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Код INSEE коммуны — 10127.

Коммуна расположена приблизительно в 155 км к востоку от Парижа, в 55 км южнее Шалон-ан-Шампани, в 31 км к северо-востоку от Труа.

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Население коммуны на 2008 год составляло 65 человек.

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В 2007 году среди 41 человек в трудоспособном возрасте (15—64 лет) 33 были экономически активными, 8 — неактивными (показатель активности — 80,5 %, в 1999 году было 76,7 %). Из 33 активных работали 29 человек (17 мужчин и 12 женщин), безработных было 4 (0 мужчин и 4 женщины). Среди 8 неактивных 4 человека были учениками или студентами, 3 — пенсионерами, 1 был неактивным по другим причинам.

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Home36 Lion FC Appoints Adewale Ajayi As Global Media Consultant And Brand Ambassador
36 Lion FC Appoints Adewale Ajayi As Global Media Consultant And Brand Ambassador
MikeThePundit February 17, 2021
36 Lion Football Club of Lagos has appointed Adewale Ajayi as the club's global media consultant and brand ambassador
In a letter dated February 17, 2021, the club said they are pleased to appoint the renowned sports journalist to help promote its players, their values and what they represent to the world.
The recent transfer of Quadry Liameed to Villarreal FC in Spain was followed by that of Ade Oguns and Samson Akinyoola, two Lions, who have since settled down with Caracas FC of Venezuela. These deals, have further entrenched the brand as one of Nigeria's most vibrant and most successful in the transfer market in recent years.
Before these deals, 36 Lion football club has the reputation of moving top Nigeria football stars to other African leagues and played a key role in the recent sale of Sunusi Ibrahim to Montreal impact of Canada.
In order to further promote these values and market their players home and abroad to international limelight, the club have decided to contact a media expert, a sports journalist of international repute, renowned brand promoter, marketer and fan of the club, Adewale Ajayi to join as their global media consultant and brand ambassador
The former staff of Africa independent television (AIT) served as Media Officer of the Under-20 National team of Nigeria and was also at one point, the media consultant to the Nigeria hockey federation.
His pet project, the award winning 'Nigeria Sports Mouthpiece' is gradually becoming the voice of sports journalists in Nigeria as he has managed to get the best brains in sports journalism together on one platform to help project Nigeria sports in good light.
These amazing credentials have won the hearts of 36Lion as Adewale Ajayi is coming on board immediately to help use his wealth of experience to further promote the brand.
From his base in Canada, Ajayi will have the privilege of occasional visits to players of 36 Lion at their various foreign clubs on the bill of 36 Lion. These visits will afford him the opportunity to tell the world more about the performances of the Lions scattered around the world and project them in good light.

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Civic dilemmas of the smiling bishop Ignacy Krasicki
Krystyna Stasiewicz 1
Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
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The Bishop of Warmia, Ignacy Krasicki, was involved in politics as a senator of the Republic and president of Prussian lands. His period of office (1766–1795) coincided with dramatic historical events, during which he had to make difficult choices. This was the case in 1767, the year of the dissident confederation and the Repninowski Parliament (Sejm). Krasicki had another dilemma in March 1768 – what position to take towards the Bar Confed erates. Contrary to the expectations of King Stanisław August Poniatowski and the Russian ambassador, Repnina stood as the only senator who defended the Confederates. They intended to acquire XBW. Krasicki wanted to be neutral and in 1769 he left for France. The situation in Warmia was difficult. The bishop struggled with the Prussian threat and was alone in his actions. In the history of the state, Warmia and XBW, the first partition of Poland tragically took place in 1772. Warmia was incorporated into Prussia and the bishop became a Prussian subject. Krasicki was, however, well versed in domestic matters. In his writings, he found psychological support and the opportunity to engage in politics. The author discusses several patriotic works in a synthetic way: The Tomb of Freedom of Poland, Hymn to the Love of the Homeland, a poem with inc. He Carried the Moment What Time Commanded, Song for the 3rd of May. She also draws attention to the novel Mr. Podstoli, praised by the king, in which the writer included his thoughts on social and political matters. To this day, Krasicki intrigues us with his smile and subdued behavior. In letters to a friend, G. Ghigiotti, he writes about he found a cure for stress.
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Brits are paying the highest electricity bills in the entire world as UK faces biggest fall in living standards on record
By: Admin - Climate DepotNovember 19, 2022 10:46 AM
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1) Brits are paying the highest electricity bills in the entire world
City A.M., 16 November 2022
2) Green Britain: UK faces biggest fall in living standards on record
BBC News, 17 November 2022
3) COP27: US isolated as officials fear Americans will have to pay $trillions in climate reparations around the world
E&E News, 17 November 2022
4) Republican midterm election gains quash hopes of US delivering on climate finance
Climate Home News, 17 November 2022
5) South Africa wants US and Europe to pay reparations for climate disasters
Bloomberg, 14 November 2022
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7) EU's energy crisis deepening amid fresh supply disruptions in Eastern Europe
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New research reveals that the UK has the highest electricity bills. Brits pay more for their power than anywhere else on the planet.
A new study looked at Government data on electricity and gas prices from the past five years to analyse the impact of the worsening cost of living crisis and discover which countries have had the biggest year-on-year increase in energy prices. The data, compiled by BOXT, was shared with City A.M. today
The UK's energy price cap was recently raised from 28p to 34p per kWh.
Much like the rest of the world, prices have increased due to reduced supply from Russia due to the Ukraine conflict, as well as the after-effects of the coronavirus pandemic.
The UK's neighbours in the Republic of Ireland have the second highest electricity cost, paying 18.99p per kWh. That's 53 per cent more expensive than the average of these 24 countries.
However, prices are slightly more affordable when it comes to gas in Ireland, which stands at 5.21p per kWh.
The countries with the highest electricity prices
Rank Country Price – pence per kWh
1 United Kingdom 19.31
2 Ireland 18.99
3 Spain 18.51
3 Belgium 16.34
3 Japan 15.64
6 Australia 14.01
7 Switzerland 14.00
8 Netherlands 13.98
9 Germany 13.58
10 Czech Republic 12.69
Residents of Spain are paying an average of 18.51p per kWh. Electricity prices in Spain recently hit a historical high and were recently capped at €130 (£112) per megawatt hour, down from €210 (£181).
Norway is the country with by far the biggest increase in electricity prices worldwide – 91 per cent increase in electricity cost in pence/kWh since 2016.
Top 10 countries with the biggest electricity bill price increase:
Rank Country 5 year difference
1 Norway 91 per cent
2 Finland 37 per cent
3 United Kingdom 35 per cent
3 Czech Republic 35 per cent
3 Denmark 35 per cent
6 Greece 31 per cent
7 Netherlands 29 per cent
8 France 28 per cent
9 Poland 23 per cent
10 Ireland 20 per cent
The second highest electricity rises are in Finland – Since 2016, Finnish residents have seen their electricity bills increase by almost two-fifths (37%) on average.
Tied in third place are the Czech Republic, Denmark, and the United Kingdom, with a 35% increase in electricity prices.
The UK faces its biggest drop in living standards on record as the cost-of-living crisis eats into people's wages.
The government's forecaster said that disposable household incomes – when adjusted for rising prices – would dive by 7% in the next few years.
Living standards will not recover to the levels they were last year until 2027-28, it added.
It came as the chancellor said the UK was already in recession and set to shrink further next year.
However, Jeremy Hunt said his Autumn Statement – which unveiled £55bn of tax rises and spending cuts – would lead to a "shallower downturn" with fewer jobs lost.
Energy and food bills have shot up due to the war in Ukraine and pandemic and are squeezing household budgets.
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt — The United States is now seen as the biggest obstacle to what poor countries want most out of these talks — a new fund dedicated to help them bounce back from climate disasters.
The overwhelming majority of countries at the U.N. climate conference that wraps up Friday in this eccentric and campy Red Sea resort town are demanding a new funding mechanism to help developing nations deal with climate damages that are now unavoidable. Divisions over that issue could prevent leaders from reaching a decision at the summit. ]
The determination of poor nations to break through a 30-year logjam on post-disaster support is heightened by the sheer number of catastrophes that have pummeled rich and poor countries alike in recent years — but which have hit the poorest ones hardest.
The U.S. delegation has refused to say plainly what its position is on the creation of a so-called loss and damage facility, which is a top ask for 134 of the 197 countries gathered at this meeting. Instead, the U.S. has asked for more time to study the idea and has suggested that disaster recovery should be handled through existing channels with missions like cutting pollution and preventing climate damage in advance.
It's a position that to many here seems like foot-dragging from the country with the most wealth and the greatest historic responsibility for climate change.
The apparent isolation of the U.S. on the issue was thrown into starker relief Wednesday when the European Union, which has historically stood arm in arm with the U.S. against paying climate reparations, seemed to shift its stance.
European Commission Executive Vice President Frans Timmermans said at the talks here that it's time for wealthy countries to "start delivering money to the most vulnerable." He announced that the E.U. would back an agreement at this meeting that includes the creation of a new fund for reparations — as one option.
Timmermans told reporters that there is now daylight between the E.U. and the U.S., which he said remained "extremely reluctant as to a specific, dedicated instrument" on loss and damage. But it's not clear how deep the divisions actually are. The U.S. has not ruled out eventually agreeing to a new funding mechanism, and the E.U. hasn't committed to one.
Both parties say a decision on a new fund should be made in the future. Timmermans said last night that a decision would be ripe at next year's climate talks in the United Arab Emirates, while the U.S. has not given a timeline.
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told reporters over the weekend that the U.S. might be ready to agree to a new fund within months or a year of this meeting's conclusion. But climate experts who have spoken to the U.S. delegation here say it still prefers a three-year process like the one set up at last year's summit in Glasgow, Scotland, but with a commitment that a decision be made at the 2024 meeting.
But Timmermans' announcement last night marked a significant change in tone. He said the E.U. would find more immediate ways of supporting countries that face irreparable harms from climate change. Pakistan illustrates those dangers after devastating floods this year killed 1,700 people and displaced millions, with cascading consequences for livelihoods, health and education.
The U.S. came to this meeting — known as COP 27 — with a list of small-bore finance announcements that wouldn't require congressional action, and with a proposal for selling carbon offsets that has so far been unpopular. Its officials have shied away from labeling any of these as a response to "loss and damage."
And while the U.S. allowed loss and damage finance to be added to the meeting's formal agenda for the first time, it took the unusual step of demanding that a footnote be included to exclude the ideas of liability for historic emitters or compensation for countries affected by that pollution.
Developing countries agreed to those conditions.
"We want international cooperation to actually mobilize sufficient resources to help us address loss and damage," said Mohamed Adow, director of Power Shift Africa. "If that comes to us without any requirement for the U.S. and other historic polluters assuming liability for the harms that they're causing, vulnerable countries are not making it an issue."
But the U.S. has angered officials in developing nations by continuing to cast doubt on the need for new funding for climate recovery. Kerry said over the weekend that the U.S. wants more information about how a loss and damage fund would operate and where the money would come from.
"Not a lot of people that I know want to sign off on something that's not even yet fully defined," he said, adding that a "whole bunch of countries" that burn coal should chip in, in a clear reference to China.
"Basically, what they told me is they can't buy a pig in a poke," said Alden Meyer, a senior fellow with E3G. He said the U.S. wants to understand the structure of a new funding facility and how it would interact with other institutions like the U.N. Green Climate Fund before agreeing to create one.
"The other fear I'm sure they have — they haven't said this, but I can't imagine they don't have it — is that once you agree to set up a facility, just like with the Green Climate Fund, the next step is a pledging session," said Meyer.
If a new fund is agreed to in Sharm el-Sheikh and becomes a reality within two years — as developing countries hope — it won't be long before rich countries are called upon to fill its coffers.
The United States has struggled to meet its existing commitments to the Green Climate Fund, which supports carbon reduction and adaptation in poor countries. Meyer said the U.S. wrote its first check to the fund in 2018, four years after former President Barack Obama announced a $3 billion commitment. And the U.S. remains well behind on its pledges. Congress last year approved only $1 billion for it. It's unclear when the U.S. will make another contribution, given that Republicans will control the House in January.
If a new loss and damage fund goes live by 2024 the U.S. will likely be faced with the unfavorable prospect of turning in a subpar pledge or failing to deliver on an ambitious one.
But developing countries say it's time for U.S. political realities to stop dominating global climate policy.
The results of the US midterm elections make it harder for president Joe Biden to meet his promise to developing countries
Republicans have taken control of the House of Representatives, diminishing the chances of the US delivering on its climate finance pledges.
President Joe Biden promised $11.4 billion a year by 2024 to support climate action in developing countries, including an overdue $2bn to the Green Climate Fund (GCF).
But he got little through Congress in his first two years of office. A rightward swing in midterm elections, while smaller than predicted, will make it harder to appropriate funds for the climate agenda.
Following a closely fought campaign, the Republicans flipped the House with a narrow margin, enabling them to block new climate legislation. Democrats retain control of the Senate after winning contested seats in Arizona and Nevada.
Broken promise
The US has yet to deliver on a pledge to the GCF made eight years ago. In 2014, then-president Barack Obama promised the GCF $3bn but he handed over just $1bn before leaving office. His successor Donald Trump did not give any money to the fund and to date neither has Biden.
Biden said he would double US climate finance to developing countries from Obama-era levels to $11.4bn a year by 2024. With Republicans in control of the House, it is now looking unlikely he will meet that target.
Republicans generally favour a small state and don't see climate as a priority for public spending. Wyoming Senator John Barrasso described Biden's 2022 budget proposal as "another pipe dream of liberal activism and climate extremism. It spends too much, borrows too much, and taxes too much."
With the Republicans in control of the House, "I don't anticipate any sort of interest or support in international climate finance," said Clarence Edwards, an environmental advocate with the non-profit Friends Committee on National Legislation.
"It was a difficult road for climate finance, even with a Democratically controlled Congress," he said. In March, US Congress approved a mere $1 billion in international climate finance for 2022, only $387 million more than the funding allocated during Trump's presidency.
The US should be providing $45-50bn of finance every year under a "fair share" calculation factoring in the size of its economy and historical emissions, according to the Overseas Development Institute. Campaigners described the 2022 budget as a "betrayal".
But all hope is not lost.
Democrats have other avenues to channel climate funds. Of the $11.4bn pledge, Biden has requested that Congress appropriates half ($5.3bn). The remainder is to come through various development agencies, such as the Development Finance Corporation and the Trade and Development Authority.
A Republican controlled House could signal to other big emitters that they can stall climate progress, experts told Climate Home News.
"Laggards are going to feel little to no pressure to actually take action," said Kate DeAngelis, international finance programme manager at Friends of the Earth Action. South Korea, for example, recently elected a Conservative government, and Japan has been pushing the expansion of LNG at home and abroad, she said.
"The elections are very interesting for Japan," said Hanna Hakko, senior analyst at E3G. The US is Japan's "most important ally", therefore the Asian country strives to keep a similar ambition level, Hakko said. She added that Japan will be watching closely what kind of positions the US will take at the G7 next year, which Tokyo is hosting.
European governments may also "continue to delay or release policies with giant loopholes for gas," said DeAngelis. The Netherlands, for example, said last week that it will continue to provide international finance for fossil fuel projects in 2023, deferring a promise made at Cop26.
Secured wins
Biden's landmark climate bill, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), is expected to survive Republicans flipping the House, however.
The biggest federal climate spending package in US history, $370bn in total, will reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 42% between 2005 and 2030, according to analysis by Princeton University's Repeat project.
"I'm not concerned about the unwinding of any recent policy wins that have happened in the US," said Lindsey Baxter Griffith, federal policy officer for the Clean Air Task Force (CATF).
"Policymaking is difficult and undoing it is just as difficult," she said. "We're likely to see a lot of oversight, but with President Biden still in the White House, he's not going to sign off on any legislation to undo those programmes."
"There might have been an initial desire to try to roll back parts of the IRA, but the majority of the funds [in the IRA] will go to Republican controlled states," agreed Edwards. "Once you pass something and people start seeing the benefits of the bill, it's hard to [repeal it]," he said, adding that Republicans spent years trying to repeal Obamacare but weren't able to.
South Africa environment minister Barbara Creecy called for immediate financial aid for developing countries hit by climate disasters, laying the bill at the door of the US and Europe's richest nations.
Wealthy countries should provide aid through a so-called loss and damage mechanism, and multilateral development banks should be recapitalised to provide more finance to tackle global warming, she said on the sidelines of the COP27 international climate summit in Egypt.
China and India — the world's biggest and third-biggest emitters of greenhouse gases respectively — should be excluded from paying compensation as they are still developing economies, Creecy added.
The minister's comments, which came after she met with other African ministers to align their positions, highlight the global rift on climate matters.
Officials from the developing world have long said that wealthy nations, which have benefited from the industrialisation that's warmed the planet for two centuries, are liable for compensation.
"From the perspective of the African Group of Negotiators we do need to see immediate support for loss and damage on the continent," Creecy said. "Of course" we want money right now, she added.
While the agreement to discuss loss and damage was a breakthrough, anything involving compensation and liability "is just not happening," said John Kerry, the US special envoy for climate change. Other developed nations also called for India and China to contribute.
BASIC, a group constituting Brazil, India, South Africa and China, and therefore large economies that are significantly dependent on coal, has for several years voiced common concerns and reiterated their right to use fossil fuel in the interim.
With the 27th edition of the Conference of Parties (COP) in Sharm El Sheikh nearing its final stages and efforts being ramped up to arrive at a conclusive agreement, a consortium of countries that includes India has jointly stated that carbon border taxes, that could result in market distortion and aggravate the trust deficit amongst parties, must be avoided.
The European Union has proposed a policy — called the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism — to tax products such as cement and steel, that are extremely carbon intensive, with effect from 2026.
BASIC, a group constituting Brazil, India, South Africa and China, and therefore large economies that are significantly dependent on coal, has for several years voiced common concerns and reiterated their right to use fossil fuel in the interim during their countries' eventual transformation to clean energy sources.
"Unilateral measures and discriminatory practices, such as carbon border taxes, that could result in market distortion and aggravate the trust deficit amongst Parties [signatory countries to the United Nations climate agreements], must be avoided. BASIC countries call for a united solidarity response by developing countries to any unfair shifting of responsibilities from developed to developing countries."
Their joint statement on Wednesday expressed "grave concern" that developed countries were still not showing leadership or responding with a matching progression of effort. Developed countries had "backtracked on finance and mitigation commitments and pledges" and there was a "significant increase" in the consumption and production of fossil fuels in the past year by developed countries, their statement underlined, even as they continue to press developing countries to move away from the same resources. "Such double standards are incompatible with climate equity and justice."
They said that adaptation was still not being accorded the balanced and substantive attention they deserved in the U.N. climate framework process, despite the opportunities and linkages with "loss and damage." The latter refers to a demand by developing countries to have an institutional system to finance countries affected by climate change for the environmental damage that has already occurred.
Concerns over energy supplies in the EU have intensified after Russia's pipeline monopoly Transneft announced that shipments via the Druzhba pipeline, which transports oil through Ukraine to Hungary, ceased.
The Druzhba pipeline, also known as the Friendship Pipeline, is the main line carrying Russian oil to parts of Eastern and Central Europe.
Ukrainian authorities on Wednesday informed Transneft that it had stopped shipments due to a voltage drop on the line. The suspension came after a suspected missile attack in eastern Poland's village of Przewodow, located a few kilometers from the border with Ukraine.
Oil flow later resumed, however, the temporary suspension and escalation of tensions in Eastern Europe once again focused attention on oil and natural gas trade between the EU and Russia, as the bloc struggles to transition away from Russian fossil fuels following the start of the latter's war with Ukraine on Feb. 24.
The EU first prohibited the purchase, import and delivery of coal from Russia in August with the aim of reducing dependency on Russian fossil fuels.
In June, these sanctions were expanded to include Russian oil exports. As part of the sixth sanctions package, EU leaders agreed to phase out Russian crude oil shipments by Dec. 5 and refined product deliveries by Feb. 5.
The most recent sanctions package imposed additional restrictions on oil transport to non-EU countries above a certain threshold price, primarily affecting Greece's shipping industry, the Greek Cypriot administration and Malta.
According to the monthly oil market report released by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the EU imported 2.4 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil and 1.4 million bpd of oil products from Russia in January, radically declining in October to 1.5 million and 1 million bpd, respectively.
The EU's losses of Russian crude oil volumes have been offset by increased supplies, predominantly from the Middle East, but with contributions from Africa, Norway, Brazil and Guyana.
A total of 2.5 million barrels of crude oil and 700,000 barrels of petroleum products were transported via the pipeline in October for EU countries.
With a total length of 5,500 kilometers, including all branches, the Druzhba pipeline is one of the world's largest crude oil pipeline networks. The pipeline transports crude oil from Siberia, the Urals, and the Caspian Sea to Belarus, where it divides into northern and southern branches.
Le texte qui suit est le résumé d'un article de Richard Lindzen publié par le GWPF(Global Warming Policy Foundation) sous le titre An assessment of the the conventionnal glogal warming narrative.
La version française du document est accessible en cliquant sur ce lien.
(Traduite par Camille Veyres).
L'image unidimensionnelle de l'effet de serre et du rôle du dioxyde de carbone dans ce mécanisme domine les représentations actuelles du climat et du réchauffement climatique. Nous passons brièvement en revue cette image. Nous discutons ensuite des lacunes de cette approche lorsqu'il s'agit de traiter le système climatique tridimensionnel. L'un des problèmes consiste à déterminer quelle température sur la Terre réelle correspond à la température dans le traitement unidimensionnel. Cela conduit à bien voir selon la conception traditionnelle que la Terre a, en fait, à l'heure actuelle, de nombreux climats. En outre, la différence de température entre les tropiques et les régions polaires a connu de profonds changements au cours des millénaires, mais dans le même temps, la température des régions tropicales a peu changé. Le narratif habituel suppose que les petits changements dans les tropiques sont amplifiés aux hautes latitudes. Cette hypothèse n'est pas fondée. La différence est plutôt déterminée par les flux de chaleur dynamiques dans l'atmosphère et les océans, le flux de contrôle étant dû à l'instabilité barocline dans l'atmosphère. Les changements de la température moyenne sont principalement dus aux changements de la différence tropique-pôle, et non aux changements de l'effet de serre. La stabilité des températures tropicales face à des flux de chaleur fortement variables en provenance de ces latitudes indique l'existence de fortes rétroactions négatives dans la réponse radiative-convective des tropiques.
Enfin, nous commenterons les prétendus impacts du changement climatique.
I'm sorry for anybody who lost their money to these FTX crooks – these people who talked about saving the planet but instead trousered a couple of billion and did a runner.
Dame Edna Everage says one of life's most precious gifts is the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others. You may lament this instinct, yet we all harbour it. New Yorkers are especially prone when it comes to property envy. Every couple of years, it feels like, a skyscraper goes up in the city that is significantly taller than the previous very tall new skyscraper. Each time one does, the only thing that goes higher than the tower's residences is the cost of purchasing them. So with what rapture do New Yorkers read about the misfortunes these buildings go through. Oh, the thrill of learning that they sway in the wind, that people get seasick in the penthouses, that when owners put their garbage in the rubbish chutes the noise on the lower floors is like a tactical nuke.
Reading such stories makes the whole city's heart lift a little. Everyone gets to think, if not say: 'Well, I may be down in the dumps, paying through the nose for rent, but at least I didn't spend 150 million bucks I don't have buying a penthouse that sways.' So it is that this snippet of adversity makes everybody's day that bit happier.
It is the same with the news this week that a cryptocurrency exchange called FTX has collapsed with between $1 billion and $2 billion of customers' money having vanished.
Why should I take any special pleasure in the collapse of such a company? Not because I have anything against crypto, but solely because of the way the founder of FTX behaved. The firm put a particular emphasis on ESG. Please do not get lost in these acronyms.
As everybody who has brushed against big business in recent years will know, ESG stands for 'Environmental, Social and Governance' and it rules the corporate world. There was a time when a company might aim to make money for itself and/or its shareholders. If it wanted to do some good works, it might set up an almshouse, a school for urchins or the like.
Today when you want to show that you really care – as opposed to actually caring – then you talk of how concerned your company is about ESG. Firms are even rated by their ESG scores. It is a great medieval Vatican–style scam. And it is everywhere.
In any case, FTX was big on ESG. On a video from January this year the company's founder Sam Bankman-Fried and the vlogger Nas Daily – the first a shyster, the second possibly a naif – claimed that FTX existed only to make money that could then be given away. The two young men are weirdos in different ways – but the main one, Bankman-Fried, looks about 14 and has a face like a stress ball being scrunched by somebody who's very stressed indeed.
This pair talk about all of the things that our age values most, claiming as they do that making money to pass on to special causes is much better than merely getting rich and buying a Lamborghini. If you make money and give it away to these causes, they say, that makes you way more happy than spending it on yourself.
With some infelicitous turns of phrase, Daily says various things about Bankman-Fried, which the latter then responds to. 'He is funding everything you can think of: global warming' ('It's one of the biggest problems that we have to tackle together as a world'). 'Covid-19 preparedness' ('We have to be ready for the next pandemic'). 'Neglected tropical diseases' ('More than a billion people suffer from them – we have to eliminate these diseases'). 'And of course animal welfare' ('Animals deserve to live just like we do; it's also why I'm vegan').
Putting aside for a moment whether animals deserve to live just like we do, this is a pretty comprehensive catechism of our day. Bankman-Fried might have added something about BLM, but it is possible that the most up-to-date shyster knows to veer ever so slightly away from last season's ones.
For here we are in the realm of the sort of sanctimonious fraud that our species has known throughout history. The great writers from Chaucer and Boccaccio knew these types. Many classic works of literature feature them. But one of the strangest aspects of human beings is not that we continually throw up such people but that people always fall for them.
This is a matter of perennial fascination to me. If a man came around to my front door saying he had a Gucci bag which he deeply wanted to sell me and that for me the price would be a mere £50, I'd like to think I wouldn't fall for it. If someone wearing priestly robes said they had a way to get me and everyone I loved into heaven – 100 per cent dead cert, no questions asked – and all I had to do was transfer my worldly goods to him, again I'd surely know to slam the door in his face. But that's because it's easy to spot old cons. It's spotting new ones that we seem to have difficulty with.
ESG – like its fellow traveller 'Diversity Inclusion and Equity' (or DIE, as I prefer to call it) – ought by now to be a great big warning flag to investors and speculators everywhere. When a firm or investment fund goes on about ESG or DIE it should cause hard-wired suspicion of the kind provoked by, say, a sinister stranger with a comb-over volunteering to look after the kids at bathtime. And yet it is not just that human beings keep making the same mistakes, it is that they make the same mistakes in subtly different ways, with the people who deceive them always prowling around to locate the weak spots of the day. I'm sorry for anybody who lost their money to these FTX crooks – these people who talked about saving the planet but instead trousered a couple of billion and did a runner. But we've seen them before, and a strange happiness comes from that fact.
I fear the militant green mob will not be happy until our high streets are shrouded in darkness and the light has died in our eyes.
Lock up your fairy lights! Hide that door wreath! Block the chimney right this minute! The planet-saving Puritans are coming for Christmas, armed with righteous zeal and tins of soup to hurl at your father-in-law's framed watercolours. There will be no DFS vans delivering new sofas in suburbia. Even the Pope's festive tree is at risk of being cancelled.
Wait – is that Mariah Carey I hear playing, comrade? Cease and desist or we'll glue ourselves to your porch. Cometh the most wonderful time of the year, cometh the Winterval wokeys who want to bully, harangue and guilt trip us into performative misery and handwringing Weltschmerz.
Yes, there is much to feel bleak about, what with inflation, energy prices and the war in Ukraine. But just because we could be depressed doesn't mean we should, and it most certainly doesn't mean we must.
Where's the harm in putting up a Norway spruce and bringing an LED twinkle into our chilly homes? Frankly, warming the cockles of our hearts is a lot cheaper than warming the rest of us. And wouldn't it be nice to set aside real life for a bit and enjoy the sort of celebrations that the Covid lockdowns made impossible? Why shouldn't we make merry and feast on the last few turkeys that haven't succumbed to avian flu? We'll eat veg on Boxing Day.
There is something especially mean-spirited about protesting against the Vatican's Christmas tree and refusing to allow the traditional 200-year-old fir to be felled, as green activists have managed to do in Italy. The centre of a religion with 1.3 billion believers surely deserves some respect. These foolish eco-warriors conveniently forget that Pope Francis is a vocal exponent of action against climate change. He wrote an encyclical on the ecological crisis back in 2015, for pity's sake.
But no. Bringing people together (which in the long run is the only way to alter human behaviour) comes a poor second to the adrenalin-rush of bossy boots hectoring and virtue-signalling. And so Oxford Street's atmospheric lights will go part-time, with a two-thirds cut compared to last year. This will apparently make it a "leading sustainable district". Now, I may not be a world-leading economist, but I doubt Stygian gloom will do much for retailers desperately needing to boost lacklustre sales and promote family footfall.
Not even the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, which is running its annual light show on biofuel in order to slash emissions by up to 90 per cent, has escaped the censuring gaze of the ultra-green lobby. It has been urged to "turn out your fairy lights" and encourage visitors to "look at the unviolated stars" instead. One particularly aggrieved ecotist asked: "What's your carbon footprint on this? You should really know better." What a self-indulgently bleak way to look at the world.
Like most people, I try my best to help the planet. I recycle. I reuse. I take the bus. Hell, I "identify" as flexitarian. But Christmas is for treats. So while John Lewis may once again top the tear-jerking advert league table, my favourite seasonal offering is the fabulously retro Argos ad in which an entire community descends on a young couple for December 25, bearing trifles and crackers. It is silly, joyful and sociable; as the best Christmases should be.
But I fear the militant green mob will not be happy until our high streets are shrouded in darkness and the light has died in our eyes.
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Joshua Kosman San Francisco Chronicle
(…) The result was a nearly all-French extravaganza that elicited muscular and brilliantly shaped performances from both conductor and orchestra, a wondrous display that began with works by Berlioz, Saint-Saëns and Roussel. (…) His conducting is fluid and strong, and most of his attention seems to go toward handling the larger elements of a score – organizing the major structural points of form, balancing the ensemble and channeling the rhythmic sweep of a performance. Yet in all of this, none of the specifics falls by the wayside.(…) After intermission, the Symphonic Fragments from Roussel's ballet "The Spider's Feast" proved equally arresting, with plenty of narrative detail and an evocative solo from principal flutist Tim Day. And the Stravinsky sounded at once reflective and theatrically vivid, from the ominous murmurings of the opening through the explosive "Infernal Dance" to the sunny conclusion, its dynamic shadings impeccably controlled.
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Stephen Smoilar SF Classical Music Examiner
French conductor Stéphane Denève returned to the podium of the San Francisco Symphony (SFS) in Davies Symphony Hall for the first of four subscription concerts.(…) Denève's approach as a conductor was almost one of "playing" the orchestra, rather in the manner that a skilled organist negotiates that abundance of keyboards and stop controls. The result was an rich spectacle of sonorities guaranteed to get the juices flowing for the rest of the program.(…) Denève was impeccable in keeping all of his resources under control. Most impressive was his ability to keep the pianissimo passages to an almost inaudible level, creating an effect of intense suspense as one wondered just when more explicit thematic declarations would emerge.
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Lisa Hirsch Iron Tongue of Midnight Blog
Stephane Deneve guest-conducted the San Francisco Symphony this week. I caught the last performance of his mostly-French program and thought he hit a grand slam, performance-wise, whatever you might happen to think of the works he conducted. He got an exceptionally transparent and layered sound from the orchestra, even in the loudest work on the program, Stravinsky's 1919 Suite from The Firebird, and he communicated a great sense of the ebb and flow of the music. Rubato, yes! He's a regular at the BSO, which has past strong connections to French music. They should be considering him as a possible music director (and maybe we should, too, in the years to come).(…) Next up was a genuine rarity, Albert Roussel's Symphonic Fragments from The Spider's Feast. I rather think almost everything by Roussel is a rarity in the US, but after hearing this piece, I'm going to run off and pick up a few CDs from Deneve's ongoing Roussel cycle on Naxos. It is absolutely gorgeous, a lush thing of gossamer and moonlight – and I practically jumped out of my seat when, out of the gossamer came a motif from Psycho. I guess Roussel got there first! The orchestra sounded especially great in this work.
Not that there was anything wrong in how they sounded in the Firebird suite, which I expect they can play more or less in their sleep. But it was a terrific performance, lush and forceful at the same time; graceful and tender in the Lullaby, majestic at the close. A big hand for Robert Ward's handling of the big theme in the last movement.
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Jeff Dunn San Francisco Classical Voice
Mardi Gras, Nubian arabesques, garden insects, enchantments. All were great subjects for four evocative works of orchestral wizardry at Thursday afternoon's San Francisco Symphony concert, deftly conducted by Stéphane Denève and superbly performed. (…) Denève, who first conducted here three years ago, has been described as a champion of French music. He has a knack for nuance and the wherewithal to exploit the full dynamic range of the orchestra at his command, and he did so at every turn to nice effect, with his James Levine-like mop of hair bobbing authoritatively.(…) Audience response was warmest for the concluding Stravinsky.(…) All in all a pleasant, non-toxic afternoon, like alcohol-free champagne.
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Richard Scheinin San Jose Mercury News
If you enjoy the sparkle, the fragrances, the contours and colors of "the French school," this program, which repeats through Sunday, is a no-brainer.(…) Denève, a figure of rising note on the international circuit and a product of the Paris Conservatory — as is Thibaudet, as was Saint-Saëns. It's so very French, this program, and yet it's ultimate star — surprise! — is a Russian: Igor Stravinsky, whose "Firebird" captured Parisian audiences a century ago with its dazzle, its colors and magical effects, at once embodying Russian exotica and French chic.(…) Thursday's performance was one of elegant contours in high definition, with gleaming atmospherics and a consistently shapely flow. It closed the concert, outshining the rest of a good program.(…) The program began two hours earlier with Hector Berlioz's "Roman Carnival" Overture. This piece, too, felt authentic: lilting rhythms, with perfect pizzicato accompaniment to the gorgeous English horn melody, played by Russ deLuna. There's a certain French idiosyncrasy about Berlioz, and here it was in full flavor: one imagined the composer as a boy in the French countryside, discovering music through his encounters with rural bands and flute-playing shepherds.
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Cox: Good competition for places
Manager Paul Cox admits a number of players are in contention for a starting place in Saturday's Sky Bet League Two match with Southend United.
Apart from Jake Speight, who has a long-term knee issue, Cox has an almost full-strength squad to choose from ahead of this match.
Our boss also received a welcome boost earlier this week as our reserve team eased to a 2-0 win over Sheffield Wednesday in the Final Third Development League.
Ross Dyer and Ben Hutchinson, on his return from injury, were on the score-sheet and Cox admits there were a number of impressive displays.
"The boys did well. There were some really good performances and I think it's important to keep players match-fit now, because everyone is going to be needed," said the boss.
"There's a good feeling about the group at the minute. They're getting along, have big smiles on their faces, and the performance at Sheffield Wednesday pleased me.
"Even some of the kids that came on pleased me. In terms of some of the kids coming through, the long-term future is very positive.
"But the 'here and now' is that we've got a number of players that could be in contention for Saturday, as they got a good 90 minutes in a game against a competitive side."
Phil Brown's Shrimpers' team arrive at One Call Stadium this weekend, having lost just one of their previous 10 league matches and our boss knows it will be a tough test for us.
"We saw when we went down [to Roots Hall] that Southend are a good side," said Cox.
"I don't think we covered ourselves in glory as we ended up with nine men by the end of the game, but give them credit – they are up there and you have to pat them on the back.
"The teams that are [near the top of the table] are up there because of their consistency, and the number of good players that they have got.
"So we know it's going to be tough, but we've got 17 cup finals now. Ten of those games are at home and there's a possible 30 points to play for at home, so we need everyone pulling in the same direction."
On the continued search to bring a new striker to One Call Stadium on a loan deal, Cox added: "There's a lot of hard work gone in and there's been a little bit of progress.
"We've highlighted certain individuals and we're talking to representatives at clubs, players, etcetera, but I'll be honest, there's not a lot happening at the minute.
"It's really early days and we're playing catch up, so we've just got to keep working hard and try to bring the right player in."
He added: "As we've seen, players have gone here, there and everywhere [during the transfer window] and some players that we were following have signed for sides now.
"We've not got as much to play with, but we're still working hard to try and make something happen."


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Do you have a mapname.err file?
Press Ctrl+P (Check for problems), does it say any errors?
Does your CS close out, or does it simply stop on starting the game server?
and second they just stop on "Starting local game server"
It's alot of imformaton there though, might be hard to find some things.. Idk what to search for.. I suggest to press Ctrl+F in your internet browser (Works with Internet Explorer and Mozilla Firefox i know for sure) you can type things in and u can search for the words on the page..
Or, you could try re-extracting your ZHLT compiling tools.. Maybe you accidently deleted/corrupted an important file.
Wait, is it maps that you haven't compiled? What? I dunno. Shush, I'm going to sleep.
no i've compiled it and if you going to sleep i'll blow my trumpet near your house!
Why not just read the compile-log after it has compiled? If you're compiling with a .bat-file just add "pause" to the last line of the .bat-file and the compile-window will stay open after compile until you close it down.


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Willy Fils Aubameyang, mais conhecido como Willy Aubameyang (Paris, 16 de fevereiro de 1987), é um futebolista franco-gabonês que atua como atacante. É irmão dos também futebolistas Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Catilina Aubameyang e filho do ex-jogador Pierre Aubameyang. Atualmente está sem clube.

Carreira
Jogou nas divisões de base do Milan, da Itália entre 2005 e 2007, quando subiu ao time principal.

Em junho de 2008, foi emprestado ao Avellino, e em seguida ao Eupen.

Gabão
Fez parte do elenco da Seleção Gabonense de Futebol na Campeonato Africano das Nações de 2010.

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Milan
 UEFA Super Cup: 2007

Naturais de Paris
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Futebolistas da Associazione Calcio Milan
Futebolistas da Unione Sportiva Avellino
Futebolistas da AC Monza
Futebolistas do Kilmarnock Football Club
Jogadores da Seleção Gabonense de Futebol
Jogadores da Copa das Nações Africanas de 2010

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Bombardier Extends High Speed Global 5000 Jet Range to 5,200 NM
Bombardier Aerospace today announced a 400 nautical mile (NM) (741 km) increase to the non-stop intercontinental range of its high speed Global 5000 business jet. The range increase is standard for all Global 5000 aircraft ordered as of February 1st, 2008 and will be available as an option for aircraft previously ordered, but yet to be delivered, in the second quarter of fiscal year 2009.
The significant range extension will be obtained by increasing the Maximum Takeoff Weight (MTOW) to 92,500 lbs, allowing for a fuel tank capacity increase. "This is fantastic news for our Global 5000 jet customers," stated Éric Martel, vice-president and general manager, Global and Challenger, Bombardier Business Aircraft. "Already offering exceptional speed and performance, the Global 5000 jet now flies you further."
Flying at its typical cruise speed of Mach 0.85 (907 km/h), the Global 5000 jet now offers a non-stop range of 5,200 NM (9,630 km)* – eight percent more. The extended range increases travel flexibility to include key city pairs such as London-Los Angeles, 4,742 NM (8,782 km), Sao Paulo-Paris, 5,065 NM (9,380 km), Hong Kong-Wellington, 5,097 NM (9,440 km), New York-Honolulu, 4,331 NM (8,021 km), and Dubai-Perth, 4,873 NM (9,025 km)*.
The Global 5000 business jet's category-leading high cruise speed of Mach 0.89 (950 km/hr)* and superior short field performance trims up to a full hour from long distance routes such as Moscow-New York (nine hours, 29 minutes) Johannesburg-Geneva (10 hours), Jeddah-Jakarta (nine hours, 53 minutes) and Sao Paulo-Madrid (nine hours, 20 minutes)*. The Global 5000 jet also features the widest and most spacious super-large jet cabin, paired with one of the most technologically advanced cabin electronic systems available today.
The aircraft is now available with the Global Vision flight deck. The new Pro Line Fusion avionics suite is paired with superior design aesthetics from world-renowned design consultancy firm Design Q, to create the ultimate flight control environment, providing Global aircraft pilots with an unprecedented level of situational awareness and comfort.
A world-leading manufacturer of innovative transportation solutions, from regional aircraft and business jets to rail transportation equipment, systems and services, Bombardier Inc. is a global corporation headquartered in Canada. Its revenues for the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2007, were $14.8 billion US, and its shares are traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange (BBD). Bombardier is listed as an index component to the Dow Jones Sustainability World and North America indexes. News and information are available at www.bombardier.com.
Bombardier, Global, Global 5000 and Global Vision are either registered or unregistered trademarks of Bombardier Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Statements about performance and design as stated in this document are solely based on projections and forecasts, and are subject to change without notice.
*Under certain operating conditions.
Danielle Boudreau
danielle.boudreau@aero.bombardier.com
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We're All Terrified of Turning Into Our Parents
Jami Attenberg explores the legacy of toxic masculinity in "All This Could Be Yours"
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Greg Mania
Few are able to plunge the depths of familial complexity like Jami Attenberg, and even fewer are able to reflect the nesting doll of desires, secrets, and contradictions the individual becomes when put into the context of family. In her seventh novel, All This Could Be Yours, the New York Times bestselling author delivers her signature wit and emotionally powerful prose in a family saga set against the backdrop of a sweltering New Orleans summer.
Victor Tuchman is, unequivocally, from the get-go, a bad man. The power-hungry real estate developer is also the nucleus of a family irrevocably altered from standing his imperious shadow. As his condition deteriorates in a hospital from a heart attack, his family is forced to reckon with the legacy he leaves behind. His daughter, Alex Tuchman, comes to New Orleans seeking answers about who her father was. Her mother, Barbara, who nurtures a perpetual need bordering on obsession for the material, remains tight-lipped as Alex tries to learn the truth about her father. Victor's son, Gary, misses flight after flight, remaining in Los Angeles as his wife, Victor's daughter-in-law, Twyla, is forced to contend with her own secret born directly from the misdeeds of Victor Tuchman. Attenberg charts what one man leaves behind, and questions if a family can rebuild, find forgiveness, and, ultimately, move on.
I hopped on the phone with Jami Attenberg to discuss her latest opus, toxic masculinity, legacy and how it's passed down.
Greg Mania: I'm very much interested in talking about how family relates to identity, something you examine in your work, especially in The Middlesteins and All Grown Up. What is some new territory you explore in that regard in this book?
Jami Attenberg: Well, it comes down to physical proximity. In All Grown Up, [Andrea] lives in New York and sees her mother once every few weeks. In The Middlesteins, they all live within driving distance of each other. The kids in this book, Alex and Gary, have made a series of conscious choices in their life to physically move as far away from their parents as possible. They didn't want to connect their adulthood to their childhood. Over the course of the book, they're forced to contemplate their parents—their father is in the hospital, on the verge of death—and I was interested in seeing how these two characters, who have done everything they can to walk away from their family, consider their parents, again, and see if they're anything like them.
GM: Even though Victor is in the hospital, unconscious, for the majority of the book, he is very much present, especially in the scenes that take place in the past. But it's almost as though he's more of an ominous presence rather than an explicit voice. Was this intentional?
JA: Yeah, that was a specific choice on my part. He appears in the first couple of pages, and that's the only time you see a close third person. He wasn't originally going to appear in the book. In the first three drafts, I just had no interest in him having his say. I just felt like men like him have had their chance. We've heard from that perspective many-a-time, and I'm tired of it. I just wasn't interested in who he is. The book was only going to be these, at least, four strong female voices. But on the fourth draft, I realized I needed to put him in there, because his perspective was necessary to the book. I created him as a whole character, but from a sort of removed perspective.
GM:The city of New Orleans is almost a character itself in this book. How has being a full-time resident influenced this story?
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JA: I was nervous about writing a book set [in New Orleans], because I've only lived here for two years. I sort of had to give myself permission to write about New Orleans. I'm just very protective of it. I didn't want to screw it up. The other thing was that I didn't want it to be a love letter, like some sort of starry-eyed interpretation. This city is complicated. It has problems. It's an incredible place, but it also has a crumbling infrastructure. But it's also special. I feel happier here than anywhere else I've lived. I tried to write about it in a clear-eyed way, and I tried to make sure I didn't talk about the clichés. And my trick was that, if I did mention a cliché, I had a character who didn't really like it there. So Barbara was sort of forced to move down there, and it's not really her scene. She's sort of this cold, New England ice queen who isn't interested in what New Orleans has to offer her.
GM: She misses the sweater tied around her neck.
JA: [Laughs.] Yes, exactly. But there are plenty of love notes to the city tucked inside throughout the whole book.
GM: I noticed that! You talk about the different types of flora in people's gardens, the way Spanish moss drips from the old trees. I love your attention to detail, specifically how you also include the perspective of passers-by, like the CVS employee and the ferry operator. What was your intention with including these brief glimpses into other people's lives?
JA: They just kind of showed up. My intention starting out was to write about these outsiders, in this case, the Tuchmans. That was my entry point. And then, as I was writing these voices, the ones of the native New Orleanians, they were insistent that they be heard. My first draft, as messy as it was, was this kaleidoscopic view. I just let these passing characters grow.
GM: This novel is very much set in the present. Even though you don't explicitly mention Trump, we know who the president is. Why was it important to note the current political climate in this book?
JA: I just think it was impossible not to. I have thought a lot about how once Trump became president, someone could say he or him, and you'd know who they were talking about, which is just incredibly powerful. I hate to give him that power, but it's true. And it's not just him. He represents this existential threat overall, and I didn't really have to do very much work to let the reader know what's going on outside of the characters' world. It's really a way of inviting the reader into the conversation of the book.
GM: There's also an intergenerational perspective—we meet Victor's grandchildren, Sadie and Avery. If this book were to continue, do you think Victor would have any influence on their lives? Would he loom over them like he's loomed over their parents?
The patriarchy is a fucked-up system, and I wanted to investigate what this can do to a family.
JA: I think the trail Victor leaves behind is one of the points of the book, which is that we have a fucked-up system, called the patriarchy, a system that is both broken and functioning at the same time, and I wanted to demonstrate and investigate what this kind of toxic male behavior can do to a family. I wanted to examine what Victor leaves behind, what his legacy is, and what it means. But, for the most part, I invite the reader to consider what kind of impact this man has on his family.
GM: What came first: the character of Victor or what Victor represents? What it means to be abusive, powerful, manipulative?
JA: I'm a character-driven novelist, so it doesn't work for me if I'm just trying to be political. I always see these characters in my head first. But then whatever you care about or are thinking about at the time infuses itself naturally into the characters. I don't think I'm a heavy-handed writer, maybe earlier in my career I was, but I've had to learn to let the characters talk, let the characters be. If I were to put him, or any of the other characters into a box, they just wouldn't be believable or successful characters. My books are character-driven before anything else.
GM: You put mortality through a humorous prism, which, to me, makes it more palatable. Is this how you're able to navigate mortality on the whole?
JA: For sure. I used to be so freaked out about mortality. When I turned 40, all of a sudden I was like, "oh, I could die." It just didn't register for me up until that point. I thought about it for a lot for a few years. I have a friend who's about six years older than me, and she told me that one day you'll wake up and you just won't be worried about it anymore. That's just what happened. It's like when you break up with somebody, and for a while you think that it's the worst break-up ever, that you'll never get over it, then comes a day you find out you're just fine. You got over it.
GM: Kirkus Reviews called you the "poet laureate of difficult families," what about the family dynamic do you hope to examine next?
JA: Well, my next book is going to be a memoir. And even though my mom is a reader for me—she'll read a draft of a work-in-progress—I don't always necessarily tell her what I'm working on in advance. I've been tweeting about it a little bit, and my mom, who follows me on social media, messaged me to tell me she's seen my tweets about writing a memoir, and then proceeded to ask me if there wasn't anything I wanted to talk about. [Laughs.] She was like, "am I going to be in it?" My mom and I really close, so this isn't going to be Mommie Dearest. I'm writing about being a writer and a woman, so it's less about family. But I have about three different ideas for the novel following this one. I think that it's good for me to store up my feelings, innovate, and meet new characters.
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Writing is a learned skill that composition and other writing-intensive classes help you cultivate through sustained practice. Reviewing the writing skills you have learned throughout your time in high school and college can help you prepare to succeed on the WPE.
Review the General Strategies for Writing the WPE.
Familiarize yourself with the WPE Scoring Guide and learn tips for writing the WPE based on the scoring guide's four main categories: comprehension, organization, development, and expression.
Visit the front desk at the Writing & Rhetoric Center (Kennedy Library, Room 111C) and ask to review sample passing and failing WPE essays. Read through the essays and notice common writing characteristics evident among those earning passing scores and those earning failing scores.
Practice by writing an essay response—or even outline a response—to a previous WPE topic (sample topic 1, sample topic 2, sample topic 3) and bring your practice essay into the Writing & Rhetoric Center (35-111C). One of the writing consultants can help you identify the strengths and weaknesses of your response and discuss additional strategies for passing the WPE.
Read through some additional WPE essay writing tips for more writing strategies that may assist when writing your exam response.
Read the prompt and underline key words before you read the article. Use these key words to help you focus as on important points in the article. This can help you remain focused on the ideas you are being asked to address instead of reacting to the content of the article itself. Consider using the key words as the basis of an outline. For example, if you are being asked whether or not Cal Poly should require students to take a GE course on personal finances to help them make better financial decisions, key words might include: required GE course, personal finances, and financial decisions. You may then want to reference content from the article (i.e., with direct quotes) to support your claims as you discuss each of these concepts.
Remember that you are being asked to make an argument, so graders will be looking for a strong thesis statement early in your essay. Consider using your thesis to directly answer the question posed in the prompt. If you are unsure of what your stance should be, briefly outline arguments for both positions. Can you make a stronger argument for why Cal Poly should require a GE course on personal finances or for why there should not be a personal finance GE requirement? Take the position that will provide you with support for the stronger argument.
Graders expect you to take a clear stance on the question asked, but addressing a counterargument in your essay can strengthen your argument, make your essay more engaging, and demonstrate to your reader that you've given some thought to your response. However, do not spend a lot of time setting up the counterargument. While the ability to refute an opposing viewpoint can help the development of your argument, too much discussion of why someone might disagree with you has to potential make you appear to waiver in your stance. Acknowledge the opposing view then tell your reader why it is wrong.
Below you will find writing tips specifically aligned to the four categories on the WPE Scoring Guide.
Comprehension: Can you demonstrate an understanding of both the reading and the prompt through your response? To meet reader expectations for the comprehension category, consider doing one or more of the following: Identify the article you will be referencing by title and author early in your introduction. In just a couple of sentences, summarize the article's thesis in your introduction and provide a couple of key supporting points. Connect (or transition) this summation to your argument's thesis and use your thesis statement to directly answer the prompt. You can also meet the expectations of this category by using direct quotes from the article or key words from the prompt throughout the body of your essay.
Organization: Do you address all parts of the prompt and demonstrate effective paragraph and whole-essay organization? Basic essay organization strategies apply here. If you are talking about ducks and then discuss mechanical engineering, don't go back to ducks. Keeping all your ducks in a row can strengthen your overall essay and help your reader's ability to follow your logic. Consider outlining your ideas before you begin writing. This can give you a chance to put your argument in a more logical order and also gives you something to reference if you forget where you were going in your argument. The topic sentences for each paragraph should do two things: 1) Tell your reader what that paragraph is about, and 2) Advance/add to your argument. Try to avoid topic sentences that include quotes from the article, but instead begin and end paragraphs in your own words to create a stronger argument. WPE scorers already know what the article says; they are more interested in what you have to say in response to the prompt, using the reading as your guide.
Development: Do you develop your controlling idea throughout the essay using specific and appropriate details presented in a logical manner? This section deals with how you support your claims. Using detailed and specific examples, with clear analysis connecting those examples back to your main argument, paints a picture for your readers that allows them to have a clearer understanding of what overall argument you are trying to make in response to the prompt. Many WPE prompts will ask you to discuss whether Cal Poly does or does not (or should or should not) do something. If this is the case, be sure to stay Cal Poly-centric as you develop your arguments because if your examples are too general, it may appear as if you are not adequately addressing the prompt. Do not be afraid of using the first person "I" in your essay (e.g., "When I took English 134 during my first year at Cal Poly…"), but be sure to avoid an overly narrative response. In other words, toggle back and forth with examples from your own experience and examples from the reading to support your main points.
Expression: Is your prose clear and mostly error-free? Is your tone appropriate for an academic audience? The majority of WPE essays are handwritten and this creates a lot of anxiety for writers who are accustomed to relying on technology for assistance with grammar, spelling, and mechanics. Generally speaking, if these errors do not interfere with your reader's ability to understand what you are saying, this category should not be an issue. That being said, if a writer continually confuses homophones such as "their," "there," and "they're," a reader's understanding may be inhibited. Extensive run-on sentences or fragments can also be problematic for reader comprehension. The rule of thumb here is to try to save a few minutes toward the end of the exam session to review your essay and revise/edit any unclear passages.
The following pages offer general WPE essay writing tips that may be helpful when preparing to take the WPE.
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Martha D. Saunders has lived an extremely ambitious professional career in Education which spans multiple decades and has a very long list of achievements to show for it. After graduating with her Ph.D. in Communication Theory & Research from Florida State University in 1990, Martha embarked on a professional career that has shaped minds in higher education and improved the overall collegiate educational system in the four universities in which she has dedicated her time, hard work, and passion for Education.
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From 1984 to 2002 and then, again, from 2013 to present, Martha D. Saunders fulfilled a number of important career functions to the University of West Florida.
From 1986-1996, Martha served as Coordinator, Public Relations Program, Dept. of Communication Arts for UWF, where her primary duties were to develop curriculum/programming to meet AEJMC accreditation, increase program size, and liaison with national/state entities in a PR capacity for education betterment.
From 1996 to 1999, Saunders served as Director of University Honors Program, as well as Associate Dean, College of Arts and Social Sciences, acting as the primary administrator for educational excellence program and overall admissions/university management.
From 2013 until present, after a hiatus to other institutions, Martha D. Saunders came back to work as Provost for University of West Florida and Professor of Communications.
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India and Japan hold inaugural security talks
Indian Defense Minister Rajnath Singh, second right, Japanese Defense Minister Taro Kono, second left, Indian Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, right, and Japanese counterpart Toshimitsu Motegi pose for the media before the start of India Japan 2+2 talks, in New Delhi, India, Saturday, Nov. 30, 2019, to boost bilateral security and Defence cooperation between the two countries. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
NEW DELHI (AP) — India says ties with Japan are key to stability in the Indo-Pacific region as the two countries held inaugural security talks in New Delhi.
Saturday's talks among the countries' foreign and defense ministers focused on cooperation in building a free and open Indo-Pacific in view of China's growing footprint in the region.
The talks took place following a decision by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart, Shinzo Abe, during a summit between the leaders last year.
Japan is only the second country after the U.S. with which India has used the so-called "two-plus-two" dialogue format, which brings the foreign and defense ministers together for talks.
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Q: What is the need of 'if statement' in this python code? Even if I remove the 'if statement' from the code,I get the same output.
   word='pizza'
   begin=None
   while begin!='':
         begin=(raw_input('\nBegin:'))
         if begin:
             begin=int(begin)
             end = int(raw_input('End:'))
             print "word[",begin,":",end,"]"
             print word[begin:end]
   raw_input("\n\nPress enter key")

A: To see if the user entered something other than the empty string.
>>> if '':
...     print 'empty'
...
>>> if 'I entered something':
...     print 'not empty'
...
not empty
>>> raw_input('just hit enter: ')  # just hinting 'enter' results in the empty string
just hit enter:
''

A: The if is used to make sure that the input of begin=(raw_input('\nBegin:')) is not empty. In pep 08, in "Programming Recommendations" section you can see that:
"For sequences, (strings, lists, tuples), use the fact that empty sequences are false."

A: The if checks if the user just pressed Enter.
If you remove the if, execute the program and just press Enter, you will see the output like this:
Begin:

Press enter key

If you enter 1 and press Enter, the output will be this:
Begin:1Begin:

Press enter key

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