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MRG Awards $225,000 to 19 Social Change Groups
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MRG Foundation just awarded $225,000 to nineteen amazing groups across Oregon. Including five emerging groups who just received their first MRG Foundation grant! Both established and emerging groups are working throughout Oregon on a wide variety of intersecting issues and they each have tremendous potential to create long-term systemic change in their communities. And check out the groups that are on the front lines of building a just and joyful Oregon:
350PDX, Portland: $9,000 350PDX is building a diverse grassroots movement to help solve the climate crisis. 350PDX envisions a future where greenhouse gas emissions fall to safe levels. Where social, political, and economic systems have shifted to prioritizing just jobs within a fossil-free economy. Where low-income and disadvantages communities are no longer disproportionately affected by the effects of climate change. Where sustaining life takes precedence over corporate profits, leading to healthy, thriving, and resilient communities.
Beyond Toxics, Eugene: $8,000 Exposure to toxins can cause irreparable damage to human health. Beyond Toxics challenges the widespread practice of spraying pesticides on forests, farms, and public areas. They champion the right of everyone to live free from unwanted chemical exposure. Beyond Toxics, partnering with Centro Latino Americano empowers Latino residents in West Eugene to take leadership in organizing for environmental justice.
COFA Alliance National Network
COFA Alliance National Network, Portland: $9,000 COFA Alliance National Network (CANN) is working for social and economic justice for all Compact of Free Association (COFA) residents in Oregon and beyond. Due to a unique relationship with the US, COFA members cannot attain basic social services like Medicaid or SNAP. CANN's work ensures that COFA communities are counted, heard, and included in policy making and public discourse. Additionally, they focus on educating the public about the issues facing COFA residents. COFA communities include immigrants and residents from the Republic of Palau, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands.
Community Alliance of Lane County, Eugene: $12,000 The Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC) educates and mobilizes for peace, human dignity, and social, racial and economic justice. CALC fights discrimination against the LGBTQ community and people of color. CALC also provides young people with accurate information about military service and conscientious objector counseling, and advocates for international cooperation and diplomatic efforts to bring about world peace.
Confederated Tribes of the Lower Rogue, Coos Bay: $8,000 The Confederated Tribes of the Lower Rogue was founded in 1996 to reclaim local Native people's history, language, culture, and sovereignty. Since then they have revived the Tututni Language, begun the long process to regain tribal recognition from the federal government, and established the annual Gathering of the People, held each September in Southern Oregon.
Groundwork Portland, Portland: $14,500 Groundwork Portland is a network of organizations and individuals focused on the principles of environmental, social, and economic justice. They organize in low-income communities to improve the physical environment, enhance quality of life, and increase economic stability through local action by getting local residents, youth, businesses, government, and other organizations involved in practical projects.
Komemma Cultural Protection Association
Komemma Cultural Protection Association, Yoncalla: $9,000 KCPA preserves the culture, history and traditions of the Kalapuya Indians of Western Oregon. They promote Kalapuya culture and engage American Indian youth in leadership opportunities while dismantling entrenched anti-Indian beliefs, attitudes, and practices in Douglas County.
Lakota Oyate Ki, Salem: $10,000 Lakota Oyate Ki is a Native American culture club located within the walls of the Oregon State Penitentiary. The Lakota Club is organized by Native inmates to provide quality programs and support to address the unique social, cultural, and economic needs of Native inmates. The Lakota Club is led by Native inmates and through their organizing the, Lakota Club is preserving, restoring and sustaining their Indian heritage and connection with the broader Native community.
Northwest Workers' Justice Project, Portland: $14,500 The Northwest Workers' Justice Project believes that all workers share a fundamental human right to live and labor with dignity, safety, and hope. NWJP provides legal and strategic support to low-wage workers and their organizations to protect the right to organize, secure the rights of contingent workers and immigrants, and mitigate the negative effects of free trade policies.
Oregon Rural Action, La Grande: $18,000 Based in Eastern Oregon, Oregon Rural Action organizes a wide range of people including immigrants, farmers, ranchers, and loggers to unite around issues such as toxic pesticide exposure in Ontario, food insecurity in Malheur County, and renewable energy development in Union County.
PassinArt: A Theater Company, Portland: $8,000 PassinArt: A Theatre Company is an African American theater company whose mission is to entertain, educate, and inspire artists and audiences while addressing critical issues facing our community. The organizations goal is to present quality yet affordable theatrical productions, staged readings, and educational workshops for African American and multi-racial youth and community members in the Portland Metropolitan area.
Portland Parent Union, Portland: $10,000 Race and income are key indicators of student achievement. PPS Parent Union is organizing poor families and families of color to advocate for policy changes in Portland Public Schools that will address persistent gaps in achievement and opportunity between white students and students of color and lead to greater educational success for all students.
Right 2 Dream Too, Portland: $9,000 If you're sleep deprived or worried about where you're going to rest your head tonight, it becomes much harder to organize and advocate for your rights. This is why Right 2 Dream Too (R2D2) provides a safe place where unhoused Portlanders can rest and build community without being under the constant threat of violence from police and private security.
Rogue Climate
Rogue Climate, Phoenix: $10,000 Rogue Climate is Millennial-led and envisions a bold and diverse climate movement that empowers those most affected by environmental degradation. They're empowering emerging leaders, building collective power, and working to advance creative solutions to climate change and dismantle exploitative energy systems in Southern Oregon.
Rogue Valley Oregon Action, Medford: $20,000 RVOA organizes low and moderate-income people in Jackson County to develop effective leadership skills and tackle the root causes of critical social and economic justice issues. With a current focus on health care and housing, RVOA is building the broad community base needed to restructure these systems and institutions.
Salem/Keizer Coalition for Equality, Salem: $18,000 Students of color are being left far behind according to every indicator of academic achievement, when compared to white students. The Salem-Keizer Coalition for Equality is a multi-racial community organization that promotes equality in the education system. They have organized hundreds of mostly Spanish-speaking parents to be strong community leaders for education reform in order to eliminate the student achievement gap.
Spect-Actors Collective, Gresham: $8,000 Spect-Actors Collective was founded in 2006 by a group of Latinas envisioning a just society where power is exercised collectively and where the root causes of social and economic injustice are eliminated. Spect-Actors Collective works with immigrant, Latina/o, and Black communities to build collective cultural and organizing capacity in Multnomah, Hood River, Marion, and Washington Counties.
Voz Workers' Rights Education Project
Unidos Bridging Community, McMinnville: $10,000 Unidos is the leading community organizing group focused on Latino and immigrant issues in rural Yamhill County. An intentionally multi-racial organization, Unidos is composed of both Latino and non-Latino leaders working to build bridges of support and understanding through education, policy advocacy, solidarity, and civic engagement.
Voz Workers' Rights, Education Project Portland: $20,000 Voz Worker's Rights empowers day laborers to gain control over their working conditions and to exercise their power to address the social and economic injustices that immigrant workers face. Voz also educates the community about the complex forces that have pushed immigrants to come to the U.S. and the need to overcome anti-immigrant sentiment.
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Q: WordPress can't get page ID from sidebar file? I need to highlight some menu items differently depending on the page ID and so when I call the sidebar up top I have this
<?php if( is_page('my-page') )echo 'my-page';?>

The echo is just for me to see if it is working...
But, it is not. I put the same code into the main page template and it outputs yes I am on that page.  Any reason why the sidebar would not work?

A: From is_page :
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Due to certain global variables being overwritten during The Loop is_page() will not work. In order to use it after The Loop you must call wp_query_reset() after The Loop.
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Lena Dunham's memoir to be edited over sex assault chapter
By Daily Dish on December 9, 2014 at 10:49 AM
Lena Dunham. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)
Actress/writer Lena Dunham will reportedly make an amendment to her memoir after the identity of an alleged rapist reportedly was revealed.
In the "Girls" star's autobiography, "Not That Kind of Girl," Dunham recalls an incident during her time at Oberlin College in Ohio when a man called 'Barry' allegedly sexually assaulted her.
In the book, she writes, "In another essay in this book I describe a sexual encounter with a mustachioed campus Republican as the upsetting but educational choice of a girl who was new to sex when, in fact, it didn't feel like a choice at all."
Dunham's description of 'Barry' was detailed enough that former students at the small liberal arts school were allegedly able to identify the man Dunham was referring to, and his attorney Aaron Minc tells The Hollywood Reporter that his client has had to defend himself against the claims.
The story hit headlines after a reporter at website Breitbart.com investigated Dunham's rape claim, noting that a Google search would lead a reader to the real identity of 'Barry,' and the actress made no note that it was a pseudonym, which she had done in other sections of the book.
A spokesperson for Dunham's publisher Random House addressed the Breitbart report, defending Dunham and insisting that 'Barry' is not the real man's name, but they also offered to pay the man's legal fees to bring the controversy to a halt.
Minc has now told The Hollywood Reporter that the publishers have also agreed to edit the relevant section of the book, saying, "Miss Dunham and Random House are starting to come around to some of our demands. I don't know if that will be good enough for my client. Ideally, we were looking for something from Miss Dunham.
"We were also looking for an edit to be made to the book, and it's my understanding that they are going to comply with that – to note that the name 'Barry' is a pseudonym. They have given me an indication that that is happening imminently."
Dunham has yet to comment on the issue.
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5 Terrific Games You Should Be Playing Instead of Trivial Pursuit
Naomi Kritzer / May 13, 2019 / Critic / 1 Comment
Do people still play Trivial Pursuit? (I mean, it's fine if it's taking the form of a Pub Quiz, but as a family?)
My recollection of Trivial Pursuit was playing it at slumber parties in the 1980s and being completely unable to answer any of the questions because it was a game carefully engineered for Baby Boomers, not Gen X'ers. (Not that anyone was calling us Gen X'ers yet, at that point.) Of course, these days they've got editions that are carefully engineered for Millennials…look, the bottom line is, if you're my age, they never intended that stupid game to be for you, so check out one of these games, which are actually designed for anybody.
1. Apples to Apples/Apples to Apples Junior/Cards Against Humanity
All these games use the same simple, easy-to-understand, basic mechanic. In case you're not familiar with it: each round, one player puts down a randomly chosen card. The other players look at the cards in their hand and look for a card that's a good fit.
If you're playing Apples to Apples, you might be matching a card that says something like "scintillating" and be choosing from cards that include "Princess Di" and "red Ferrari." If you're playing "Apples to Apples Junior," you might be matching a card that says "scary" and be choosing from cards that say things like "roller coasters" and "cotton candy." If you're playing Cards Against Humanity, you might be matching a card that says, "What does Dick Cheney want for his birthday? And be choosing from options like "a mime having a stroke" or "not giving a shit about the Third World."
These are fun and easy to play. Do I need to tell you that for Cards Against Humanity, you really need the right group? Seriously. Take a peek at the cards before you suggest it to the wrong group.
2. Likewise
In theory, this game is for six people, but you can play with lots more if you have some spare white boards (or scrap paper). You flip two cards for an adjective-noun pair, like "Fashionable Vegetable" or "Funny Thing you'd find it a bathroom." Then everyone writes something down that they think fits. You goal is to match with at least one other person at the table.
Disclaimer: This is the only game I've ever played that got me into a political argument. At a game meetup, I wrote down "Sarah Palin" for "Outrageous Politician" and a random passer-by wanted to argue with me about it. Normally, however, this game will require less careful crowd-picking than Cards Again Humanity.
3. Morphology
Like Pictionary, but you get an array of little three-dimensional pieces to communicate your word. You'll need pairs of people for the teams in order to play this. Simple and fun. (The earlier editions, Morphology and Morphology Junior, are currently insanely cheap on Amazon but I expect that deal will vanish as soon as they run out.)
4. Curses
It's theoretically possible to win at Curses, but in fact most games end at the point when everyone is laughing too hard to continue. The main point is to "curse" people with cards that require them to talk like a pirate, interrupt with a matching animal noise any time an animal gets mentioned, stop using their thumbs, etc.
5. Telestrations
You can get this in six, eight, and twelve-player versions. It's like Pictionary Telephone. You start with a word or phrase, and draw a picture of it on your little dry-erase flip book. The next person at the table looks at your picture, makes their best guess as to what it is, writes that down, and passes it along. The next person draws a picture of that, and so on. Since there's a flip book for each player, everyone's writing, or drawing, at the same time. When you're all done, each person goes through their flip book and shows everyone how things mutated.
In theory there's scoring, but that kind of misses the point of the game, which is yelling, "WHAT? You thought that was a TOILET? In what sense did that look like at toilet?!?" at your brother-in-law.
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Q: SAS ensuring consistency between csv export For a while I used manual export in SAS guide (-> Export then choose csv instead of sasbdat) to export my database. Now I am trying to export it automatically. I sligthly modified the base SAS example to perform the export :
proc export data=work.data_test
     outfile="c:\myfiles\test.csv"
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run;

But this is causing some type error when I try to read the file in python (Columns (1,2,5,6,9,[...]) have mixed types), while I don't get this error when I export the file manually.
Those options:
 Options NOFMTERR;
 OPTIONS LOCALE=FRENCH;

are used to match the rest of my SAS code.
Any idea how to ensure consistence between the proc export and a manual export in SAS ?

A: There are multiple ways to export a file and the GUI uses a different method than PROC EXPORT.
I think it used to be ODS CSV that did the export but I'm not 100% sure. I'd probably try using ODS CSV and a data step instead and see if either work for you.
ods csv file='path to csv file';
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run;

ods csv close;

Different methods handle formats and types differently, ie PROC EXPORT didn't use to export formats to Excel at one time, whereas ODS EXCEL will export formatted values to Excel.
Or try a manual data step. Rather than write this manually, after running PROC EXPORT check your log and copy paste the code form there into your program. You can then adjust the formats, type and length for a variable if desired.
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Home / National / U.S. Says N. Korea's Launch of Musudan Missile Ends in Failure Again
U.S. Says N. Korea's Launch of Musudan Missile Ends in Failure Again
Posted on October 20, 2016 by Korea Bizwire in National, North Korea with 0 Comments
This screen capture from North Korea's propaganda outlet Uriminzokkiri TV on Oct. 19, 2016, shows the White House (L) and Cheong Wa Dae, the presidential offices of the United States and South Korea, as targets of attack. (image: Yonhap)
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (Korea Bizwire) – North Korea fired a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile on Thursday (Korean time), but the launch ended in failure, the U.S. Strategic Command said.
"U.S. Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) systems detected what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch" at 7 a.m. (Korean time) near the northwestern city of Kusong, the command said in a statement.
"The missile is presumed to be a Musudan intermediate-range ballistic missile," it said. "The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) determined the missile launch from North Korea did not pose a threat to North America."
It was the second time in less than a week that the North has launched a Musudan missile believed to be capable of reaching the U.S. territory of Guam. The previous launch, which came on Saturday, also ended in failure as the missile exploded shortly after take-off.
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"I heard you and pop doing it late one night, in the pool. You said, you 'loved screwing in the water'." "You heard everything?" "Everything. Someday I'd like to play fishes with you." "Oh?" this amused Veronica, more that outraged her, since she and her husband were quite open and honest about sex with their offspring.
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Had she ever shown him any inclination that she might consider allowing incest to happen between them? She was sure that she hadn't.
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While he stood before his mother, rubbing his crotch, his willie had gained some tumescence. While not a bona fide boner, still the turgid muscle gave promise of a manhood to be proud of, even though he had yet to reach his full stature.
Indeed, she was astonished to be wondering at what her tender teen's stalk would look like straight and tall.
Thus the seeds of an insidious desire for a taste of incest with this innocent took root in her libido. Or not so innocent it seemed, as they sat there watching fishes make small fry. "And what makes you think that your mom might allow you to fool around with her in the pool?" Veronica followed up her first question, going to the heart of the matter where his handsome hard-on obviously was mentioned on purpose to his mother.
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But since he's not, that is not an option." "I'd still like to play fishes with you. And if you got pregnant, you could say it was a miracle!" "It would take a miracle, for me to let you make a baby with me." He whispered quietly, boldly putting his hand on her thigh, "No it wouldn't mommy, it only takes a sin.
. ." Then before she could stop him, his hand snuck up her smooth thigh, under the robe, to Veronica's bare bush, and he discovered to his mom's shame, she was soaked.
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Green Science Week is a priority of Imagination Station, United Way, others
On April 21, 2014, Imagination Station and United Way of Greater Toledo announced a partnership to kick off Green Science Week (April 22 – 27) by showcasing how to create a successful community garden and how to repurpose materials to create urban-gardening planters. Earth Day is also slated this year for April 22th.
Jeff Stevenson from Imagination Station demonstrated how to create an eco-friendly planter and showcased unique gardening designs created from recycled materials. Gordon MacRitchie with United Way of Greater Toledo and Yvonne Dubielak with Toledo Grows discussed how to create a successful community garden.
The kick off was venued at United Way's community garden at the corner of Jackson and Summit. The garden was established four years ago and is maintained with the help of volunteers from United Way, HCR Manor Care, Fifth Third Bank, and others.
"The garden is there for anyone to enjoy," said Gordon MacRitchie of United Way of Greater Toledo. "All we ask is if you pick a veggie, please pull a weed."
About Green Science at Imagination Station
Imagination Station, Toledo's Science Center, makes recycling fun with Green Science on April 22 – 27 [Remember,…April 22 is Earth Day!]. Each year, US-Americans generate well over 200 million tons of trash, and only 34 percent of that is recycled. The science center believes it's never too early to learn how to take care of the planet and discover creative ways to reduce, reuse and recycle.
Guests will learn to reduce their environmental footprint by conserving water and energy in their own home. Visitors of all ages will explore creative ways to reuse by creating a trellis using a bicycle wheel, protecting vegetables and fruits from birds using old CDs and discovering many other creative, "green" uses for old products. Imagination Scientists help guests take recycling into their own hands by making their own seed paper out of old newspaper.
The littlest visitors, kindergarten age and younger, can help a Cardboard Garden grow in Little KIDSPACE as they find creative ways to reuse boxes. Construct a castle, design a spaceship, build a tower, and much more! The possibilities are endless as little recyclers use their imagination to repurpose cardboard.
"Green Science is a great way to expose kids to recycling in a fun, hands-on way," Sloan Mann, Assistant Director of STEM Education for Imagination Station, said. "They are always shocked by how many of the things they think of as trash can be repurposed."
She said that her favorite creations are the unique gardening designs. "A lot of people think that they don't have room to grow their own food, but you don't need a lot of space to grow most vegetables. A container, soil, sunlight and some creativity will usually do the trick."


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Q: What did Gandalf mean by "first light of the fifth day"? I don't know how this one goes in the books, but in the movie Gandalf says:

Look to my coming on the first light of the fifth day, at dawn look to the east.

Does that imply that the battle of Hornburg lasted 5 days (it seemed to last only one night) or did he mean 5 days starting immediately

A: Gandalf calculated the time he would need to fulfill the task and come back, and the result was "at the morning in five days from now, I assume to be back". And because he knows, from which direction he will occur, he said it like a wise wizard will do: To appear with the light of sun, from the east, in the morning of the fifth day... sounds better than "I'll be back in around five days"

A: He meant, on the fifth day from this day, I will arrive at dawn, from the east.
Note that this does not imply that the battle of the Hornburg last 5 days.  Aragorn, Theoden, Gandalf and the rest of the party had not reached the Hornburg yet. As I recall (I have not have "The Two Towers" on hand) they were still a day's journey from reaching the Hornburg when Gandalf made that announcement and left. Then after they arrived at the Hornburg there was another day and a night during which Saruman's army arrived and besieged the fortress. Then the battle began and lasted a day and a night.
The Tale of Years, Appendix B, says that Gandalf healed Theoden at Edoras on March 2. On March 3, Theoden had taken over the defense of Helm's Deep. The battle of the Hornburg began on the same day, and on March 4 it was over and Gandalf and Theoden set out for Isengard. There is a discrepancy here which cannot be resolved, because 5 days did not elapse between Gandalf leaving to gather Erkenbrand and his scattered forces and his arrival on the "fifth" day..
Note also, that Aragorn trusted Gandalf to arrive on time, and convinced Theoden to charge from the Hornburg  with the knights of Rohan on the morning of the fifth day. The Ents and the Huorns had arrived during that night, and Gandalf and the men of Rohan led by Erkenbrand charged from the east at the same time as Theoden's knights charged, resulting in the complete destruction of Saruman's army.


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Invasion of the Web Film Critics
Feb 28, 2004 2:00 AM
These days, many people get their movie info from the Web and rely on the advice of online film critics. But Hollywood, for the most part, continues to ignore the clout of the online scribes. It can't for much longer. By Jason Silverman.
James Berardinelli estimates that a hundred or so filmgoers read his first online review -- of the 1993 film Scent of a Woman -- when he posted it at a newsgroup. This week, Berardinelli guesses that about 100,000 readers will click on his The Passion of the Christ review.
The readership at Berardinelli's site ReelViews now rivals that of a small weekly newspaper. So Berardinelli has arrived as a film critic, right?
Not in the eyes of movie publicists, he said. He and other online film critics continue to struggle for respect.
Though their readership is growing, online film critics remain at the bottom of the movie-publicity food chain -- far below daily newspaper critics, magazine writers and broadcast reporters. They are the last to be invited for preview screenings, are seldom quoted in movie ads and remain largely off the radar for Hollywood studios.
"Online critics have nowhere near the kind of respect that is given to other journalists," said David Edelstein of Slate, who also is the film critic for National Public Radio's Fresh Air and a frequent contributor to The New York Times. "Variety doesn't take them seriously, skipping them when it samples critics. The New York Film Critics Circle doesn't allow onliners in. I write for a publication with between 5 (million) and 6 million readers, but most studio publicists make no distinctions between it and any other website."
Edelstein said he hasn't seen much improvement in the treatment of online critics in the six years he's been writing for Slate. But Gordon Paddison, the executive vice president of integrated marketing at New Line Cinema, believes online critics are more valued by the studios than they were even two years ago.
During the Internet explosion, he said, the online activity was happening so fast and furiously that the studios couldn't keep up. Recently, however, publicists and marketing executives -- some who may have been a bit slow to pick up on the potential of the Web -- have begun to sort out who is who online.
"There's simply not as much clutter, not as much noise," Paddison said. "The real journalists and critics are the ones who have been left standing -- they are the ones with the talent, the passion and the voice."
Paddison also said his research indicates the Internet is the preferred way for filmgoers 18 to 35 years old to research films.
"I think, absolutely, online journalists will receive more awareness, power and credibility as time goes on," Paddison said.
Berardinelli, too, believes that online critics will begin to receive more respect. With newspapers in eclipse, he said, more readers are heading online for film-related information.
"I think in 10 years the majority of critics will be online," he said. "If anyone asks me how to become a film critic, my advice is to write online, not to go after a newspaper job."
Certainly, writing online has its advantages. Online critics can file their stories later, develop a dialogue with readers and correct the embarrassing errors that are inevitable for writers on deadline.
For most, however, writing reviews primarily for online publication remains a hobby or second job. Even as eyeballs are heading online, money remains tied up in print publications. Berardinelli's paychecks come from his job as an engineer. Harvey Karten, another active reviewer, is a retired public-school teacher.
Only a handful of critics -- including Stephanie Zacharek and Charles Taylor of Salon, and Edelstein -- earn their living writing for online publications, even though an online presence is increasingly a necessity for the professional film critic.
"If you are not on the Web, you don't exist for a significant number of people," said David Poland of Movie City News, a film industry news site. An example, he said, was the Los Angeles Times critic Manhola Dargis, who had begun to build a large international fan base until the newspaper switched to a subscription-based website.
Certainly, readers seem responsive to the new world of online film criticism. Most look far beyond what their local newspaper critic has to say. The de rigueur sites for film buffs include Metacritic.com and Rotten Tomatoes, both of which offer numeric ratings and one-sentence excerpts from dozens of reviews.
Critics, too, are embracing the Internet's possibilities. Slate's Movie Club, a year-end conversation between five prominent critics, is far more lively and contentious than printed roundtables, and more thoughtful than TV panel discussions.
What's more, the online critics have begun to organize themselves. The Online Film Critics Society, which includes 115 writers, announced its year-end awards on Jan. 5. (Lord of the Rings was the big winner with nine awards; Andy Serkis, as the animated Gollum, received an acting nomination.)
The OFCS, Berardinelli said, "separates the wheat from the chaff. There are thousands of people writing out there, and many of their reviews are pretty puerile."
But an online critics group can only do so much, according to Karten, who founded the OFCS in 1997 and the New York Film Critics Online last year.
"We are still in the dumps," he said of online critics. "The publicists are living in the pre-Internet times -- they aren't sure what to make of the onliners. I know we have more influence at the box office than any studio gives us credit for."
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Playing music with other people is a great way to improve your musicianship and technical skills, and have fun doing it.
Northern Rivers Conservatorium provides a range of opportunities for ensemble playing, catering for different musical styles and levels of playing ability. There are also exciting opportunities to perform, including regular community performance nights.
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Join the Youth Performance Ensemble directed by Jaylene Fergus and perform your favourite tunes at Conservatorium concerts and events. Learn the necessary skills to play in a band and be supported for your performances. Build your performance repertoire in a variety of genres. Suitable for anyone already learning an instrument or voice from stage 3 primary through to senior high school students.
In this ensemble, learn repertoire and improvisation in a blues and jazz idioms. Reading music and understanding chord and scale theory is encouraged. Playing tunes and improvising is the main focus of the ensemble. All instruments and voice are welcome. Beginners to advanced and all ages are welcome.
YJO, as they are affectionately known, relish the challenge of mastering and performing Latin, Swing, Funk and Ballad tunes by composers and arrangers such as Sammy Nestico, Duke Ellington and Bob Mintzer. When you see YJO perform, you are hearing some of the most talented young musicians across the Northern Rivers region. In fact, many YJO alumni have gone on to further study at the some of the top tertiary institutions across the country including Brisbane Conservatorium and Monash University.
YJO perform regularly across the region and over the years have had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such stellar artists as John Hoffman who has played with Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra, internationally acclaimed pianist and composer Paul Grabowsky and leading music educator and conductor Richard Gill.
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Junior Strings is the ideal ensemble in conjunct with their private lesson.
Skills learned in this ensemble will prepare members to progress to higher level String Ensembles and in time, the opportunity to join ensembles of other musical genres.
Lynne Compton welcomes Cellists of all abilities to play together in a social setting. Repertoire ranges from classical to contemporary, and parts can be arranged to suit your ability (or just above, to scaffold you to the next level!). Collaborations between Cello Ensemble and other String Ensembles are a regular feature of the Conservatorium concert calendar.
The world Music Ensemble is an eclectic mix of musicians that get together for one hour a week to play music from around the globe. Arrangements are created for the ability of the ensemble members.
Reading music, while not essential, helps. Improvisation and ensemble arrangement/orchestration is encouraged. All instruments and voice are welcome. Performance experience is also a focus as the ensemble performs in the local community whenever it can.
This is an ensemble designed to complement and enhance the work that the students are doing in their lessons. The repertoire covers a number of styles from baroque through to rock/jazz. It is here that we explore listening skills for pitch, rhythm, tone and texture within the ensemble as well as the basic "playing together".
Chamber Strings is a multi-generational ensemble currently with the minimum standard of 3rd grade through to 6th-7th grade. This group is conductor-less to encourage the players to listen and communicate with each other.
Formed in 2012, Vox Caldera ("the voice of the cauldron") is a chamber choir of 21 singers specialising in the unaccompanied Classical repertoire. The choir's founding and current musical director is Nicholas Routley, formerly musical director of the Sydney Chamber Choir.
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A Flight to Hell , Heaven
The aircraft came in from the west, banked, and lined up on the flight path for landing. As it dropped lower and lower, he saw the roofs of suburban houses. There was the whine and thump of the wheels being lowered. They skimmed over the city centre, and then briefly he saw more suburban roofs. The aircraft bumped as it struck the runway and they taxied towards the terminal building.
The flight had been hell. Not that the aircraft or pilot were at fault. From that point of view, it had been a perfect trip. It was the hell in his mind that tormented Bernard. He was returning to that which he had fled from four years ago. The torment was made worse by the schism that tore him apart.
In my country, our native animal, the kangaroo, is mostly not seen by day. At night, it is said, vehicle headlights fascinate them. They venture out in to the road, there to be captured by the oncoming beam of light, and are held motionless by their own fascination. In the morning, there is another mangled carcass at the side of the road to be disposed of.
Bernard had his particular fascination, but in his case, unlike the kangaroo, he knew the doom that it held for him. He had run from it, but found no peace.
There are many of us who, imprisoned by fears, bereavements or desires, flee to other geographical locations to escape. It is useless. The things we wish to flee from, to leave behind, run with us, for they are the contents of our own minds.
What is the cure? Well, as Hamlet questions, why should a man bear the burdens of life "When he himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?"
The other alternative is to turn and face the demon that haunts us, and force it to a culminating final judgement.
Bernard could claim no special virtue for his return to the place of his anguish. It was the death of his father that forced him to make this journey to hell, and he knew that the epicentre of his torture was awaiting him in the terminal building.
He entered the building through the glass doors, passed along the walkway, and at the end there she stood.
"Oh God," he thought, "why even in grief does she have to look so lovely? Why can she not look ugly and faded? What has to happen to mar her beauty?"
Others passing the same way as Bernard paid no particular attention to the woman standing waiting. If they had given her a glance they would most likely have seen a woman somewhere in her mid forties, a little on the plump side with well cared for dark hair and nice skin. They might have thought, "Not bad," and walked on. As the bard said, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Bernard approached the woman and said, "Hello, mother," and kissed her on the cheek. She put her hand to the side his face, kissed him on the lips and said, "Hello, darling."
In an instant, a sword piercing pain ran through him. Her touch, her kiss, her soft contralto voice, brought back all he had dreaded to face.
It had begun when he had entered puberty. Before that he had always had a special bond with his mother, but that bond had been concerned with food and home and security.
With his change from childhood to manhood, something new entered into that bond. At first, not quite knowing why, he found his developing penis stiffening when he happened to catch a glimpse of her bending in tight shorts, or as she leaned towards him and he could see her unbridled breasts down the top of her garment. He found himself watching her as she moved, to see the sensuous movements of those same breasts.
Thus began his agony of desire. Living in the same house as his mother was like being a prisoner who is dying of thirst, while outside the bars of his prison is a glass of water just out of reach. He heard the orgasmic cries of his mother and the groans of his father as they made love, and he wept from frustration and jealousy. He came to hate his father for possessing the prize he longed for.
On holidays by the sea, his misery was added to when his mother went about in the scantiest of bikinis, and in front of him, his father made suggestive comments to her as his hands caressed her body. He was roused to fury when mother and father went for their "afternoon rest," in their bedroom in the holiday shack.
He was driven to masturbate repeatedly to try to relieve himself of the lustful burden he carried. When he began dating and having sex with girls, as he climaxed, it was always his mother's face he saw. When it was over, it was no longer his mother's face, and he felt a wave of self-loathing sweep over him.
He had even thought of raping his mother so great was his need for her, but hurled the thought away almost as soon as it was born in his mind. He wanted her lovingly and tenderly, not forcibly and violently.
And so his life went on in her presence beset every moment with the agonising pangs of his loving and carnal longings for her. All the while he sought to hide these feelings from her. sarıyer escort If he had an erection in her presence, he would leave the room. She must never know what he felt for her.
He even tried to hate her, to emotionally reject her. He ceased any kissing or touching, and tried to keep physical distance between them. Yet no matter what he did, nothing would assuage his passion.
It was when he was in his early twenties, and about to start out on his career, that he decided that there was only one way he could be rid of his demon. He must leave home and remove himself to another city. Accordingly, he had applied for, and gained, a position far away.
When he announced his impending departure to his mother, she had wept. He had longed to embrace and comfort her, but he dared not. The feel of her body against his would either torture him with raging desire, or lead him to make moves she would loathe and hate him for.
And so he went to his new city, but it brought him no relief or comfort. Just as when he was at home, his sexual relations with girls had been a miserable failure. There was one woman, and only one woman, who could meet his needs, and she was forbidden to him.
When the call had come to say his father was dead, his first reaction was to try to make excuses for not attending the funeral, but a sense of duty prevailed. And now he stood in the physical presence of his loveliest dreams and worst nightmares.
She had driven to the airport to meet him with a feeling of apprehension churning inside her. She knew that her all pervading feeling should be one of grief at the loss of her husband, Tom, but she was not a woman to lie to herself, and whatever she felt about Tom's death, those feelings had been overwhelmed by the thought of seeing Bernard.
Bernard had not returned even for a brief visit since the day he left to take up his job in the distant city. She had asked him to visit many times, especially at Christmas or family festive occasions, but he always had an excuse for not coming.
Janet was not a naive fool. She was fairly sure she knew why Bernard had left home, and why he had not returned for a visit. When she contacted him to tell him of his father's death, and he had agreed to come for the funeral, and perhaps stay for a few days, she had been filled with joy. "Now," she had thought, "we might have the chance to straighten things out between us."
That had been her first thought, but as time for his arrival drew near, the prospect was not so pleasing. It was rather like one of those views that delight the eye at a distance, but when you have toiled your way to it, it proves no more pleasing than the one you have just left.
She had allowed her mind to wander down memory lane. When she had first found out she was pregnant with Bernard, she had been beside herself with happiness. It happened early in her marriage to Tom, and she felt she could look forward to more pregnancies. It was not to be. After Bernard's birth, try as they might, no further offspring resulted.
As time passed and she remained barren, she began to lose interest in her sex life. She focused on Bernard and his baby and childhood needs. Her love for the boy was as absolute as a mother's love can get.
He was the apex of her life, and she often had to deal with a disgruntled Tom, who complained of her lack of interest in their relationship. At such times she made an effort, and to placate him they engaged in sexual intercourse, with her playing a hidden game of "pretend."
It was as Bernard entered puberty that a change, at first subtle, took place in the relationship between Janet and her son. She had observed it first in Bernard's covert glances at her that were not unlike those of young men trying to glimpse a girl's more intimate body parts. "Just curiosity," she thought.
Later she could not fail to notice what was really happening when she saw his erections in her presence, and his hasty departures. Even later she was distressed by his withdrawal from her, his rejection of hugs and kisses, and in addition, she was disturbed by her own reactions.
The sight of his erections and the occasional glimpses she had got of his naked body when he changed at the beach, brought on a throbbing in her clitoris and erection of her nipples. She often had to cope with a delicious but uncomfortable wetness in her groin, and had to behave as if it was not happening in Bernard or Tom's presence.
At first she tried to fight against these feelings. She was a religious woman, and understood what religion and the law had to say about incest and incestuous feelings, but it did not help. Still they tormented her.
She tried to tell herself that her sexual arousal had its source in a general lack of sexual activity on her part. After years of perfunctory sexual contact with Tom, she made an effort to revive her former very active sex life with esenyurt escort him. It failed completely to deal with the main problem in fact it made it worse. If she succeeded in having an orgasm with Tom, it was Bernard's penis she imagined in her. Once she only just stopped herself from crying out, "Oh, Bernard, my love," as she came.
Tom was delighted with the revival of his sex life, and fondled and caressed her, even in Bernard's presence. She understood what this was doing to Bernard, but was helpless to do anything about it.
She had thought of coming out into the open with Bernard but could not face the possibility that he would be disgusted that his mother should desire him, despite his own desire for her.
Janet tried to dress so as not to torture him, but then changed tack. She wore seductive clothing to try and lure him into making a move. She even thought, "Oh God, please let him rape me," but realised that she was being cowardly and was trying to shift the responsibility onto Bernard.
So when Bernard announced that he would be moving away to a distant city Janet, at war with herself and her irreconcilable emotions, was both relieved and grieved. For days after he left Janet wept in secret. Looking back, she realised that she had grieved far more for Bernard's departure from her presence, than for Tom's death. Terrible though she knew this to be, it was the unavoidable truth about her.
As she stood at the head of the walkway she saw his aircraft taxi to the terminal. She saw him the moment he left the aircraft. Her heart lurched as she took in his tall, upright figure striding towards the entrance of the building. Her decision to meet him coolly fell away from her and on his approach and his peck on her cheek; she flung aside her resolve and touching his face, and kissed him full on the lips.
At the touch of her hand on his cheek and the soft pressure of her lips on his, Bernard was overwhelmed by the feelings he had fervently hoped to avoid. The old stirrings of his virility were there as if there had never been a distance of time and space between them.
He tried to steady his voice as he said, "Just got to pick up my suitcase." As they waited for the luggage bay of the aircraft to be unloaded and the contents brought into the terminal, they said little, except those formal things one does say on those occasions, like, "Good flight?" "Oh yes, fine." What they in fact were doing, was to weigh each other up physically."
For Bernard his mother seemed to have changed very little. The beauty he had always perceived in her was still there. "Perhaps she has put on a little more weight. Her breasts a little plumper, her hips a fraction fuller," he thought. But his old desire was there, starting the flare up in his groin even at this moment. "A little tiredness round the eyes and despite her smile, a look of uneasiness. Suppose it is not unexpected with the death of a husband." So his thoughts ran.
They left the terminal building and headed for the car. On the journey to the house little passed between them. Barnard remarked on a few changes – buildings that had been torn down and replaced. Janet mentioned a few other changes that were not visible on their way.
Bernard's arrival had been in the late afternoon, so the evening meal, already partially prepared by Janet, followed soon after they got to the house. Commonplace remarks about the few alterations in the house, and some explanations about Tom's death from heart failure, occupied the rest of the evening.
Bernard felt the tension between them. Whilst he understood the source of his own tension, he could not really appreciate that which emanated from his mother. They were like two cats sizing each other up before a fight. Janet seemed to welcome him home, and at the same time be nervous about his presence. It was all very bewildering.
He had made no definite arrangements about the length of his stay, and his mother made no enquiry about it. Bernard had in fact taken a fortnight's leave, but his initial intention had been to spend as little time with his mother as he decently could, then be off to some beach resort before he got too sick with sexual frustration. Now, looking at her, he was torn within. The old battle – the desire to feast his eyes on her, and the awful pain of desire for her.
Next day the funeral was held, and with the service and the crowd of people that came back to the house to consume food and drink, there was little chance of contact between Janet and Bernard. When the last of the guests had left, both were too tired to converse. They both went off to their beds.
As soon as she had kissed him she half wished she had not. She felt instinctively that even this mild contact had disturbed him, and the throbbing of her clitoris informed her that nothing had changed in her feelings towards him.
As they waited for his luggage she determined that she avrupa yakası escort would seek no further physical contact with him, and would keep conversation down to generalities, and information about Tom's death.
She managed to maintain a distance between them throughout the evening, and did not even enquire how long he was staying. She wanted to do nothing that would commit him to a particular length of time. "He must decide for himself without any pressure from me," she thought. If she had cut herself loose from all restraint, she would have cried out to him, "I love you. I want you. Don't ever leave." She kept this locked away deep inside her.
Despite the fact they were in a house of mourning, and tomorrow they must attend the funeral, that evening she was in an agony of sexual desire for him. She had to force herself to sit still as they talked, so great was her agitation.
The funeral over and the guests departed, she was relieved to find herself utterly weary and glad to go to bed, where she fell into a deep sleep.
When she woke in the morning Janet sensed that today would be crucial for her relationship with her son. Having dutifully attended the funeral, he could now legitimately depart. He might, of course, continue to feel a sense of obligation and stay with her on the grounds of her bereavement.
The thought of bereavement raised the further thought of Tom's death. In times of great crisis or bereavement, it is as if the body produces an anaesthetic to defend us from the worst agonies of loss. During the immediate period after whatever blow has fallen, we can behave in a perfectly calm and rational manner. It is only as this anaesthesia wears off that we begin to feel the pain. Janet was now beginning to feel it.
The pain of bereavement is essentially a selfish though perfectly natural one. The dead person is now beyond the joys and sufferings of this life. Whoever they were, whatever their achievements, whether young or old, their story is now written and the full stop added. There is nothing we can add or subtract from their story.
It is we who are left behind, whose story is still in process, who suffer loss. It is we who bear the pangs of what "might have been." Those words of love that were never spoken. The kindly deed that will never now be done. "We never did take that holiday together." Those who have grieved will know what I mean.
Janet now began to feel these pains. The business of pre-funeral preparations, and the longed for and dreaded meeting with her son, the realisation that the feelings of sexual love for him were still with her, had covered her loss until this morning. Now it struck home, and found a fragile target.
It came to Janet that she was now alone. Tom was gone from her life, and whatever may have been his faults or failings, he had been her companion. Now, when Bernard left, she would be on her own, with no close relatives living nearby. Desolation swept over her and she dissolved into floods of tears.
In the next room Bernard heard her.
Bernard.
He had woken early and heard the dawn chorus. He lay thinking about the day ahead. Should he stay on and bear the pain of her nearness so he might be of help in her time of loss?
He confessed to himself that he had had no great affection for his father in recent years. He had been too consumed with envy at his father's right to enter his mother's body almost at will. Yet now he was gone and would enter no more. At this thought the thoughts I have outlined above rose to the surface. "Perhaps it could have been different. If only…" But what was the use? Tom was gone now and nothing could turn back the clock.
He was still weighing up whether to go or stay when he heard the sounds of his mother's weeping. At first he hesitated to intervene, but as her sobs grew in volume he got out of bed, put on his dressing gown, and went to her room.
She was laying partially face down her arm lying under her face. He went to her and laid his arm across her shoulders. He said only, "Mother." He voiced no words of false comfort. He simply was present to her. She turned and curled herself into his body and continued to weep as he held her as if she were a child. As her weeping subsided she began to sob out her feelings of loss and regret in broken words and phrases.
This was the first time in years he had been in intimate physical contact with his mother. It might be anticipated that his sexual need of her would surface in all its power, but not so. He had always loved her as well as lusted for her, and at such a time as this it was his love that prevailed. He wanted only to comfort her and offer her his strength.
As she quietened he said, "You stay here, mother, I shall make breakfast and you can have it in bed. She gave a weak smile and said, "I hate breakfast in bed. You can make it while I have a shower, and then I'll join you."
While he worked in the kitchen Bernard decided what he must do. He saw that to leave now would be selfish and cowardly. If he loved this woman he must be here for her now as she grieved. He would stay for the full two weeks of his leave.
Over breakfast he asked her if it would be all right for him to stay for the fortnight. She started to cry again, sobbing out, "Oh Bernard, would you? I should love that."
A Son Forced Pt. 03
A Brief Moment of Insanity Ch. 02


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White House: No US involvement in attack on Iran nuclear site
Biden's press secretary says incident at Natanz enrichment facility won't derail talks on American return to nuclear deal
WASHINGTON — The White House said Monday that the United States had nothing to do with what Iran says was a sabotage attack on its Natanz uranium enrichment plant. "The US was not involved in any manner," Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters. "We have nothing to add on speculation about the causes or the impacts." Iran accused its archenemy Israel of being behind the attack, and vowed it would take "revenge" and ramp up its nuclear activities.
The Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) said a "small explosion" had hit the plant's electricity distribution center Sunday in what the foreign ministry labeled an Israeli act of "terrorism." Iran initially reported a power blackout had hit the Natanz site, a day after it announced it had started up advanced uranium enrichment centrifuges banned under the battered 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Israel did not claim responsibility for the incident, but unsourced media reports in the country attributed it to a "cyber operation" by the Israeli security services.
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Be grateful that Psaki did not add: "In order to normalize ties with Iran, the United States is dispatching a humanitarian mission to Natanz with the goals of repairing this peaceful facility, consultation related to security, and dinner on the grounds.
Having successfully resolved the situation on our southern border, Vice President Kamala Harris will lead the delegation, accompanied by the following experts:
Eric Swallwell:
Prayer dedication:
Louis Farrakhan
Keynote Speaker:
Ping Pong:
Fang Fang
If there are any questions, I'll circle back from the Big Guy after his nap."
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