The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Sunday November 21st, 2021
Gasbagging in Glasgow: COP26 and Phasing Down Coal by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
Words can provide sharp traps, fettering language and caging definitions. They can also speak to freedom of action and permissiveness. At COP26, that permissiveness was all the more present in the haggling ahead of what would become the Glasgow Climate Pact.
COP26, or the UN Climate Change Conference UK 2021, had a mission of “Uniting the world to tackle climate change.” The tackling, however, fell rather short, though countries, in the main, were trying to sell the final understanding as a grand compromise of mature tidiness. COP26 president Alok Sharma called the outcome “a fragile win”, the outcome of “hard work” and “great cooperation” from the parties.
The Pact is a flurry of words, acknowledging, for instance “the importance of the best available science for effective climate action and policymaking.” Alarm and utmost concern is expressed by the parties at the fact “that human activities have caused around 1.1 °C of global warming to date and that impacts are already being felt in every region”. There is a stress on “the urgency of enhancing ambition and acting in relation to mitigation adaptation and finance in this critical decade to address gaps between current efforts and pathways in pursuit of the ultimate objective of the Convention and its long-term global goal”.
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The shapes that were crying in the rain #poem by Abigail George
“Shroud don’t say anything if I changed
my hair, if I spoke my thoughts, don’t
move an inch, a muscle. There’s a knot
in your throat. It is just a moment in the
falling light. Kissing the velvet of your
shoulder. Stay, stay with me, hold me if”
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Advice after reviewing resumes by Joseph Gatt
Advice after reviewing 1,000+ resumes, in no particular order.
-Messy resumes (almost) always head straight to the trash bin. Unless you’re on the team that designed a NASA spaceship, you want your resume to be clean.
What do I mean by messy resumes? Spelling mistakes, inconsistent alignments and fonts, information all bundled up, wording and paragraphs not consistent. In sum, the resume does not look pretty.
So if you want a tip: go online, look for sample resumes, look for the pretty ones, and emulate the style. That will give you more chances to get a job.
-Extravagant claims also (almost) always lead your resume to head to the trash bin. The trend these days is for K-pop fans to claim that they “speak Korean.” Or for people to claim to speak dozens of languages.
Or they claim to have received an “award” when all it is was a “certificate of participation.” That’s like bowing out of the first round at the Olympics and claiming to be a medalist.
Or they just make strange claims about the past jobs they held.
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A fistful of cactus 21#11 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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