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Montréal, March 5, 2019
Rate increases below inflationHydro-Québec honors commitment for fourth consecutive year
For the fourth year running, Hydro-Québec has upheld its commitment to keep rate increases no higher than inflation. In its decision on 2019–2020 rates, the Régie de l'énergie approved a 0.9% increase for all residential customers and most business customers, while the inflation rate is expected to be 2.0%. This modest increase takes into account $43.4 million in 2017 earning variances shared with customers in the form of a reduced rate increase.
This increase, which is higher than the initial rate application for 0.8%, is due to an adjustment in the rate application filed in December 2018 to integrate a $40.2 million increase in expenses related to Transition énergétique Québec. The adjusted rate application was for 1.2%.
The resulting impact on electricity bills as of April 1, 2019, will be an increase of $0.32 per month for a five-and-a-half-room apartment heated with electricity, $0.90 for a small house, $1.72 for a midsize house and $2.56 for a large house.
Electricity rates are established in such a way as to generate sufficient revenue to recover the cost of providing electricity service, estimated at $12.3 billion for the year 2019, to some 4.3 million customers throughout Québec.
Quebecers will continue to enjoy the lowest residential electricity rates in North America. In 2019–2020, they will pay about half the price customers pay in Toronto, and only a quarter of what customers pay in New York and Boston.
Increase in first energy consumption tier
The Régie de l'énergie approved Hydro-Québec's request to cap the first energy consumption tier at 40 kilowatthours (kWh) rather than 36 kWh. Customers will be able to use an additional 4 kWh per day at the lowest residential price tier, which will lighten the burden on small consumers who use electricity for heating, including low-income households.
Dynamic pricing on an opt-in basis
Starting in winter 2019–2020, Hydro-Québec will propose two new dynamic rate offerings to customers: base rate with winter credit and Flex rate. Customers interested in these offerings will be able to sign up on a totally voluntary basis. Those who are not interested will be able to conserve their base rate as is.
Both dynamic rate offerings will enable customers to save during the winter period between December 1 and March 31. To do so, they will have to modify their electricity use, at Hydro-Québec's request, during critical peak events between 6 and 9 a.m. and 4 and 8 p.m., for a total of up to 100 hours per winter.
The base rate with winter credit is risk-free and represents potential savings for customers. Those who have enrolled will keep their base rate and receive a credit of $0.50 per kWh curtailed during critical peak events.
With the Flex rate, customers who have signed up will pay less than the base rate for the entire winter period outside of critical peak events. During critical peak events, however, they will pay more than the base rate: $0.50 per kWh consumed. This rate represents a greater potential for savings than the winter credit, but customers will have to be careful, because their bill might go up if they don't change their energy habits during critical peak events.
To provide optimum support to customers and to ensure the success of these new rate offerings, we will be rolling them out gradually. In the first year, 20,000 randomly selected customers will be invited to participate. They will have to meet certain conditions, such as having a valid email address, a communicating meter and a Customer Space. Participating customers will be provided with tools to assist them.
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Ottawa es una ciudad ubicada en el condado de LaSalle en el estado estadounidense de Illinois. En el Censo de 2010 tenía una población de 18768 habitantes y una densidad poblacional de 566,12 personas por km².

Geografía
Ottawa se encuentra ubicada en las coordenadas . Según la Oficina del Censo de los Estados Unidos, Ottawa tiene una superficie total de 33.15 km², de la cual 31.08 km² corresponden a tierra firme y (6.24%) 2.07 km² es agua.

Demografía
Según el censo de 2010, había 18768 personas residiendo en Ottawa. La densidad de población era de 566,12 hab./km². De los 18768 habitantes, Ottawa estaba compuesto por el 93.39% blancos, el 2.04% eran afroamericanos, el 0.31% eran amerindios, el 0.92% eran asiáticos, el 0.01% eran isleños del Pacífico, el 1.82% eran de otras razas y el 1.51% pertenecían a dos o más razas. Del total de la población el 7.49% eran hispanos o latinos de cualquier raza.

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Victory Garden Workshop, June 23, 11 a.m., Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Rd., Wilton. Museum Educator Lola Chen will talk about how everyone helped the war effort with vegetable gardens during WWI. The kids will plant seedlings in the Society's Victory Garden, and can help maintain their plantings through the summer. For ages 6-12. Tickets $10 members, $15 non-members. Info: wiltonhistorical.org.
Colonial Cookery: Peach Pir, June 30, 11 a.m., Wilton Historical Society, 224 Danbury Rd., Wilton. Museum Educator Lola Chen will be showing the children how to make a delicious modern spin on Peach Pir by preparing a crumb crust, custard and fresh diced peaches. Tickets $10 members, $15 non-members. Info: wiltonhistorical.org.
Future Filmmakers Camp, July 9-20, Ridgefield Playhouse, 80 East Ridge Rd., Ridgefield. Tweens and teens can learn how to make films on their smartphones. Enroll online. Fee $1350 for 2 weeks includes film equipment that students get to keep. Info: ridgefieldplayhouse.org.


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Australian minister blames green schemes for electricity price hike
By Nilima Choudhury
Markets & Finance, Policy, Power Plants
New South Wales, Australia, Enery Minister Chris Hartcher has called for the closure of the national Renewable Energy Target, claiming it is the cause of increased electricity prices. The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART) has released a report stating inflated prices are a result of rising network costs as well as the introduction of the carbon pricing mechanism, effective July 1.
IPART's report states that the additional costs incurred by these green schemes have to be passed on to consumers if the retailers are to remain financially viable, causing electricity prices to rise to around AUD$315 on average. In percentage terms the costs of complying with the green schemes has seen the fastest growing proportion of a customer's bill. However, alongside the extra cost to the consumer, the government has implemented financial assistance packages for low and middle income households to help with the cost of living. To IPART, this demonstrates the ineffectiveness of the schemes which are in dire need of modernization.
"Once the carbon pricing mechanism is operational, it is likely many of the existing mitigation programs will need to be redesigned and some may become redundant. By ensuring that the schemes are complimentary to the carbon pricing mechanism, unnecessary costs can be minimized", says the report.
In response to minister Hartcher's comments, Geoff Bragg, NSW chairman of the Australian Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) said, "Half of the coming electricity price rises are a result of infrastructure upgrades required to keep the aging electricity grid operating. The IPART release clearly states 0% rises from wind and solar green schemes. The NSW government blaming the national Renewable Energy Target is side-stepping the real issue. We need to transform our energy system to be more efficient and take full advantage of distributed generation from solar and other renewables."
IPART Chairman, Dr Peter Boxall "There are aspects of the National Electricity Rules and the National Electricity Law that could be changed to reduce pressure on prices. We've also outlined some areas around reliability standards, green schemes, and subsidies that could be reviewed to ensure maximum cost effectiveness to limit future price increases."

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St. Thomas Aquinas, saint and doctor of the Catholic Church, is perhaps best known for his scholarship and as patron saint of students and universities. His great works, the two Summas (Summa Theologica and Summa Contra Gentiles) are mainstays of classic Catholic theology, and popes from St. Pius V to Benedict XVI have praised his work. Beyond those works, however, and the foundation they provide for Catholic theology, St. Thomas Aquinas' hymns for the great Solemnity of The Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ are also influential works, as they have given us the language of worship and devotion to the Holy Eucharist.
This sequence urges us not only to praise God, but to do it well, with hymns and chants expressing joy and festivity.
The servant on his Master feed.
The light wherein Thou dwellest aye. Amen.
The gate of heav'n to man below!
In our true native land, with Thee.
In his 2003 encyclical on the Holy Eucharist, Ecclesia de Eucharistia, Blessed John Paul II praised these hymns and poems of the Solemnity of Corpus Christi: "Let us make our own the words of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an eminent theologian and an impassioned poet of Christ in the Eucharist, and turn in hope to the contemplation of that goal to which our hearts aspire in their thirst for joy and peace". Each of these hymns provides great doctrinal statements of the truths of the Incarnation, the Paschal Mystery, and the Eucharist while expressing devotion to Jesus Christ as Lord and Redeemer.


After a winter break, we are back sleuthing our way along the country roads in search of snippets of paintable history. A photo in Robert de Gast's book of what appeared to be a capilla abierta in the community of Jesús María la Petaca has always been on my to paint list. You know how that goes….so many capillas, so little time. We don't often paint in this part of the municipality so I had never actually seen this capilla.
The day did not start auspiciously for a plein air outing as it was cold and cloudy with a strong prediction of rain; however, shortly after we arrived the sky cleared and we were blessed with the perfect day. Well, almost perfect, except for the herd of cattle that really wanted to go just where Linda was painting. No mishaps…Linda is fine.
Having explored this capilla and done a little research online, I cannot say with certainty whether it is a capilla, capilla abierta, or capillita as the passing vaqueros referred to it. I don't believe it is a calvario. The capilla abierta or open chapel is considered to be one of Mexico's most distinctive architectural forms. Simply described, there is an altar under a domed structure that is supported by arches on three sides with the altar being on the only closed side thus the term "open" chapel. There is no nave (where the congregation sits in modern churches), instead, the courtyard or bare ground in front of the structure is where the people gather.
This type of architecture was built and used in Mexico during the early colonial times when the church was actively converting the indigenous people to Catholicism and the Friars needed to baptize hundreds of people at the same time. There are records of a few thousand being baptized at one time.
While the front of this structure could be a capilla abierta with its three arches and small dome, the remains of the altar are in one tiny room attached to the structure, not against a back wall. We have not seen any capilla like this one but then our forays have been limited geographically to the municipalities of San Miguel de Allende and Dolores Hidalgo Cuna de la Independencia Nacional. Perhaps there are others of similar design or was this built by a creative spirit and destine to be an architectural dead-end?


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Room with a View - The Land Registry aspires to being digitally streetwise
Birketts LLP
According to its own figures1 HM Land Registry processed over 7.2 million applications to update its registers last year. It holds records to £7 trillion worth of property so it is understandable that anyone involved in land transactions would want to take an interest in its campaign to improve the efficiency of the property transfer process.
Enter, 'Digital Street' – HMLR's pioneering project to modernise and transform the process by which transactions in land are conducted.
The Land Registry has teamed up with a technology company, digital ID specialists, a secure payment platform, lawyers and even HMRC to explore the benefits and viability of using Blockchain as the basis for completing and implementing property transactions.
This article explains how Blockchain works and looks at how it could transform conveyancing with its improved security benefits, as well as highlighting the obvious financial benefits of using this system, while acknowledging the hurdles to overcome.
Since the birth of Bitcoin ten years ago, Blockchain has been the principal platform used to trade cryptocurrency.
Conventionally, a single trade is an end-to-end, linear and sequential transaction. Blockchain transforms the transaction in to a circular one, whereby all interested parties confirm and execute their part of the transaction simultaneously. An easy way to understand how this functions in practice is to think of the process as an electrical circuit.
Each party to the transaction is a component in the circuit. When they are able to confirm their readiness to complete their part in the transaction, and are satisfied that all other parties are similarly positioned, they actively enter the circuit to communicate this by programming their computer into the chain.
When each component joins the circuit, the chain is complete and digital 'electricity' flows, which allows the trade to proceed and all elements to transact simultaneously.
Only those who are party to the transaction are able to enter the circuit which prevents fraudulent imposters, and each procedural requirement is fulfilled immediately upon execution.
How could this be used for conveyancing?
'Digital Street' hopes to directly implement this procedure into transactions for land. While in the case of Bitcoin a unit of cryptocurrency changes hands between the virtual wallets of the parties involved in the transaction, that unit of currency will be substituted with the title to a plot of land.
Parties to the Blockchain will include the buyer and seller, any guarantor or lender, the Land Registry and HMRC, as well as any other party who may have an interest or role to play.
Only when each party has fulfilled their requirements and are satisfied that each of the others has fulfilled theirs, will they programme into the chain.
As with the example above, only those who are parties to the Blockchain will be able to join the chain, and at the point of completion all elements will execute simultaneously and almost instantly.
The effect of this is that the property will pass, completion monies are transferred, tax is paid and registration is completed and all formalities attended to within a matter of seconds.
Benefit from less delay
Condensing the numerous steps of a conveyance into one simultaneous manoeuvre would have the obvious beneficial effect of speeding up the entire process and eliminating some of the lag time between the steps of the transaction. The most evident example of this is the registration process itself at HMLR.
At present, following completion of a transaction, parties send to each other their part of the agreed documents, usually in the post. SDLT returns must be submitted along with the requisite funds. Only once the completed documents have been exchanged and the tax has been received by HMRC can registration then be applied for. Registration will then be actioned by HMLR at any time between a few days and several months from receipt of the application.
If you compare this current time line for completion to registration, to the Blockchain alternative where all elements are actioned instantaneously, the projected benefits are obvious.
Risks for buyers associated with third party interference will disappear along with any potential for missing deadlines for tax submission or for registering the disposition. Blockchain appears to facilitate certainty for all and ensures that no unforeseen costs arise post-completion.
Less time means less money
It is likely that the use of Blockchain will mean that consumers will need to seek assistance from a lawyer who is able to deal with these new software and technology requirements and has the requisite technical know-how. There is a danger that only those players who have already invested in technology platforms will be able to come to this party and this might reduce the number of available providers for consumers to choose from.
The net cost-effect on the market, however, is likely to be positive. While there will be a greater need for professional assistance, that assistance will be more limited in scope. A condensed process would lead to a more standardised legal service, and the time between receiving instructions to closing the file will be greatly shortened. This should in turn reduce legal costs.
A key feature of Blockchain is that the chain will only complete when the parties to the transaction, (and only the parties to the transaction) program into the chain. This, in theory, makes it impossible for fraudulent third parties to enter into the Blockchain and misappropriate property, money or information.
The fact remains that the exchange of large sums of money along with a vulnerability to identity theft, make conveyancing a prime target for cybercrime. Land transactions have become renowned as one of the areas at highest risk from online fraudsters, leading to the term 'Friday Afternoon Fraud' being coined for the theft of conveyancing monies.
Blockchain technology promises to significantly reduce these risks due to the specific requirements in forming the chain. Nonetheless there are technical and public confidence issues to overcome if Blockchain is to really make it into the wider market as a viable way forward for conveyancing.
What challenges lie ahead?
Leaving aside the natural concerns that many will have regarding security for a 'paperless' process, there are other issues to overcome before this kind of technology could achieve wider use.
So far the pilot 'transaction' which the Land Registry replicated in the Digital Street project involved a single freehold residential property in Kent. There is still a long way to go before the technology can be used across the full spectrum of possible transactions which take place every day - whether from a legal perspective or otherwise. As a solution we may find that Blockchain becomes the norm in residential conveyancing but that more sophisticated commercial transactions are still dealt with in other ways.
No matter how clever the process becomes it's important to bear in mind that there is a crucial element at play here that is entirely outside the control of a system, and that is the parties themselves. People can be motivated by all sorts of reasons to wish to delay or to press on with their transaction and it may be difficult to persuade them to buy into a system that will (to some extent) drive the process forward independently of their own agendas.
Finally there will be new areas of law to be applied and issues to be resolved. Who carries liability if something does go wrong? The operators of Blockchain technology will argue strongly that their system is simply a framework for transactions to proceed - it takes no part in actually making the deal happen. To use the earlier analogy, they provide the parts to build the circuit; they don't control what is built or when the circuit goes live. So if the circuit is triggered in error whose fault will it be?
With increasing demands on the Land Registry, and heightened risks from cyber security, a modernised process for conveyancing is in demand. Blockchain's innovative system appears to provide the answers, promising an efficient and ultimately cheaper form of conveyancing, while ensuring security.
Accounting for the challenging nature of more complex land transactions still represents a big problem, but whether this hurdle is surmountable is the primary question to be answered by Digital Street. How legislation reacts to such a formidable overhaul will be a subsequent challenge for Parliament; it remains to be seen whether this could lead to a radical legal reform of conveyancing laws.
This article is from the autumn 2019 issue of Room with a View, our newsletter aimed at professionals within the property industry.
Birketts LLP - William Hodges
Room with a View - Execution of deeds - all change for the Land Registry *
Room with a View - Restrictive covenants and lessons for developers *
Godparent v guardian *
Extension of residential eviction ban *
Agricultural Brief - Permissive access to the countryside - will ELMS help? *
Proptech Decoded - Pulling the chain on traditional land registration? *
Blockchain and land registries: records of the future? *
The Digitalisation of Property Transactions - A New Era? *
Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain, Real Estate and the UAE * - United Arab Emirates
Blockchain and real estate: A global revolution in the making? * - Global
Blockchain Game Changer, Part 2: Adapting the Technology of Blockchain * - Ireland
Edward J. Willey III
Huawei Technologies (USA)
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Stevnsfort Cold War Museum
Unesco World Heritage Tours summer 2019
Bøgeskov Havn
Holtug Chalk Quarry
Mandehoved - Stevns Nature Center
Stevns Lighthouse
Stevns Klint Højerup
Boesdals Limestone Quarry
UNESCO World Heritage!
The dinosaurs and half of all species became extinct when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Traces of the asteroid are found in the Fish Clay that is visible as a thin black/gray layer in Højerup. Stevns Klint is the best place in the world to study the clay and is UNESCO World Heritage.
You can walk along Stevns Klint, which is UNESCO World Heritage and offers many experiences. Follow the approx. 20 km footpath, which stretches from Bøgeskov in the north to Rødvig in the south.
Visit Stevns Klint Højerup and find out why Stevns Klint is inscribed on UNESCO's prestigious list of the world's most unique cultural and natural heritage. Photo: Jakob Lautrup / GEUS
THE COLD WAR
During The Cold War, the peninsula of Stevns would have been on the absolute frontline if war had broken out between the East and the West. Experience traces from The Cold War at Stevnsfort Cold War Museum, by Stevns Lighthouse and by Stevns Nature Centre at Mandehoved. Photo: Kalklandet
WHEN STEVNS WAS COVERED BY THE SEA
At Holtug Chalk Quarry, you can find fossils of animals that lived in the sea that covered Stevns and most of Northern Europe more than 65.5 million years ago. Illustration: Sune Elskær and Tor Fruergaard
LIMESTONE AS A LIVELIHOOD
For centuries, Stevns' residents have extracted limestone, chalk and flint from Stevns Klint. You can visit the abandoned limestone and chalk quarries in Boesdal and Holtug, and in several other places along the cliff you can see where workers have cut out building stones from the cliff. Photo: Kalklandet
BEAUTIFUL AND RARE NATURE
The nature of the Limestone Landscape along Stevns Klint is unique. It forms a breeding ground for rare and endangered species and is popular among birdwatchers. Every spring and autumn, millions of birds migrate via Stevns Klint. The limy soil has also created oases for rare plants. Mandehoved, Holtug Chalk Quarry and Stevns Lighthouse are particularly worth a visit. Photo: Rudy Hemmingsen


Security Squared posted a long video featuring interviews with key members of the ONVIF and PSIA standards groups. In addition to speaking with founding members, the video has dialogue with manufacturers from both sides of the standards initiatives.
Video is embed below. Our summary and commentary follows.
The video begins with an introductory brief on the ONVIF group and points out that ONVIF has over 90 manufacturers that support the standard. Also included is an interview with the GM of Axis Communications (and ONVIF founding member), Fredrik Nilsson. In the interview, Nilsson focuses on the success of the standard by the number of manufacturers that support ONVIF, which in turn will ultimately benefit the end-user.
He states, "It would probably not be until 2010-2011 until we start seeing most of the specifications, but its obviously a big benefit for the end-user." Compare to our projected timetable for IP camera interoperability specification adoption.
Axis also emphasizes how ONVIF is 'global.' While we agree that ONVIF has greater recognition and support than PSIA outside the US, a number of non-US companies including Synectics, Everfocus and HikVision have been demonstrating PSIA support.
Coverage continues by examining the PSIA group's offering which features an interview with PSIA Chairman, Robert Hile, who expresses his view on open standards.
He states, "Ultimately, what opens standards are going to do for this industry, is they're going to lower the cost of ownership to the end-user[...]To the integrator, its a lower cost of integration, of which most of the savings should be passed down to the end-user."
Finally, reference was made to PSIA's recorder interoperability draft specification (see our examination of that release and the potential for video recorder interoperability).


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Blogs > Secrecy News (2000 – 2021) > The Urgency of Military History
The Urgency of Military History
By Steven Aftergood • April 7, 2020
The task of the military historian differs from that of the academic historian because military history has an operational dimension. It is supposed to help inform current military operations with the lessons and the perspectives of the past.
"The historian must always bear in mind that the whole purpose of the history office is to help the warfighter by serving as an advisor and presenting critical documentation when needed," according to a new US Air Force Handbook on the subject. "The mission drives what is important for the historian, not the historian's particular interest. "
The military historian also is responsible for identifying and assembling the raw materials of future scholarship. Contrary to what "many new historians may incorrectly assume, documentation will not automatically arrive in the office. The historian must seek it." See Aerospace Historian Operations in Peace and War, Air Force Handbook 84-106, April 2, 2020.
But operationally, history can only do so much.
"Military history does not produce solutions for problems and does [not] guarantee success on the battlefield," an Army manual on the subject explains. "An approach with these goals leads to frustration and biased or inaccurate history."
"Rather, military history affords an understanding of the dynamics to shape the present and enables Soldiers the perspective of viewing current and future problems with ideas of how similar challenges were confronted in the past. . . If history rarely provides concrete answers, it offers insight and understanding."
"Historians know that Army history records triumphs, challenges, and failures. Army historians do not judge operations and actions; they seek to tell the full story so that others learn from it." See Military History Operations, ATP 1-20, US Army, June 2014.
Categories: History, Military Doctrine
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The entire archives of the Knights from the Crusades (11th century until 1798) are contained here.
Take your ID or passport for identification.
The National Library, 36 Old Treasury Street (Opposite Caffe Cordina).


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Литература
 Маленькая принцесса (1905) — роман английской писательницы Фрэнсис Бёрнетт. Входит в Золотой фонд детской литературы.

Фильмы
 Маленькая принцесса (фильм, 1917) — американский фильм по одноимённой повести 1905 года
 Маленькая принцесса (фильм, 1939) — американский фильм по одноимённой повести 1905 года, режиссёры: Уолтер Лэнг, Уильям А. Сайтер. В роли Сары — Ширли Темпл
 Маленькая принцесса (фильм, 1986) — английский мини-сериал (6 серий) по одноимённой повести 1905 года
 Маленькая принцесса (фильм, 1995) — американский фильм по одноимённой повести 1905 года
 Маленькая принцесса (фильм, 1997) — российский фильм Владимира Грамматикова по одноимённой повести 1905 года


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December 2015 - 1st Amahoro (Peace) Tournament
Recap of the Final Tournament
Written by: Bujumbura Organizers
In total 8 matches were played out! And each day of a match the members of the communities around were more involved and engaged in cheering their favorite teams. Thus on Dec,19th, 2015. The final started with a preaching of the Gospel from John 3:16 About God's love. So it was after this prayer that everyone on the ground joined hands with his neighbor for a prayer for Burundi.
Run of play
The match started just 10:00 and ended at 11:00. The teams playing the final game were: NURU CONFORTI FC and B. These teams were well prepared and the 2nd minute, the CONFORTI team B scored his first goal and that was quite awakening for spectators and the teams.
At the 20th minute the FC NURU team scored the goal to equalize with CONFORTI B.
The game ended with a score of 1-1 for both teams. So they proceeded to shooting penalties and free throws have favored CONFORTI B for five penalties on four NURU (5-4).
After the match we made the tournament closing ceremonies. Trophies were given. More counsels were shared from various community leaders. All came back to the main objective of the gathering "Soccer for Peace and reconciliation in Burundi."
From the public administration, the representative of the Urban commune of Ntahangwa handed the cup to the captain of CONFORTI B and to the second, FC NURU received an envelope.
The administrator of the urban commune of Ntahangwa thanked the organizers and supporters of the Amahoro tournament. He then asked that these activities can continue in all the urban areas of Ntahangwa and expand them further to the neighborhoods that are manipulated by politicians. He also recommended the urgent need to organize peace seminars to the Leaders of the Areas of his urban commune of Ntahangwa.
After a vote of thanks , through the Soccer club leaders, their representative recommended the following: Continuous youth empowerment programs and their availability to help in making sure we have quick access to administration processes. More youth oriented programs that will help them to not only live together but also to build up their family through skills that they would have learned through such programs.(Vocational training).He also urged The Amahoro tournament team to go national wide!
For Children:
Children welcomed the initiative and requested to be able to invite others!
They really want to see the Amahoro Tournament become a seasonal tournament in order to keep making them meet with their friends from other suburbs for training, playing and coaching in various activities as part of strengthening peace in our neighborhood.
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Graham's musical career began in 1996 when he auditioned as a clarinettist with the Band of the Irish Guards in London. During the same year, he graduated and began his journey into the Guards. After a course at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, he was posted to the Band of the Irish Guards on solo clarinet and was soon appointed as the band's principal clarinettist, a high honour in a well-established and mature clarinet section, and band. Work with the Guards included performing for the Changing of the Guard at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, State Banquets, State Visits, the State Opening of Parliament, The Queen's Birthday Parade, Trooping the Colour and numerous tattoos.
During his time with the Irish Guards, Graham toured much of the world, performing in some of the most prestigious concert venues, from London's Royal Albert Hall as the principal clarinettist of the Guards Division, to the Sydney Opera House as part of a six week concert tour of Australia and New Zealand. Graham has also performed in the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Republic of Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, and the United States of America, where he toured through some twenty-five states in eleven weeks under the management of Columbia Artists.
Since 2010, Graham has worked with the Band of The Royal Logistic Corps, the Band of the Scots Guards, as an instructor at the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, and the Band of the Welsh Guards. As a conductor, he has been the Musical Director of the Bourne Concert Band of Woking and the Crawley Millennium Concert Band.
Graham was appointed as the Musical Director of the Surrey Police Band in 2010.