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Discussion on "India and France – A connect through Art Diplomacy"
Aman Nair May 30, 2019
Foundation's Center for Soft Power hosted a discussion on the topic of "India
and France – A connect through art diplomacy" in collaboration with Alliance
Française of Madras. The event looked at the connection that India and France
have through their rich artistic traditions, and how the confluence of these
traditions can further strengthen the bonds between the two countries.
discussion featured a number of speakers covering numerous fields including:
H.E. Ms. Catherine Surad, Consul General of France in Pondicherry and Chennai
Mr. Jonathan McClory, General Manager, Asia, Portland Communications and Author, Soft Power 30 Report
Padma Shri. Smt. Chitra Viswesaran, World renowned Bharatanatyam artiste and Padma Shri awardee, who has received honorary citizenship to the city of Bourges in France, for her performances
Mr. Bruno Plasse, Director of Alliance Française of Madras
Mr. Romain Timmers, Founder of Compagnie Distil, a modern circus and vertical dance company.
The Panel constituted speakers from numerous fields of Art and Diplomacy
The Discussion began with a video address from Jonathan McClory, wherein he spoke about the status of Indian and French Soft Power globally today. He noted France's position as being 2nd in the latest Soft Power 30 report, and pointed to its engagement with the rest of the International community as one of the reasons for ranking so highly. When speaking on Indian Soft Power, he noted that while India didn't make it into the top 30 countries, it still excelled in specific fields such as Digital and Cuisine.
"France and India are not the most obvious of partners, and that makes any collaboration between the two countries hugely powerful" - Mr. Jonathan McClory
H.E. Ms. Catherine Surad, spoke to the audience about cultural diplomacy from the French perspective. She spoke about the various elements of France's cultural diplomacy strategy, and broke down how and why they undertook such a strategy. She also noted that this strategy is not one that is superficial but that has had a deep and natural impact in numerous countries across the world.
"The question of Soft Power is, in our view, the question of the cultural diplomacy that we have been practicing since very long ago." - H.E. Ms. Catherine Surad
Padma Shri Awardee, Chitra Visweswaran spoke about her experience travelling across France and bringing her performances to some of the lesser known cities and venues in the country. She spoke about the deep affinity she has for France and how she was able to experience the French way of life, while also imparting some elements of Indian art and the Indian way of life to the people of France.
"It would not be wrong to say that Bharath is my favourite country. But of the remaining, my favourite is France" - Padma Shri. Smt. Chitra Visweswaran
Mr. Bruno Plasse, spoke about the role that Alliance Française plays in ensuring that Indian and French cultural exchanges take place, not just on paper, but at the ground level. He spoke about the efforts to bring authentic French artists to India and of the deep interest that Indian people have shown to France and French culture.
"Though English is widely spread in India.. The love for the French language is still there in India and in Chennai" - Mr. Bruno Plasse
Mr. Romain Timmers, spoke about his journey to India. He noticed that the sound made by the balls in his circus perfectly mirrored the sounds made by the Tabala and Ghatam, and this is what attracted him to India. He started coming to India frequently and now even resides here. He spoke about the differences between his modern circus and traditional circus.
"The sound coming from a left tabla and a Ghatam is similar to that coming from a bouncing ball, which brought me to India" - Mr. Romain Timmers
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Home // University Profiles // Study in Australia // New South Wales
Outdoor pool by the Harbour Bridge, Sydney. Photo credit: Tourism Australia
Sydney Central Business District from the Opera House. Photo credit: Rhiannon Davies
Local wildlife in Sydney. Photo credit: Tourism Australia
Skydiving, Coffs Coast, New South Wales. Photo credit: Virgin Australia
Population: Over 7.2 million
Size: 800,628sq km
State capital: Sydney
New South Wales is the oldest and most densely populated state in Australia – around one in three Australians live here. It is a large state, and varies hugely in its geography and personality, from alpine areas to deserted, desolate stretches of Outback, from alternative, laid-back beach towns like Byron Bay to its famous capital city; the glamorous, glittering metropolis of Sydney.
Sydney is so famous that the rest of New South Wales often gets ignored by tourists and even guidebooks. But it is easy to see why people are so dazzled by the city. Sydney is busy, buzzing and beautiful to look at. Old, golden sandstone buildings sit next to towering glass skyscrapers, while those traditional postcard images, the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge, rarely fail to impress in real life. There are also plenty of restaurants, parks, shops, theatres, clubs and bars to explore.
Sydney boasts a thriving arts and social scene and hosts a wide range of cultural and sporting events each year. It's also at the heart of Australia's economy – many international companies have an office in Sydney – and is a truly multicultural place to live. It's estimated that more than half of the city's current residents were either born overseas or have at least one parent living outside Australia, and, as a result, the city has a very cosmopolitan, international personality.
Outside Sydney, the pace of life in New South Wales is more low-key. Residents and visitors alike enjoy its sunny, temperate climate and the relaxed, outdoor lifestyle that climate encourages. Must-see attractions in New South Wales include hundreds of pristine beaches along the coastline (the state has over a thousand kilometres of coast!) the World Heritage listed wilderness of the Blue Mountains and the famous vineyards of the Hunter Valley.
Go to: www.visitnsw.com
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'That was the best match of my life:' Simona Halep captures Wimbledon title | CBC Sports Loaded
'That was the best match of my life:' Simona Halep captures Wimbledon title
Simona Halep was not concerned with preventing Serena Williams from winning a 24th Grand Slam title on Saturday at Wimbledon. All Halep cared about was winning her first at the All England Club. And she played pretty much perfectly.
Defeats Serena Williams in stunning fashion Saturday, 6-2, 6-2 at All England Club
Howard Fendrich · The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 13, 2019 10:25 AM ET | Last Updated: July 14, 2019
Simona Halep celebrates her 6-2, 6-2 victory over Serena Williams in Saturday's women's final at Wimbledon. (Shaun Botterill/Getty Images)
Clutching her trophy 20 minutes after becoming Wimbledon's champion, Simona Halep checked out the board inside Centre Court that lists tournament winners. Below all of the mentions of Serena Williams, her opponent in Saturday's final, there already was inscribed: "Miss S. Halep."
Halep was not concerned with preventing Williams from winning a 24th Grand Slam title. All Halep cared about was winning her first at the All England Club. And she played pretty much perfectly.
On top of her game right from start to finish, Halep overwhelmed Williams 6-2, 6-2 in stunning fashion for her second major championship. The whole thing took less than an hour as Williams lost her third Slam final in a row as she tries to equal Margaret Court's record for most major trophies in tennis history.
"I'm very sure," Halep said, "that was the best match of my life."
WATCH | Highlights as Halep wins 1st Wimbledon title:
Wimbledon Wrap: Halep flies over Williams for 1st Wimbledon title
Simona Halep cruised past Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2, on Saturday to capture her 1st career title at the All England Club. 1:21
The No. 7-seeded Romanian made a mere three unforced errors, a remarkably low total and 23 fewer than Williams.
Not bad for someone who has been frank about how jittery she has gotten in past big matches and began the day having lost nine of 10 matchups against Williams. But after losing each of her first three major finals, Halep now has won two straight, including at last year's French Open.
"She literally played out of her mind. Congratulations, Simona," Williams said during the trophy ceremony. "It was a little bit 'a deer in the headlights' for me."
Wimbledon women's final blowouts
(Since 1968)
2019 — Simona Halep def. Serena Williams, 6-2, 6-2
2014 — Petra Kvitova def. Eugenie Bouchard, 6-3, 6-0
1992 — Steffi Graf def. Monica Seles, 6-2, 6-1
1983 — Martina Navratilova def. Andrea Jaeger, 6-0, 6-3
1981 — Chris Evert Lloyd def. Hana Mandlikova, 6-2, 6-2
1975 — Billie Jean King def. Evonne Goolagong Cawley, 6-0, 6-1
1974 — Chris Evert def. Olga Morozova, 6-0, 6-4
Williams also lost in straight sets against Angelique Kerber in the Wimbledon final a year ago, and against Naomi Osaka at the U.S. Open last September.
"I just have to figure out a way to win a final," Williams said.
The 37-year-old American hasn't won a tournament since the 2017 Australian Open, when she set the professional-era record of 23 Grand Slam championships (Court won 13 of her titles against amateur competition).
Williams was pregnant when she won in Australia and then took more than a year off the tour; her daughter, Olympia, was born in September 2017.
Since returning to tennis, Williams has dealt with injuries but still managed to remain among the game's elite. In part because of a bad left knee, she only had played 12 matches all season until Wimbledon.
Halep keeps focus on herself
"Just got to keep fighting," Williams said, "and just keep trying."
Didn't take long on Saturday for the 27-year-old Halep to demonstrate this was not going to be easy for Williams.
Not by any means.
Showing off the talents and traits that once lifted her to No. 1 in the rankings, Halep never really gave Williams a chance to get into the match.
"I've always been intimidated a little bit when I faced Serena. She's an inspiration for everyone and the model for everyone," Halep said. "Today, I decided before the match that I'm going to focus on myself and on the final of [a] Grand Slam, not on her. That's why I was able to play my best, to be relaxed, and to be able to be positive and confident against her."
Exceptional returns
Halep tracked down everything, as is her wont. She didn't merely play defence, though, managing to go from retrieving an apparent point-ending stroke by Williams to lashing a winner of her own in a blink.
"I was over-hitting it, trying to go for too much," Williams said. "She was getting just a tremendous amount of balls back."
Her returns were exceptional, repeatedly getting back serves that left Williams' racket at 115 mph or more.
On this cloudy, cool afternoon, with the temperature in the low 70s (low 20s Celsius), Halep began with a pair of service breaks and even delivered the match's first ace, at 106 mph, which put her out front 4-0 after 11 astonishing minutes.
Halep won 14 of the first 18 points, with many in the crowd roaring for each of the rare ones that went Williams' way. Halep produced eight winners before a single unforced error, avoiding a miscue until the seventh game.
Comeback never came
Williams, in stark contrast, came out looking a bit tight, short-arming shots and accumulating nine unforced errors before conjuring up a single winner. She spoke after her semifinal victory about trying to remain calm on court, and that she did, even in the face of a player who was at her very best.
Williams would place a hand on her hip. Or put a palm up and look at her guest box, as if thinking, "What can I do?" Williams' greatest show of emotion came after she stretched for a forehand volley winner on the second set's second point. She leaned forward and yelled, "Come on!"
But the comeback never came. Halep broke to lead 3-2 in that set when Williams pushed a backhand long, and there wasn't much left from there.
Halep only had been as far as the semifinals once at Wimbledon until now. But she was determined to change that and said she told the locker-room attendants at the beginning of the tournament she wanted to grab a title to earn lifetime membership in the All England Club.
"So here I am," she said Saturday, the fortnight done, her trophy won. "It was one of my motivations before this tournament. So now I am happy."
Dabrowski in women's doubles final Sunday
The Wimbledon women's doubles final has been postponed because the men's doubles final has stretched to a fifth set.
The women's match pitting Hsieh Su-wei and Barbora Strycova against Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa and Xu Yifan will be played Sunday instead.
That was scheduled to follow the men's doubles final on Centre Court. But that match — Juan-Sebastian Caval and Robert Farah against Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin — was already past the four-hour mark when it headed to a fifth set after four tiebreakers.
Darkness was approaching, so the retractable roof at Centre Court was closed, further delaying things.
Colombian first in men's doubles
Juan-Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah became the first Colombians to win a Grand Slam men's doubles title, beating France's Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-7 (5), 7-6 (5), 7-6 (6), 6-7 (5), 6-3 in a Wimbledon final that lasted just under five hours and concluded under the Centre Court roof.
The retractable cover was closed after the fourth set, which finished at about 8 p.m. after the teams had been playing for more than four hours.
Mahut and Roger-Vasselin were trying to win their first Grand Slam title together. Mahut has won four major doubles trophies with Pierre-Hugues Herbert, who played instead with Andy Murray at Wimbledon.
Mahut is no stranger to extended matches: He played in the longest match in tennis history — an 11-hour, three-minute loss to John Isner in Wimbledon's first round of singles in 2010 that stretched over three days and finished 70-68 in the fifth set.
Serena Williams will play for record-tying Grand Slam No. 24 against Simona Halep
Canada's Gabriela Dabrowski to play for Wimbledon doubles title
Federer, Djokovic to meet in Wimbledon final for 3rd time
'Massive talent' Bernard Tomic returns to court in Winnipeg after Wimbledon controversy


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The World Must Not Become Complacent to the Threat
The absence of an actual detonation of a nuclear or dirty bomb should not lull the world into complacency. To the contrary, the world should assume its luck will not last forever.
There is ample evidence that terrorists remain interested in stealing nuclear or radioactive materials to use in a bomb:
On July 22, 2011, Norway suffered the deadliest incident on Norwegian soil since World War II when Anders Breivik, a far-right terrorist who has identified himself as a Nazi, murdered 77 people in a shocking terrorist attack. His 1,500-page manifesto, discovered following the attacks, contained a chilling warning of more serious acts of terrorism including ones using nuclear and radiological materials. He noted the wide availability of radiological materials, describing them as "unsecured . . . in the strangest of places," "relatively easy to acquire" either on the black market or "by going directly to the sources ourselves." Breivik's manifesto continues to inspire violent extremists, suggesting it remains in current circulation.
In late 2015, Belgian investigators discovered chilling surveillance video in the possession of a suspected terrorist alleged to have been involved in the November 2015 attacks in Paris. The Islamic State took credit for those attacks, and the video footage suggested the Islamic State had been watching a high-ranking Belgian nuclear official who had access to secure areas of a Belgian nuclear research facility. The video's existence raised concerns that the group was seeking to acquire materials for a simple nuclear device or a dirty bomb. It is unclear whether there was a plan to abduct the official and ransom him for nuclear or radioactive materials or to bribe or coerce the official to turn him into an unwilling insider. Other evidence gathered in the investigation pointed to additional terrorist plans to "do something involving one of [Belgium's] four nuclear sites."
There are also hundreds of incidents of stolen or lost nuclear and other radioactive materials that have been tracked in various databases.
The International Atomic Energy Agency's Incident and Trafficking Database has recorded tens of incidents a year where radioactive sources have been recovered. As of December 31, 2018, the database contained 3,497 confirmed incidents reported by member states since 1993. Of these incidents, 285 involved a confirmed or likely act of trafficking or malicious use.
Funded by NTI, the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies has been tracking incidents of theft or loss of nuclear and other radioactive materials in its own Global Incidents and Trafficking Database since 2013. Informed by publicly available information, the database contains hundreds of incidents of loss, theft, and unauthorized possession of those materials in 2017 and 2018 alone. Three of the 2017 incidents involved nuclear materials, including the sale of plutonium-239 and plutonium-241.
The international community has seen significant progress on nuclear security over the past two decades, but as the NTI Index shows, significant gaps and challenges remain. Absent continued prioritization of nuclear security at national and international levels, the international community risks backsliding.


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Queens project approved when Council failed to act
City Council • Rezoning/Special Permit • College Point, Queens
Full Council rejects resolution but not project. Private developer College Point Holdings I LLC filed four linked applications for its plan to develop 100 units and 100 parking spaces within 26 attached buildings on a two-acre site in the College Point area of Queens. The applications included a rezoning application to alter the site from manufacturing zoning to residential zoning (M1-1 to R4) that allows as-of-right residential development. Also included were two special permits to allow an increase in floor area for the inclusion of open space and community facility space. Also, the developer planned to make improvements to Herman A. MacNeil Park by adding a kayak and canoe storage area, a boat launch, seating, and landscaping.
The City Planning Commission approved the project in April 2008. When the proposal reached the Council's Land Use Committee in June, it voted unanimously to approve and sent a proposed resolution approving the project to the full Council for a vote. At the Council, however, twenty-five Council members, including twelve Land Use Committee members who had approved the project one week earlier, voted against the resolution, thereby denying it the full Council's approval. Of those voting "no," only Council Member Inez Dickens explained her vote, stating that she wanted an affordable housing component.
The no-vote killed the resolution but not the project. In order to kill the project, the Land Use Committee would have had to first pass a new resolution disapproving the project and then the Council would have had to approve the resolution. Theoretically, the Land Use Committee could have sent a new resolution disapproving the project, but the Council's 50-day ULURP deadline was one day away. So in effect, the full Council ran out of time to act. Under the Charter, when the Council fails to act on a ULURP application within the deadline, the Planning Commission's approval stands.
Of the 25 Council members, CityLand contacted the twelve members that sit on the Land Use Committee for comment on why they flipped their vote. Of these twelve – Maria del Carmen Arroyo, Charles Barron, Leroy Comrie, Inez Dickens, Simcha Felder, Eric Gioia, Vincent Ignizio, Robert Jackson, Miguel Martinez, James Oddo, Larry B. Seabrook, and Albert Vann – only Barron responded, saying he could not support the resolution because the project lacked an affordable housing component, and speculating that other committee members sought to "punish" Avella for past statements.
Comm.Bd.: QN 7,App'd, 32-4-1
Boro.Pres.: App'd
Council:Waived Vote
Council: College Point (June 12, 2008).
Tags : College Point, College Point Holdings I LLC, Queens Community Board 7
Category : City Council


Social network is a platform for users to post and forward contents that they are paying attention to. So through the measurement of the popularity of the event, it is possible to excavate social focus and predict the development trend of the event. The user is used as the main body to measure the popularity, so as to construct the interaction graph, and the indicator of the graph has a degree distribution sequence, a clustering coefficient and a degree centrality. Among them, the user distribution of the degree distribution sequence of the interaction graph shows the distribution of "power law distribution", and the power index introduced by the degree distribution sequence can effectively reflect the distribution of the user's participation degree in the popular event; the clustering coefficient reflects the user's agglomeration in the popular event; the degree centrality reflects the dominant position of the user participating in the popular event; the number of users reflects the size of the network formed by the popular event. The comprehensive indicator obtained after nondimensionalization and analytic hierarchy process of these four indicators can comprehensively and accurately measure the popularity of popular events. The comprehensive indicator shows that the popular event of the "Ching Ming Festival" is more consistent with the actual situation during the day. Further more, the measure of popularity is more sensitive and can reflect minor changes in the popular spot.
This work is supported by Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61502246), NUPTSF (No. NY215019).


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Many international fans of American football are 'born' on Super Bowl Sunday
February 1, 2019 · 2:30 PM EST
A Patriots fan poses before a NFL International Series game in Mexico City, on Nov. 19, 2017. The Patriots have become Mexico's team. Of course, winning helps. The Patriots are heading to their 11th Super Bowl on Sunday, and ninth since 2002 — the most of any NFL franchise.
Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports via Reuters
This Sunday, more than 100 million people in the US are expected to tune into the Super Bowl — nearly a third of the nation. And outside the US, perhaps another 40 million people will be watching.
That might actually sound modest for what Americans like to think of as the world's biggest sporting event. The Olympics, World Cup, European soccer final and ICC Cricket World Cup all dwarf the Super Bowl in worldwide popularity. Still, American football is catching up, growing in viewership overseas.
To say that people in Mexico are now getting excited about football, well, that's putting it mildly. Check out this 26-second clip from Mexican broadcasters for the Carolina Panthers. And remember: This is for a regular season game.
Video of Cam Newton's Touchdown Flip | Spanish Radio Call
That enthusiasm is welcomed by the NFL. Mark Waller with NFL International says the league has been targeting a few priority markets: Mexico, Canada, UK, China. Secondary development markets are Germany and Brazil.
The NFL has been investing in youth football programs overseas and has hosted regular season games in London, Toronto and Mexico City. But Waller says international football fans are really born on the first Sunday each February — "Tuning in to watch Super Bowl."
The NFL is working with corporate sponsors to host viewing parties in Mexican movie theaters. In China, the game will be broadcast live on Monday morning at Western hotels serving buffets. Waller says NFL International is trying to create a sense of fan community — "It's a lonely job being a fan of a sport that isn't played domestically."
But the biggest challenge for the international fan may be just figuring out what the heck is going on. American football just isn't that intuitive, especially if you have limited chances to watch.
"Watch a basketball game or a soccer game, you have a pretty good idea, pretty quickly, what the goal is," said Waller. "It's less obvious in [American] football."
Even for seasoned professionals, football can be confusing.
"There are so many rules. I've been covering the NFL for over 25 years, and I don't know all the rules," said Iván Pirrón, who covers football for Televisa in Mexico.
Maybe the casual fan, in Mexico or the US for that matter, doesn't know the difference between a linebacker and a nose tackle, but Pirrón says Mexicans do know this: Mexico's favorite team made it to the big game. Again.
"Mexico has a big, big fan base of the Patriots," said Pirrón.
Winning matters. Just as the Dallas Cowboys built a huge fan base outside of Texas in the 1970s and became "America's team," perhaps the Patriots have now become "the world's team," or, ideally, something catchier.
And at the center of it all for the Patriots is quarterback Tom Brady, now appearing in his record-smashing ninth Super Bowl.
"He's the most popular and also the most hated [in Mexico]," said Pirrón.
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady throws a pass against the St. Louis Rams in Wembley Stadium in London at one of the NFL's regular games played outside of the US, Oct. 28, 2012. The Rams relocated back to Los Angeles in 2016.
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In the UK, it's a similar storyline.
"Tom Brady, he's become that guy now who is a little more recognizable even to the non-NFL fan," said Matthew Sherry, editor of Gridiron, "UK's premiere American football magazine."
Sherry says the other main storylines are similar to those playing out in the US — the 66-year-old New England coach Bill Belichick versus the Los Angeles Ram's head coach, Sean McVay, who, at 33, is the youngest head coach in Super Bowl history.
"Master versus apprentice," said Sherry. "The most successful coach in league history against the guy who many believe is the next great NFL head coach."
In the past few years, the NFL in the US has been grappling with controversies surrounding concussions and brain injuries. And then there's the players kneeling during the national anthem, and how those social protests have exploded off the field all the way up to the White House.
The NFL has been very worried — viewership in the US had been falling, until it rebounded this year. As viewership dipped in the US, though, interest in the UK has been "growing exponentially," Sherry said.
"We started the magazine five years ago. It was a shot in the dark for the publishing company. It's been a huge, huge success," said Sherry. "I think that mirrors the popularity of the sport generally in the UK."
In Haiti, they're paying extra close attention this year.
Sony Michel, the Patriots rookie running back and son of Haitian immigrants, helped propel the Patriots into the Super Bowl. In November, he wore cleats decorated with the Haitian flag.
The Super Bowl is always a big deal in Haiti. But whenever a player of Haitian descent, like Michel, makes it into the big game, says Marie Guerda Nicolas, a Haitian American clinical psychologist who splits time between Haiti and Florida, it shifts the narrative about her native country.
"This is an opportunity for us to educate people about the country, its history, its significance, its impact and its people," she said.
New England Patriots running back Sony Michel played a large role in helping the Patriots win the AFC title game and reach the Super Bowl. Michel was born and raised in Florida, but is the son of Haitian immigrants.
Denny Medley/USA Today Sports via Reuters
Nicolas says she thinks that most Haitians will be rooting for the Patriots on Sunday, but not her. "I'm a Giants fan. I can't root for the Pats."
(New York Giants fans and New England Patriot fans don't really get along.)
Even though she just can't bring herself to root for the Patriots, Nicolas says she will be pulling hard for their running back to have a great game on Sunday.
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Ancoa, provider of contextual surveillance and insightful analytics for exchanges, regulators, buy- & sell-side firms, today announced that it has been selected by Energie Steiermark to monitor trading activity covered by MAR (Market Abuse Regulation) and REMIT. As one of the largest service providers in Austria, Energie Steiermark's main focus is on energy efficiency and innovative service offerings in the fields of electricity, natural gas, heating and mobility.
Following a rigorous review of trade surveillance providers, Energie Steiermark selected Ancoa to monitor derivatives and physical commodity transactions executed on the main energy markets as well as the monitoring of OTC trades and transactions executed on other venues trading Energie Steiermark.
Preventing market abuse by detecting manipulation attempts has become a regulatory requirement for energy market participants across the European Union, with global regulatory efforts being introduced to uphold the integrity of the markets. Under MAR, energy and commodity trading industries must, for the first time, prove that they have adequate surveillance capabilities in place in order to accurately detect and report instances of potential market abuse to regulators.


School awarded the Platinum for the second year running!
The award was given for our "terrific work out in the community, linking with primary schools and visitors to the school. Robust evidence showing the positive ethos that is embraced throughout the school and throughout the year".
"St Gregory's are a stalwart of the Wise Up! School Awards having participated every year since it started. If you are delighted with your wonderful Gold and Silver awards but would like to know what to do to get the Platinum Award then St Gregory's can show you by example. They are the reason that we recognised we needed to add the Platinum Award as their terrific work throughout the year, in the community and with their feeder schools make them a beacon of what we are looking for. A complete commitment to celebrating difference, challenging bullying and Hate Crime and supporting everyone to be a welcome part of their school community."
St Gregory's are thrilled to have received the new Platinum Awarf as part of our 'Wise-Up competition entry. Having achieved Gold for three consecutive years, school decided in Anti-Bullying Week to spread the message throughout our wider community, specifically in partnership with our local primary schools. The new award reflects the school's outstanding work which exceeded expectations.
Pupils and staff attended the Warrington 'Wise Up' launch event on Wednesday 18th October at the Gateway.
The 'Wise Up' is an annual awards scheme that looks to recognise and celebrate the excellent work that Warrington schools are doing to tackle the issues of bullying and hate crime.
All the schools who enter demonstrate they understand the importance of creating a safe environment in their school, where children can be free of bullying, especially those who may have a disability, be from another ethnic background or religion, have a different sexual orientation (LGB) or are transgender or gender non-conforming.
Gold awards are presented to schools which demonstrate outstanding practice. St Gregory's is the only school to have secured Gold for three consecutive years. This year we are aiming for the new Platinum award.


Pinky Doodle Poodle - Poodle Boogie | JaME U.S.A.
The energetic duo brings an EP loaded with rough and ready rock rebellion.
Pinky Doodle Poodle consists of singer/bassist/guitarist Yuria and lead guitarist/composer George. Aided by session drummers, the duo has produced uncompromising rock since 2008. During their ten-year career, the band has, among other activities, released several albums and toured the US widely. This time JaME is reviewing their latest release, a five-song EP entitled Poodle Boogie.
The boogie poodle listeners will be encountering is not the neatly trimmed star of breed shows but rather a primitive and unkempt beast. In musical terms, it consists of raw riff rock where simple is beautiful and the worth of a piece of music is decided by its impact, rather than its innovation. The average song length on Poodle Boogie is only two and a half minutes, and there is definitely no need to worry about encountering easy pop tunes or soft schlager sentimentalism. The EP is indeed very conscious of and faithful to its own style of expression, which is not an unhealthy attitude at all. After all, fans might remember when AC/DC's Angus Young himself criticized certain colleagues of his for halfheartedly riding the waves of trendy genres. Why do anything else when you might as well just rock?
Due to the small number of tracks and their short average length, the EP will be over before one even realizes it. It remains a bit questionable whether this kind of release format really serves the kind of music Poodle Boogie contains. If one likes the music, the short EP will likely feel unsatisfying. Then again, remarks like these may be somewhat old-fashioned, since modern music consumers will more likely just add the songs they like to a personal playlist anyway.
Although, it is good to remember that if something is old-fashioned here, then it mirrors the musical expression of Pinky Doodle Poodle. The band's style is familiar from decades ago and their music uses quite exclusively the arsenal of good old rock'n'roll artistry that has remained unchanged from one generation to another. However, the band is not exactly "retro rock", if the term is to be understood as imitating the old masters' sounds and expression. Rather, PDP sound quite modern with their heavily overdriven guitars and rough bass tones, and the combination of the two gives their sound a nice personal touch. Their musical style and attitude is a straightforward manifestation of what rock music has been about from its very beginning. This is something that the band's most obvious target group, namely wild and hairy rockers, will certainly appreciate.
Probably the most remarkable trait of PDP's expression is lead singer Yuria's personal singing style, which is quite distinct from the stereotypical husky male voice one would expect to encounter in rock music. As if awkwardly conscious of this deviation from the norm, the vocals on Poodle Boogie are mixed somewhat low. As it happens, the vocals in themselves are not at all as annoying as the fact that one can hear someone singing on the recording but not quite clearly hear what it is that's being sung. Perhaps the band made this decision to emphasize the instrumental power of their music. Be that as it may, the guitars and the bass on the EP are loud. In spite of being heavily overdriven, the tones are clearly distinguishable, making the overall listening experience quite pleasant. Drums keep the rhythm steady from the background, clearly not being allowed to rule the stage. This is fairly understandable, considering that the band's official lineup consists of only two members, neither of whom is a drummer.
Despite the fact that there is no drummer in the band's official lineup, the feeling of a tightly performing live band has been successfully captured on Poodle Boogie. The songs may not be unforgettable in the long run, but at the time of listening they'll very likely get listeners' feet tapping the floor and heads nodding to the intensive rhythms. The most memorable tracks on the EP are Feel The Sensation, with its finely funky hard rock riffing, and the grinding blues rock of Freely. As compositions, none of the tracks really bring anything novel, but that hardly is the point of PDP's music anyway. What is important is the electrifying groove, and that is something Poodle Boogie is definitely not lacking in the least.
To summarize, Poodle Boogie is a fine example of sincere rock music. This release is a safe choice for any fan of energetic contemporary hard rock. On the other hand, the EP doesn't really manage to reveal any side of the band that would make it shine irresistibly above others. However, perhaps it is best not to look at things from such an individualistic viewpoint in the first place. Good rock will always be good rock, and there's no need to attempt to improve it with superficial peculiarities. If you agree with this, then Poodle Boogie will be right up your alley.
A trailer for Poodle Boogie can be viewed below, and the release can be purchased from Good Charamel Records.


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New Delaware State police leader named
Major Nathanial McQueen will take over as Superintendent of the State Police next month after Col. Robert Coupe retires.
McQueen has been with the State Police for 24 years and currently serves as Major of Operations for all New Castle County Troops, a position he's held since 2009.
"Just to carry on the history of the division and running an absolute excellent agency is just an honor and a privilege," McQueen said. He says one of his goals as Superintendent will be to improve the connection between the community and the State Police. "We have different jurisdictions up and down the state, and somehow I'd like to continue to make it closer to the community, where the community feels a lot more a part of the State Police."
Governor Jack Markell introduced McQueen this morning at the Delaware State Police Museum in Dover. He described him as "Somebody who is connected to the community who is engaged and involved, somebody who's got deep roots, who has never forgot where he came from."
Over the past year, McQueen has been coordinating a crime fighting effort in the city of Wilmington called Operation Pressure Point, with State Troopers assisting Wilmington Police in the fight to stop violence in the city. "I grew up in the city of Wilmington and my heart's always been there. Working with Operation Pressure Point over the last year certainly gave me the opportunity to get back and continue to have a strong relationship with the chief of Wilmington."
Markell says McQueen's that effort was another display of his ability to lead. "He was able to work thoughtfully with community leaders, with clergy, with government leaders, brothers and sisters in law enforcement, working to draft and launch Operation Pressure Point in the city of Wilmington."
McQueen has been a member of the State Police Executive Staff which should make for a smooth transition. "I think it's important not only to the community, but it's important to the agency to have a seamless transition so the agency can move forward," he said.
Col. Coupe's retirement will take effect December 21.


The Kairos Torch Program at the Frank Baxter Juvenile Correctional Centre at Kariong went ahead on Monday 13th and Tuesday 14th April as scheduled, despite the uncertainty leading up to the Program as a result of the illness of the Chaplain. A special thank you to all those who prayed for the recovery of Father Ramsay and for the Program to go ahead.
We were blessed with a team of 23 faithful men and women who displayed great serving hearts coupled with a deep love for the boys. The presence of four indigenous ladies was a special blessing, as they related wonderfully well to the Aboriginal boys who formed the majority of the 18 boys that were present. In addition to the team, we had 4 observers present who were experiencing the Program with a view to possibly starting a Kairos Torch Program in gaols close by to them. Two were from Grafton, one from Canberra and the other from Tasmania.
From the reaction of the boys, the Lord was challenging the hearts of the boys and we pray there will be a long term posi-tive response from the boys to the Lord's love that will change their lives and give them a brighter future.
On behalf of the boys, we would like to thank the Kairos Community for their prayer cover, upon which whole Program is based and the supply of biscuits and slices. Over 200 dozen biscuits and slices were donated and they prove a real treat for the boys.


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Remarks by the Senator Claude Carignan on C-45 - Second reading
Hon. Claude Carignan: Honourable senators, it's almost time for the second reading vote on Bill C-45, An Act respecting cannabis and to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, the Criminal Code and other Acts.
The first thing I want to say is that my initial reaction when the Prime Minister made this campaign promise in June 2015 was one of surprise. Why? How did legalizing cannabis become a priority for our society, and, more importantly, how did giving up on the problem come to be seen as the solution? I have always believed in decriminalizing simple possession, and I don't think young people should bear the stigma of a criminal record for a minor offence. Our understanding of the subject has grown since the beginning of this debate, and I still believe that. However, the government wants to go further than that and make us the first country in the world to legalize the sale of cannabis.
I have tried to be as open-minded as possible about this, but, for a number of reasons, I am very deeply concerned about the push to legalize cannabis consumption so quickly. I would like to offer an objective and practical perspective on the issues associated with Bill C-45. By legalizing cannabis use hastily, without scientific evidence and against the advice of medical experts, the government is violating one of the modern-day public policy maker's guiding principles: the precautionary principle. This internationally recognized principle has been a statutory prerequisite for all French legislation since 2005. The precautionary principle applies to situations where there is insufficient evidence to scientifically establish the risk of a human activity causing significant harm to the environment, public health or food security.
In this case, the human activity in question is the legalization of cannabis, a product consumed by humans. This principle has been cited in certain court rulings in Canada and is enshrined in the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act. This bill will profoundly change our society. The haste with which it is being pushed through is troubling. Haste implies improvisation.
The Minister of Health says the act will come into force 8 to 12 weeks after Royal Assent. In the U.S. states that have legalized cannabis — by referendum, I should add — the effective date was 12 to 24 months after the legislation was signed into law. Colorado legalized cannabis on December 10, 2012, and sales began 12 months later, on January 1, 2014. Washington State legalized it on December 5, 2012, and sales did not begin until 18 months later, on July 8, 2014. Lastly, California legalized it on November 9, 2016, and sales began 13 months later, on January 1, 2018.
Uruguay spent four years getting ready before making cannabis available through a network of pharmacies. This gave local governments, police and health officials much more time to prepare for the change. They also had the benefit of 10 to 15 years' experience conducting random drug screening on high-risk workers such as public transit drivers, airline pilots, train engineers and school bus drivers.
Despite this, representatives of these U.S. states told us that when these laws came into effect, they realized they really were not prepared enough. Does Canada, a country 37 times bigger than Colorado, seriously think it can do this in eight weeks? We've heard provincial governments, police forces, medical specialists and many other organizations beg the federal government to slow down so this important transformation can be done properly.
Whatever you think of Bill C-45, you have to admit that this has been a learning experience that launched a national debate on cannabis. For instance, we know that a growing number of Canadians feel that people shouldn't be saddled with a criminal record for possessing small amounts of the drug. Also, some of Bill C-45's objectives are certainly commendable. There even seems to be some consensus on that. It's always useful to point out what both sides agree on. I will mention three points. The following statements from the Minister of Justice at second reading reflect the intentions of Bill C-45: the first is to protect the health of young persons by restricting their access to cannabis; the second, to reduce the burden on the criminal justice system; and the third to enhance public awareness of the health risks associated with cannabis use.
It is fascinating that, despite unanimous agreement on those three intentions, there is still so much disparity between the "yeas," the "nays" and the "maybe, but on certain conditions." Why? The answer is simple: the execution of these three good intentions. In other words, how should Bill C-45 meet those objectives? Is legalization the only option for achieving the government's objectives?
First, a piece of good news is the fact that the primary reason for proposing Bill C-45 no longer exists. We now know, thanks to the September 2017 report by Statistics Canada and the 2017 UN drug report, that Canada does not have the highest cannabis use in the world, in particular among youth. This is very encouraging. In fact, according to Statistics Canada, between 2002 and 2012, the percentage of 16- and 17-year-olds reporting past-year use declined, and usage among those 18 to 25 remained unchanged. This was also confirmed by the Parliamentary Budget Officer's report on the fiscal consideration regarding cannabis:
Historical data from the Youth Smoking Survey . . . indicated a consistent and substantial decline in reported youth cannabis consumption in recent years.
To draft Bill C-45, the government set up a task force that released its report in December 2016.
I would like to talk about the task force. First, I think this 112-page report is helpful, even if it wasn't objective, but this was no fault of the task force, since members were only fulfilling their objectives as mandated by the government. Nor is it a thorough report when compared to the 800-page 2002 Senate report and the 1,000-page report of the Le Dain commission.
In fact, the task force report is not even scholarly. For instance, an example of a scholarly government report is the 2015 paper titled Alcohol Consumption in Canada by the Chief Public Health Officer, who at the time was Dr. Gregory Taylor. This study is half the size of the task force report and yet it has 705 citations, whereas the task force report has zero, with no bibliography. The reason this matters is because the task force report was used to draft Bill C-45. If the task force report lacks credibility, then we need to consider if this is also true of the bill itself, because as the Minister of Justice said to the Committee of the Whole:
. . . the government was informed in large part by the advice it received from the Task Force . . . .
Let's come back to the task force. To its credit, its report recognizes on page 1, and I quote:
We are aware of the shortcomings in our current knowledge base around cannabis and the effects of cannabis on human health and development.
. . . we recognize that cannabis policy, in its many dimensions, lacks comprehensive, high-quality research in many areas. On many issues throughout our discussions and deliberations, we have found that evidence is often non-existent, incomplete or inconclusive.
I would like to pause here and ask you what would happen if a pharmacological company said the same thing to the Canadian Health Products and Food Branch, the governing body that reviews drug applications. Just imagine a pharmacological company presenting its new drug to the FDA and then concluding by saying, "Even though the evidence for the efficacy of this new drug is non-existent, incomplete and even inconclusive, we would like the FDA to approve sales of our drug across Canada without a required prescription and, for convenience, allow people to buy it online." Perhaps members of the FDA would simply smile and say, "You are aware that you can't even buy codeine cough syrup without a prescription. Come back to us once you have performed clinical trials."
You might be asking yourself right now, why then did Health Canada approve cannabis? The short answer is they didn't. In a document titled Information for Health Care Professionals regarding cannabis use, which contains 1,000 citations, the document begins with a disclaimer in bold print:
Cannabis is not an approved therapeutic product and the provision of this information should not be interpreted as an endorsement of the use of this product, or cannabis generally, by Health Canada.
Here is something else that was not mentioned in the house but was addressed by the task force. The members acknowledged that:
It is more appropriate to refer to our recommendations as "evidence-informed" rather than "evidence-based" . . . .
And yet the Minister of Justice introduced the bill by stating:
Our government understands the complexity of [the legalization of cannabis]. That is why we have taken a cautious evidence-based approach.
But clearly the task force advised the government not to use the expression "evidence-based." Again in the same speech, she reiterated the fact that:
Our government believes in evidence-based policy.
And then in response to a question, she said:
Bill C-45 is an evidence-based piece of legislation that seeks to put in a complex regime to legalize and strictly regulate cannabis in this country. It is based on a substantive task force report.
In her speech at the United Nations, in 2016, the Minister of Health said, and I quote:
Our approach to drugs must be comprehensive, collaborative, and compassionate.
"Comprehensive" means "exhaustive."
I remind you that the task force wrote the following on page 5:
Our recommendations reflect the fact that the current scientific understanding of cannabis impairment has gaps and that more research and evidence, investments in law enforcement capacity, technology and tools, and comprehensive public education are needed urgently.
The chair of the task force said, and I quote:
We have discovered that the regulation of cannabis will touch every aspect of our society.
In commenting on other findings of this report, he said on page 17:
Yet current science is not definitive on a safe age for cannabis use . . .
On page 6:
. . . there is consensus on the need for more research aimed at understanding, validating and approving cannabis-based medicines.
On page 15:
We know more about the short-term effects of cannabis use . . . We are less certain about some of the longer-term effects . . .
If there is any truth to even one of these concerns, then obviously further study will be required. This may explain why Uruguay took four years to fully implement their legislation, and distribution is through the network of pharmacies. For whatever reason, the Health Committee did not hear from a representative from Uruguay, so I'm curious to learn more about their approach, and in particular, why it took them four years.
If Canada implements Bill C-45 in 8 to 12 weeks, then the only people who will benefit from such an accelerated timeline are big corporations and some unknown stock holders hidden in tax havens.
Let us now come back to Bill C-45 in particular.
The government is telling us that one of the bill's objectives is to stamp out organized crime, which is supposedly behind the production and sale of cannabis. What fact-based evidence does the government have to back its assertion that legalizing the use of cannabis will reduce the activities of organized crime? We do not know.
On February 27, Radio-Canada reported on cannabis traffickers that have been operating for several years. This report highlighted the fact that traffickers are not the least bit worried about the future legalization of cannabis.
The following is an excerpt from this report:
Dealers say they are prepared to have a price war with the state.
"The government's price will always be higher because there is more bureaucracy," said Vincent, a cannabis dealer in Montérégie.
A lower price for cannabis on the black market is not going to affect the income of street dealers.
Mélanie, who has been dealing for 30 years in downtown Montreal had this to say:
"You've got 30 grams. You won't go to jail for that. Once I've sold these, I will go and get 30 more some from my stash. I will keep dealing just the same."
By the way, I would like to point out that, in Quebec, Mélanie could have a stash of up to 160 grams without any legal consequences. In some provinces she could possess an unlimited amount.
Dear colleagues, this might give you a good idea of what is in store.
Still on the topic of organized crime, here is another enlightening comment. When he appeared before the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs recently, Kevin Brosseau, Acting Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, called into question the statements of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and the federal ministers responsible for the legalization of cannabis that the drug must be legalized in order to eliminate the presence of organized crime in the illicit cannabis market, where these groups are making a fortune. Mr. Brosseau said, and I quote:
Given the involvement of organized crime in the illicit cannabis market, we do not expect the legislation will eliminate the presence of organized crime in the cannabis market. It will reduce it but it will not eliminate it.
. . . illicit markets and organized crime are constantly evolving, frankly one step ahead, seemingly, at times.
The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal or SPVM also expressed doubts concerning the government's claims and indicated that, in order to thwart law enforcement, organized crime has already changed its strategy in anticipation of the legalization of cannabis, which is scheduled for early July. The spokesperson for the SPVM said the following, and I quote:
Organized crime, as its name states, is organized. It adapts to the reality of the market.
That is what law enforcement is saying. Similarly, it is rather ironic that the government claims to want to get young people out of the hands of organized crime. Let us look at the habits of our young people now, when cannabis is illegal.
According to a technical report published by the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction in 2011, the rate of cannabis use for the previous year is estimated at 16.7 per cent to 32.4 per cent. According to the Canadian Student Tobacco, Alcohol and Drugs Survey, the rate of cannabis use among students in grades 10 to 12 was approximately 28 per cent in 2014-15. That means, honourable senators, that even though cannabis is illegal right now, young people can easily get their hands on it. That comes as no surprise, but what will happen when Bill C-45 is passed and the use of cannabis is still prohibited for young people? Those who are using it today will continue to do so.
What is more, since the bill allows four plants to be grown in private residences, how can anyone claim that youth won't have direct access? In light of these facts, it is unrealistic to believe that youth will be kept away from the black market and that their consumption will decrease.
We also need to hear more about the age limit to purchase cannabis. Of the G20 nations, apart from South Africa, Canada has, according to the WHO, the worst drunk driving record. This is hard to believe. Part of the reason is due to the legal age to purchase alcohol. According to the Ontario Ministry of Transportation, the peak ages of drinking and driving are 19, 20 and 21, and that drivers in this age group are almost one and a half times as likely to be involved in drinking and driving fatal and injury crashes than other drivers.
Now, it is true that some people are already driving stoned, but keep in mind that in Colorado and Washington State, cannabis-related fatalities since legalization become worse every year.
Under Bill C-45, the legal age for cannabis use would be 18, but the provinces would be able to increase this age. The provinces have so far set the legal age limit to 18 or 19. In the United States, all of the states that have legalized marijuana have set the legal age at 21. The notion of age is fundamental, and many of us have brought this up. Science shows that the brain continues to develop up to the age of 25. The use of cannabis before this age is a serious concern and is very dangerous. The submission presented by members of the Association des médecins psychiatres du Québec to the House of Commons during the study on Bill C-45 was quite worrisome. I quote:
Clinically, the regular use of cannabis among young persons translates into deficits in attention, in memory, in the speed of information processing, and in intelligence. Such disorders can lead to school failures.
Moreover, the use of cannabis increases the risk of developing psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia.
Psychiatrists, like many specialists, recommend increasing the legal age for cannabis use. Some of them favour 21 years of age, while others favour 25. In light of the science, it would be irresponsible not to consider these recommendations. Furthermore, health professionals also cautioned us about the concentrations of THC in cannabis. THC levels can sometimes reach 40 per cent, 50 per cent, or even 60 per cent. However, Bill C-45 does not even address this issue.
Both Bill C-45 and Bill C-46 have major flaws and their implementation could create chaos for provincial and municipal governments. In that regard, we already have a good example in the possibility of growing cannabis at home. Bill C-45 makes it an offence to grow more than four plants at home.
In Quebec, section 9, chapter 3 of the National Assembly's bill categorically prohibits anyone from growing cannabis for their personal use. The Government of Quebec is clear. It will not allow cannabis to be grown in people's homes. Apparently, Manitoba will be adopting a similar approach. In a recent article that appeared in Le Devoir on February 8 with the headline "Growing cannabis at home: Ottawa warns Quebec," the federal justice minister said:
Bill C-45 is permissive in the sense that, if some provinces want to adopt more restrictive provisions about growing plants at home, for example, they are free to do so. But there are limits.
I would really like the minister to tell us how else she can impose limits if not through legislation or regulation. What limits is she referring to? The Government of Quebec of course replied that it was confident that it was acting within its jurisdiction and that there were legal opinions in support of its position. It is quite obvious that this will go before the courts. They are doing nothing to help citizens have a proper understanding of the rules. However, in the speech she gave about Bill C-45 on May 30 in the other place, the minister said the following, and I quote:
Provinces and territories would generally be responsible for the distribution and sale components of the framework. They would also be able to create further restrictions as they saw fit . . . [and] along with the municipalities, could create additional rules for growing cannabis at home, including the possibility of lowering the number of plants allowed for residents and restricting the places in which cannabis could be consumed.
The government says it wants to protect young people's health by restricting their access to cannabis. How is it doing that? It wants to allow people to grow up to four cannabis plants per household, but it is not going to limit the size of the plants or their THC content. Picture this: a 19-year-old decides to grow his four legally permitted plants at home. He has two brothers aged 17 and 15. Can somebody explain to me how the government is going to prevent minors from accessing cannabis in this scenario? Police officers showed me photos of cannabis plants they seized while executing a search warrant. Tall as apple trees, their production capacity was phenomenal.
My point is that letting people grow cannabis at home will make it impossible to control quality, THC concentration, market price, underage access and traceability and impossible to issue health warnings and prevent people from growing cannabis near schools and in underprivileged communities. The logical solution would be to ban home growing. Even the college of veterinarians is worried about the health risks for pets. Yet the government is not worried about kids being able to access marijuana in their homes.
Honourable senators, I find it impossible to believe that the government's goal in legalizing cannabis is really to safeguard public health or public safety.
You will see, honourable senators, that with this bill, we are facing a colossal challenge. We need to try to cover all the angles and issues it raises, evaluate all the issues associated with it, highlight its many flaws, consider our options for possibly amending it to mitigate its harmful effects on our society, especially our youth, and amend it without adding any inconsistencies.
For example, yesterday, the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs questioned Health Canada and Department of Justice officials about the incongruity of imposing a $200 fine for having a cannabis plant that is too tall when there is no height restriction set out in the bill. The officials told us that there was a height standard in the original bill, but it was unexpectedly deleted by the House of Commons during the amendment process, hence the incongruity of the $200 fine.
To show us that the government has considered the impact of cannabis legalization on drivers, Bill C-46 on impaired driving was tabled at the same time as Bill C-45. However, that bill, which is currently being studied by the Standing Senate Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, has been found to have serious flaws, as Senator Batters mentioned in her speech on Tuesday: constitutional problems, operational problems, and so on.
Our law enforcement agencies must be trained, equipped and prepared to properly deal with the new reality that Bill C-45 will likely create. Minister Fournier appeared to be thinking along the same lines in his letter to the Minister of Justice on February 23. He said:
In conclusion, we want to reiterate how important it is to delay the coming into force of the federal legislation until we have access to the appropriate scientific equipment. This is a matter of keeping our roads safe for our citizens.
On the topic of preventing impaired driving related accidents, both Bill C-45 and Bill C-46 fail to address the issue of public transportation operators. How can the government explain that it has done nothing in that regard, even though there have been some air and rail tragedies in recent years connected to operators who were impaired by drugs or alcohol? I remind senators that the Transportation Safety Board recommended government action in its report published on November 2, 2017, in response to a plane crash involving alcohol.
Bill C-46 introduces the notion of random or mandatory — the term used in the bill — screenings of motor vehicle operators for alcohol only. Nowhere in the bill does it mention random tests for drugs or — even worse — for public transportation operators. This means that if a customs officer suspects a pilot of being impaired, he or she could decide to ask the pilot to take a test after landing. However, it would be impossible to require a test before the pilot has taken off. This oversight or unwillingness to take action is staggering. The United States has required such tests for over 10 years for individuals who work in sensitive jobs, like pilots, train conductors, truck drivers, and people who work in nuclear energy.
Furthermore, what about cannabis use in the workplace? How are employers now supposed to handle employees who use the drug during their work hours, before work, or on their lunch or supper breaks? Some people will reply that this reality already exists and it will be nothing new, but that is false. Legalizing cannabis will normalize it. In fact, in my view, the debate surrounding legalization has already had that effect, and new problems are emerging.
As I said at the outset, I personally believe that we need to fight this poorly written bill at second reading and give the government a chance to do its homework and introduce a new bill taking all the issues into account. The experiences of other jurisdictions can be studied, but we must never forget that Canada is the first and only country in the world to want to legalize marijuana use for people under the age of 21. More importantly, we need to base our decisions on what science has taught us regarding the damage to people's health caused by drug use. When I talk about people, I also mean we need to be particularly sensitive to how this will affect Indigenous peoples, who are severely affected by the scourge of drug abuse.
Everyone agrees that past governments and current policies have and are causing irrevocable affliction to Indigenous communities. This is one reason why the current government is seeking to adopt and implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Part of this declaration is the right to self-determination. For this reason, I want to highlight a few statements by Regional Chief Isadore Day at the Health Committee hearings in September of last year. He said First Nations ". . . are also not prepared to deal with the ramifications of Bill C-45." He went on to ask: ". . . does Canada even know the full impacts of cannabis yet?"
Chief Day also reminded the committee that American Indian tribes were negatively impacted when Colorado and Washington legalized cannabis.
He reiterated that one of ". . . the biggest concern that first nations in Ontario and across the country have with Bill C-45 is the health and safety of our peoples."
He cited statistics that cannabis is the second most abused substance amongst Indigenous people. In Ontario alone, he added, ". . . an additional $33 million was needed to treat first nations drug and alcohol addictions." He concluded by stating, ". . . there appear to be more questions than answers. This leaves first nations . . . in a compromised state leading into an accelerated timeline . . . ."
Yet on September 12 Mr. Blair said that it is important that we focus on getting this job done as quickly as we are able.
I simply do not see the urgency, especially in light of Chief Day's concerns. Unlike fentanyl that causes, on average, four deaths a day in Canada, no one has died from a marijuana overdose.
Honourable senators, I urge you to vote against this bill at second reading. If, however, that is not the will of the majority, I urge the committees that will study this bill or do a pre-study to carefully consider some mitigation measures that could be added to Bill C-45 regarding, for instance, when it comes into force, the legal age for cannabis use, the use of money from tax havens in the commercialization of cannabis, crucial prevention that should come before cannabis legalization, random drug testing of public transit drivers and other high-risk employees, THC concentration in the cannabis to be legally sold, limits on domestic production, important clarifications to consider when it comes to shared constitutional jurisdictions, the impact on international treaties, border controls, access to neighbouring countries and allies, advertising, tracking systems, impacts on the workplace, the price offered by the black market, the realities facing Indigenous peoples, and lastly, shareholders who try to hide behind a corporate shield.
There are so many questions and so few answers. To this flurry of questions I would add one last one: was this really necessary? I hope that senators will ask themselves whether legalizing cannabis will help our country to advance, make us stronger, and ensure that our country continues to change for the better.
I would have liked the minister to tell us that she looked at what other countries like Norway are doing. It has the lowest rate of consumption among young people. I would have liked the government to look at the best paths to take instead of the worst. I would have liked the government to model itself after the best and invest, like Norway is, in cultural and sporting activities instead of just throwing in the towel and accepting defeat. I can't believe that young Canadians are going to be used as guinea pigs for the rest of the world and Canada is becoming a research lab that will be used by other western countries.
At the beginning of my speech I talked to you about a government's duty to exercise due diligence, which is essential when we're faced with so many potential future risks. Honourable senators, I agree that we must get marijuana out of the hands of young people and get rid of organized crime. However, if the solution the government is proposing doesn't work and in five years we see that the government was wrong and that the situation has gotten worse, what then? Could we go back to the way things were? No, it's a one-way ticket. It's a trap.
In almost every speech, senators touched on the many uncertainties and questions surrounding cannabis legalization. Due diligence should be our guide from here on out. In the case of Bill C-45 specifically, given all of the uncertainty and all these unanswered questions, I believe that due diligence means not passing this bill and asking the government to go back to the drawing board.
Please, Mr. Trudeau, take a page from the best in the world, not the worst. Thank you.


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Малая Гремячая — топоним в Восточной Европе:
 Малая Гремячая — река в России, протекает в Вологодской области;
 Малая Гремячая — село на Украине, Полтавская область.

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The stars aligned in Nashville for the Second Annual Black Music Honors Awards Show taping. Black Music Honors (BMH) is an annual 2-hour national broadcast television special established to honor legendary artists in all music genres and the icons who have influenced and made significant contributions to the music industry. It has been hosted here in Nashville. Music City for the last two years. The Tennessee Performing Arts Center transformed into an impressive red carpet and awards show venue. More about the event and the pictures!
So KB, What is the Black Music Honors?
Black Music Honors (BMH) is an annual 2-hour national broadcast television special established to honor legendary artists in all music genres and the icons who have influenced and made significant contributions to the music industry.
Why is there a Black Music Honors?
Same reason there is a National Museum of African American Music and a National Museum of African American History. Sometimes dominant culture can obscure the contributions made by African Americans. These awards ensure their contributions are honored and cement significance and context. These efforts better serve the history of African American and/or Black Culture. The purpose of the Black Music Honors is to celebrate the rich contributions of African Americans and the role they play in shaping the soundtrack of American Music.
Black folks need a space that's just ours, ok?
Who's idea was it/who brought it to Nashville?
Why not Music City, right? This is the second year Nashville hosted the BMH. With the National Museum of African American History being constructed, I too believe is the flagstaff host for the BMH. But that's just my opinion.
So who all was in town for the event?
The event was hosted by Rickey Smiley and Letoya Luckett. They were supported by Comedian Akintunde.
The honorees were The Jacksons, Donnie McClurkin, Guy, Slick Rick, Oleta Adams, and Jody Watley.
The performers included Angela Winbush, Angela Winbush, Avery Sunshine, Carl Thomas, Da Brat, Dave Hollister, Jon Jon, Jonathan Butler, Karen Clark Sheard, Kid N Play, Latrice Crawford, Leela James, Marvin Winans, Montell Jordan, Next Town Down, Nicole C. Mullen, Sevyn Streeter, Shanice, Silk, SWV, The Jacksons, Tony Terry and Vivian Green.
Did I read that it is a live taping? When will the show air?
That's cool! So It's an awards show. Can you tell me who won what award?
Who sang a tribute to whom?
Guy's Tribute is performed by Carl Thomas, SWV, and DaBrat.
The Jacksons tribute was performed by Next Town Down, Silk, and Jon Jon.
Tony Terry and Shanice also sang a tribute to Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway.
Did Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack win an award?
Not at this time. Stay focused!
I saw few pictures of you on the red carpet. How was it?
I'm glad you asked! It's a whole new world for me working a red carpet event, but I'm engaging person and truly a fan so it was like second nature to me ( that and my bad habit of cutting people off mid sentence)! I could tell a lot of effort was put into the red carpet preparations. I took time to observe the different roles and responsibilities involved in producing a red carpet event. All of us media are lined up in our tiny spots ready to greet, interview, and chat with the celebrities. At times it feels like a pushing match because you just have to jump out there and ask a question or say that artist name and ask for a picture. No butterflies, just talk to the artist! To be honest, I spent a lot of time expressing my excitement. There were several times after I met a star I had to walk away and scream on the inside -I'm still a fan! Who knew how much effort it takes work to chat it up with high profile people, to prepare thoughtful and unevasive question ahead of time, juggle your phone with video, interview, and push for the photo. Nobody tells you what to do, you just do it. With that being said, it's so much fun and an honor. Each time I work a red carpet I learn more, my world gets larger, and my content gets tighter.
And who doesn't love a great reason to dress up and snap it up with you musical favorites!
How was the show itself?
It was really cool to participate in a live taping. This meant that the stage producer would ask us for applauses, or cue up the hosts. Some things had to be re recorded. Real live behind the scenes. Rickey Smiley kept us in tears because he had a joke for each open moment. He gave us our own comedy show; he is so silly! Letoya did such a good job, giving us all of her Houston glory, if you know what I mean. Even the stage producer chuckled a few times. Seeing how a show comes together was really eye opening. Fun times were had by all.
My favorite performance of the night was the tribute to Slick Rick. Kid n Play did their thing! I won't spoil the show, but their tribute to Slick Rick's timeless hits will definitely get you out your seat.
I wanna attend next year! Will it be in Nashville?
I hope so. Decisions are made that most profitable to a business. My hope is that as the momentum builds for the National Museum of African American Music that the Nashville community, as well the growing public awareness of NMAAM and its significance as a NATIONAL museum will translate to more support and ticket sales.
The National Museum of African American Music is set to open its doors in 2019. It will be the only museum dedicated to preserving the legacy and celebrating the accomplishments of the many music genres created, influenced, or inspired by African Americans. Being built in Nashville, the Museum will share the story of the American Soundtrack, integrating history and interactive technology to bring the musical heroes of the past into the present.
Chicago's premier TV Production Company. With 46 years of successful and innovative television production and marketing experience, Central City Productions (CCP) is a leader in the minority- targeted television. CCP is a full-service television production company that produces, syndicates, and manages advertising sales for all of its programs. CCP programs reflect the wide diversity of talent, the one-time specials and the annual and/or weekly programs that have achieved tremendous mass audience appeal, including its flagship production of The Stellar Gospel Music Awards.


CSAC sponsors a Litigation Coordination Program that is administered by the County Counsels' Association. The program is directed by the Association's Litigation Overview Committee, consisting of county counsels representing all areas of the state, in conjunction with a litigator coordinator with offices in Sacramento.
The program monitors litigation of concern to counties statewide, coordinates the defense of major multi-county litigation, provides amicus (friend of the court) support where appropriate and disseminates current information to county counsels in the form of litigation alerts and updates on cases involving public law issues.
For more information, contact Jennifer Henning, Executive Director, County Counsels' Association of California.
Following is a list of recent briefs that have been filed on behalf of the Ligitation Coordination Program.
This case raises the question of whether private counsel representing a minor in an appeal in a dependency matter is entitled to attorneys' fees under the private Attorney General statute (Code of Civil Procedure section 1021.5). CSAC's brief, drafted by Elizabeth McDonald Muniz in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, argues that because minors are provided counsel by the courts, allowing attorneys' fees for private counsel is not authorized by statute and creates perverse incentives that contravene the purposes of the child welfare system.
CSAC filed a brief in the California Supreme Court on the issue of how remedies are applied under the Unfair Competition Law. CSAC's brief, drafted by Yvonne Mere and Owen Clement in the San Francisco City Attorney's Office, pushes back against the arguments that UCL remedies cannot be enforced statewide.
The CSAC Board of Directors adopted a policy that opposes efforts to "reverse expansions to the Medi-Cal program, which will shift the responsibility of providing these individuals with healthcare from the Medi-Cal program to counties, which are required to provide services to the medically indigent." Consistent with that policy, this amicus brief, drafted by Lorraine Van Kirk in the Santa Clara County Counsel's Office, informs that Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals of the serious negative consequences that counties will suffer if a trial court ruling striking down the Affordable Care Act in its entirety is affirmed.
CSAC's amicus brief in this case addresses two important CEQA issues: (1) Whether further environmental review is required under a program EIR for a project that is determined to be consistent with the EIR; and (2) The degree to which social and psychological impacts must be considered in an environmental review. CSAC's brief was drafted by its Litigation Counsel Jennifer Henning.
In this case, CSAC argues that when a public agency brings a public nuisance action under State law in State court, it is improper to allow defendant to remove the case to federal court. CSAC's amicus brief was drafted by Luke Edwards in the Santa Clara County Counsel's Office.
CSAC has filed an amicus brief in support of El Dorado County in this Mitigation Fee Act case. At issue in this case is the question of what statute of limitations applies to claims for refunds under the Act, and whether a claimant must show harm or substantial injury caused by the local agency prior to being eligible for a fee refund. CSAC's brief was drafted by its Litigation Counsel Jennifer Henning.
CSAC supported Sonoma County efforts to have the Ninth Circuit reconsider a case addressing the County's application of a State law requiring a 30-day vehicle impoundment is a driver is cited for operating a vehicle without a license. The amicus brief argues that the impoundment does not violate the Fourth Amendment, and that the County cannot be held liable for implementing the State's policy. CSAC's brief was drafted by its Litigation Counsel Jennifer Henning.
This appeal, pending in the federal Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, raises the question of when a case can be removed from state court to federal court. CSAC's amicus brief makes the argument that public nuisance claims, such as the one at issue in this case, are quintessentially state law claims that are not properly removed to federal court, and that allowing such removal would eliminate the right of counties acting as plaintiffs to pursue their claims in the venue of choice. CSAC's amicus brief was drafted by Laura Trice and Luke Edwards in the Santa Clara County Counsel's Office.
CSAC is supporting the City of Newport Beach's request to the United States Supreme Court to review a case that raises the issue of whether and how the Americans with Disabilities Act applies to law enforcement responding to an exigent situation. CSAC's brief was drafted by Lee Roistacher at Daley & Heft in Solana Beach.
In this case pending at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, CSAC's amicus brief addresses two important aspects of administrative hearings before local governmental bodies: (1) what level of deference should be afforded to the local agency; and (2) whether the court can consider evidence outside of the record when reviewing a local agency's determination. CSAC's brief was drafted by Susan Greenberg in the Santa Clara County Counsel's Office.
CSAC has filed a brief in support of Sacramento County on the issue of liability for code enforcement activity. CSAC's brief, which was drafted by Tim Coates at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland in Los Angeles, argues that a local government does not violate a property owners rights when enforcement actions are initiated by a complaint, even if the complaint is submitted by a business competitor. Similarly, the brief defends the practice of allowing businesses pay for costs to help timely process permit applications.
CSAC is supporting CSBA's Supreme Court challenge to the State's attempt to avoid providing mandate reimbursements by requiring local agencies to "use existing funds first" to pay for mandates. Under these "pay first" statutes, there are no programmatic reductions that would result in a net revenue increase, nor is there any new funding provided for the cost of the mandate. Nevertheless, the State contends, and the Court of Appeal agreed, that there is offsetting revenue that eliminate the need for mandate subventions merely by directing local agencies to pay for the mandate first with existing State funding. The Supreme Court granted review and is now considering the issue. CSAC's amicus brief was drafted by its Litigation Counsel Jennifer Henning.
In this amicus brief, CSAC defends the City of Oakland's public art ordinance, which requires large residential and commercial development to spend a specified percentage of the project cost (or pay a similar in lieu fee) to install public art. CSAC argues that the ordinance does not create an unconstitutional taking, and does not implicate First Amendment speech. The brief was drafted by Philip Seymour at the Sohagi Law Group in Los Angeles.
CSAC has filed a brief in federal court on the issue of what standards the court should apply when evaluating an officer's use of force. The brief argues that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals must follow the standards established by the US Supreme Court when evaluating constitutional claims involving use of force when there is a mistaken, but reasonable, belief that a suspect is holding and refusing the drop a weapon. CSAC's brief was drafted by Lee Roistacher at Daley & Heft in Solana Beach.
CSAC has joined a local government coalition amicus brief in a consolidated case pending in the federal Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. that asks that court to consider the unintended consequences on local government operations that may result from repeal of so-called "net neutrality" regulations. The amicus brief was drafted by Elina Drucker in the New York City Office of Corporation Counsel.
CSAC has filed a brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on the issue of when qualified immunity applies in employment disciplinary decisions. In the brief, CSAC argues qualified immunity should be available in a claim that an employee's termination violated his First Amendment rights where it was not clearly established that the employee's conduct was protected speech. The brief was prepared by Alison Turner at Greines Martin in Los Angeles.
This case raises the question of whether the services supported by rates for water can include the cost of providing sufficient water flows to allow fire fighters to connect to a hydrant and fight fires. CSAC's brief argues that water rates can properly include the costs of providing sufficient flows to allow for adequate fire protection. The brief was drafted by Daniel Hentschke in Solana Beach, and Thomas Bunn at Lagerlof, Senecal, Gosney & Kruse in Pasadena.
This case tests the applicability of Prop. 26 to taxes and fees that were adopted prior to Prop. 26's passage. CSAC's brief, drafted by Ben Fey at Jarvis, Fay & Gibson in Oakland, argues against a retroactive application of Prop. 26 to municipal electric rates that were approved by the electorate prior to Prop. 26.
In this brief, CSAC is urging the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to interpret the Communications Decency Act in such a way that shared economy online platforms, like Airbnb, cannot use the statute to shield themselves from liability for facilitating and profiting from unlawful conduct. CSAC's brief was written by Christi Hogin at Best Best & Krieger in Manhattan Beach.
This case raises two important questions for law enforcement responding to calls that involve a person exhibiting signs of mental illness: (1) Whether a different Fourth Amendment analysis is required; and (2) Whether the Americans with Disabilities Act applies, and if so, how? CSAC's brief, drafted by Lee Roistacher at Daley & Heft in Solana Beach, urges to full Ninth Circuit to review these issues and provide much needed guidance to public agencies, law enforcement and the public.


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Q: how to differentiate from number and char when i read a line in c# as array of string i  read a line for example " DHAP::Glyc3P : 1.546 DHAP + 0.656 NADH = 1 Glyc3P ." from a .txt file and split word by space then save in an array of strings as follow
while((line = DOC.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    List<string> linestring = new List<string>();
    string[] words = line.Split(' ');
    foreach (string word in words)
    {
        linestring.Add(word);

    }
}

now i need add number (for example 1.546 ) in a table and other strings (DHAP) in the other table!
and i don't know how to do it!!

A: you can use Double.TryParse for every string, if the method succeeds then it is a double number so you can process it as you want to process (numbers), and if it doesn't succeed it is a string, process it as a string.
double val;
foreach (string word in words)
{
   if(Double.TryParse(word, out val)
   {
      // add val to numbers table
   }
   else
   {
      // add word to strings table
   }

}

For example:
while((line = DOC.ReadLine()) != null)
{
    List<string> linestring = new List<string>();
    List<double> numbers = new List<double>();
    double val;

    string[] words = line.Split(' ');
    foreach (string word in words)
    {
        if(Double.TryParse(word, out val)
        {
            numbers.Add(val);
        }
        else
        {
            linestring.Add(word);
        }
    }
}

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