"No snakes eh…." By the time people are grandpas they've often learned a lot about being a human and about how adults get formed by childhoods. He can tell this might be a big moment, so he drops down beside her and slows himself down.
"The Candy Police???" Even a little kid thinks he's getting a bit rich.
"No, I get that sweetie. There are times when you can hear the sound waves coming out of their mouths and those do hit your eardrums. When you're there. But they're not here now, right? They're not in your bedroom on a weekend?" Just in case, he checks under the bed.
Okay wait, maybe he does have a point she's starting to think now that she's picturing it…. He's getting an affirmative look so he continues.
"Well, not really them, it's their thoughts that are the water." He takes a moment to think of a way to describe it. "You know how you can't run fast in the water when I chase you at the pool? That's 'cause water slows us down. When you hear Sasha and Mercedes say mean things, that's like hearing the water against the side of the boat. But when you put their water in your head it slows you down. But the water never gets into the boat unless we decide to think about the mean things that people like Sasha and… Merrrrr….–" Oh oh.
"–MERCEDEEEESSSS– say. Right? Get it? Them saying mean things at school is the water hitting the side of your mind –the side of your boat. But you thinking of them here in your bedroom, tonight, days later –that's you pouring their water into your boat. Remember, boats float in water, not on it.
"So all our lives people will splash mean things in our direction, but none of that matters if we stay dry in our boat. So that's what your Mom means. You sitting here in bed thinking about insults you got hours or days before now is you inviting those girls into the space in your boat when you could have been thinking about me…." Grandpa hangs his head, dejectedly.
She's not sure she likes this. She'd like this to be Sasha and Mercedes issue to manage.
"Yeah. Polluted." She looks like maybe she feels better.
"I believe that. You bonehead." He lightly raps his knucks on her noggin.
She nods, he smiles, and out goes the light as the bedroom door closes.
You're a parent and obviously you want to do a great job of raising your kid. Or maybe you know a parent who's trying to do that. Either way, people have no idea what the future will look like so it's essentially impossible to raise a kid for success. About all anyone can do is raise their children to be flexible enough that they can thrive in any future.
My grandmother lived on the prairies before steam powered machines hit the farms. One bad growing season and people in her generation literally starved to death in the middle of Canada. My parents both served in and obviously survived, WWII. Not all their siblings did as well. For my parent's generation and all the generations before them, being a good parent was pretty straightforward: keep the kids alive, and try to teach them some basics about staying alive and getting along with others.
That was it. No books, no manuals, no classes. There weren't different philosophies or theories to follow or adhere to. There were no real major rules to be broken as a parent as long as your kid wasn't a criminal. And most people turned out pretty healthy and certainly happier than people test as today. Today it's much different. Today there's a lot of choice available regarding parenting styles.
Styles. Before, when two parents met for lunch, one parent could see the other parent's kids were alive and they'd talk as two adults about things unrelated to their kids. Today people meet and fretfully discuss the latest article they read that either promises the path to certain success or that explains what is certain to lead to disaster. It's all very binary, as though parenting is either good or bad when really it's neither.
As much as we like to dress it all up in psychological terminology, "parenting" a child is really them just the kid mimicking or reverse-mimicking whatever the caregiver does. Parents are simply the child's most common examples of human behaviour. So if someone truly wants to be a great parent, other than loving their child, they should simply let the child be and focus instead on being the best person–and best example–they can be.
Oh, and as you're trying to be that great example, don't forget that when you do set a bad example, you shouldn't beat yourself up over it because that sets another bad example. Instead we should accept our responsibility and know it felt bad because it was out of alignment with who we really are. And if we have that feeling, then the child will be parented just fine. Accept mistakes as lessons and move on. Because even if that was the only skill you taught your child, they would have learned a lot.
Welcome to today's lesson in awareness and consciousness. Take a good look at the meme above. In creating it, an internet artist juxtaposed a normal reality with what is presented as a girl's life in the media. It's not difficult to see the point the artist was making. There's a tense discrepancy between the one's shallowness and the other's depth. The piece feels like the sort of thing Banksy would have done if he was a young female artist.
That tension created by the discrepancy above is what today's blog is designed to reduce. There are undoubtedly some beautiful works of art in fashion and I applaud people's right and freedom to wear what they like. But that is a separate issue from discussing how adults come to feel tortured. And when we delve into why, it's almost always due to their egos, which were themselves often created and fomented by marketers and advertisers who were understandably focused on sales, and not on human development or actualisation.
Ever since brands figured out that they could also sell the idea of being stylish, attractive, smart or even beautiful to men as well as women, the onslaught to change us all became genderless. Slowly, men are seeing their lives similarly invaded by notions of perfection until, maybe in some distant future, we'll get anywhere near where women were in the 1920's. Today women are literally bombarded all day long with appeals to their egos and the associated myriad of ways to fail. And of course there just happens to be a cream or top or shampoo that'll help us bounce back. And that bouncing motion is what they're counting on.
Capitalism exists but its aspects don't have to take control of your life. You can develop a healthy awareness that can insulate you. Next time you're in a store waiting in line and you can see the magazines, just look at the headlines on the cover and decipher how they are tugging at your ego–how they are suggesting the importance of some ideal? What mechanisms are they using to convey that you or your life is lacking or wrong? Photoshop? A headline? A tip?
If you do this exercise for the rest of this month, you will easily notice that most modern popular magazines are quite literally about how to be a shallow person and base your happiness on your appearance and/or your reputation for being hip; they set impossible standards and create ridiculous expectations, and they encourage both narcissism and the formation of a goading ego. In fact an ego is essentially what they are selling. A Mannequin Ego, where a person gets reduced to being a walking advertisement; a hangar for products.
I love design and I love artful clothing. But you seeing something and feeling that it's right for you is a much, much different thing than being shoehorned into something "fashionable;" which only means it's been marketed to the point of being the tyrannical uniform of "cool." Look around you. That's why everyone's dressed so uniformly. They're literally worried about stepping out of line. No one wants to be that Gary Larson cartoon about the deer with the birthmark.
Get conscious. Witness how our egos are products that companies sell to the real us. Start making a conscious connection between that fact and your dissatisfaction with your life. I'm not saying never go shopping. Go. Enjoy. But go consciously. Don't be buying things because they're in alignment with what your social media feed told you you'll get "liked" for. But what you–the real you–feels natural in. That's the path to more peace of mind.
Watch your newsfeeds. Watch your TV and Web series. Watch your magazines and listen to your radio ads. Get out of your busy thoughts by focusing instead on who originally put those dissatisfied voices in there in the first place.
Start today. Become more conscious and more spiritually connected by seeing through the ego utilized in advertising. Because on the other side of that is a kind of peace, satisfaction and contentment that far surprasses the feelings that any external thing could ever give you.
Now go use your powerful mind to go create a worthwhile day. And keep your eye out for manipulations to your thinking.
One of two things happens. Either you've already failed at your traditional New Year's resolutions and you're happy to restart, or you're a person who's more rigid about your commitments and so it feels weird to start this coming Monday instead of on the 1st. But then, that was secretly my first lesson to you….
Who cares where the planet is in relation to the sun when you decide to make changes? Why is the 1st important? Or why target 365 days? You're not a planet, you're a person. Your life happens in moments and you can enact health in any moment of any day. Someone you love may be dying and yet you can still feel grateful that their doctor is so good. So remember: you don't succeed or fail all at once. Each moment is its own opportunity. Every new moment is a restart in the world of mental health.
I want to state that very clearly once more to make sure you're going into this in a healthy, productive way: the people who are happier, more productive and more connected than you all still have death, disease, accidents, heartbreak, betrayals and trouble to deal with. Seriously. You don't improve your life by making those things go away.
You need to take today and really dispel the idea that you can truly "succeed." If a champion athlete hasn't won their first championship yet, are they succeeding or failing at the gym? Or, if they never won a championship but they met their partner at an athletic event, was that succeeding or failing? Did you really want the trophy more than the spouse?
Also, anticipate that it would be very weird if you won 100% of the time. That would be so boring you wouldn't even do that. Otherwise, why aren't all of your games against people you know you could beat? Without challenge life has no flavour. We're not here just to burn calories. We're here to live, and that means overcoming challenges and growing in capability as a result.
Anticipate days where you'll struggle. Accept them as valid stones to step on as you cross the water. It's true, they're slipperier and more likely to cause to go in, but there's also no way to move around the lake of life without stepping on some. And you get better as you go. Again, everyone deals with those, even the people whose lives you think are fantastic. They just don't take a fact and then make it worse with a bunch of fearful thinking.
So what do you do with the fearful thinking? Well that's the thing, if it's fearful generally your words are running away with your psyche in your head. You need to employ some detachment. Understand that your thoughts will lead to brain chemistry that will match your thoughts. The trick is, they'll also appear to you to match the situation, so that's where you'll get confused.
That brain chemistry and your emotional reaction are not coming from the world and they are not happening to you. (Read that again.) Your emotions are from your thinking and they are generated by you. Most people leap to thinking that should mean that if they're your thoughts that you should be able to change them whenever they want. Except those thoughts aren't yours in the way you currently believe they are, but that's too much to explain now. You'll just know that when you're thinking dies down enough so don't worry about it. That will happen naturally.
So here's your assignment: all you need to do today is to find two or three short biographies of people you admire; people you consider successful. And then read through them and note how nicely all of the really hard, painful parts are written about. "After overcoming that challenge so-and-so poured their heart into their new album…" Oh wait, you mean that rock star had to go through the pain of a divorce to write those great songs? Find their pain. Make them more like you, because you're more like them than you realise.
Do it. Find the bios. Read them on Wikipedia or in an article. Just take some down time that you would have used to shop or surf the internet and instead do this and start your route to better health. Do the work to dispel the quiet lie you've always told yourself. The people you want to be don't have better lives than you, they just have more control over their thinking. That is a do-able task for all of us, so you can relax until Monday. We'll start there and we'll get you where you're going one moment at a time. Have a wonderful weekend.
You keep trying to improve your life by making adjustments to the outside, but that's a bit like trying to fix the Titanic by softening the iceberg rather than just getting the current Captain to pay more attention and steer around it. Likewise, if you manage your life from the outside your results can sink you.
Precisely because you get some good feelings from some things you like, it appears to confirm what you've heard so you've never looked to see if you get good feelings from things you don't like. Everyone tells you that the things you like are better than the things you don't like so it all makes sense except for the part where you're not happy enough.
Part of the problem is that you're looking for happy instead of satisfied. Happy sounds like it should be better doesn't it? If we put life on a ladder, happy would be higher up than satisfied, wouldn't it? But that's thing; we're not on a ladder. This isn't a one-directional space. Yes, you must move forward relative to yourself, but not relative to the universe. Forward for you can be wandering all over the place for the universe. And likewise, satisfied for you can turn out to be what you expected happy to be.
The way this works is that satisfaction done in this way is complete satisfaction. Rather than being satisfied with my entire life I can be satisfied with everything about the moment I am in. I can have left tragedy and be moving toward disaster, but if I am satisfied in between then no one can ever take that away from me. That time will have been lived and I will have been profoundly satisfied. The idea is to win as many of those little time-squares as you can.
Consider every moment like a quadrant on your voyage through life. Each quadrant contains your thoughts and actions. If the box presents a problem like an iceberg then you can enjoy the action of finding the solution, or you can resist finding a solution by thinking about the problem. One will feel good one will feel bad. The bad one tells itself that it should already feel better and it goes about what it's doing. The good one is grateful it knows how to be better now and it makes changes.
Doing all of this is a lot easier if you stop reconsidering every moment in your past and stop worrying about every potential moment in your future. If you do that you have no mind left to find the solution in the current moment. You can't be so worried about the schedule of the passengers that you start ignoring the icebergs.
Note that above I say "find the solution" and not "fix your problem." You're only fixing it if it wasn't supposed to be there in the first place and no one ever made that deal with you. If anything we made the opposite deal. This is the North Atlantic. Everyone has to steer past icebergs. No one's boat is that good.
Abandon your expectations for this day. Look into yourself for your hopes and your beliefs and your wants and know that those guarantee you nothing. Everything changes, it's only a matter of when; and were you appreciating it before it did change? Because if you were in the act of appreciating then that felt good, and if you accepted that feeling could go away then you would immediately shift to rewarding thoughts about its presence. Gratitude for gratitude. It works every time.
Rewarding thoughts can include things like being grateful that you know how to create the solution that is required in the new moment. And if you don't know the solution, then you get to use the subsequent moments to learn and expand yourself so that you might then have a solution within you for the future. Either way you're winning.
It just depends on what you're focused on; your happiness that you're able to help, your happiness that you have the ability to learn it and then help, or your happiness about having an appreciation for the fact that it does no good to flog a dead horse, so you're happy to move on to something else worth appreciating. It's not like the universe is stingy with those unless you get picky about the one you want.
Do not expect, do not become attached, manage your reactions to change instead. It won't be classically good or classically bad in a health state of mind. It can be happy to be working on a solution or direction change with gratitude; or it can be painfully wishing for what you expected and got attached to. One hurts, one feels good. Your choice. Either way, you create the reality you live in.
Find today's attachments. They're inside you. Find ways to manage them now so that when they come up you have an actual strategy you believe in to execute, because those feelings originate inside of you, meaning you have total control over them. Trying to fix the external world, on the other hand, is like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Forget the outside. Become your own Captain. Take control of the inside. You have places to go.
If you're really struggling with altering your thinking try setting it up more in the first place. Make a list if you have to. Instead of thinking thoughts about your own wants and desires try spending the day by thinking about someone else instead of yourself. As soon as you finish thinking about Sara start thinking about Ali. Just leave you out of it for a day.
No comparing them to you. No judging their actions. You want to get into their head. What do they have to think about from their perspective? Really consider who they are and what motivates them–they're dreams, fears history, circumstances… and then look at their life to see evidence of those thought patterns. Seeing it in someone else will help you see it in yourself.
You can even do this with your dog. Have you even noticed it has different barks for different things? And if you know that, do you know the barks themselves? Likely not. But if you stop and meditate on it a moment you realize that even babies develop separate cries for their priorities–hunger, external discomfort, internal discomfort, pain and joy and love. Well your dog's the same way. It'll have a set of barks for everything important to it: food / water, outside / inside, fear / concern, excitement / happiness. So the dog's been clear all along. It's up to you to shut down your own thinking and start communicating better.
Another time you'll think too much is when people are talking to you. Stop thinking about your distractions from–or your opinions about–everything they say. Just stay quiet. Listen carefully for subtle differences in their voice. Make sure you get the eye colour of everyone you speak with today. Become more aware. You think it's small but this is it. More awareness equals more opportunities for joy and learning.
Imagine what your spouse might be having to think about at that moment. Imagine some of the strangest and most difficult parts of your teacher or boss's life. Learn something new about someone you've known for a long time. You can even do it with relative strangers. What's it like to be on crutches, or at a funeral or late? It doesn't matter how you get there, but as soon as you're thinking about someone else you're also preventing yourself from creating an ego that will then suffer.
If you don't think you into existence you won't be there. That's why amnesiacs are like that–they can't find their own thoughts to think. So their awareness is still there but their opinions are not. They don't know who they like or don't like, nor what foods are their favourites and they'll even fall in love again with a spouse they've already divorced. It shows how powerful an opinion can be if we take it too seriously.
Remember: today you don't think about you. Put some post it notes up if you have to. But today isn't about you, it's about others. So don't spend any time spinning thoughts about your life. If you're going to think at all take some time to think like someone you often judge. And if you do it seriously, expect to feel humbled and open and wise and… better.
Increase your perspective. Me, I, You, Them, Us, They… are all myths. Avoid those words in your vocabulary both internal and external and you will be healthier and happier regardless of your external circumstances. Now go have a great day.
You don't want your life to be boring but you do want it to have some dynamics. After all, how good would Game of Thrones be without clashing those glorious highs against a few thunderous lows. We love it on TV, why not in life?
The reason is because you don't see your life as a performance. You see it as a dress rehearsal and you're constantly rewriting what you wish you would have done. That's what it is to live in ego. That's a fake world. You can't change anything in your past. You're looking at what your situation was and who you were. And both things are much more flexible than you're giving them credit for.
What is your history? You think back on your golf league in a good mood and you remember all the great games and all the great people you got to play with all summer long. If you're in a bad mood that same memory gets played back as being about the one guy who cheated in a mid-season tournament to steal the victory from you. The prize? A golf umbrella.
There is no way you're that upset about a golf umbrella. It's that you had this preconceived idea that you were playing by a set of "Gentlemen's Rules" but that was an assumption on your part. Maybe that guy was the high school loser and he's never won a single thing in his middle-aged life and so he broke his own normal ethic and stole from you a potential victory. Potential.
You being upset about something like that is fine for a short burst. Normal human relations require us to make certain assumptions about trust but, when someone breaks them we don't want to be derailed from enjoying our lives for long. Then their actions are controlling our emotional experience of life. No way. You don't want other people's actions inciting your own unhealthy thinking.
Think of living in the moment as being like a fish swimming through a lake. The universe and you are so fluidly and completely a part of each other—even to the extent that it's flowing inside your body and over your gills; a body that is made primarily of water. It's water within water shaped like a fish. That is you. You move toward what you like and away from what you don't.
But then you get advice and you go in directions that you're told to go rather than where you sense you should go. You subjugate your own sense of yourself to an outsider. As good as a friend may be, and as much as they will know things about you that you do not, they still can't ever know you well enough to make the decisions for you unless it's a "No Not Resuscitate Order" in a hospital.
You can get thinking in such whirling circles that you fly off onto dry land where your mouth gapes for you to breathe as you drown in an ocean of air—and ocean of thought. Meanwhile the water is right next to the rock you're laying on. The only difference is your thinking. Eventually that dies down and you recover your awareness, realize where you are, and then you can easily just flop this way then that way and you're back and swimming free.
Don't ground yourself with thought. You're clumsy on land. Your ego is a flopping grounded fish. You are a sentient and compassionate human being. Stop handing your life off to your thinking and start by simply paying attention to your life before you. Don't flop in thought, swim in existence.
I'd suggest starting right this awareness thing right away. It brings remarkable peace of mind. But to do that you have to stop leaving now—stop leaving the verb of swimming through the water to sit still, flopping around instead in the choking air of too much thought. Life is not thinking. Life is living. Less judgment. More action. Be a human who is fully being. It is such a privilege to get that chance.


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Trump's victory margin smaller than total Stein votes in key swing states
By Brooke Seipel - 12/01/16 03:43 PM EST
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In two key states that President-elect Donald Trump Donald John TrumpLev Parnas implicates Rick Perry, says Giuliani had him pressure Ukraine to announce Biden probe Saudi Arabia paid 0 million for cost of US troops in area Parnas claims ex-Trump attorney visited him in jail, asked him to sacrifice himself for president MORE won, his margin of victory was smaller than the total number of votes for Green Party nominee Jill Stein.
In Michigan, Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonFormer Vermont Governor: Sanders 'will play dirty' NYT: Justice investigating alleged Comey leak of years-old classified info New Hampshire state lawmaker switches support from Warren to Klobuchar MORE by 10,704 votes, while Stein got 51,463 votes, according to current totals on the state's official website.
And in Wisconsin, Trump's margin over Clinton was 22,177, while Stein garnered 31,006 votes.
In Pennsylvania, meanwhile, Stein's total of 49,485 votes was just slightly smaller than Trump's victory margin of 67,416 votes, according to the state's latest numbers.
The margins were first noted by Cook Political Report's Dave Wasserman, who on Thursday tweeted that Stein's total votes were greater than the margin of Trump's victory in all three states. The votes in Pennsylvania have since changed again, and Trump's margin is now larger than the total vote for Stein.
Only Michigan has certified its vote, so totals in the other two states may still be adjusted.
Stein has filed for a recount in all three states, and the Clinton campaign's general counsel indicated her team would participate in the recounts. Trump has slammed the effort as a "scam" and filed an objection to the Michigan recount.
Stein herself has acknowledged she doesn't expect recounts to change the election results but called them a matter of election integrity.
Critics have blamed Stein's support for Trump's win, saying that Green Party backers should have preferred Clinton over Trump. The complaints echo arguments made after Democrat Al Gore Albert (Al) Arnold GoreNH Democratic Party chairman rips Bloomberg op-ed as 'desperate for some press attention' It's time to provide needed reform to the organ donation system On The Trail: History is not on Biden's side MORE's loss to Republican George Bush in the 2000 election, when Green Party candidate Ralph Nader was targeted for criticism after a razor tight finish in Florida.
Stein supporters have countered that many of her voters would never have supported the Democratic nominee and should not have felt compelled to decide between just two candidates.
Trump won the Electoral College race with 306 electoral votes. Pennsylvania was worth 20 electoral votes, Michigan 16 and Wisconsin 10. If Clinton had won all three, she would have won the election.
On Wednesday, The Associated Press reported Clinton's lead over Trump in the popular vote had grown to 2.3 million.
Clinton's total was 64,874,143, or 48.1 percent of the vote, to Trump's 62,516,883, or 46.4 percent.
Libertarian nominee Gary Johnson Gary Earl JohnsonThe 'Green' new deal that Tom Perez needs to make The Trump strategy: Dare the Democrats to win Trump challenger: 'All bets are off' if I win New Hampshire primary MORE received 4,442,771 votes, or 3.3 percent of the vote, and Stein got 1,420,351 votes, or 1.1 percent.
EDITOR'S NOTE: A previous version of this story, based on now-outdated vote totals, mischaracterized Trump's margin of victory in Pennsylvania. It is larger than the total number of Stein votes in the state
- Updated at 12:43 p.m. on Friday.
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Robert-Nicolas-Charles Bochsa est un musicien français né à Montmédy (Meuse) le  et mort à Sydney (Australie) le . Il était à la fois harpiste, compositeur, professeur, chef d'orchestre, éditeur, directeur de théâtre, producteur mais également spécialiste de l'art de la contrefaçon de signatures.

Oublié aujourd'hui, il fut très célèbre au , à la fois en tant que compositeur prolifique et harpiste de tout premier plan mais aussi à cause de ses démêlés avec la justice qui défrayèrent la chronique. Il passa de ce fait presque toute sa vie hors de France, tant en Europe qu'en Amérique et en Océanie.

Biographie
Fils du hautboïste, compositeur et éditeur Karl (dit Charles) Bochsa, originaire de Bohême et de Marie-Charlotte Vautrain, Lorraine originaire d'Ennery, il étudie le piano avec son père, premier hautbois au Grand Théâtre de Lyon, puis la composition avec Franz Beck à Bordeaux avant d'entrer en 1807 au Conservatoire de Paris dans les classes de Charles-Simon Catel pour l'harmonie, Étienne-Nicolas Méhul pour la composition, François-Joseph Naderman et Marin pour la harpe. Détenteur d'un premier prix d'harmonie, il est nommé harpiste dans la musique impériale de Napoléon en 1812, poste qu'il conservera sous Louis XVIII. Il épouse la même année Georgette Ducrest, fille du marquis du Crest et nièce de madame de Genlis, qui lui donnera deux enfants.

Sa brillante carrière est toutefois interrompue par une condamnation à douze ans de travaux forcés,  francs d'amende et « à la marque » pour faux et vol. Il est en effet accusé d'avoir contrefait la signature de plusieurs personnes, musiciens célèbres (, Méhul, Boieldieu, Nicolò) ou personnalités influentes (le comte Decazes, le duc de Wellington), sur des bons au porteur pour assouvir son goût du luxe. Le jugement est rendu par la cour d'assises de la Seine le  en l'absence de Bochsa qui a prudemment choisi de quitter la France pour l'Angleterre l'année précédente en abandonnant femme et enfants.

À Londres, il devient successivement directeur de la musique du théâtre du roi, de l'Opéra-Italien et du Conservatoire royal de musique, professeur de harpe à la Royal Academy of Music (de 1821 à 1827) et chef d'orchestre au King's Theatre. Le , il étrenne à l'Opéra-Italien de Londres une série de concerts en compagnie de la soprano française , épouse du compositeur Henry Rowley Bishop, surnommé le « Mozart anglais » et auteur du célèbre Home! Sweet Home! (1823). Il dédie à celle-ci de nombreuses mélodies et arrangements avant d'entamer une liaison qui durera jusqu'à la mort du compositeur. Ainsi, la cantatrice n'hésite pas à quitter son mari et ses trois enfants pour suivre son amant lorsque ce dernier quitte l'Angleterre à la suite d'accusations de bigamie. Bochsa est en effet accusé d'avoir épousé Amy Wilson (sœur de la célèbre courtisane et maîtresse présumée - entre autres - du prince de Galles, ), sans avoir divorcé de sa première épouse.

Les amants entreprennent une tournée qui les conduit à travers toute l'Europe (Danemark, Suède, Russie, Autriche, Hongrie, etc.) avant de s'installer à Naples où la direction du Teatro San Carlo engage Anna Bishop comme prima donna assoluta di cartello et Bochsa comme chef d'orchestre de 1843 à 1845. Ils se produisent plus de 300 fois dans une vingtaine d'opéras différents parmi lesquels La fidanzata corsa de Pacini, La cantatrice villane de Fioravanti, Lucia di Lammermoor et L'elisir d'amore de Donizetti, Beatrice di Tenda et La sonnambula de Bellini, Il barbiere di Siviglia et Otello de Rossini, I due Foscari de Verdi et créent Il Vascello di Gama de Mercadante.

Après une nouvelle tournée en Belgique, Suisse, Hollande, ils gagnent les États-Unis, puis le Mexique et enfin l'Australie où Bochsa meurt en 1856.  Anna fait édifier un tombeau au Camperdown Cemetary de Sydney avec cette dédicace : « This monument is erected in sincere devotedness by his faithfull friend & pupil Anna Bishop »

Nicolas-Charles Bochsa a composé plus de 350 œuvres, la plupart pour harpe (sonates, duos, fantaisies, symphonies, etc.) dont deux concertos et un nocturne pour deux harpes, flûte et cor anglais, mais également des opéras et opéras-comiques, un Requiem, des ballets, une sonate pour piano, un quatuor pour hautbois, violon, alto et basse, trois quatuors pour deux violons, alto et basse, un quintette pour harpe, hautbois, flûte, cor et basson, des trios pour violon, violoncelle et piano, un concerto pour flûte, plusieurs mélodies et de nombreux arrangements comprenant La Marseillaise et les Quadrilles pour violon de Niccolò Paganini.

Œuvres diverses
 Le Retour de Trajan ou Rome triomphante, intermède en deux actes et en vers, livret de Stéphanie-Aline Despréaux (1805, Lyon)
 La Dansomanie, ballet (1806, Bordeaux)
 Le Déluge universel, oratorio (1806, Bordeaux)
 Requiem à la mémoire de Louis XVI pour chœur d'hommes et instruments à vent, dédié à Louis XVIII (Basilique Saint-Denis)
 L'Héritier de Paimpol, opéra-comique en trois actes (, Opéra-Comique)
 Les Héritiers Michau ou le Moulin de Lieursain, opéra-comique en un acte (, Opéra-Comique)
 Alphonse d'Aragon, opéra-comique en trois actes (, Opéra-Comique)
 Le Roi et la Ligue ou la Ville assiégée, opéra-comique en trois actes de Théodore d'Artois et Emmanuel Théaulon (, Opéra-Comique)
 Les Noces de Gamache d'après Cervantès, opéra-comique en deux actes (, Opéra-Comique)
 La Lettre de change, opéra-comique en un acte (, Opéra-Comique)
 Un mari pour étrennes, opéra-comique en un acte (, Opéra-Comique)
 Justine ou la Cruche cassée, ballet (, Londres)
 Le Temple de la Concorde, ballet (, Londres)
 La Naissance de Vénus, ballet en deux actes (, Londres)
 Le Corsaire, ballet en trois actes (, Londres)

 Citation

 Annexes
 Bibliographie
 François-Joseph Fétis, Biographie universelle des musiciens, 1878.
 Frédéric Robert, « Robert-Nicolas-Charles Bochsa » in Dictionnaire de la musique en France au , Joël-Marie Fauquet (dir.), Paris, Fayard, 2003
 Michel Faul, Nicolas-Charles Bochsa : Harpiste, compositeur, escroc, Delatour, Sampzon, 2003 .
 Michel Faul, Les Tribulations mexicaines de Nicolas-Charles Bochsa, harpiste, Delatour, Sampzon, 2006 .

 Discographie Étude « allegro agitato », Lily Laskine (harpe), Erato, 1975Rondeau sur le trio « Zitti zitti » du Barbier de Séville de Rossini, Isabelle Moretti (harpe), Naïve, 2009Rondeau sur le trio Zitti Zitti du Barbier de Séville, in Rossini for Harp, VERMEER 400003, 2016, Paola Perrucci (harpe)Fantaisie sur "I Capuleti e i Montecchi" de Bellini, Claudia Antonelli (harpe), Naxos, 1996Fantaisie « Les Merveilles de Paganini », Rachel Talitman (harpe), Harpe & Co, 2010Étude en la majeur et Étude-valse en fa dièse mineur, Lily Laskine et Marielle Nordmann (harpes), Erato, 1982Nocturne op. 51 , Rachel Talitman (harpe), Pierre-Henri Xuereb (alto), Harpe & Co, 2008Grande Sonate , Philippe Pierlot (flûte), Catherine Michel (harpe), Symphony Land, 19946 Nocturnes concertants op.59, pour violon et harpe, composés en collaboration avec Kreutzer, Guillaume Sutre (violon) et Kyunghee Kim-Sutre (harpe), Sonarti, 2016Cantabile espressivo op.62 n°21 pour harpe ; Fantaisie op.72 pour cor et harpe, Lily Laskine (harpe), Guillaume Barboteu (cor), Erato, 1971/72Air Irlandais pour harpe, flûte et orchestre à cordes (extrait du Concerto n°3 op.293), Lily Laskine (harpe), Jean-Pierre Rampal (flûte), Orchestre Jean-François Paillard, dir. Jean-François Paillard, Erato,1978 Concerto pour harpe et orchestre  en ré mineur'', Lily Laskine (harpe), Orchestre des concerts Lamoureux, Jean-Baptiste Mari (dir.), Erato, 1965

Liens externes

 Iconographie sur le site de Michel Faul

Notes et références

Naissance à Montmédy
Compositeur français du XIXe siècle
Compositeur français d'opéra
Compositeur français d'oratorio
Compositeur français de ballet
Compositeur français de la période classique
Compositeur français de la période romantique
Harpiste français
Harpiste classique
Élève du Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris
Naissance en août 1789
Décès en janvier 1856
Décès à Sydney
Décès à 66 ans

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Q: Why don't the \chead and \pagestyle commands affect page headers in the \pagecommand of the pdfpages package? I want to include about 500-600 pdf files of a scientific conference in a root file. My root file is as follows:
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The codes that produces pdf-1.pdf and pdf-2.pdf are:
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{The first Paper}
\author{John Doe}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[1-17]
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and
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\title{The Second Paper}
\author{Joe Smith}
\begin{document}
\pagestyle{empty}
\maketitle
\thispagestyle{empty}
\lipsum[6-18]
\end{document}

But as you see on the output, the \pagestyle{mystyle} and \chead{\conftitle \\ First article title} commands don't affect the headers at all. I want my header, for example, for the first included pdf to be like the following screenshot:

How can I solve this problem?
P.s.: I know that with the following code, I can fix the problem, but I want to do this using the \pagecommand command or other alternative options of the \includepdf command.
\pagestyle{mystyle}
\chead{\conftitle\\ First sample article title}
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\pagestyle{mystyle}\chead{\conftitle \\ First article title}}]{pdf-1.pdf}
\chead{\conftitle\\ second sample article title}
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\pagestyle{mystyle}\chead{\conftitle\\ Second article title}}]{pdf-2.pdf}

A: It seems, that \pagestyle{} inside a pagecommand is useless, but defining separate styles for the articles will work, then issueing an per-page \thispagestyle{articlestyle} does the job.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\newcommand{\conftitle}{The 7th International Conference on...}
\fancypagestyle{firstpaperstyle}{%
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{LOGO}
\fancyhead[C]{\conftitle}
\fancyhead[L]{\thepage}
\chead{\conftitle\\ First article title}%

}

\fancypagestyle{secondpaperstyle}{%
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{LOGO}
\fancyhead[C]{\conftitle}
\fancyhead[L]{\thepage}
\chead{\conftitle\\ Second article title}%
}

\begin{document}
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\thispagestyle{firstpaperstyle}}]{pdf-1.pdf}
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\thispagestyle{secondpaperstyle}}]{pdf-2.pdf}
\end{document}

I'll try to figure out, why \pagestyle itself does not work.
This approach might not be an option if many article papers have to be included
Edit
Obviously, it's an expansion problem with \chead, so it's better to do an on-the-fly adjustment of the conference - article title header.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{pdfpages}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\newcommand{\conftitle}{The 7th International Conference on...}

\gdef\realconftitle{\conftitle}
\fancypagestyle{mystyle}{%
\fancyhf{}
\fancyhead[R]{LOGO}
\fancyhead[C]{\realconftitle}
\fancyhead[L]{\thepage}
}

\newcommand{\adjustconftitle}[1]{%
  \gdef\realconftitle{\conftitle \\ #1}%
}%

\begin{document}
\pagestyle{mystyle}%
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\adjustconftitle{First article title}\pagestyle{mystyle}}]{pdf-1.pdf}
\includepdf[pages=-,pagecommand={\adjustconftitle{Second article title}\pagestyle{mystyle}}]{pdf-2.pdf}
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What is a sensitive compartmented information facility?
October 17, 2022 by Zoe Tucker
This is a question our experts keep getting from time to time. Now, we have got a complete detailed explanation and answer for everyone, who is interested!
In the lingo of the United States military, national security/national defense, and intelligence agencies, a sensitive compartmented information facility is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive compartmented information types of classified information. Other terms for this type of facility include SCIF and sensitive compartmented information facility.
What exactly is meant by the acronym SCI program for sensitive compartmented information?
Information that is classified as Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) pertains to specific intelligence sources and methods. This category of data may also include details about sensitive collection systems, analytical processing, and targeting, as well as information that is derived from such data.
In the military, what does SCIF stand for?
The term "secured room" is shortened to "SCIF" when used in the context of the defense industry. SCIF stands for "sensitive compartmented information facility." SCIFs are utilized when speaking with other people about sensitive material or when briefing them on it. They are constructed to be impenetrable to any form of interference, with the goal of avoiding any form of espionage or observation from external sources.
What exactly is the function of the SCIF?
1. Purpose. The goal of this Order is to establish standards for accessing, protecting, and keeping classified information and material, including documents printed and maintained within a secure classified information facility (SCIF) that is controlled by the United States General Services Administration (GSA).
What is the most appropriate way to describe highly confidential information?
A categorization mark known as SCI indicates that the object or information it refers to is sensitive and is associated with a particular program or department. The program office, also known as the GCA, decides what qualifies as SCI and assigns the appropriate classification markings to it. This scientific material will not be readily available to all individuals.
What what is a SCIF? SCI-Facility stands for "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility."
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Regardless of the format, the level of sensitivity, or the categorization, the necessary markings should be applied to every document. It is not necessary to affix the SCIF marking on papers that are not classified. Paper documents that are kept in open storage are the only ones that require marking.
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In most circumstances, SCIFs do not have windows; however, if the accrediting official gives permission for windows to be installed, visible line of sight mitigating measures are required to be taken into consideration.
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A safe room is a fortified room that is constructed in a private property or business to provide a safe hiding place for the occupants in the event of an emergency. This type of room is also sometimes referred to as a panic room.
How many different levels of security clearance are there?
National Security Clearances are a hierarchy of five levels, depending on the classification of materials that can be accessed-Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS), Counter-Terrorist Check (CTC), Enhanced Baseline Standard (EBS), Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV).
How does a SCIF come into play?
A Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, often known as a SCIF, is a safe location where sensitive information can be viewed and discussed without the risk of being monitored or spied on by unauthorized individuals from the outside. According to the DNI, speakers can be employed to spread noise in order to disguise the discussions that are taking place within the SCIF if soundproof walling is not an possibility.
How do you make a SCIF room?
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How much time does it take to gain access to the SCI?
It may be necessary to submit oneself to a credit check in addition to other investigative procedures before being granted access to TS or SCI, depending on the specifics of the situation. A comprehensive background investigation, which includes receiving approval for TS/SCI access, can take as long as 15 months to finish from start to finish.
Where do SCI and SAP stand in comparison to one another?
The abbreviations SCI and SAP stand for "Sensitive Compartmented Information" and "Special Access Program," respectively… Those who have "read on" to the program are the only ones who are able to access the compartments that contain the information that has been separated into. This is how the program got its name.
What is the key distinction between SCI and Top Secret?
Clearances for Top Secret and the SCI. All individuals who require SCI access should be aware of this prior to beginning the clearance screening process. The Top Secret clearance requires the most stringent background check, and the SCI designation indicates that there is an elevated risk of potential harm to national security.
Who is responsible for the governance of SCIFs?
Both the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) have direct authority over Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (SCIFs). The DNI is in charge of determining the security requirements for SCIFs, and the DIA is in charge of accrediting DoD SCIFs.
In a SCIF, what types of PEDs are permitted to be used?
In a secure computer and information facility (SCIF), what kinds of portable electronic devices (PEDs) are allowed? PEDs that are owned and officially authorized by the government only.
What exactly is the keyhole for talent?
TK stands for "Talent Keyhole," which is a disclaimer used in the intelligence community to indicate that the classified information was received through satellite communication.
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What are some probable signs that an attack using malicious code is currently taking place? Your computer may have been infected with a virus, according to a warning that appears in a flashing pop-up window.
Before sharing any personally identifiable information, what precautions are required of you?
In order to protect the safety of your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and Protected Health Information (PHI), what must you check before sending it over email? Transmissions are required to take place between e-mail accounts owned by the government, and they must be encrypted and digitally signed wherever it is practicable… Use your government email account and encrypt the message before sending it.
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Code that is intended to cause harm can take many forms, including viruses, trojan horses, worms, macros, and scripts. They have the potential to corrupt or compromise digital files, delete data from your hard disk, and/or grant hackers remote access to your personal computer or mobile device.
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L'Initiative pour la transparence dans les industries extractives (ITIE), en anglais Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) est une organisation internationale à but non lucratif et de droit norvégien, chargée de maintenir à jour et superviser la mise en œuvre d'une norme. Lancée en 2003, l'objectif de cette norme est d'évaluer dans quelle mesure les revenus des ressources pétrolières, gazières et minérales d'un pays sont gérées de manière transparente .

L'ITIE a pour but de renforcer les systèmes gouvernementaux en accentuant la gouvernance publique et des entreprises. L'ITIE sert aussi de source d'information pour sensibiliser la population, favoriser le débat public, face au secteur extractif et à l'usage qui est fait des revenus en provenant .

L'ITIE part du principe que les ressources naturelles d'un pays appartiennent aux citoyens de ce pays. Lorsque l'extraction de ces ressources est bien gérée, la richesse générée peut contribuer à développer le secteur économique et social . Cependant, si le secteur extractif souffre d'une mauvaise gestion, celui-ci peut être source de corruption et de conflit .

Dans ce cadre, la Norme de l'ITIE requiert des informations sur toute la chaîne de valeur, de l'octroi des droits d'exploitation jusqu'à la redistribution des richesses. Cette norme permet de bien cerner les différents acteurs du secteur, de comprendre la gestion des opérations et à qui profite les revenus en toute transparence.

La Norme est développée et sa mise en œuvre contrôlée par un conseil d'administration multipartite composé de représentants des gouvernements, des entreprises actives dans le secteur de l'extraction, d'organisations de la société civile, d'investisseurs institutionnels et d'organisations internationales. Le Groupe multipartite au sein de chaque pays participant à l'ITIE est le principal organe décisionnaire pour fixer les objectifs de l'ITIE.

La Norme exige des pays membres qu'ils transmettent au Groupe multipartite de leur pays, des informations ponctuelles et exactes sur la gestion des ressources du pays. Les données doivent être compréhensibles et claires sur la façon dont sont gérés les revenus et comment ils profitent à la population.

La Norme ITIE est mise en œuvre dans une cinquantaine de pays. Elle se compose d'une série d'exigences qui doivent être respectées par les gouvernements et les entreprises afin que le pays puisse être considéré comme étant « conforme à la Norme ITIE ».

Histoire

Le projet d'une « Initiative pour la Transparence dans les Industries Extractives  » (ITIE) a été présenté pour la première fois en 2002 par le Premier ministre britannique de l'époque, Tony Blair, lors du Sommet mondial pour le développement durable de Johannesburg.

Ce projet est né à la suite de longues années de débats théoriques et à un travail de pression de la société civile et des entreprises sur la gestion des revenus publics issus des industries extractives. Le ministère du développement britannique a ensuite invité toutes les parties prenantes des entreprises, des gouvernements et de la société civile à concrétiser l'idée et à la transformer en principes de transparence pour l'industrie extractive.

Les douze principes ont été présentés et adoptés lors d'une conférence à Londres le , date qui marque la fondation officielle de l'ITIE. En 2004, la Banque mondiale met en place son Fonds fiduciaire multi-donateurs (MDTF) permettant de fournir une aide technique aux pays mettant en œuvre l'ITIE.

Fonctionnement de l'ITIE au niveau global

L'assemblée générale
L'assemblée générale réunit les pays qui mettent en œuvre et qui soutiennent l'ITIE, les entreprises, les investisseurs et la société civile. Son rôle est de faire adopter les décisions et de nommer les membres du conseil d'administration de l'ITIE.

L'assemblée générale des membres se réunit au moins une fois tous les trois ans et se tient lors d'une conférence mondiale de l'ITIE. Chaque conférence suit un ordre du jour permettant, entre autres, d'aborder les questions de gouvernance. Cette conférence a pour but de donner l'occasion aux parties prenantes de l'ITIE de faire progresser les objectifs de la Norme en proposant des réformes. Depuis la création de l'ITIE, sept conférences mondiales ont été organisées.

Le conseil d'administration
Le conseil d'administration est à la tête de l'ITIE et représente l'instance exécutive. Il supervise les activités de l'ITIE dans l'intervalle des conférences mondiales et de l'assemblée générale. Il est composé de 20 membres qui se réunissent deux à quatre fois par an. Ce sont des représentants des pays membres, des pays soutenant l'ITIE, de l'industrie extractive, de la société civile et des investisseurs.

Le conseil d'administration évalue les performances des pays membres en matière de respect des Exigences de la Norme . Il recrute le directeur exécutif, dirige le Secrétariat de l'ITIE et gère les plans de travail ainsi que les budgets de l'ITIE.

Le secrétariat international de l'ITIE
Le Secrétariat international de l'ITIE, administré par le Directeur exécutif en Norvège, gère de façon quotidienne l'association ainsi que la mise en œuvre de la Norme. Il offre également des services au Conseil d'administration, s'occupe de la compilation des données et de leur divulgation. Le secrétariat tient également tous les registres à jour. Le secrétariat participe à la surveillance et au maintien du plan de travail en cours, notamment au niveau des délais de rapport et des étapes de validation fixés par le Conseil d'administration de l'ITIE.

La norme ITIE

La norme ITIEest une évolution supplémentaire des règles de l'ITIE, introduisant de nouvelles exigences en termes de divulgations pour inclure par exemple les paiements infranationaux, les paiements de transit ainsi que les activités commerciales des entreprises étatiques. Les pays mettent en œuvre ces exigences en créant un groupe multipartite où sont représentés les entreprises, les hauts fonctionnaires du gouvernement ainsi que la société civile. Toute l'information sur le travail effectué par ces groupes multipartites nationaux est accessible au public.

Le secrétariat international de l'ITIE aide les pays à respecter ces exigences en leur fournissant un appui technique. Un conseil d'administration multipartite dirige l'organisation. Clare Short, ancienne ministre du développement au Royaume-Uni, est la présidente du conseil d'administration.

Les exigences de l'ITIE

Résumé des exigences
Au niveau national, l'ITIE exige les parties prenantes rendes des comptes a un Groupe multipartite comprenant le gouvernement, les entreprises et la société civile (exigence 1) . Le Groupe multipartite doit être actif et effectif en présentant un plan de travail répertoriant les objectifs à atteindre, dont les jalons sont clairement établis sur un calendrier. Le tout doit correspondre aux délais convenus pas le conseil d'administration de l'ITIE (exigence 1).

Le cadre légal et institutionnel régissant le secteur extractif doit être rendu public (exigence 2) . L'ITIE entend par là que l'octroi des permis d'exploration et de production, les lois et la règlementation, le régime fiscal doit faire l'objet de divulgation. Les données sur les activités de prospection, de production et d'exportation doivent  être également rendues publiques (exigence 3). La transparence qu'exige l'ITIE du secteur extractif, permet aux parties prenantes de comprendre la gestion, les procédures et le potentiel de ce secteur (exigence 2 et 3).

Les informations sur la manière dont sont répartis et gérés les paiements, la collecte et l'attribution des revenus doivent être claires, ponctuelles et exhaustives (exigence 4 et 5). Cela permet d'alimenter le débat public à propos de la gouvernance du secteur extractif. Les parties prenantes doivent pouvoir comprendre la gestion de ces revenus au sein du budget national ou infranational et savoir quelle place ils occupent dans les dépenses sociales (exigence 5). L'ITIE exige aussi des données de bonne qualité sur les taxes ainsi que tous les paiements, les gains et les accords réalisés par l'Etat et les entreprises d'Etat dans le secteur extractif et du transport (exigence 4).

Des données sur l'impact du secteur extractif sur l'économie, sur les dépenses sociales et environnementales par entreprise et sur les dépenses quasi fiscales des entreprises d'Etat sont attendues (exigence 6). Cela permet aux parties prenantes de comprendre l'influence du secteur extractif sur le secteur économique et social (exigence 6).

Le groupe multipartite doit veiller à ce que les données publiées soient compréhensibles, conforme et accessibles à tous (exigence 7). L'objectif est d'élargir le débat public et le dialogue entre les parties prenantes sur la gestion efficace des revenus issus des matières premières. Le but est aussi mettre en œuvre des initiatives à partir des enseignements appris, afin de corriger les écarts mis en évidence dans les rapports de l'ITIE (exigence 7).

L'ITIE et la surveillance des entreprises d'État
Les entreprises d'État occupent une place déterminante dans le secteur mondial du gaz et du pétrole mais elles sont beaucoup moins fréquentes dans le domaine minier . Les entreprises d'État peuvent être propriétaire ou opérateur de projet en partie ou en totalité. L'État perçoit une part sur l'extraction des ressources, en argent ou en matière première (pétrole, gaz et/ou minerai) qui peuvent verser des redevances en matière première plutôt qu'en argent.

La corruption est souvent perçue au niveau de la gestion des ressources pétrolières et gazières lorsque la redevabilité, au sein de certains pays, est insuffisante. La transparence des revenus que l'État gagne dans la vente de ressources issues de l'extraction étant faible, la perception des gains gouvernementaux est biaisée.

L'exigence 2.6 de l'ITIE contribue à développer la transparence lorsque l'État est impliqué dans les industries extractives et génère des revenus . Les gouvernements mettant en œuvre les principes de l'ITIE sont tenus de divulguer les règles et les pratiques qui régissent les relations entre les entreprises d'État et l'État, notamment au niveau des transferts financiers, « du réinvestissement et le financement par des tiers » . Les entreprises d'État et/ou les gouvernements doivent divulguer leur « niveau de propriété » dans le secteur des industries extractives. Ces divulgations doivent être mises à jour lors de tout changement du « niveau de propriété ». Les dépenses réalisées par l'État et les entreprises d'État au cours des projets extractifs doivent être transparentes et détaillées .

Le suivi pour la validation du respect des exigences

Le processus de suivi
Le Conseil d'administration de l'ITIE procède à un suivi par pays pour s'assurer de leur conformité face aux exigences requises. Les pays membres de l'ITIE sont tenus de publier, de façon régulière et ponctuelle, des rapports de l'ITIE sous peine d'encourir des sanctions et, dans certains cas, de se faire radier de l'ITIE par le conseil d'administration de l'ITIE. Chaque rapport est examiné pour déterminer s'il répond aux exigences par le conseil d'administration avec le Guide de validation. Les pays membres se voient attribuer le type de progrès - de « aucun progrès » à « progrès significatifs ».  Dans le cas de la conformité d'un pays, celui-ci doit maintenir ses efforts pour continuer à répondre aux exigences de l'ITIE. Dans le cas d'une non-conformité, le pays doit répondre à une nouvelle évaluation. En fonction des résultats de cette évaluation, le conseil d'administration déterminera si le pays est radié, suspendu ou pays candidat.

La validation de la conformité aux exigences
Un document émanant de chaque pays est examiné en plusieurs étapes pour déterminer s'il répond aux exigences de l'ITIE . Pour assurer un dialogue pertinent et constant, toutes les parties prenantes doivent donner leur avis.

Dans un premier temps, le groupe multipartite réalise une autoévaluation. Dans un deuxième temps, le Secrétariat international de l'ITIE prend connaissance des documents puis se rend dans les pays pour consulter les parties prenantes, avant de rendre son rapport d'évaluation. Dans un troisième temps, l'ITIE fait appel à un validateur indépendant qui vérifie la conformité de l'évaluation réalisée par le Secrétariat de l'ITIE. L'avis du validateur est compilé dans un rapport sur lequel le groupe multipartite est appelé à apporter ses commentaires. Enfin, le Conseil d'administration consulte tous les rapports avant de déterminer de façon définitive la conformité ou non de chaque pays mettant ou voulant mettre en œuvre les principes de l'ITIE.

Financement de l'ITIE
La mise en œuvre et la gestion de l'ITIE a l'internationale est financée par les pays et les entreprises qui y adhèrent . La manière dont le financement fonctionne varie d'un pays à l'autre. Plusieurs agences internationales ainsi que le secteur privé (compagnies minières, gazières et pétrolières) participent activement au financement de l'ITIE. La Banque mondiale reste le principal donateur avec son dispositif à donateurs multiples EGPS qui permet de fournir une assistance technique et financière aux pays qui mettent en œuvre des réformes pour l'ITIE .

Les estimations de dépenses du Secrétariat international se sont élevées à plus de 50 millions de dollars américains par an, en 2015, pour couvrir les couts et les salaires pour le personnel ainsi que la mise en œuvre dans tous les pays membres. Dans de nombreux cas, les chiffres ne sont qu'une estimation approximative (Rustad, Le Billon, & Lujala, 2017; Secrétariat international de l'ITIE, 2019a).

Pays membres

L'ITIE publie sur son site internet une liste de pays mettant en œuvre les exigences de transparence de l'ITIE. En , 46 pays mettent en œuvre la norme ITIE. 29 pays sont considérés comme étant conformes, c'est-à-dire qu'ils respectent toutes les exigences de l'ITIE. Ce statut est accordé après une évaluation approfondie. D'autres pays mettent en œuvre l'ITIE mais ne sont pas encore certifiés : ce sont des pays candidats. Les pays s'apprêtant à faire une demande de candidature sont appelés « autres pays ». À ce jour il s'agit par exemple de l'Allemagne, de la France et de l'Australie.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'un pays est conforme à la norme qu'il est tout à fait exempt de corruption. La conformité signifie plutôt que l'information nécessaire est bien transmise et que des améliorations sont en cours. Chaque pays fait l'objet d'évaluations régulières afin de déterminer s'il respecte toujours les exigences. Le statut de pays conforme peut être révoqué à tout moment. Sur le site internet de l'ITIE on trouve également un aperçu de tous les rapports fournis par les pays.

 Pays conformes : Albanie, Burkina Faso, Cameroun, République du Congo, République démocratique du Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Guatemala, Guinée, Irak, Kazakhstan (depuis 2013), Kirghizistan, Liberia, Mali, Mauritanie, Mongolie, Mozambique, Niger, Nigeria, Norvège, Pérou, Sierra Leone, Tchad, Timor oriental, Togo, Trinité-et-Tobago, Zambie
 Pays candidats : Afghanistan, Azerbaïdjan, Birmanie, Colombie, États-Unis, Éthiopie, Honduras, Madagascar, Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, Philippines, Îles Salomon, Sao Tomé-et-Principe, Sénégal, Seychelles, Ukraine
 Pays suspendus : République centrafricaine, Indonésie, Tadjikistan, Tanzanie, Yémen
 Autres pays : Allemagne, Australie, France, Royaume-Uni, Italie

Références

Industrie minière
Organisme international de normalisation


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In England's Green & Pleasant Land
April 16, 2016 April 16, 2016 🌿irunoffroadLeave a comment
The reason I like to run in the countryside is that many of the trails and footpaths have been there for decades and maybe even centuries. The modern world has devised motorways and dual carriageways which leaves these narrow rural rights of way largely forgotten. However, that's the very reason why as trail runners we love to discover where they lead. As a bonus the trails inevitably give you great views and a connection to nature while running through it. These sights and sounds would have been enjoyed by countless people over the ages and it's why I feel compelled to revisit whenever I can.
If any piece of literature ever summed up our Great British countryside it would have to be the patriotic poem by William Blake, "And did those feet in ancient time" which was later developed into the hymn Jerusalem. Yes, we run England's mountains green and fight the mental fight in England's green and pleasant land.
And did those feet in ancient time, Walk upon England's mountains green: And was the holy Lamb of God, On England's pleasant pastures seen!
And did the Countenance Divine, Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem built here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?
Bring me my Bow of burning gold; Bring me my Arrows of desire: Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! Bring me my Chariot of fire!
I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand: Till we have built Jerusalem, In England's green & pleasant Land.
The "Views from my Shoes", (Saucony Peregrines to be specific). Ok, so sitting down might not have been the most sensible angle to take this photo but it's the weekend so why not do something silly !!
Today's temperatures still meant I could see my breath in front of me, now and then, but as the sun came out and cast it's shadows, these are the signs that Spring is upon us. I ran on the outskirts of Fareham out towards Knowle and beyond. The steady 6.6 miles weren't that fast but today summed up the enjoyment I get from running off road.
At this time of year if your trail running takes you into the woods there's a good chance you will come across bluebells, lots of bluebells !! I'm sure this blue carpet, which only covers the ground for a few weeks, has been something to look forward to since William Blake's time. Run for fitness, run for fun, just make sure you get out and run 🙂
Fareham's First parkrun !!
April 9, 2016 April 10, 2016 🌿irunoffroadLeave a comment
Fareham parkrun has arrived, with the venue being Cams Hall estate and the course being an out and back route along the Fareham Creek Trail . For anyone thinking about running this event the car parking is only a short distance away in the Lysses car park (70p an hour).
Naturally with today being the first running of this event it attracted both local runners, parkrun enthusiasts looking to add a new venue to their list and "first timers". Armed with my barcode I bumping into fellow Fareham Crusader Nikki Yeo (fresh from last weeks Paris marathon) and Martin de Wied in the car park, there must have been 25 or so Crusaders attending as we gathered near the Cams Mill pub for a photo. The nature of parkrunning also mean quite a few "junior" runners were there too.
Parkruns are reliant on volunteers and driven by people who want to give the community a chance to improve their fitness. Julie Salt and her team (including Crusaders Sarah Moulding and Tracey Morrison) deserve great credit for the smooth running of this event which, I'm sure, will go from strength to strength. The volunteers also included Alison who I talk to on twitter, great to meet you 🙂
A century ago, Cams Mill was an operational tidal mill. It has recently been recreated in the same style, including traditional features to ensure its history lives on, quite a setting. This sign also caught my eye, naturally it will only apply to a select few runners 🙂
As the start area filled up (219 ran today) I spotted Stubbington Green runners Andy, Simon, John & Jayne. I also spotted club vests from a number of areas quite a long way out of our local area. With the starting line being close to the pub this meant there was a good 350 metres or so of wider paths before the route joins the fairly narrow gravel trail. Naturally these 350 metres strung out the field and this worked well to avoid bunching.
There were a certain amount of puddles with some people skirting around them but the path is flat underneath so I personally go straight through the middle. With the early morning sunshine and birds singing in the bushes this all complimented the boats bobbing up and down on the creek to make the 5K very scenic. Crusaders Mike Gilmour and Aaron Sutton both passed me in the opposite direction's top 15 after a mile or so but it was the huge number of smiling faces and shouts of encouragement that summed up the parkrun spirit. An out and back route really makes an event "all inclusive" rather than the whippets disappearing into the distance.
The last 250 metres bring you in sight of the pub and the finish, I realised I ought to try for 25 minutes so I picked up the pace as if it was close to "last orders". In the end I clocked 25.19 and was pleasantly surprised this was good enough for 66th out of the 219. Just for the record a young lad got under 17 minutes to come first !!
The patio area outside the pub was soon full of runners relaxing and having a drinks while chatting about how successful the morning had been. So it was a well earned "Cheers" to the whole parkrun team and as an Austrian film star once said, "I'll be back" !!
RunUltra March 2016, Top 10 !!
April 6, 2016 April 6, 2016 🌿irunoffroadLeave a comment
Many thanks to RunUltra for selecting my Imber Ultra review as being in their Top 10 for March 2016. It's always great to have fellow runners acknowledge your writing efforts. Their website has many other such race reviews as well as an extensive calendar of events. Click on the first link for their home page and the second link for the top 10 reviews. Secondly, well done to Jeff and Howard who also figured in the shortlist 🙂
QE Spring Half #running community
April 4, 2016 April 4, 2016 🌿irunoffroad2 Comments
Seeing as my recent cough hadn't 100% cleared up I decided that 13.1 miles done properly would be a safer bet than the marathon, as it turned out 1,800 feet of elevation was more than enough for me at this stage so, yes, being sensible does pay off !!
I arrived early enough to see the marathon start as I wanted to catch up with a few Twitter friends who were running. It's not often you get to chat with a GB Ultra runner but that's how down to earth Jo Meek is. I had met Jo once before at a Q&A talk that she was giving and I think it was fair to say she was one of todays favourites. Secondly, Terry Arnott from Gosport RR is someone that I chat to on twitter but hadn't met until today, great to meet your Terry, unfortunately he too had moved down to the half due to similar germs as mine. I talked with Trevor Kettle from Fareham Crusaders, wished him good luck for the marathon and they were off !! Unfortunately I didn't get to see Phil Hall who was sweeping the marathon, next time !!
Above : Phil Hoy giving the marathon race briefing & Jo Meek already in her stride !!
The beauty of our running community is that these kind of events bring out runners and support crews alike. Jason Kinge and his assistant from Body Fusion were attending for "pre and post" race massage. I've known Jason for a few years now and would recommend his services for both injuries and sports massages. His skills and banter make him a perfect choice. Naturally the running community also needs organisers so it was great to see Phil & Teressa from Second Wind running (SWR), todays hosts. As the Half was approaching I also saw Ros Clarke who's recently joined Gosport RR and was running with some other ladies from their club.
The Queen Elizabeth Country Park (QECP) weather was ideal for running and the route was a twisting & turning helter skelter of hills and trails, in short, all the good stuff.
Phil Hoy once again talked us through our race brief and as the hooter started us off we went straight uphill and this set the tempo for the rest of the run. The going underfoot was "mucky" rather than boggy and we were lucky that it had been dry recently as this area of the South Downs can be slippy on the exposed chalky trails when the rain has washed away the surface mud. So all in all it was good to run on. The first two miles were largely uphill which both spread out the field and made me realise that I would have to pace myself today as my breathing was quite shallow.
Ironically my last race was a 33 miler were I made a point of running slower, today was in effect a half marathon at not much more than ultra pace. That said this didn't make it any less enjoyable. The reward for more "up's than down" was a long downhill to the first feed station at 4.5 miles but this was followed almost immediately by a steep section that just had to be walked. Walking "with purpose" can be quite effective and I would employ this tactic again 🙂
The 200 strong field was quite spread out now and running through the woods with the sun glinting through the trees and the birds chirping away just reminded me why I love to run in the countryside. After a section of the South Downs Way we were descending towards another event that Phil had mentioned. A mountain bike race was also being held in QECP and the route crossed directly in front of us. A simple but effective whistle blow meant I was off again after a short stop.
The trails varied in width, camber and state as we progressed onto the 9 mile water station. I didn't recognise the next mile or two but we were never in any doubt where to run what with orange dissolvable spray paint, orange ticker tape and direction arrows. Praise must go to SWR as this must have taken a lot of time and effort. Talking of effort once I saw a familiar style that enters the park from the Staunton Way I knew where I was again and started to try and push what I had left in the last mile and a half or so.
Approaching the finish I could hear Jason shouting out my name and I crossed the line knowing that I had spread out my energy and couldn't have done a lot more. I was pleased to find out I placed 101st out of 198. A very welcome chilli con carne awaited us and as I eat it Simone Newton waved as she ran past. "Sorry" Simone I didn't see you, us men can't do two things at once 🙂 I thanked Phil for a great race and picked up a SWR T Shirt. I spotted Terry and congratulated him on his 17th place then 15 or so minutes later I watched Jo Meek sprint through the finish line in a time of 3.22 for the marathon and 1st place !!
After a post race massage I had to get going so apologies to Ros and Trevor who I missed finishing, while I was having it, and thanks to everyone in our local running community that made today such an enjoyable event. We run, we smile, it's as simple as that 🙂


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Hárskút szlovákul Lipovník, Szlovákia, Kassai kerület, Rozsnyói járás
Lipovnok szlovákul Lipovník, Szlovákia, Nyitrai kerület, Nagytapolcsányi járás
Lipovnik, Horvátország, Varasd megye


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"My words hold weight, like text written in a bold face" - ArchitektEmcee
ArchitektEmcee is an mc who identifies more with the underground. I'm a freestyler, writer, battle mc, poet, musician, performer and many more. Born and raised in Polokwane, Limpopo, South Africa, currently based in Johannesburg. My discography officially began in 2014 when I released an LP titled The Foundation LP. The Foundation LP was produced by both Junsta and Jazzed 1.
On the 31st of March 2017 I released an album titled Out The House. The album has 18 tracks, leaks from the album are available on the music page.
The album has 18 tracks which were all produced entirely by Jazzed 1. Although the release date of Out The House had to be pushed back a few times due to technical difficulties amongst other things, I took my time in bringing it to life because I believe art is not to be rushed.
Over the years I listened to a lot of Hip Hop, I studied the culture in it's essence. I have studied some of the greats, not to replicate but to learn from them. It got to a point where I became my own teacher.
It actually took a while for me to find my very own style, but once I did it was to infinity and beyond. One thing I have always avoided is sounding like another person, I always thrive to be myself and embrace the 'me' that The Creator has created.
This site was designed and developed by ArchitektEmcee


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The Fermi Paradox © Elle Nelson
Where is everybody?
By Andrew Anderson on	 September 28, 2018 &nbspAnalysis	Music, News
Composer Paul Kirkpatrick (Paul K) on the concept and ideas behind his new album The Fermi Paradox.
Such a simple phrase with such far-reaching implications for mankind. I have always been interested in science fiction (and indeed science fact) but it was while watching a documentary about signals being sent into space that my appetite was whetted to look further into the whole phenomena. These ideas have been developed into my new concept album, The Fermi Paradox.
During my research, it dawned on me that there is a juxtaposition between our search for extraterrestrial intelligence and the social isolation that already exists on Earth. So many lonely people surrounded by nearly seven billion other people; money spent on exploring space when our own planet is rife with poverty; species hunted to extinction for 'sport'. What would we do if we actually encountered an intelligent alien race? If science fiction films are anything to go by, we would immediately seek to destroy it!
For life to exist in the first place, specific criteria need to be met, so maybe mankind is an anomaly in this universe. Maybe civilisations existed billions of years ago and have destroyed themselves through technological advancement?
So many ideas to put into an album!
Album artwork © Elle Nelson
To convey the correct scientific feel it was important to use the right samples. I obtained permission from the Oxford University Fine Tuning project to use exerts from a discussion on the fermi paradox for the title track. There are samples from NASA's 'Golden Record' as well as recordings of Sputnik, Cassini–Huygens, Kepler and Voyager. Early audio of Uri Gagarin, Vladimir Komarov, Carl Sagan and Frank Drake are also used.
From the original Golden Record on Voyager the English greeting "Hello from the children of planet earth" and Arabic "Greetings to our friends in the stars. We wish that we will meet you someday" nicely bookend the record.
It was important to start the album with a track which combines the emptiness of space with the feeling of solitude, and the lonely, pulsed opening of Anomaly tries to capture that. The whole album was recorded over six months utilising the same musicians who had graced my previous album Omertà and are also my live band.
I grew up listening to glam rock, punk, post punk and electronic music, so it's only natural for me to subconsciously incorporate elements from these genres in my work. On Ecce Homo, the drums were originally inspired by Joy Division's She's Lost Control; it's great to take inspiration from the music you enjoyed in youth and extrapolate the ideas and themes you found most inspiring.
It was important to include some spoken word on the album and it features heavily on The Fermi Paradox and Drake Equation; the idea being you can focus on the spoken word or focus on the music for a different experience.
12 Billion Eyes is a tribute to lost astronauts and pioneers. The phrase "Challenger, go at throttle up" has stuck with me since I witnessed the disaster on live TV in the '80s. There are also samples from the conversation from ground control to Columbia on the track and I've tried to use them respectfully.
Exegesis touches on the ancient astronaut hypothesis that humans are either descendants or creations of extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) who landed on Earth thousands of years ago. An associated idea is that humans evolved independently, but that much of human knowledge, religion, and culture came from extraterrestrial visitors in ancient times – that ancient astronauts acted as a 'mother culture'. Academics are dismissive, but who is to really say what's happened on earth over the last 4 billion years?
Later tracks on the album could be grouped together as signals from/into space. I've used samples of the transmissions and, on Arecibo, it adds a great atmosphere. The Great Silence uses a poem by Abraham Sutzkever, read by Rachel Dawson, to add a different dimension to the debate on how the universe was formed. As this will be the first single, I've put together a video which sums up nicely the whole premise of the work.
Embryonic, KIC 8462852 (Boyajian's Star) and Dark Matter are about the birth of planets and what we can and can't see in the universe. Dark matter, which along with dark energy accounts for 95% of the universe, was seen by Stephen Hawking as the next barrier physics needs to breach. Dark energy, physicists believe, would explain why the universe is expanding at an ever-growing rate instead of collapsing under its own gravity.
In addition to digital download and streaming, the album is also being released as a physical product. You can read the sleeve notes and look at the imagery whenever you like, and you don't need a phone or broadband! The album cover, by Elle Nelson, symbolises man in a vast universe and the monolithic structure has a few hidden clues on it as to our place in the universe.
A lot of research has gone into this work and I have seen that reflected in the early reviews. It's great when music can spur people to look into subjects they may not have visited before.
The Fermi Paradox is released on 9th November 2018 through BasilicaMusic and available on CD, LP and all digital platforms. Paul will be performing the new album live at venues across the UK in 2019.
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Alva Lease "A.L." ("Lease") Duckwall (August 30, 1877 – August 2, 1937) was an American businessman and entrepreneur, best known for founding the retailers ALCO and Duckwall's five and dime stores.

Early life
Alva Lease Duckwall was born to Francis Marion Duckwall and Sara Elizabeth Slade on a farm near Batavia, Ohio. The Duckwall Family moved to Greenleaf, Kansas in 1898, where A.L. opened and operated a repair shop for sewing machines and bicycles. Duckwall sold the Grenleaf shop, and in 1901, purchased a variety store in nearby Abilene, which offered for sale small items needed around the home. Joined by his brother, Wilbur, they called the store "Duckwall Bros. RACKET STORE - A Little of Everything."

A Chain of Duckwall's stores
After the Abilene store, a second variety store was opened in nearby Salina in 1906, and managed by Wilbur.  Other Duckwall's stores were opened in Central Kansas, in the cities of Manhattan, Clay Center (1910), Concordia (1911), Junction City, and Great Bend (1914). By 1915, a corporation was formed by the name of "The A.L. Duckwall Stores Company", with A.L. as President and General Manager.

ALCO Stores

Though A.L. Duckwall would not live to see it, The A.L. Duckwall Stores Company began to venture away from the limited five and dime variety store and into the discount retail business. The first ALCO stores were opened in 1968 to provide a full selection of merchandise. The corporation, still based in Abilene, Kansas, eventually became ALCO Stores, Inc., but would continue to operate both ALCO and Duckwall's stores. As of June 2008, the corporation operated 205 ALCO stores and 59 Duckwall's stores. A second bankruptcy for ALCO Stores, Inc. in 2014 led to the closure of all stores by this time.

Personal life
A.L. Duckwall had married Retta White in 1904, and had three children: daughters Doris and Donna, and son Junior. Over his life, Duckwall belonged to the Lutheran Church, Rotary Club, Knights Templars, Shrines, and Democratic Party.

Death
Duckwall died of a heart attack in his office in 1937.  He was laid to rest at Abilene Cemetery. At the time of his death, Duckwall had built over 40 variety stores in Kansas and Colorado.

Legacy
In 2000, Duckwall was inducted into the Kansas Business Hall of Fame as recipient of the Historical Honors Award from Emporia State University School of Business. Daughter-in-law Aileen Duckwall accepted the award from Kansas Governor Bill Graves.

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1877 births
1937 deaths
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The Self Preservation Society
Author: Matthew Field
Categories:Mini, Motoring Books
2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the British cult classic movie The Italian Job. Loaded with sixties swagger, and famed for its endlessly quotable dialogue and one of the most impressive car chases in movie history, The Italian Job is the ultimate celebration of 'cool Britannia'.
From the opening sequence of Rossano Brazzi gliding through the Alps in an orange Lamborghini Miura, to the high-speed getaway across the city of Turin in three Mini Coopers, The Italian Job is a petrolhead's dream. The Self Preservation Society will detail how all these cars, including the Aston Martin DB4 and E-Type Jaguars were found and ultimately where they are today.
Over the last 20 years, author Matthew Field he has interviewed all the key people involved in the 1969 production. Through him, their stories are revealed, often for the first time. Based on more than 50 in-depth interviews with the cast and crew, and lavishly illustrated with hundreds of never-before-seen photographs and production documents, this definitive book will explode some myths, include a few revelations and tell the fascinating full story of this perennially popular movie.


Hello, everyone! Welcome to All Football's latest column LIKE A MODEL! Here we will bring you the sexiest & hottest men in the football world. So just feast your eyes and give your points for them. The handsome footballer of this week that we choose is Paulo Dybala.
Paulo Dybala is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Italian club Juventus and the Argentina national team. Nicknamed "La Joya" ("The Jewel" in Spanish), Dybala's creativity, pace and technical abilities on the pitch have cemented his status as one of the brightest stars of the game in recent years.
Lionel Messi is the only one we have our eyes set on when Argentina is playing against any team. But let the ball come to Dybala and no babe looks away from him for even a second! This 25-year-old dude won both single and married babes hearts with his piercing eyes and stunning looks, on the field and off the field. They certainly never wish any match to end when Argentina is playing.
The boyish Dybala is known for his versatility as a forward to play in any offensive position — he has been deployed to be the main striker, a centre-forward and a supporting forward before in a few of his previous games.
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