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Japan has been the shining star of the Asia-Pacific region this year, a fact highlighted by the impressive returns generated by and staggering inflows to ETFs such as the WisdomTree Japan Hedged Equity ETF (NYSE:DXJ) and the iShares MSCI Japan ETF (NYSE:EWJ).
Related: S&P Spotlights Differences In Two Big Japan ETFs.
Other Asia-Pacific countries have tried investors' patience. Australia ETFs have pulled back due to slack commodities demand. Investors have only recently shown signs of responding to attractive valuations on Chinese stocks and the list of frustration goes on from there.
The good news, is select Asia-Pacific ETFs, including those that are not Japan-heavy, could offer investors some upside through year-end.
"S&P Capital IQ's Asia Investment Policy Committee's (IPC) continues to see China, Hong Kong and Korea's stock markets rising significantly by year end," said S&P Capital IQ in a new research note. "The second half of the year should see Shanghai's A-shares' index closing the year more than 16% higher. The Hang Seng China Enterprise Index, or so-called H-shares' index of Chinese companies trading in Hong Kong, are expected by Asia IPC to rise more than 20% by the end of the year."
The Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF (NYSE:VPL) is one avenue for playing a rebound in Asia-Pacific equities. As is par for the course with Vanguard ETFs, VPL is cheap with an annual expense ratio of 0.12 percent, making it less expensive than 92 percent of comparable funds.
More importantly, VPL has held up nicely this year with an almost 11 percent gain, a gain that has been made possible in large part by the ETF's almost 57 percent weight to Japan. Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore, all of which have AAA credit ratings, combine for 32.3 percent of the ETF's weight. S&P Capital IQ rates VPL Overweight.
The PowerShares BLDRS Asia 50 ADR Index Fund (NASDAQ:ADRA), an ETF comprised of Asian stocks that trade in the U.S., is another option for investors to mull. ADRA allocates 47.3 percent of its weight, but the fund does offer investors exposure to a possible rebound in Australian and Chinese equities as those countries combine for over 32 percent of the ETF's weight.
Toyota (NYSE:TM) is by far ADRA's largest holding at 14.6 percent, which is more than 640 basis points larger than the weight given to BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP), the ETF's second-largest holding. S&P Capital IQ rates ADRA Overweight.
S&P Capital IQ also sees some promise with South Korea ETFs.
"Korea's Kospi, which has slipped 5.8% this year through August 9, could soar more than 27% by year's end," said the research firm.
Due to the weak Japanese yen and fears over Federal Reserve tapering, factors South Korea itself has identified as the primary risks to Asia's fourth-largest economy, the iShares MSCI Capped South Korea ETF (NYSE:EWY) has lost more than 13 percent year-to-date.
However, major global banks including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan have recently made bullish calls on South Korean stocks, citing compelling valuations, and EWY has surged 12 percent off its June lows. S&P Capital IQ rates EWY Overweight.
TheFirst Trust South Korea AlphaDEX Fund (NYSE:FKO), which is down 11 percent this year, garnered a Marketweight rating from S&P.


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Prayers, Poems, and Piyyutim ☞ Collective Welfare ☞ Government ☞ Elections ☞ A Prayer for Voting, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)
A Prayer for Voting, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)
David Seidenberg and neohasid.org
2010-11-14 – 7 Kislev 5771 via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) 4.0 International copyleft license
Elections, Election Day (1st Tuesday after November 1st)
eco-conscious, United States, democratic process, תחינות teḥinot, 21st century C.E., 58th century A.M., global warming, global climate change, ecoḥasid
הַרֵינִי מְכָוֵון בְּהַצְבָּעָתִי ׀ בְּתְּפִילָתִי הַיוֹם
לִדְרֹשׁ שָׁלוֹם בְּעַד הַמְדִינָה הַזֹאת כְּמוֹ שֶׁכָּתוּב:
"וְדִרְשׁוּ אֶת שְׁלוֹם הָעִיר אֲשֶׁר הִגְלֵיתִי אֶתְכֶם שָׁמָּה
וְהִתְפַּלְלוּ בַעֲדָהּ אֶל ה׳ כִּי בִשְׁלוֹמָהּ יִהְיֶה לָכֶם שָׁלוֹם." (ירמיהו כט:ו)
Here I stand, intending through my vote | my prayer today
to seek peace for this country, as it is written:
"Seek the peace of the city where I cause you to roam
and pray for her to YHVH (Adonai/God), for in her peace you all will have peace."[1]Jeremiah 29:7
יְהִי רָצוֹן מִלְפָנֶיךָ ה׳ שֶׁהָהַצְבָּעוֹת נִמְנוּ נֶאֱמָנוֹת
וְתִמְנֶה הַצְבָּעָתִי כְּאִלוּ קִיָּמְתִי הַכָּתוּב הַזֶה בְּכׇל עָצְמָתִי.
May it be Your will, YHVH, that votes be counted faithfully,
and may You count my vote as if I had fulfilled this verse with all my power.
תִּתֵן לֵב שׁוֹמֵעַ לְמִי שֶׁאָנוּ בּוֹחֲרִים הַיוֹם
וְטוֹב יְהְיֶה בְּעֵינֶיךָ שֶׁתִּשָׂא עַלֵינוּ מֶמְשָׁלָה טוֹבה
לְמַעַן הֵבִיא מִשְׁפָּט וְשָׁלוֹם לְכׇל יוֹשְׁבֵי הָאָרֶץ הַזֹאת
וְכׇל יוֹשְׁבֵי תֵבֵל וְעַל יִרוּשַׁלָיִם
וּלְכַבֵּד הַצֶלֶם בְּכׇל אָדָם וּבִּבְרִיאָה
כִּי הַמַּלְכוּת שֶׁלְּךָ הִיא.
May You give a listening heart to whomever we elect today
and may it be good in Your eyes to raise for us a good government
to bring justice and peace to all living in this land
and all the world, and to Jerusalem
and to honor the image of God in all humanity and in Creation,
for rulership is Yours.
כְּשֵׁם שֶׁהִשְׁתַּתָפְתִי בִּבְחִירוּת הַיוֹם
כֵּן זַכֵּנִי לַעֲשׂוֹת מַעֲשִׂים טוֹבִים וּלְתַקֵּן עוֹלָם בְּכׇל פֹּעַלִי
וּבִּפְעוּלָת … שֶׁאֲנִי מִתְנַדֵּב לְקַיֵם הַיוֹם
בְּעַד כָּל הַבְּרִיאוֹת,
בְּזִכְרוֹן בְּרִית מֵי נֹחַ
לְהַגֵּן וּלְבָל תַשְׁחִית אָרֶץ וּמְלוֹאָהּ.
Just as I participated in elections today,
so may I merit to do good works and to repair the world through all my efforts,
and through the act of…[fill in your pledge]…which I pledge to do today
on behalf of all living creatures,
in remembrance of the covenant of Noah's waters
to protect and to not destroy the earth and her plenitude.
תֵּן לְכׇל אֻמּוֹת הָאָרֶץ הַזֹאת הָכֹּחַ וְהַרָצוֹן
לִרְדֹף צֶדֶק וּלְבַקֵּשׁ שָׁלוֹם כְּאַגֻדָה אַחַת
לְהַצְמִיחַ בְּכׇל הָעוֹלָם חַיִים טוֹבִים וְשָׁלוֹם,
וְקַיֵּם לָנוּ הַכָּתוּב: "וִיהִי נֹעַם אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהֵינוּ עָלֵינוּ
וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֵינוּ כּוֹנְנָה עָלֵינוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֵינוּ כּוֹנְנֵהוּ." (תהלים צ:יז)
May You give to all the peoples of this country the strength and the will
to pursue righteousness and to seek peace as a unified force
in order to cause to flourish throughout the world good life and peace,
and fulfill for us the verse (Ps. 90:17): "May the pleasure of Adonai our God be upon us,
and establish the work of our hands for us; make the work of our hands endure."[2]Psalms 90:17
Rabbi Seidenberg's Prayer for Voting was initially composed for the United States presidential election in 2008 and published at neohasid.org, here.
Rabbi Seidenberg's prayers are deeply ecologically conscious. According to the Jewish calendar's reading of biblical chronology, the rains of the Great Deluge ended during the rainy season in the northern hemisphere, a time often corresponding to just before the November elections in the United States. Rabbi Seidenberg explains the significance:
This prayer is broadly speaking a prayer that we learn to work together to create a better future, and it incorporates a pledge to do one thing for healing the world, for tikkun olam, that will make this future a reality. It's not a prayer about winning or getting other people to see things our way, like some of the others I've seen. Whomever we support (I am supporting Obama), we need to pray for strength for the next president, and for the whole country, to face what will be challenging times.
The 2010 election comes right before the end date of Noah's flood. This common synchronicity inspired me in 2006 to focus the voting prayer on the covenant after the flood, which was a covenant with all creation.
Each person has their own way of expressing the essence of tikkun olam, so please change those lines according to your own vision of a perfected world. What is important is that we need both to vote and to take action to make our prayers a reality. What can you personally commit to doing? Pick something you can fulfill before the spring, and incorporate it into your prayer.
Rabbi Seidenberg asks that if you distribute a modified version of the following prayer, please keep it non-partisan. Rabbi Seidenberg adds:
If you can't pray in a voting booth, where can you pray? And where would you need more to pray? This prayer is not about casting a winning vote or supporting a particular party. It's a prayer that peace may come through whomever is elected, on behalf of the whole planet. It's also more than that: you, the pray-er, are invited to add your own pledge to do a good deed that embodies the ideals you are praying for and voting for, to live your prayer. The pledge is based on the Jewish custom of pledging to give tsedakah, charity, when going up to the Torah. What is your pledge on the occasion of "going up" to the voting booth? The two lines following this pledge express the intention to act in the highest interests of all living beings. Only acts taken in this spirit can become truly "established." Please modify these lines to express in your own words why you act.
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1. Jeremiah 29:7
2. Psalms 90:17
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✍ הכרזת יום הבחירות | Declaration for Election Day, by Rabbi Oded Mazor
✍ כוונה ליום הבחירות | Kavvanah for Election Day, by Rabbi Noa Mazor
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David Seidenberg
Rabbi David Seidenberg, the founder of NeoHasid.org, teaches text and music, Jewish thought and spirituality, in their own right and in relation to ecology and the environment. David is the author of the acclaimed book Kabbalah and Ecology: God's Image in the More-Than-Human World (Cambridge U. Press, 2015). To read selections and find out about ordering the book, go to kabbalahandecology.com. David has smikhah (ordination) from the Jewish Theological Seminary and from Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, and he has taught at over 100 synagogues, communities, retreats and conferences across North America (and a few in Europe and Israel), and is published widely on ecology and Judaism. David's teaching empowers learners to become creators of Judaism through deep study and communion with texts and tradition. Areas of specialty include Kabbalah and Chasidut, Talmud, davenning, evolution and cosmology, sustainability, Maimonides, Buber, and more.
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Women surrounded by posters in English and Yiddish supporting Franklin D. Roosevelt, Herbert H. Lehman, and the American Labor Party teach other women how to vote, 1935. (Credit: The Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives. License: CC-BY) (image)
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2 comments to A Prayer for Voting, by Rabbi David Seidenberg (neohasid.org)
2010-11-14 – 8 Kislev 5771 at 11:15 pm · Reply.
Although by posting this prayer on November the 14th we will have missed the elections in the United States, we are hopeful that this kavanah will be available just in time for future election cycles in the United States and anywhere else in the world democratic elections take place.
2011-01-04 – 29 Tevet 5771 at 10:54 pm · Reply.
Rabbi Aryeh Bernstein wrote in to contribute his adaptation of Rabbi Seidenberg's kavvanah:
הריני מוכן בהצבעתי לדרוש שלום בעד המדינה הזאת, כמו שכתוב, "שַׁאֲלוּ שְׁלוֹם יְרוּשָׁלִָם יִשְׁלָיוּ אֹהֲבָיִךְ: יְהִי שָׁלוֹם בְּחֵילֵךְ שַׁלְוָה בְּאַרְמְנוֹתָיִךְ: לְמַעַן אַחַי וְרֵעָי אֲדַבְּרָה נָּא שָׁלוֹם בָּךְ:לְמַעַן בֵּית יְהוָה אֱלֹהינוּ אֲבַקְשָׁה טוֹב לָךְ: (תהלים קכב:ו-ט).
יהי רצון מלפניך, יהוה אלהי ואלהי אבותי,
כשם שהשתתפתי בבחירות היום, כן זכני לעשות מעשים טובים ולתקן עולמך בכל מעשי;
פתח לנו ולכל יושבי הארץ הזאת לרדוף צדק ולבקש שלום כאגודה אחת לקיים הכתוב, "חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת נִפְגָּשׁוּ צֶדֶק וְשָׁלוֹם נָשָׁקוּ: אֱמֶת מֵאֶרֶץ תִּצְמָח וְצֶדֶק מִשָּׁמַיִם נִשְׁקָף: (תהלים פרק פ:יא-יב.
ותן לבב חכמה למי שאנו בוחרים היום ותשא הממשלה הזאת לטובה ולברכה, לחיים טובים, ולשלום עלינו ועל כל ישראל ועל כל יושבי הארץ הזאת.
וִיהִי נֹעַם אֲדֹנָי אֱלֹהינוּ עָלֵינוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֵינוּ כּוֹנְנָה עָלֵינוּ וּמַעֲשֵׂה יָדֵינוּ כּוֹנְנֵהוּ: (תהלים צ:יז)
תפילה לבוחר טרם הבחירות | A Prayer for Voters Before the Election, by Rabbi Esteban Gottfried »

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A More Comfortable DeVonta Smith is Ready for a Big Season
Photo Credit by John McMullen/JAKIB Sports
PHILADELPHIA – As the more proven commodity, A.J. Brown expects to get the lion's share of attention from opposing defenses this season when it comes to the Eagles' passing game but the new WR1 also offered up a bit of a caution flag to coordinators circling his impressive 6-foot-1, 226-pound frame.
According to Brown, there are two No. 1's in Philly.
"In my opinion, Smitty [DeVonta Smith] is a No. 1 wide receiver, and he's going against a cornerback number two," Brown explained. "I expect Smitty to dominate, you know?"
Brown, acquired on draft night from Tennessee Titans for picks Nos 18 and 101, has already had two 1,000-yard seasons over his first three NFL campaigns and is excited thinking about the complementary nature that should develop between himself and Smith, the second-year wideout coming off a franchise rookie record of 916 receiving yards in 2021.
"Just taking the pressure off of each other … and you can't really double [team]. It's great having another great receiver beside you," Brown said.
Smith, the 2020 Heisman Trophy winner at Alabama, looks primed for a breakout year in his second professional season even with Brown now on board.
At the Eagles' first OTA practice open to the media last week it was Smith who got behind the defense on two occasions during 7-on-7 work to haul in deep throws from Jalen Hurts.
Smith followed that by further immersing himself in the community with a charity softball game at Coca-Cola Park in Allentown on Saturday and Brown was one of the participants and won the home run derby as a bit of a ringer (Brown was once a 2016 draft pick of the San Diego Padres).
Pro Bowl cornerback Darius Slay was the one victimized by Smith on the practice field and the two have developed a close relationship that often inspires the entire team with its playfulness.
"Every day is a rivalry," Slay told JAKIB Sports. "I'm out here trying to whoop their ass every day. Like I said, it's a battle. That's why we practice, to get each other better. … we just bet it all the time, make it competitive. We like the pressure. It's fun. I like doing it because it makes us better as a team and as a unit. And it builds chemistry, man. That's one thing Coach [Nick Sirianni] is about. He loves us having chemistry. He's loving us being close together, being friends."
Slay has been a great teammate since arriving in Philadelphia before the 2020 season and he's paid special attention to Smith as a young player with a massive upside.
"Like I always tell him, in college, man, you're the Heisman Trophy [winner]. He was better than everybody out there," Slay noted. "In the league, there's no separation when it comes to talent. It's about who does the best technique at the end of the day. So I just told him, make everything look the same and make sure you just be a good player, consistent. And he does that very well right now.
"Definitely going against me and all the other guys out here, our goal is to make him one of the best in the game, and he strives to be that. We'll continue to keep working each other and get him better."
Still just 23, Smith is also becoming more comfortable in his own skin as a young leader on the team.
Smith, along with Slay, Brown, and Hurts, was among a group of core players Jeffrey Lurie took up to Boston to see a Celtics playoff game (yes, sorry Eagles fans, your owner remains a diehard C's devotee).
"Shoutout to Mr. Lurie for doing that for us," Slay said. "It was a blessing. I got to hang with some teammates again. Building bonds. Like I said, coach is real big on bonding. And that's something we do real well as a team and as a unit here."
The softball game was another example of that with Smith captaining a team filled with Eagles against one led by Dallas Cowboys star linebacker Micah Parsons.
"[Chemistry is] a big part of it," Smith told NJ.com's Chris Franklin. "Everybody is coming together to become a family. If you don't have that connection with your teammates, that can mess up everything on the field. The better the connection you have off the field, the better it is on the field."
-John McMullen covers the Eagles and the NFL for JAKIB Sports


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Uitgeverij Danckerts was een familiebedrijf dat kaarten, prenten en boeken uitgaf en verkocht in Amsterdam in de 17e en 18e eeuw.

Uitgeversfamilie

De familie Danckerts was een bekende uitgever van kaarten, prenten en boeken in het 17e-eeuwse Amsterdam. De uitgeverij was lange tijd actief. De oprichting was omstreeks 1633 toen Cornelis Danckerts I (de oudere) (1603–1656) begon als 'Papiere const en Caerten verkooper'. De uitgeverij stopte in 1727 toen het resterende deel van de voorraad kaarten werd verkocht in de winkel van achterkleinzoon Theodorus Danckerts II (1700 – na 1726). De uitgeverij Danckerts verkreeg haar grootste bekendheid toen Justus Danckerts I (1635–1701) en zijn twee zonen Theodorus Danckerts I (1663–1727) en Cornelis Danckerts II (1664–1717) werkzaam waren.

Van 1669 tot 1701 hadden Justus I en zijn zonen een winkel in het pand op de 'Calverstraet in de Danckbaerheyt'. Daarvoor waren zij gevestigd in een ander pand in de Kalverstraat genaamd 'De Danckerts'. Het drukkersmerk 'In de Danckbaerheyt' werd voor het eerst gebruikt door Dancker Danckerts (1634–1666, broer van Justus I). Toen deze stierf in 1666 werd de zaak door zijn broer Justus I overgenomen. Justus I verhuisde vermoedelijk naar het huis van zijn overleden broer.

Cornelis Danckerts II trouwde in 1696 met Geertrui Magnus. Zij was de dochter van de boekbinder Albertus Magnus. Het jonge paar nam hun intrek in het huis van de weduwe Magnus op de 'Nieuwendijk in de Atlas'. Vanaf dat moment floreerden er twee prentenwinkels van de familie Danckerts in Amsterdam.

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De familie Danckerts heeft vele kaarten, prenten en enkele wandkaarten uitgegeven. Over de uitgeverij ten tijde van Cornelis Danckerts II is in een atlas de volgende advertentie geschreven:

De uitgeverij heeft een wereldatlas uitgegeven waarvan er maar een aantal exemplaren bewaard zijn gebleven. De atlas bestaat totaal uit zo'n 125 verschillende kaarten. Daarnaast zijn er een aantal monumentale wandkaarten door de familie Danckerts uitgegeven.

In 1713 werd een deel van de inboedel van de uitgeverij verkocht door de erfgenamen. Dit waren kaarten, atlassen en koperplaten. In 1727 hield de uitgeverij definitief op te bestaan toen het resterende deel van het bezit werd verkocht na het overlijden van Theodorus Danckerts I in 1727.

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Literatuur
 C. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici. Amsterdam, 1969, deel 2, p. 88-90.

Externe links
 Short title catalogue Netherlands
 M. Donkersloot-de Vrij, Repertorium van Nederlandse Kaartmakers 1500-1900, Utrecht 2003.
 17e-eeuwse Amsterdamse drukkers en uitgevers op de kaart. Geocontexting the printed world: 1647-1900.

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Nederlandse uitgeverij
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An amusingly titled paper to be presented at the CSS 2009 conference, "Your Botnet is My Botnet: Analysis of a Botnet Takeover" (PDF), contains some not-so-funny data on how sophisticated hijacking computers has now become, the data they are able to collect, and the profits that fuel the development of more and more dangerous botnets.
We describe our experience in actively seizing control of the Torpig (a.k.a. Sinowal, or Anserin) botnet for ten days. Torpig ... has been described ... as "one of the most advanced pieces of crimeware ever created." ... The sophisticated techniques it uses to steal data from its victims, the complex network infrastructure it relies on, and the vast financial damage that it causes set Torpig apart from other threats.
Torpig has been distributed to its victims as part of Mebroot. Mebroot is a rootkit that takes control of a machine by replacing the system's Master Boot Record (MBR). This allows Mebroot to be executed at boot time, before the operating system is loaded, and to remain undetected by most anti-virus tools.
Mebroot has no malicious capability per se. Instead, it provides a generic platform that other modules can leverage to perform their malicious actions ... Immediately after the initial reboot ... [and] in two-hour intervals ... Mebroot contacts the Mebroot C&C server to obtain malicious modules ... All communication ... is encrypted.
The Torpig malware ... injects ... DLLs into ... the Service Control Manager (services.exe), the file manager, and 29 other popular applications, such as web browsers (e.g., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Opera), FTP clients (CuteFTP, LeechFTP), email clients (e.g., Thunderbird, Outlook, Eudora), instant messengers (e.g., Skype, ICQ), and system programs (e.g., the command line interpreter cmd.exe). After the injection, Torpig can inspect all the data handled by these programs and identify and store interesting pieces of information, such as credentials for online accounts and stored passwords. ... Every twenty minutes ... Torpig ... upload[s] the data stolen.
Torpig uses phishing attacks to actively elicit additional, sensitive information from its victims, which, otherwise, may not be observed during the passive monitoring it normally performs ... Whenever the infected machine visits one of the domains specified in the configuration file (typically, a banking web site), Torpig ... injects ... an HTML form that asks the user for sensitive information, for example, credit card numbers and social security numbers. These phishing attacks are very difficult to detect, even for attentive users. In fact, the injected content carefully reproduces the style and look-and-feel of the target web site. Furthermore, the injection mechanism defies all phishing indicators included in modern browsers. For example, the SSL configuration appears correct, and so does the URL displayed in the address bar.
Consistent with the past few years' shift of malware from a for-fun (or notoriety) activity to a for-profit enterprise, Torpig is specifically crafted to obtain information that can be readily monetized in the underground market. Financial information, such as bank accounts and credit card numbers, is particularly sought after. In ten days, Torpig obtained the credentials of 8,310 accounts at 410 different institutions ... 1,660 unique credit and debit card numbers .... 297,962 unique credentials (username and password pairs) .... [in] information that was sent by more than 180 thousand infected machines.
The paper estimates the value of the data collected by this sophisticated piece of malware to be between $3M - $300M/year on the black market.


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require 'spec_helper'

RSpec.describe Cch::Commands::Shell do
  subject(:shell) do
    class MyShell
      include Cch::Commands::Shell
    end.new
  end

  let(:command) { 'my_shell_command' }

  describe '#backtiq_command' do
    subject { shell.backtiq_command(command) }

    before { allow(shell).to receive(:`) { result } }

    context 'when the command returns two files' do
      let(:result) { "f1\nf2" }
      it { is_expected.to eq(%w(f1 f2)) }
    end

    context 'when the command returns nil' do
      let(:result) { nil }
      it { is_expected.to eq([]) }
    end

    context 'when the command returns empty string' do
      let(:result) { '' }
      it { is_expected.to eq([]) }
    end
  end

  describe '#system_command' do
    subject { shell.system_command(command) }

    it 'calls the system command' do
      expect(shell).to receive(:system).with(command)
      subject
    end
  end
end


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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Posted on November 20, 2019 by Coreen Catenburg
With sympathetic and nuanced prose, the book portrays Joe, Pip and Biddy as unpretentious little men of kindness. Pip lives in his sister's family, living a hard life, his dream is to be a blacksmith like his brother-in-law; he did not want to be a gentleman. Then he wanted to be a gentleman because of a change in circumstances. The theme of love runs through the story of Great Expectations. Pip's unwavering love for Estella, Pip's brotherly love for Herbert, Magwitch's misshapen but deeply hidden love for Pip are all described in detail. But what moves us most is Jonah's unselfish, unsentimental love, and Dickens's most intimate description of the relationship between Pip and Joe. Then, when Pip's hopes of inheritance were so completely dashed, and he fell seriously ill, it was Joe again, who not only gave him great moral support, but quietly helped him to pay off his debts. This kind of love leads Pip to return to conscience gradually in the constant inner struggle between right and wrong. In Great Expectations, the happy life of Joe and his wife Biddy contrasts sharply with Pip's pursuit of a gentlemanly life. In them, we can see the writer's praise for the valuable quality and sincere feelings of the ordinary people at the bottom of the society. Dickens's characterization of people is not just a description of their appearance, but a detailed analysis of people through his unique humor and exaggerated language. He not only depicts the characters from the external environment, but also depicts the characters with the help of the detailed description of the characters' movements, behaviors, gestures, expressions and so on. In the novel Great Expectations, the author Dickens portrays Pip as the first person perspective in the form of autobiographical in order to be able to express Pip's psychological activities and action language in detail in the work.
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Hard Times by Charles Dickens
Hard Times is a novel by Charles Dickens, published in 1854. It describes life in an industrial town. Dickens was now 42 years old. The setting for this book is a time of intense industrial tensions in British society. Josiah Bounderby, a banker and textile mill owner, was friends with Thomas Gradgrind, a retired hardware wholesaler, Congressman and educator. Together they controlled the town's economic system and educational institutions. They are materialistic and unsentimental, pretentious, and live by the principle of utilitarianism. Bounderby was attended by the widow Mrs. Sparsit. He taught his children to be practical and down-to-earth. When they learned to walk, they were put into classrooms and spent their days dealing with numbers. They were not allowed to read poetry or stories. Gradgrind marries his young daughter Louisa to the much older Bounderby, and the widow Mrs. Sparsit, jealous of her, inflicts pain on her, leading to the breakup of her marriage. At Gradgrind's own educational initiative, his son Tom was forced to help Bounderby with his work. He led a dissolute life and was heavily in debt. He stole money from The Bounderby Bank and ran away, hiding in the circus and playing the role of a clown. After a series of painful lessons and the influence of Sissy Jupe, a circus girl, he gradually changed his attitude towards life and was sent to America by his father. Bounderby liked to boast of his self-made wealth, and to accuse workers of being dissatisfied with their delusions of luxury. Five years later Bounderby died of a stroke on the streets of Cookstown, and Louisa remarried.
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The artistic charm of David Copperfield lies not in its winding and vivid structure, or its ups and downs of plots, but in its realistic life atmosphere and lyrical narrative style. What attracts people in this work are the fleshy characters, the specific and vivid world and customs, as well as the personality characteristics of different characters. Such as Miss Bessie, David's aunt, in her manners and speech, her dress, her likes and dislikes, and even her actions, though not without exaggeration, paint a vivid picture of an old woman with a strange nature and a kind heart.
As for the portrayal of Peggotty, the maid, this is even more accurate. The setting, especially the storm at Yarmouth, is powerful, vivid and immersive. Dickens was also a master humorist, whose witty one-liners and exaggerated caricature of characters can often be found between the lines of his novels. The chapters of David's early life show a childhood world that has long been forgotten by adults from a child's psychological perspective, and are vividly and movingly written. David, for example, has a special childhood sensitivity towards the cruel, cruel and greedy businessman Murdstone who pursues his mother from the beginning.
When Murdstone reached out his false hand and patted David, he saw that it had touched his mother's unceremoniously, and angrily pushed it away. David repeated to his mother the time when Murdstone had taken him out to play. When he said that one of Murdstone's friends kept mentioning a beautiful little widow in their conversation, she laughed and asked him to repeat the story again and again. It is told entirely from the point of view of the innocent child, who does not know that it is his mother who is being told, and the young widow, who asks for a reunion, whose fervent hopes for a happy life are already on the page.
David went to her brother's house with his nurse, Peggotty, whose brother was a fisherman. David saw him coming back from his work at sea to wash his face and thought he had something in common with shrimp and crab, for his black face turned red when the hot water burned it. This strange association is full of childlike interest and Dickens's characteristic humor. In David Copperfield, Dickens resorts to the cartoonist exaggeration and transformation techniques, with simple language humor to create lifelike characters, leaving us with an unforgettable impression. These cartoon characters fully demonstrate the artistic charm of Dickens's novels.
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Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens
In this work the author presents his views on the relationship between money and human nature. Dombey was haughty, imperious, and cruel when he had a great deal of money. After he went bankrupt, he confessed to his daughter and became both weak and kind. Florence and Gay took him in, and old Dombey, loving his grandson, lived a quiet and happy old age. Dombey and Son also truly reflects the development of industrial capitalism in Britain in the 1830s and 1840s, especially the development of the railway industry occupies an obvious place in the novel.
The work describes the vanity and hypocrisy of small citizens and the evil of the marriage system in Victorian England. The author tries to show the great corrosive and destructive effect of money on family relations (mainly father-son relations and husband-wife relations), which reflects the social reality that family relations have been reduced to the naked money relations in capitalist society. Paul's premature death and Florence's failure to seek her father's love powerfully reveal the dominance of money and the fact that money is doomed to failure when it competes with emotion.
However, while criticizing the money relationship, the author tries to counter the money relationship with emotional education and moral influence. In fact, the root cause of Dombey's transformation was his subsequent change in rank, and not the result of his daughter's warmth. It must also be pointed out that it is obviously one-sided and inadequate for the author to attribute the monetization of family relations only to the conflict between money and emotion, which reflects the limitations of the author's world view. Dombey and Son is a tightly structured novel created by Dickens, which is quite different from the loose structure in his earlier works.
The appearance of all the characters, and the development of the story, is arranged around the development of Mr. Dombey's destiny, and the events are organically bound together, and the story is very lively and interesting. The artistic techniques Dickens used in his novels are varied. There are biting sarcasm, humor with a smile, objective descriptions, deliberate exaggerations, direct and simple statements, and also witty metaphors. Dickens's characters are all alive. They have their own unique character, but also their own unique language. Even a dog, a parrot, a pair of tongs, and a curtain sometimes give vivid expression to their thoughts and feelings.
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Book Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
The novel is mainly about a miser. A miser had saved a lot of money, yet he was unwilling to add a lump of coal to the clerk's fire. His nephew kindly invited him to the Christmas Eve party, but he thought his nephew was just trying to take advantage of him by refusing. Activists asked him to give a little Christmas food to the poor, but he was mercilessly rebuffed. He went home at night, and in the darkness he saw a face. Was it really a ghost? Or is it his vision? However, the appearance of the ghost has changed him completely.
Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by three Christmas spirits: Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come. Christmas Past shows him how his sister cared for him in his lonely childhood, and how, as an apprentice, his kind boss, Fitzwig, danced with the crowd and entertained his staff on Christmas Eve. His heart began to soften, and he regretted his treatment of his employees and his transformation from a poor but happy young man to a rich but friendless boss. Present took him to a Christmas party at the home of one of his subordinates. It was a little clerk on a poor salary. There were no Christmas presents, no turkeys, but everyone had a happy smile on their faces. Yet to Come showed him the loneliness of being in bed with no family or friends to see him at Christmas when he was old. He began to rethink the meaning of life, and found that giving was happier than receiving. All this gradually awakened the other side of his humanity — compassion, kindness, love and joy. In an instant, his inherent selfishness and coldness collapsed and disappeared, and he became a good Samaritan.
So on Christmas morning, the morning after the ghost's visit, Bob, an employee, arrives late for work, expecting Scrooge to be angry. But instead scrooge said to him, "Merry Christmas to you, my good fellow! I'll give you a raise, and I'll do my best to help your poor family. Get the fire lit quickly and buy a coal basket." Then he bought a very big Turkey and had it sent to Bob's family. Then, on his first visit to his nephew, he greeted people on the street with "Merry Christmas" and they smiled kindly at him. For the first time in his life Scrooge felt truly happy. His heart was laughing, and he felt the real joy of life in his charity.
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The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens
The Old Curiosity Shop (1841) describes the tragic fate of the collapse of bourgeois in capitalist society. An old man with whom the author has deep sympathy runs an antique shop in a small alley in London. He had to fight against fate to get rich gambling, only to lose the antique shop to the loan shark instead. He and his little granddaughter Nell were ejected from the store. Two people later drifters to the remote countryside and died in the suffering. The kind-hearted little Nell and her grandfather lived together in an old antique shop, a place as magical as a fairy-tale cave. But little Nell did not know that her grandfather, who loved her dearly, hid a secret from her.
There was a crisis lurking in their seemingly uneventful lives — to make a living, and to leave little Nell a legacy that would enable her to live happily ever after. Desperate to get rich, he secretly gambled and borrowed money from the usurious upstart Daniel Quilp. Little did Grandfather think that they had fallen into the clutches of Quilp. Quilp tried to take over the old antique shop and the beautiful Nell. Nell's sinister cousin, Freddy, had long coveted the business. He teamed up with his friend Dick Swiveller in an attempt to get Dick to marry little Nell, and then they could divide her inheritance between them, but grandfather found out.
Later, Daniel Quilp and his lawyer collect from turent, the old antique shop owner, an insatiable vampire who not only uses usury to take away all the old antique shop's property, but also wants to take possession of beautiful Nell. Later, Quilp and his lawyer came to collect money from Grandfather, the owner of the old antique shop. The insatiable vampire not only used the usury to take away all the property of the old antique shop, but also wanted to take possession of the beautiful Nell. For the sake of his grand-daughter's happiness, the old grandfather had to give up his old shop, which he had run for so many years, and take Nell with him to flee from home.
The two were forced to flee London and live a vagrant life of begging. On their way to escape, the two meet a variety of people, some good, some evil intentions, but Quilp has never stopped tracking them. In desperation, a good priest took them in and took them to his orphanage. But here, unfortunately, little Nell became very ill. In the end, the little Nell, who was physically and mentally injured and mentally exhausted, passed away.
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Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens
Nicholas Nickleby is a boarding school teacher, an ambitious young man who is left penniless by the death of his father. His usury uncle not only refused to extend his hand to help, but uses his sister's beauty for his own profit. He was upright and kind, and fled back to London to help abused schoolchildren. After many trials and tribulations, he fought with bad guys and exposed his uncle's plot. Finally, he succeeded and married the girl he loved. Through his experience, the author reveals that at that time, the so-called poor run schools were actually profit-making places, the students suffered from hunger all day long, and whipping became the most important means of education.
Like most of Dickens' works, Nicholas Nickleby is set in a contemporary setting. Most of the action takes place in London, with some episodes in Portsmouth and some in Yorkshire and Devon. This work satirizes social injustice in the form of irony. In the subject matter of this book, the main one is the education at that time. Dickens strongly criticized the education system at that time. He believes it is a serious crime that the British education system allows poorly functioning boarding schools to abuse children. Kindness and compassion are the main themes of this book. Noggs also plays the role of guardian angel because he is kind and upright. The friendship between Smike and Nicklyby further shows Dickens' pity for some unfortunate people.
Greed is also an important theme of the novel. All characters make others suffer for their own financial gain. Most of their mistakes are caused by the love of money. Just as the Bible says: Money is the root of all evil. The book also deals with sexism and the passage of teenagers into adulthood. The book tells the story in the third person. Sometimes, the feelings of the characters are directly written out, and sometimes the feelings or thoughts of the characters are indirectly expressed through some small actions or facial expressions. When Dickens describes the abused children in chapter 8, he employs different rhetorical devices such as exaggeration, metaphor, alliteration and personification to leave readers with images of those children.
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Authors We Love: Charles Dickens
Posted on October 7, 2019 by Coreen Catenburg
Dickens lived and wrote in the early years of the Victorian Era in the mid-19th century. Dickens' activities and creations throughout his life kept pace with the trend of the times. He exposed the hypocrisy, greed, baseness and cruelty of the upper class and the bourgeoisie in a realistic way, and showed the miserable situation of the lower class, especially women, children and the elderly, with great indignation and deep sympathy. And with a serious and cautious attitude he describes the awakening of the struggle of the toiling masses. At the same time, he also eulogizes the truth, goodness and beauty in human nature with idealism and romanticism, and looks forward to a more reasonable society and a better life. Dickens embodies the core spirit of the English, a kind of joy and satisfaction from the heart. But there is another British spirit in Dickens, a kind of self-conscious reflection and critical spirit. He spoke for the disadvantaged groups, pursued social justice, explored the core values that can make human beings live in harmony, and expressed the aspirations and dreams of many people with 15 novels and a large number of prose works.
In Dickens's early works, the reader sometimes finds his affirmation of commercial value. But the later Dickens took a more derogatory attitude towards business. His work also tends to show in a violent way the subversive power of money in an increasingly industrialized society. In the real society, there is a philosophy that ignores human nature everywhere. All spiritual life, including religious life, has hopelessly become a vassal of money and a quantifiable index. With the development of Victorian society, the ethical and moral concepts of the aristocracy were inevitably impacted by the culture of the middle class. The ethics and morals of the middle class have gradually and widely influenced people's way of life. The development of ethics reflected in the culture is the development of Victorian culture, thus breaking the original monistic cultural values.
Thus, it can be said that Dickens is not only criticizing the inequality of social classes in his novels, but also commenting on the culture of that society, especially its moral concepts. From this we can see his concern and thinking about the future of that society, and also reflect his deep thinking about the human life itself. Dickens' early novels are grand, popular and fluent, humorous and pungent, and full of sentiment, in which the criticism of the society is generally confined to local institutions and fields. For example, "Oliver Twist", "Nicholas Nickleby", "The Old Curiosity Shop", "The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit", "Christmas Carol" and so on. After "Dombey and Son", Dickens's writing became more mature. "David Copperfield" further explores the struggle of life and is autobiographical. It is a long picture that reflects the middle and lower classes of Britain in the mid-19th century.
"Bleak House", "Hard Times" and "Little Dorrit" are three politically conscious masterpieces. Dickens' later works clearly reflect the deepening of the creation of the theme, technical maturity and various aspects of exploration. "Great Expectations" can be seen as a negative of "David Copperfield," but it is more realistic and apocalyptic in its approach to life, and the author's early optimism is markedly diminished. The hero Pip is also an orphan. However, he can not withstand the temptation of the environment and loses his original simple nature. After experiencing harsh hardships, he realizes repentance and starts to live again, and the whole novel is more concise in structure. "Our Mutual Friend" is another critical novel that goes deep into the society. The human nature exploration and life philosophy contained in it are also more profound. The symbolism and detective novel techniques used in the novel add more to its artistic charm.
Dickens' final novel, "The Mystery of Edwin Drood", is only 23 chapters long, but it is also exquisitely written, scrupulously conceived, and seductive with suspense and mystery. He describes a large number of people in the middle and lower classes, which is unprecedented in literature. With his high artistic generalization, vivid detail description, witty humor and meticulous analysis, he created many unforgettable images that truly reflected the social face of Britain in the early 19th century, which had great appeal and cognitive value, and formed his unique style. He reflects the breadth and variety of life, the depth and power of it. Instead of preaching or conceptualizing his tendencies, he tends to inspire his readers' indignation, hatred, sympathy and love with vivid artistic images. Most of his characters have distinct personalities. He is good at using artistic exaggeration to highlight some features of the characters and reveal their inner life and mental outlook with their customary movements, gestures and words.
Dickens' works have a strong romantic atmosphere, and the things he describes seem to have some kind of spirituality that can match the feelings and temperament of the characters, which enhances the appeal of the works.
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Posted on May 31, 2019 by Xiaoyu.Z
In A Tale of Two Cities, a historical novel which is written by Charles Dickens. Sydney Carton, one of the main character, achieved a form of resurrection by sacrificing himself. At the beginning of the novel, he used to be a drunken lawyer, lacking true care for others, but then Carton literally changes his characteristic. "I am the resurrection and the life says the Lord: he that believes in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: and whoever lives and believeth in me, shall never die" (Carton 372). Sydney Carton goes through several levels of spiritual renewal. His Christian sacrifice allows Charles Darnay to survive and thrive.
This selfless act and his good deeds for the world saves Charles's life. He has never done anything good for anyone in his life, including himself. He shows his great love for Lucie. Later on, they exchange successfully. The moment when Sydney Carton stayed in prison alone gives rise to the sense of empty and fearful. "The door closed, and Carton was left alone. Straining his powers of listening to the utmost, he listened for any sound that might denote suspicion or alarm" (Dickens 417).
Sydney Carton saves Charles Darnay from being convicted and executed in England, agrees to switch places with him in the Conciergerie. Heavily religious language surround these resurrections which compare Carton's sacrifice of his own life for others' sins to Christ's sacrifice on the cross. He proves the most vital character in the novel. He dies for love which fulfills the happiness for Lucie and achieves the value of his own life and spirit.
-Xiaoyu Z.
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A Tale of Two Cities is a historical novel written by Charles Dickens. The story happened in England and France since 1775 which occurs during a period of social unrest and turbulence. The forces that lead to the French revolution, clash with a group of people in England and lead to their fates irreversibly intertwined. The novel focuses on the resurrection through the setting of the French revolution. Thereinto, "Recalled to life" , the most significant part in each book, presents a prominent tale of resurrection.
Lucie's love renewed the spirit of Dr. Manette and her maternal of her necklace reinforces this notion of resurrection. Dr. Manette feels the warmth of home and the sense of security because of the existence of Lucie. As Lucie says, "If you hear in my voice any resemblance to a voice that once was sweet music in your ears, weep for it! If you touch, in touching my hair, anything that recalls a beloved head that lay on your breast when you were young and free, weep for it!" (Lucie, 54). In every detail of Lucie's existence, she embodies compassion, love and virtue. Lucie can always gather her family together. Dr. Manette experiences the resurrection which he finds his memories through his daughter. He treats his daughter's happiness as the most important thing in the world.
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Community Voices: Increasing Demands for more Municipal Spending on Sanitation
In this blog Faustina Asante of WSUP Ghana talks about some very interesting work being done in Accra around increased municipal finance for sanitation. It's a fascinating example but we know that other organisations are doing equally interesting work, so, if that's you, please get in touch! But for now, over to Faustina…
Environmental sanitation is considered among the powerful drivers of human development as it affects quality of life – improving health and rising wealth. Ghana's commitment to the proportion of people having improved basic sanitation is described as being hugely off-track as current coverage level stands at 15% against the MDG target of 54%. Therefore improving sanitation and hygiene services in low-income urban communities has been highly challenging. In Ga West Municipal Assembly access to improved sanitation facilities has remained stubbornly low for many years. Moreover, communities' demand for improved sanitation services remains low. Their voices have been weak of speaking up and expressing their needs before service providers and the municipal authority responsible for sanitation service delivery. It's time communities recognize that holding those with power accountable is key to sustainable institutional and social arrangements that guarantee social services. The Assembly on the other hand, has given little priority to sanitation compared to other subsectors like water and education. For instance in 2013, GWMA budgeted less than 0.7% for sanitation compared to over 8% for the provision of water services.
In May 2014, WSUP actively began a work on Municipal Sanitation Finance Advocacy to increase municipality's allocation for sanitation through improved property rate collection from municipal and community levels. The advocacy engagements were planned at the various levels to secure concrete commitments from key stakeholders. They focus on lobbying for improved accountability and responsiveness among service providers and increasing community's demand for equitable services. This advocacy work recognises that sustained behavior and social change is effective only when combined with changes in the broader socio- economic environment which includes addressing underlying and contextual factors such as budget allocations, property rate payment, etc. The main message behind the municipal level advocacy has been that: a market-driven approach to ensure scalable sanitation is critical. However, there is also the need for some sort of on-going revenue stream from the Assembly to create an enabling environment to support such initiatives with long term benefits for communities especially improved sanitation services.
At the community level, WSUP worked with the Environmental Health and Sanitation Department and the National Commission for Civic Education. The main aim was to foster effective coordination and collaboration to strengthen their capacities in empowering communities to take action. Four communities, including Amamorley, Amasaman, Pokuase and Kuntunse, emerged as the ideal locations to begin the advocacy work as WSUP already had a significant presence within the communities, resident associations and self-help groups were long established and functioning, and most importantly, these communities had the most motivated Assembly members and community leaders. Working closely with these community leaders, the team identified existing groups including resident associations, women groups, youth groups etc. By using a rights-based advocacy approach, the team has organized and facilitated a number of meetings to attain a collective community voice that results in more allocations of municipal funds within the communitiesto improve sanitation services and general development. It entails the building of community capacity to understand, and to make meaningful contribution to realizing these rights. WSUP strongly believes in the message that communities should "be the change you want to see" and, as Margaret Mead once rightly said, they should "never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
While the advocacy sessions are still in early days, they are showing lots of promise. Currently, the proactive steps to dealing with the sanitation challenge include making the obligations of the municipal assembly very clear to communities, informing the community members of their role in improving sanitation provision and the importance of paying their property rates as well as creating the opportunities and platforms for which communities can engage with the municipal assembly on sanitation improvements. Community reference groups have been set up to lead collective advocacy efforts and key local influencers have been identified and are being coached to confidently communicate problems and ideas as well as engage in question and answer sessions with municipal authorities on the need for increased resource allocation to sanitation. With emphasis on these steps and long-term investments, WSUP hopes to support the municipality in the prevention of sanitation-related catastrophes like the 2014 cholera outbreak.
A large percentage of the community has no access to safe toilets, yet recognises the need to own one. However, one woman from Kuntunse noted that "the problem is partly due to our own priority for sanitation: Why are some people in this community with two smart phones, but not their own toilet?"They noted that access to adequate sanitation is inhibited by the high standards set by the assembly, the lack of affordable and innovative options, and the lack of low interest micro-finance for building toilets. Citizens generally agreed on the importance of paying their property rates but expressed deep concerns as follows about its utilisation for development:
Opinion leader from Kuntunse said: "I am not against the payment of property rates, but I don't see what it's used for. There are no proper drainages within the community and the gutters are choked with faeces,"
A resident from Pokuase explained: "Properties keep springing up each day, but the assembly has not kept up with valuation of these properties effectively and quickly enough. Many houses have not been captured and left at the mercy of unscrupulous revenue collectors. Meanwhile the assembly is always saying there is no money for development."
Another resident from Kuntunse noted: "I have lived in this community for the past 5 years and nobody has ever approached me to pay my rate, I don't even know how to pay even if I wanted to".
A resident at Pokuase added: "The collectors at the revenue office have an attitude and always try to offer us different payment options – short-cuts"
Cheif and chairman of the Pokuase action group added: "GWMA feels it is doing well but this is because we the citizens are not demanding enough nor are we demanding for more action"
The communities understand that they need to take their destinies into their own hands. A resident from Kuntunse explained,
"We cannot talk about municipal finance without talking about self-help initiatives. The assembly has long ignored our community and we have largely developed through our own initiatives."
Amamorley's Assemblyman, Hon. Akwasi Appiah, heard the resident's statements and said "it would be useful to publicise the various projects the assembly has done at the end of each quarter to encourage more people to pay" and to better communicate what the Assembly is doing for its people.
The next step for WSUP and its partners is to support the establishment of platforms to further encourage the dialogue between the various communities and the municipal assembly. Through these dialogue platforms, communities will be assisted in presenting appeals to the Municipal authority to lobby for increased financial allocations for sanitation in the 2016 and 2017 composite budget within their communities. Thus far, with WSUP's intervention, the municipality is becoming increasingly responsive to demands for improved delivery of sanitation services to communities, and this push might just be what is needed to take it to the next level.
Stay tuned for more updates!


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Het Campeonato Roraimense is het voetbalkampioenschap van de Braziliaanse staat Roraima. De competitie wordt georganiseerd door de Federação Roraimense de Futebol. Hoewel er reeds sinds 1960 competities gespeeld werden ging deze competitie officieel van start in 1974 als amateurkampioenschap en in 1995 als profkampioenschap. Roraima is een van de zwakste competities en stond al vaak laatste CBF-ranking. Deze lage klassering gaf tot 2015 slechts aan één ploeg uit de staat het recht op een plek in de eerste ronde van de nationale Série D, sinds 2016 zijn er dit twee. De statelijke bond bepaalt welke ploegen dit zijn, meestal zijn dit de kampioen en vicekampioen. In 2020 steeg de competitie wel twee plaatsen. In 2021 steeg de competitie twee plaatsen op de lijst naar de 23ste plaats.

Zoals de meeste staatskampioenschappen verandert het format van de competitie jaarlijks of om de paar seizoenen. De clubs uit Boa Vista domineren de competitie.

Nationaal niveau
Daar de competitie pas laat geprofessionaliseerd werd heeft er nooit een club uit Roraima in de Série A of de Série B, toen hier nog automatisch staatskampioenen aan mochten deelnemen. Van 1995 tot 2008, met uitzondering van seizoen 1999, speelde er wel altijd een club in de Série C. Met vijf deelnames is Baré de succesvolste club op nationaal niveau. Na de invoering van de Série D, werd het opzet van de Série C nu dat van de Série D waardoor de staat elk jaar één deelnemer mag afleveren. Geen enkele club slaagde er tot dusver in om te promoveren naar de Série C.

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In the U.S., 36 million adults lack the basic literacy skills needed to land family-supporting jobs—they struggle to read a street sign, a pay stub, or a menu. Yet education programs for this group serve only about 1.5 million, and funding continues to be cut at state and federal levels. There are also often long waiting lists for classes and challenges recruiting teachers. Meanwhile, the stigma of struggling to read and write can keep adults from reconnecting with the classroom. They also face other problems that make it difficult to attend classes consistently, such as a lack of transportation and affordable childcare.
Maine is one of the few states where the governor has proposed increasing funding for adult education. Its programs are also connected to the public school system, which ensures some standards and accountability. I spoke to two adult learners in Maine—one at the beginning of her educational journey, the other at the end—while reporting a segment on this issue for PBS NewsHour.
Carol Palmer, 63
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Carol Palmer's teachers told her she "read backwards," so she was sent to a special education class in the 5th grade. "I couldn't do the work and I didn't get no help to do it. I'd go ask the teachers for help and they'll help me for a few minutes and then say, 'you go and do it yourself.' I said, 'I don't know how to do it, how can I?' And they said, 'well, do the best you can.' I don't think I should have got a high school graduation diploma because I couldn't read or write. They pushed me along."
Palmer found ways to hide the fact she couldn't read by looking for reading visual cues, like the pictures on cans and packages at the grocery store. All her life she held a series of low-paying jobs, such as baby sitting and house cleaning. She grew tired of always asking for help because she said, "people look at you awful funny." She longed to read books to her grandchildren, so enrolled in adult education classes.
Now she's at the 3rd grade level in reading, and 6th grade level in math. She is so grateful for the education she's receiving that she's encouraged several other women to enroll. Many don't have transportation and in this rural region, it's difficult for them to attend adult education classes regularly. So Palmer picks up around six women from their homes for class, three times a week. It's a completely different experience, "I love coming to school. I love everybody in this class."
When asked how her life might have been different if she had learned to read and write, Palmer says simply, "I think I would have been happier."
Linda Crawford, 45
Turner, Maine
Student at Maine School Administrative District 52
Linda Crawford says she had a "rough time" in school. She struggled with simple addition and subtraction. When her parents divorced during her high school years, she dropped out of school. She had three children and supported them through a series of low-paying jobs, such as waitressing and babysitting.
Her children became the driving force pushing her to return to school. "When the kids came home from school, I didn't have the knowledge to help them. I would cry. I always had to rely on someone else." She struggled in other areas as well. She had to ask someone to fill out her food stamp forms and she couldn't write a simple check. "I would always hide," she says.
Three years ago, she went back to school. "I went every day of the week, I had classes three times a day." She worked hard and earned her high school diploma. Crawford says it was a huge accomplishment. "I even received high honors!"
Crawford now has a stable job with benefits as a middle school custodian. And she uses her reading skills every day to read machinery manuals, chemicals on cleaning products, and accident reports. "If the school needs supplies for paper towels and all the soaps and all that, I do that. I have to make sure I have everything in order. Everything has papers."
Crawford says her life now is wonderful because she feels respected by her colleagues and is able to get her and her husband's health needs addressed. When asked how her going back to school has changed her, Crawford smiles wide and says, "My future is amazing!"
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Die Agência de Cooperação de Timor-Leste ACTL (auch ACT-L, , ) ist eine osttimoresische Behörde zur internationalen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit. Sie ist eine juristische Person des öffentlichen Rechts.

Hintergrund
Die ACTL untersteht dem Außenministerium Osttimors. Sie wurde auf der Grundlage des Gesetzes 09/2003 am 5. Juli 2013 gegründet.

Die ACTL soll die Wirksamkeit und Effizienz der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit gewährleisten und Einheit und Kohärenz der Außenpolitik garantieren. Sie soll die Umsetzung der Entwicklungspolitik und die humanitäre Hilfe in Osttimor zentralisieren, überwachen, koordinieren und durchführen. Dafür verfügt sie über Rechtspersönlichkeit, administrative und finanzielle Autonomie und eigenes Vermögen sowie über flexible Managementbedingungen. Administrative Entscheidungsmechanismen sollen so beschleunigt und Unvorhersehbarkeiten überwunden werden. Zusammen mit den Außenvertretungen Osttimors soll die ACTL osttimoresische Interventionen verbessern, indem beide zusammen für die Koordinierung mit den Behörden der Länder sorgen, die in den Genuss der Zusammenarbeit und der offiziellen Entwicklungshilfe kommen.

Die ACTL soll die Außenbeziehungen des Landes stärken und die wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Entwicklung der Länder, die öffentliche Hilfe erhalten, fördern sowie die Lebensbedingungen ihrer Bevölkerung zu verbessern. Dazu führt die ACTL bilaterale und multilaterale Entwicklungsprojekte und -programme in den Bereichen technische und finanzielle Zusammenarbeit und humanitäre Hilfe durch, fördert den Abschluss bilateraler und multilateraler Vereinbarungen mit internationalen Organisationen für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und anderen internationalen Organisationen für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und humanitäre Hilfe. Tätigkeiten im Zusammenhang mit dem Verteidigungs- und Sicherheitssektor sind vom Anwendungsbereich des ACTL ausgenommen.

Struktur
In den Ländern ohne diplomatische Vertretungen Osttimors kann die ACTL "Technische Vertretungen für Zusammenarbeit" () zur Durchführung seiner Projekte einrichten. Die RTC werden durch Verordnung des Außenministers und Zusammenarbeit eingerichtet. Die Oberaufsicht über die ACTL der Exekutivausschuss und ein Revisor.

Exekutivausschuss
Der Exekutivausschuss ist das Exekutivorgan der ACTL, das deren Aktivitäten lenkt und das ordnungsgemäße Funktionieren sicherstellt. Der Exekutivausschuss besteht aus dem Exekutivdirektor, dem Nationaldirektor für Angelegenheiten der bilateralen Zusammenarbeit, dem Nationaldirektor für multilaterale Zusammenarbeit und Angelegenheiten der humanitären Hilfe und dem Nationaldirektor für Verwaltung und Finanzen. Der Exekutivdirektor wird vom Ministerrat auf Vorschlag des Außenministers für eine Amtszeit von drei Jahren ernannt, die einmal verlängert werden kann. Vorzugsweise, aber nicht ausschließlich, stammt der Exekutivdirektor aus dem Kreis hochrangiger Berufsdiplomaten. Bei Abwesenheit und Verhinderung des Exekutivdirektors wird dieser durch den von ihm zu ernennenden Nationaldirektor vertreten.

Der Exekutivausschuss hat die Verantwortung für:
 die Überwachung und Kontrolle der Aktivitäten der ACTL
 die Durchführung von ACTL-Programmen und -Projekten zu fördern
 den Haushaltsplan des ACTL, einschließlich der jeweiligen Haushalte der RTC und deren Revisionen, sowie die Managementkonten, Aktionspläne und Programme, Quartalsberichte und den Jahresbericht über die Aktivitäten zu erstellen und der Behörde zur Überprüfung und Genehmigung vorzulegen
 die Verwaltung des Vermögens der ACTL
 die Vorlage von Vorschlägen an die Behörde für die Eröffnung und Schließung von ACTL-Vertretungen, namentlich RTC.
 die Auswahl von ACTL-Beamten, die auf Anordnung des Außenministers ernannt werden
 die Ausarbeitung der Geschäftsordnung für die ACTL und die RTC und sie dem zuständigen Regierungsmitglied zur Genehmigung vorzulegen
 die Förderung des Abschlusses bilateraler und multilateraler Kooperationsabkommen mit anderen internationalen Kooperationsorganisationen und anderen internationalen Gremien für Entwicklungszusammenarbeit und humanitäre Hilfe
 alle anderen durch das Gesetz oder diese Statuten übertragenen Befugnisse

Revisor
Der Revisor () ist das Organ, das für die Kontrolle der Rechtmäßigkeit, Ordnungsmäßigkeit und soliden Finanz- und Vermögensverwaltung von ACTL verantwortlich ist. Er wird durch den gemeinsamen Erlass des Außenministers und des Finanzministers für eine Amtszeit von drei Jahren ernannt, die einmal verlängert werden kann.

Der Revisor ist zuständig für:
 die finanzielle Überwachung der von Osttimor finanzierten Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
 die Bereitstellung von Finanz- und Buchhaltungsdaten für die Verwaltungseinheit für Entwicklungspartnerschaften des Finanzministeriums, um die Planung und Durchführung der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit unter Berücksichtigung der vereinbarten Indikatoren zu überwachen
 die Überwachung der Finanzverwaltung des ACTL, einschließlich der periodischen Einsichtnahme in die Bücher und Buchhaltungsunterlagen des ACTL und der Überprüfung der Rechtmäßigkeit der finanziellen Handlungen des ACTL, in Übereinstimmung mit dem Gesetz
 eine technische Stellungnahme zum Haushaltsplan abzugeben und einen Bericht über die Ordnungsmäßigkeit der jährlichen Haushaltsausführung von ACTL und die entsprechenden Empfehlungen zu erstellen, der dem Exekutivrat vorgelegt wird
 die Abgabe einer Stellungnahme zum Erwerb, Verkauf oder zur Belastung von realen oder beweglichen Vermögenswerten, die der Registrierung durch ACTL unterliegen
 die Unterrichtung des überwachenden Ministers und des Finanzministers über alle Unregelmäßigkeiten, die im Laufe seiner Tätigkeit festgestellt werden.

Personal
Die Mitarbeiter der ACTL und der RTC sind in diplomatisches und sonstiges Personal unterteilt. Für das Personal der diplomatischen Laufbahn gelten die für Beamte geltenden Rechtsvorschriften, bis der besondere Status, der die diplomatische Laufbahn regelt, genehmigt ist. Die Einstellung, Ernennung, Beförderung und Entlassung von Beamten, die nicht in der diplomatischen Laufbahn tätig sind, richtet sich nach den für Beamte geltenden Rechtsvorschriften. Der Stellenplan und die Anzahl des Leitungs- und Aufsichtspersonals werden durch einen gemeinsamen Ministerialerlass des Außenministers und des für die Kommission für den öffentlichen Dienst zuständigen Regierungsmitglieds genehmigt. Für die Durchführung seiner Aktivitäten kann ACTL nationale und/oder ausländische Techniker im Rahmen eines individuellen Arbeits- oder Dienstleistungsvertrags einstellen.

Am 15. März 2016 wurde Libório Pereira zum Executive Director der ACTL für eine dreijährige Amtszeit ernannt. Die Amtszeit wurde verlängert, doch am 2. Dezember 2020 wurde Pereira von der Polizei verhaftet. Ihm wird Wirtschaftskriminalität vorgeworfen.Lusa: Polícia timorense detém ex-presidente da Comissão da Função Pública, 2. Dezember 2020, abgerufen am 2. Dezember 2020.

Tätigkeiten
Osttimor unterstützte mehrfach Guinea-Bissau für die Stabilisierung des westafrikanischen, lusophonischen Staates bei der Finanzierung einiger Behörden. 2014 übernahm das südostasiatische Land die Bezahlung von Angestellten der Regierung Guinea-Bissaus in Höhe von sechs Millionen US-Dollar. Bei der internationalen Geberkonferenz für Guinea-Bissau in Brüssel 2015 sicherte Osttimor 1,9 Millionen US-Dollar für den Terra-Ranka-Strategie- und Operationsplan für 2015 bis 2025, den die Regierung Guinea-Bissau vorstellte. Terra Ranka kam aufgrund des politischen Patts dann nicht zustande, trotzdem überwies Osttimor 225.000 € an Guinea-Bissau, um die Organisation eines nationalen Versöhnungstreffens in Guinea-Bissau zu finanzieren. Außerdem leistete Osttimor direkte finanzielle und technische Unterstützung für die Organisation von Wahlen in Guinea-Bissau. 2017 stiftete die ACTL Guinea-Bissau zwei Krankenwagen. Am 26. November 2019 gewährte die ACTL Guinea-Bissau eine Hilfe von 300.000 US-Dollar als "technische Unterstützung für die Budgethilfe". In der Hauptstadt Bissau gibt es eine RTC. Gleichzeitig erhielt Timor-Leste von der OECD allein von 2016 bis 2018 Finanzhilfen in Höhe von 658 Millionen US-Dollar.

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 g7+-Staaten

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Behörde (Osttimor)
Politik (Dili, Gemeinde)
Außenpolitik (Osttimor)
Entwicklungspolitik
Hilfsorganisation
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Presented by MagicSpace Entertainment. Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show is Riverdance, as you've never seen it before! A powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved favorite celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning score and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. Twenty-five years on, composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerizing soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely reimagined the ground-breaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, projection, stage and costume designs. Immerse yourself in the extraordinary power and grace of its music and dance – beloved by fans of all ages. Fall in love with the magic of Riverdance all over again. Rescheduled from March, 2022. Valid tickets will be honored as follows: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 = Tuesday, May 23, 2023 Wednesday, March 2, 2022 = Wednesday, May 24, 2023 Thursday, March 3, 2022 = Thursday, May 25, 2023
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Anglophone Cameroon: Mass arrests on eve of CHAN Competition
One of Africa's biggest football competitions kicks off in barely 24 hours in Cameroon. Away from the Covid-19 restrictions, many young people may still not be able to have access to stadiums which are due to host some of the games.
This is as a result of an ongoing operation by the Central Africa Nation's security forces.
In the restive South West region where soldiers have been battling separatists campaigning for an independent state called Ambazonian, many young boys have been arrested and/or detained over the past days in a series of sweeping raids.
Mimi Mefo Info has obtained footage in which security operatives appear to coerce young boys to give them money, information, some locals say is accurate.
"See what the police is doing to us in Buea!" Exclaimed a student out of frustration.
Police harassment, the student adds, is fast becoming the new normal: "… Buea is made of students but because of football they are making the town more uncomfortable for us".
While the multiplication of impromptu searches and raids is understandable as Ambazonian fighters have threatened to disrupt the competitions.
Many have shared stories of encounters with security forces, most of whom have always raised concerns of torture, extortion, brutality and illegal arrests and detention.
Despite the prolonged outcry, authorities have often maintained sealed lips, leaving helpless civilians at the mercy of the notoriously brutal forces.
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Alloy Wire International: giving back to the world community
The more AWI produces, the greener the company gets.
Alloy Wire International, which recently achieved carbon-negative business status, has taken that pledge even further, committing to plant a tree for every 100 kg of wire sold. Below, Managing Director Tom Mander discusses why it forms an important part of the company's "Wired for Good" initiative.
Manufacturers contribute so much in the way of greenhouse gases that it's up to companies like Alloy Wire International (AWI) to buck the trend and start giving back to the environment and the communities we operate in.
That's why we have joined forces with JUST ONE Tree. The U.K.-based organization uses donations to fund reforestation projects, selecting partners to plant them based on criteria such as existing infrastructure, methodology, impact on community and tree survival rates. The trees are planted in countries, including Mozambique, Nepal, Haiti, Indonesia, Madagascar, Kenya and Zambia.
We believe that our commitment to sustainability is now stronger than ever. Based on the amount of wire AWI has sold between the months of January and June 2023, we have already donated over 1,500 trees to JUST ONE Tree.
Once grown, those trees will remove more than 300 metric tons of CO2 from the atmosphere over the next 25 years. Supporting the efforts of JUST ONE Tree is part of a wider picture where AWI is committed to becoming more environmentally friendly and to continue to act as a good citizen to the communities it operates in.
As part of our "Wired for Good" campaign, AWI partnered with Carbon Neutral Britain to offset emissions around its manufacturing, deliveries and even employee commuting, with our efforts seeing us become carbon negative in recent months.
Over the last 18 months, we have also donated £30,000 to local charities and good causes, with the latest recipient being Acorns Children's Hospice to help it continue to provide respite, short breaks, end of life and emergency care across its three U.K. locations. We have been longterm admirers of the charity and the way it provides a homely environment where children can take part in a range of fun and therapeutic activities, from arts and crafts sessions to hydrotherapy.
This was the final donation to mark our 75th anniversary year and follows similar £7,500 gifts to Mary Stevens Hospice in Stourbridge, the Chris Westwood Charity for Children with Physical Disabilities and the Giving Hands Mission.
For more on the organization, go to www.justonetree.life.
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This is part 16 of Wire Journal International's first-ever feature presenting 16 manufacturers that have given back to their communities: hundreds others could just as easily have been here. Each entry has a unique story, yet the common thread is the people—of all ranks—who care about their companies as well as their communities. Big volunteer efforts deserve applause, but so do smaller ones as they all head in the same direction. In a time when there is seldom a lack of daunting news, one can take pride in the industry spirit.
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New York Jets Injury Report: Wilkerson Questionable, Harvin ProbableWilkerson and Harvin could provide the Jets with a big lift on Sunday versus the New England Patriots.
Thank You For The Memories Rex RyanAs the winds of change start to blow let's not forget what Rex Ryan brought to the New York Jets organization.
Jets Need Full Team Effort In Order To Beat PanthersGang Green enters this game relatively healthy. Can the Jets find a way to beat one of the league's best teams?
Going For It: Jets Sign Future Hall Of Fame Safety Ed Reed The New York Jets and nine-time Pro Bowl safety Ed Reed have agreed to terms on a contract, reuniting coach Rex Ryan with one of his favorite players.
Mo Wilk On WFAN: 'The Goal Is To Win The Division' "The goal is to win the division," Wilkerson told Joe & Evan. "And like I said, these last seven games we feel we can win ... I'm confident in myself and my teammates that we're gonna get the job done."
Revis: It's Time For 'Bitter Jets Fans' To Get Over It, 'Move On'"You've got to have a backbone, because guys are saying, 'F–k you!' and 'I want to kill you!' It's crazy, but I've been getting death threats from them since my first holdout (in 2010). It's just bitter Jets fans."
Brandon Moore Formally Retires In Emotional News Conference"I look at it now and I had the time of my life as a Jet," Moore said. "I'm proud to be a Jet. I enjoyed my time here. Today, I am a bigger Jets fan than I was when I ran out on Sundays in full uniform."
Report: Jets' Jeff Cumberland To Miss Sunday's Game With ConcussionThe 6-foot-4, 260-pounder left Sunday's game against the Bengals in the third quarter with a head injury and never returned. He caught one pass for nine yards before departing.
Forbes: Jets' Mark Sanchez Is 5th-Most Disliked Player In NFL Even though he's turned into a bit of a sympathetic figure, the former first-round pick still does not have many supporters. Forbes released its list of the most disliked players in the NFL on Monday, and the 26-year-old came in fifth.
Bill Belichick Disagrees With Controversial Flag That Helped Jets Stun Pats"We weren't on the second level when we pushed him, no," Belichick said following the disappointing loss. "You can't push from the second level. I didn't think we did that."
Can The New York Jets Take Advantage Of A Banged Up Patriots Defense?With Mayo and Wilfork out the Jets should look to establish the running game early and often.
Jets' Santonio Holmes Says Media Is Negatively Affecting His Recovery"How am I feeling right now? Like you guys are interrupting my treatment time right now," Holmes told members of the media during his weekly news conference.
Jets' Dee Milliner Returns To Practice, Might Play Against New EnglandNew York Jets rookie cornerback Dee Milliner returned to practice on a limited basis for the first time since injuring a hamstring in practice three weeks ago.
Jets' Stephen Hill: Sunday's Game Against The Patriots 'A Must-Win' "I feel like it's going to be a hunger game," he said. "I think it's a must-win for us, definitely, if we want to win this division. It's definitely a hunger game and we have to go out there and, as we say, eat."
Willie Colon: Jets Are Better With 'The Tim Tebow Circus Out Of Here'"I think having the Tim Tebow circus out of here, and having different things that were kind of holding this team back, are starting to go out the window," Colon said.


Our readers sound off on the "Forward on Climate" rally in Washington, "welfare reform" and immigration.
Last week, in our March 4, 2013 issue, we addressed President Obama's use of drones. Commenter ronj1955 summed up the work that needs to be done.
Last weekend, over 35,000 people attended a "Forward on Climate" rally in Washington, DC. Some of our readers were there or at similar events and shared their experience.
Early this week, Greg Kaufman pointed out the pervasive mistruths spread about Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), the "welfare reform" passed by President Clinton.
Also this week, Bryce Covert pointed out that the economy today is increasingly dominated by often low-paying "emotional labor," jobs that in the past were overwhelmingly held by women. Joan C. Grim agreed and also pointed out the gendered nature of attacks on public section jobs.
Finally, in response to Aura Bogado's "Five Things to Know About Immigration and Enforcement," Tamara Hamlin-Amador shed light on the true stakes of the debate around immigration reform.


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La temporada 1980-81 fue la séptima de los Jazz en la NBA, y la segunda en su nueva ubicación en Salt Lake City, tras cinco temporadas en Nueva Orleans. La temporada regular acabó con 28 victorias y 54 derrotas, ocupando el undécimo puesto de la Conferencia Oeste, no logrando clasificarse para los playoffs.

Elecciones en el Draft

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Enlaces externos
1980-81 Utah Jazz Roster

Temporadas de los Utah Jazz
NBA 1980
NBA 1981