Sebastian Vettel fell 17 points behind Lewis Hamilton in the Formula One championship after the Briton won the Spanish Grand Prix and the German came fourth.
Fresh from his triumph on Sunday, Hamilton will split Mercedes' time with a familiar face, testing the Silver Arrow on the opening day on Tuesday before team mate Bottas takes over the W09 for the second segment of running.
"It has been a rejuvenating experience", he said. "It's the greatest feeling to have that kind of performance and a convincing win". But once the Safety Car pulled in at the end of lap six, Hamilton was in a race nearly on his own, a rapid first stint suggested that there was one man in contention for the win. I don't know what happened.
"We still need to add performance to the vehicle throughout the year, so that's what we're going to be continuing to be working on". Hamilton was serene but stressed victory had by no means been a simple task.
"In the end it was hard because I did almost 45 laps with the medium!" he said, adding that one-stopping had never been the team's original strategy.
"Apparently, the changes that were made did us more harm than it did our opponents", Ferrari's Vettel said.
Despite the upturn, concerns remain at Mercedes as to whether their auto is able to put its tyres in the correct temperature operating window.
He said that the Commerce Department, the U.S. authority which has imposed the seven-year ban, had been told to "get it done". Ordering a denial may have been the Commerce Department's idea of playing hardball to force compliance.
Despite their lack of pace in Spain, where not only were they not able to extract the same speed from their tyres as Mercedes but were also unable to coax them to last as long as the silver cars, the Italian team have had the most versatile auto so far this season.
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They had concealed the acquisition of funds and transfers, Mnuchin asserted, adding that the treasury was acting with the UAE. Iran's central bank helped the IRGC to access United States dollars via "a large-scale currency exchange network", he said .
Assuring that no one is pulling his strings, the premier said it was his own decision to give the explanatory statement. He said his party wants normal relations with India, but New Delhi keeps misleading the world opinion.
Goals from Jamie Vardy , Riyad Mahrez and Kelechi Iheanacho had put the Foxes into a 3-1 lead by the 47th minute at Wembley. Spurs battled through a poor performance to grind out a win in a game that was lacking in quality and spectacle.
In 2007 that she hadn't had a manic episode in 11 years. "She was a source of human strength in a film about superhuman strength". As news broke of Margot's death tonight, her Lois Lane Superman co-star Teri Hatcher took to Twitter to pen a heartfelt message.
The creation of the new committee comes amid increasing competition from world governments to be seen as leaders in AI. The White House is hosting the "Artificial Intelligence for American Industry" event Thursday.
Trump's move has sparked a range of reactions, with some countries welcoming it and others condemning it. However, there is no guarantee that the current diplomatic line-up would remain the same.
I thought I missed the cut by one. "There's so much noise in front of us with Tiger, and you wonder what everybody is doing". Jimmy Walker closed with a bogey-free 67 and tied for second with Charl Schwartzel and Xander Schauffele, who also shot 67s.
Liverpool also need a point to ensure they will play Champions League football next season, regardless of how this years final pans out.
Trump has acknowledged reimbursing his lawyer for the payment to Stormy Daniels but denies her allegations. Many were caught off guard by the news, as there was no word of the First Lady's condition until Monday.
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Clean energy actions saving companies $3.7 billion a year, cutting annual carbon pollution equivalent to 45 coal-fired power plants.
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Washington, DC (April 25, 2017): Despite efforts in Washington to sideline action on climate change, a growing number of Fortune 500 companies are taking increasingly ambitious steps to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, procure more renewable energy and reduce their energy bills through energy efficiency, according to a new report released today from World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Ceres, Calvert Research and Management (Calvert) and CDP.
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Findings from the new report, "Power Forward 3.0: How the largest U.S. companies are capturing business value while addressing climate change," are based on 2016 company disclosures to CDP, which holds the world's largest collection of self-reported corporate environmental data, and other public sources.
"American businesses are leading the transition to a clean economy because it's smart business and it's what their customers want," said Marty Spitzer, World Wildlife Fund's senior director of climate and renewable energy. "Clean energy is fueling economic opportunity from coast to coast without regard for party line. Washington policies may slow this boom, but these companies are making it very clear that a transition to a low-carbon economy is inevitable."
The report highlights the financial benefits companies receive from their clean energy investments: Nearly 80,000 emission-reducing projects by 190 Fortune 500 companies reporting data showed nearly $3.7 billion in savings in 2016 alone. The emission reductions from these efforts are equivalent to taking 45 coal-fired power plants offline every year. Praxair, IBM and Microsoft are among the companies saving tens of millions of dollars annually through their energy efficiency efforts.
The 240 companies with targets have set one or more of the following goals: GHG reductions, energy efficiency improvements, or renewable energy sourcing. Two hundred and eleven companies have set a GHG reduction goal, making it the most common target.
"We are encouraged to see significant improvement in both the number of Fortune 500 companies setting climate and clean energy goals and the ambition of those goals – in particular commitments to setting science-based and 100 percent renewable energy targets," said Anne Kelly, senior director of policy and the BICEP network at Ceres. "But in order to meet our national and global emissions goals, more companies will need to join the champions highlighted in this report, both in setting goals and in becoming vocal advocates for continued federal and state policies in support of climate and clean energy progress."
Ten percent (53) of companies have set renewable energy targets, and almost half of those (23) have committed to power 100 percent of their operations with renewable energy – among those, Wal-Mart, General Motors, Bank of America, Google, Apple and Facebook. The growth in the number and ambition of renewable energy commitments is mainly the result of recent sharp declines in renewable energy costs, which saves companies money, and of price certainty that comes with renewable energy.
"Corporate commitment to energy efficiency and renewable energy is an accelerating trend that illustrates broader recognition within the business community of the importance of clean energy and the financial benefits it can yield," said Stu Dalheim, vice president of corporate shareholder engagement for Calvert. "Many of the largest companies in the U.S. are achieving significant cost savings through clean energy programs and mitigating longer-term risks associated with energy price volatility."
Some of the strongest efforts are also among Fortune 100 companies, with nearly two-thirds (63 percent) adopting or retaining goals. The report also shows strong improvement among the smallest 100 companies in the Fortune 500, with 44 percent setting goals in one or more categories, up 19 percentage points from the 2014 report.
The report shows a significant spread in target setting among different sectors, with Consumer Staples (72%), Materials (66%), and Utilities (65%) sectors leading in setting clean energy goals and the Energy sector (11%), including oil & gas companies, significantly lagging.
"CDP and the investors we work with, representing over US$100 trillion in assets, engage thousands of the world's largest companies to measure and manage climate-related risks" said Lance Pierce, president of CDP North America. "Voluntary corporate disclosure highlights the compelling business case for corporate clean energy procurement and clearly demonstrates the transition underway in the energy markets. Companies in turn have benefited, identifying billions of dollars in savings and new opportunities through their disclosures to CDP."
The report includes key recommendations for companies, policymakers and investors to continue to scale clean energy efforts, such as:
Companies should continue to set, implement and communicate clean energy targets, while supporting local, state and national policies that make it easier to achieve their climate and energy commitments.
Federal and state policymakers should establish clear, long-term low-carbon polices that will help companies meet their clean energy targets while also helping the U.S. meet its carbon-reducing commitments under the Paris Climate Agreement.
Investors should consider allocating their investments to companies well-positioned for the low-carbon economy. Investors should continue to file shareholder resolutions and engage in dialogues with companies to encourage them to set climate and energy efficiency targets and position themselves for a low-carbon future.
For more information and to download the full report, click here.
Source: MySocialGoodNews.com as part of CSRlive's collaboration with Your Mark On The World
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Agalarov Oligarchs Sell NYC Real Estate
Emin Agalorov, son of Aras Agalarov
The Daily News quoted me in Oligarch family in Trump Russia dealings sells $2.8M Manhattan apartment. It opens,
The oligarch tied to President Trump's dealings in Moscow sold a multimillion-dollar apartment in Midtown as his family's name began to surface in the Russia investigation.
Irina Agalarova, the wife of Kremlin-connected billionaire Aras Agalarov, closed the sale of her pad on W. 52nd Street at the end of June, according to city property records.
The two-bedroom property fetched more than $2.8 million, up only $300,000 from what the Agalarovs paid for it last February.
It was not immediately clear why the wealthy family, whose patriarch rose from his roots in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan to become one of the biggest real estate developers in Russia, chose to sell its Manhattan digs.
The sale, which had not previously been reported, closed roughly 15 months after the apartment was purchased.
Agalarov's connections to Trump came under scrutiny as part of the probes into alleged Moscow meddling in the 2016 election.
Property documents list the Midtown apartment contract date as May 11, as investigations into possible Kremlin collusion with the Trump campaign heated up with the firing of FBI Director James Comey.
The family's connections to Trump go back further, however, to when Emin Agalarov, the pop-star son of Aras, featured Miss Universe in a music video.
That choice that later led to the family bringing Trump and his Miss Universe pageant to Moscow in 2013, with the then-reality TV star trotting out his catchphrase, "you're fired," in another of Emin's Europop videos.
Trump and Agalarov also had discussions about creating a Trump Tower Moscow, which never materialized.
While Aras Agalarov had a passing mention in the unverified "dossier" against Trump published in January, his family was brought back into investigators' orbit after Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, unveiled his list of foreign contacts in late June.
Those contacts included a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian lawyer promising dirt on the Clinton campaign that Aras Agalarov had obtained from Moscow's top prosecutor.
Emails show that Rob Goldstone, the British publicist for Emin Agalarov, told Trump Jr. that the information was part of the Russian government's "support for Mr. Trump."
Trump Jr. and others have said that nothing came of the meeting, which also included Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort, Kushner, Goldstone, Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, Russian-American lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, a translator and Agalarov employee Ike Kaveladze.
News of the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting sparked interest in the oligarch family's dealings, including that Aras Agalarov had put his posh home in Bergen County, N.J., up for sale in mid-June.
Real estate website Zillow shows that the listing was removed on July 14, in the aftermath of the Trump Jr. emails.
Scott Balber, a lawyer representing the Agalarovs in the U.S., told the Daily News Wednesday that the timing was not in any way a reaction to swirling investigations in Washington.
"There is absolutely no connection between selling these two properties to anything in the news," Balber said.
"I can assure you that Mr. Agalarov knows a lot more about real estate investment than you or I do," he said.
In fact, the Agalarov clan's properties in New York, which public records show include two other apartments, are just a few tacks on the map of foreign buyers gobbling up Manhattan real estate.
David Reiss, a real estate expert at Brooklyn Law School, told The News the buyers from abroad can have numerous motivations for coming to New York including "getting real estate as an asset class, taking money from their home country and bringing it abroad so it can't be clawed back by the local government, or to have another home for family members."
While Balber trumpeted his client's investment acumen as a reason for the sale, Reiss said that the $300,000 gain may have actually been a loss after other fees are included, raising questions about its use as an investment.
"In the context of the Agalarovs' portfolio this is probably a very small item so it was unlikely that this was considered a significant investment by the family," he said.
While Reiss said there are no indications of wrongdoing on the Agalarov's part, money laundering has become a persistent worry as multimillionaires and billionaires stash possibly ill-begotten cash in Manhattan apartments.
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Manafort's Mystery Mortgage
Posted on May 16, 2017 by David Reiss
NBC News quoted me in Manafort Got $3.5M Mystery Mortgage, Paid No Tax. It opens,
Former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort took out a $3.5 million mortgage through a shell company just after leaving the campaign, but the mortgage document that explains how he would pay it back was never filed — and Manafort's company never paid $36,000 in taxes that would be due on the loan.
In addition, despite telling NBC News previously that all his real estate transactions are transparent and include his name and signature, Manafort's name and signature do not appear on any of the loan documents that are publicly available. A Manafort spokesperson said the $3.5 million loan was repaid in December, but also said paperwork showing the repayment was not filed until he was asked about the loan by NBC News.
News of the missing documents comes as New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is taking a "preliminary look" at Manafort's real estate transactions, according to a source familiar with the matter.
On August 19, 2016, Manafort left the Trump campaign amid media reports about his previous work for a pro-Russian political party in Ukraine, including allegations he received millions of dollars in payments.
That same day, Manafort created a holding company called Summerbreeze LLC. Several weeks later, a document called a UCC filed with the state of New York shows that Summerbreeze took out a $3.5 million loan on Manafort's home in the tony beach enclave of Bridgehampton.
Manafort's name does not appear on the UCC filing, but Summerbreeze LLC gives his Florida address as a contact, and lists his Bridgehampton home as collateral.
A review of New York state and Suffolk County records shows the loan was made by S C 3, a subsidiary of Spruce Capital, which was co-founded by Joshua Crane, who has partnered with Donald Trump on real estate deals. Spruce is also partially funded by Ukrainian-American real-estate magnate Alexander Rovt, who tried to donate $10,000 to Trump's presidential campaign on Election Day but had all but the legal maximum of $2,700 returned.
The mortgage notice for the loan, however, was never entered into government records by the lender. A mortgage notice normally names the lender, and gives the interest rate, the frequency with which payments must be made, and the length of the mortgage.
Real estate experts contacted by NBC News called the omission "highly unusual," though not illegal.
David Reiss, a professor at Brooklyn Law School who specializes in real estate law, said, "It would be totally ill-advised to not record the loan on the property that is being secured. … Recording the mortgage on the property protects the lender." Without it, there's no public record that the borrower owes money.
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Manafort's Real Estate Deals
Posted on March 28, 2017 by David Reiss
WNYC quoted me in Paul Manafort's Puzzling New York Real Estate Purchases. The story opens,
Paul J. Manafort, the former Trump campaign manager facing multiple investigations for his political and financial ties to Russia, has engaged in a series of puzzling real estate deals in New York City over the past 11 years.
Real estate and law enforcement experts say some of these transactions fit a pattern used in money laundering; together, they raise questions about Manafort's activities in the New York City property market while he also was consulting for business and political leaders in the former Soviet Union.
Between 2006 and 2013, Manafort bought three homes in New York City, paying the full amount each time, so there was no mortgage.
Then, between April 2015 and January 2017 – a time span that included his service with the Trump campaign – Manafort borrowed about $12 million against those three New York City homes: one in Trump Tower, one in Soho, and one in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn.
Manafort's New York City transactions follow a pattern: Using shell companies, he purchased the homes in all-cash deals, then transferred the properties into his own name for no money and then took out hefty mortgages against them, according to property records.
Buying properties using limited liability companies – LLCs – isn't unusual in New York City, nor is borrowing against a home to extract money. And there's no indication that Manafort's New York real estate borrowing spree has come to the attention of investigators. In an emailed statement, Manafort said: "My investments in real estate are personal and all reflect arm's-length transactions."
Three Purchases, Lots of Questions
Manafort's 2006 purchase of a Trump Tower apartment for all cash coincided with his firm's signing of a $10 million contract with a pro-Putin Russian oligarch, Oleg Deripaska, that was revealed last week in an investigative report by The Associated Press.
For the Carroll Gardens home, a brownstone on Union Street, Manafort recently borrowed nearly $7 million on a house that was purchased four years ago for just $3 million. The loans – dated January 17, three days before President Trump's inauguration – were made by a Chicago-based bank run by Steve Calk, a Trump fundraiser and economic advisor.
Nine current and former law enforcement and real estate experts told WNYC that Manafort's deals merit scrutiny. Some said the purchases follow a pattern used by money launderers: buying properties with all cash through shell companies, then using the properties to obtain "clean" money through bank loans. In addition, given that Manafort is already under investigation for his foreign financial and political ties, his New York property transactions should also be reviewed, multiple experts said.
One federal agent not connected with the probes, but with experience in complex financial investigations, said after reviewing the real estate documents that this pattern of purchases was "worth looking into." The agent did not want to speak for attribution. There are active investigations of Manafort's Russian entanglements by the FBI, Treasury, and House and Senate Select Committees on Intelligence. Manafort has denied wrongdoing and has called some of the allegations "innuendo."
Debra LaPrevotte, a former FBI agent, said the purchases could be entirely legitimate if the money used to acquire the properties was "clean" money. But, she added, "If the source of the money to buy properties was derived from criminal conduct, then you could look at the exact same conduct and say, 'Oh, this could be a means of laundering ill-gotten gains.'"
Last spring, the Obama Treasury Department was so alarmed by the growing flow of hard-to-trace foreign capital being used to purchase real estate through shell companies that it launched a special program to examine the practice within its Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCen. The General Targeting Order, or GTO, required that limited liability company disclose the identity of the true buyer, or "beneficial owner," in property transactions.
In February, FinCen reported initial results from its monitoring program: "about 30 percent of the transactions covered by the GTOs involve a beneficial owner or purchaser representative that is also the subject of a previous suspicious activity report," it said. The Trump Treasury Department said it would continue the monitoring program.
Friends and Business Partners
According to reports, Manafort was first introduced to Donald Trump in the 1970s by Roy Cohn, the former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who went on to become a prominent and controversial New York attorney.
Long active in GOP politics, Manafort also worked as a lobbyist for clients who wanted something from the politicians he helped elect. His former firm – Black, Manafort, Stone and Kelly – represented dictators like Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines and Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire.
In the 2000s, Manafort created a new firm with partner Rick Davis. According to the recent investigative report by The Associated Press, Manafort and Davis began pursuing work in 2005 with Oleg Deripaska, one of the richest businessmen in Russia. Manafort and Davis pitched a plan to influence U.S. politics and news coverage in a pro-Putin direction, The AP said.
"We are now of the belief that this model can greatly benefit the Putin government if employed at the correct levels with the appropriate commitment to success," Manafort wrote in a confidential strategy memo obtained by The AP.
In 2006, Manafort and Davis signed a contract to work with Deripaska worth $10 million a year, The AP reported.
Also that year, a shell company called "John Hannah LLC" purchased apartment 43-G in Trump Tower, about 20 stories down from Donald Trump's own triplex penthouse. Manafort confirmed that "John Hannah" is a combination of Manafort's and Davis's respective middle names.
The LLC was set up in Virginia at the same address as Davis Manafort and of a Delaware corporation, LOAV, Ltd., for which there are virtually no public records. It was LOAV that signed the contract with Deripaska – not the "public-facing consulting firm Davis Manafort," as the AP put it.
A lawyer for John Hannah LLC signed the deed on apartment 43-G for $3.675 million in November of 2006. But Manafort's name did not become associated formally with the Trump Tower apartment until March of 2015, three months before Trump announced he was entering the presidential race in the lobby 40 stories down. On March 5, John Hannah LLC transferred the apartment for $0 to Manafort. A month later, he borrowed $3 million against the condo, according to New York City public records.
A year later, Manafort was working on Trump's campaign, first as a delegate wrangler, then as campaign manager. Trump's friend and neighbor had become a top advisor.
In a text message that was hacked and later obtained by Politico, Manafort's adult daughter, Jessica Manafort, wrote last April: "Dad and Trump are literally living in the same building and mom says they go up and down all day long hanging and plotting together."
In August 2016, The New York Times published a lengthy investigation of Manafort, alleging he'd accepted $12.7 million in undisclosed cash payments from a pro-Putin, Ukrainian political party between 2007 and 2012. Manafort resigned as campaign manager, but according to multiple reports, didn't break off ties with Trump, who remained his upstairs neighbor.
The White House press secretary, Sean Spicer, said last week that Manafort "played a very limited role for a very limited period of time" in the Trump campaign.
Davis did not return WNYC's calls for comment, but in an email exchange with The AP, he disavowed any connection with the effort to burnish Putin's image. "My name was on every piece of stationery used by the company and in every memo prior to 2006. It does not mean I had anything to do with the memo described," Davis said.
Buy. Borrow. Repeat.
Trump Tower 43-G was not Manafort's only New York property.
In 2012, another shell company linked to Manafort, "MC Soho Holdings LLC," purchased a fourth floor loft in a former industrial building on Howard Street, on the border of Soho and Chinatown, for $2.85 million. In April 2016, just as he was ascending to become Trump's campaign manager, Manafort transferred the unit into his own name and borrowed $3.4 million against it, according to publicly available property records.
The following year, yet another Manafort-linked shell company, "MC Brooklyn Holdings," purchased a townhouse at 377 Union Street in Carroll Gardens for $2,995,000. This transaction followed the same pattern: the home was paid for in full at the time of purchase, with no mortgage. And on February 9, 2016, just after Trump won decisive victories in Michigan and Mississippi, Manafort took out $5.3 million of loans on the property. (Some of these transactions were first reported by the blog Pardon Me For Asking, and by two citizen journalists at 377union.com.)
Though the deals could ultimately be traced to Manafort, his connection to the shell companies would not likely have emerged had Manafort not become entangled in multiple investigations.
Public records dated just days before Trump was sworn in as President show that Manafort transferred the Carroll Gardens brownstone from MC Brooklyn Holdings to his own name and refinanced the loans with The Federal Savings Bank, in the process taking on more debt. He now has $6.8 million in loans on a building he bought for $3 million, records show.
David Reiss, a professor of real estate law at Brooklyn [Law School], initially expressed bafflement when asked about the transactions. Reiss then looked up the home's value on Zillow, a popular source for estimating real estate values. The home's "zestimate" is $4.5 to $5 million.
Reiss said unless there is another source of collateral, it is extremely unusual for a home loan to exceed the value of the property. "I do think that transaction raises yellow flags that are worth investigating," he said.
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Q: Want to get Users group in lambda function I'm creating a custom template to verify email. For this i have created a lambda function in node.js. I need user groups to get role but unable to find in events. Below is my code. I have tried to find a solution but could not get it.
'use strict';

exports.handler = async (event, context, callback) => {

const email = event.request.userAttributes.email;

console.log(context);

console.log(event.request.userAttributes.email);

console.log(event);

const name = event.request.userAttributes.name;

const template = (name) => `<html> </html>`;

  if (event.triggerSource === "CustomMessage_SignUp") {

    event.response = {
        emailSubject: "Activate: Confirm LAGO Account Email",
        emailMessage: template(name, link)
    };
  }
  console.log(event.response);
  callback(null, event);
};

A: You will need to call another method from the sdk to do so in your lambda function. Group name is not available in the event. Change your function to add this before your custom message.
const AWS = require('aws-sdk')
const cognito = new AWS.CognitoIdentityServiceProvider()

exports.handler = async event => {
  // Params for user group list
  const params = {
    UserPoolId: userPoolId, /* required */
    Username: userName, /* required */
  }
  // Check if user is in a group and list Groups as array
  try {
    const userGroup = await cognito.adminListGroupsForUser(params).promise()
    console.log(userGroup)
  }catch (err) {
    console.log('Error', err)
  }
// Handle your custom message after
...

};

You will need to add policy to this lambda as well
[
  {
    "Action": [
      "cognito-identity:Describe*",
      "cognito-identity:Get*",
      "cognito-identity:List*",
      "cognito-idp:Describe*",
      "cognito-idp:AdminGetDevice",
      "cognito-idp:AdminGetUser",
      "cognito-idp:AdminList*",
      "cognito-idp:List*",
      "cognito-sync:Describe*",
      "cognito-sync:Get*",
      "cognito-sync:List*",
      "cognito-idp:AdminListGroupsForUser"
    ],
    "Resource": [
      "arn:aws:xxxxx" //Cognito pool arn
    ]
  }
]


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Q: encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect error keep occurring I am working with data from drug bank which is in XML format.
I try to parse drug name and its mechanisms, but my program keeps throwing the error below:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\erttll\workspace\drugbank_parsing\main.py", line 9, in <module>
    tree = parse("drugbank.xml")
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1182, in parse
    tree.parse(source, parser)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 656, in parse
    parser.feed(data)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1642, in feed
    self._raiseerror(v)
  File "C:\Python27\lib\xml\etree\ElementTree.py", line 1506, in _raiseerror
    raise err
xml.etree.ElementTree.ParseError: encoding specified in XML declaration is incorrect: line 1, column 31

I do not know why this is happening. The encoding of the document is UTF-8.
Here is my code:
from xml.etree.ElementTree import parse
if __name__ == '__main__':
    tree = parse("drugbank.xml")
    root = tree.getroot()
    for drug in root.iter("drug"):
        if drug != None:
            drug_name = drug.findtext("name")
            parmacodynamics = drug.findtext("pharmacodynamics")
            MOA = drug.findtext("mechanism-of-action")
            MOA_result = open(".\MOA_result\%s.txt"%drug_name,"w")
            MOA_result.write(parmacodynamics + MOA)

        else:
            continue

plus: XML header is like this
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


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Paramount Sets a Fast December Release for Chris Rock's 'Top Five'
Just over a week ago, we learned that Paramount Pictures had picked up Top Five, the latest directorial effort from comedian Chris Rock, from the Toronto International Film Festival. While we thought the studio would hold on to the film until 2015, it sounds like they think the film which also stars the "Saturday Night Live" veteran in the lead role, might have some potential to make waves . Deadline reports Paramount has set the film for a limited release on December 5th with a wide release the following week on December 12th. That's definitely a prime awards season release date. Is this Chris Rock's own Annie Hall?
For those who don't know, the film follows Rock, who also wrote the film, as New York City comedian-turned-film star Andre Allen, whose unexpected encounter with a journalist (Rosario Dawson) forces him to confront the comedy career—and the past—that he's left behind. The film also stars Kevin Hart, Tracy Morgan, Cedric The Entertainer, J.B. Smoove, Sherri Shepherd, Anders Holm, Romany Malco, Leslie Jones, Michael Che and Jay Pharoah. There was a lot of buzz for this one at TIFF, and I'm really glad Paramount is releasing it sooner than later.
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I hope Paramount gives it plenty of advertising. This movie deserves to be a hit!
AJ on Sep 18, 2014
I'm really pumped for this, but I'm proceeding with optomistic caution. For every "Annie Hall" there are a dozen "Funny People", with all the hype and all the hope for a smash hit, that ultimately fall flat and leave you thoroughly depressed.
Wafffles on Sep 18, 2014
I am very ready to see what Rock brings to the table. Everything I have read says this may be his best work to date.
DAVIDPD on Sep 18, 2014


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'Green flu' cases expected to rise in Nova Scotia
Doctors Nova Scotia president says despite some health concerns, province will be 'better off' when pot becomes legal
Christopher Connors | Posted: Oct. 14, 2018, 4:37 p.m. | Updated: April 10, 2019, 3:38 p.m. | 7 Min Read
Doctors in Nova Scotia believe cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome (green flu) are expected to rise once legalization begins on Wednesday. - Contributed
SYDNEY, N.S. — Call it the green flu.
Nausea. Uncontrollable vomiting that can last for 24 hours. Severe abdominal pain.
It might sound like the makings of a stomach virus, or a case of food poisoning, but those are the main symptoms of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome. And with Nova Scotia set to legalize recreational use of marijuana on Oct. 17, the voice of Nova Scotia's more than 3,500 physicians says he expects more and more cases to crop up in emergency rooms.
Doctors Nova Scotia president Dr. Tim Holland
"Basically, in chronic users of cannabis, some people seem to develop this cycle of vomiting and stomach pain," Doctors Nova Scotia president Dr. Tim Holland said Tuesday. "It can be somebody who's been smoking marijuana or cannabis for years, every day, and it's fine. And then they suddenly develop these episodes where they'll vomit almost non-stop for a 24-hour period, and nothing seems to help them except hot showers and cannabis use; they'll be fine for a bit, and then they'll have another cycle of vomiting."
Holland said the only way to stop it is to stop using cannabis for weeks.
"But sometimes the only thing that can help it is the cannabis, so it's a really unfortunate syndrome, and we haven't been able to figure out who's likely to get it and who isn't. But once you do have it, the only real solution is to stop."
Holland said he's personally diagnosed a few cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome while practising emergency medicine at Colchester East Hants Health Centre in Truro. However, he suspects it's been around much longer.
"I bet you we've actually seen it for decades. But where patients weren't as comfortable volunteering their cannabis use, we probably never knew what it was before."
Decreased stigmatization and the opportunity to more thoroughly research the health effects of cannabis are two reasons – cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome aside – Holland believes legalization will be good for the overall health of Nova Scotians.
He said more and more patients are open about their cannabis use, and that will continue to improve once it becomes legal. "That's a positive thing because it's much easier for me to make diagnoses, make health recommendations to a patient, when I understand everything that's going on in their life," said Holland, who also co-founded the Newcomer Health Clinic (formerly the Transitional Health Clinic for Refugees) in Halifax and practises family medicine part-time at the Sipekne'katik Health Centre in Indian Brook.
Doctors in Newfoundland and Labrador are taking it a step further.
The Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association will be launching an ad campaign and website called oktotalk.ca to let the public know that it's OK to talk to their doctor if they have questions about how cannabis use might affect their health. The website will also have answers to some of the common questions physicians hear.
"For many, talking about personal cannabis use with their doctor can be difficult or awkward," association president Dr. Tracey Bridger said in an email. "Some patients may feel embarrassed or fear they will be judged."
There are still major health concerns, however.
Holland, 38, said the biggest potential impact is on mental health. People who are prone to psychosis, schizophrenia or manic episodes can be triggered by cannabis use.
"If you have a history of bi-polar disorder or schizophrenia, you should not be using cannabis. You're at high risk of having a psychotic episode. The question around that though is, does that put everybody at risk? And that we don't fully understand. Some physicians are concerned that cannabis use in our late-teens, early 20s could predispose somebody who may not have mental illness toward having it. That said, that evidence is shaky, and we need to have better research into that."
Bridger said while not all of the health risks associated with cannabis use are known or fully understood, cannabis is addictive, and it can lead to many negative health effects. In 2017, the Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association surveyed family doctors, emergency medicine physicians and psychiatrists in the province to ask what sort of things they've been seeing in their patients as a result of recreational cannabis use. In addition to cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome, she said some of the common issues included anxiety, panic attacks, psychosis, and withdrawal symptoms, as well as work-related issues such as the inability to focus or even maintain a job.
Another potential health problem is the question of whether marijuana smoke itself can injure lungs.
Holland said while the full effects aren't known, it's reasonable to assume smoking marijuana can be harmful.
"We know tobacco smoke definitely causes lung cancer – it has horrible effects on the body. We don't yet understand how the smoke with cannabis affects users, but theoretically if smoke causes damage with tobacco, it could cause damage with marijuana, so we are encouraging users to vaporize over smoking."
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Bridger said cannabis smoke contains many of the same harmful toxins found in tobacco, and those chemicals place regular users at an increased risk for developing serious lung diseases like chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, as well as severe allergic reactions.
"Cannabis use can also result in damage to blood vessels, artery inflammation, increased heart rate and chest pain, which is concerning for anyone with a heart condition. While evidence is limited, regular users may potentially be at an elevated risk for developing lung, head and neck cancer."
Impaired driving is an issue
The final big concern for Doctors Nova Scotia is a secondary effect of cannabis use – impaired driving.
"Cannabis can impair driving in many individuals, and that can, of course, cause bodily harm to the driver or the potential victim of a motor-vehicle collision caused by cannabis intoxication," Holland said.
Strong public health strategies are key to making legalization work in Nova Scotia, according to Holland. Before he started his one-year term as president of Doctors Nova Scotia in June, Holland served as chair of the association's policy and health issues committee. In that role, he helped craft six recommendations that Doctors Nova Scotia presented to the province in March, saying they would minimize the harms associated with cannabis use.
With the exception of their suggestion that cannabis be restricted to people age 21 and over, Holland said it appears most of those suggestions are reflected in the Cannabis Control Act.
"I'm optimistic that aside from the age recommendation, they seem to be paying attention to some of the important public health strategies that need to take place. The rollout, of course, is key. As of right now, it looks like things are set up for success," he said.
"So long as we are able to implement the appropriate public health strategies along with legalization, I think Nova Scotia is going to be better off in five, 10 years in regard to the way Nova Scotians are using cannabis and in terms of a public health perspective."
Bridger said while Newfoundland and Labrador Medical Association hasn't taken a position on Ottawa's decision to legalize cannabis for recreational purposes, she believes provincial governments must use the lessons learned from alcohol and tobacco to ensure legislation and regulations are developed to minimize the harms associated with cannabis use.
"While provinces may benefit from increased revenue as a result of cannabis production and sale, we believe that governments' first priority must always be protecting the health and well-being of their citizens. This includes expanded support for prevention, early identification and cannabis cessation treatments within the framework of mental health and addictions. "Governments also have an obligation to establish harm reduction strategies and to increase public awareness about the significant harms associated with cannabis use."
Medical Society of Prince Edward Island president Dr. Kris Saunders could not be reached for comment.
Read the full report: CLEARING THE AIR: Taking Atlantic Canada's pot pulse


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Vera Alida Bergkamp, född 1 juni 1971, är en nederländsk politiker som sedan 7 april 2021 tjänstgör som talman för Generalstaternas andra kammare. Hon är medlem i partiet Demokraterna 66, och har vald representant för partiet sedan 20 september 2012. Hon valdes in i parlamentet vid valet 2012, och har sedan dess återvalts både 2017 och 2021.

Innan hon valdes som ledamot så arbetade hon som chef för human resources vid SVB (Sociale Verzekeringsbank), en nederländsk Quango. Denna ansvarar för administreringen av bland annat statliga bidrag så som pensioner och barnbidrag. Hon har även arbetat som ordförande för COC Nederland, världens äldsta organisation för HBTQ-rättigheter.

Bergkamp studerade offentlig förvaltning och statsvetenskap vid Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

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