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ATLANTA PORTLAND BALTIMORE BOSTON BUFFALO HASKINS & S E L L S PROVIDENCE SAINT LOUIS SAN DIEGO CHARLOTTE SAN FRANCISCO CHATTANOOGA CHICAGO CINCINNATI CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS SEATTLE TULSA CLEVELAND BULLETIN DALLAS BERLIN DENVER LONDON DETROIT MANILA JACKSONVILLE PARIS KANSAS CITY SHANGHAI LOS ANGELES MINNEAPOLIS NNEEWW AORRKLE ANS EXECUTIVE OFFICE CCUABNAAD A NEW YORK 15 BROAD STREET, NEW YORK MEXICO PHILADELPHIA SOUTH AMERICA PITTSBURGH SOUTH AFRICA VOL. XV (QUARTERLY) NEW YORK, JANUARY, 1932 No. 1 The Capital Adjustment Theory of Treasury Stock (An educational inquiry into the application of the theory, and obviously not a pronouncement of firm policy.) TREASURY stock of a corporation is capital stock acquired by the corporation subsequent to its original issuance. If acquired in exchange for a consideration, the transaction results in a reduction of capital in an amount equal to the money-value of the consideration given for the stock. Capital stock outstanding is a representation that there is capital in the enterprise equal in amount to the par value or the stated value of such stock. Treasury stock, acquired in exchange for money consideration, is an admission that capital has been withdrawn from an enterprise. A sale of treasury stock results in an increase of capital equal in amount to the money-value of the consideration received for the stock. In presenting this view of treasury stock for the purpose of discussing the effect on capital when a corporation buys and cancels, or buys and resells, shares of its own capital stock, it is necessary to establish concepts of capital, business capital, and legal capital, and to differentiate the two latter terms. In attempting to do so, it is the intention to make the definitions apply to amounts as invested originally by proprietary interests, regardless of any subsequent effects produced upon such amounts by profits or losses. The novelty of the capital adjustment theory makes necessary more detailed exposition and illustration than ordinarily is required. Capital, in a business sense, is an abstract term used to denote the value, expressed in dollars, of the consideration transferred from one party to another in exchange for an interest in a business enterprise. Because it is possible to use the term "capital" in an abstract manner, it is possible to think and talk about capital, as a sum, without having to specify constantly the concrete representations of value involved. One may speak of capital as having been invested, or increased, or decreased, and mean thereby a sum of dollar-values, without particularizing the objects in which the values are embodied. Such is the manner in which the term is used in this discussion. The business capital of a corporation is the value, expressed in dollars, of the consideration received by the corporation in exchange for the certificate of share-interest which it issues. If a corporation has received $125.00 for a certificate of share-interest, it has received that much business capital. The legal capital of a corporation is the amount, expressed in dollars, of the par or of the stated value of its certificates of share-interest, which the corporation represents, through its capital stock account, to be outstanding. If a corporation receives
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Capital adjustment Theory of treasury stock
Haskins & Sells Bulletin, Vol. 15 (1932)
Capital -- Accounting
Stocks -- Accounting
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Click here for campus maps, parking information and directions for our four campuses: Glassboro; Camden: CMSRU, Camden; and RowanSOM, Stratford.
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Attend one of our many guided campus tours or open houses – or take a virtual tour today. A visit is the best way to learn about our academic programs, meet professors and observe campus life.
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Go Profs! With our mascot Whoo RU and fellow Profs cheering on, students participate in more than a dozen collegiate, club and intramural sports.
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Part media player, portable game console, and breakthrough Internet device, you could say that the iPod touch is one ideal gadget. With this new, full-color edition, bestselling For Dummies author Tony Bove walks you through powering up your iPod touch, personalizing it, establishing a Wi-Fi connection, and synchronizing your data. You'll also explore how to surf the web, rent movies, buy songs, send and receive e-mail, get directions, check stocks, organize photos, watch videos, keep a calendar, and much more. Plus, you'll learn about the new features of iOS 5 and how to access hundreds of thousands of apps that help you do even more with your iPod touch.Covers powering up your iPod touch, getting comfortable with the multitouch interface, personalizing your iPod touch, and establishing a Wi-Fi connection Walks you through the basics of the iTunes store so you can buy, download, and play music, TV shows, podcasts, movies, and more Demonstrates how to synchronize your data, work with the calendar, organize and share photos, browse the Internet, send and receive e-mail, read e-books, and get directions Helps you use your iPod touch to stay connected with social media sites like Facebook and Twitter Explains how to video chat with FaceTime, sync with iCloud, and use the new iOS 5 features Guides you through resetting, updating, restoring, and troubleshooting your iPod touch
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Newsletter to the SPoCs
19 June 2008
Dear SPoCs,
The IYA2009 trailer is now available in 41 different versions with several formats for each. You can download it on our website here:
Please use it to promote the IYA2009 and your national activities and programmes. The several formats made available will allow you to use it on websites, TV, Science Centres, Planetariums, cinemas, theatres, the web as well as in other places you will surely think about.
We have also prepared a version with no text. Those of you haven't been able to request a translated version in time for it to me produced by the IYA2009 Secretariat, may now use this version and add subtitles if you so wish.
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In response to increased demand from our clients for longer periods of stay, and for breakfast before our kitchen opens, we are now able to offer one person self-catering accommodation in the village of Ravenstone close to Coalville in Leicestershire.
You will have access by one entry door to the main living area and in your accommodation you will find a fully furnished bed-sitting room with TV and a separate dining kitchenette. In the kitchenette area you will find a sink unit, refrigerator, hob, microwave, kettle and fridge etc. as well as your cutlery and crockery.
Your en-suite bathroom houses an electric shower and the accommodation includes your towels.
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Exit the M1 at junction 22 and take the A511 towards Coalville. At the island junction with the A447, take the road to Ibstock. Church Lane is the first turning on your right.
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On turning into Church Lane, proceed for approximately half a mile, after passing fields on the left, we are the second house on the left.
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Minimum time commitment: 1 hour per week
Help raise vital funds so we can achieve equality for disabled people.
• Shop experience
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We need your help in our charity shop so that together we can raise vital charity income. We'll use the money raised to fund our work to achieve everyday equality for disabled people. You'll be able to choose what sort of tasks suit you best from the following options:
• back of house: helping us sort donations and prepare stock out the back
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• department specialist: taking care of a specific area of our shop, such as our books, media, shoes or handbags
• visual merchandising: creating window and shop floor displays
• supervising: keeping an eye on the shop floor and supporting other volunteers
You will be based in our charity shop at 7 Lewis Grove, Lewisham, London, SE13 6BG.
This is a very flexible role. We'd love your help for as little as one hour a week, but if you can give five hours, even better. We're open seven days a week, so chat to us about the hours and days that suit you.
• Volunteer induction into Scope
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• Pre-agreed travel expenses and, if you volunteer all day, lunch expenses too
• We will make accessibility adjustments to the role (if you require this)
• You may be eligible to study for an NVQ in Retail, Customer Service or Team leading (if you volunteer for more than 16 hours a week and meet the eligibility criteria)
There are no skills or experience necessary before you start volunteering in our shops. We welcome any volunteers who are interested in charity shops, passionate about disability equality, or just keen to meet new people or learn something new.
• Confidence and valuable experience for your CV
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LUZZO, Giovanni
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Date: 1921
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Size: 464 x 666 mm
Acquired: 1986; Purchase
Accession Number: 86.13I/1
Port view of the S.S. LLANGORSE in calm sea. The SS Llangorse was a trunk-decked steamer built by Ropner and Sons of Stockton-on-Tees in 1904 for Evan Thomas, Radcliffe and Co. of Cardiff. When built, she was named Clarissa Radcliffe after one of Henry Radcliffe's daughters; she was re-named in 1917. Sold to Londonowners in 1924, she passed to Greek and Panamanian owners before being scrapped by Wards at Milford Haven in 1952.


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The AJ will be hosting a breakfast event as part of this year's Green Sky Thinking week
Held jointly with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, the event entitled 'MIND THE GAP – How to Crack Building Performance' will be hosted by the AJ's sustainability editor Hattie Hartman.
Sarah Cary of British Land, Architype's Ben Humphries, Judit Kimpian of Aedas, Fionn Stevenson from Sheffield University and FCBStudio's Ian Taylor will look at ways to move the post occupancy agenda forward.
The panel will look at monitoring techniques, the cost of post occupancy monitoring and how to persuade clients to pay for it.
The breakfast discussion will take place at FCBStudio's London office on 18 April from 8am. Register for a place, here.
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Five children were found safe and a suspect was in custody Wednesday night after a massive search that began when the day care van they were in was stolen in Houston. The five children, ages 3 to 12, were inside the silver SUV when its driver went into a Jack in the Box restaurant, leaving the engine idling, about 6:15 p.m. (7:15 p.m. ET). A man jumped in and drove off, police said.
The children weren't found until 9:15 p.m. almost 15 miles away in neighboring Fort Bend County, police said. They said only that the children were safe and that a suspect had been arrested.


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February 27, 2013
Matthew Marcus, left, and Adam Arrendondo, center, of Local Ruckus LLC get pumped up during a recent conversation about Google Fiber with Tyler Van Winkle of Leap2 LLC. Both startup companies are located in a house at 4454 State Line, which is in Kansas City, Kan.'s Hanover Heights fiberhood — the first to receive the 1-gigabit Internet service.
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In contrast to previous addresses, Obama failed to mention wind energy despite questions over the future of the current incentives programme. However, he did point to the rapid growth of solar as he called for a shift to a cleaner energy economy.
"Let's continue that progress with a smarter tax policy that stops giving $4 billion a year to fossil fuel industries that don't need it, so that we can invest more in fuels of the future that do."
Obama also touted the role of natural gas, calling it a bridge fuel in the transition to a lower-carbon economy.
American Wind Energy Association CEO Tom Kiernan took to Twitter during the speech, pointing to wind energy as a leading solution for reducing carbon emissions while at the same time creating made-in-the-US jobs, another Obama priority.
However, overall there were few announcements in terms of domestic policy.
In 2012, Obama used the address to to call on Congress to pass the expiring $0.022/kWh federal production tax credit and implement a clean energy standard. He also promised to open public lands to renewable energy development.
While in the 2011 address, Obama challenged the US wind industry to come up with its own "Sputnik moment" and take a lead in renewables technology.


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Always keep the battery charged. Storing a discharged battery can cause permanent battery damage. ● To charge a sealed-type (MF) battery, a special (constant- voltage) battery charger is required. Using a conventional battery charger will damage the battery. If you do not have access to a sealed-type (MF) battery charger, have a Yamaha dealer charge your battery. EAU04076* Replacing the fuses The fuse box, which contains the fuses for the individual circuits, is located under panel D. The fuel injection system fuse box is located under panel D. The main fuse box is also located under panel D, beside the battery. (See page 6-7 for panel removal and installation procedures.) If a fuse is blown, replace it as follows. 1. Turn the key to "OFF" and turn off the electrical circuit in question. 2. Remove the blown fuse, and then install a new fuse of the specified amperage. 1. Fuel injection system fuse 2. Spare fuel injection system fuse 1. Headlight fuse 2. Signaling system fuse 3. Ignition fuse 4. Windshield motor fuse 5. Radiator fan fuse 6. Backup fuse (odometer and clock) 7. Spare fuse (〈 4)
PERIODIC MAINTENANCE AND MINOR REPAIR 6-31 6 EC000103 CAUTION: Do not use a fuse of a higher amperage rating than recommended to avoid causing extensive damage to the electrical system and possibly a fire. 3. Turn the key to "ON" and turn on the electrical circuit in question to check if the device operates. 4. If the fuse immediately blows again, have a Yamaha dealer check the electrical system. EAU04099 Replacing a headlight bulb This motorcycle is equipped with quartz bulb headlights. If a headlight bulb burns out, replace it as follows. 1. Remove panel B (if replacing the left headlight bulb) or panel C (if replacing the right headlight bulb). (See page 6-7 for panel removal and installation procedures.) 2. Disconnect the headlight coupler, and then remove the headlight bulb cove
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Mary Kay and El Centro have been working together for about 12 years.
We work very closely with Bill J. Priest at the Economic Development Institute.
And they have been very flexible and very helpful and very accommodating to Mary Kay.
We asked them to plan a class and they design a class, they plan a class.
And our employees love it, because it's Mary Kay specific.
It's not just some generic off the shelf.
So the grant has helped us that way.
Because they come out and they look at our machines and they go, oh, "We're going to train on that for you."
It just helps with moral and it just gets the employees to feel good about themselves when they know they're being developed.
And they know that Mary Kay cares.
And I think that is the real key to the grant.
And that's what makes the grant so good for Mary Kay, is a great partnership with El Centro and then a great partnership with our employees.
Right now we are on I think our fourth grant.
And we are looking to expand the skills of our packaging floor.
And whether it be Lean, Excel -- we're really excited this year because our focus is really on the packaging employees, our assemblers, material handlers, our mechanics.
And we're opening up a bunch of training to them that we've never done before.
And so that is really, they are really excited about that.
They're like, "We are so appreciative, this is going to be so good for us."
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Because we don't have to do overtime.
And we don't have to ask people to arrange their lives.
They can come in and get developed and be relaxed and, and just enjoy what they're learning.
And they, and we always say, you know what, this will help you in your personal life, professional.
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Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Vol. 4, by Edward Gibbon, [1788], at sacred-texts.com
Those who believe that the female mind is totally depraved by the loss of chastity, will eagerly listen to all the invectives of private envy, or popular resentment which have dissembled the virtues of Theodora, exaggerated her vices, and condemned with rigor the venal or voluntary sins of the youthful harlot. From a motive of shame, or contempt, she often declined the servile homage of the multitude, escaped from the odious light of the capital, and passed the greatest part of the year in the palaces and gardens which were pleasantly seated on the sea-coast of the Propontis and the Bosphorus. Her private hours were devoted to the prudent as well as grateful care of her beauty, the luxury of the bath and table, and the long slumber of the evening and the morning. Her secret apartments were occupied by the favorite women and eunuchs, whose interests and passions she indulged at the expense of justice; the most illustrious person ages of the state were crowded into a dark and sultry antechamber, and when at last, after tedious attendance, they were admitted to kiss the feet of Theodora, they experienced, as her humor might suggest, the silent arrogance of an empress, or the capricious levity of a comedian. Her rapacious avarice to accumulate an immense treasure, may be excused by the apprehension of her husband's death, which could leave no alternative between ruin and the throne; and fear as well as ambition might exasperate Theodora against two generals, who, during the malady of the emperor, had rashly declared that they were not disposed to acquiesce in the choice of the capital. But the reproach of cruelty, so repugnant even to her softer vices, has left an indelible stain on the memory of Theodora. Her numerous spies observed, and zealously reported, every action, or word, or look, injurious to their royal mistress. Whomsoever they accused were cast into her peculiar prisons, 31 inaccessible to the inquiries of justice; and it was rumored, that the torture of the rack, or scourge, had been inflicted in the presence of the female tyrant, insensible to the voice of prayer or of pity. 32 Some of these unhappy victims perished in deep, unwholesome dungeons, while others were permitted, after the loss of their limbs, their reason, or their fortunes, to appear in the world, the living monuments of her vengeance, which was commonly extended to the children of those whom she had suspected or injured. The senator or bishop, whose death or exile Theodora had pronounced, was delivered to a trusty messenger, and his diligence was quickened by a menace from her own mouth. "If you fail in the execution of my commands, I swear by Him who liveth forever, that your skin shall be flayed from your body." 33
If the creed of Theodora had not been tainted with heresy, her exemplary devotion might have atoned, in the opinion of her contemporaries, for pride, avarice, and cruelty. But, if she employed her influence to assuage the intolerant fury of the emperor, the present age will allow some merit to her religion, and much indulgence to her speculative errors. 34 The name of Theodora was introduced, with equal honor, in all the pious and charitable foundations of Justinian; and the most benevolent institution of his reign may be ascribed to the sympathy of the empress for her less fortunate sisters, who had been seduced or compelled to embrace the trade of prostitution. A palace, on the Asiatic side of the Bosphorus, was converted into a stately and spacious monastery, and a liberal maintenance was assigned to five hundred women, who had been collected from the streets and brothels of Constantinople. In this safe and holy retreat, they were devoted to perpetual confinement; and the despair of some, who threw themselves headlong into the sea, was lost in the gratitude of the penitents, who had been delivered from sin and misery by their generous benefactress. 35 The prudence of Theodora is celebrated by Justinian himself; and his laws are attributed to the sage counsels of his most reverend wife whom he had received as the gift of the Deity. 36 Her courage was displayed amidst the tumult of the people and the terrors of the court. Her chastity, from the moment of her union with Justinian, is founded on the silence of her implacable enemies; and although the daughter of Acacius might be satiated with love, yet some applause is due to the firmness of a mind which could sacrifice pleasure and habit to the stronger sense either of duty or interest. The wishes and prayers of Theodora could never obtain the blessing of a lawful son, and she buried an infant daughter, the sole offspring of her marriage. 37 Notwithstanding this disappointment, her dominion was permanent and absolute; she preserved, by art or merit, the affections of Justinian; and their seeming dissensions were always fatal to the courtiers who believed them to be sincere. Perhaps her health had been impaired by the licentiousness of her youth; but it was always delicate, and she was directed by her physicians to use the Pythian warm baths. In this journey, the empress was followed by the Praetorian praefect, the great treasurer, several counts and patricians, and a splendid train of four thousand attendants: the highways were repaired at her approach; a palace was erected for her reception; and as she passed through Bithynia, she distributed liberal alms to the churches, the monasteries, and the hospitals, that they might implore Heaven for the restoration of her health. 38 At length, in the twenty-fourth year of her marriage, and the twenty-second of her reign, she was consumed by a cancer; 39 and the irreparable loss was deplored by her husband, who, in the room of a theatrical prostitute, might have selected the purest and most noble virgin of the East. 40
II. A material difference may be observed in the games of antiquity: the most eminent of the Greeks were actors, the Romans were merely spectators. The Olympic stadium was open to wealth, merit, and ambition; and if the candidates could depend on their personal skill and activity, they might pursue the footsteps of Diomede and Menelaus, and conduct their own horses in the rapid career. 41 Ten, twenty, forty chariots were allowed to start at the same instant; a crown of leaves was the reward of the victor; and his fame, with that of his family and country, was chanted in lyric strains more durable than monuments of brass and marble. But a senator, or even a citizen, conscious of his dignity, would have blushed to expose his person, or his horses, in the circus of Rome. The games were exhibited at the expense of the republic, the magistrates, or the emperors: but the reins were abandoned to servile hands; and if the profits of a favorite charioteer sometimes exceeded those of an advocate, they must be considered as the effects of popular extravagance, and the high wages of a disgraceful profession. The race, in its first institution, was a simple contest of two chariots, whose drivers were distinguished by white and red liveries: two additional colors, a light green, and a caerulean blue, were afterwards introduced; and as the races were repeated twenty-five times, one hundred chariots contributed in the same day to the pomp of the circus. The four factions soon acquired a legal establishment, and a mysterious origin, and their fanciful colors were derived from the various appearances of nature in the four seasons of the year; the red dogstar of summer, the snows of winter, the deep shades of autumn, and the cheerful verdure of the spring. 42 Another interpretation preferred the elements to the seasons, and the struggle of the green and blue was supposed to represent the conflict of the earth and sea. Their respective victories announced either a plentiful harvest or a prosperous navigation, and the hostility of the husbandmen and mariners was somewhat less absurd than the blind ardor of the Roman people, who devoted their lives and fortunes to the color which they had espoused. Such folly was disdained and indulged by the wisest princes; but the names of Caligula, Nero, Vitellius, Verus, Commodus, Caracalla, and Elagabalus, were enrolled in the blue or green factions of the circus; they frequented their stables, applauded their favorites, chastised their antagonists, and deserved the esteem of the populace, by the natural or affected imitation of their manners. The bloody and tumultuous contest continued to disturb the public festivity, till the last age of the spectacles of Rome; and Theodoric, from a motive of justice or affection, interposed his authority to protect the greens against the violence of a consul and a patrician, who were passionately addicted to the blue faction of the circus. 43
Constantinople adopted the follies, though not the virtues, of ancient Rome; and the same factions which had agitated the circus, raged with redoubled fury in the hippodrome. Under the reign of Anastasius, this popular frenzy was inflamed by religious zeal; and the greens, who had treacherously concealed stones and daggers under baskets of fruit, massacred, at a solemn festival, three thousand of their blue adversaries. 44 From this capital, the pestilence was diffused into the provinces and cities of the East, and the sportive distinction of two colors produced two strong and irreconcilable factions, which shook the foundations of a feeble government. 45 The popular dissensions, founded on the most serious interest, or holy pretence, have scarcely equalled the obstinacy of this wanton discord, which invaded the peace of families, divided friends and brothers, and tempted the female sex, though seldom seen in the circus, to espouse the inclinations of their lovers, or to contradict the wishes of their husbands. Every law, either human or divine, was trampled under foot, and as long as the party was successful, its deluded followers appeared careless of private distress or public calamity. The license, without the freedom, of democracy, was revived at Antioch and Constantinople, and the support of a faction became necessary to every candidate for civil or ecclesiastical honors. A secret attachment to the family or sect of Anastasius was imputed to the greens; the blues were zealously devoted to the cause of orthodoxy and Justinian, 46 and their grateful patron protected, above five years, the disorders of a faction, whose seasonable tumults overawed the palace, the senate, and the capitals of the East. Insolent with royal favor, the blues affected to strike terror by a peculiar and Barbaric dress, the long hair of the Huns, their close sleeves and ample garments, a lofty step, and a sonorous voice. In the day they concealed their two-edged poniards, but in the night they boldly assembled in arms, and in numerous bands, prepared for every act of violence and rapine. Their adversaries of the green faction, or even inoffensive citizens, were stripped and often murdered by these nocturnal robbers, and it became dangerous to wear any gold buttons or girdles, or to appear at a late hour in the streets of a peaceful capital. A daring spirit, rising with impunity, proceeded to violate the safeguard of private houses; and fire was employed to facilitate the attack, or to conceal the crimes of these factious rioters. No place was safe or sacred from their depredations; to gratify either avarice or revenge, they profusely spilt the blood of the innocent; churches and altars were polluted by atrocious murders; and it was the boast of the assassins, that their dexterity could always inflict a mortal wound with a single stroke of their dagger. The dissolute youth of Constantinople adopted the blue livery of disorder; the laws were silent, and the bonds of society were relaxed: creditors were compelled to resign their obligations; judges to reverse their sentence; masters to enfranchise their slaves; fathers to supply the extravagance of their children; noble matrons were prostituted to the lust of their servants; beautiful boys were torn from the arms of their parents; and wives, unless they preferred a voluntary death, were ravished in the presence of their husbands. 47 The despair of the greens, who were persecuted by their enemies, and deserted by the magistrates, assumed the privilege of defence, perhaps of retaliation; but those who survived the combat were dragged to execution, and the unhappy fugitives, escaping to woods and caverns, preyed without mercy on the society from whence they were expelled. Those ministers of justice who had courage to punish the crimes, and to brave the resentment, of the blues, became the victims of their indiscreet zeal; a praefect of Constantinople fled for refuge to the holy sepulchre, a count of the East was ignominiously whipped, and a governor of Cilicia was hanged, by the order of Theodora, on the tomb of two assassins whom he had condemned for the murder of his groom, and a daring attack upon his own life. 48 An aspiring candidate may be tempted to build his greatness on the public confusion, but it is the interest as well as duty of a sovereign to maintain the authority of the laws. The first edict of Justinian, which was often repeated, and sometimes executed, announced his firm resolution to support the innocent, and to chastise the guilty, of every denomination and color. Yet the balance of justice was still inclined in favor of the blue faction, by the secret affection, the habits, and the fears of the emperor; his equity, after an apparent struggle, submitted, without reluctance, to the implacable passions of Theodora, and the empress never forgot, or forgave, the injuries of the comedian. At the accession of the younger Justin, the proclamation of equal and rigorous justice indirectly condemned the partiality of the former reign. "Ye blues, Justinian is no more! ye greens, he is still alive!" 49
A sedition, which almost laid Constantinople in ashes, was excited by the mutual hatred and momentary reconciliation of the two factions. In the fifth year of his reign, Justinian celebrated the festival of the ides of January; the games were incessantly disturbed by the clamorous discontent of the greens: till the twenty-second race, the emperor maintained his silent gravity; at length, yielding to his impatience, he condescended to hold, in abrupt sentences, and by the voice of a crier, the most singular dialogue 50 that ever passed between a prince and his subjects. Their first complaints were respectful and modest; they accused the subordinate ministers of oppression, and proclaimed their wishes for the long life and victory of the emperor. "Be patient and attentive, ye insolent railers!" exclaimed Justinian; "be mute, ye Jews, Samaritans, and Manichaeans!" The greens still attempted to awaken his compassion. "We are poor, we are innocent, we are injured, we dare not pass through the streets: a general persecution is exercised against our name and color. Let us die, O emperor! but let us die by your command, and for your service!" But the repetition of partial and passionate invectives degraded, in their eyes, the majesty of the purple; they renounced allegiance to the prince who refused justice to his people; lamented that the father of Justinian had been born; and branded his son with the opprobrious names of a homicide, an ass, and a perjured tyrant. "Do you despise your lives?" cried the indignant monarch: the blues rose with fury from their seats; their hostile clamors thundered in the hippodrome; and their adversaries, deserting the unequal contest spread terror and despair through the streets of Constantinople. At this dangerous moment, seven notorious assassins of both factions, who had been condemned by the praefect, were carried round the city, and afterwards transported to the place of execution in the suburb of Pera. Four were immediately beheaded; a fifth was hanged: but when the same punishment was inflicted on the remaining two, the rope broke, they fell alive to the ground, the populace applauded their escape, and the monks of St. Conon, issuing from the neighboring convent, conveyed them in a boat to the sanctuary of the church. 51 As one of these criminals was of the blue, and the other of the green livery, the two factions were equally provoked by the cruelty of their oppressor, or the ingratitude of their patron; and a short truce was concluded till they had delivered their prisoners and satisfied their revenge. The palace of the praefect, who withstood the seditious torrent, was instantly burnt, his officers and guards were massacred, the prisons were forced open, and freedom was restored to those who could only use it for the public destruction. A military force, which had been despatched to the aid of the civil magistrate, was fiercely encountered by an armed multitude, whose numbers and boldness continually increased; and the Heruli, the wildest Barbarians in the service of the empire, overturned the priests and their relics, which, from a pious motive, had been rashly interposed to separate the bloody conflict. The tumult was exasperated by this sacrilege, the people fought with enthusiasm in the cause of God; the women, from the roofs and windows, showered stones on the heads of the soldiers, who darted fire brands against the houses; and the various flames, which had been kindled by the hands of citizens and strangers, spread without control over the face of the city. The conflagration involved the cathedral of St. Sophia, the baths of Zeuxippus, a part of the palace, from the first entrance to the altar of Mars, and the long portico from the palace to the forum of Constantine: a large hospital, with the sick patients, was consumed; many churches and stately edifices were destroyed and an immense treasure of gold and silver was either melted or lost. From such scenes of horror and distress, the wise and wealthy citizens escaped over the Bosphorus to the Asiatic side; and during five days Constantinople was abandoned to the factions, whose watchword, Nika, vanquish! has given a name to this memorable sedition. 52
As long as the factions were divided, the triumphant blues, and desponding greens, appeared to behold with the same indifference the disorders of the state. They agreed to censure the corrupt management of justice and the finance; and the two responsible ministers, the artful Tribonian, and the rapacious John of Cappadocia, were loudly arraigned as the authors of the public misery. The peaceful murmurs of the people would have been disregarded: they were heard with respect when the city was in flames; the quaestor, and the praefect, were instantly removed, and their offices were filled by two senators of blameless integrity. After this popular concession, Justinian proceeded to the hippodrome to confess his own errors, and to accept the repentance of his grateful subjects; but they distrusted his assurances, though solemnly pronounced in the presence of the holy Gospels; and the emperor, alarmed by their distrust, retreated with precipitation to the strong fortress of the palace. The obstinacy of the tumult was now imputed to a secret and ambitious conspiracy, and a suspicion was entertained, that the insurgents, more especially the green faction, had been supplied with arms and money by Hypatius and Pompey, two patricians, who could neither forget with honor, nor remember with safety, that they were the nephews of the emperor Anastasius. Capriciously trusted, disgraced, and pardoned, by the jealous levity of the monarch, they had appeared as loyal servants before the throne; and, during five days of the tumult, they were detained as important hostages; till at length, the fears of Justinian prevailing over his prudence, he viewed the two brothers in the light of spies, perhaps of assassins, and sternly commanded them to depart from the palace. After a fruitless representation, that obedience might lead to involuntary treason, they retired to their houses, and in the morning of the sixth day, Hypatius was surrounded and seized by the people, who, regardless of his virtuous resistance, and the tears of his wife, transported their favorite to the forum of Constantine, and instead of a diadem, placed a rich collar on his head. If the usurper, who afterwards pleaded the merit of his delay, had complied with the advice of his senate, and urged the fury of the multitude, their first irresistible effort might have oppressed or expelled his trembling competitor. The Byzantine palace enjoyed a free communication with the sea; vessels lay ready at the garden stairs; and a secret resolution was already formed, to convey the emperor with his family and treasures to a safe retreat, at some distance from the capital.
Justinian was lost, if the prostitute whom he raised from the theatre had not renounced the timidity, as well as the virtues, of her sex. In the midst of a council, where Belisarius was present, Theodora alone displayed the spirit of a hero; and she alone, without apprehending his future hatred, could save the emperor from the imminent danger, and his unworthy fears. "If flight," said the consort of Justinian, "were the only means of safety, yet I should disdain to fly. Death is the condition of our birth; but they who have reigned should never survive the loss of dignity and dominion. I implore Heaven, that I may never be seen, not a day, without my diadem and purple; that I may no longer behold the light, when I cease to be saluted with the name of queen. If you resolve, O Caesar! to fly, you have treasures; behold the sea, you have ships; but tremble lest the desire of life should expose you to wretched exile and ignominious death. For my own part, I adhere to the maxim of antiquity, that the throne is a glorious sepulchre." The firmness of a woman restored the courage to deliberate and act, and courage soon discovers the resources of the most desperate situation. It was an easy and a decisive measure to revive the animosity of the factions; the blues were astonished at their own guilt and folly, that a trifling injury should provoke them to conspire with their implacable enemies against a gracious and liberal benefactor; they again proclaimed the majesty of Justinian; and the greens, with their upstart emperor, were left alone in the hippodrome. The fidelity of the guards was doubtful; but the military force of Justinian consisted in three thousand veterans, who had been trained to valor and discipline in the Persian and Illyrian wars. Under the command of Belisarius and Mundus, they silently marched in two divisions from the palace, forced their obscure way through narrow passages, expiring flames, and falling edifices, and burst open at the same moment the two opposite gates of the hippodrome. In this narrow space, the disorderly and affrighted crowd was incapable of resisting on either side a firm and regular attack; the blues signalized the fury of their repentance; and it is computed, that above thirty thousand persons were slain in the merciless and promiscuous carnage of the day. Hypatius was dragged from his throne, and conducted, with his brother Pompey, to the feet of the emperor: they implored his clemency; but their crime was manifest, their innocence uncertain, and Justinian had been too much terrified to forgive. The next morning the two nephews of Anastasius, with eighteen illustrious accomplices, of patrician or consular rank, were privately executed by the soldiers; their bodies were thrown into the sea, their palaces razed, and their fortunes confiscated. The hippodrome itself was condemned, during several years, to a mournful silence: with the restoration of the games, the same disorders revived; and the blue and green factions continued to afflict the reign of Justinian, and to disturb the tranquility of the Eastern empire. 53
III. That empire, after Rome was barbarous, still embraced the nations whom she had conquered beyond the Adriatic, and as far as the frontiers of Aethiopia and Persia. Justinian reigned over sixty-four provinces, and nine hundred and thirty-five cities; 54 his dominions were blessed by nature with the advantages of soil, situation, and climate: and the improvements of human art had been perpetually diffused along the coast of the Mediterranean and the banks of the Nile from ancient Troy to the Egyptian Thebes. Abraham 55 had been relieved by the well-known plenty of Egypt; the same country, a small and populous tract, was still capable of exporting, each year, two hundred and sixty thousand quarters of wheat for the use of Constantinople; 56 and the capital of Justinian was supplied with the manufactures of Sidon, fifteen centuries after they had been celebrated in the poems of Homer. 57 The annual powers of vegetation, instead of being exhausted by two thousand harvests, were renewed and invigorated by skilful husbandry, rich manure, and seasonable repose. The breed of domestic animals was infinitely multiplied. Plantations, buildings, and the instruments of labor and luxury, which are more durable than the term of human life, were accumulated by the care of successive generations. Tradition preserved, and experience simplified, the humble practice of the arts: society was enriched by the division of labor and the facility of exchange; and every Roman was lodged, clothed, and subsisted, by the industry of a thousand hands. The invention of the loom and distaff has been piously ascribed to the gods. In every age, a variety of animal and vegetable productions, hair, skins, wool, flax, cotton, and at length silk, have been skilfully manufactured to hide or adorn the human body; they were stained with an infusion of permanent colors; and the pencil was successfully employed to improve the labors of the loom. In the choice of those colors 58 which imitate the beauties of nature, the freedom of taste and fashion was indulged; but the deep purple 59 which the Phoenicians extracted from a shell-fish, was restrained to the sacred person and palace of the emperor; and the penalties of treason were denounced against the ambitious subjects who dared to usurp the prerogative of the throne. 60
31 Her prisons, a labyrinth, a Tartarus, (Anecdot. c. 4,) were under the palace. Darkness is propitious to cruelty, but it is likewise favorable to calumny and fiction.
32 A more jocular whipping was inflicted on Saturninus, for presuming to say that his wife, a favorite of the empress, had not been found. (Anecdot. c. 17.)
33 Per viventem in saecula excoriari te faciam. Anastasius de Vitis Pont. Roman. in Vigilio, p. 40.
34 Ludewig, p. 161 - 166. I give him credit for the charitable attempt, although he hath not much charity in his temper.
35 Compare the anecdotes (c. 17) with the Edifices (l. i. c. 9) - how differently may the same fact be stated! John Malala (tom. ii. p. 174, 175) observes, that on this, or a similar occasion, she released and clothed the girls whom she had purchased from the stews at five aurei apiece.
36 Novel. viii. 1. An allusion to Theodora. Her enemies read the name Daemonodora, (Aleman. p. 66.)
37 St. Sabas refused to pray for a son of Theodora, lest he should prove a heretic worse than Anastasius himself, (Cyril in Vit. St. Sabae, apud Aleman. p. 70, 109.)
38 See John Malala, tom. ii. p. 174. Theophanes, p. 158. Procopius de Edific. l. v. c. 3.
39 Theodora Chalcedonensis synodi inimica canceris plaga toto corpore perfusa vitam prodigiose finivit, (Victor Tununensis in Chron.) On such occasions, an orthodox mind is steeled against pity. Alemannus (p. 12, 13) understands of Theophanes as civil language, which does not imply either piety or repentance; yet two years after her death, St. Theodora is celebrated by Paul Silentiarius, (in proem. v. 58 - 62.)
40 As she persecuted the popes, and rejected a council, Baronius exhausts the names of Eve, Dalila, Herodias, &c.; after which he has recourse to his infernal dictionary: civis inferni - alumna daemonum - satanico agitata spiritu - oestro percita diabolico, &c., &c., (A.D. 548, No. 24.)
41 Read and feel the xxiid book of the Iliad, a living picture of manners, passions, and the whole form and spirit of the chariot race West's Dissertation on the Olympic Games (sect. xii. - xvii.) affords much curious and authentic information.
42 The four colors, albati, russati, prasini, veneti, represent the four seasons, according to Cassiodorus, (Var. iii. 51,) who lavishes much wit and eloquence on this theatrical mystery. Of these colors, the three first may be fairly translated white, red, and green. Venetus is explained by coeruleus, a word various and vague: it is properly the sky reflected in the sea; but custom and convenience may allow blue as an equivalent, (Robert. Stephan. sub voce. Spence's Polymetis, p. 228.)
43 See Onuphrius Panvinius de Ludis Circensibus, l. i. c. 10, 11; the xviith Annotation on Mascou's History of the Germans; and Aleman ad c. vii.
44 Marcellin. in Chron. p. 47. Instead of the vulgar word venata he uses the more exquisite terms of coerulea and coerealis. Baronius (A.D. 501, No. 4, 5, 6) is satisfied that the blues were orthodox; but Tillemont is angry at the supposition, and will not allow any martyrs in a playhouse, (Hist. des Emp. tom. vi. p. 554.)
45 See Procopius, (Persic. l. i. c. 24.) In describing the vices of the factions and of the government, the public, is not more favorable than the secret, historian. Aleman. (p. 26) has quoted a fine passage from Gregory Nazianzen, which proves the inveteracy of the evil.
46 The partiality of Justinian for the blues (Anecdot. c. 7) is attested by Evagrius, (Hist. Eccles. l. iv. c. 32,) John Malala, (tom ii p. 138, 139,) especially for Antioch; and Theophanes, (p. 142.)
47 A wife, (says Procopius,) who was seized and almost ravished by a blue-coat, threw herself into the Bosphorus. The bishops of the second Syria (Aleman. p. 26) deplore a similar suicide, the guilt or glory of female chastity, and name the heroine.
48 The doubtful credit of Procopius (Anecdot. c. 17) is supported by the less partial Evagrius, who confirms the fact, and specifies the names. The tragic fate of the praefect of Constantinople is related by John Malala, (tom. ii. p. 139.)
49 See John Malala, (tom. ii. p. 147;) yet he owns that Justinian was attached to the blues. The seeming discord of the emperor and Theodora is, perhaps, viewed with too much jealousy and refinement by Procopius, (Anecdot. c. 10.) See Aleman. Praefat. p. 6.
50 This dialogue, which Theophanes has preserved, exhibits the popular language, as well as the manners, of Constantinople, in the vith century. Their Greek is mingled with many strange and barbarous words, for which Ducange cannot always find a meaning or etymology.
51 See this church and monastery in Ducange, C. P. Christiana, l. iv p 182.
52 The history of the Nika sedition is extracted from Marcellinus, (in Chron.,) Procopius, (Persic. l. i. c. 26,) John Malala, (tom. ii. p. 213 - 218,) Chron. Paschal., (p. 336 - 340,) Theophanes, (Chronograph. p. 154 - 158) and Zonaras, (l. xiv. p. 61 - 63.)
53 Marcellinus says in general terms, innumeris populis in circotrucidatis. Procopius numbers 30,000 victims: and the 35,000 of Theophanes are swelled to 40,000 by the more recent Zonaras. Such is the usual progress of exaggeration.
54 Hierocles, a contemporary of Justinian, composed his (Itineraria, p. 631,) review of the eastern provinces and cities, before the year 535, (Wesseling, in Praefat. and Not. ad p. 623, &c.)
55 See the Book of Genesis (xii. 10) and the administration of Joseph. The annals of the Greeks and Hebrews agree in the early arts and plenty of Egypt: but this antiquity supposes a long series of improvement; and Warburton, who is almost stifled by the Hebrew calls aloud for the Samaritan, Chronology, (Divine Legation, vol. iii. p. 29, &c.)
Note: The recent extraordinary discoveries in Egyptian antiquities strongly confirm the high notion of the early Egyptian civilization, and imperatively demand a longer period for their development. As to the common Hebrew chronology, as far as such a subject is capable of demonstration, it appears to me to have been framed, with a particular view, by the Jews of Tiberias. It was not the chronology of the Samaritans, not that of the LXX., not that of Josephus, not that of St. Paul. - M.
56 Eight millions of Roman modii, besides a contribution of 80,000 aurei for the expenses of water-carriage, from which the subject was graciously excused. See the 13th Edict of Justinian: the numbers are checked and verified by the agreement of the Greek and Latin texts.
57 Homer's Iliad, vi. 289. These veils, were the work of the Sidonian women. But this passage is more honorable to the manufactures than to the navigation of Phoenicia, from whence they had been imported to Troy in Phrygian bottoms.
58 See in Ovid (de Arte Amandi, iii. 269, &c.) a poetical list of twelve colors borrowed from flowers, the elements, &c. But it is almost impossible to discriminate by words all the nice and various shades both of art and nature.
59 By the discovery of cochineal, &c., we far surpass the colors of antiquity. Their royal purple had a strong smell, and a dark cast as deep as bull's blood - obscuritas rubens, (says Cassiodorus, Var. 1, 2,) nigredo saguinea. The president Goguet (Origine des Loix et des Arts, part ii. l. ii. c. 2, p. 184 - 215) will amuse and satisfy the reader. I doubt whether his book, especially in England, is as well known as it deserves to be.
60 Historical proofs of this jealousy have been occasionally introduced, and many more might have been added; but the arbitrary acts of despotism were justified by the sober and general declarations of law, (Codex Theodosian. l. x. tit. 21, leg. 3. Codex Justinian. l. xi. tit. 8, leg. 5.) An inglorious permission, and necessary restriction, was applied to the mince, the female dancers, (Cod. Theodos. l. xv. tit. 7, leg. 11.)


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Jacqueline Woodson's "Each Kindness," a gentle warning
Many children are a little more self-conscious than they are outgoing, especially when they're worried about a gesture that might cause their friends to mock them.
That's why Chloe, an elementary school age girl, is hesitant when her teacher introduces a new student named Maya in Jacqueline Woodson's "Each Kindness" (Nancy Paulsen Books, $16.99).
Maya is wearing the wrong things: "spring shoes, not meant for the snow," and one has a broken strap. Chloe and her BFFs don't return Maya's tentative smiles, and leave her alone at recess and lunch. Plucky Chloe tries unsuccessfully to reach out to the stolid girls. Then one day, her classroom seat is empty.
That's the day the teacher offers a big lesson in the impact of small deeds. She puts out a big bowl of water, drops a small pebble into it, and watches the ripples. Kindness works like that, too, the teacher says; it makes the world a little bit better. She invites the children to drop a stone for each what kind thing they've done.
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I buy old pillows from the op shops to use for stuffing toys as long as they are still in good order,
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Wednesdays are 1/2 price on all clothing and accessories at my local Salvation Army so need less to say this is where I have been scoring my finds! Since material has become so expensive, i just look for material i want to use for any project I have in mind at the time and look in the mens and womens section for large size items. I aslo make a trip to the belts and handbag section, I use the belts for purse straps and hardware to make purses with. I look for embelished jeans , belt buckles and anything I think I can put to use in a design. It is also a great place to find good soft, worn leather at a fraction of what you's pay at a store and it's already broken in! Thrift store are a plethora of craft supplies at a reasonable price and you are also doing the planet a favor by making recycled crafts!
Feb 21, 2013
I shop at my local goodwill store and look at the sheets for the material for my quilting. It's very cheap and is recycling for something special.
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I've been getting lots of supplies for very cheap (by haggling on Craigslist) or for FREE from people in my area on www.freecycle.org . The site is kinda like an online curb - Instead of stuff just getting thrown away, you can let people in your area know what you have to offer or you can let people know what you're looking for......no money can be exchanged. (You have to fill out form online that a volunteer moderator in your chapter will review and approve you or deny you access to the group. Set up this way to weed out the serious/real people from the weirdos/fake accounts.) It's a pretty cool tool, especially when money is tight! I've seen pretty much EVERYTHING available this way. Things that I've gotten/seen offered: fabric!!!, brand new cookie press, eko-brew cup for keurig, brand new stamps, boxes of tea bags, empty baby food jars, tons of furniture, lots of landscaping items, electronics......and we even got a brand new cocker spaniel puppy a couple years ago!!!!! :) :) :)
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When my local fabric stores (Hancock and Joann) put sewing patterns on sale, I go to the pattern company's website and look for the pattern I would like to purchase. That way I know the pattern numbers before I go shopping and don't have to compete with other customers for the pattern catalog. Only purchase patterns when they are .99 to 1.99!
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I am really going to date myself, but I can remember going to the store and finding out patterns jumped from 10cents to 25cents!! How upset my mother was!!
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Great tips to save money. Using coupons is a must especially since craft stores usually have coupons every week.
Jul 26, 2011
Be the unconventional craft professional. I make so many things by painting with acrylics on clean, old white sheets. Possibilities are endless. Market bags, cushions, potholders... Go vintage. I repurpose those beautiful old linen/cotton tablecloths into tea towels. My latest kick is buying up the old finished projects - crewel, embroidery, crossstitch - and taking them out of frames, making them into bags or decorator cushions. My thrift store is my main supplier...
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I buy a lot os dressmaker patterns ( simplicity, vogue etc.. ) for both clothing and toys and stuff. Instead of cutting up the multiple size patterns I seperate the pieces and using christmas roll paper bought after season at really low prices I take the time to trace my tissue patterns on the christmas paper. I found any permant marker will bleed through the tissue onto the regular paper making it easy to cut the pieces. This way I keep the original patterns intact if I choose to make a different size. Then I fold everything back up and pop it in a large ziploc baggie with the pattern envelope showing through so I know what is in it. This does take a little time but I don't have to rebuy the patterns ever again. Hope this helps someone Ann
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I've been doing this for years using tissue paper used for gifts such as clothing. I have a lighted tracing table, but you can tape the pattern to a large window and tape your sheet of tissue paper over that to trace it out. I do this with patterns I use over and over again. Also this way if i lose a piece I can still go back and retrace that piece and am back in business so to speak. Also as newfnstitches states its a great way to alter a pattern without cutting the original. I may be a bit of work, but wel worth it. And if you pass your patterns on to other they have the copy pieces to use and the originals to look back on and can do the same when they are done. I never laon out a pattern without doing this first, as I've gotten patterns back that peices where lost and the pattern is now worhtless!
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All very good ideas. I love my second hand stores. And we all need to look around our homes to see what is setting there you just might surprise yourself.
Jun 30, 2011
Love our town's thrift shop and I know all of the money they make goes to help the community and it's food bank! And yes, I love those coupon's!
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Love all of the things in this article. I already do a couple of these like using a coupon and re-purposing my garbage. I have to admit that my five year old daughter can now see the value of our trash! Thanks for all of the tips. evey penny counts these days!
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I have a new paper about a forgotten case, that argues that sometimes the resolution of cases is especially about restoring breaches in American identity. To accomplish that, to restore the nation, what happens to the person at the heart of the case is forgotten. For more, go here.
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- Alfred L. Brophy said...
Thank you for the paper and welcome. It's a lovely paper and an important story. It's sad how people who ought to be at the center of these stories (the defendants or the litigants) are pushed aside--how the people whose lives are crushed end up as the vehicles for other people to act on the stage.
I'd not heard of the tragic case before, though I've spent some time in Marion and in their antebellum courthouse, which sits at the center of the town square. Pretty interesting place and pretty remote.
One quick comment. I believe that Coretta Scott King was from Marion.
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There is automation and then there is artificial intelligence-enabled automation. Many capital markets companies are automating, but the level of intelligence they are incorporating into that automation is still rather minimal. The key advantage to intelligent automation capital is that it is self-learning; it constantly improves, rather than degrades, in value.
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VILLAGERS fighting to save a public telephone box have been left hanging after it was sold for £250.
Residents of Therfield were trying to retain the traditional booth on the village green as a feature.
But the conservators who inherited the box from BT sold it for £250 and it was removed on Sunday.
Sylvia Drury, of Therfield, organised a petition to save the phone box
She said: "People were offering their help and we were all trying to rally round to support it but the conservators wanted a huge amount of money to buy it.
"The phonebox was on the village green and the village wanted it kept. If they are conservators, why can't they help us conserve it?"
But the clerk of Therfield Parish Council, David Law, claims the conservators reached out through the parish council to try and garner interest but no-one was forthcoming.
Insurance problems also made it difficult for the phone box to be kept.
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Volunteer disaster relief organizations use the open source platform to track residents who need help and to simplify coordination between response groups.
A series of violent storms put Aaron Titus, disaster coordinator for the New Jersey branch of Mormon Helping Hands, through his paces last summer. He coordinated the dispatching of several hundred volunteers to about 300 locations to help remove damaged trees. The effort was so taxing that he doubted one person would be able to successfully coordinate large-scale disaster mitigation smoothly in all cases.
"I realized, if you try to do it as a single individual, you're never going to be able to," Titus said.
In response, he developed an early version of Crisis Cleanup, a free open source mapping tool that allows disaster relief organizations to coordinate cleanup and rebuilding efforts after catastrophes. The system's undergone successive modifications since, and today members of volunteer disaster relief organizations logon to the tool and input data into an assessment form about a resident who needs help. This data includes the resident's address and the type of incident, like flooding, tree removal or food delivery. That information then generates icons on a dynamic map alongside the assessment form.
All participating organizations can view the data after it's been submitted, and any can claim the work order. No single group is in charge of the system, which has been designed to simplify coordination efforts between disaster relief organizations. Each responding organization can change the status of a work order after responding to it, so the next organization can pick up where the previous one left off. This feature helps ensure that groups with specific specialties can handle different relief needs at the same disaster site without overlap and duplication of effort.
Titus and his colleagues view this style of work as a Craigslist philosophy.
"It's very much like Craigslist. Who's in charge of Craigslist? What makes Craigslist run? I think they have a staff of three or four people, and they keep the servers running, but that's not what drives Craigslist," Titus said. "What drives Craigslist is the community — the users who create the content and interact with one another. And Crisis Cleanup's philosophy is very much that same."
Currently, organizations can input data about damage and cleanup involving Hurricane Sandy, the Colorado wildfires and various tornado incidents. Andy Gimma, the system's developer and project manager, thinks that the Crisis Cleanup process allows for a more seamless and collaborative environment for disaster relief organizations than he's usually experienced in the past. He's seen groups argue about data sharing, and working together has been chaotic.
"I was in a hackathon that was attended by different organizations, and there were literally shouting matches over why they would not share data with one another," Gimma said.
Crisis Cleanup has already connected more than 30,000 volunteers from 100 organizations with close to 8,000 families since its summer 2012 debut, but Titus and Gimma need help. Creating and maintaining the system has mostly been a volunteer effort, and additional funding and support would make it easier for them and other volunteers to continue maintenance and modifications.
"Since we've started working, I think we've had about two dozen volunteer programmers that have participated in one way or another," Titus said.
The program was released under an Apache 2.0 open source license and uses the Google Maps engine, written in the Python programming language. It's supported by a NoSQL database.
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These days, Crisis Cleanup is mostly a labor of love for Titus and Gimma. They've had little time to focus on writing grants and organizing other sophisticated fundraising efforts, but they're confident that they can subsist on internal volunteer efforts. Titus hopes to partner with a nonprofit organization in the future.
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We chose books on a rotating basis, with one member responsible for proposing three or four books for next month (which the group would then decide which one to select) and that member would be responsible for preparing the opening comments/overall look at the book. Then a different member would be responsible for the following month, and so forth, until every member had a chance to propose several books, have one selected, and prepare a brief presentation. This also made sure that everyone in the group had a chance to speak as well!
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In our group, we take turns hosting the discussion -- there are about a dozen of us, so it works out to each of hosting about once a year -- and the hostess chooses the book. Titles are announced a month or two ahead of time so everyone has the opportunity to locate a copy of the book and read it. Not every book is everyone's "cup of tea," but we all try to finish the book in time for the group meeting.
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We also choose a year at a time./ Each member brings 5 suggestion to the club, we eliminate anything anyone else has read and break the rest into genres. We than pick a book for each genre. We get an interesting variety of books and everyone has a chance to read something dofferent.
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Our group chooses every six months. Each member brings suggestions, telling the group very briefly why they selected each book. From that list we vote on the top six titles we would like to read. The books with the most votes makes up our list. We read only what is available in paperback and read titles from several genres. We read one nonfiction book each six months.
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We have a running list of all of the members and each month we go down the list and that person chooses the book and the next person on the list chooses for the next month and so on. If that person is not there or is no longer coming, we skip them and move on down the list. If someone new comes into the group, they are added to the end of the list and told that eventually it will be their turn to choose the book for the next month. This has worked out real well for us as everyone knows that they will get a chance to pick whatever they want so they don't complain too much about reading what the others have chosen. We read a variety of books this way also.
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Incorporate table and floor lamps into your interior spaces to highlight various accent pieces or for serving specific purposes such as lighting up a favorite reading spot, home office work space, or for setting a mood in a particular room. Our selection of lamps are found in a wide range of styles, sizes, colors, materials, and finishes. You'll be sure to find the perfect style to make the most of your room's décor.
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