile the Government of Pakistan clearly told the TLP party that Pakistan will not tell the French ambassador to leave the country and the Government will protect the French friendship at any cost. Thus then, Pakistan banned the radical far-right TLP party.

Visit to France by Pakistani Army Chief
From 13 June 2022 to 17 June 2022, COAS Qamar Javed Bajwa attended the Eurosatory International Defence and Security exhibition. No protest was held by the Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan nor did they condemn it. Further cementing and confirming that the party has close links to the military.

See also
 Foreign relations of France
 Foreign relations of Pakistan
 Mehmood Bhatti (fashion designer)
 Musa Javed Chohan: former ambassador of Pakistan to France and recipient of the Ordre National du Merite for the promotion of bilateral cooperation between France and Pakistan.
 French people in Pakistan
 Karachi affair
 Pakistanis in France

References

Pakistan
Bilateral relations of Pakistan

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Review: The Big Problem With Cheryl Strayed's 'Tiny Beautiful Things' Stage Adaptation
It takes concentration to listen to other people's problems, and an advice column like Cheryl Strayed's phenomenally popular "Dear Sugar," which the author wrote from 2010 to 2012 for The Rumpus, must both feel warmly personal to whomever is requesting help and strike as many chords as possible for a mass readership.
The advice column, or "problem page," is both personal and collective, and a set of conflicting impulses. The person seeking help does so publicly, if anonymously. The agony aunt or uncle gives their advice publicly, and the reader is caught between rubbernecking other people's tragedies and hopefully feeling compassion or the ring of familiarity in the problems they're reading about—and the advice being offered.
Long before Twitter and Facebook became chock-full of people confessing and revealing their innermost thoughts and feelings, the problem pages of newspapers and magazines were the glimpses we got of what was going on behind people's drapes and inside their minds: the affairs, the grief, the marriage problems, the secretly gay, the child-by-another-man, the aching unhappiness. Strayed—most famously the author of Wild—was part of a new generation of agony aunts and uncles, engaging more directly and tartly with readers: "Dear Abby" gets spiky.
Strayed's much-acclaimed "Dear Sugar" columns first became a 2012 book, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life, and then last year a play, adapted for the stage by Nia Vardalos of My Big Fat Greek Wedding fame, and co-conceived by Strayed alongside Marshall Heyman and the director Thomas Kail.
Oskar Eustis, the Public's artistic director, says the play is as close he has come to a religious experience. "Watching it, I am both delighted by life's possibilities and brought in touch with the tragedies that are an inevitable part of our lives."
Now the play has returned to the Public, and—judging by the many sniffles around me—some people found it, like Eustis, extremely moving; me, rather less so.
The conceit used by the play is to place the action within the physical space of Strayed's home, an appealingly clutter-filled and lived-in kitchen and living room space designed by Rachel Hauck. Vardalos plays her with a clipped and knowing warmth; she's the cool sister who's swallowed a huge-dose of new-age self-love and knowledge.
The other cast members—Teddy Cañez, Hubert Point-Du-Jour, and Natalie Woolams-Torres—play a gallery of those with problems who write to her. They are obviously unseen by Vardalos, yet they all wander around the house, which doubles as their own domestic spaces, eating potato chips, sitting on the couch, leaning on the kitchen counter, pouring an orange juice, then pouring it away and going for a neat vodka. When they are not speaking, efficiently lit by Jeff Croiter, they sit or retreat to the shadows.
What is intense and very readable on the page is somewhat more lackluster on the stage, which is a recitation of problems, and Strayed's responses to them. These responses are invariably fluent and delivered with a smooth wisdom. Many of the problems are sad and even searing, others provide light relief. The play may make you laugh as well as cry.
Some letters go unanswered and are used to show how many letters, and their variety, that Strayed received. "I get seasick and I have a boat trip coming up with my boss. He doesn't like me. I mean, he really doesn't like me. I don't want to go on the trip, I want to call in sick before I get on the boat and get seasick. What's your advice?"
Or: "I am a 35-year-old woman, I lost my job and am entering into an arrangement with a married man: we will rendezvous twice a week and he will pay me $1,000 a month. I have many thoughts and questions, including: is this taxable income?"
The first letter Sugar/Strayed responds to properly is by somebody, "Confused," who wants to know when the right time is to say, "I love you."
Sugar's response emblemizes everything that people who loved "Dear Sugar" probably love. It offers advice, but not before we hear a lot about Strayed, who as a problem-solver consistently inserts herself and her own experience into the spinning of a solution. Her empathy appears impossible to express without her own self front and center. Thus, this response begins with "love," the last word her mother ever said to her before she died.
The rest of her response, its tone, and Vardalos' tone on stage, is soporific, delivered in a kind of scratchily kind and careworn monotone that sounds bored, but containing words that are passionate and alive:
"You asked me when is the right time to tell your girlfriend that you think you love her and my answer is when you think you love her. Be brave. Brave enough to break your own heart. Tackle the motherfucking shit out of love. Look, we're all going to die. Hit the iron bell like it's dinnertime."
Well, sure, that sounds great, but Sugar/Strayed's response shows only a partial understanding or desire to understand the person's circumstance. Most of Sugar's responses provide an opportunity for her to write and riff; the questioner feels incidental.
"Dear Sugar" the column—and I say this admittedly as a newbie—feels like it is more about Strayed and less about the people asking for her counsel.
One letter, from a woman "stuck" after a miscarriage is treated to a long treatise on the time Sugar helped underprivileged children, because, umm, just as those kids "reached" for something better, so should the lady who had had a miscarriage. Again, you wonder—as one reader asks her, and which she doesn't really address—why on earth Sugar keeps having to self-indulgently insert herself into these people's problems. The signoff "Sugar" speaks of a sweetness, yet it is begins to feel, as enforced sweetness can, cloying.
We hear about her now-husband telling her she didn't have to be broken for him; then with gorgeous fluency: "I realized I could be every piece of myself. I could be vulnerable and strong, fearful and fearless, I could be everything I was and wanted to be. And that things could be valid and yet contradictions of each other was the unification of the ancient and the future parts of me."
The wisdom, the self-knowledge gained, rushes like a torrent. But how did Sugar/Strayed attain such floaty but steel-strong self-enlightenment? The complexity of that trajectory remains a mystery.
She claims that there are advice columnists who position themselves as "The Ones Who Know." She says she is "The One Who Doesn't Know But Who Will Work Really Really Hard To See What I Can Find." On stage, however, she seems very much the former rather than the latter (whatever the hell the latter means).
On stage, Sugar's narcissism is exacerbated because the play doesn't use any dramatic device to create a piece of narrative. There is no sense of jeopardy, no progression, no development of Strayed as a character. For 85 minutes we are merely privy to her as a pajama trouser-wearing hip seer who has seen it, done it, lost it, and got it back again.
We hear references to her drug addiction and the breakdown of her first marriage, but these merely stand as rough totems of a life lived: We do not get to hear how these periods of hardship came to be, what they actually involved, the damage they did, and how meaningful emotional repair from them was achieved. They happened, she's parceled them up, and here they are ready to be dispensed, bite-sized, to others. Trauma has been made convenient and consumable. Our knowledge that she has suffered it is apparently all we need to know; this is her qualification.
Sugar's best responses are the snappiest ones, such as when she advises—with merciful brevity—someone to stop lusting after someone else, who, notes Sugar, "is like a motorcycle with no one on it. Dazzling. Going nowhere."
Online or on the page, you can dip in and dip out of advice column correspondence; a play holds you, as spectator rather than reader, a different kind of hostage. Instead of a story here, there is a scattering of stories, leading to a kind of crown jewel of sniffle-producing stories.
This section, about a father's grief over the death of his son is beautifully acted by Cañez, who is the play's standout performer.
Before this moment, he and Vardalos have also crafted the perfect resolution to a reader, "WTF," who consistently asks Sugar "what the fuck" about life generally, and here the depth of sadness and loss contained within his letter and Sugar's own struggle to even attempt to ameliorate it are both brilliantly crafted.
There are also some piercing moments toward the end, where the brevity of Strayed's writing again proves so much more powerful than the gloopy, be-your-best-self sermonizing preceding it. She recalls, for example, a coat her mother gave her, and the sight of some purple balloons held by a little girl while Strayed was strung out on heroin.
These autobiographical anecdotes have their roughness smoothed away to make a point which is enshrined in the title of the play. They are too brief and fleeting, but said crisply and directly to us they reveal, finally, something glinting of Strayed herself.
A little too late, Sugar acquires some snap.
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package inox
package solvers
package theories

import inox.transformers.TreeTransformer
import utils._

trait TheoryEncoder extends transformers.ProgramTransformer { self =>
  val targetProgram: Program { val trees: sourceProgram.trees.type }
  val trees: sourceProgram.trees.type = sourceProgram.trees
}

abstract class SimpleEncoder private(override val sourceProgram: Program)
                                    (override val t: sourceProgram.trees.type)
                                    (override protected val encoder: transformers.TreeTransformer {
                                      val s: sourceProgram.trees.type
                                      val t: sourceProgram.trees.type
                                    },
                                    override protected val decoder: transformers.TreeTransformer {
                                      val s: sourceProgram.trees.type
                                      val t: sourceProgram.trees.type
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                                    extraFunctions: Seq[t.FunDef],
                                    extraSorts: Seq[t.ADTSort])
  extends transformers.ProgramEncoder(t, sourceProgram, encoder, decoder)(extraFunctions = extraFunctions, extraSorts = extraSorts)
     with TheoryEncoder {
  def this(sourceProgram: Program,
           encoder: transformers.TreeTransformer {
             val s: sourceProgram.trees.type
             val t: sourceProgram.trees.type
           },
           decoder: transformers.TreeTransformer {
             val s: sourceProgram.trees.type
             val t: sourceProgram.trees.type
           },
           extraFunctions: Seq[sourceProgram.trees.FunDef] = Seq.empty,
           extraSorts: Seq[sourceProgram.trees.ADTSort] = Seq.empty) =
    this(sourceProgram)(sourceProgram.trees)(encoder, decoder, extraFunctions, extraSorts)
}

class NoEncoder private(val p: Program)
                       (override val sourceProgram: p.type,
                        override val targetProgram: Program { val trees: p.trees.type },
                        override val encoder: p.trees.ConcreteIdentityTreeTransformer,
                        override val decoder: p.trees.ConcreteIdentityTreeTransformer)
  extends TheoryEncoder with transformers.ProgramTransformer {

  def this(p: Program) =
    this(p)(p, p.asInstanceOf[Program { val trees: p.trees.type }], new p.trees.ConcreteIdentityTreeTransformer, new p.trees.ConcreteIdentityTreeTransformer)
}


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Former Guyanese Attorney General and legal luminary, Sir Fenton Ramsahoye died in Barbados on Thursday at the age of 89. Ramsahoye was a Guyanese lawyer and politician who served for over 20 years in Antigua and Barbuda.He studied at London University where he was awarded his BA in 1949 and LLB, LLM in 1953 and 1956 respectively. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn on February 10, 1953 and was awarded a PhD in Comparative Land Law from London School of Economics and Political Science in 1959.Ramsahoye was at the forefront of the independence movement. In 1961, he was elected a Member of Parliament of Guyana and remained in Parliament until 1973. He was the Attorney General of Guyana from 1961 to 1964 under the Cheddi Jagan-led People's Progressive Party and a member of Board of Governors of the University of Guyana from 1962 to 1964.As of 2006, he held the record for making the most appearances before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in the Caribbean. Ramsahoye was appointed Senior Counsel in Guyana in 1971. From 1972 to 1975 he was Deputy Director of Legal Education for the Council of Legal Education in the West Indies and head of Hugh Wooding Law School as a professor.Ramsahoye was a Queen's Counsel and a member of the Bars of England and Wales, Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Jamaica, the territories of the Eastern Caribbean including Montserrat, and the British Virgin Islands. He was knighted in 2006 by Governor General, Sir James Carlisle during a ceremony at Government House in Antigua.In a statement issued by the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), it stated that it mourns the passing of Sir Ramsahoye, noting that Guyana has lost a great asset to the legal fraternity.DPP Shalimar Hack said Ramsahoye was a great legal legend of Guyana, the Region and the Commonwealth. He served selflessly throughout the Commonwealth Caribbean Region particularly at the Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice."He distinguished himself academically and subsequently in his practise at the Bar especially at the final Courts of Appeal for the Region, The Privy Council and the Caribbean Court of Justice. While doing so he also served his native country as its first local Attorney General with distinction. So distinguished was his service that he was knighted by the Head of the Commonwealth, Queen Elizabeth," she noted in her statement.Reminiscing, the DPP said despite having knowledge of Ramsahoye's failing health, his death still came as a shock. She explained that he appeared for the State in many criminal appeals at the Caribbean Court of Justice, the most recent being the case of Mark Royden Williams and James Anthony Hyles, more commonly referred to as the Lusignan Massacre case."The legal community, especially in the Caribbean Commonwealth Region has lost a human encyclopedia where legal matters are concerned, be it criminal, civil or constitutional. He was a bottomless well when it came to the law which he expounded from his memory, including the history of the law. Despite being well versed in many areas of the law he was always willing to learn about new aspects. I saw this with him with the introduction of modern anti-money laundering laws. His writing and eloquence is another aspect to be recognised, commended, remembered and emulated. He is truly an icon in the law. He had a command of the understanding of the law and applied it with diligence, astute finesse and integrity," she noted.In addition, the Bar Association of Guyana hailed Ramsahoye's commitment to the practice of law."For over 50 years, since the publication of his treatise 'The Development of Land Law in British Guiana' in 1966 when he was 37 years old, lawyers have been thumbing its pages as the standard text on land law in Guyana.Regionally, Sir Fenton has been earning acclaim since the 1970s in the area of human rights in the many cases argued by him at the regional appellate level and in the Privy Council in England from a variety of Caribbean countries. Since the establishment of the Caribbean Court of Justice in 2005 and until recently, Sir Fenton utilised his considerable legal skills in representing litigants in the region's highest Court," the Bar Association said.Meanwhile, his Excellency David Granger extends heartfelt condolences at the passing of Sir Fenton Harcourt Ramsahoye."Sir Fenton, who passed away earlier today in Barbados at the age of 89, was a distinguished Guyanese attorney who authored the book, The Development of Land Law in British Guiana", a missive from the Government stated.Ramsahoye passed away of natural causes. Throughout the Caribbean, governments hailed Ramsahoye's commitment to the practice of law while mourning his death. read more
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OpenAI is giving artificial intelligence researchers a new way to test and evaluate their research. The organization has announced Universe, a software platform designed to train and measure the general intelligence of AI across games, websites and applications."Universe allows an AI agent to use a computer like a human does: by looking at screen pixels and operating a virtual keyboard and mouse," the OpenAI team wrote in a blog post. "We must train AI systems on the full range of tasks we expect them to solve, and Universe lets us train a single agent on any task a human can complete with a computer."Researchers will also be able to turn their programs into Gym environments. (Gym is OpenAI's recently launched toolkit for reinforcement learning.)The new platform already has support and permission to access games and apps from EA, Microsoft Studios, Valve and Wolfram. OpenAI plans to integrate more solutions in the future. (Related: What's in store for the next generation of the IoT?)While AI has seen major advancements in the past couple of years, OpenAI explains AI agents cannot bring their experiences to new tasks yet, which is why they created Universe. "Our goal is to develop a single AI agent that can flexibly apply its past experience on Universe environments to quickly master unfamiliar, difficult environments, which would be a major step toward general intelligence," the team wrote."If we are to make progress toward generally intelligent agents, we must allow them to experience a wide repertoire of tasks so they can develop world knowledge and problem-solving strategies that can be efficiently reused in a new task."Environments currently include Atari games, Flash games, extracting rewards, browser tasks, browser interactions, and real-world browser tasks.OpenAI plans to release a "transfer learning benchmark" to help researchers determine the progress on their experiments. read more
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Google Pixel XL 2 was spotted on GFXbench and some expected specs surfaced.
Now a new leak came up showing Pixel XL2 having Android 8.0. Which is the latest OS to be launched.
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Pixel will be a 5.7 inch display of 1440×2560 pixels. Camera shooter of 12MP primary and 8Mp Secondary.
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Here is John Lahr--"the most intelligent and insightful writer on theatre today" (The New York Times)--at his trenchant best, reinventing the celebrity profile. Honky-Tonk Parade illuminates some of the compelling, elusive, and important artists of our time, who talk to Lahr with rare candor. His portraits weave together biography, anecdote, and shrewd interpretation. On the roster of greats are Dame Edna, Steve Buscemi, August Wilson, Cole Porter, Dame Judi Dench, Ang Lee, Billy Connolly, Kenneth Tynan, Yip Harburg, Mira Nair, Baz Luhrmann, Laurence Fishburne, Bill Hicks, Richard Rodgers, and Tony Kushner.
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La basílica de San Lorenzo(en alemán: Basilika St. Lorenz)
es una basílica menor barroca en Kempten, Baviera al sur de Alemania, pertenece a la Iglesia católica.

Es la antigua iglesia de la abadía benedictina de Kempten. Actualmente se utiliza como la iglesia parroquial católica de San Lorenzo en la diócesis de Augsburgo. Una iglesia fue construida en el lugar en el , pero fue incendiada en 1478.

El abad de Kempten, encargó al arquitecto Michael Beer de los Grisones construir una nueva iglesia para servir a la parroquia y al monasterio. La primera piedra de la Basílica de San Lorenzo se colocó el 13 de abril de 1652. Esta fue una de las primeras grandes iglesias construidas en Alemania después del final de la Guerra de los Treinta Años.

Michael Beer construyó la nave, la planta baja de las torres y el coro. Fue sucedido por Johann Serro el 24 de marzo de 1654 .

La iglesia fue consagrada el 12 de mayo de 1748.

Véase también
Iglesia católica
Basílica de San Lorenzo

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Basílicas de Alemania
Iglesias de Alemania del siglo XVIII
Iglesias barrocas de Alemania
Iglesias de Baviera
Kempten
Arquitectura de 1748
Kempten
Iglesias con cúpula de Alemania


224. Rearrange the letters in the word "impart" in order to make a new word. Which sentence below best describes the new word?
225. On christmas morning the four siblings, Luke, Mary, Alice and Jane got their presents. The parents spent the same amount of money on each child. Alice had four presents, which was more than Jane, but less than Luke and Mary, and Mary had the most.
Who is most likely to have received the gift that was the most expensive?
226. All Italians speak Greek. All Greek speakers have cars. Which of the following MUST be true?
227. Ben is rich but Jim is richer. Mike is poorer than Jim. Who is the richest?
228. For Lydia's birthday all her friends gave her money. Salvia gave a lot, but not as much as Luke, she gave more than laura though. Dave gave less than Laura and Bryan, and Bryan gave more than Sylvia.
Who gave Lydia the smallest amount?


Raised in Goslar, Patrick Rogalski aka Rogge is now living in the heart of Kreuzberg.
We met our team rider in front of his home near the Kottbusser Tor and followed him through his day.
To start this sunny day in October in a proper way, we needed something to eat first. Pizza with a homie sounds perfect. Pizza ordered take away and off into the sun, that's the way to live it.
… the next skatepark for a relaxed session is the MBU Skatepark (Maybachufer). There you can always meet one or the other to skate together or to catch up a bit. That Rogge can do beautiful kickflips is proved here once more.
…and there is the Nano coffee in the Dresdener Straße. Here you can get a good cup of coffee at any time. It's also just around the corner of Rogge´s home.
or even skitched on the closest scooter.
A visit to the IRIEDAILY Brand Store is a must-do when cruising through the Oranienstr.
PPS: On Thursday the new theme "sportive retro" launches in the IRIEDAILY Brand Store.


Merchant Road was originally named "Theatre Street" in reference to the cluster of Chinese opera houses and streetside performances that were frequently organised in the area. Subsequently, when merchants began to gather and reside in the location in large numbers, it was renamed Merchant Road. Most of the buildings along the road were developed in the 1990s such as Merchant Court Hotel and Riverside Point and today, the road houses office buildings and retail spaces. This piece showcases a piece of the past that still exists in the architecture of shophouses, a contrast to the modernity of Singapore today.
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The New Worldview Paradigm in RE: Implications for the Nonreligious?
By Sharmini M
The Department of Religious Studies hosted their successful live panel discussion event, The New Worldview Paradigm in RE: Implications for the Nonreligious?, on Wednesday 2 December.
Across the United Kingdom, Religious Education is subject to its most thorough-going review in a generation, with proposed reforms described as a paradigm change for the sector (Cooling et al 2020). Amongst other issues, proposals offered by the Commission on Religious Education in England and Wales and by the Welsh Government respond explicitly to the growing number of people who identify as nonreligious: What could this new approach to Religious Education mean for them? Their recommendations take better account of nonreligious perspectives than ever before. But is it right to assume that these proposed changes to RE are a straightforward "victory" for those that have called for better representation of nonreligion in the RE classroom? Does implementation of these proposals – already underway in some schools – mean that religious and nonreligious worldviews exist on a level playing field?
Panel members included Professor Trevor Cooling (Canterbury Christ Church University and Religious Education Council of England and Wales), Dr Ruth Wareham (Humanists UK) and Dr Lois Lee (University of Kent). The event was chaired by Dr Chris Deacy (University of Kent).
Event organiser, Dr Lois Lee, Senior Lecturer at the University of Kent's Department of Religious Studies, commented, "This event brought together leading figures from education, the media and the humanist movement as well as international researchers to discuss one of the most pressing issues of the day — which not only concerns the fate of Religious Education in schools at a once-in-a-generation moment of transition, but also the future of religion and nonreligion in public life in general."
Andrew Brown has also written up a piece about the event titled, 'The RE relic needs non-religion to survive' for the Religion Media Centre, which provides daily stories for journalists.
You can watch the replay of the live event on YouTube.
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One of the main attributes of a state is the existence of an effective customs administration which is able to control borders and facilitate their crossing, through specific routes and official checkpoints. In the case of Kosovo, Customs were created in 1999, and with the assistance of the international community, they could become a modern institution and address the challenges most customs are confronted with – in particular the prevention of corruption and controlling all borders.
Kosovo separated from Serbia in 1999. Such a move meant the need for new customs, with their border checkpoints. In August 1999, the Customs Service of UNMIK was established with the support of the EU; the new body was responsible for applying customs regulations and other provisions on all goods which are subject to customs supervision, as imports or exports. Following the adoption of a new Customs Code by the Assembly of Kosovo, "UNMIK Customs Service" became Kosovo Customs in December 2008.
Kosovo Customs' mandate includes: contributing to the economic development of the country; the protection of the borders; the fight against crime, trafficking and smuggling; the protection of trademarks; the control of both imports and exports; the collection of import duties, VAT and excises; protecting the environment and the health of the citizens; recording and providing statistics; supporting trade facilitation, particularly with CEFTA members. Kosovo Customs have a complex mandate indeed, which requires general and specific competences, and material resources.
The recruitment of customs officers started immediately after separating from Serbia. The newly recruited staff came from various backgrounds, however, most officers had little or no knowledge at all of customs matters. In other words, training (especially on-the-job training) was quite essential to build new capacities in terms of human resources, with an ethical perspective in mind.
The EU provided significant help to put in place, develop and strengthen Kosovo Customs. In fact, the EU assistance does concentrate on implementing a strategy named "Integrated Border Management" to fulfil duties related to border control, the freedom of movement of citizens and goods, and also combat negative tendencies such as, for instance, the smuggling of goods and the trafficking of human beings.
Since 1999, the US Government provides support to the development of economic activities in Kosovo. It also helps to enhance trade conditions with the adoption and the effective implementation of customs harmonization procedures in accordance with internationally accepted standards, including the World Customs Organization (revised) Kyoto Convention on the Simplification and Harmonization of Customs procedures.
The Washington-based institutions were also involved in the building of the Kosovo State from its beginning.
Considering the IMF, a special importance was given to Customs because Kosovo started with a very basic tax system relying mostly on tax collection at the border.
The World Bank is involved in Kosovo with activities that do belong to its Trade Facilitation Support Program.
Regular bribes alter expectations and behaviors of both civil servants and private businesses. Thus, they may lead to a worsening of ethical values in the administration and also impact negatively on private investment plans. In the specific case of Kosovo, as mentioned in a 2013 report of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) on Business, Corruption and Crime in Kosovo, "The public officials with the highest risk of bribery in interactions with businesses are customs officers, officials in the tax/revenue administration and municipal or provincial officers." According to the same document, the prevalence of bribes is the highest with customs officers (1.9 percent). Such practices take place because of frequent interactions with the administration and the existence of face-to-face meetings.
According to recent news, the period January 15-September 15, 2015, would correspond to the highest tax collection ever since the establishment of customs, with an increase of about 7.5% or 44.7 million euro above what was collected during the same period in 2014. Apart from the effect of the new (and higher) excise rates on tobacco and alcohol drinks and the liberalization of import of used vehicles, this can be attributed to anticorruption measures and the improvement of customs procedures.
Preventing and fighting corruption in the state administration does require a strict enforcement of rules with deterring penalties. The private sector has also to be fully involved in the fight against corruption, especially as a whistle blower. In addition, so-called "e-governance" – with adequate portals – should be seen as a plus because it does reduce the scope of face-to-face contacts.
Kosovo Customs fully control in an effective manner all borders, in all regions, including those regions where minorities are located. Thus, significant efforts have been made to improve the control of borders, with the support of the international community, in particular the EU. Until a year ago, there might have been some grey spots, especially in so-called North Kosovo. In that respect, it is worth mentioning the warning that can be read on the website of the Foreign Office: "There were a number of security incidents in the north in 2012/13 affecting the route between Kosovo and Serbia via Gate 1 (Leposavic) and Gate 31 (Zubin Potok). Use alternative routes for travel between Kosovo and Serbia if possible." (Reference date: 12 October 2015). In fact, such a warning is not anymore justified.
Overall, Kosovo has a well-functioning customs administration. Nevertheless, despite such a positive assessment, corruption in the customs must continue to be addressed relentlessly with adequate measures, which implies a fair and equal treatment of all economic operators.
In addition, for the sake of transparency and completeness, an accurate assessment of customs fiscal performances – in terms of revenue collection – must take into account and properly weigh all pertinent factors, including the adoption of new taxation rates.
From a governance perspective, it is also most essential not to mix politics and the working of a key-administration like the customs – both professionalism and integrity must remain top priorities with human resources, at all levels.
Naim Huruglica led the Kosovo Customs for a decade. As head of the Customs, he supported the development of a modern fiscal system and effective trade policy, and negotiated trade issues with neighboring countries. Presently, he works as consultant for state bodies and international organizations. He studied macroeconomics at Pristina University and obtained a Master degree in international finance at Sheffield University, UK. He also teaches international business.


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Sculptures and a secret garden: the story of Old Graham
Posted on 19 October, 2018
On 27 and 28 October, Canberrans have the chance to peek inside a 'secret garden', see an historic homestead and walk round a most unexpected sculpture park. This is the story of 'Old Graham'.
A drive in the country was a game changer for a Canberra couple, and the start of a truly unique 'garden'. One day, about 25 years ago, John and Liz Baker found themselves on a back road in rural New South Wales, having taken the 'scenic route' home to Canberra from Dubbo, when they came across a "derelict old stone house, with holes in the roof, broken windows and sheep grazing around it."
"We stopped to stretch our legs and to look at it when the owner appeared—apparently she'd had people stealing the bath and fireplaces from the house and thought we might be up to the same trick," says John.
"We chatted and she showed us inside—it was a really scary—with a dead sheep in one room, rotten floors and so on. Driving back to Canberra we talked about what a beautiful old place it must have been and maybe we could buy it and restore it."
And so they did. So began a restoration project which continues to evolve decades later, and is now known as 'Old Graham'.
A fascinating history
The house has a fascinating history. Originally built in 1878 as a private home for Edward and Mary Ann Kerr, rooms were added in the following years to allow it to open as the Glencoe Inn in 1884 with a Grand Supper and Ball. The celebrations were short-lived, however, as Edward died of a heart attack in November of that year and Mary Ann a year later of 'intemperance', (which was not surprising as she had ten children to support).
"The house then became the homestead for a series of owners who were sheep graziers — it was abandoned in the 1950s and so had not been lived in for about 40 years when we found it. It was in a very bad state."
The house was restored according to heritage restoration principles, retaining as much original material as possible and replacing like with like. The house was then furnished with Australian cedar furniture, restored brass beds, old light fittings and many original items that may have been found in a house of that age.
John has collected anything and everything from farm clearing sales that would have been found on a sheep grazing property of the time, ranging from large machinery and vehicles to fence strainers, rabbits traps, blacksmithing gear and so on.
An enchanting garden
While the homestead itself is a charming step back in time, it's the surrounding garden that elicits gasps from visitors.
Liz's green thumb and encyclopaedic knowledge of plants saw her transform an open sheep paddock into a lush garden with stone walls, paths, a sunken garden, a pergola as a framework for her planting of roses, irises, a pond and bog garden and a range of native shrubs. Trees she planted 25 years ago are now maturing and include White Cedars, Elms, a Tulip Tree, a Bunya Pine and a Bull Bay Magnolia.
A most unusual find
Then there's the 'sculpture park' — the surrounding hills and valleys of Old Graham dotted with around 70 strategically placed sculptures — the vast majority from Canberra or regional NSW, with 20 created by students from the ANU School of Arts. It's certainly not what you'd expect to find on a rural property half an hour from the nearest town. So how did it come about?
"We had been keen art collectors for many years and reached the stage where our walls at home were full of paintings, so we drifted into buying some sculptures which we started to take out to Old Graham," says John.
"There we started to position them around the house garden and in the house paddock. Things slowly got out of control as we bought more and more sculptures."
The Folly, as seen in UNVEILED. Photography: Loriana Fotografia.
The pieces are truly diverse. The 'Folly', constructed of six 100-year-old Sydney sandstone columns is a great family favourite with a fantastic view of the valley. A large bronze head by Patricia Lawrence stares out from Pine Hill. The 'Glockenspiel' purchased at Sculpture by the Sea creates wonderful chimes whenever the wind blows at the top of the hill. A steel bench with a stylised figure on it called 'Flaneur' by well-known Canberra sculptor Michael Le Grand is a great place to have your photo taken.
At the other extreme are nine standing stones, each weighing several tonnes and some standing three metres high, offcuts taken from an old quarry where granite slabs were formerly quarried for cutting into kitchen bench tops and positioned high on a ridge, where the setting sun casts a golden glow.
Unsurprisingly, it's hard for the couple to name a favourite.
Haeli Van Veen's 'Beast', as seen in UNVEILED. Photography: Loriana Fotografia.
"All of the sculptures are so different that they each have something that appeals about them. Haeli Van Veen's 'Beast' , a two-metre high moose made of driftwood and steel, stands on the horizon and can be seen from the road — it has caused quite a few drivers to do a double take," says John.
Amy Power's fibreglass 'Bambi' , as seen in UNVEILED. Photography: Loriana Fotografia.
"Rosalind Lemoh's three-metre high copper 'Garden Spade' looks just like a normal spade until somebody stands next to it. Then there is Amy Power's fibreglass 'Bambi' that stares menacingly at you from under the trees. The Labyrinth is a great way to get exercise or to meditate! We could go on and on!"
John Baker's 'The Labyrinth', as seen in UNVEILED. Photography: Loriana Fotografia.
As a private property, it's a rare treat to experience Old Graham, but in late October the Bakers will be opening the farm gates in an Open Garden which will give others a glimpse into a property like no other—and a different way of life.
"Old Graham has been our retreat from a busy consulting business in Canberra and has given us a complete change of pace," says John.
"It has provided us with lots of exercise, a better understanding of the difficulties and rewards of rural life and a chance to make friends in a part of country New South Wales which is far from the world of Canberra, where we still live for more than half of the time."
Visit the Open Garden
Detailed notes on Sculpture Walks will available, with morning and afternoon tea and lunch catered by Frogmore Community Hall, or you can take a picnic. Liz will also have home made jams for sale, the spoils from Old Graham's many fruit trees.
Doesn't a drive in the country sound like a wonderful way to spend a weekend? You never know what you might find…
What: Old Graham Open Garden
When: 10 am to 4:30 pm Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 October 2018. Program here.
Where: 3021 Frogmore Road, Hovells Creek. Located 43km from Cowra and 50km from Boorowa. Detailed directions here.
How much: $7 entry
Web: myopengarden.com.au
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Around two years back, for the first time, I had an opportunity to design and implement a dynamic website, with a team. Though it took few weeks to digest the HTTP's stateless model and the associated browser quirks, soon we could apply all the standard application tricks to HTML page designing. For an OOP addict, the ASP, or the plain JSP model of mixing script and html was as harsh as metal scratching metal. It was immediately certain that if at all we use JSP, custom tag is the way to go. By which, we separate the tag structures from the java coding, through the elegant taglib model.
But still, this total dependence of the application to the web infrastructure was still reeking with bad smell. After all, a web interface is only one face of an application. Also, we were not ready for full fledged application server based design, due to its seeming heaviness. So JSP is out and Servlet is in. At least, JSP as a way of mixing HTML and script, is definitely out. The servlet has its own drawbacks. The idea of generating HTML tags with Java code was like squashing a bug with a sledge hammer. We needed the flexibility of JSP with the Independence of Servlet.
The newly learnt jargons of XML-XSL came to the rescue. With XSL you can generate HTML, just like in JSP. But unlike it you cannot mix in server-side script inside it. XSL is a way for generating pure presentation output. Any code based manipulation should be externally performed and fed in as XSL parameters. This was at once appealing and liberating. So, the model now was, to use servlet for request marshaling, and the HTML generated by a battery of XSL files, using Java's XSLT API. This meant that all our content has to be converted form the regular SQL resultsets to XML, through Java.
Soon we also decided that we just needed only one servlet, whose job was only to route the requests and the parameters to appropriate Java classes (we even made this dynamic, by loading the appropriate Java classes only in runtime, as configured in a property file). Initially we were guilty of such drastic simplification! Of reducing the whole web architecture dependence to just that one servlet. But it made sense, as we realized that servlet is just for that: to connect our server-side code to the client's browser.
Even till today, I'm happy that we hit upon such a model. But we were secretly aware that we were not alone in this drastic rethinking of the web architecture. I soon stumbled upon the Apache-Jakarta project called Coccon. Initially I was put off by its huge size and seemingly heavy learning curve. Also, from many people, we heard that, there is another project called Struts that played in the same arena with promise. I wondered why there are two projects from the same stable for solving the same problem? So the exploration began, and this essay is the result. I should warn you, that this article is in no way a tutorial of these OpenSource products. This is just my sort of First Impression Report, and a leisurely reflection upon the architecture of these two products with respect to our above model.
There was an interesting surprise in the Cocoon model, which made me think that we could have been bolder in simplifying the 'Home Grown Model'. From the conventional view point, a run-time XSL transformation is a heavy overload, when compared to the pure static HTML. True, but ASP/JSP/Servlet is not much different from the XSLT load. In fact there is not much to design in a static website which only has HTML pages and some pictures. So, once we decided that we need dynamic content, XSLT is not too different from JSP like models. With this mental background, where XSLT is barely breaking even with JSP, the idea of multiple XSL transformation, before sending it over HTTP, was like an unpardonable sin! But this is exactly what Cocoon does. Short of completely eliminating Java, it manages with just XML and XSL, with java only in the silent background.
Cocoon made me remember my pet theory that, properly planned, the future programming could reduce to a suitable graph network, where the nodes are XSLT converters and the edges are the XML content transmission protocols.
...what are then the modern Application Architecture options available to us? If key module-to-module communication can be in neutral terms with ports and XML, then it doesn't matter if these models are in the same machine or across the world. Of course, performance is still a deciding factor, before going overboard and converting all our method calls as port calls. All the same, an application can now be imagined as a bunch of Service modules which communicate over neutral channels and format, and possibly with neutral semantics as well (i.e. the XML schema too might be a global standard, instead of a proprietary one). And all that remains of programming is to code these Service Nodes which just transform some input XML to some other output XML, not altogether a OO demand at all.
If you imagine all the service nodes as points, and their interconnections with other services as directed lines. Then what we have for an application is a network of points and lines. Now, if the semantics of these communication (i.e. if XML is the universal format, a particular schema of tag structure is the semantics) is an international standard, draw that line in red, and if it is proprietary then in black. If done, then our application network would be many points with red or black colored directed (arrowed) lines connecting them. We can say that as the number of red lines grow, the application is to that extant an extensible and maintainable product, since any new vendor can deliver a module with better performance and yet with complete integration assurances. This is really the promise of the Web Services paradigm, where a service is the software equivalent to the IC of electronics.
In this light, seeing Cocoon made me envious of those admirable minds, who dared to go beyond the fear of too many runtime transformation becoming a bottleneck, to a dream of completely separating the concerns, to the point of reducing Java like coding to the absolute minimum. You must realize, that today, with the tremendous processor speed and the spacious RAMs, and above all an optimized monster servers, the speed is really not a concern. You can always throw in more hardware. The issue now is having a portable content, which is ultimately extendable and scalable. Cocoon realizes this fully, hence exploits and combines the simplicity of XML with the versatility of XSL. Its design advocates multi-level XSL transformation before sending out the response. All the same, Cocoon 2 claims to optimize fiercely to production quality, by using SAX parsers instead of the memory and CPU gobbling DOM.
There are very many jargons to be learnt in Cocoon. As Cocoon itself admits, the concepts of SiteMap and XSP (eXtensible Server Pages), have a steep learning curve. But the heart of the whole framework is nothing short of a revolution (as its early founder, Stefano Mazzocchi -mad-zoki-, rightfully claims). After some time with its docs, I'm bit uncomfortable with its over simplified model of Actions, which ridiculously simplifies all the programming needs with the elegant Apache Jakarta Avalon Framework. If this is true, what it means is, that the whole site management can be done with XML-XSL alone, with java only for producing those starting XML 'seeds' (so to say).
Match the request URI with RegEx, Wildcards etc. and branch it off to an appropriate Pipeline. This process selection phase can also be done with Selectors (which can use things like Browser types, parameters etc.), and with Actions which are just Java classes which take in a list of Name-Value pairs and churn out a modified list of those Name-Values.
A pipeline is just the Generation of the initial XML for the given request, Transforming it in many stages, finally Serializing it into a response format. There is also a very nice capability of Aggregating the XML output of two or more Pipelines, and continuing with the Transformation.
The key idea here is to use one of the Generators to create the initial XML. This generation of XML could just be a physical XML file, or a JIT created Directory structure (with Ant like selectability), or RDBMS, or maybe from other Template based content creators like Apache Jakarta Velocity, or from a legacy Java Script file, etc.
Once the initial XML is created, we can Transform it with our own XSL file, or with any one of the standard transformers coming with Cocoon, like for I18N, Logging or SQL etc. There could be as many number of transformations as you like.
Serialize just means to convert your XML output of transformation into a non-XML formats (usually) like PDF (using Apache FOP project), PNG/GIF/JPEG image file (Yes! through SVG - Scalable Vector Graphic XML markup language - using Apache Batik project), or into MS Excel or Word file format (using Apache Jakarta POI project), etc.
Of course, there are many other tricks for handling Errors, Views etc. for which you can use the decent documentation available with Cocoon downloads. Installing Cocoon is just copying the Cocoon.war file to the Tomcat webapps folder (but due to some mismatch of the XML parser versions, you have to follow few jar copying rules stipulated in the Cocoon installation pages).
Trying to understand the Cocoon project, I happened to stumble upon so many nice projects in Apache Jakarta, that are used by Cocoon. I do realize that what little I've explained here about Cocoon is pathetically cryptic. But, my idea is to start on this survey of distributed server/web strategies, and give you a taste of the motivation behind such notable efforts, in the eyes of a personal experience. To me, the realization that the efforts of my previous team is up-to-date enough, was heart warming. I hope this gives you as much confidence in innovating, as much as it gave us. Soon, I'll try to continue to explore Cocoon, Struts and others, in much more detail. Mainly I'd like to arrive at some unifying architectures, that we can discuss and standardize at TATTVUM, so as not to be put off by so many wonderful upcoming projects and models. So, please do comment.


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