The Appointment and Removal of Rabbi Solomon Eli’ezer Mercado Alfandari in Damascus

2015 ◽  
pp. 201-233
Author(s):  
Yaron Harel
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Local Officials ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Community Administration

This chapter assesses the appointment and removal of Rabbi Solomon Eli'ezer Mercado Alfandari as ḥakham bashi in Damascus. At the end of October of 1894, Rabbi Alfandari arrived in Damascus, where the community had great hopes of him. But, great as the hopes were, so were the disappointments. Just two weeks after Rabbi Alfandari's arrival in Damascus, complaints were already beginning to be heard regarding his shortcomings and his comprehensive lack of ability in modern community administration. He was not fluent in Arabic, the language of the country, in which most of the community's business was conducted, both internally and between itself and its immediate environment. Nor did he have proper command of Turkish, the language of the senior government officials. Thus from the outset there was a gulf between himself and the community on the one hand, and between himself and the local officials on the other hand. Members of the community were also troubled by the considerable expense involved in the appointment of Rabbi Alfandari. The Damascus community might nevertheless have borne the cost had it not been for the fact that Rabbi Alfandari became embroiled in arguments and disputes with nearly all the groups around him, both within and outside the community. The opposition to Rabbi Alfandari was of course led by Rabbi Yitshak Abulafia.

The ‘Pistola’ of Cerveri de Girona

Traditio ◽  
1948 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 161-185
Author(s):  
Kurt Lewent
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Good Taste ◽  
Moral Argumentation ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Troubadour Poetry

Cerveri was decidedly no poetical genius, and often enough he follows the trodden paths of troubadour poetry. However, there is no denying that again and again he tries to escape that poetical routine. In many cases these attempts result in odd and eccentric compositions, where the unusual is reached at the cost of good taste and poetical values. On the other hand, it must be admitted that Cerveri's efforts in this respect were not always futile. His is, e.g. an amusing satire upon bad women. One of his love songs, characteristically called libel by the MS (Sg), assumes the form of a complaint submitted to the king as the supreme earthly judge, in which the defendant is the lady whose charms torture the lover and have made him a prisoner. This poem combines the traditional praise of the beloved and a flattery addressed to the king. Its slightly humoristic tone is also found in a song entitled lo vers del vassayll leyal. Here Cerveri, basing himself on a certain legend connected with St. Mark, gives the king advice in his love affair. Again the poet kills two birds with one stone, flattering the sovereign and pointing, for obvious purposes, to his own poverty. The latter is the only topic of a remarkably personal poem in which the author complains bitterly that, while many of his playmates have become rich in later years, the only wealth he himself did amass were the chans gays and sonetz agradans which he composed for other people to enjoy. Cerveri even tries to renew the traditional genre of the chanson de la mal mariée by adding motifs of—presumably—his own invention. This tendency towards a more independent way of thinking and greater originality in its poetical presentation could not be better illustrated than by the two poems which the MS calls Lo vers de la terra de Preste Johan and Pistola The one puts the poet's moral argumentation against the background of the medieval legend of Prester John, the other, which forms the subject of the present study, sets its teachings in a still more solemn framework, the liturgy of the Mass.

Filled Heat Efficient Ceramics

2021 ◽  
Vol 887 ◽  
pp. 493-498
Author(s):  
Alexey D. Zhukov ◽  
I.I. Popov ◽  
Igor V. Bessonov ◽  
S.P. Chernukhin
Keyword(s):  
Water Content ◽  
Foam Glass ◽  
Porous Ceramic ◽  
Ceramic Materials ◽  
Average Density ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

The increase of thermo-physical properties of masonry made of ceramic burnt products is possible through the use of heat-efficient ceramics and, in particular, porous building tiles. The use of combustible additives or foaming technology is related to increased energy costs and difficulties in obtaining products with uniformly distributed porosity.The analysis of the state of the technology of ceramic materials made it possible to formulate a research hypothesis according to which the use of a porous non-combustible additive in the composition of ceramic masses, on the one hand, will make it possible to obtain materials with a lower density compared to traditional ceramic products, and, on the other hand, will allow the use of hard mixtures with reduced water content, and therefore significantly save the cost of drying products, while increasing the uniformity of the porous ceramic crock.The purpose of the research was to develop recipes for ceramic porous products and to develop modes of their burning. The use of crushed foam glass as a lightweight non-burning and exhausting additive, on the one hand, made it possible to use tough ceramic mixtures (with a water content not exceeding 18%), and, on the other hand, to use more rigid and shorter drying modes, which also reduced the energy and material consumption of the technology.The most energy-intensive burning process was optimized by the methods of mathematical planning and processing of experimental results. The average density of crushed foam glass (140–150 kg/m3), optimal for the burnt product, was established, and also, as a result of analytical optimization and interpretation of the experimental results, dependencies that allow choosing parameters and evaluating product properties depending on foam glass consumption and burning temperature were obtained.

scholarly journals Controlar y reformar: la visita al consejo de hacienda de Lope De Los Ríos (1664-1667) = Control and Reform: The Visit to Lope de los Ríos’ the Finances Council (1664-1667).

2017 ◽  
pp. 181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enrique Milán Coronado
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Relationships ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Financial System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Xvith Century ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

La situación de déficit financiero que atravesaba la Monarquía y la mala administración del fisco regio hicieron necesario que desde el siglo XVI se pusieran en marcha visitas al Consejo de Hacienda. El objetivo de las mismas era evitar y corregir posibles fraudes cometidos por parte de los oficiales, introducir reformas para mejorar el sistema financiero, la gestión de la administración y la reducción de costes, todo ello con el fin último de incrementar los ingresos de la Real Hacienda. Los resultados de la visita que Lope de los Ríos realiza al Consejo de Hacienda entre 1664 a 1667 cuestionaron, por un lado las labores de “buen gobierno” por parte de algunos oficiales regios y la eficacia de las visitas anteriores, y por otro lado, muestran la existencia de relaciones interpersonales entre los hombres de negocios y asentistas, además de los conflictos suscitados por el Consejo de Hacienda al rechazar ser sometido al control del Consejo de Castilla. AbstractThe deficit situation that the Monarchy was going through and the bad administration of the Royal Treasury made it necessary to put a visit to the Finances Council into action since the XVIth century. The objective of this was to avoid and to correct tax evasions from officers; to introduce reforms improving the financial system, the administration management and the cost reduction; and with that, to increase profits to the Royal Treasury. The results of the Lope de los Ríos’ visit to the Finances Council between 1664 and 1667, on the one hand, question the duties of a “bad administration” by some royal officers and the efficacy of these visits in certain occasions and, on the other hand, show the existence of interpersonal relationships between the businessmen and the contractors, in addition to the conflicts raised by the Council of Finance to reject to be subjected to review by the Council of Castile.

Design and Implementation Based on Telecommunications Platform Electronic Lottery Sales System

2014 ◽  
Vol 556-562 ◽  
pp. 5190-5193
Author(s):  
Peng Tian ◽  
Ying Xiao
Keyword(s):  
Interactive Voice Response ◽  
Payment System ◽  
The Other ◽  
Web Pages ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Detailed List ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Voice Response

This product is based on the telecom platform and unified payment platform completed using telephone, web pages and then complete the purchase of electronic lottery deducted by telecommunication unified e-commerce system. The system is designed to provide users with a convenient and secure electronic concise quick way to buy lottery tickets. On the one hand you can use fixed telephone IVR(interactive voice response) to achieve electronic lottery purchases, it’s of ways to buy at the same time. On the other hand you can also buy lottery tickets, select the number and Check winning information on it 。This unified payment system is provided by the unified payment platform the cost of buy lottery tickets will deducted from the bill in uniform. In addition, this system can provide a detailed list of rates inquiries.

scholarly journals Forgetting from Above and Memory from Below: Strategies of Legitimation and Struggle in Postsocialist Mozambique

Africa ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Anne Pitcher
Keyword(s):  
Structural Adjustment ◽  
Free Market ◽  
The Other ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Urban Workers ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Market Democracy ◽  
The One ◽  
Deliberate Strategy ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article examines two opposing strategies – one used by government officials and businesses, the other expressed by urban workers – that have emerged in postsocialist Mozambique. On the one hand, government officials and businesses have pursued a deliberate strategy of what several writers in other contexts have called ‘organized forgetting', whereby they seek to airbrush the socialist past from history. They have revised the country's ideological orientation, built new coalitions of support among domestic and internal investors, and remade the ruling party's legitimacy following the abandonment of socialism and the transition to a free‐market democracy. On the other hand, some urban workers have revived and repackaged the language of socialism to protest against the effects of neo‐liberalism. Relying on collective and individual memories of socialism, they denounce ‘exploitation', ‘recolonization', ‘injustice’ and ‘inequality’ as they struggle to understand, resist or modify the impact of structural adjustment and privatization. I argue that, although the end of socialism has allowed a plurality of voices to surface in Mozambique, such discursive pluralism is characterized by increasing power inequities. The consolidation of capital and the ideological pronouncements that accompany it may ultimately silence the now dissident language of the socialist past.

What the Watchdogs Watch, Why, and Why Watching Matters

2020 ◽  
pp. 89-106
Author(s):  
Crime Coverage
Keyword(s):  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Other ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The People ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Watchdog reporters’ crime coverage practices are contrasted with those of the Protector countries; while the latter largely trust their institutions and government officials, Watchdogs do not. Thus, they routinely publish extensive details about an offense, an alleged perpetrator, and victims. This chapter explores how, on the one hand, these details can lead to an exploration of larger social issues, but, on the other hand, they can also lead to sensationalism. Watchdogs want few limits on transparency, but they can lose sight of what people need to know, and cater to capitalist ends, rather than sound, journalistic ones. Journalists in this model see their primary obligation as informing the people because sunlight is the best disinfectant. Using an historical perspective, we outline how the principles of the Enlightenment, the emphasis on the individual, and an abiding belief in peoples’ ability to be rational, underlie this ethical perspective and influence crime coverage choices.

Thick Aestheticism and Thin Nativity

Tekstualia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 4 (35) ◽  
pp. 73-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Russell Jacoby ◽  
Tomasz Bocheński
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
The Other ◽  
Thick Description ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Clifford Geertz ◽  
Paradoxical Effects ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost

Russell Jacoby’s essay targets the technique of „thick description” popularized by an anthropologist Clifford Geertz. The negative impact of this infl uential scholar on the interpretative practice in many humanistic fi elds results in the aestheticization of the academic writing severed from factual and ethical circumstances. On the one hand, this tendency works in unison with the cynical indifference nourishing the posture of the contemporary intellectuals who reject judging in the name of respecting cultural otherness. On the other hand, it leads to paradoxical effects like those when claims for treating all social matters only in terms of their constructiveness and historicity place the alleged reformists very close to conservatives; both groups refer to the particular at the cost of the universal.

Investment in employer shares, incentive alignment, and monitoring

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
ISSOUF SOUMARÉ
Keyword(s):  
Pension Plans ◽  
The Other ◽  
Defined Contribution ◽  
Incentive Alignment ◽  
Company Stock ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Very High ◽  
Do So

It is well documented that US defined contribution pension plans are largely invested in the shares of their employer. I argue that when the (single representative) worker holds shares in the firm, he tends to monitor the manager. On the one hand, the manager and shareholders gain from the productivity of the worker. On the other hand, the manager bears the cost of being monitored by the worker, and the shareholders loose part of their ownership power to the worker. Therefore, there is an optimal ownership limit for the worker from the viewpoint of the firm. I derive conditions under which the worker will never invest in the firm's stock if he has the freedom to do so. Nevertheless, under alternative conditions, it will be advantageous for the worker to invest his pension assets heavily in company stock, even if the under-diversification cost is very high.

USSR

1990 ◽  
Vol 30 (S1) ◽  
pp. 71-72
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
The Other ◽  
Red Cross ◽  
International Humanitarian Law ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
The One

The ICRC travelled to the Soviet Union on several occasions, in particular to Moscow, Vilnius, Minsk, Kiev, Tashkent and Boukhara. The aim of the visits was, on the one hand, to develop contacts with Red Cross and Red Crescent representatives and government officials, and on the other hand, to participate in seminars on international humanitarian law and human rights.

scholarly journals Covert Information Mapped Spatial and Directional Modulation toward Secure Wireless Transmission

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (22) ◽  
pp. 7646
Author(s):  
Jie Tian ◽  
Hao Chen ◽  
Zhigang Wang ◽  
Xianhua Shi ◽  
Zhengyu Ji ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Spatial Modulation ◽  
Extreme Condition ◽  
Theoretical Derivation ◽  
Performance Loss ◽  
Legitimate User ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Directional Modulation

Recently, the concept of spatial and direction modulation (SDM) has been developed to reap the advantages of both spatial modulation (SM) and directional modulation (DM). On the one hand, DM ensures the transmission security at the expected direction. On the other hand, the structure of SM-aided distributed receivers can enhance the security even if the eavesdropper is located in the same direction as the legitimate receiver. However, the above advantages are achieved based on the assumption that the eavesdropper is not equipped with distributed receivers. On the other hand, the information security can no longer be guaranteed when the eavesdropper is also equipped with distributed receivers. To alleviate this problem, we considered a joint design of SDM and covert information mapping (CIM) in order to conceive of a more robust structure of CIM-SDM. Furthermore, both the detection performances at the eavesdropper and the legitimate user were quantified through theoretical derivation. In general, both the analysis and simulation results supported that the proposed CIM-SDM structure provides more robust secure performance compared to the original SDM, even if the extreme condition of distributed receivers at the eavesdropper is considered, at the cost of moderate performance loss at the legitimate user.

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