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Certain Elements – A New Album by Karla Harris
Release Date: October 5, 2018. First single — "Cherish" — going for adds at contemporary jazz formats in September
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An In-depth Look at the Album
Of Certain Elements, the third album from acclaimed jazz vocalist Karla Harris, it can be said that this is a place where lush contemporary comes alongside deft acoustic mainstream jazz to create the potent signature sound of this collection. Intriguingly mystical and invitingly earthy, with an aural quality all its own, the record's tunes of varying feels – Latin, contemporary, swing, blues-inspired – showcase the velvety, dynamic range of Harris' considerable talent to compelling effect.
Certain Elements follows up on Harris' second release, Karla Harris Sings the Dave and Iola Brubeck Songbook, released in 2015 on Summit Records and featuring jazz all-stars Tom Kennedy on bass, drummer Dave Weckl, saxophonist Bob Sheppard and pianist/arranger Ted Howe. Harris' vocal versions of Brubeck classics proved to be an expertly executed and well-received homage showcasing the singer's technical chops and interpretive ability. Of the record, jazz reviewer Thomas Cunniffe wrote, "She makes these seldom-heard lyrics come alive," and Jazziz said, "The Brubecks would be pleased."
Harris' new recording demonstrates evolving artistry. She leans creatively into a fuller spectrum of her gifts on Certain Elements, teaming with acclaimed producer Trammell Starks to create tracks where her authenticity and emotive power come shining through. The record's 12 tracks feature several originals penned by the vocalist, her first outing as a songwriter, and beautifully curated cover tunes, including the album's first single, a contemporary jazz remake of the 1960s hit "Cherish." Harris' "Cherish" gets lush, romantic treatment, thoughtful rhythmic variation, and nuanced delivery of those longing lyrics. Released to contemporary jazz radio mid-September, it's generating buzz quickly. The tune's composer, Terry Kirkman, comments that it is a "beautiful surprise" for him, and that Harris' "rich, warm, depth throughout her range is incredible … truly inspirational."
"Cherish" was one of the last tracks produced for the collection, which unrolled organically over a period of years. "This project actually started in 2013 – I just didn't know it at the time," Harris says. It was then that she recorded in Portland, Oregon, her former home, a cover of the Peter Dello tune and Joe Cocker hit, "Do I Still Figure in Your Life," at the suggestion of Latin percussionist and bandleader Bobby Torres, who toured with Cocker for years. Torres arranged the song for Harris' voice, creating a stripped-down ballad version of the tune that packs an emotional punch. The track stayed tucked away following a move that took Harris to Atlanta.
Not too long after that move, she experienced a period of time she describes as "creatively intense, where the muses were kind." Riding the wave, Harris wrote several songs, six of which are included on Certain Elements. From the poetic, transcendent title track to the whimsical wordplay of the swinging "When Michael;" from the grown-up sensuality of "Folds" to the story-based blues of "Interlude" and more, Harris' songwriting shows a love for words and wrapping them into a lyric and a melody.
"From the moment they formed, I became committed to these songs, performed them on occasion at live shows to great response, and wanted to record them, simply to complete a creative process," Harris says. However, after bringing her material to Starks, the vision grew along with the producer's enthusiasm over what he was hearing from the singer/songwriter. He encouraged Harris to further build out the project, and set to arranging some of her originals.
Meanwhile, Harris pulled in covers of songs arranged for her over the years by close colleagues, including that 2013 track and another done by Torres, a sultry Latin version of the Legrand/Bergman tune, "The Way He Makes Me Feel." Harris also includes a jazz-influenced take on the Bill Withers classic "Lean on Me," arranged by pianist Mark Simon, a close friend of Harris' who passed away before he could finish tracking the tune. His brother, Chicago pianist Fred Simon, completed it for the recording.
The record honors other friendships made across Harris' musical journey and features many more bright lights, from Portland, Seattle and Atlanta, including pianists Randy Porter, George Colligan, Kevin Bales, Dan Gaynor, Tyrone Jackson; bassists Sam Sims, Damian Erskine, Jeff Johnson, Neal Starkey; saxophonists Sam Skelton, Mace Hibbard; trumpeter Darren English; drummers Todd Strait, Marlon Patton, Lil' John Roberts, Reinhardt Melz; percussionists Rafael Pereira, Bobby Torres, Carmelo Torres; guitarists Dan Baraszu, Chris Blackwell; and Trammell Starks on keyboards and programming.
"A dancing tendril on the edge of flame."… It's a lyric from the album's first track, a Latin-infused tune of Harris' called "Set Sophia Free" that carries a powerful message of awakening with its world-music, spiritual vibe. Like that dancing tendril, Harris is set to light a fire within jazz fans' hearts with Certain Elements.
Single release: Cherish
Artist: Karla Harris
From the Album: Certain Elements
Album Release Date: October 5, 2018
Label: gobykar Music
Produced by: Trammell Starks, Karla Harris
Album Track Listing
Set Sophia Free
The Way He Makes Me Feel
Certain Elements
When Michael
Do I Still Figure In Your Life
Give This All to Me
Certain Elements (ATL Groove v.)

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Everyone who works for us is a highly qualified, professionally trained holder of the English Heritage-approved Construction Skills Certification Scheme card. Many are following in the footsteps of their own parents, taking up heritage tools and skills to help us preserve some of our country's finest listed buildings.
The Bonser's Team (left to right): Paul Dooley, Alan Haggerty, Ginette Bradbury, Amy Smith, Richard Hill, Jo Bonser, Vicky Combellack, Gail Haggerty, Remi Sturtivant and Wayne Sturman.
Richard has over 27 years' of industry experience, is a qualified bricklayer and holds a Gold Heritage CSCS card together with Level 6 NVQ in Construction Site Management – Conservation.
Bonsers' high standards of delivery and best conservation practices are continually met.
As a third generation Bonser, Jo has been a part of the company since 1994 and has played a key part in the company's growth, helping to take it to the premier restoration company it currently is.
Her drive and passion for our historic built environment is the cornerstone of our business ensuring the highest standards are maintained for both the buildings we are fortunate enough to work on and in her direct relationships with our clients.
Vicky is also a third generation Bonser, and has been with the Company since 2004. As well as acting as Company Secretary, Vicky manages the accounts and fincance department.
Vicky's role is key in ensuring the ongoing success of the company, and involves all aspects of accounts and financial management from project inception to completion.
Alan joined Bonsers in 2013 and has over 20 years' knowledge of construction management processes, this knowledge has been developed by managing contacts from the conception through to the completion, with many of these being multi-million pound and multi trade projects and framework agreements.
Alan's role within Bonsers is to schedule and coordinate our contracts and processes from the initial order to the completion handover, ensuring that they are completed on time, within budget and ensuring that our high standards of quality and delivery are maintained.
Gail joined Bonsers in May 2015 and has over 9 years' experience of working in an office environment with over 20 years within a customer service enviroment.
Gail's role at Bonsers is within our estimating department as the Estimating Co-ordinator, dealing with the day-to-day enquires. Gail is our clients' first port of call in the estimating process and she liaises with both the client and the estimator keeping them both up to date with the relevant informaion.
Wayne has been part of the Bonsers team since 2009. He has over 20 years experience in the construction industry, with over 10 years in the conservation sector.
Working up from the tools, Wayne progressed to site supervisor with Bonsers, before moving up to Construction Manager in 2016. Wayne's role involves overseeing site managers across all projects, co-ordinating labour, and responsibility for ensuring and maintaining Bonsers high standards of workmanship.
Amy is also a third generation Bonser, and joined the team in June 2005. She is an efficient and capable administration manager, with excellent organisational and interpersonal skills.
Amy is experienced in providing full secretarial, administrative and office management support to her colleagues and her role at Bonsers is overseeing that all administrative work is managed competently, and in accordance with the Company's changing priorities and deadlines.
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Paul possesses excellent interpersonal, communication and negotiation skills, the ability to influence decisions and to develop positive relationships both internally and externally. Paul enjoys being part of, as well as managing, motivating, training and developing, a successful and productive team and thrives in new and challenging working environments. Prior to joining Bonsers, Paul served with the Royal Engineers for over twenty years, with human resources and infrastructure experience in locations as diverse as the South Pole and the Middle East.
Simon has over 25 years experience as a Quantity Surveyor within the construction industry, on maintenance, conservation, restoration, refurbishment and new build projects. He joined the Bonsers team in 2016.
As a consultant QS for Bonsers, Simon deals with large scale commercial projects, providing surveying services from budget estimation, production of BQ's, contract adminsitration, and supply chain management including sub-contract procurement to final account agreement.
Matthew joined Bonsers in 2017. He is a highly motivated quantity surveyor and commercial manager, who has been involved within the construction industry for over 20 years in varying roles from commercial management to project management, and has built up extensive experience in all aspects of the construction industry.
Matthew is a highly organised and efficient individual, whose thorough and precise approach and good work ethic has resulted in the delivery of a number of successful projects for Bonsers.


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STAMPA SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED
Address: Πινδάρου, 19, Λευκωσία, Κύπρος ░░░░░░░░░░░░░
STAMPA SHIPPING COMPANY LIMITED is registered in Cyprus at 01/01/70 as a(n) Limited Company. The Registration Number for this Cyprus Limited Company as held by the Official Government of the Cyprus Registrar Of Companies is HE57008. The Organisation Status is Active. There are 2 Officials currently on file. The address of the company is Πινδάρου, 19, Λευκωσία, Κύπρος. As for the officials as seen at the Official Cyprus Registrar at the point in time when the data were collected ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΟΥ holds the position of Director, ΜΑΡΙΑ ΒΑΛΑΝΙΔΟΥ holds the position of Secretary. There are might be more directors and secretaries that are not currently listed in this description as the information represent a point in time in the past. To check the current status of this Cyprus Company collecting data from various sources please order a report.
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Delicious chunkies with tuna and fish meat in jelly with toppings, using only high quality, fresh and natural ingredients. The morsels are steam cooked, have a soft texture and a pleasant aroma. It's a complementary food for cats with high nutritional content, rich in omega 3, rich in proteins and with low fat content.


Diane Hartnell and Malcolm Street will be hiking between fire stations from 19-23 July in memory of family and friends.
Diane's brother served as a fireman in the RAF but is now confined to a wheelchair following a motorbike accident. Her father's best friend Joe and his son Tony served in the fire service for many years before Joe died last year.
The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is also being supported as Diane's father Frank Hodgkins died from lung cancer in 2010.
Area Manager Steve Widnell, of Devon & Somerset Fire & Rescue Service, said: "We are very grateful to Diane and Malcolm for choosing to raise money for the Fire Fighters Charity, which helps many fire service staff every year.


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On The Ruin Of Britain
January 21, 2019 January 31, 2019 Gildas Anglicanism
Egalitarianism and the Church of England
Awhile ago I wrote something about my developing views on women in ministry yet I hadn't really thought out how this impacts how I interact with my church, The Church of England.
Women's Ordination
CS Lewis on Women's Ordination
In an immediate sense I am conscious of how lukewarm many of the arguments for a traditional understanding of leadership are after listening to a recent episode of Unbelievable on the subject of women in leadership.
If I was still an Egalitarian I would not have been convinced by Moore's defence of the historic status quo and was perturbed by his dismissal of history as an excuse not to think. To me this is a classic case of cutting off one's nose to spite one's face and I was reminded of CS Lewis's words on the topic of reading old books from his foreword to Athanasius's "On the Incarnation".
A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. It has to be tested against the great body of Christian thought down the ages, and all its hidden implications (often unsuspected by the author himself) have to be brought to light.
C.S Lewis, Foreword: On the Incarnation by Athanasius the Great
The same can be said for doctrines. CS Lewis also wrote his own thoughts on women priests in a tract called "Priestesses in the Church?" which laid down, in an accessible way, a case against female priests based, in large part, on natural law. Reading this also opened my eyes to the poverty of my own theology, and that of Moore's, by neglecting something like natural law to the degree it has. To underscore this Lewis, in his tract, compares the Church to a Ball (Dance) writing…
And this parallel between the Church and the Ball is not so fanciful as some would think. The Church ought to be more like a Ball than it is like a factory or a political party. Or, to speak more strictly, they are at the circumference and the Church at the Centre and the Ball comes in between. The factory and the political party are artificial creations – "a breath can make them as a breath has made". In them we are not dealing with human beings in their concrete entirety only with "hands" or voters. I am not of course using "artificial" in any derogatory sense. Such artifices are necessary: but because they are our artifices we are free to shuffle, scrap and experiment as we please. But the Ball exists to stylize something which is natural and which concerns human beings in their entirety-namely, courtship. We cannot shuffle or tamper so much. With the Church, we are farther in: for there we are dealing with male and female not merely as facts of nature but as the live and awful shadows of realities utterly beyond our control and largely beyond our direct knowledge. Or rather, we are not dealing with them but (as we shall soon learn if we meddle) they are dealing with us.
C.S Lewis, Priestesses in the Church?
Elsewhere he is more explicit and ties nature to the symbolic world…
One of the ends for which sex was created was to symbolize to us the hidden things of God. One of the functions of human marriage is to express the nature of the union between Christ and the Church. We have no authority to take the living and semitive figures which God has painted on the canvas of our nature and shift them about as if they were mere geometrical figures.
Anthropology, Luther, and Chrysostom
Becoming a Father has also made me ask more fundamental questions about what it is to be a man more broadly. This isn't fixed, and our current culture is an exception to what seems to be a norm both historically and globally today. Even if it is a social construction most societies end up with forms of masculinity like this due to a combination of biology and resource constraints. As one Anthropologist states (emphasis mine)..
Dad has not evolved to be the mirror to mum, a male mother, so to speak. Evolution hates redundancy and will not select for roles that duplicate each other if one type of individual can fulfil the role alone. Rather, dad's role has evolved to complement mum's.
Anna Machin, The Marvel of the Human Dad, Aeon Magazine 2019
Some might quibble with the previous paragraph but a recent article on this topic comparing the views of Calvin and Luther on this highlights how Martin Luther expressed a similar mode of thinking in his prohibition against Women in ministry by stating…
For he who would preach must possess not only the Spirit, but also a good voice, ability to express himself well, a good memory, and other natural gifts; whosoever does not possess these gifts should appropriately keep silence and allow another to speak. Thus Paul forbids women to preach in the congregation where men are who are able to speak, to the end that honor and order prevail; for to speak is more fitting and appropriate for man, and he is better qualified for speaking. And Paul did not issue this prohibition out of his own head, but he appeals to the Law, which says that women are to be under obedience.
…Order, decency, and honor require, therefore, that women keep silence when the men speak; if, however, there is no man to preach, then it would be necessary that women preach.
Fritz Zerbst, The Office of Woman in the Church, Quoting Martin Luther's 1521 The Misuse of the Mass, pg. 87
Luther doesn't make a blanket ban an argument resting on what we might call a natural law. Something even John Chrysostom does in his homilies on 1 Corinthians 14…
Here you see why he set over them their husbands as teachers, for the benefit of both. For so he both rendered the women orderly, and the husbands he made anxious, as having to deliver to their wives very exactly what they heard.
Further, because they supposed this to be an ornament to them, I mean their speaking in public; again he brings round the discourse to the opposite point, saying, For it is shameful for a woman to speak in the church. That is, first he made this out from the law of God, then from common reason and our received custom; even when he was discoursing with the women about long hair, he said, Does not even nature herself teach you? (1 Corinthians 11:14) And everywhere you may find this to be his manner, not only from the divine Scriptures, but also from the common custom, to put them to shame.
John Chrysostom, Homily 37 on First Corinthians
Steven Wedgeworth in the previously referred article comparing the writings of Calvin and Luther on this topic writes…
Earlier in 1 Cor. 11, Paul gives more of his logic. "The head of woman is man" (1 Cor. 11:3). The woman was made "from man" and "for man" and so ought to have "authority" on her head (1 Cor. 11:8, 9, 10). This too is the logic of the Hebrew creation narrative. Adam was made from the earth, whereas Eve was made from Adam. Eve was made for Adam, to be his helper in the dominion mandate. In 1 Timothy 2, Paul makes this same argument. Women are neither "to teach or to exercise authority over a man" because "Adam was formed first." (1 Tim. 2:12-13). Paul does go on to add a punitive element, noting that Eve was deceived, but this is given in addition to the creational arrangement, not in place of or in opposition to it. Thus, 1 Cor. 14:34 is not some lonely example of out-of-place patriarchy. It is wholly consistent with the rest of the Pauline and New Testament landscape. It is entirely logical that Paul's appeal to "the law" is but another way to say what he has already been saying, to summarize the Genesis account. And of course, there are many laws in the Torah which follow the logic of male leadership. Even the 10th Commandment locates the "wife" along with the man's "house." This does not reduce her to property (and indeed her place in the order moves forward in the Deuteronomy account), but it does show that the domestic arrangement was assumed to have a male head.
Steven Wedgeworth, Male-Only Ordination is Natural: Why the Church is a Model of Reality.
Natural law, Biblicism, and Doctrinal Clarity
It is hard to see how the egalitarian impulse differs in its attempts to push back on natural law to those who affirm concepts like same sex marriage for those in the LGBT community or the ability to change one's sex. The argumentation is largely the same and it is not a surprise to see a disproportionately high number of female clergy tend to also affirm a revisionist understanding of marriage too or even objecting to calling and identifying God as our Father. This is because, at its heart, it is the same argument. This is something Lewis in his tract on the topic perceived in the argument even before its acceptance within the Church of England.
The innovators are really implying that sex is something superficial, irrelevant to the spiritual life. To say that men and women are equally eligible for a certain profession is to say that for the purposes of that profession their sex is irrelevant. We are, within that context, treating both as neuters.
This naturally extends to the call to make God as neuter. It is the flattening of the natural distinction and relation between men and women at the heart of this. The treatment of sex as something incidental, rather than intentional and symbolic, that is to be opposed. Egalitarians are keen to emphasise that it isn't a flattening but a reflection of our sexual differences in ministry but the fact that we insist on calling ordained women priests rather than priestesses is telling I think. On paper ones, sex makes no fundamental difference to the egalitarian concerning the suitability of one for the priesthood.
None of the aforementioned came up in Moore's defence of his position and the degree to which it was alluded to was done so at a superficial level. This only goes on to stress the real poverty at the heart of so many Christians when it comes to the union of divine law and human nature and I include myself in this. This is down to many Christians opting for a form of Biblicism that cuts against the Reformation's understanding of Sola Scriptura. Alastair Roberts unpacks this in the video below.
The growing acceptance for women in leadership even amongst Evangelicals in the UK (The HTB network being a good example of this) I think is, as a result, a sure indicator of its eventual acceptance or at least growing toleration or disregard for issues like same-sex marriage and related doctrines like transgenderism over successive generations. Time will tell but I think I will be vindicated. Andrew Wilson wrote on this approach to Church…
HTB has avoided taking a "position" on a number of controversial contemporary issues (much more so than the centre of American evangelicalism in the last generation, Billy Graham, and in this one, Rick Warren), and that their doctrinal boundaries internally are much less defined than most local churches' (they have numerous staff members and even worship leaders, let alone church members, who do not agree with each other on all sorts of doctrinal issues, including some that Christians in previous generations have died over, and allow huge theological diversity to be represented by speakers in their church, conferences and Focus weekends). How many people who run Alpha or the Marriage Course, I wonder, know what view (if any) HTB have of penal substitution, or hell, or predestination, or gay marriage, or any number of other contentious issues in the contemporary church? (Egalitarianism, as mentioned above, is probably the exception that proves the rule). Most evangelicals will wonder why it matters: if someone has a good course, or runs a good conference, what difference does it make what they think about penal substitution, hell, gender roles or gay marriage? This, of course, is exactly the point I'm making – that the centrality of HTB reflects the lack of doctrinal clarity in evangelicalism.
The New Centre of British Evangelicalism By Andrew Wilson, Think Theology
Even before I really changed my views I felt this viscerally at the HtB network church I attended. The cognitive dissonance is really quite something and the silence on these topics feels at time like a willful conspiracy that leaves people on both sides of an issue unsure of where one stands.
I think it's fair to say that if such ambiguity, silence or even promotion of egalitarianism continues to develop in this way (which I hope they don't), will lead to further decline in church numbers. This namely being down to confidence in the reliability of scripture, the doctrines of ones church, and its ethical teaching corresponding with a Churches ability to grow and retain members. One article on the topic of conservatism and church growth writing…
Theologically conservative believers were more unified in terms of priorities and what was right and wrong, he added. "That also makes them more confident and, to those on the outside looking in, confidence is persuasive all on its own. Confidence mixed with a message that's uplifting, reassuring or basically positive is an attractive combination."
Harriet Sherwood, Literal interpretation of Bible 'helps increase church attendance', The Guardian, 2016
And elsewhere…
"Strong" religious movements make demands of their members in terms of both belief and behavior. These churches demand adherence to highly defined doctrines that are to be received, believed, and taught without compromise. They also understand themselves to be separate from the larger secular culture, and the requirements of membership in the church define a distance from secular beliefs and behaviors.
The liberal churches are, by their own decision, opposed to these very principles. The mainline Protestant churches desired to be taken seriously and respected by the intellectual elites. They wanted the benefits of cultural acceptance and esteem. They lowered doctrinal and behavioral requirements and made membership more a matter of personal preference than of theological conviction.
R. Albert Mohler, Jr., Why Conservative Churches Are Growing, Christian Post 2011
The correlation between egalitarianism and a decline in church numbers is something that has always been emphatically rejected by Egalitarians but one has to look at a macro style state of affairs for mainline traditions in contrast to more independent evangelical churches (who tend to be more conservative) on these topics for an answer. Now, this isn't me saying that I blame a decline in church numbers in part to the ordination of women. Correlation isn't causation. Rather the solo (rather than sola) view of scripture is the disease of which such things are a symptom and with it comes a low view of reality because the two speak to one another.
This isn't just a scripture precedent but something I think baked into us. The economist Nassim Nicholas Taleb is right in this sense that religion is in part "the wise product of thousands of years of accumulated wisdom that help us to live better in the face of what's unknown". This isn't entirely dissimilar to Chesterton's upholding of tradition when he says "Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." Taleb also argues more broadly against widespread change to complex systems (he gives humans polluting the environment and global warming as an example) given we cannot predict all the variables at play in advance of making such decisions.
Could one imagine a figure like Jordan Peterson appealing to the numbers of Men he has if he was a Woman? Is the fact that he is a Man himself merely incidental? I do not believe so, and it isn't misogyny for this to be the case. At the same time Christianity, for whatever reason, has never had a problem with the attendance of women. Yet it has had a problem attracting men, especially in comparison to other faiths like Islam or Orthodox Judaism. Something I've also written about previously. To pretend otherwise is bordering on willful ignorance to me.
None of the early advocates for Egalitarianism would argue the knock-on effects (namely an erosion of doctrinal clarity in the traditions who embraced it) would necessarily follow initially by granting their position. Yet it occurred and paved the way for more extreme positions which wouldn't have initially been granted by those who initially green-lighted these changes to church teaching. We can't always predict the impact of the changes we make to our doctrine at the time and it is only with some distance down the road travelled that we see its implications.
Egalitarianism via Technology
Returning to our contemporary neglect of natural law we aren't helped by the fact that we live in a world where technology increasingly is used to erode the differences between the sexes. The idea of using technology to overcome or minimise our limitations, however, isn't a new thing. Someone like the 19th century secularist philosopher William Winwood Reade stated this goal explicitly.
These bodies which now we wear belong to the lower animals; our minds have already outgrown them; already we look upon them with contempt. A time will come when Science will transform them by means which we cannot conjecture, and which, even if explained to us, we could not now understand, just as the savage cannot understand electricity, magnetism, steam.
Us poor savages, grubbing in the ground for our daily bread, eating flesh and blood, dwelling in vile bodies which degrade us every day to a level with the beasts, tortured by pains, and by animal propensities, buried in gloomy superstitions, ignorant of Nature which yet holds us in her bonds.
William Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man, 1872
The difference between something extreme like Transhumanism and the Egalitarian cause might seem radical but I believe it is a difference of degree rather than kind. This isn't to say to be a Christian is to be a luddite, technology as therapy is a blessing. I work for a technology company but when it circumvents nature it becomes a different thing, what Reade describes makes us become something less than human.
An invention like the contraceptive pill is emblematic of technology being used to facilitate dramatic changes to how we relate to one another that could speak both to the Egalitarian cause and that of Reade's. Yet, as Taleb points out, these changes can have unintended side effects which we cannot fully appreciate until the change has occurred. Changes that in the case of the pill are evidenced by something like the decline in marriage. As Mark Regenerus writes…
The introduction of the Pill has not changed what men and women value most, but it has transformed how they relate. The marriage market before the Pill was populated by roughly equal numbers of men and women, whose bargaining positions were comparable and predictable. Men valued attractiveness more than women, and women valued economic prospects more than men. Knowing that men wanted sex, but realizing that sex was risky without a corresponding commitment, women often demanded a ring—a clear sign of his sacrifice and commitment.
Not anymore. Artificial contraception has made it so that people seldom mention marriage in the negotiations over sex. Ideals of chastity that shored up these practical necessities have been replaced with paeans to free love and autonomy. As one twenty-nine-year-old woman demonstrated when my research team asked her whether men should have to "work" for sex: "Yes. Sometimes. Not always. I mean, I don't think it should necessarily be given out by women, but I do think it's okay if a woman does just give it out. Just not all the time." The mating market no longer leads to marriage, which is still "expensive"—costly in terms of fidelity, time, and finances—while sex has become comparatively "cheap."
Mark Regenerus, The Death of Eros, First Things, 2017
This is why we should be wary of "removing the ancient landmarks our fathers have set" (Proverbs 22:28). Marriage in scripture, the union of man and women, is of great symbolic significance. God is the groom, his Church the bride (Matthew 9:14-15, John 3:28-29, Ephesians 5:24–27, 2 Corinthians 11:2, Revelation 19:7–9, 21:1-2). What relevance is scripture in a society that has no frame of reference for practices like marriage in scripture? These aren't just abstractions and theoretical concepts but things we inhabit and experience in our own bodies.
To think the anthropology of the bible is incidental rather than in accord with natural law is to fundamentally misunderstand how it communicates to us and how we are to approach it. To see man and woman as interchangeable, or to aspire to make them androgynous neuters, in one area sets us up to see them as such in other areas.
Misogyny as an argument for Egalitarianism
One of the most powerful arguments in a debate like the one I initially linked to was the pervasiveness of misogyny perpetrated by complementarian or traditional churches. The abuse of women is seen as intrinsically linked to a traditional or patriarchal view of the church and society. One can confess this is a genuine issue, but is it intrinsic? Yet one of the frustrating things about the debate was the lack of examples of how egalitarianism in action does not address this as a problem. The foremost example in my mind was the abuse scandal that rocked the American Egalitarian Megachurch Willow Creek. Various measures can be taken, improvements to accountability and transparency against this yet these are not contingent on egalitarianism. Yet unless abuse or misogyny is something intrinsic to men the issue isn't a limiting of the office of elder or minister to men but how said men conduct themselves. If it is something intrinsic to men the response isn't Egalitarianism but something closer to barring the office of elder or minister from men altogether. If the revelation of scripture as we have received it only specifies the office to men this argument, in the words of Lewis, leaves us "want not to make priestesses but to abolish priests".
What does one do?
I say all this from within a tradition that has come to different conclusions than my own. The default mode of the church accepts the ordination of women. Exceptions are made but how long do optional orthodoxies remain optional? People complain of a NHS postcode lottery but now the Church of England suffers from a parish lottery. Is your parish orthodox or heterodox? If you travel where does one go to church? As a parishioner who are you to take exception where your priest and bishop do not? How does one live with that sort of cognitive dissonance? If one really believes this is a question of orthodoxy how can one accept, take seriously, or submit to clergy in error on this? Orthodoxy cannot be optional – this isn't an extremist position but a tenant shared even by those who introduced this practice and willfully departed from the universally accepted practice of the church prior to this point.
The change to allow the ordination of women I think has fundamentally altered the Church of England. In a way it is a new creation. Yet what do you do if one still feels their experience and understanding of Anglicanism, or something like it, still rings true? I didn't leave the Church of England but I think it left those who believe as I do on this. Yet where else is there to go as a layman trapped by time and increasingly by geography? I cannot answer this question mindful that I also have the added handicap of not being a Calvinist and not accepting the traditional position of the Church of England on Baptism which at times feels insurmountable. Yet in all other ways agree fully with the 39 articles and its traditional exposition. All I know is a very palpable sense of loss over the departure of the Church of England on this. A sense of rootlessness. Can one even be said to believe in an episcopacy anymore when one willfully protests against its decisions?
I feel more association with a church that is now consigned to history because its contemporary manifestation has departed from the precedent of its ancestors. For bishops to make such a move is an act of violence against their flock and seems done in a conscious rejection of those who came before. In my heart of hearts if I am wrong I choose to be wrong in the way the saints of old, whose witness made public the faith 'which was once for all delivered' to us. This change seems devoid of all reverence not only of God but of the Church throughout the world prior to the 20th century and I do not wish to be party to such conduct any longer.
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Thanks to our Immanuel family for such a generous response in providing food to people in need at Thanksgiving. It was truly humbling to see God at work in such a powerful way. As a result, we were able to provide 56 food boxes with gift cards to families in need this Thanksgiving, who were identified in conjunction with several of our partners in ministry in our community. Here's how Immanuel is helping make a difference in the lives of these families.
Neighborhood Christian Centers – Their primary mission is to guide those in need toward stability and sustainability through compassionate, Christ-centered ministries and empowerment programs. Established in 1978, ministries include emergency aid, life skills and job training, Bible study, and family enrichment program youth. Immanuel has worked with NCC for a number of years through our church and school ministry, often around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Most of the families in need we helped at Thanksgiving were the poorest of the poor in our community.
HopeWorks – Serves the under-resourced through outreach programs that develop individual worth, encourage personal responsibility, and promote the honor and value of work by implementing a holistic approach through daily classes and meals, educational training, and spiritual counseling to break the cycle of crime, addiction, and generational poverty that traps so many in our city. HopeWorks has served the Memphis / Shelby County area for over 25 years. Those in need we helped at Thanksgiving were students enrolled in personal and career development classes at HopeWorks and their families.
Memphis Union Mission – The Mission ministers to the physical, spiritual, and emotional needs of men, women and children who are homeless, addicted, and in crisis. Immanuel has partnered with the Mission for a number of years by sharing the Gospel while leading the chapel service at the Mission, providing and preparing lunch and dinner, and by supplying clothes and hygiene kits, as ways to help meet the needs of the homeless. We were able to help those in need at Thanksgiving by providing food to families in the neighborhood near the Mission's Opportunity Center and families requesting specific assistance through the Mission.
RestoreCorps – The mission of RestoreCorps is to eradicate human trafficking by empowering survivors, equipping communities, and seeking justice through systemic change. 85% of Tennessee counties, including Shelby County, have documented cases of human trafficking. Restore Corps has been designated as the official single point of contact for human trafficking services in the West Tennessee division of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation. Providing food at Thanksgiving helps not only meet a physical need but also provides a sense of normalcy for survivors of human trafficking.
Immanuel Lutheran Church – Our own are also part of our community. We shared our blessings with those in our midst that were in need at Thanksgiving.


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Posted on January 16, 2014 by huffsantacruz
NOTE BY NORSE: Another article on the acquittal of the killers of the homeless man Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, CA.
Yesterday I and several others Copwatched an incident at mid-day near the Metro Transit Center (Parking Lot #12). There a diminutive quiet woman and her small dog were held on the sidewalk by three police officers (CSO Barnett, Sgt. Le Moss, and a female officer whose name I didn't catch) with two squad cars nearby, one half blocking the cross-street. Le Moss is notorious among homeless activists for breaking the arm of an elderly homeless woman–Donna Deiss–some years back (See "Donna Deiss police brutality criminal trial abruptly ends" at https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/05/18/18595728.php ).The woman reported that another officer was walking by, turned to confront her and the dog snapped at the officer. This apparent "disrespect for authority"–perhaps along with the outrageousness of a poor person sitting on the sidewalk downtown?–prompted the officer to call for back-up, contact animal control, and hold the woman and her dog for, she estimated, half an hour. I and others gathered to begin observing and audioing–which may have moderated the police behavior. The dog was not immediately taken into custody, but animal control is reported going to "visit" the woman.Santa Cruz Police and Deputy Sheriffs have killed suspects in the last two decades with no apparent disciplinary (to say nothing of legal) consequences ranging from Carlos Machado in 1990 to Happy John Dine in 1997 to Brian Andress in 1998 (a bit uncertain of that date) to David Anthony Cross in 2005 (See "Stop Lethal Tasering in Santa Cruz"
at http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/18625/index.php ).Armed thuggery by SCPD, "security" guards, hosts (as the snitch eyes and ears), and private security (such as New Leaf hired last year) are now roaming the streets, ready to gather in packs at the least provocation or challenge to their authority. Mayor "Rattlesnake" Robinson is notorious for packing with the police as part of her right-wing riptide campaign using Santa Cruz Neighbors, Take Back Santa Cruz, to elect reactionaries under a wave of drug war and anti-homeless hysteria masquerading as "Public Safety".
The rotten fruits of former Mayor Bryant's police-happy "Citizens Public Safety Task Force" has yet to be crammed down our throats, but City Council has already unanimously approved Councilmember "Darkside" David Terrazas's Resolution (see
http://sire.cityofsantacruz.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=538&doctype=SUMMARY).Get ready to exercise your First Amendment Direct Action rights–or be reduced to futile begging and whimpering–as we was sadly demonstrated by opponents of the SCPD's Bike Blockade against the Bike Church, with Councilmember Posner, as usual, doing nothing but "seeking assurances from the City Manager".
All Of Us Need To Be Very Afraid Now: "Peace Officers" Who Beat Homeless Mentally Ill Man To Death Somehow Found Not Guilty
by Abby Zimet
Astonishingly, infuriatingly, two former Fullerton, California cops have been acquitted on all charges after savagely beating to death Kelly Thomas, 37, a mentally ill homeless man who died five days after being set upon by Manuel Ramos, Jay Cicinelli and four other officers. The attack, caught on surveillance video, led to days of protests, the recall of three City Council members and the resignation of a police chief whose department has a long history of violent abuse.
Thomas' father Ron, a former deputy sheriff, said the defense "lied continuously" during the trial and the family will likely pursue civil charges in the death of his son, who a year after his death was cleared of the stupid bogus charges – trying to get into locked cars in a bus parking lot – police came up with in a pathetic attempt to justify their cold-blooded, fist-punching murder.
Since the verdict, people have held vigils and protests at a makeshift memorial where Thomas died; one sign carries Thomas' picture before the beating and proclaims, "No one can hurt u now." Also, the FBI has said it will review the evidence for federal civil rights violations. There is both raw and shorter, edited video of the attack:
It captures Ramos snapping on rubber gloves, smacking his fists together and sneering to Thomas, "See these fists? They're gonna fuck you up," followed, many vicious punches later, by Thomas writihing on the ground repeatedly crying out for help and his father. Warning: stomach-churningly graphic and heart-poundingly disturbing, all of it.
"These peace officers were doing their jobs. They were operating as they were trained and they had no malice in their hearts." – defense attorney
Kelly Thomas after beating
The sadistic thugs who did that
In another instance the parents called the police to help deal with their schizophrenic mentally ill son.
The youth was tasered and lying helpless on the ground. One cop pulled out a gun and said "we do not have the time for this" and shot him dead.
There are also people here, I am sure , who will say "Well you can not condemn these officers unless you experienced what they did and if they feel bad about it it really the fault of those in charge"
Or IS there? Will the same people who give US soldiers a pass because "it not really their fault" when they shoot a 4 year old dead in Afghanistan give a pass to these officers as well?
Or do they just reserve that outrage when it an American killed?
Brutes and thugs are attracted to the uniform, the gun and the chance of being able to take the life of another.
Over 5000 US civilians have been killed by the police since 9/11.
The number of poor and the homeless killed overseas by men in uniform is not even counted.
They are linked in spite of those that would deny it.
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If that is not terrorism I do not know what is.
Where did you get this? I know that they do not keep statistics because I've looked for it before. Obviously they do not keep track on purpose. I assume it is an estimate but where did it come from?
In 1994 congress ordered the Attorney General to compile and publish a list of police brutality. The AG never did it. The FBI doesn't keep statistics on it and I don't think any government agency does.
But Wikipedia, one of the great innovations on the internet, does:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L…
Over 400 police "justified homicides" per year, so the 5,000 figure looks just about right since 9/11 (12 1/2 years)
That figure is low by my research (I mean by research, my reading on the internet). I have previously quoted and cited a journalist who researched internet available shooting reports via internet and came up with a figure of about 1,100 in one recent year (persons shot dead by police in the USA, in enforcement related situations, not domestic abuse etc). BUT I can't find the citation again, it was most interesting.
Mother Jones has an article with some statistics,[http://www.motherjones.com/pol…] and I quote
«The Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Statistics has been compiling data on deaths of suspects following arrests, but the information covers just 40 states and only includes arrest fatalities. From January 2003 through December 2009, bureau statistics show 4,813 deaths occurred during "an arrest or restraint process." Of those, 61% (2,931) were classified as homicides by law enforcement personnel, 11% (541) as suicides, 11% (525) as due to intoxication, 6% (272) as accidental injuries, and 5% (244) were attributed to natural causes. About 42% of the dead were white, 32% were black, and 20% were Hispanic.»
Interestingly, no agency is tasked with compiling these statistics and local police forces seem to find ways around transparent, accurate and timely reporting of their own statistics.
Addendum: and while the number of shooting-of-others-by-police is apparently increasing, the number of shooting-of-police-by-others is decreasing. Is that solely because the police shoot first, faster and longer? Or is something more fundamental going on (?).F
I could not watch the entire video. It was too upsetting. The cries of anguish and fear that came from Mr. Thomas as he was being assaulted by the officers are the stuff of nightmares. This is what can happen to you when you are poor and homeless and "worthless" in this ruthless predatory society. Mr. Thomas–a schizophrenic– was obviously living a desperate and difficult life on the streets. Now the officers who accosted him could have shown some compassion if they were half-decent human beings. But these people are thoroughly indecent: for no reason whatsoever they spark a conflict with Mr. Thomas so they can have an excuse to give him a good ass whipping. It must have been that as soon as they saw him, they wanted to find a way to give him some grief. Ramos, Cincinelli and the other four officers are essentially no different from a street gang that cruises the city looking for victims. The only difference is their violence has the sanction of badge and uniform. These so-called "peace officers" would never have treated a middle-class citizen in this fashion. Because those people have money to get lawyers and they know their rights. But who cares about some raggedy ass "homeless guy"? The officers reason that they can treat him like shit, and because they are petty sadistic tyrants, without an ounce of humanity in their hearts, they beat down a defenseless man, and sent him to his death. If they weren't wearing the blue, their cowardly assault would easily be seen as the crime that it is. Shame on the jury for returning an innocent verdict. But I'm sure the jury was made up of the The moral significance of the officers' behavior is one thing. The psychological motivation for that behavior is quite another. I think there is something to what you say, but I would put it like this: while the officers might FEAR the condition of poverty, they LOATHE actual poor people. You might well be right that the "vulnerability" of the homeless strikes terror in the hearts of those who over-value security. And many Americans over value security, because the natural tendency of American society (as a dog-eat-dog polity) is to make people insecure, with all its attendant anxieties. It has long been known that authoritarian types are often anxious people. Many Americans are so fearful of what poverty represents, it's a short walk from there to hating poor people, as people will often hate what makes them afraid. It just goes to show you what a screwed up country the USA is, and how so muc
The police officers knew Mr. Thomas, jrp1900. Of course, that suggests they also knew that he was harmless, homeless and mentally ill. And they beat him to death anyway. Given that additional fact of knowing Thomas beforehand, the jury's verdict of "not guilty" for the cops seems doubly monstrous. It was not possible to argue at all, I think, that Thomas represented some imminent threat. Surely that must have been crystal clear during the trial.
As for Orange County's denizens, they've managed to elect some of the most right-wing troglodytes to Congress, and keep them there, year after year. I attribute this awful tendency to the apolitical mindset of OC residents. What I mean by apolitical is that they don't think in terms of civil society or democracy at all. They're not invested in concepts like assessing the good of the commonwealth and right actions toward that end. So they tolerate some real sketchy characters in office. That said, they'd likely seem "normal" to you if you met them on the street. However, it's clear that OC denizens don't make proper mental connections with regard to the larger social world. They live as if in a bubble.
This phenomenon is not something I understand too well, but the disconnect can be found in other examples. For instance, we see loyalist Dems, knowing full well about Obama's Murder Incorporated and his bankster bailouts, etc., and yet we see them happily voting him up for a second term. They just can't connect cause and effect somehow.
We also saw the crazy jury in Florida acquit George Zimmerman of killing Treyvon Martin. Something in the "conservative" mindset just can't think straig
The following happened in the Harrisburg PA area some years back. A mentally ill man had been taken to the mental health unit of a local hospital. Due to apparently lax security the man wandered off and went home — not sure how he got there, if he called a cab, called a friend, hitch-hiked, I don't know. Anyway, he went home. When it was noted that he was missing from the hospital the local police department from the man's home boro were called, and they, two of them went to his residence, a mobile home. Remember, this man is mentally ill, and may not have been cognizant of reality. The police entered his home. The man was terribly frightened, may or may not have realized that the intruders were police officers, and grabbed a couple sauce pans to use as defensive weapons to ward of the police who were approaching him. The police officers shot him to death. They could have waited outside his home for mental health professionals to arrive. They could have stepped outside once they saw how frightened the man was. No. They had to kill him. I don't recall whether the officers were disciplined. I'll see if I can find this story and provide a link later on.
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4-party grand coalition deal reached in Tunisia
By Bill Humphrey February 5, 2015 - 8:20 pm February 5, 2015 Arsenal Analysis
Four parties and some independents have formed a grand coalition government in Tunisia after months of struggling to assemble a coalition that had a majority but did not include the second-place Ennahda (the main Islamic democrats party), which led much of the transition after the Arab Spring.
Eventually, first place Nidaa Tounes (the secular Bourguibist party), which leads the new cabinet and holds the presidency, recognized that the math wasn't there to leave out Ennahda and invited them to join, along with two other secular parties, Free Patriotic Union and Afek Tounes. After the October 2014 elections, Nidaa Tounes controls about 40% of the seats in the unicameral Assembly of the Representatives of the People, while Ennahda controls about 32%. Between them, they hold over 70% of the seats and about 85% of the seats with the addition of the 3rd and 5th largest parties.
This has left the new coalition on the receiving end of charges that it has restored One-Party Rule (like what the country experienced for much of its post-independence period), but that ignores the reality that other parties captured very little of the vote but won enough seats to make a smaller coalition very difficult. 12 parties won more than 1% of the vote, and 14 parties plus independents hold seats. The bulk of votes and seats went to Nidaa Tounes and Ennahda. The margin between 2nd (Ennahda) and 3rd place (Free Patriotic Union) is a whopping 53 seats.
Last month, Nidaa Tounes had proposed a coalition with the 3rd largest party (probably its closest ideological match) but that fell 5 seats short of a majority, and neither 2nd place Ennahda nor the 4th place marxist-leninist-secularists of the Popular Front supported a minority government arrangement. (The Popular Front were not invited to participate in this government either and have announced their displeasure with the new coalition too. 5th place Afek Tounes joined instead.)
Bringing four of the five biggest parties on board (including Ennahda), while presenting a rather overwhelming unity force, guarantees that the coalition could survive even if one of them drops out later. Moreover, it at least gives a say in governance to a collective 70%+ of voters, without giving disproportionate power to parties that won just 1-2% of the vote each last October. After all, even a 3-party coalition of Nidaa Tounes, Free Patriotic Union, and Popular Front (or Afek Tounes) — but without Ennahda — would have only had the support of only about 45% of all voters, even if it held a majority of seats in the assembly. That's a good way to delegitimize democracy at the start. In contrast, this four-party coalition will be providing majority rule as well as representing various political factions and minorities.
On balance, this grand coalition is excellent news, in my opinion. This is the path forward for the next few years in the first term of elective democracy under the new, post-Arab Spring Constitution. Everyone is on the hook for failures and bad decisions as part of the coalition, so it removes some incentives to be obstructionist or to root for failure. It also encourages party supporters not to fight each other outside a political context.
Major, controversial ministries like Interior, Defense, and Justice have been given to independents, which might also help defuse tensions and reduce the risk of those offices being turned into political weapons. Less controversial key ministries have been divided between Nidaa Tounes and Ennahda, with the winning secularists representing the high-profile public face of Tunisia (via the Foreign Ministry and Finance Ministry for example), while the lower-profile but important work at the Employment Ministry goes to the Islamists, along with various junior ministries. Giving the Islamists the Employment Ministry seems an ideal choice, as that's a major focus/concern of the party and has been a big factor in their popularity. The coalition's other big challenge will be combating the appeal of terrorist recruiters in Tunisia.
Prime Minister Habib Essid spoke to members of the Assembly after the coalition proposal was overwhelmingly adopted and said "The motto of this government will be work, then work… and nothing other than work."
Time to get to it, then.
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Дневные животные, живущие группами. Распространены в широком диапазоне климатических и географических зон — горы, дождевые леса, саванны, каменистые плато.

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COORDINATES: 37°5′0″N 15°17′0″E SURFACE: 204,08 km2 INHABITANTS: 123.448
Syracuse (Italian: Siracusa pronounced [siraˈku(ː)za], Sicilian: Sarausa, Ancient Greek: Συράκουσαι – transliterated: Syrakousai) is a historic city in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Syracuse. The city is famous for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture, and as the birthplace of Archimedes. This 2,700 year-old city played a key role in ancient times, when it was one of the major powers of the Mediterranean world. Syracuse is located in the south-east corner of the island of Sicily, right by the Gulf of Syracuse next to the Ionian Sea.
The city was founded by Ancient Greek Corinthians and became a very powerful city-state. Syracuse was allied with Sparta and Corinth, exerting influence over the entire Magna Grecia area of which it was the most important city. Once described by Cicero as "the greatest Greek city and the most beautiful of them all", it later became part of the Roman Republic and Byzantine Empire. After this Palermo overtook it in importance, as the capital of the Kingdom of Sicily. Eventually the kingdom would be united with the Kingdom of Naples to form the Two Sicilies until the Italian unification of 1860.
In the modern day, the city is listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site along with the Necropolis of Pantalica. In the central area, the city itself has a population of around 125,000 people. The inhabitants are known as Siracusans, and the local language spoken by its inhabitants is the Sicilian language. Syracuse is mentioned in the Bible in the Acts of the Apostles book at 28:12 as Paul stayed there. The patron saint of the city is Saint Lucy; she was born in Syracuse and her feast day, Saint Lucy's Day, is celebrated on 13 December.
Greek period
Syracuse and its surrounding area have been inhabited since ancient times, as shown by the findings in the villages of Stentinello, Ognina, Plemmirio, Matrensa, Cozzo Pantano and Thapsos, which already had a relationship with Mycenaean Greece.
Syracuse was founded in 734 or 733 BC by Greek settlers from Corinth and Tenea, led by the oecist (colonizer) Archias, who called it Sirako, referring to a nearby salt marsh. The nucleus of the ancient city was the small island of Ortygia. The settlers found the land fertile and the native tribes to be reasonably well-disposed to their presence. The city grew and prospered, and for some time stood as the most powerful Greek city anywhere in the Mediterranean. Colonies were founded at Akrai (664 BC), Kasmenai (643 BC), Akrillai (7th century BC), Helorus (7th century BC) and Kamarina (598 BC). The descendants of the first colonist, called Gamoroi, held the power until they were expelled by the Killichiroi, the lower class of the city. The former, however, returned to power in 485 BC, thanks to the help of Gelo, ruler of Gela. Gelo himself became the despot of the city, and moved many inhabitants of Gela, Kamarina and Megera to Syracuse, building the new quarters of Tyche and Neapolis outside the walls. His program of new constructions included a new theater, designed by Damocopos, which gave the city a flourishing cultural life: this in turn attracted personalities as Aeschylus, Ario of Metimma, Eumelos of Corinth and Sappho, who had been exiled here from Mytilene. The enlarged power of Syracuse made unavoidable the clash against the Carthaginians, who ruled western Sicily. In the Battle of Himera, Gelo, who had allied with Theron of Agrigento, decisively defeated the African force led by Hamilcar. A temple, entitled to Athena (on the site of the today's Cathedral), was erected in the city to commemorate the event
Gelon was succedeed by his brother Hiero, who fought against the Etruscans at Cumae in 474 BC. His rule was eulogized by poets like Simonides of Ceos, Bacchylides and Pindar, who visited his court. A democratic regime was introduced by Thrasybulos (467 BC). The city continued to expand in Sicily, fighting against the rebellious Siculi, and on the Tyrrhenian Sea, making expeditions up to Corsica and Elba. In the late 5th century BC, Syracuse found itself at war with Athens, which sought more resources to fight the Peloponnesian War. The Syracusans enlisted the aid of a general from Sparta, Athens' foe in the war, to defeat the Athenians, destroy their ships, and leave them to starve on the island (see Sicilian Expedition). In 401 BC, Syracuse contributed a force of 3,000 hoplites and a general to Cyrus the Younger's Army of the Ten Thousand.
Then in the early 4th century BC, the tyrant Dionysius the Elder was again at war against Carthage and, although losing Gela and Camarina, kept that power from capturing the whole of Sicily. After the end of the conflict Dionysius built a massive fortress on the Ortygia island of the city and 22 km-long walls around all of Syracuse. Another period of expansion saw the destruction of Naxos, Catania and Lentini, then Syracuse entered again in war against Carthage (397 BC). After various changes of fortune, the Carthaginians managed to besiege Syracuse itself, but were eventually pushed back by a pestilence. A treaty in 392 BC allowed Syracuse to enlarge further its possessions, founding the cities of Adrano, Ancona, Adria, Tindari and Tauromenos, and conquering Rhegion on the continent. Apart from his battle deeds, Dionysius was famous as a patron of art, and Plato himself visited Syracuse several times.
His successor was Dionysius the Younger, who was however expelled by Dion in 356 BC. But the latter's despotic rule led in turn to his expulsion, and Dionysius reclaimed his throne in 347 BC. A democratic government was installed by Timoleon in 345 BC. The long series of internal struggles had weakened Syracuse's power on the island, and Timoleon tried to remedy this, defeating the Carthaginians in 339 BC near the Krimisos river. But the struggle among the city's parties restarted after his death and ended with the rise of another tyrant, Agathocles, who seized power with a coup in 317 BC. He resumed the war against Carthage, with alternate fortunes. He however scored a moral success, bringing the war to the Carthaginians' native African soil, inflicting heavy losses to the enemy. The war ended with another treaty of peace which did not prevent the Carthaginians interfering in the politics of Syracuse after the death of Agathocles (289 BC). The citizens called Pyrrhus of Epirus for help. After a brief period under the rule of Epirus, Hiero II seized power in 275 BC.
Hiero inaugurated a period of 50 years of peace and prosperity, in which Syracause became one of the most renowned capitals of Antiquity. He issued the so-called Lex Hieronica, which was later adopted by the Romans for their administration of Sicily; he also had the theater enlarged and a new immense altar, the "Hiero's Ara", built. Under his rule lived the most famous Syracusan, the mathematician and natural philosopher Archimedes. Among his many inventions were various military engines including the claw of Archimedes, later used to resist the Roman siege of 214 BC–212 BC. Literary figures included Theocritus and others.
Hiero's successor, the young Hieronymus (ruled from 215 BC), broke the alliance with the Romans after their defeat at the Battle of Cannae and accepted Carthage's support. The Romans, led by consul Marcus Claudius Marcellus, besieged the city in 214 BC. The city held out for three years, but fell in 212 BC. It is believed to have fallen due to a peace party opening a small door in the wall to negotiate a peace, but the Romans charged through the door and took the city, killing Archimedes in the process.
From Roman domination to the Middle Ages
Though declining slowly by the years, Syracuse maintained the status of capital of the Roman government of Sicily and seat of the praetor. It remained an important port for the trades between the Eastern and the Western parts of the Empire. Christianity spread in the city through the efforts of Paul of Tarsus and Saint Marziano, the first bishop of the city, who made it one of the main centres of proselytism in the West. In the age of the persecutions massive catacombs were carved, whose size is second only to those of Rome.
After a period of Vandal rule, Syracuse and the island was recovered by Belisarius for the Byzantine Empire (31 December 535). From 663 to 668 Syracuse was the seat of Emperor Constans II, as well as metropolis of the whole Sicilian Church.
Another siege in 878, resulted in the city coming under two centuries of Muslim rule. The capital was moved from Syracuse to Palermo. The Cathedral was converted into a mosque and the quarter on the Ortygia island was gradually rebuilt along Islamic styles. The city, nevertheless, maintained important trade relationships, and housed a relatively flourishing cultural and artistic life: several Arab poets, including Ibn Hamdis, the most important Sicilian poet of the 12th century, flourished in the city.
In 1038, the Byzantine general George Maniaces reconquered the city, sending the relics of St. Lucy to Constantinople. The eponymous castle on the cape of Ortygia bears his name, although it was built under the Hohenstaufen rule. In 1085 the Normans entered Syracuse, one of the last Arab strongholds, after a summer-long siege by Roger I of Sicily and his son Jordan of Hauteville, who was given the city as count. New quarters were built, and the cathedral was restored, as well as other churches.
In 1194 Henry VI of Swabia occupied Syracuse. After a short period of Genoese rule (1205–1220), which favoured a rise of trades, Syracuse was conquered back by emperor Frederick II. He began the construction of the Castello Maniace, the Bishops' Palace and the Bellomo Palace. Frederick's death brought a period of unrest and feudal anarchy. In the struggle between the Anjou and Aragonese monarchies, Syracuse sided with the Aragonese and defeated the Anjou in 1298, receiving from the Spanish sovereigns great privileges in reward. The pre-eminence of baronal families is also shown by the construction of the palaces of Abela, Chiaramonte, Nava, Montalto.
The city was struck by two ruinous earthquakes in 1542 and 1693, and a plague in 1729. The 17th century destruction changed forever the appearance of Syracuse, as well as the entire Val di Noto, whose cities were rebuilt along the typical lines of Sicilian Baroque, considered one of the most typical expressions of art of Southern Italy. The spread of cholera in 1837 led to a revolt against the Bourbon government. The punishment was the move of the province capital seat to Noto, but the unrest had not been totally choked, as the Siracusani took part in the Sicilian revolution of independence of 1848.
After the Unification of Italy of 1865, Syracuse regained its status of provincial capital. In 1870 the walls were demolished and a bridge connecting the mainland to Ortygia island was built. In the following year a railway link was constructed.
Heavy destruction was caused by the Allied and the German bombings in 1943. Operation Husky, the allied invasion of Sicily was launched on the night of 9/10 July 1943 with British forces attacking the west of the island. General Montgomery's Eighth Army captured Syracuse on the first day of the invasion almost unopposed. The port was then used as a base for the Royal Navy. To the west of the city is a Commonwealth War Graves cemetery where about a 1000 men are buried. After the end of World War II the northern quarters of Syracuse experienced a heavy, often chaotic, expansion, favoured by the quick process of industrialization.
Syracuse today has about 125,000 inhabitants and numerous attractions for the visitor interested in historical sites (such as the Ear of Dionysius). A process of recovering and restoring the historical centre has been ongoing since the 1990s. Nearby places of note include Catania, Noto, Modica and Ragusa.
In 2007, there were 122,972 people residing in Syracuse, located in the province of Syracuse, Sicily, of whom 48.7% were male and 51.3% were female. Minors (children ages 18 and younger) totalled 18.87 percent of the population compared to pensioners who number 16.87 percent. This compares with the Italian average of 18.06 percent (minors) and 19.94 percent (pensioners). The average age of Syracuse resident is 40 compared to the Italian average of 42. In the five years between 2002 and 2007, the population of Syracuse declined by 0.49 percent, while Italy as a whole grew by 3.56 percent. The reason for decline is a population flight to the suburbs, and northern Italy. The current birth rate of Syracuse is 9.75 births per 1,000 inhabitants compared to the Italian average of 9.45 births.
As of 2006, 97.9% of the population was of Sicilian/Italian descent. The largest immigrant group came from other European nations (particularly those from Poland, and the United Kingdom): 0.61%, North Africa (mostly Tunisian): 0.51%, and South Asia: 0.37%.
Syracuse experiences a hot-summer Mediterranean climate (Koppen climate classification Csa) with mild, wet winters and warm to hot, dry summers.
Climate data for Syracuse
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CFTC May Recognize Overseas Clearinghouses
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is taking action to resolve issues related to the extraterritoriality of regulations related to OTC derivatives, including clearing and execution.
In a speech to the Futures Industry Association conference on Tuesday, acting CFTC chairman Mark Wetjen said that regulators need to establish a mutual recognition framework for foreign swap execution facilities and foreign derivatives clearing organizations.
The CFTC may consider a rulemaking next month that will set forth certain standards for, and a process to permit, some types of clearing arrangements through foreign clearinghouses, Wetjen said.
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The policy judgments in that proposal were in some respects simplified by the widespread adoption of the Principles for Financial Market Infrastructures and the international dialogue on clearing. The PFMIs appear to reflect a consensus view on certain aspects of clearing regulation, and in general, stand in contrast to the more varied views on swap execution across the globe, he said.
Observers at the FIA conference noted the massive changes in market structure and workflow associated with the switch from bilateral OTC trading to trading on SEFs.
Regarding challenges for SEF operators, Chris Ferreri, head of e-commerce Americas at ICAP, said one is uncertainty among market participants. "There is a significant amount of confusion with the broader customer base," he said.
"Many of our buy-side customers have not faced regulatory changes in their lifetimes," said Jodi Burns, head of regulations, post-trade networks, and market intelligence at Thomson Reuters Marketplaces. "It's a foreign concept for them."
Unfortunately, the companion trade-execution proposal will not have the benefit of an advanced international dialogue on execution issues, Wetjen said. The proposal must therefore rely on the standards developed under the Commission's SEF rulemaking and re-affirmed more recently in the MTF letter, which will encourage other jurisdictions to develop principles for pre-trade transparency and impartial access in accord with U.S. standards.
The CFTC has granted conditional relief to registered multilateral trading facilities, following through on the agency's commitments in the Path Forward statement last year. The CFTC staff's relief was conditioned on foreign trading platforms meeting not only the regulatory requirements of their home jurisdictions but also fundamental access and pre-trade transparency requirements applicable under U.S. law to swap execution facilities.
"MTFs relying upon the staff relief must, for example, offer their participants an order book, provide impartial access to the platform, support mandatory clearing, and facilitate post-trade reporting to U.S. registered swap data repositories," said Wetjen. "This approach accordingly promotes harmonized access and pre-trade transparency requirements in the swaps markets."
In another example of its efforts to harmonize reforms, the CFTC staff last week extended the availability of alternative compliance under the Commission's inter-affiliate clearing rulemaking in order to incentivize jurisdictions to adopt clearing regulations akin to U.S. law by the end of this year. "It is my hope and belief that a further extension will not be necessary," Wetjen said.
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CHICAGO, Aug. 20, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — InstaShield LLC and United Way are distributing 190,000 face shields to help protect essential workers, volunteers and partner…
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The shields will be delivered to 10 United Way Michigan offices and hundreds of partner agencies throughout the state. The shields will offer protection to employees and volunteers working in food pantries and homeless shelters, as well as teachers, bus drivers, daycare workers, census workers, and a central PPE distribution hub in Detroit.
«The events of this year have created a level of need in our communities like we've never seen, making our work that much more important,» said Michelle Van Dyke, president and CEO of the Heart of West Michigan United Way. «We are grateful for partners like InstaShield and the dedication of our hard-working team members, partners and volunteers.»
InstaShield CEO Dan Brown, Jr. and his father, Dan Brown, Sr., created InstaShield in March after identifying America's need for an effective, low-cost face shield that could be quickly manufactured in the U.S. to help families, businesses and frontline workers. InstaShield's clever, streamlined design allows it to easily and securely attach to a comfortable baseball cap or visor without the use of straps or other unnecessary parts. InstaShield retails for $2.99.
«We created InstaShield to make a difference,» Brown, Jr. said. «United Way and its network are essential to getting the shields where they're needed most. We're humbled and honored to be part of the team.»
InstaShield is durable, reusable, recyclable, doesn't irritate the skin and helps prevent face-touching. Leading health experts like Dr. Anthony Fauci have discussed the protective benefits of face shields. InstaShield can also be paired with a face mask, providing extra protection in environments where social distancing is not possible.
As a global leader that fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community, United Way has played a central role in helping millions of individuals during this unprecedented year.
About United Way
United Way fights for the health, education and financial stability of every person in every community. Supported by 2.9 million volunteers, 9.8 million donors worldwide and $4.7 billion raised every year, United Way is the world's largest privately funded nonprofit. We're engaged in nearly 1,800 communities across more than 40 countries and territories worldwide to create sustainable solutions to the challenges facing our communities. United Way partners include global, national and local businesses, nonprofits, government, civic and faith-based organizations, along with educators, labor leaders, health providers, senior citizens, students and more. For more information about United Way, please visit UnitedWay.org. Follow us on Twitter: @UnitedWay and #LiveUnited.
About InstaShield
InstaShield is an affordable, convenient face shield that costs $2.99 and easily attaches to a baseball cap or visor. InstaShield is 100 percent U.S.-made and, through the company's Million-Shield Challenge, is donating a shield for each one sold until it sells 1 million. For more information, visit instashieldusa.com. Follow us at @InstashieldUSA.
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