scholarly journals Constantinopolitan Charioteers and Their Supporters

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 127-142
Author(s):  
Teresa Wolińska ◽  
Katarzyna Gucio
Keyword(s):  
Great Emphasis ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
Chariot Racing ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training

Support in sport is certainly one of the oldest human passions. Residents of the eastern Roman imperial capital cheered the chariot drivers The passion for supporting the drivers was common for all groups and social classes. The hippodrome was visited by the representatives of the aristocracy, artisans and the poor of the city alike. The popularity of chariot racing is evidenced by their frequency 66 days were reserved for circenses, that is racing. Organizing the competition along with all the accompanying events has been an essential task of circus factions (demes) In the empire, there were four factions named Blues, Greens, Whites and Reds. These factions were real sports associations, which can be compared to modern clubs. They had significant financial resources at their disposal. Each faction had their own racing team. They paid for and supported a number of drivers, runners, trainers of horses and wild animals, mimes, dancers, acrobats, poets, musicians and singers. They cared for their recruitment and training They also employed caretakers, messengers, artisans of various specialties, grooms, etc Expectations of subjects meant that emperors put great emphasis on the organization of shows and they were actively engaged in them themselves The preparation was personally supervised by the city prefect, and in the relations with the factions the emperor was represented by the praepositus sacri cubiculi. The latter managed the Hippodrome staff. Byzantine supporters, like their modern counterparts, had their idols. The object of their worship, and at the same time the elite among those working on the hippodrome, were charioteers. Outstanding competitors enjoyed immense popularity, just like modern stars of football or volleyball. They had monuments and stelae dedicated to them, as well as poems which praised their achievements. The ceiling in the gallery above the imperial kathisma featured images of famous drivers.

scholarly journals THỰC TRẠNG KHAI THÁC CÁC KHOẢN THU TÀI CHÍNH TỪ ĐẤT ĐAI CỦA THÀNH PHỐ BUÔN MA THUỘT, TỈNH ĐẮK LẮK

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 2262-2271
Author(s):  
Nguyễn Thị Hải ◽  
Vũ Thị Thanh Vân ◽  
Nguyễn Phúc Khoa
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Professional Staff ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Land Resources ◽  
Land Price ◽  
Good Assessment ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training

Nghiên cứu này được thực hiện nhằm đánh giá thực trạng khai thác các khoản thu tài chính từ đất đai của thành phố Buôn Ma Thuột, tỉnh Đắk Lắk trong giai đoạn 2017 - 2019. Để đạt được mục tiêu đặt ra, nghiên cứu đã sử dụng phương pháp thu thập và xử lý số liệu liên quan đến các khoản thu tài chính từ đất đai của thành phố Buôn Ma Thuột. Kết quả cho thấy: (i) Thành phố Buôn Ma Thuột đã thu được 1.841.135,5 triệu đồng từ các khoản thu tài chính từ đất đai trong giai đoạn 2017 - 2019. Tổng thu tài chính từ đất đai chiếm từ 33,94 % - 39,45% tổng thu ngân sách hàng năm của thành phố; (ii) Tiền sử dụng đất đóng góp nhiều nhất trong sáu khoản thu tài chính từ đất đai; (iii) Đa số người sử dụng đất và cán bộ chuyên môn đều đánh giá tốt về các vấn đề liên quan đến việc thực hiện các khoản thu tài chính về đất đai; (iv) Vẫn còn một số hạn chế trong việc thu các khoản thu tài chính từ đất đai. Do đó, các giải pháp về xây dựng bảng giá đất, cập nhật hồ sơ địa chính, phát hành thông báo thuế, tăng cường tuyên truyền, phổ biến các quy định về các khoản thu tài chính về đất đai... cần được áp dụng để nâng cao hiệu quả khai thác các khoản thu này. ABSTRACT The object of this study was to evaluate the current situation of financial revenues from land in Buon Ma Thuot city, Dak Lak province from 2017 to 2019. Basing on collecting and analyzing data related to financial resources from land, the results showed that (i) a total of approximately 1,841,135.5 million VND was collected from land resources in Buon Ma Thuot city from 2017 to 2019. The financial resources from the land were from 33.94% to 39.45% of the total revenues in the city; (ii) among six financial resources from land, the highest contribution of the budget was from land use levy; (iii) most of the land users and land professional staff had a good assessment of the issues related to the collection of financial resources on land; (iv) there were still some limitations while doing the collections of the financial resources from the land. Thus, the solutions such as setting up land price tables, updating cadastral records, issuing tax notices, increasing advertisements, and training regulations on financial resources from land should be applied to improve the efficiency of these revenues.    

Obstacles on the Path to Urban Greatness: Competing Plans for the Creation of Greater Lviv (“Wielki Lwów”)

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 661-671
Author(s):  
Nadja Weck
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Practical Experience ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Comprehensive Plan ◽  
The Future ◽  
Imperial Capital ◽  
New Generation ◽  
The City

Like in many other provinces, during the Habsburg period, the main point of orientation for Galicia was Vienna. This also applies to architecture and urban development. Galicia’s technical elite applied the theoretical and practical experience it gathered in Vienna to the towns and cities of this northeastern Crown land. Ignacy Drexler, born in 1878 in the Austro-Hungarian Lemberg, was a representative of a new generation of engineers and architects who did not necessarily have to spend time in the imperial capital to earn their spurs. Increasingly, besides the more or less obligatory stay in Vienna, other European countries became points of reference. Drexler did not live to see the realization of important aspects of his comprehensive plan for the city, but his ideas and the data he compiled were indispensable for the future development of his hometown. They shape urban planning in Lviv to this day.

The “Unspeakable Blessing”: Street Children, Reform Rhetoric, and Misery in Early Industrial Capitalism

1983 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce Bellingham
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Annual Report ◽  
Street Children ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Insurmountable Obstacle ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

… surely there would be men enough, willing and glad to contribute to the regeneration of the poor outcasts of the city. It is no longer an experiment since the Children's Aid has removed of this class, in thirteen years, eleven thousand two hundred and seventy two! Who would not rejoice to aid in such an enterprise…? Money only is wanting. Shall that be an insurmountable obstacle in the way of accomplishing such an unspeakable blessing? New York Children's Aid Society, 1866 Annual Report

Council House Sales and Residualization

1986 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.J. Williams ◽  
J. Sewel ◽  
F. Twine
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Evidence ◽  
Social Classes ◽  
General Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City ◽  
Right To Buy ◽  
Council House

ABSTRACTIt has been argued that council house sales will contribute towards a more general process of residualization of public sector housing. Empirical evidence is presented in this context derived from surveys of purchasers and non-purchasers of council dwellings in the city of Aberdeen. This evidence confirms that purchasers and non-purchasers exhibit different socio-economic characteristics and after only four years of the Right to Buy legislation significant numbers of households in social classes I, II and III have left the public sector via the mechanism of sales. The small number of sales relative to the stock as a whole, however, has meant that the overall contribution of sales towards residualization has been small. This evidence from Aberdeen is compared to evidence from elsewhere and related to the varying pattern of sales across the country as a whole.

The Jewish Community of Late Byzantine Thessalonica: the Problem of Determining Its Status

Istoriya ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7 (105)) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Natalia Zhigalova
Keyword(s):  
Jewish Community ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
The Status ◽  
Byzantine Period ◽  
Byzantine Era ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In this article, the author turns to an examination of the status of the Jewish community in Thessalonica in the late Byzantine period. The author concludes that both in the Byzantine era and during the Venetian rule in Thessalonica, the Jewish community of the city was subjected to numerous restrictions and prohibitions on the part of the official authorities. The reason for this was the initial isolation of the community, as well as the fact that the Jews, in contrast to the rest of the townspeople, owned vast financial resources and rented trading floors, ousting local entrepreneurs from there. The Jewish community in Thessalonica, quite numerous by the standards of contemporaries, in the XIV and XV centuries was in a state of permanent conflict with the church authorities of the city and, probably, had some influence on the communities of Judaizing Christians.

Determinants of Audit Quality with Auditor's Professionalism Skepticism as a Mediating Variable in Public Accounting Firm (KAP) Medan City

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 102-114
Author(s):  
Shabrina Tri Asti Nasution
Keyword(s):  
Audit Quality ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Audit Process ◽  
Public Accounting ◽  
Professional Skepticism ◽  
Accounting Firm ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training ◽  
Good Attitude

The purpose of this study is to detect factors that encourage an increase in auditor professionalism skepticism so that they are able to produce quality audits. It is realized that audit quality comes from a good audit process and the auditor puts forward a good attitude of professional skepticism. The results of this study indicate that the experience and competence of auditors can increase the attitude of skepticism of auditor professionalism and audit quality. In addition, the skepticism of the auditor's professionalism is able to mediate the experience of the auditor and the competence of the auditor affects the quality of the audit. For KAP, especially in the city of Medan, it has an obligation to provide an equal portion of audit assignments to all auditors and provide opportunities for auditors to improve their abilities by attending education and training from both formal and non-formal educational institutions. Keywords: Experience, Competence, Skepticism, Audit Quality.

COVID-19 pandemic and the poor in the urban spaces of India with special reference to Mumbai

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujayita Bhattacharjee ◽  
Sanjukta Sattar
Keyword(s):  
Special Reference ◽  
Urban Poor ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Urban Spaces ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Socioeconomic Crisis ◽  
The City

PurposeThe lives of the poor in the urban spaces of India are filled with hardships. They live amidst poverty and struggle to survive within other problems such as insecure jobs, lack of proper housing, unsanitary conditions and low levels of health immunity. This vulnerable section of the population has been rendered furthermore vulnerable by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in ways that were never imagined before. Taking this into consideration, the purpose of this article is to examine the vulnerability of the poor in the urban settings of India with special reference to Mumbai in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe methodology adopted in the study is based on the analysis of secondary data and content analysis of the existing literature. In addition to this, the study also makes use of certain narratives of the urban poor in Mumbai that have been captured by various articles, reports and blogs.FindingsThe findings of the study reveal how the urban poor of India, with special reference to Mumbai, the financial capital of India, has emerged as the worst sufferers of the socioeconomic crisis caused by the social distancing and lockdown measures imposed for combating the pandemic.Originality/valueThe study tries to explore the reality of the urban poor's right to the city in the wake of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Urban social movements in South Africa today: Its meaning for theological education and the church

2017 ◽  
Vol 73 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan F. De Beer
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Urban Social Movements ◽  
Gustavo Gutierrez ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The City ◽  
The Church

In the past decade, significant social movements emerged in South Africa, in response to specific urban challenges of injustice or exclusion. This article will interrogate the meaning of such urban social movements for theological education and the church. Departing from a firm conviction that such movements are irruptions of the poor, in the way described by Gustavo Gutierrez and others, and that movements of liberation residing with, or in a commitment to, the poor, should be the locus of our theological reflection, this article suggests that there is much to be gained from the praxis of urban social movements, in disrupting, informing and shaping the praxis of both theological education and the church. I will give special consideration to Ndifuna Ukwazi and the Reclaim the City campaign in Cape Town, the Social Justice Coalition in Cape Town, and Abahlali baseMjondolo based in Durban, considering these as some of the most important and exciting examples of liberatory praxes in South Africa today. I argue that theological education and educators, and a church committed to the Jesus who came ‘to liberate the oppressed’, ignore these irruptions of the Spirit at our own peril.

Keeping Them Honest

1992 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Molly Schuchat
Keyword(s):  
Human Services ◽  
School Personnel ◽  
Discussion Groups ◽  
Youth Services ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
Tutoring Program ◽  
Preparatory Course ◽  
Substance Abuse Education ◽  
The City ◽  
And Training

Greenbelt CARES Youth Services Bureau (CARES) is the human services arm of the city of Greenbelt, Maryland, offering direct services to children and their families living in or near this suburb of Washington. CARES has operated for eighteen years, providing formal and informal counseling, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, substance abuse education and prevention, information, referral services, a job bank, a tutoring program, a general equivalency diploma preparatory course, a family clinic, school discussion groups, and training of school personnel. Two-thirds of the services are supplied by qualified volunteers who receive continuous training, technical support, and feedback from a group of peers and mentors.

scholarly journals Challenges Facing Financial Inclusion Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 50
Author(s):  
Tea Kasradze
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Financial Inclusion ◽  
Financial Resources ◽  
Financial Products ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Medium Enterprises ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Poor Population

Financial inclusion is often considered as an access to financial resources for the wide public and small and medium-sized businesses, although it is a much broader concept and includes a wide range of access to quality financial products and services, including loans, deposit services, insurance, pensions and payment systems. Mechanisms for protecting the rights of consumers of financial products and services are also considered to be subject to financial inclusion. Financial inclusion acquires great importance during the pandemic and post-pandemic period. The economic crisis caused by the pandemic is particularly painful for low-income vulnerable population. A large part of the poor population who were working informally has lost source of income due to lockdown from the pandemic. Remittances have also been reduced / minimized, as the remitters had also lost jobs and are unable to send money home. Today, when people die from Coronavirus disease, it may be awkward to talk about the financial side of a pandemic, but the financial consequences can be far-reaching if steps are not taken today to ensure access to and inclusion of financial resources. The paper examines the impact of the pandemic on financial inclusion and the responses of the governments and the financial sectors to the challenge of ensuring the financial inclusion of the poor population and small and medium enterprises.

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