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Court recognizes 'ketuba' rights of stripper wife
High Rabbinical Court rules that woman who stripped in public is still entitled to monetary benefits.
By Matthew Wagner
SEPTEMBER 2, 2008 23:28
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The High Rabbinical Court has ruled that a woman who stripped in public is still entitled to receive monetary benefits afforded her in her ketuba (marriage contract), the court announced on Monday. The court granted the woman a divorce because the couple repeatedly fought. In one instance, police had to be called after she tore down a photograph of her's husband's deceased wife that he insisted on keeping in their bedroom and the couple came to blows. According to Jewish law a married woman who acts in a gratuitously sexual manner with other men forfeits her rights under a ketuba because her behavior undermines the stability of the marriage and hurts family unity. However, in a case that came before a three-man panel of rabbinical judges, the wayward wife, who stripped naked before a group of men and women, including her husband, was awarded her rights under the ketuba. In their ruling the judges said that since the husband photographed his wife and hung the photographs on the couple's bedroom wall, he made it clear that her behavior did not bother him. Therefore, it could not be construed to be detrimental to the couple's marriage. The judges noted that the husband expressed no dismay at his wife's stripping. One of the judges, Rabbi Zion Algrabli, cited several cases from the Talmud to suggest that the wife was not entitled to have the ketuba enforced. One source, from Tractate Gitin, describes a woman who bathes with men. Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi) suggests that such a woman should be suspected of infidelity. Algrabli argued that, prima facie, in the case of the stripping woman the same logic should apply. Nevertheless, he deferred to the majority opinion. A judge who spoke to The Jerusalem Post about the case but preferred to remain anonymous because he did not have authorization to speak with the press, said he was concerned that the public would get the wrong impression from the publication of the court's decision. "I don't want people who read about this story to think that we judges take lightly the behavior of this woman. We based our decision solely on Halacha." He said that in Jewish law lasciviousness was not the only reason a woman could lose her rights from a ketuba. "Courts have deprived a wife of rights under a ketuba for undergoing an abortion without the consent of the husband. We have also ruled in a similar way when a mother killed her severely mentally retarded son. "In all cases the guiding principle was that the wife's behavior undermined the family unit." The mandatory financial rights granted to a woman in her ketuba in case of divorce range from a few thousand to tens of thousands of shekels, depending on rabbinical opinions and customs, and the husband can add more ahead of the wedding.


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Q: MySQL "table ... is full", roughly 1000 records I have a small MySQL database stored on an Amazon EC2 server (running Windows Server 2008). It's used in a small .Net application (1 user).
I did the most basic installation possible. Didn't edit any configuration file.
Inserting on a table, it says "table is full".
Until yesterday, the EC2 machine had it disk full, so I understand. After cleaning up some space (around 10Mb), the error persists.
The table has 1021 rows, the key is an int(06), auto-increment. All other tables are working just fine. The table in question has like 6 columns (just to store dates and currency exchange rates), and the others (working fine) have like 30 columns.
I have no idea what to do now.
Has the MySQL blocked the table for not recognizing that 10Mb of free space?
Thanks.

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There are a variety of fishing gears available in the market today and it ranges on categories, functions, and types. That being said, this guide will show you some of the best baitcasting reel gears available in the market today.
In this post, I will share with you some of the pros and cons of each gear as well as the strong features of the product to help you in choosing the best product to meet your fishing needs.
Finding the best baitcasting reel in the market can be a time-consuming activity, however, I will show you several key points on how to choose the ones that would really meet your needs.
You will find more detailed reviews below, but you can also click the links above to see current prices and read customer reviews on Amazon.
The Shimano 200I Curado RH Baitcast Reel is considered as one of the most reliable fishing gear because of its quality feature. The brand's baitcasting reel has a strong frame and a spool that is made from aluminum.
On top of that, the spool features a titanium line guide. The product has a 5 (+1) bearings as well as an anti-reverse.
It allows the anglers to fine-tune the braking system based on their own preference. The fishing gear even has a brake pad that could be turned on and off. Even the brakes are adjustable for better performance.
Low-profile design. Shimano Stable Spool Design (S3D®) offers a consistently thin wall to help lower vibration and enhance smooth casting/retrieving. SVS Infinity technology delivers steady spool control by using brake weights to create internal friction while casting (most notably with lighter lures); a knob on the outside makes it easy to adjust as needed (i.e. when the elements or your bait change).
Metal Hagane body is ultra rigid and impact resistant to reduce flexing and allow more cranking power. Super Free Spool works to remove spool shaft friction while casting; a ball bearing supports the pinion gear to keep the spool shaft and gear aligned when the clutch is disengaged.
HEG design features a one-piece frame with an integrated setplate, a one-piece stamped sideplate and larger drive and pinion gears; eliminates drivetrain flex and enhances power and leverage. S A-RB® bearings have shields on both sides to help prevent salt and sand from interfering with rotation. 5 ball bearings and 1 roller bearing.
Star drag. Maximum Drag: 12 lbs. Weight: 7.4 oz.
Made in Malaysia. Line Retrieve Per Crank: 26". Monofilament Line Capacity: 8/180; 10/155; 14/110.
The gear is made of aluminum. It boasts of having an 8 corrosion-resistant bearings.
It has magforce-X casting brakes, as well as a carbon drag system which is pretty smooth to use. It even has a T-Wing Casting System, that is only present to all Tatula models.
This casting reel packs exceptional castability and smooth drag in a compact frame that's 25 percent lighter than previous iterations of the Revo.
The compact bent handle and flat handle knobs offer an ergonomic feel for comfortable, smooth cranking, while the titanium-coated line guide reduces friction and adds durability.
And thanks to its Carbon Matrix drag system, the casting reel delivers smooth, low-friction drag performance to help minimize line breakage and improve your catch rates.
This product has 4 stainless ball bearings as well as a 1 roller bearing. For its performance, it has a power disk drag system that makes this product one of a kind.
It also features a maximum drag of 18 pounds along with its automatic anti-reverse feature. With its duragear brass, the lifespan of the product is long. It is great for inshore saltwater fishing.
This fishing gear is a classic one. It belongs to the classic C3 series and considered as one of the best selling reels of this present time. The gear has been revamped and transformed to an Ambassador C4 series.
The product has many variants of spool sizes that comes with a 6.3:1 gear ratio which is perfect for attaining optimum performance. The product also boasts of having right-handed models.
Another great thing about this product is that it can synchronize the level wind setup to enhance casting as well as line lay.
For some anglers, they may have other types of a reel, but the most famous or commonly used reel is the baitcasting reel or in layman's term, bait casters.
In comparison to spin reel, the baitcasting reel is more dependable and can keep up with the harsh demands of fishing. Also, as you evolve in your fishing technique, the baitcasting reel would be of great use to you.
Owing to its fast response, more control as well as precision, the baitcasting reel is ideal for experienced fishing or anglers that have grown in their skills.
The baitcasting reels are considered as the best fishing reels for anglers because of its design and features.
For experienced anglers or professional fishermen, the baitcasting reel provides more gear ration and faster retrieval features. It is ideal for large crank baits or even buzz baits.
In order to choose the best baitcasting reel available in the stalls today, there are some things that you should know.
For instance, you need to consider the features of the fishing gear as well as its design and overall performance. Here are some of the things that you should know so that you can select the best baitcasting reel.
The gear ratio is an integral element that you should know before buying the product. The gear ratio basically functions to inform the angler the number of times a spool will turn for one revolution.
If the gear ratio is higher, the line that is being retrieved should be higher as well. One of the most common gear ratios is 5.3:1, 7.1:1. or 6.4:1.For a gear ratio of 6.4:1, it would be a good category for most anglers.
It can be used for any kind of bait and it works well with any fishing technique too. On top of that, this ratio provides an excellent performance, helping the angler to attain optimum stability and control.
It is important to also look and consider the spool size. If the spool is bigger, it works well with a heavy line.
Also, the larger spool basically creates a line of coils that are small, thus to manage the coil is easier as well. The smaller shallow spools are ideal for a shorter line such as flipping or pitching.
The handle size should not be neglected. It should be compact and easy to control. For anglers such as yourself, you should know that a larger and longer handle provides more torque during fishing.
The brake and tension system should be dependable. It is the tension knob and the brake system that controls the line.
Make sure that the tension and the braking system works well even though you are making long casts. It is needed to lure weights as well as prevent minimal backlashes too.
It is important to know the materials being used to make the fishing reel. Search for ceramic or stainless based materials for your baitcasting reel.
The ball bearings must be made from ceramic or stainless materials. Also, as you select the gear, check if the reels are not heavy.
Also, check if it's made from strong materials such as magnesium or aluminum because these materials are known for being durable and strong.
To have a wonderful fishing experience as well as having a good catch, you need the best baitcasting reel. To obtain the best, additional features must be on the product.
Besides the ones mentioned earlier, here are some of the additional features that a baitcasting reel must have.
The frame is a significant feature. Looking back, anglers are struggling with reels that are heavy and yet could not get the job done.
Improvements have pushed reel developers to create a fishing reel with a frame that is lightweight and yet durable. Choose a frame that is durable, sturdy, and made from carbon composites, aluminum or magnesium.
Fishing could be discomfort even for the experienced anglers which is why before buying the reel, check first if comfort is possible. Long hours are often used to catch fish and if the fishing reel is not providing comfort, the outcome might not be good.
Also, the handling comfort must be present when using the fishing gear, otherwise, its not worth buying the product.
The anti-reverse switch must be working well or closely protected because there are times that salt might enter the anti-reverse switch and the performance of the gear will be affected.
It is inevitable that if the anti-reverse feature is not reliable, the gear will fail to deliver optimum performance.
Given the five products that were reviewed, I would understand your apprehensions regarding the pretty long list that I have provided. This review aims to provide you with some details in order to choose the best baitcasting reel.
Among the five, I handpicked Abu Garcia Revo SX Low Profile or Shimano 200I Curado RH Baitcast Reel. These two products are known for being reliable and efficient.
On a different note, if you have used this product before, feel free to leave your comments below. I would love to hear from you regarding your personal experience as you used this fishing gear.
Your experiences with these products will also help others to find the ones that would suit their needs. I encourage you to share your thoughts and ideas and be an inspiration to others.


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Not our war? Combat in Iraq - the key issues
By Gareth Hutchens
September 16, 2014 — 1.10pm
1. Australia's involvement in the mission runs the risk of further dividing disaffected youth or Islamic groups in Australia
Australian National Imams Council: "There is a clear link between foreign wars and radicalisation back home. The Australian government must reconsider its support for the military offensive in Iraq. The obvious lessons from previous misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan have not been learnt."
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison: "I don't accept those comments at all. I think that view fundamentally misunderstands Australia's situation. Australia has always been seen as a legitimate target by terrorists and extremists because of who we are and what we're about and what we represent."
A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter holds a position. Credit:AFP
2. Australia's involvement will elevate the risk of terrorism
Christine Milne, Greens leader: "The way that ISIL recruits new people to the cause is to be able to present it as a Western imperial fight against Islam, and by going in after the United States, that will enable those jihadists to ramp up the rhetoric and ramp up their recruitment."
Prime Minister Tony Abbott: "The Director-General of Security David Irvine [said] a few weeks ago at the National Press Club [that] there was no … particular correlation between what Australia might be contemplating in Iraq and the malign intent of these people towards our country."
3. This military engagement constitutes war
John Kerry, US Secretary of State: "In terms of al-Qaeda, which we have used the word 'war' with ... we are at war with al-Qaeda and it's affiliates. And in the same context if you want to use it, yes, we are at war with ISIL in that sense."
Prime Minister Tony Abbott: "Different people use their own language. What we did yesterday, as a government, with the full support of the opposition, was deploy an Australian force to the Middle East. Obviously, we have a mind to engage in combat operations against ISIL, should the circumstances be right, and we'll be in a position to make final judgments about that in the next week or so. But … there's a world of difference between what's happening now and what's happened on previous occasions in the Middle East."
4. It is necessary to have an exit strategy or fixed time limit for Australia's deployment
Senator Christine Milne, Greens leader: "This is an open-ended mission, there is no timeframe for how long troops would be there or even a notion of what success would look like.
Attorney-General George Brandis: "... the suggestion that we can go in into this theatre and withdraw by a specified date, which seems to be Senator Milne's complaint that we are not saying that, is an absurdity."
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The belief that scientific worldviews provide sufficient information and motivation to galvanize widespread action on environmental issues is gaining adherents both within and beyond the academy. The turn to science for materials from which to construct a new cosmology is evident in a variety of emerging movements that go by such names as the Epic of Evolution, The Great Story, the Journey of the Universe, The New Story, and Big History. As environmental problems intensify, proponents of these new cosmologies claim that what is called for is an evidence-based global story and a common ethic. Implicit or explicit in these movements is a conviction that existing religious traditions are too parochial (lacking global appeal) and too far removed from scientific realities and contemporary environmental concerns. Proponents of the new cosmology believe that the physical and biological sciences reveal the distinctly storied nature of our cosmos—a story that belongs to all—and that this cosmic story will inspire wonder and deep concern for the planetary biota, because its core narrative is both universal and true. On this view, scientific narratives can satisfy our deep-seated need for meaning, ritual, and ethical guidance, while firmly grounding us in evolutionary and cosmic realities. The new cosmology thus invests science with mythic, revelatory power; far from disenchanting our world, science is celebrated as a primary vehicle for restoring wonder, meaning, and value.
Can—and should—a scientific account of the universe function as a global myth? If so, what is the likely impact of contemporary scientific cosmologies on established religious traditions and environment-related beliefs and practices?
Many thanks to contributor Lisa Sideris for her assistance in framing this discussion—ed.
This is a huge question! If one understands religion as meaning-making practices, and one argues that part of what it means to be human is to be a meaning-making creature, then yes: scientific accounts of the universe play a role in telling us who we are vis-à-vis the universe, other animals, and the rest of the natural world.
However, these stories are not without their own socio-historical locations. No narrative, religious or scientific, can skirt its "locatedness." Whereas most extant religious stories come to us from an era when peoples were more isolated from one another (relatively speaking) and thus were able to understand their own local story as The Story, the stories from science have been emerging along with the sense of a (global) planetary community—with many different types of peoples—and an increasingly larger and unfathomable universe (with its 13.7 billion years of expansion). This means, of course, that we as humans will find many common grounds in the emerging planetary story—we are all mammals, we come from star dust, we are all homo sapiens, gravity holds for life on this planet, etc.—but this doesn't mean it is a story that can be The One Story. It will play a role in helping us to understand ourselves as planetary creatures on an evolving planet and an expanding universe, but just as much of the "science" and knowledge from 200 years ago seems odd and outdated, so will the science and knowledge of today seem 200 years from now. We will always have to retell our stories and re-connect with a meaningful world; hopefully, this retelling will be done in a way that includes more and more of the voices of the planetary community (both human and non). This ever-expansive method of knowledge production—from multiple perspectives—highlights the polydoxy of meanings and interpretations of the multiplicity of life rather than confining everything to the lowest common denominator of A Universal Story.
As far as we know, all human communities have told origin stories. Whether embedded within dreamtime stories or in the great books of the world religions, these stories summed up the best knowledge gathered over many generations to create large maps of time and space that were full of meaning. These maps lay at the heart of education, providing every member of society with a clear idea of their place in a larger universe.
Modern public education does not offer such a unifying story. Instead, we offer knowledge in shards: a fragment of national history, some chemistry, a bit of mathematics and literature, perhaps a foreign language. To find something more coherent and more meaningful, students have to go to schools that still teach within the religious and cultural traditions of each society. But what they learn there doesn't align well with the technologies all around them. They will find that there is a profound disconnect between modern scientific understanding of the world and the knowledge embedded within older cultural and religious traditions.
This is dangerous. The French sociologist, Émile Durkheim, wrote a book on suicide in which he argued that the absence of a coherent and credible understanding of your place in a larger universe can create a sense of disconnection, diminution, disorientation, even life-threatening despair. The absence of a modern origin story explains why, for more than a century, philosophers and writers have argued that meaning has fled today's world.
But that may be too pessimistic. In a sense, we live today in an intellectual building site, watching the slow construction of a new origin story that will sum over the accumulated knowledge of the entire world and offer credible maps of time and space. This origin story is lurking within the vast stores of knowledge generated in the last two centuries. It is immensely rich because it encapsulates knowledge from the entire world; indeed, that may be why it has been so hard to put the story together. But we live now at a turning point in the history of our biosphere, a moment when our own species will determine the future of all other species on earth. So we desperately need to understand how we humans fit into the larger histories of the biosphere and indeed the universe as a whole. We need a modern origin story.
Teasing out that story is the challenge being taken up by scholars and educators in many different countries, under a range of different names, from "big history" to "the Universe story" and "Cosmic Evolution." We are watching the building of a rich new science-based origin story that will empower us as we face the colossal opportunities and challenges of the next fifty years.
Representatives from across the planet are preparing to converge in Paris in a few months to negotiate conflicts over climate change that will shape life on earth for generations. Wouldn't it help if they shared a common story? And where better to turn for a global myth than disinterested science?
I'm not so sure. Yes, evolutionary cosmology may serve religion-like functions. "When it comes to telling big stories about the order of existence," says Robert Bellah, "then, even if they are scientific stories, they will have religious implications" (Religion in Human Evolution, 45-6). Science-based accounts of evolution may function as a creation myth, so long as they do not obscure the acts of interpretation that make them so.
But it is not clear to me what we can expect big stories to do for our practical arguments. Evolutionary cosmology underdetermines ecological ethics. It seems equally plausible from a narrative of human emergence from the cosmos that we should engineer our climate and that we must not; that we should manage for a world of 2°C and one of 4°C.
I'm not saying that cosmologies are morally irrelevant. They set existential moods and interpretive contexts. Cosmogonic myths make us meditate on our suspension in the wild cosmos, which should permit ironic perspectives on our parochial identities and political blocs. They can restore humans to wonder before the stars, which seems tonic for souls and societies. Science-based stories may do that as well as conventionally religious narratives or indigenous cosmologies.
There's just little reason to think that any cosmogony will go far in practically specifying how humans should meet planetary challenges. Paris does not need one true myth; it needs pluralist cooperation to undertake actions about which future generations will tell proud, epic stories.
There is a growing body of research that indicates a growing awareness of, and affinity with scientifically informed dark green religious sentiments among both scientists and in popular culture. One concern, though, is that the most significant birth rate increases are occurring in countries where Darwinian science and scientific cosmologies are not widely accepted (the 30 countries with the top birth rates are in Africa, save Afghanistan). Some of these areas are also resource-scarce conflict zones that will feel the impacts of climate shifts first, exacerbating these problems. If most population growth occurs in these areas, and these conflict zones have scant educational resources, it is difficult to imagine how widely environmental ideals or scientific cosmologies can spread.
There is no doubt that the speed and range of the dissemination of Darwin's ideas in less than 160 years is remarkable. The emergence of scientific cosmologies that advance a reverence for universal unfolding (or evolution) are even younger. So there remains hope. The open question is whether these ideas can spread rapidly enough to promote peaceful socio-cultural transitions and political action (perhaps especially in the aforementioned vulnerable conflict zones) before the effects of climate disruption, natural disasters, pandemics, or other tragic events precipitate dramatic drawdowns in human population.
Although some within the so-called world religions believe that scientific cosmologies inform their own theological interpretations or typical practices, their convictions are often marginalized within their traditions. Much of the lay population of the world's largest religious traditions remain resistant to such change, and there are many cases in which religious values are trumped by other, often economic, values. In the U.S., evangelical organizations such as Answers in Genesis, or the Cornwall Alliance have been very successful in combating environmental interpretations of their religions and supposedly "pagan" scientific cosmologies.
But other trends, primarily in the industrialized world, are hopeful, indicating an increasing disaffection from these traditional institutionalized religions. Perhaps the best we can hope for is that this flight from traditional religions picks up speed, for despite pronouncements and statements by high profile religious leaders, the most hopeful trends appear outside the mainstreams of these traditions, and among those who have lost their affinities for them.
It is a tempting thought: if only everyone believed the transcultural truth of our having crawled from the same primal ooze, or burst from the same cosmic blast, we might heed the convulsive warnings of our planetary home. Unlike sectarian myths, the thinking goes, scientific cosmogonies are universal, endlessly inclusive, and, well, correct. So out with the Rigveda, the Dreaming, and Genesis, and in with Charles Darwin, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking: once we can all tell the same story, we can rally behind the same ecology.
I worry, however, that in addition to being implausible, this fantasy is misguided, dangerous, and self-sabotaging. Misguided because the stories modern science tells are not universal; rather, they reflect the particular questions, assumptions, and experiments that produce them (Latour, Stengers, Barad). Dangerous because these hidden perspectives often encode anti-ecological values into scientific stories: the reproductive warfare of some linear biologies, for example; or the anthropocentrism of many emergence theories; or the disposable worlds of most multiverse cosmologies. Finally, the fantasy of a scientific triumph over religion is self-sabotaging because belief in a single, objective truth is arguably the legacy of monotheism in the first place (Nietzsche).
In Cannibal Metaphysics, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro marks the opposition between Darwinian and Amerindian mythologies: the former tells us that humans were once (non-human) animals, whereas the latter tells us that (non-human) animals were once humans. Granted, there is a narrative and even ontological conflict here, but does one side need to "win" before we can pursue, say, animal welfare? Or might it be possible to work toward common ends stemming from different cosmogonies?
If what we value is earthly diversity—of species, ecosystems, ways of living and thinking—then it seems to me we need not one but multiple accounts of that multiplicity, and ought to pursue those political and economic decisions that support their flourishing and proliferation. Difficult and endless work, to be sure, but saner, sounder, and more ecological than yet another effort to convert the whole world.
The new cosmology (or what I elsewhere call "the New Genesis") presents a "new" scientific religion, a functional cosmology, intentionally crafted to align with environmental concerns and compete with rival religions. As a mode of appropriating science for grand narrative and mythic purposes, this cosmology is not truly novel. It resembles what Martin Eger has called epic science, whose features include: an extension of the evolutionary paradigm as far as possible ("cosmic" or "universal" evolution); an emphasis on the unification of science and narrative cohesion and comprehensiveness; and uncritical enthusiasm about all that science offers to society—an emerging consciousness, a new morality.
The new scientific story, we are frequently told, changes everything.
Epic science typically coalesces around a single story of evolution often touted as so complete or cutting edge as to suggest that we are in the final frontier, closing in on the final cosmic mysteries. In its totalizing ambition, the new cosmology reaches, paradoxically, toward the eradication of wonder itself. These movements are demonstrably lacking in what John Keats called negative capability: an ability to dwell in doubt, mystery, and ambiguity and to resist the categorization of all phenomena and experience into systematic knowledge. Proffered as narratives that inspire wonder and concern for nature, they actually chafe against uncertainty or open-ended awe.
If wonder is present in these narratives, it appears in disappointingly familiar forms—wonder at humans as the consciousness, heart, or mind of a self-organizing, ever-complexifying universe in which the emergence of our species was implicit from the beginning; wonder at the modern human subject knowledgeable enough to have "discovered" cosmic patterns and processes that were opaque to all previous, unenlightened generations.
The generally anthropic and anthropocentric flavor of the new cosmology constitutes no marked improvement over the human-centeredness that is assumed to taint and disqualify traditional religions as sources of environmental values. New cosmologists sometimes disavow any intent to replace existing faith traditions, but the narrative's omnicompetent thrust clearly positions it as religion's superior rival.
At times, attracting converts to "religion 2.0" takes precedence over inspiring care for nature. So preoccupied are epic proponents with valorizing and consecrating science as an all-purpose, meaning-filled religion that nature's value and wonder are obscured.
This is unfortunate because science already enjoys enormous power and prestige in our society. Nature, on the other hand, could use a little help.
Scientific cosmologies are increasingly being consecrated, and for increasing numbers of individuals and groups, they provide spiritual meaning and ethical guidance. I documented such religious naturalism in Dark Green Religion: Nature Spirituality and the Planetary Future, and noted as well that some consider such trends to be politically, spiritually and morally perilous. In my book and in an earlier essay at The Immanent Frame, I argued that, although we should always be on the alert for the shadow side of any religion (given their penchant for setting up categories of inclusion and exclusion, purity and defilement, which can have socially divisive and sometimes violent consequences) science-based worldviews are far less likely to have such effects than the world's predominant religions. This is in part because scientific understandings often produce awe and wonder at the mysteries and beauties of the earth and universe, and a concomitant understanding of its fragility and uniqueness of life on earth. This increases, in my view, the value of the earth's living systems in comparison to religions that promise divine rescue from the world or its sufferings, or otherwise view it as penultimate, a way-station, or illusory in some way. Moreover, an evolutionary understanding reveals that we human beings share a common ancestor with all other life forms and so we are, quite literally, kin with all life, not just our closest human relatives. Such understandings erode supremacist ideologies, whether racist or anthropocentric. So on those occasions when I engage in normative rather than descriptive analysis, I am not only less worried about the biocultural implications of the spread and consecration of scientific understandings, but I also consider these trends, in general, to be salutary.
I agree with the statement that science takes things apart to describe them; religion puts things together to say what they mean. The new cosmologies do a wonderful job of describing the birth and evolution of the universe; they do not provide a narration of meaning. Humans need both accurate descriptions and modes of meaning-making.
I think Bron draws an unnecessary dualism between benevolent science and fundamentalist religion. The so-called wonder of science has also produced all of our modern capitalist economy, nuclear warheads, fighter jets, bombs, etc. To suggest there is something essential about religion that CAUSES wrongdoing is simply not true. Religion is always embedded in the social and political currents of its time, just like science.
Jason Brown: I did not say what you claim I did; a judicious scholar is careful not to make straw men of the assertions of their interlocutors. Do not ignore qualifiers (such as "in general"). Arguing something is less likely is not the same as asserting some causal connection. You offer a simplistic assertion about the wonder of science producing all sorts of horrors. I could rejoinder that this is at least an overly broad assertion and moreover that while "wonder" might lead to all sorts of concrete responses the ones you mention do not seem obviously connected to this particular affective human experience. Do you have evidence for such a bold assertion?


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Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band Brings Fusion Ignition To Irvington
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Fans of le jazz hot, with an emphasis on deep grooves and winning melodies, will want to make their way to the Irvington Theater on Saturday, February 15 to hear the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band, a sextet that brings together some veteran virtuosos, younger dynamos and a vocalist fluent in R&B, soul and swing.
If you are wondering how such a remarkable ensemble has operated under the radar around the region noted by its moniker, it's because the latest incarnation is still relatively new, with two key members only jumping aboard within the past four months or so.
Led by drummer Jeff Weiner from Yonkers, the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band was launched five years ago with an entirely different lineup than today's group, save bassist Adrian Calonico, a native of Argentina now living in Suffern, New York. The intention from the start, said Weiner, was to perform updated arrangements of some of the top hits from the heyday of the jazz fusion era, which began in the late 1960s and was led by giants like Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Larry Coryell, Herbie Hancock, John McLaughlin and Mahavishnu Orchestra.
In jazz fusion, the instrumentalists are plugged into amplifiers and various affects applied to the sound to widen the soundscape and intensify the performances. After the venerated keyboardist Corea debuted his fusion band Return to Forever in 1971, he later introduced another fusion outfit called the Elektric Band with guitar, reeds and keyboards in the frontline—a model, name included, for his own band, Weiner admitted.
At first, Weiner and Calonico worked with some other musicians in different configurations. Gradually, the idea of putting together a fusion band that could attract mainstream audiences made more sense. "I realize that the general public cannot listen to avant-garde music and jazz that is not fully harmonic all night long," the drummer remarked. "So, we brought in some incredible musicians who are versatile and thought about how to break the sets up, add some variety."
Two instrumentalists now featured in the frontline are guitarist Dave Kain from Hartsdale, who is known for his work with saxophonists Joel Frahm and Noah Preminger, and multi-reedist Tim Veeder from Harrison, New York. Veeder, who plays saxophones and flute in the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band, is a busy sideman and educator outside of the band.
When it came time to look for a vocalist, Weiner, now 60, simply traveled back in time and reunited with one of his first bandleaders, Debbie Major, who some music fans will recall fronted the popular band Street Talk around Westchester and the Hudson Valley in the 1980s. "I remember the band played jazz tunes from (the renowned fusion group) Weather Report, and also Steely Dan," said Weiner, "and then do a dinner set with songs from Dionne Warwick. Debbie can sing it all. She has a great falsetto. Every night we perform she seems to top herself. She'll phrase notes and I'll think to myself, 'Where did you get that from?' We're lucky to have her in the band."
With Major on vocals, a typical Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band set begins with a few instrumentals, like Corea's "Blue Miles," an Elektric Band favorite, and then follows with Michael Brecker's dynamic "African Skies" (which can be found on his album Tales from the Hudson) and the Yellowjackets' "Revelation." Major then leads the group on tunes like Anita Baker's "Sweet Love" and a reading of the classy standard "Nature Boy" before finishing with something uptempo; the band returns for another instrumental or two, and Major closes the set.
"I think audiences for the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band come out to hear a certain instrumentation playing that delicious vibe you get in fusion and jazz, then another kind of connection is made when vocalist joins the band onstage," said Major, who lives in Montgomery, New York. "We all bring our own style and feel for the music into the group, and the result is we generate an entirely unique coloration in our sound. The key is having musicians who can bring their experiences, talent and polish to the songs."
Continued Major, "We've developed an extraordinary amount of trust in this group over the past several months. Every one of us has spent lots of nights on different bandstands; we know how to answer all the questions and solve any problems that may come up. It's a nice balance of personalities: we get the job done with maximum enjoyment in the craft."
The newest member of the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band is keyboardist Nir Kay, another Argentine albeit with Israeli parents, now residing in Yonkers. At 25, he is the youngest member of the band. An educator at the Lagond Music School in Elmsford, where the band rehearses, he was recruited to join the group this fall. In a short time, Kay has become the band's musical director, picking out the material with Weiner and writing the arrangements for the band members.
"From my perspective, the Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band has amazing musicians, and they play great together, producing a very sophisticated sound," said Kay, who also sings and leads his own group, which just released its first album, Run If You Don't Understand. "I'm glad to be a part of it all. I think we are still in a transition phase, still trying to figure some things out. The best part is the mix of music we perform—every song is its own adventure within a recognizable style."
The Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band will perform on Saturday, February 15 at the Irvington Theater, 85 Main St., Irvington, New York. The show begins at 8 p.m. For tickets, visit irvingtontheater.com or call call (914) 591-6602.
For more information about The Hudson Valley Electric Jazz Band, visit: www.hvejb.com.
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Ryan Tannehill: Titans will always find a way
Posted by Josh Alper on December 9, 2019, 7:00 AM EST
The Titans remained one of the hottest teams in football by beating the Raiders 42-21 on Sunday in a game that felt very different after halftime.
Both teams moved the ball easily for much of the half and went into the locker room tied at 21. The Titans kept moving the ball in the second half, but the Raiders couldn't keep pace. Quarterback Ryan Tannehill turned in another sparkling game by going 21-of-27 for 391 yards and three touchdowns and said after the game that the Titans have growing confidence in their ability to handle every situation.
"I'm really proud of our guys, the way they battled," Tannehill said, via the team's website. "Every time we touched it, we felt like we were going to score. This team knows how to face adversity — we have faced it so many times already throughout the season. There's just a belief that we are going to find a way. We are going to find a way, no matter what is going on to keep playing, keep believing in each other."
The win was the fourth in a row for the Titans and leaves them even with the Texans at the top of the AFC South. They have two games left with Houston, so a division title will be theirs if Tannehill's right about the team's ability to keep finding paths to victory.
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One of the more interesting developments in 2019 is the resurgance of Ryan tannehill.
Is he a legit starting QB?
He was so-so in Miami for 7 years (one year he was injured).
Does Tenn. have a better system with better play calling, Oline, and skill players?
Where will he go in 20120?
What happens to mariota?
What happens in Winston?
Will Lamar jackson be as effective in 2020?
Is Brady on the decline?
There are some very interesting storylines unfolding.
duanethomas33 says:
Happy for him, but being a Jet fan, worried about our QB guru Adam Gase.
MortimerInMiami says:
Only the Miami Dolphins could take an 18 million dollar salary cap hit to pay the starting quarterback for a playoff contender.
cafetero1075 says:
Titans have 3 tough games to finish the season. Tannehill's real colors will come out.
boido says:
It's startling what capable QB play can do for a team. Hats off to the Titans coaching for making a tough move away from their "franchise" guy, admitting they were wrong, and fixing the situation.
steelerdeathstar says:
The Titans have been a different team since they made the QB switch to Tannehill. The fresh start in a system that compliments his skills has done wonders for he and his team. I would favor them to win the AFC South.
finzfan49 says:
This guy has always been a baller. I was one of the fans that always liked him and hated how Gase treated him and let him go
It was him that gave it and was not successful because of Gase not giving him an OL and some play calling that worked for them
I can only hope that Tannehill gets into the playoffs and hurts some feelings.
johnnycantread says:
If the Texans don't start playing better, the Titans are going to zip right past them for the division.
unclebluck says:
Derek Carr THREW AWAY his last pass in yesterdays game….
One Nation….Loser Nation!!!!
Brenda Jones says:
It is great to see the Titans playing well. Now hopefully things will change at the Titans stadium. The Titans gameday atmosphere is basically non-existent.
Mike Shereck says:
Ryan Tannehill has really step up and taken ownership of this team, I am really impressed. As a titan fan, I could not be happier. Their strong D, a great running game, and a leader at QB, along with a tough, bright, and inspired coach. Not sure they are good enough to win it all, and they are good enough to be a hassle for some. GO TITANS!


Franchising is big business that can bring in big bucks too. Someone who is planning to venture into this space will find there is no dearth of opportunities. In a way, that's a good thing as it gives you the chance to find something you would really like that fits into your budget. The downside to this is that excessive choices also make it very difficult for you to narrow down the choices.
When you are interested in owning a franchise, it's obvious that you would want a very clear picture of everything involved in starting this business; this is especially true when it comes to the money aspect. When you visit a company's website and look for cost; and when you actually interact with the company's representatives, they should be proactive and forthcoming with providing you all the information you need.
After all, you will be investing a significant amount of money in their franchise and you need to be assured that they are transparent in their dealings and that there are no hidden costs that will surface later. It's a good idea to contact existing franchisees and ask them what their upfront costs were – this should give you a fair idea about whether the company is on the level.
This is a very important aspect; you don't want to open up the franchise business you always wanted to open up, only to find out that someone else has opened up another similar franchise hardly a kilometre away from yours. This is bound to have an adverse effect on the profitability of your business. So, find out whether the franchise provides territory protection.
Every franchisor has a different business model and so the one you are planning to associate yourself with, may/may not have a department that is dedicated to deal with real estate. If they do, it's an excellent thing; but if they don't the least they should be able to provide you with are references of commercial real estate agents in your specific area.
A portion of what you pay the franchisor for is their expertise in the field; and ideally, that expertise should include real-estate. The team at the franchise HQ should be able to help you with zeroing-in on a location that would be lucrative for you.
Again, this information is something existing franchisees can help you with. So you should double-check with them and understand how much support the franchisor provided them when they were looking for a location.
It's normal to harbour these expectations from your franchisor and you should connect with the current franchisees of the company to find out whether the latter is able to fulfil these as expected.


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The Grudge Box Office Prediction
toddmthatcher	Box Office Predictions/Results	 December 26, 2019 January 2, 2020 1 Minute
Blogger's Note (01/02): On the eve of its premiere, I'm revising my number down to $10.2 million
2020 begins at multiplexes in the same fashion as other recent years with a horror offering. This time around, it's a remake of the 2004 supernatural pic The Grudge. And that Sarah Michelle Gellar hit was itself an update of a 2002 Japanese title in which Takashi Shimizu directed both. Nicolas Pesce is behind the camera now with a cast including Andrea Riseborough, Demian Bichir, John Cho, Betty Gilpin, Lin Shaye, Frankie Faison, William Sadler, and Jacki Weaver.
As mentioned, this is the genre that has typically kicked off the cinematic calendar lately. In 2019, Escape Room surprised prognosticators with a debut north of $18 million. Two years ago, Insidious: The Last Key unlocked a gross just under $30 million.
The Grudge is not expected to approach those figures, but horror flicks always have the capacity to surprise. Yet this could also fall victim to the unasked for franchise fatigue that has plagued several titles recently. A decent comp could be 2017's Rings, which was also a reboot of a Japanese series. It opened to $13 million and that sounds about right here (and perhaps a tad under).
The Grudge opening weekend prediction: $10.2 million
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The George Davis Monument is a monument to attorney and Confederate politician George Davis that was erected in Wilmington, North Carolina by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It was removed by the City of Wilmington in August 2021.

Davis, a railroad attorney and minor local figure before the war, was a pro-Union member of the Whig Party. After secession, he accepted appointments to the Confederate senate and as attorney general. He was a skilled orator who spoke publicly in March 1861 that North Carolina should secede from the United States of America principally to preserve the economic interest in chattel slavery.

The statue was unveiled on April 20, 1911 — 46 years after the defeat of the Confederacy.

In the early morning hours of June 25, 2020, the City of Wilmington removed the statue of Davis "in order to protect the public safety and to preserve important historical artifacts."

The dismantling was coincident with the firing of three city police officers following the discovery of their "brutally racist" discussions on official police recording equipment. The pedestal, with its false Lost Cause inscriptions, was covered with a shroud. By June 30, the pedestal was covered with a black shroud, which obscured the inscriptions.

On August 2, 2021, the City Council voted to permanently remove the monument from public property. The city recognized ownership by Cape Fear 3, United Daughters of the Confederacy. The city will store away the statue and pedestal until the UDC is ready to take possession. In a statement, the government said it considered the matter of the disposition of the statue closed.

History

Davis Remembered for Oratory
When the monument project was conceived, Davis was well-remembered among the city's white elite as a skilled orator. The statue depicts Davis, hand on lectern, giving a speech.

March 1861 Speech: Secession to Preserve Slavery
In his political life before 1861, Davis was not a member of the regionally dominant Democratic Party, but a Whig. Until March 1861, he opposed secession. During the election of 1860, he supported a pro-Union, third-party candidate for president.

However, his position changed during his attendance at the failed Washington Peace Conference in February 1861.

On March 2, 1861, Davis gave a public speech in Wilmington on secession. In it, he declared himself a secessionist. He argued that North Carolina should secede in order to preserve slavery:

"The division must be made on the line of slavery. The State must go with the South."

Conception

The idea for the monument was conceived by Cape Fear 3, United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) in 1901 — three years after white mobs used violence to illegally remove a duly elected biracial government during the Wilmington insurrection of 1898, five years after Davis's death and 36 years after the Confederacy's defeat.

Historians have stated that similar monuments are evidence of a wide effort by the UDC and others, long after the failure of the Confederacy, to insert the false Lost Cause Narrative into the cultural memory, announce to nonwhites the final defeat of Reconstruction, and to support white supremacy.

It took years for the women of Cape Fear 3 to realize their vision.

Funding

UDC Cape Fear Chapter 3 began raising money in 1904 but fundraising was slow, despite the urgency the UDC presented to the community. The minute book of the chapter shows fundraising was complete in April 1909, with the chapter having raised nearly $900.

The rest was raised by James Sprunt, a cotton brokerage heir who as a young man had worked aboard blockade-running commercial ships and was a profiteer during the US Civil War. Sprunt provided funding he said he had gathered from friends and colleagues. His portion brought the total amount raised to $5,010.34 ($ in  dollars).

Creation
The statue was sculpted by Francis Herman Packer, a native of Germany who lived on Long Island, New York and was a student of Augustus Saint-Gaudens.

The sculptor's travel was paid for by Sprunt. Packer's sculpture was cast by the Gorham Manufacturing Company in 1910 in Rhode Island.

The statue is 8 feet tall bound bronze weighing 1,700 pounds. The stone pedestal weighs five and a half tons and shows gilded seals of North Carolina and the former Confederate States of America.

Inscriptions on the pedestal include a long, spurious encomium to Davis's alleged virtues.

A decade later, the UDC hired Packer to sculpt another confederate memorial (removed, August 2021) one block south, at Third Street and Dock Street.

Siting and Context
The monument stood on a grassy traffic island in Market Street just east of its intersection with Third Street — the crossroads of the city. It stood within sight of Wilmington's city hall, the New Hanover County courthouse and St. James Episcopal Parish, the city's oldest Christian church.

The statue faced west, toward the terminus of Market Street at the Cape Fear River, a marketplace where slaves and their children were sold from the days of the city's settlement in the early 18th century until the city's capture by the Union Army in 1865 during the US Civil War.

Erection and Dedication

The cornerstone of the monument was laid on October 14, 1909, during a Masonic ceremony. Within the cornerstone were placed:
 A copy of the first number Carolina Churchman, dated October 1909
 A copy of the commission of George Davis as Attorney General of the Confederate states, dated January 4, 1864
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The monument was dedicated on April 20, 1911, by four of Davis's grandsons: M.F.H. Gouverneur Jr., Donald McRae Jr., George Rountree, and Robert Cowan Davis.

U.S. District Court Judge Henry G. Connor of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, delivered the dedication speech. The Delgado Band was hired for $25 to provide musical accompaniment.

Connor's dedicatory remarks contained hallmarks that many historians have ascribed to examples of revisionist Lost Cause mythology. Connor falsely described Davis's making war against the United States as "patriotism" and Davis's call for secession from the Union as "moderation in speech":
"You shall bring your sons to this spot, tell them the story of his life, of his patriotism of his loyalty to high thinking and noble living, of his moderation in speech, his patience under defeat, of his devotion to your City and State as a perpetual illustration and an enduring example of the dignity, the worth of a high-souled, pure-hearted Christian gentleman."

Family and Political Use, Damage, and Vandalism

1993
The Sons of Confederate Veterans "George Davis Camp 5" celebrated George Davis's birthday at the monument.

1995
Davis's descendants held a ceremony at the monument.

2000
In October, a truck belonging to Hanover Iron Works knocked the statue from its base, causing a dent to the back of the head and cracks to the neck and right shoulder. Repairs, which included re-carving the base, cost $25,000 and took more than a year to complete.

The monument was re-erected in February 2002, 6 feet from its original site, and raised up on a new 6-inch curb.

2019
On June 29, a crowd rallied, demanding the city to remove the monument.

In the early hours of July 4, a vandal threw orange paint on the monument.

Dismantling, Covering and Removal

2020
In June, the City of Wilmington removed the statue, but not its pedestal, to "protect the public safety and to preserve important historical artifacts." Later, the pedestal was covered with a black shroud, obscuring its inscriptions.

In September, Wilmington's mayor said that the threat to public safety that conditioned the memorial's dismantling continued. A majority of the Wilmington City Council told a journalist that the disposition of the city's Confederate monuments was not a high priority.

2021
The city attorney had been assigned to research ownership and other issues. During that process, Cape Fear 3, United Daughters of the Confederacy approached the city and asserted a claim on the statue. The claim was based on the facts that, at the time, the UDC chapter had commissioned the statue and had sought city permission to erect it on public property using private funds.

The city attorney concurred. In a July 5 letter to the city, Cape Fear 3 requested that the city hold the monument in storage until Cape Fear 3 had made arrangements to take possession. With the statue already in storage, the city agreed to move the pedestal into storage as well.

In August, the City Council approved the agreement. In a statement, the government said the effects of the vote were to permanently remove the monument from public land and avoid litigation.

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The hype around big data has caused many organisations to hire data scientists without giving much thought to what these data scientists are going to do and whether they're actually needed. This is a source of frustration for all parties involved. This post discusses some questions you should ask yourself before deciding to hire your first data scientist.
Even if your product is mature and generating a lot of data, it doesn't mean it's ready for data science. Advanced analytics capabilities are at the top of data's hierarchy of needs: If your product is buggy, or if your data is scattered everywhere and your platform lacks centralised reporting, you need to first invest in fixing your data plumbing. This is the job of data engineers. Getting data scientists involved when the data is hardly available due to infrastructure issues is likely to lead to frustration. In addition, setting up centralised reporting and dashboarding is likely to give you ideas for problems that data scientists can solve.
I have seen more than one case where data scientists are hired only to be blocked or ignored. This is more prevalent in the corporate world, where managers are often incentivised to prioritise doing things that look good over things that make financial sense. But even if recruitment is done with the best intentions, progress may be blocked by employees who feel threatened because they would be replaced by automated data-driven algorithms. Successful data science projects require support from senior leadership, as discussed by Greta Roberts, Radim Řehůřek, Alec Smith, and many others. Without such support and a strong commitment to making data-driven decisions, everyone is just wasting their time.
I have learned that if it is clear that you will need a data scientists (by someone who knows what they do), then you should get them as soon as possible. Don't wait. Data Scientists work best when they have full context for the problem they are here to solve. Getting them in early allows them to help frame the problem. This framing is critical. If the framing is off, it takes a very long time (sometimes never) to get it back on track. A late-to-the-game data scientists can be too influenced by the the existing framing they are given. They tend to think within that box, when in reality, the box was never the right way to approach the problem. Even if they do see outside of it, it can be very difficult to convince the original framers that there is a better way to do things (people can get quite attached to their vision).
It also can be wise to NOT WAIT till there is data to analyze. Too often, data is an afterthought. Its important for the data scientist to get in early on the initiative so he or she can help define the needed instrumentation and data acquisition strategy. They can even guide the needs of the data warehouse and other repositories where the newly captured data will reside.
Further, it is often the case that it is the data scientist that identifies the specific problem to solve. At my company, I estimate that over half of the ideas for new data products, features, and services come from the data science team — not the business. This is intuitive as the data scientists are the folks that are most intimate with the data and are least constrained by what is possible to do with data. Give them business context and they will come up with problems/solutions that no one has thought of.
Finally, I find heuristics to be dangerous. At best they are suboptimal, and more often than not, they are just plain wrong (those with extensive A/B testing experience can attest to the fact that our intuition fails us again and again). Undoing a bad heuristics can be very painful – in the technical work, the coordinate work, and in the resetting of expectations. Its hard to get people to not walk on a paved path … even if that path is the long way or a dead-end.
I totally agree with "Q5: Are you committed to being data-driven?". This comes down to business model and culture. Is your business model one where data science can be the source of strategic differentiation? Is your culture able to support empiricism? The answer to both of these has to be 'yes' in order to commit to being data-driven.
Thank you for your thoughtful comments, Eric!
I generally agree that it can be beneficial to involve data scientists early on and to avoid thoughtless heuristics, but that it all depends on having a supportive data-driven environment and on resource constraints. As mentioned under Q2, getting advice from a data scientist in the early stages of the product is worthwhile, so it may be smart to pay for a few days of consulting, but not necessarily a good idea to hire a full-timer. A lot of it depends on the general product vision.
Another note regarding heuristics and intuition: While some may be dangerous, you can view many modelling decisions as heuristics. For example, when building a predictive model, you have to make some intuition-driven choices around features (no model uses all the knowledge in the world), learning algorithms and their hyperparameters. You just can't test everything, so there's a need for compromises if you aim to ever deliver anything.


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Joan Brossa i Cuervo [Katalanische Aussprache: ] (* 19. Januar 1919 in Barcelona; † 30. Dezember 1998 ebenda) war ein Dichter, Schriftsteller, Dramatiker und Graphik- und Plastikkünstler, der repräsentativste katalanische Autor der Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts. Wie er selbst sagte: "Die Gattungen der Künste sind verschiedene Mittel, um eine einzige Wirklichkeit auszudrücken. Sie sind Seiten der gleichen Pyramide, die am höchsten Punkt zusammentreffen."

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Während des Spanischen Bürgerkrieges (1936–1939) begann er, gelegentlich zu schreiben. Zurück in Barcelona lernte er J. V. Foix, Joan Miró und Joan Prats kennen. Dank ihren Ratschlägen und innerhalb einer neosurrealistischen Linie begann er Sonette, sapphische Oden, Sestinen, Freipoeme (im ganzen mehr als 80 Bücher, alle in katalanischer Sprache) und Theaterstücke, die er "Bühnenpoesie" nannte (mehr als 350 Werke), zu schreiben. Den futuristischen Parametern folgend realisierte er, ebenfalls 1941, seine ersten visuellen Gedichte. 1943 entstand sein erstes objet trouvé, 1950 seine erste Kombination entfernter Objekte und 1956 seine erste Installation (im Schaufenster eines Geschäftes). Gemeinsam mit Antoni Tàpies, Modest Cuixart, Joan Ponç, Arnau Puig und Joan-Josep Tharrats gründete er 1947 die Zeitschrift Dau al Set.

Durch die Begegnung mit dem brasilianischen Dichter João Cabral de Melo Neto nahm Brossas Poesie ab 1950 – mit dem Buch  ('So entstand Joan Brossa') – sozialkritischere Züge an. Während der 1960er Jahre experimentierte er mit visueller Poesie und mit Objekten, ein Terrain, das er nie wieder verlassen würde. Zugleich begann seine Zusammenarbeit mit Künstlern wie Tàpies und Miró, die er später auf plastische Künstler aller Generationen ausweiten sollte. Beginnend mit seiner ersten Werkschau in der Fundació Joan Miró in Barcelona (1986) gewannen die Ausstellungen des Dichters an Kontinuität. 1991 machte ihn eine Ausstellung im Nationalmuseum Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid international bekannt. Außerdem erreichten seine Werke das Publikum über die so genannten "körperlichen Dichtungen", wie das  ('Begehbares visuelles Gedicht in drei Teilen') im Velodrom von Barcelona (1984). Seine riesige literarische Produktion riss jedoch trotz dieser Hinwendung zur Plastik nicht ab.

Im Bereich des Theaters schrieb er schon in den 40er Jahren Bühnenakte und praktizierte andere paratheatralische Genres, wie etwa Transformationsmonologe, Balletts und Konzerte, wobei die in Zusammenarbeit mit Josep M. Mestres Quadreny und Carles Santos Ventura entstandenen Stücke sowie das Texttheater, die Operntextbücher und Kinodrehbücher (für Pere Portabella, Carlos Atanes und anderen) hervorzuheben sind.

Auf internationaler Ebene sind neben seiner Teilnahme an der Biennale von São Paulo 1993 und an der Biennale von Venedig 1997 die Ausstellungen in München (1988), New York (1989), Céret-Collioure (1991), London und Chicago (1992), Mexiko-Stadt, Monterrey, Kassel und Göppingen (1998) und in Göteborg (1998) hervorzuheben. Die monumentale Ausstellung in der Stiftung Joan Miró in Barcelona (2001) nach seinem Tod trug zur endgültigen Festigung seiner Position bei. Seitdem andere anthologische Werkschauen waren in Santiago de Chile, São Paulo, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Rosario, Buenos Aires, Lissabon, Wien, Prag, Stockholm, Paris, Berlin, Warschau, Mexiko-Stadt und Marseille zu sehen.

In seinen letzten Lebensjahren erhielt Joan Brossa von verschiedenen internationalen Institutionen zahlreiche Auszeichnungen für mehrere Genres. Im Jahr 1998 verlieh ihm die UNESCO die "Picasso-Medaille".

Werke

Auswahl
 Poesia escènica. 6 Bände. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1973–1983, ISBN 84-297-1148-1 (Theater).
 Poemes objecte. Servicios Editoriales, Barcelona 1978, ISBN 84-85546-00-8 (Visuelle Poesie).
 L'illusionniste. Orphée / La Différence, Paris 1991, ISBN 2-7291-0734-7 (Zweisprachige Anthologie auf Katalanisch und Französisch).
 Poesia rasa I und II. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1991, ISBN 84-297-3148-2 und ISBN 84-297-3296-9.
 El tentetieso. Plaza & Janés, Barcelona 1991, ISBN 84-01-59018-3 (Übersetzung auf Spanisch).
 Cartells 1975–1999. Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-95166-09-7.
 A partir del silenci. Cercle de Lectors / Galàxia Gutenberg, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-8109-350-5 (Polymorphe Anthologie).
 La piedra abierta. Círculo de Lectores / Galàxia Gutenberg, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-672-0010-3 (Zweisprachige Anthologie auf Katalanisch und Spanisch).
 Poesia tipogràfica. Ajuntament / Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 2004, ISBN 84-7609-407-8 (Visuelle Poesie).
 Poèmes civils. URDLA, Villeurbanne 2010, ISBN 978-2-914839-35-8 (Zweisprachig auf Katalanisch und Französisch).
 Strip-tease et théâtre irregulier suivi de Actions musicales. Éditions de l'Amandier, Paris 2010, ISBN 978-2-35516-119-3 (Übersetzung auf Französisch).
 Les etceteras. cipM, Marseille 2011, ISBN 978-2-909097-91-6 (Visuelle Poesie).
 Joan Brossa. Poemes visuals. Enciclopèdia Catalana, Barcelona 2014, ISBN 978-84-412-2284-7 (Reproduktion aller seiner serialisierten grafische Werke).

Deutsche Übersetzungen
 Der wilde Kopf. Übersetzung von José Luís de Sàled und Bert Raingässer. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln-Marienburg 1962, .
 Dichtung. Übersetzung von Johannes Hösle und Antoni Pous. In: Akzente. Nr. 4 (August), 1974.
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Rainer Chrapkowski. In: Park. Zeitschrift für neue Literatur [Heidelberg-Berlin] Nr. 7 (September), 1978.
 Vierte Schauspiel-Aktion. Übersetzung von Rainer Chrapkowski. Erstes Heft. [Berlin] (November), 1978.
 Posttheater. Übersetzung von Rainer Chrapkowski. In: Theater heute. Nr. 2 (Februar), 1979.
  Gedichte. Übersetzung von Cristina Fernández Reumann. In: Felipe Boso, Ricardo Bada (Hrsg.): Ein Schiff aus Wasser. Spanische Literatur von heute. Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Köln 1981, ISBN 3-462-01391-2.
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Til Stegmann und Uwe Grüning. In: Ein Spiel von Spiegeln. Katalanische Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Reclam, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-379-00222-4, S. 130–145.
 Miró-Museum. Übersetzung von Trudel Meisenburg. In: die horen. Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kritik. Nr. 158, 35. Jg., 2. Quartal, 1990.
 Gedichte und Graphiken. Übersetzung von Sabine Sattel. In: Frauen und ihr Bild (= Freibeuter. Nr. 48). [Berlin] 1991.
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Sabine Sattel. In: Die Symbolisten und Richard Wagner. Hrsg. von Wolfgang Storch. Mitarb. Josef Mackert. Hentrich, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-89468-008-3, S. 44 f. (Ausstellungskatalog; Übersetzung der fremdsprachlichen Texte).
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Roger Friedlein. In: die horen. Zeitschrift für Literatur, Kunst und Kritik. Nr. 178, 1995.
 Visuelle Poesie. Übersetzung von Frank Henseleit. In: Kupido. Zeitschrift für Kunst und Poesie. Nr. 1, [Dortmund] 1995.
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Til Stegmann. In: Kreativität in Joan Brossas Gedichten. In: Zeitschrift für Katalanistik. Nr. 9, 1996, S. 72–102 (romanistik.uni-freiburg.de [PDF; 1,3 MB]).
 So entstand Joan Brossa. Übersetzung von Frank Henseleit-Lucke. Mosel und Tschechow, München 1998, ISBN 3-925987-19-3 (Übersetzung auf Deutsch).
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Til Stegmann. In: Roger Friedlein, Barbara Richter (Hrsg.): Die Spezialität des Hauses. Neue katalanische Literatur. Babel, München 1998, ISBN 3-928551-29-9.
 Gedichte. Übersetzung von Til Stegmann. In: Konstellationen. Kulturamt Fellbach, Stadt Fellbach 1998, ISBN 3-9805984-1-1 (Ausstellungskatalog).

Literatur
 Glòria Bordons: Introducció a la poesia de Joan Brossa. Edicions 62, Barcelona 1988, ISBN 978-84-297-2729-6.
 Jordi Coca: Joan Brossa. Oblidar i caminar. Edicions de la Magrana, Barcelona 1992, ISBN 84-7410-617-6.
 Rubén Simon u. a.: Joan Brossa. La Forest d'Arana, Valencia 1994, ISBN 84-604-9314-8.
 Isidre Vallès i Rovira: Joan Brossa: Les sabates són més que un pedestal. Editorial Alta Fulla, Barcelona 1996, ISBN 84-7900-068-6.
 Lluís Permanyer: Brossa x Brossa. Records. La Campana, Barcelona 1999, ISBN 84-88791-71-2.
 Vicenç Altaió u. a.: Joan Brossa or the Poetic Revolt. KRTU, Barcelona 2001, ISBN 84-393-5344-8.
 Glòria Bordons u. a.: Aprendre amb Joan Brossa. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2003, ISBN 84-8338-380-2.
 Eduard Planas: La poesia escènica de Joan Brossa. Associació d'Investigació i Experimentació Teatral, Barcelona 2002, ISBN 84-607-5294-1.
 Joan Brossa desde Barcelona al Nuevo Mundo. Institut Ramon Llull, Barcelona 2004, ISBN 84-933081-1-0.
 Daniel Giralt-Miracle u. a.: Brossian Itineraries. Ajuntament / Fundació Joan Brossa, Barcelona 2006, ISBN 84-933081-6-1.
 Joan Brossa en las alturas y sin red. Junta de Comunidades de Castilla-La Mancha, Toledo 2007, ISBN 978-84-7788-479-8.
 Bverso Brossa. Instituto Cervantes, Madrid 2008, ISBN 978-84-88252-41-8.
 Jordi Marrugat: "El saltamartí" de Joan Brossa. Les mil cares del poeta. Arola, Tarragona 2009, ISBN 978-84-92408-54-2.
 John London: Contextos de Joan Brossa. L'acció, la imatge i la paraula. Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2010, ISBN 978-84-475-3428-9.
 Glòria Bordons, Marc Audí: Joan Brossa entre la paraula, el gest i la imatge. Enciclopèdia Catalana, Barcelona 2014, ISBN 978-84-412-2286-1.
 Ainize González García: Joan Brossa, artes visuales. Ixorai Llibres, Barcelona 2015, ISBN 978-84-15987-01-7.

Weblinks

 Website der "Stiftung Joan Brossa", Barcelona (katalanisch, spanisch, englisch; die Stiftung ist Eigentümerin der Copyrights aller Werke Brossas)
 Gesamtkatalog der Werke von und über Joan Brossa. In: pocio.cat. Glòria Bordons (katalanisch)
 Brossas Biographie bei lletrA.net (katalanisch, spanisch und englisch)
 Virtuelle Ausstellung Els entra-i-surts de Brossa. In: lletra.uoc.edu (katalanisch)

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A: How about NOT EXISTS and no joins?
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A: I think using a CTE might give you a pretty straight-forward solution.
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Basically, you get a "list" of products that sold in 90 days.
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A: I'm not sure if you can invert your condition and instead select all products that had sales earlier that last 90 days instead?
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This way it seems your subquery is all you need

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The Efficacy of a Smectite-Based Mycotoxin Binder in Reducing Aflatoxin B1 Toxicity on Performance, Health and Histopathology of Broiler Chickens
by Ismail Zabiulla 1, Venkataramaiah Malathi 1,*, H. V. L. N. Swamy 2, Jaya Naik 1, Lane Pineda 2 and Yanming Han 2
1Poultry Science Department, Veterinary College Bangalore, Karnataka Veterinary Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bengaluru 560024, India
2Trouw Nutrition, Hyderabad 500032, India
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Toxins 2021, 13(12), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxins13120856 (registering DOI) Received: 24 October 2021 / Revised: 23 November 2021 / Accepted: 29 November 2021 / Published: 1 December 2021 (This article belongs to the Special Issue Toxic Effect of Mycotoxins)
Venkataramaiah Malathi, H. V. L. N. Swamy, Jaya Naik, Lane Pineda, Yanming Han
by Ismail Zabiulla on 01/12/2021
The aim of the experiment was to investigate the efficacy of a smectite-based clay binder (Toxo-MX) in reducing the toxicological effects of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) in commercial broiler chickens. A total of 450 one-day old male broiler chickens were randomly allocated into three treatment groups with ten replicates of 15 birds each in a 42-day feeding experiment. The dietary treatments included a negative control (NC, a basal diet with no AFB1 and binder), a positive control (PC, a basal diet contaminated with 500 ppb of AFB1) and a smectite-based mycotoxin binder(Toxo-MX, PC with smectite clay binder). AFB1 challenge resulted in 14 to 24% depression in growth performance, elevated levels of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), and gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), organ enlargement and immuno-suppression.As compared to PC, feeding of Toxo-MX improved the final weight (15%; p < 0.0001), average daily gain (ADG) (15%; p < 0.001) and feed efficiency of broilers (13%; p < 0.0003) but did not have any effects on liver enzyme activities. Supplementation of smectite claysignificantly increased serum globulin levels and reduced the weight of the liver (p < 0.05) as compared to AFB1-fed broiler chickens. The severity of lesions (inflammatory and degenerative changes) observed in the liver, kidney, heart, pancreas, and lymphoid organs in PC birds was reduced by feeding smectite clay. The immuno-suppression caused by AFB1 was moderately ameliorated in Toxo-MX groupby stimulating the production of antibodies against IBD at day 42 (p < 0.05). In conclusion, dietary supplementation of a smectite-based mycotoxin binder to the diet containing AFB1 improved growth performance, reduced toxicological effects in liver and improved humoral immune response in broilers, suggesting its protective effect against aflatoxicosis. View Full-Text
Keywords: aflatoxin; bentonite; broiler chicken; mycotoxin; mycotoxin binder; smectite


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Kinross Gold allegedly trying to recover Ecuador mine losses
Cecilia Jamasmie | May 30, 2014 | 7:29 pm Base Metals Precious Metals Top Companies Canada Europe Latin America Copper Gold Silver
Fruta del Norte, discovered in 2006, is one of the world's biggest gold discoveries, containing about 6.7 million ounces of proven and probable gold reserves and 9 million ounces of proven and probable silver reserves.
Canada's Kinross Gold Corp. (TSX:K) (NYSE:KGC), the company that took a $720 million write-down when it halted its $1.3bn Fruta del Norte gold-silver project in Ecuador last year, is in negotiations to get back part of the investment, Bloomberg is reporting.
The miner said in June last year it was abandoning all efforts to develop the project because of the high taxes demanded by the Ecuadorean government, which refused to renegotiate a plan for a 70% windfall tax on revenue, allow Kinross to sale Fruta or extend the company's licence beyond an August 1 deadline.
For Kinross, the project was a calculated risk that simply didn't pay off. For Ecuador, it was a major blow to its ambitious plans of attracting mining companies to develop the industry.
Since 2012, the country has signed only one investment contract for a large-scale mining project with the Chinese-owned Ecuacorriente S.A. for the open-pit Mirador copper project, scheduled to start production at the end of 2015.
Ongoing talks
A member of the country's mining chamber told BNamericas earlier this month (subs required) the project sale was still ongoing, and that the potential buyer "would have to be approved by the government."
One of the rumoured bidders is Chile's Codelco, the world's largest copper producer, which is already involved in the Ecuadorian mining sector.
But people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that President Rafael Correa's administration may agree to renew the company's rights to the concession, removing legal hurdles to the prospective sale. Another option, says the report, is for Kinross to just sell data gathered from its prospecting operations.
Fruta del Norte, found in 2006, is one of the world's biggest gold discoveries, containing about 6.7 million ounces of proven and probable gold reserves and 9 million ounces of proven and probable silver reserves, according to Kinross' website.


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Gary McSheffrey to be assisted by Frank Sinclair
Following the departure of Richie Wellens on Thursday, Doncaster Rovers can confirm that Noel Hunt has also left the club.
Caretaker boss Gary McSheffrey will be assisted by Academy coach Frank Sinclair while the club recruit a permanent first-team manager.
Academy manager Tony Cook and head of Academy coaching Steve Welsh will lead on the U18s programme in place of McSheffrey.
The club would like to thank Noel for his efforts since arriving at the club and wish him the best with all his future endeavours.
McSheffrey: Younger can be a real asset
Gary McSheffrey believes Ollie Younger will become a real asset for Rovers after the defender joined the club from Sunderland.
Younger: I'm delighted to be here
Rovers' third January signing Ollie Younger is looking forward to seeing what the future holds at the Eco-Power Stadium.
Welcome to Rovers, Ollie Younger!
Rovers can confirm the signing of centre-back Ollie Younger on an 18-month deal.
McSheffrey: I can't ask for much more from the players
Gary McSheffrey spoke to the media following the 3-1 defeat at Cambridge United in Sky Bet League One.


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York City manager Martin Gray spoke to the local media this afternoon at Bootham Crescent in his regular pre-match Press Conference.
The main topic on the agenda was Saturday's Vanarama National League North home fixture against Kidderminster Harriers, a side who are currently in 12th position in the table but only five points behind the Minstermen with two games in hand.
Last weekend was one of mixed emotions for the City boss as his team went home from the match at Alfreton Town with all three points, but there was a tinge of disappointment about conceding two goals in the 3-2 victory.
Since joining the club alongside Sporting Director, Dave Penney, a lot of hard work has gone in on the training ground to work with the current squad, plus some new additions, and get across a winning mentality. Getting the players used to the new management team and their way of working has been a big part of the past month or so.
"We're here to win our next game, that's what we've got to focus on. That's the most important thing this weekend. It's the winning mentality. Whatever we do on the training ground, there's a purpose to it, and I think that becomes infectious. The players are getting exactly what we're all about now. They're a little bit more relaxed around us as well.
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A win against Kidderminster at Bootham Crescent on Saturday (kick off 3pm) would help City close what has now become a bit of a gap between themselves and fifth-placed Blyth Spartans, a team who York have already beaten this season and who visit the Minster City on Saturday 23rd December. It has been a long time since York City have had a consistent winning run, but Martin Gray insists that his new-look York side has got what it takes to sustain good results over a longer period.