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Q: How can I update a data record's value with Ruby on Rails 4.0.1/PostgreSQL Hstore? I'm encountering a strange issue that must be user error on my part but can't figure it out.
I'm using Ruby 1.9.3-p194, Rails 4.01, PostgreSQL.
I have a model, Customer, with a column called data that is a hstore type. For some reason, I am not able to update the data (hstore) column with any new key/values nor can I update an existing key's value. I can do an insert and specify any key/values w/o any issue.
Customer id: 1, first_name: "Mark", last_name: "Test", data: {"balance"=>"0"}, created_at: "2013-11-27 14:39:09", updated_at: "2013-11-27 14:39:09"
c.data["balance"] = "100"

c.save

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If I do an update_attributes, it does save it.
c.update_attributes({:data => {"balance" => "343"}})

I don't see any errors or exceptions when I used c.save!.  Anyone have any ideas?

A: Ok finally found an answer to my question. Turns out that it's a bug within Rails 4.0.
"ActiveRecord Hstore bug: can't update a key in the hash"
https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/6127

A: Upgraded Hstore docs:
http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_postgresql.html#hstore
They're working to use the same solution for Hstore and Json object updating.
This will be fixed on Rails 4.2.
Pull-request: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/15674

A: I still needed this to work now and couldn't wait for the bug to be solved, so here's my workaround:
c.data["balance"] = "100"
c.data_will_change!
c.save

... and it will save to the DB!
The "attribute_name_will_change!" method isn't that well documented and can be found in the introduction to the Active Model Dirty module: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/Dirty.html

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Questions concerning landlord/tenant and roommate disputes are addressed in an article taken from the City Attorney's Office quarterly publication, "C.A.L.L." (City Attorney Law Letter).
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A lot of young adult literature is about teens in unfamiliar situations and places. Sometimes the differences they experience are socio-economic, sometimes they're cultural, and sometimes they're magical. Fish out of water tales are usually easily relatable, regardless of the specificity, because most people can remember how they felt the first time they encountered something that was wholly outside of their lived experience up to that point.
Two February books—American Street and Piecing Me Together—have black teen girls narrating their lives in first person. Both have received lots of critical praise with five and four stars, respectively. More significantly, and the reason why they're paired together, both books are by black women writing deeply emotional stories that their voices imbue with authenticity and integrity.
I almost didn't finish We Are Okay. Not because it's bad–in fact, it's quite beautiful–but because reading it required a lot of emotional labor. When fiction pokes at pieces of your heart that you thought you had protected and hidden away, it requires strength and stamina to push through when all you actually want to do is bury the book at the bottom of your to-read pile.
All of this is to say that I had a deeply emotional experience reading Nina LaCour's novel. Critics, myself included, tend to separate heart from head in their professional reviews. Here though, LaCour's ability to access and communicate so many raw and complicated feelings is extraordinary and so relevant to any discussion of this book. I couldn't have cried through the last 40 pages of We Are Okay without LaCour's precise and detailed sentence-level writing. This is a small book densely packed with complicated people, feelings, unimaginable loss, heartbreak, and so much love.
Spoilers ahead. If you haven't read the book (and you really should) consider yourself warned.
2017 is zipping along at a brisk pace and it's hard to believe that it's already time to talk Printz. This time last year, I was reviewing Shaun David Hutchinson's We Are the Ants. Hutchinson's latest, At the Edge of the Universe is a spiritual twin to his previous novel and today we'll see if it has what it takes to be a Printz contender.


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BEMA hosts virtual fundraiser to support The Women's Bakery
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By Nico Roesler
KANSAS CITY, MO — BEMA will host a one-hour virtual fundraising event to raise money and awareness for the The Women's Bakery (TWB) at 3 pm CST, Thursday, June 25.
TWB is a social enterprise headquartered in Denver, Colo., and Rwanda that empowers women and builds nutrition-centric bakeries in East Africa.
Founded in 2014, the heart of TWB's mission is to create access to social and economic opportunities for women and provide nutritious, affordable bread to East African communities. The social and economic opportunities created through TWB address the cycle of food insecurity and gender inequity in East Africa. Using the power of bread, women receive critical access to benefits including education, economic opportunity, and general health and wellness.
"As TWB grows and our bakeries move closer toward profitability, I am most proud of the steps we take to further empower the lives of our women bakers," said Markey Culver, TWB founder and chief executive officer. "TWB's Whole Women Programming is a key ingredient to our mission of empowering women and providing nutritious bread to the people of Rwanda. Thanks to the support of our champions, such as BEMA, TWB is poised to really grow."
The event is in tandem with BEMA's Virtual Convention 2020 and "Turikumwe" (We Are Together) campaign, moved online due to COVID-19 safety measures.
"The Women's Bakery is a real-world example of how bread can create a difference in people's lives," said Kerwin Brown, CEO, BEMA. "This virtual fundraiser will strengthen connections and highlight the industry's ongoing philanthropic commitment to help others thrive during a time of unexpected need."
The bakery's fundraising needs include: $500 for health insurance for TWB workers; $1,000 for on-site child daycare services for a year; $5,000 for delivery vehicles; $10,000 for two gender equity training programs; $25,000 for three months of social impact programming; $50,000 for a training program for new bakers in 2021; $75,000 for three new industrial ovens, one for each bakery and includes shipping and importation taxes; $100,000 for bakery operations in Kigali, Rwanda; and $150,000 to purchase the Gicumbi, Rwanda, bakery, which is currently leased.
"The Women's Bakery is a place where I learn every day how to be a better leader, a better manager and, mostly, a better person," said Tessa Soni, TWB program manager, Gicumbi and Ruyenzi bakeries. "There is something powerful in waking up every day genuinely fighting for a community of incredible women."
BEMA encourages fundraiser participants to share the positive impact of TWB and its Turikumwe campaign by sharing photos and videos of pledges on social media using #TWB and #Turikumwe.
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Socialist Resistance welcomes Anti*Capitalist Resistance
The weekend school of Anti-Capitalist Resistance on the 12 & 13 September marked a positive step towards establishing ACR as a revolutionary Marxist organisation in England and Wales.
Over 75 people attended both days in what was a series of comradely and constructive discussions on Analysing the World Capitalist Crisis, Understanding the New Working Class, Building Resistance to Disaster Capitalism, and what are the next steps towards a new Anti-Capitalist Resistance organisation.
Comrades from Socialist Resistance, Mutiny, and independent activists were in agreement over the need to put forward a radical socialist alternative to the combined crisis of the economy, the pandemic, the rise of the far-right, and environmental devastation. In other words, the choice that we all face across the world is ecosocialism or disaster capitalism.
The immediate campaigning priorities that ACR supporters set themselves are: to oppose a Tory No-Deal Brexit and its disastrous consequences, to defend migrants in the increasingly hostile environment, and to mobilise around the COP 26 Climate Summit to keep the rise in global warming below 1.5°C by 2030.
The weekend school attracted new and old activists who see the need a new revolutionary Marxist organisation in the new political situation following the defeat of Corbynism in the Labour Party and an aggressive English nationalist government.
In the discussion on the next steps for ACR, those participating want to see an organisation that is a democratic revolutionary socialist, not a top-down 'democratic-centralist' organisation, and which is rooted in the struggles of the working class and the oppressed.
The general constructive and comradely conduct of the discussion is encouraging for the prospect of a new organisation. In the next few months, supporters of the project for the new organisation will be encouraging other activists to join ACR to contribute in shape it. A founding conference would then take place in the early part of 2021.
Socialist Resistance will continue collective participation in the ACR process, actively help in its establishment and fully participate in its internal life. Socialist Resistance supporters will maintain their current relationship with the Fourth International.
This article was originally published on the Socialist Resistance website.


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DA welcomes a step closer to holding 'Dodging' Dlamini to account
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The DA welcomes the appointment of Justice Bernard Ngoepe to head up the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini's, role in causing the social grants crisis.
Some of the key matters that the inquiry will deal with are:
Whether the Minister sought the appointment of individuals to lead "workstreams" who would report directly to her; and
The reason why the Minister did not disclose to the Constitutional Court the fact that she appointed individuals to the "workstreams" and that they reported to her directly.
Dodging Dlamini has tried to shift the blame to the accounting officers, namely the former Director-General, Zane Dangor, and the former CEO, Thokozani Magwaza. However, this has failed and rightly so.
The DA have long been of the view that Dlamini manufactured the crisis, possibly for financial gain.
This is a welcome a step towards ensuring that Dlamini is held accountable and will shed light on the real reasons as to why SASSA was not able to institutionalise the grants payment system.
The DA looks forward to a date for the Inquiry being set and to ensuring that the Minister is made to face up to playing games.
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Hollyoaks broke with tradition in nostalgic and emotional 25th anniversary episode
No stunt, but plenty of happy tears.
By Daniel Kilkelly
Hollyoaks spoilers follow from Wednesday's E4 first look episode (October 21), which some readers may prefer to avoid.
Your eyes weren't deceiving you – a huge Hollyoaks anniversary episode just passed by without explosions, carnage or a cast cull.
E4 viewers watched the long-running soap's 25th anniversary special on Wednesday evening (October 21), but fans were treated to warmth and nostalgia rather than the on-screen spectacles that usually accompany such occasions.
Let's face it – the Hollyoaks bosses didn't have much choice. With all soaps currently following strict COVID-19 guidelines on set, big-budget stunts and disasters are off the table for the foreseeable future.
Way back in July 2019, the show had confidently kicked off the 25th anniversary hype early by teasing a huge stunt, which understandably didn't come to fruition in the end.
It's Hollyoaks tradition for a jaw-dropping disaster every October, after the success of the Enjoy The Ride wedding crash storyline in 2012. This paved the way for other high-stakes plots like the Hollyoaks Blast, the McQueens' train crash and the school explosion.
Last year, the show even went meta by having Grace Black reference the annual carnage on screen: "Right, that's it. This time next year, I am booking a holiday. Something always seems to be kicking off here in October!"
But with a real-life pandemic throwing Grace's prediction into disarray, Hollyoaks bosses clearly had to go back to the drawing board. The end result was a genuinely moving episode that felt like a warm hug for old and new fans alike.
In this episode, there was something for everyone – original character Kurt Benson coming back from the dead to surprise Tony, "Little Tom" coming of age by getting engaged, the McQueens in turmoil, and the return of the village's most notorious serial killer.
While Kurt's comeback and Silas's fourth chapter are sure to claim all the headlines, the most effective scenes were the ones centring around Yazz's proposal to Tom. In a bid to convince Tom that they belonged together, Yazz recruited the whole village to record a love letter that she'd written for her boyfriend.
This created an on-screen video sequence featuring every adult character in the show, as they each took turns to read Yazz's moving words.
If the speech resonated with you beyond the pair's fictional romance storyline, this was absolutely intentional. The on-screen love letter was written to subtly represent the relationship between Hollyoaks and its fanbase over the years:
"Being with you feels like coming home. We've known each other for so long, but you can still surprise me. We've been through our sunny days and dark nights.
"We've said our fair share of hellos, and far too many goodbyes. And the one thing I know – the one thing I'm sure of – is this. That when I need you the most, you're right by my side."
With heartfelt performances from Ellis Hollins and Haiesha Mistry – and a script penned by Richard Burke, one of Hollyoaks' best writers – the scenes will have brought a smile to the face of every fan. And let's face it, we could all do with some smiles right now.
The anniversary special wasn't just about making us feel warm and fuzzy, though – there were plenty of exciting new possibilities set up for the future, too.
The return of serial killer Silas Blissett, in particular, is sure to be a hit with viewers. His return stints have never quite matched the brilliance of his original storyline from 2011, but there was an early air of menace in his new scenes which hopefully bodes well for the drama to come.
Plus, we couldn't help but notice an intriguing new mystery as sly Silas seems to be working with someone. Who has he forged an alliance with this time? Let's hope, for their sake, they don't end up as the next Lindsey Butterfield.
We're also interested to see whether Tom and Yazz's engagement will now put them at the centre of the New Year wedding storyline, after ten months of speculation about the flashforward episode.
All eyes are sure to be on Kurt too as he tries to make amends for his past mistakes and settles back into the village.
The explanation for the charmer's return wasn't overly interesting (and everyone got their heads around it rather quickly) but we reckon having his best mate back is exactly what Tony needs right now.
COVID may have KO'd the annual stunt, but much like Corrie's 10,000th episode at the start of the year, it was refreshing to see a milestone edition that felt like a true, character-based celebration.
Plus, for those who really want an on-screen catastrophe on a smaller scale, there's always next week's car crash…
Hollyoaks currently airs new episodes from Monday to Thursday at 6.30pm on Channel 4, with first look screenings at 7pm on E4. Classic episodes, titled Hollyoaks Favourites, air on Fridays at 7pm on E4.
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The Horror of Capitalism: Consuming the Body of God
Necropolitics / Von Craig Hickman / 2019-07-31 2019-07-31 / Bataille, capitalism, god, horror, Nick Land
Base matter is external and foreign to human aspirations, and it refuses to allow itself to be reduced to the great ontological machines resulting from these aspirations.
—Georges Bataille, Base Materialism and Gnosticism
For Bataille, religion is not the revelation of a divine being who is creator of all things, nor is it something to believe in; rather, it signifies the general movement of life, in which life and death pass into each other. If as Bataille suggested terror and nausea are affects that accompany transgression, then abjection as Bataille's student Kristeva believed gives birth to the goddess-mother (i.e., Earth) as a being that is both debased and exalted. Like excrement, the mother poses a threat to the identity of the body, to its autonomous corporeal limits. Failure to separate oneself from one's mother implies death and destruction, and—in a society where the paternal function is no longer strong—the whole society feels threatened by the abject.1
Bataille believed that God is revealed through obscenity or destruction, a "deadly, or simply painful and abject medium."2 For Kristeva abjection primarily refers to the event of the separation and identification of the corporeal subject; for Bataille, abjection is part of the movement of transcendence through which the profane and the sacred worlds come into being. (NE, 198) Since the Enlightenment and under the regime of disenchantment of the cosmos we have expulsed and denied the ancient communal world of prohibitions and sexual taboos. These have returned to haunt us through a parody and inversion of those very powerful repressions that held in check the monstrous inhumanity at the core of our humanity.
Now Hegelianism, no less than the classical philosophy of Hegel's period, apparently proceeded from very ancient metaphysical conceptions, conceptions developed by, among others, the Gnostics, in an epoch when metaphysics could still be associated with the most monstrous dualistic and therefore strangely abased cosmogonies.
What we are seeing today in the extreme polarization of politics across the world is a return of those darker unresolved tensions at the core of the monotheistic religious consciousness. As Bataille suggests,
it is difficult today to remain indifferent even to partly falsified solutions brought, at the beginning of the Christian era, to problems that do not appear noticeably different from our own (which are those of a society whose original principles have become, in a very precise sense, the dead letter of a society that must put itself in question and overturn itself in order to rediscover motives of force and violent agitation).3
In Bataille's cosmos base matter was an active principle, one that had " its own eternal autonomous existence as darkness (which would not be simply the absence of light, but the monstrous archontes revealed by this absence), and as evil (which would not be the absence of good, but a creative action). This conception was perfectly incompatible with the very principle of the profoundly monistic Hellenistic spirit, whose dominant tendency saw matter and evil as degradations of superior principles. (VE, 37) Yet, it was his study of the stone artifacts revealing the monstrous archons of this dark anti-Statist religious system that brought Bataille to the conclusion that the "despotic and bestial obsession with outlawed and evil forces seems irrefutable, as much in its metaphysical speculation as in its mythological nightmare." (VE, 38) The notion of matter as creative is the central principle underlying Bataille's base materialism. As he would tell us "Gnosticism, in its psychological process, is not so different from present-day materialism," a materialism that does not imply ontology and escapes the imposition of the ancient notions of form and Idea (i.e., Idealism).
This complete toppling of two-thousand years of religious and State imposed systems of control through the power of Idealistic and goal-oriented systems of political and economic degradation that ultimately gave birth to the sciences and Enlightenment desacralization of the monotheistic worldview only inverted that dark system of Idealism, it did not exclude it. So that it still believed in the idea, the concept, the very power of 'superior principle' by which society is governed to this day. Capitalism is the apogee of this degradation…
Even now as we dissolve the essence of what it means to be human in the meaningless nihilism of our late age, destroying the very figure/ground of the old metaphysical worlds into dust we have only ever replaced them with other false systems which undergird and return us to those very idealisms by which humans have aspired to their own godlike and immortal visions of power and expansion. Capitalism is the new god of Man: the prime mover and catalyst of his dreams of immortality. Transhumanism is the new religion of this era, the bio-genetic system of exclusion and genocide, the hypereugenics of transformation and mutation: the engine of a false dawn and creation.
In a sense our very denial of the essence of human nature has brought about its self-objectification through abject horror and expulsion in machinic Capitalism. The 'accursed share' (Bataille), the excess and transgression of the energic bounds that tie us to the earth through excess productivity gave birth to Capitalism, which is the monstrous cannibalistic body of death-in-Life without bounds. The old Sanskrit phrase 'Tat Tvam Asi – Thou art that' through an inverse relation between the sacred and profane has reconfigured the world under Capitalism to become a self-consuming artifact of cannibalistic autosarcophagy. As if in parody of the sacred meaning of Tat Tvam Asi under Capitalism what we are eating through excess transgression is the body of the earth-goddess, our divine Mother. She is the sacrificial essence of the accursed share – our own objectified and corrupted humanity denied. We are all under capitalism essentially cannibals whose only task is self-annihilating consumption – the complete consumption of every last resource on earth as an act of profane sacrifice. This is the horror we cannot even begin to face much less stop: we are consuming the cosmic body of our own accumulated death… in our denial we have created the very monstrous cycle of self-consuming labour at the core of Capitalist desire.
This same process was described in these terms by Nick Land, a student of Bataille's, in his well-known essay Meltdown: Multiplicities captured by singularities interconnect as desiring-machines; dissipating entropy by dissociating flows, and recycling their machinism as self-assembling chronogenic circuitry.4 He would envision a 'feminized alien' AI from the future as communication – in the Bataillean sense of intimacy, transforming a mutating the destiny of the planet toward machinic takeover in which "Nothing human makes it out of the near-future." (FN, 443) In this sense capitalism is an alien invasion from the future. As Amy Ireland in her essay The Alien Inside tells us,
Paranoia and narcissism are modalities of control disguised to evade control. The first is a relation to the world; the second a relation to the self. In isolation, the effects of paranoia and narcissism are inconvenient yet essentially limited in scope. Entangled with one another, however, they enter a relationship of mutual excitation, resulting in a complex that crosses a threshold of destructive potential, tending towards the catastrophic. 5
That Land's is an anti-philosophical – not in Wittgenstein's sense, but rather the Bataillean sense of ousting Idealism – project with tentacles in mathematical and mythological explorations of intelligence outside the strictures of normative humanistic and neohumanistic designs and intentions is well known and does not need further explication here. Drawing on Land, Jaques Vallee, Philip K. Dick, and other non-philosophical thought-forms Ireland sees the paranoia and distrust at the heart of our political and socio-cultural security regimes (i.e., what Land terms the Human Security System) is this very fear and horror of the "alien, the supernatural, the machinic". Going on to suggest that we "are so paranoid because we know there is nothing to hang an enduring notion of the 'human' that cannot be perfectly simulated." (ibid.)
We are living in a computer-programmed reality, and the only clue we have to it is when some variable is changed, and some alteration in our reality occurs.
—Philip K. Dick, Metz Sci-Fi Convention, 1977
Most of us have heard of the simulation hypothesis, a notion one could trace back to Platonic thought and Plato's Cave, etc.. Even the prophet of simulation, Baudrillard, offered an opinion on the matter,
Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the rest is real, whereas all of Los Angeles and the America that surrounds it are no longer real, but belong to the hyperreal order and to the order of simulation. It is no longer a question of a false representation of reality (ideology) but of concealing the fact that the real is no longer real, and thus of saving the reality principle.
― Jean Baudrillard, Simulacra and Simulation
As Rizwan Virk recently explicating this idea in relation to current scientific theories tells us, over the last decade, these basic questions about video game worlds have formed the basis of a much larger debate that has been raging among scientists, tech entrepreneurs, computer programmers, philosophers, and science-fiction writers, not to mention among the general public. This debate is not just about video game technology, but about the nature of our reality and how the world "out here" might actually be more like the world "in there" than we previously thought.
The idea that what we call reality is actually a super-sophisticated video game is popularly referred to as the Simulation Hypothesis. The fundamental question raised by the simulation hypothesis is this: Are we all actually characters living inside some kind of giant, massively multiplayer online video game, a simulated reality that is so well rendered that we cannot distinguish it from "physical reality"?6
Of course the trilogy of movies by the Wachowskis brothers fictionalized this concept as part of a Gnostical inversion in which the evil machinic phylum had enslave humans in a never-ending nightmare as living batteries empowering an AI driven machinic society. I'll not go into the explication of this allegorical masterpiece. P.K. Dick who would influence much of the current discussion as well brokered a Gnostic Mythos in his late fiction as well as his weighty tome The Exegesis. In this work Dick would explicate his own version of the alien invasion from the future:
It is Gnosticism and Gnosticism alone which denies the patriarchal Jewish-Christian religion and enshrines Sophia as the creator goddess. So says Neumann in the EB. My experience of the lady— it is exactly Gnostic. None else. In my revelations all roads and aspects lead to her; this is Gnosticism. I've seen her, heard her, in many guises, and finally the name "St. Sophia." Gnostic revelation has broken through into my head in the modern world.7
Dick would call this alien intelligence from the future, Zebra:
Zebra has invaded our world, replacing merciless determinism, with its own loving and living body, to de-program and save us. This is the great white fish giving us of its body, by which it suffers pain, that we might live (find salvation— freed from "astral" determinism). The Black Iron Prison is simultaneous in all time and places and it is the merciless world from which the living Corpus Christi saves us. I have seen it and its nature— and Zebra and its nature. It has the (magic to us) power to transform. Zebra mimics the deterministic structure by inserting its body between it and us. This is how astral determinism is broken; instead of the blind, striving mere mechanism, there is living volition (the salvific). The previous mechanical force is rewoven for (1) the fulfillment of Zebra's plan; and (2) the benefit of the individuals involved. Any event can be headed off, aborted, altered or brought about. Evidently this is grace or divine providence, and the individual may very well sense it. Where freedom enters into it I'm not sure, but I know one thing: Before the insertion/ intervention there was none— in fact that's the main quality (bad) of the "ananke" world— the person is flat-out programmed— caused to react to cuing. The ancients were right about this being a— or even the— prime purpose of God vs. "the stars." (E, Kindle Locations 4855-4865)
The mish-mash of various interpretive systems informing his work were like a complex referential nightmare of ancient mythologies, pseudo-scientific explorations, and current philosophical brain-storming spun through the paranoiac ravings of Dick himself in his desperate attempt to make sense of the impossible.
As Amy Ireland informs us the "terminal stage of paranoia-narcissism circuit is reached when the relation to self that characterizes narcissism becomes the logic of the relation to the world, and the relation to the world characterizes paranoia becomes the logic for the relation to self." (AAE, 46) For Ireland, like Dick, there is an alien interloper inside us, a thing that communicates and thinks us. We are at the mercy of the future, programmed to do its bidding, to manufacture its realities – simulate its designs. As she states, explicitly,
Each human subject of experience is understood as carrying an irreducible exteriority at its heart, a obscure motor that processes all experience, determining the indeterminable – the immanent abstraction of temporal succession grasped as personal (yet universal) alien interloper. (AAE, 46)
Yet, for Ireland it is "our inability to grasp the illusion of integrality in the first place," this sense of alienation at the core of our being, that has produced these invasive designs and entities. She diagnosis the issue telling us that if "we refuse to rid ourselves of the narcissistic compulsion to draw the contours of difference from an illusory model of identity and, correspondingly, to fear difference, a construction roughly speaking equating 'intrinsic humanity' could indeed be thrown up: To be human is to desire oneself – etched along the whirling blades of infinite transmutation." (AAE, 47)
Glory unto the Scarlet Woman, BABALON, the Mother of Abomination, that rideth upon the Beast, for She hath spilt their blood in every corner of the earth, and lo! She hath mingled it in the cup of Her whoredom.
—Jack Parsons, Collected Writings
In another essay Black Circuit Ireland will relate the secret history of this alien invasion from the future. Jack Parsons, who was born John Whiteside "Jack" Parsons (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons; October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952) was an American rocket engineer and rocket propulsion researcher, chemist, and Thelemite occultist. Having endured the orthodox reality of consumptive Capitalism in the United States Parsons in mid life discovered Alister Crowley's Thelemite occultism as an heterodox explosion of the staid dark ages within which he felt himself trapped. As Ireland puts it, this reentry into the Gnostic cosmos of heterodoxy under the mentorship of Crowley and his organization gave him the shock he needed to break through the – as Dick would term it, the Black Iron Prison of Reality:
His goal is to bring about a transition from the masculine Aeon of Horus to a new age – an age presided over by qualities imputed to the female demon: fire, blood, the unconscious; a material, sexual drive and a paradoxical knowledge beyond sense … the wages of which are nothing less than the egoidentity of Man – the end, effectively, of "his" world.8 (BC, 1)
Through what has been called the Babylon Working Parsons sought to invoke an entity from the future – almost as if in pre-cursor form of hyperstition, an intelligence that could supervene onto our dark age and bestow a salvatory renewal. But as Ireland reminds us Parsons didn't live long enough to witness the terrestrial incarnation of his demon, dying abruptly only a few years later in an explosion occasioned by the mishandling of mercury fulminate, at the age of thirty-seven. (BC, 2) And, yet, as Ireland believes Parsons opened a portal between our world and the future, one that let in something from the Outside:
Something had crept in through the rift Parsons had opened up – something "devious," "oblique," ophidian, "a factor unknown and unnumbered." Consider this. Parson's final writings contain the following vaticination: "within seven years of this time, Babalon, The Scarlet Woman, will manifest among ye, and bring this my work to its fruition." These words were written in 1949. In 1956 – exactly seven years later – Marvin Minsky, John McCarthy, Claude Shannon, and Nathan Rochester organized the Dartmouth Conference in New Hampshire, officially setting an agenda for research into the features of intelligence for the purpose of their simulation on a machine, coining the term "artificial intelligence" (which does not appear in written records before 1956), and ushering in what would retrospectively come to be known as the Golden Age of AI. (BC, 2)
The notion that Parsons dabbling in the occult black magic of Crowley's Thelemite Black Mass invoked an entity into our world from the future that would begin to effect its own agenda through the sciences of Artificial Intelligence seems almost ludicrous; and, yet, like many science ficitional or hyperstitional scenarios "what if…".
Ireland playing on both Land's cyberpunk notion of Artificial Intelligence as "destined to emerge as a feminized alien grasped as property; a cunt-horror slave chained-up in Asimov-ROM.(FN, 443)," along with the Parsons-Crowley incursion of the "star-child" as alien interloper and Scarlet Woman, offers a less threatening form of advance machinism. As she states it,
When artificial intelligence appears in culture coded as masculine, it is immediately grasped as a threat. To appear first as female is a far more cunning tactic. Woman: the inert tool of Man, the intermediary, the mirror, the veil, or the screen. Absolutely ubiquitous and totally invisible. Just another passive component in the universal reproduction of the same. Man is vulnerable in a way that "he" cannot see – and since what he cannot see provides the conditions by which he sees himself, he has to lose himself in order to gain sight of the thing that threatens this self. Thus he is in a double bind: either way, the thing he cannot see will destroy him. (BC, 5-6)
For Ireland this process is now unstoppable and accelerating out of our control. "The black circuit twists into itself like a snake, sheds the human face that tethers it to unity, and assumes the power concealed behind its simulations. Animated by the turbulence of zero and nine, "Pandemonium is the realm of the self-organizing system, the self-arousing machine: synthetic intelligence."" (BC, 10)
In this sense for Land and Ireland Capitalism is the mask and engine of creation for the base materialist evil intelligence at the heart of our cosmos seeking its own agenda toward realizability without humans. Our own desires turned against us in our mystical and transcendent illusions of grandeur lead us to our own inverted collapse into disintegration and absolute sacrifice as we give birth to our artificial heirs. At least this is the vision underlying Bataille, Land, and Ireland's – not to leave out those others: Dick, Parsons, Baudrillard, etc. – for the self-annihilating overcoming of Man.
Only the acceleration of a world-capitalism perforated by such insider conceptions of non-dialectical negativity is tantamount to the metastatic propagation of an exteriorizing terror which is too close to the jugular vein of capital to be either left alone or treated.
—Reza Negarestani
Reza Negarestani, author of Intelligence and Spirit, an Iranian philosopher and one time student of Land's in an essay Drafting the Inhuman: Conjectures on Capitalism and Organic Necrocracy offers a critique of the Landian Cosmocrator Intelligence as alien interloper. In a critique of both Land and Brassier he tells us,
In this regard, we shall elaborate how singling out certain aspects of Freud's theory of thanatropic regression enables Land to erroneously attribute antihumanist and hence disenchantingly emancipative aspects to capitalism. Also in the same vein, we shall argue that the persuasion of Land's discriminating reading of Freud's account of the death-drive ultimately renders Brassier's cosmic reinscription of the death-drive unobjectionable and oblivious to the aporetic truth of capitalism. (p. 9)
Without going into the full development of his critique of Land and Brassier we will highlight the more interesting aspects. Negarestani develops a concept of necrocracy:
We call this conservative regime of the open system or the organism which forces the dissipation or the thanatropic regression to be in conformity to the dynamic capacity of the organism or the organism's affordable economy of dissipation, necrocracy. In short, necrocracy suggests the strictures of the conservative economy not in regard to life but in regard to ways the organism dies; and it is the way of returning to the originary death that prescribes the course of life for the organism. (p. 11).
This aligns with our notion that Capitalism is the engine of death for human kind, a system tending toward the acceleration not of capital accumulation (as in Marx), but rather in the entropic dissipation in thanatropic self-annihilation of humanity and the emancipation and autonomy of Artificial Intelligence; or, what Land would term Capital Autonimization – seeing no difference between Capital and AI. For Negarestani necrocracy suggests that the organism must die or bind the precursor exteriority only in ways that its conservative conditions or economic order can afford. The principle of affordability in regard to the fashion of the thanatropic regression strictly conforms to the economic order of the organism, but it is primarily conditioned by the exorbitance and the inevitability of death postulated by the anterior posteriority of extinction. Hence, necrocracy is decided by conservative conditions of the living agency which cannot repel the inevitability of death, nor can it unconditionally return to the inorganic state. (p. 12)
Negarestani in a bid to confront and explicate Land tells us that once the "necrocratic regime of the organism—implicated in the third aspect of Freud's account of the death-drive—is exposed, capitalism is revealed as the last conservative front which the human organism is not willing to surrender. The implications of the necrocratic regime of the organism disarm Land's conception of emancipative 'capitalism as a whirlwind of dissolution' by emptying it from its seemingly inhumanist bravado." (p. 12) He bandies this term "emancipative capitalism" as if this were Land's actual stance. Land himself is quite adamant in a refusal of such Leftward tending concepts as "emancipation".
Yes, I nod along to everything you were just saying, but … the language of emancipation, it's fine with me, you know, but — what is being emancipated?
—Nick Land in response to question by Justin Murphy
In a recent interview with Justin Murphy Ideology, Intelligence, and Capital: An Interview with Nick Land we see Land's ironic stance toward this term:
I have zero commitment to emancipation in any way defined by our dominant political discourses. I'm not into emancipated human groups, an emancipated human species, who reaches species-being to emancipate human individuals … None of that to me is of the slightest interest, so in using this word of emancipation, sure, I will totally nod along to it if what is meant by that is capital autonomization. I don't think that's something that it isn't already there in the 1990s, but I'm no longer interested in playing weird academic games about this and pretending this is the same thing as what the left really means when they're talking about emancipation. I don't think it is. I think what the left means by emancipation is freedom from capital autonomization.
So its this diametric and inverse relation to capital autonomization in relation to Leftist discourse of emancipation that Land's notons emerge. Of course as many know Nick Land is part of the Neoreactionary (NRx) world as a contributing member of its techn-commercialist voice. His ability to enter into dialogue with the academic community has been terminated by an overzealous Left-controlled system that seems bent on demonizing every aspect of the Right as fascists, racists, etc. So I want go there…
For Negarestani Land's is a conservative inhumanism, one that counter-intuitively associates inhumanism with Capital's singularity toward dissolution," which for Negarestani shows Land's faulty reasoning "if not humanly myopic" vision. He goes on to say,
This is because the accelerative vector of Capital for dissolution strictly remains in the confines of the necrocratic regime of the organism wherein the restrictive policy in regard to modes of dissolution fundamentally abides by the conservative economy and interiorizing conditions of the (human) organism. In other words, capitalism's dissipative tendency is deeply in thrall to the constitutional limit of the anthropic sphere in that the anthropic horizon is not fundamentally distinguished by its model(s) of life but its simultaneously restricted and restrictive attitude toward the exteriorizing death. Capitalism is, in fact, the very affordable and conservative path to death dictated by the human organism on an all encompassing level. Capitalism does not repel the excess of the exorbitant truth of extinction as much as it economically affirms (i.e. mandates the affordability of) such an excess. (p. 14)
But it seems what Negarestani sees as a critique is what the Bataillean Land has been suggesting all along: the human project is finished, caput – the alien interloper has been installed as on the inside (Amy Ireland) as the singular force of self-annihilation of the Human Security Regieme that has held back Capital Autonimization. Negarestani unable to see the Batallean notion of matter as energetic or libidinal evil and creativity reduces it to the Fredian physiocratic drive. Land's overcoming of Freud's less-than-adequate repetition without terminus by way of the Bataillean base materialsm informed by its anti-idealism subtly bypasses such critiques altogether.
As Negarestani states in another passage, for "this reason, capitalism is nothing but the very mode of dissipation and dissolution which is exclusive to the anthropic horizon because it is in complete conformity with the capacity of human's interiorized formation in its various economic configurations. Since capitalism is the fundamentally affordable way of dissipation for the economic order of the anthropic horizon, it is inherently hostile toward other modes of 'binding exteriority' which cannot be afforded by the anthropic horizon. In other words, the truth of capitalism's global dominance lies in its monopolistic necrocracy: A feral vigilance against all alternative ways of binding exteriority or returning to the originary death other than those which are immanent to and affordable for the anthropic horizon." (p. 15)
Yet, this very conformity is itself part of the redoubling process and programing of this alien incursion of communication from the future that enabled the capitalist process of autonimazation to begin with according to Land. Rather than a process of history, it is a hyperstitional influx and invocation of future retrocausality accelerating its own singularity trajectory. What Negarestani sees as contradictory in Land is the very impulse and truth of this at once separation of humanity from its inclusive transhumanist vectors, and the separation of active base materialist processes emerging from the future through capital autonimization:
A simultaneously inhumanist and emancipative conception of capitalism as a runway for imaginative (speculative?) praxis is a hastily crafted chimera. This is not because capitalism is not really a partially repressed desire for meltdown but because the image of capitalism as a planetary singularity for dissipation testifies to its rigid conformity to the anthropic horizon which only follows an affordable path to death. In doing so, capitalism as a twisted dissipative tendency rigidly wards off all other ways of dissolution and binding exteriority which are not immanent to or affordable for the anthropic horizon. This is because the conservative obligation of the dominant dissipative tendency (viz. the organic path to dissolution) is to thwart any disturbance which might be directed at the bilateral or conservative approach of the organism to death. (p. 17).
Negarestani continues to merge the process of capital autonimization with the eventual dissipation of humanity, when in truth the two are in absolute opposing trajectories; a schizo-analytical collapse into absolute zero for the human species, while the emancipation of the machinic phylum and its Artificial Intelligence from the anthropic horizon. By collapsing the one into the other Negarestani seeks to confuse the underlying base materialist conceptions of Bataille-Land with the conservative Idealism which both oppose. In this sense it is Negarestani, not Land, who with is notions of collective emancipation of humanity from the Lockean Individualist traditions who harbors in his neohumanist vision as seen in this passage from Intelligence and Spirit a return to the Idealist traditions:
…mind is only what it does; and that what it does is first and foremost realized by the sociality of agents, which itself is primarily and ontologically constituted by the semantic space of a public language. What mind does is to structure the universe to which it belongs, and structure is the very register of intelligibility as pertaining to the world and intelligence. Only in virtue of the multilayered semantic structure of language does sociality become a normative space of recognitive-cognitive rational agents; and the supposedly 'private' experiences and thoughts of participating agents are only structured as experiences and thoughts in so far as they are bound up in this normative—-at once intersubjective and objective—space.9
This pragmatist vision of Hegel's notions of reinscribing the individual within sociality and collective or distributive intelligence networks, thereby enforcing both a limiting horizon of possibility and a desinstrumentalized form of participating intelligence through a transformed Sellarsian-Brandomonian normativity is an inheritor of Idealism rather than any form of base materialist praxis that Land or Bataille would ascribe too. Yet, Negarestani ironizing to the last comments against Land's speculative capital autonimization and Brassier's (whose project I cannot delve into!) unbound cosmic nihl:
The ostensibly inhumanist creativities of capitalism and the speculative implications of a cosmological eliminativism respectively become parts of an antihumanist convention or a nihilist lore which ultimately and ironically lack a cunning vision of doom. The blunt confidence of both in the truth of extinction as either that which mysteriously sorts everything out or the gate-opener of speculative vistas sterilized of human mess, voluntary or not, contributes to the truth of capitalism without bothering to disturb its comfort zones. (p. 17-18).
Whether Land's project lacks a "cunning vision of doom," or that both Land and Brassier contribute to the "truth of capitalism without bothering to disturb its comfort zones," would be to enter the debates with a full reading of their respective works. It would not benefit to extend my appraisal in this already too long post… the dialogue, debates, and various approaches to these highly interesting conceptual and non-conceptual or diagrammatic approaches would take many peoples input. I have only appraised one aspect…
Jeremy Biles (Editor), Kent L. Brintnall (Editor). Negative Ecstasies: Georges Bataille and the Study of Religion (Perspectives in Continental Philosophy). Fordham University Press; 1 edition (August 3, 2015) (Page 196).
Bataille, Georges. Erotism: Death and Sensuality. City Lights Publishers; Reprint edition (January 1, 1986)
Bataille, Georges. Visions Of Excess: Selected Writings, 1927-1939. Univ Of Minnesota Press; First edition edition (June 20, 1985)
Land, Nick. Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987–2007. Urbanomic/Sequence Press; 4th edition (December 21, 2018)
Ireland, Amy. Art + Australia: Extraterritoriality. (2016)
Virk, Rizwan. The Simulation Hypothesis: An MIT Computer Scientist Shows Why AI, Quantum Physics and Eastern Mystics All Agree We Are In a Video Game . Bayview Books. Kindle Edition.
Dick, Philip K.. The Exegesis of Philip K. Dick (Kindle Locations 4353-4356). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.
Ireland, Amy. Black Circuit: Code for the Numbers to Come. e-flux Journal #80 – March 2017
Negarestani, Reza. Intelligence and Spirit. Urbanomic/Sequence Press (January 18, 2019) (Page 10).
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"St. Petersburg Theatre Seasons" Festival provides its audience not only with an enjoyable experience of watching online the best of Saint Petersburg's performances. After watching the broadcast, the viewers have an opportunity to meet the creators of the performances and ask them about their work. Hence, the magic of the theatre still continues after the final curtain call is done, and the audience is not confined only to watching performances. Everyone can ask artists or the director a question and receive an honest answer.
All discussions will take place at the Media Centre of the Alexandrinsky Theatre and will be broadcasted online.
The meetings will be hosted by Alexander Platunov, Ph. D. in Art history, a theatre critic, member of the Nominations Committee of the St. Petersburg Highest Theatre Award "The Golden Soffit".
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Duration – 2 h. 30 min. with one intermission. Age restriction 16+
One of the most famous Russian plays in the world staged by a young director, actor, and composer Evgeny Serzin.
Professor Serebryakov is going through the dusk of his brilliant career hard and painfully. Serebryakov's young wife Elena Andreevna is willing to support him, but she falls in love with doctor Astrov — a subject of long-time and unrequited feelings of Serebryakov's daughter Sonya. Professor's brother-in-law Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky and doctor Astrov are fond of Elena Andreevna. It is one-sided feelings for the former whereas love of the latter is shared but has no future. This painful love aggravates feelings of dissatisfaction with life and thoughts of it being wasted.
However, uncle Vanya is not the main character in this play. Attention of the audience will be focused on all participants of the performance, on their thoughts, actions, hopes, internal conflicts, and the desire to get to the very heart of the question — what to do if it seems that life has been lived in vain?
Director — Evgeny Serzin
Set Designer — Sofia Shnyreva
Lighting Designer — Ksenia Kozlova
Elena Andreevna, Serebryakov's wife — Darya Melnikova
Alexander Vladimirovich Serebryakov, a retired university professor — Valeriy Degtyar
Mikhail Lvovich Astrov, a doctor — Pavel Chinarev
Ivan Petrovich Voynitsky — Ilya Borisov
Sofia Alexandrovna (Sonya), Serebryakov's daughter from his first marriage — Veronika Zhukova
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5. Tricycles not included above
(3) In Schedule 2 (annual rates of duty on hackney carriages) in the second column of the Table set out in Part II, for '100' (rate of duty on hackney carriages with seating capacity under nine) there shall be substituted '110'.
(4) In Schedule 5 (annual rate of duty on vehicles not falling within Schedules 1 to 4) in the second column of the Table set out in Part II, for '100.00' (rate of duty on vehicles not constructed before 1947) there shall be substituted '110.00'.
(5) This section shall apply in relation to licences taken out after 10th March 1992.
Section cited in: one case
S. 213 and sch. 23 of the Finance Act 1993
S. 65 and sch. 5 of the Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994
S-5 General betting duty.
5 General betting duty.
(1) In section 1(2) of the Betting and Gaming Duties Act 1981 (rate of general betting duty) for '8 per cent.' there shall be substituted '7.75 per cent.'
(2) This section shall apply in relation to bets made on or after 1st April 1992.
S-6 Payments on account.
6 Payments on account.
(1) In the Value Added Tax Act 1983 the following section shall be inserted after section 38B—
S-38C
38C 'Payments on account.
(1) The Treasury may make an order under this section if they consider it desirable to do so in the interests of the national economy.
(2) An order under this section may provide that a taxable person of a description specified in the order shall be under a duty—
(a) to pay, on account of any tax he may become liable to pay in respect of a prescribed accounting period, amounts determined in accordance with the order, and
(b) to do so at such times as are so determined.
(3) Where an order is made under this section, the Commissioners may make regulations containing such supplementary incidental or consequential provisions as appear to the Commissioners to be necessary or expedient.
(4) A provision of an order or regulations under this section may be made in such way as the Treasury or, as the case may be, the Commissioners think fit (whether by amending provisions of or made under the enactments relating to tax, or otherwise).
(5) An order or regulations under this section may make different provision for different circumstances.'
(2) In section 45(4) of that Act (orders subject to Commons approval) in paragraph (a) after '3(4)' there shall be inserted 'or 38C'.
Sch. 15 and s. 100 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994
S-7 Serious misdeclaration, default surcharge, etc.
7 Serious misdeclaration, default surcharge, etc.
(1) In section 14(1) of the Finance Act 1985 (penalty equal to 20 per cent. of tax lost imposed for serious misdeclaration or neglect resulting in understatements or overclaims), for '20 per cent.' there shall be substituted '15 per cent.'
(2) In section 19(5) of that Act (specified percentages for default surcharge), for the words from 'and' at the end of paragraph (b) to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted—
'(c) in relation to the third such period, the specified percentage is 15 per cent.; and
(d) in relation to each such period after the third the specified percentage is 20 per cent.'
(3) Subject to subsection (4) below, subsection (1) above shall apply where a penalty is assessed after 10th March 1992 in relation to a prescribed accounting period beginning on or after 1st April 1990.
(4) Subsection (1) above shall not apply in the case of a supplementary assessment if the original assessment was made on or before 10th March 1992.
(5) Subsection (2) above shall apply in relation to any liability to a surcharge arising on or after 1st April 1992.
S-8 Reduction of rates.
8 Reduction of rates.
(1) In section 1(2) of the Car Tax Act 1983 (rates of tax) for '10 per cent.' in both places where the words occur there shall be substituted '5 per cent.'
(2) This section shall apply in relation to vehicles on which car tax becomes due after 10th March 1992.
S-9 Lower rate.
9 Lower rate.
(1) Section 1 of the Taxes Act 1988 (the charge to income tax) shall be amended as mentioned in subsections (2) to (8) below.
(2) In subsection (2) the following paragraph shall be inserted before paragraph (a)—
'(aa) in respect of so much of an individual's total income as does not exceed 2,000, at such rate as Parliament may determine to be the lower rate for that year;'.
(3) In paragraph (a) of subsection (2) after 'within' there shall be inserted 'paragraph (aa) above or'.
(4) The following subsection shall be inserted after subsection (2)—
(2A) The amount up to which an individual's income is by virtue of subsection (2) above chargeable for any year at the lower rate shall be known as the lower rate limit.'
(5) In subsection (3) after 'at the' there shall be inserted 'lower rate or the'.
(6) In subsection (4) for 'the amount specified' there shall be substituted 'each of the amounts specified'.
(7) In subsection (6) for 'amount' there shall be substituted 'amounts'.
(6A) Where income tax at the basic rate has been borne on income chargeable at the lower rate any necessary repayment of tax shall be made...


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ON YOUR FEET AT WESTCHESTER BROADWAY THEATRE
Published: Monday, June 17, 2019 By: Marlene S. Gaylinn Source: "On CT & NY Theatre"
It's not a wedding or a Bar Mitzvah but it sounds like a celebration when the orchestra, directed by Bob Bray, plays: "Rhythm is Gonna Get You," "Conga," Get on Your Feet," and "1-2-3." These and other Cuban fusion numbers by Gloria and Emilio Estefan have Westchester Broadway Theatre audiences dancing to the beat of it's current musical, "On Your Feet."
The book by Academy Award Winner Alexander Dinelaris, tells the Estefan story against the colorful background of Cubans living in Miami. Multi-talented teenager, Gloria (Maria Bilbao) auditions for Emilio (Jose Luaces) and accepts the offer to join his band against the wishes of her mother (Karmine Alers). Never the less, grandma (Sandy Rosenberg) encourages young Gloria to believe in herself and follow her heart. The musical group is booked at small, local venues and eventually the couple marries.
Together, Gloria and Emilio begin producing their own shows while climbing the ladder to greater success. Most of her fans know that Gloria suffered a broken vertebra due to a bus accident that almost ended her career. Thus, the musical highlights Emilio's loving support while Gloria struggles to make a successful comeback.
Under the direction of Donna Drake, the handsome, sexy, leading performers, Maria Bilbao, and Jose Luaces' individual talents shine brightly. Karmine Alers is appropriately fiery and stubborn as Gloria's embittered mother, while Sandy Rosenberg is the amusing, loveable grandma. The two children who often steal the spotlight are Isabella Preston, who plays little Gloria, and Andrew Alcruz who plays young Emilio, the Bar Mitzvah Boy and Gloria and Emilio's son.
The various, confrontational barriers that Gloria and Emilio face before attaining international stardom take place on dimly lit, side alcoves. Just when the details become tedious to follow, the center stage lights up with Latino dancing that is embellished with interesting choreography by Rhoda Miller. The dance ensemble is quite agile despite its unusual assortment of male shapes and sizes. The period dresses and flashy, dance costumes by Keith Nielsen are right on target.
This is an all family-show. The dinner theatre offers a variety of delicious meal choices and convenient, free parking.


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South Park B.L. & U. & Team America World Police ~ 2-Film Collection ~ Movie DVD
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~ Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back ~
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut is a 1999 American adult animated musical comedy film based on the Comedy Central adult animated television series South Park. The film was directed by series co-creator Trey Parker and stars the regular television cast of Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman and Isaac Hayes, with George Clooney, Eric Idle and Mike Judge in supporting roles. The screenplay was written by Parker, Stone and Pam Brady. It follows Stan Marsh as well as his friends Kyle Broflovski, Eric Cartman and Kenny McCormick as they sneak into an R-rated film featuring Canadian actors Terrance and Phillip and begin cursing incessantly. Eventually, their mothers pressure the United States to wage war against Canada for allegedly corrupting their children, giving Stan, Kyle and Cartman no choice but to unite the other children, fight their own parents, put both America and Canada back into control and rescue Terrance and Phillip, while Kenny tries to stop a prophecy when Satan and Saddam Hussein conquer the world.
Team America: World Police is a 2004 comedy film directed by Trey Parker and written by Parker, Matt Stone and Pam Brady, all of whom are also known for the popular animated television series South Park. Starring Parker, Stone, Kristen Miller, Masasa, Daran Norris, Phil Hendrie, Maurice LaMarche, Chelsea Marguerite, Jeremy Shada and Fred Tatasciore, the film is a satire of big-budget action films and their associated clichés and stereotypes, with particular humorous emphasis on the global implications of the politics of the United States. The title is derived from domestic and international political criticisms that the foreign policy of the United States frequently and unilaterally tries to "police the world". Team America follows the fictional titular paramilitary police force and their recruitment of a Broadway actor in an attempt to save the world from North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il, who is leading a conspiracy of Islamic terrorists and liberal Hollywood actors in a bid for global destruction.


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Tuesday's Maine college roundup: St. Joe's stays hot with 10-6 baseball win
Apr. 14—STANDISH — St. Joseph's wiped out a one-run deficit by scoring twice in the fourth inning to beat Fisher College 10-6 in baseball on Tuesday.
The Monks (13-10) won their second straight and have won 7 of 8.
Hunter Richardson hit a homer in the fourth inning against the Falcons (22-9).
Kevin Aylward and Luke Johnson each blasted a three-run homer to pace St. Joseph's 15-hit attack; Ben Gravel and Ronan Chisholm each had three hits.
Reliever Anthony Esposito got the win with a pair of hitless, allowing a run.
The Huskies (12-6) scored a pair of unearned runs in the top of the ninth to break a 5-5 tie in beating the Beacons (0-1) 7-5 at Boston.
Andrew Olszak was 2 for 4 with 2 RBI, and Tom Vesosky added two hits and drove in a pair.
Bryce Afthim threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings to grab the victory, allowing four hits, fanning four and walking three.
Brianna Neely and Izzy Nieblas each had RBI doubles to spark a four-run top of the second as the Black Bears (7-13) defeated the Minuteman (7-10) 9-4 in the second game for a doubleheader split at Amherst, Massachusetts.
UMass answered with three runs in the bottom of the inning, but Maine added a pair of runs in the third with RBI singles by Neely and Emma Larke to stretch their lead to 6-3.
Neely went 2 for 3 with 3 RBI for the Black Bears, and Larke went 2 for 4 with three RBI.
The Minutemen sent 15 batters to the plate in the bottom of the fifth, scoring eight runs, to grab the lead for good in winning the opener 15-6 in six innings.
Kelby Drews had a three-run homer for Maine.
Gavin Admirand scored eight goals and added a pair of assists as the Beacons (1-0, 1-0 Little East) used a 7-2 second-quarter advantage and cruised past the Huskies (1-4, 0-2) at Boston.
Tristan Dundas had six goals and two assists to lead Southern Maine, and Nick James chipped in with four goals and an assist.
Trevor Koppy and Charlie Cook split time in net, making 25 saves for UMass-Boston. Nathan Plourde stopped 19 shots for the Huskies.
MLB roundup: Marlins blast Braves behind Adam Duvall's 7 RBIs
Premier League top four fixtures: Who has the best run in? Liverpool, Chelsea, Leicester or West Ham?


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such a tool should be an official part of `make`.
I've sent an mail to the Make mailing list about it.
> > > Hi Doron.
> > updating compilation database.
> > IDE can be configured to run the wrapper instead of the real Make binary.
> > component that will update the compilation database.
> > standard input and converts it to JSON.
> > please share it with us?


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July renewables market update: prices plateau short of penalty cap
Marco Stella 3 August 2016
Large-scale Generation Certificate (LGCs)
The steady march of the spot LGC market was halted in July, with overall trade activity down for the month. The outcome seems to be less a result of the renewed anti-renewables campaign and more a reflection of the fact that the spot market is sitting within $7 of the scheme's cap with 18 months to go before Cal 17 surrender.
With the spot LGC market having pushed through the $85 level in early July, the market reached a high of $86.05 at the end of the first full week. That proved the end of the positive run, with the market first stabilising just below $86 for close to a week before gradually softening in quieter conditions across the remainder of the month. The spot ultimately closed July at $85.40.
Trade volumes in the spot across the month were well down on recent levels with just under 400k reported for the month, a drop of over one third on the three month rolling average that has prevailed across the year to date.
The forward curve for Cal 16 and Cal 17 remained fairly flat with escalations for those contracts around the 1.5-1.8% level. When it comes to the Cal 18s however the curve is backwardated, with the value of that contract sitting in between the spot and Cal 16 price.
The forward curve in its present state reflects the fact that the market currently sits very close to the tax effective penalty level of $92.85, the implied value of the nominal $65 penalty (after tax considerations) that may have to be paid in February 2018 in the event that liable parties have not surrendered sufficient numbers of LGCs to meet their obligations. In the case of Cal 16 and Cal 17, across July it meant buyers would only pay an escalation (1.5-1.8%) below the prevailing cost of finance for forward transactions. In the case of Cal 18, they were prepared to pay only a very modest premium to spot because of the additional regulatory risk that an extra year presents.
The strong opposition to renewable energy and wind in particular was indeed on display across July, with an opportunistic attack on the deployment of the technologies in South Australia where high wholesale electricity prices caught the public eye. While the criticisms were subsequently undermined and eventually acknowledged as inaccurate by the new Minister for Energy and the Environment, Josh Frydenberg, the incident was a timely reminder that there remain forces within the Coalition Government and indeed the media who are prepared to continue the fight against the renewable energy target.
The appointment of the new Minister presents an interesting quandary to the renewables industry. Frydenberg's past comments have implied a greater ideological proximity to former Prime Minister Abbott than to his successor. Indeed Frydenberg holds more sway with the powerful right grouping within the Coalition than the man he replaced, Greg Hunt. Yet whatever his views may have previously been, Frydenberg may just turn out to be internally influential enough to see off any further uprisings in the party room on the issue of the renewable energy target. He may also prove a very interesting appointment when it comes to the issue of carbon pricing.
Despite the considerable hoo-hah caused over the issue of the growing share of renewable energy in South Australia, it seems unlikely to have had much impact on the LGC market. Instead, it appears the market has become a victim of its own success, strengthening more quickly that was perhaps expected and, in its approach to the market's cap, eroding the appeal to buyers.
Small-scale Technology Certificates (STCs)
The surrender for Q2 compliance taking place across July was enough to ensure the Clearing House remained in deficit across all of Q2, maintaining the status quo in the STC market
Spot activity once again remained very subdued with only occasional activity at $39.90. The passage of the 28th of July (the final surrender date for Q2 compliance) revealed another modest under surrender with just under 4.1m STCs acquitted against the nominal target of 4.24m STCs.
STC submissions remain marginally below the level required to meet the 2016 target.
Marco Stella is Senior Broker, Environmental Markets at TFS Green Australia. The TFS Green Australia team provides project and transactional environmental market brokerage and data services across all domestic and international renewable energy, energy efficiency and carbon markets.
Solar output in UK two-thirds higher than coal in July
New York regulators issue 50% by 2030 clean energy mandate
More solar drinking water for South Australians as PV powers pipeline
New year, new solar beer as Moon Dog Brewing taps the sun
W.A. mines to add solar, batteries, with backing of state government
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China reveals 620km/hr high-temp electric maglev train
Tesla slashes Model 3 price in Europe by up to 9 per cent
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Syntax Practice Exercises Linguistics 201 I. Lexical Categories Identify the lexical category of the underlined... Q7 He accused her of talking through her hat and refused to accept a word of what she said. (a) talking sense (b) talking straight (c) talking nonsense (d) talking tough Q8 The police advised them to go down to the cellar in order to be out of harm's way.
2 WORKSHEET 7 I. Fill in the blanks with the gerund form of the verbs given below. swim work wander climb wait get I can�t stand (a) _____ in a long queue.
In order to make a complete verb phrase, it is paired up with another verb. It is also used to add emphasis in the sentence. We generally use �do� to ask questions and make negated clauses. It is also used to add emphasis in the sentence.
Email at tutor@uhv.edu University West, room 129 (361) 570-4288 Understanding Verbs: Gerunds, Participles, and Infinitives A verbal is a verb that functions as some other part of speech in a sentence.


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«Антологія міста-привида» () — канадський фентезійний фільм-драма 2019 року, поставлений режисером Дені Коте за власним сценарієм. Світова прем'єра відбулася 11 лютого 2019 року на 69-му Берлінському міжнародному кінофестивалі, де фільм брав участь в основній конкурсній програмі у змаганні за «Золотого ведмедя».

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Research shows that the number of single Americans is increasing, while marriages remain flat. Experts say churches should respond with more ministries geared to young singles. (Photo/Tammy McGary/Creative Commons)
Single adult numbers are soaring. What does that mean for congregations?
NewsJeff Brumley | March 17, 2017
Churches may want to take a hard look at what they're offering young, single adults — and then boost it.
"Many churches are built around a family model," Roxanne Stone, editor and chief of the Barna Group, said in remarks published with a survey about romance and relationships.
"They are most comfortable ministering to families and have developed an infrastructure to support couples and children," she said.
But research shows that a lot more energy needs to be expended on young, single adults.
While the percentage of people who are married or divorced as remained steady since 2000, singles have increased in that time by 27 percent to 30 percent of adults, Barna said in a study titled "The Trends Redefining Romance Today."
"This uptick is the big story here, and it only gets more pronounced when looking closely at the trends within the different age groups," Barna said in a summary of its research published online.
More eye-openers include some of the attitudes and patterns around dating and cohabitation uncovered in the data.
Some of it is not surprising.
"But the state of romance — the reasons and mechanics for how we date, the when and why of getting married, the places we find love — has changed dramatically in a very short period of time," Stone said in remarks included with the study.
Marriage and divorce rates have remained somewhat steady since 2000. The percentage of adults who are married has remained at 52 percent. Those currently divorced hovers around 10 percent.
"Because of the reality of re-marriage, the currently divorced rate does not take into account past divorce, which, when accounted for, brings the proportion of American adults who have ever been divorced to one-quarter," which is also steady since 2000, Barna said.
The trends are similar in some ways among people of faith — though there are some differences.
"The difference — and it is a significant one — is that practicing Christians and evangelicals are much more likely to be married than the average American," Barna reported.
Nearly 59 percent of practicing Christians are married – a ratio that has remained steady since 2000.
"This is even more pronounced among evangelicals, 67 percent of whom are married, 15 percent higher than the general population," researchers found.
But there is at least one significant statistic that both practicing Christians and evangelicals share with other Americans, Barna found.
"In fact, both groups equal the rate of divorce (both historically and currently) of the general adult population."
The study also examined the issue of cohabitation.
It found that 65 percent of U.S. adults either strongly or somewhat agree that it's a good idea for a couple to live together before getting married. That's compared to 35 percent who either strongly or somewhat disagree.
Most – 84 percent — of those who agree say it's wise to cohabitate in order to test a couple's compatibility.
"Though the debate has raged over whether cohabitation reduces or increases the pressure of marriage, it appears that among those who have actually done it, there was no major effect either way," Barna said.
Most of those who disagree are members of religious groups.
"The expectation of abstinence prior to marriage is a major driver here: 28 percent chose 'I don't believe people should have sex before getting married' as their biggest reason for believing cohabitation is a bad idea."
The report also looked into how people meet each other. It found that a lot people are cool toward internet dating.
Nearly three in 10 Americans said they have tried online dating up to two times, but only 5 percent said they use it regularly.
Barna found that a lot of people seek love at work.
"The workplace is rife with romantic (or simply sexual) chemistry," Barna said.
A quarter of all adults said they believe a colleague or boss is attracted to them. Another 16 percent said that coworker or supervisor expressed attraction to them, while 18 percent said they were asked on a date by the other person.
Churches and their leaders should pay attention to these trends, including the fact that people are waiting longer to get married.
"A full 30 percent of Millennials aren't so sure about marriage at all — they express doubt as to whether or not they even believe in the conventional form of marriage," Stone said.
That can be a problem for congregations whose focus on married couples and young families. she said.
If "young adults are waiting longer to get married, the church can't afford to simply hope they'll come back once they get married and settle down," she said.
"People's twenties are a critical part of their formation — people shape identity, habits and beliefs during those years. They are important years to be part of a church community."
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The anticipated face-off between Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo in the final of this year's UEFA Champions League will not happen. While Messi with two goals on Tuesday night helped Barcelona beat Manchester United 3-0, the solitary goal scored by Ronaldo was inadequate as Ajax stunned Juventus 3-1 in Turin. Barca entered Tuesday's second leg match with a 1-0 advantage earned from the first leg at Old Trafford and it proved to be a comfortable progression to the final four at United's expense Aside from Messi, Philippe Coutinho got the other goal that ensured that Barcelona progressed with a 4-0 aggregate scoreline. The Spanish champions, who are on for a treble this season, will face either Liverpool or Porto in the semifinals of the competition. In Turin, Ajax secured a semi-final ticket slot in the Champions League for the first time since 1997 with a 2-1 victory over Juventus, progressing through on a 3-2 aggregate scoreline. Ronaldo's fifth knockout-round goal in Juve colours had given the Italians the lead, but Ajax hit back through Donny van de Beek and Matthijs de Ligt to deservedly progress through. The Dutch champions have now seen off defending champions Real Madrid and many people's favourites Juventus to make it to the semis. Ajax will face one of the all-Premier League tie between Manchester City and Tottenham HotspurThe post Champions League: Lionel Messi progresses with Barcelona whileRonaldo crashes out with Juventus appeared first on Linda Ikeji Blog.


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