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Keanu is fun, and even sometimes outright hilarious, but it doesn't live up to the skills of its central performers.
Keanu is fun, and even sometimes outright hilarious, but it doesn't live up to the skills of its central performers.
At some point, the movie has to rely on the things at which it previously poked fun.
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
Patrice Leconte's "Monsieur Hire" is a tragedy about loneliness and erotomania, told about two solitary people who have nothing else in common. It involves a…
Members of AAFCA pay tribute to Prince as a cinematic artist.
An article about the upcoming reissue of "Two Weeks in the Midday Sun."
Members of AAFCA pay tribute to Prince as a cinematic artist.
A report from a panel at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival about diversity in the light of the 2015 Oscar ceremony.
A report from a panel at Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival about diversity in the light of the 2015 Oscar ceremony.
FFC Seongyong Cho on Paul Weitz's "Grandma."
Meryl Streep's tragic romance; Algorithm killed Relativity Media; David Milch stays in the game; Appreciation of "Nine Lives"; Veronica Cartwright on "Alien."
A review of FOX's new series "Houdini & Doyle," premiering May 2, 9/8c.
* This filmography is not intended to be a comprehensive list of this artist's work. Instead it reflects the films this person has been involved with that have been reviewed on this site.
A celebration of actresses Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg in anticipation of an upcoming series at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in NYC.
Our contributors share their fondest memories of the bygone era of video stores.
Further evidence that Max von Sydow starred in more than just "Game of Thrones" and "Star Wars, Episode VII: The Force Awakens."
An obituary for the legendary Omar Sharif.
An interview with the creator of NBC's "Hannibal" and "Pushing Daisies".
A dispatch from Cannes on the new films by Emmanuelle Bercot, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Matteo Garrone.
A curtain raiser for the 2015 iteration of the Cannes Film Festival.
An appreciation of Manoel de Oliveira on his passing.
An excerpt from the October 2014 edition of "Bright Wall/Dark Room" on "The Hunger."
A ranking of the ten best winners of the Palme d'Or before 2014 adds a new film to the exclusive club.
Critics Christy Lemire, Sheila O'Malley and Susan Wloszczyna talk about 1980s cult film "Ms. 45" on the occasion of a re-release.
French New Wave star Bernadette Lafont passed away July 25th. Lisa Nesselson writes about this bold, amazing actress.
Marie writes: Once upon a time, a long time ago and in a childhood far, far away, kids used to be able to buy a special treat called a Frosted Malt. Then, with the arrival of progress and the subsequent destruction of all that is noble and pure, the world found itself reduced to settling for a frosty at Wendy's, at least where I live. Unable to support a "second rate" frosted malt for a second longer, I decided to do something about it!
19th Annual Chicago Underground Film Festival
The two most important things that can happen to you in a mainstream movie are being killed and having an orgasm. Sometimes in facial close-ups it's hard to tell one from the other. When Pauline Kael saw that wall poster in Italy saying "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," she sensed she was onto something.
Marie writes: my brother Paul recently sent me an email sharing news of something really cool at the Capilano Suspension Bridge in North Vancouver. For those who don't remember - as I'm sure I've mentioned it in the Newsletter before, the Capilano Suspension Bridge was original built 1889 and constructed of hemp rope and cedar planks. 450 feet (137m) long and 230 feet (70m) high, today's bridge is made of reinforced steel safely anchored in 13 tons of concrete on either side of the canyon (click images to enlarge.)
Marie writes: I've always found the ocean more interesting than space and for invariably containing more delights and surprises. Case in point, discovering the existence of an extraordinary underwater museum...
"I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier, that is about the best we can do. To make others less happy is a crime. To make ourselves unhappy is where all crime starts. We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn't always know this, and am happy I lived long enough to find it out." - from LIFE ITSELF
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Marie writes: this past Monday, the Chicago Sun Times updated "Movable Type" - a program used to create blogs. Roger's journal for example. Other newspapers might use "Word Press" instead; same idea though. Any-hoo, it's hosted on the "new" server at the Sun-Times and as is customary, you have to login to use it. It's online software. Meaning you're totally at the mercy of any freakiness that might be going on.I mention this because there was indeed some weirdness earlier (server choked) and that, plus the fact Movable Type does things differently now, put me behind schedule. So I don't really have anything for the front page. I can go look, though! Meanwhile, just continue reading and if I find anything interesting, I'll let you know....Ooo, clams...
The first three scenes from "A Talking Picture" (2003)
The complete film is streaming on Netflix Instant, which introduces it: "A beautiful history professor (Leonor da Silveira) and her 8-year-old daughter embark on a Mediterranean cruise from Lisbon to Bombay. Along the way, they talk about myths, legends and the milestones of Mediterranean civilization. Their compelling discourse about the history of Western civilization eventually includes the ship's captain, Comandante John Walesa (John Malkovich). Also stars Catherine Deneuve, Irene Papas and Stefania Sandrelli."
Three other films by de Oliveira are streaming on Netflix.
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Claude Chabrol, who died Sunday, Sept. 12 at 80, was a founder of the New Wave and a giant of French cinema. This interview, which took place during the 1970 New York Film Festival, shows him at midpoint in his life, just as he had emerged from a period of neglect and was making some of his best films.
By Roger Ebert
NEW YORK -- Claude Chabrol's "This Man Must Die" is advertised as a thriller, but I found it more of a macabre study of human behavior. There's no doubt as to the villain's identity, and little doubt that he will die (although how he dies is left deliciously ambiguous).
Unlike previous masters of thrillers like Hitchcock, Chabrol goes for mood and tone more than for plot. You get the notion that his killings and revenges are choreographed for a terribly observant camera and an ear that hears the slightest change in human speech.
For this reason, particularly, it's necessary to put up a squawk and insisted on the film's original subtitled version; without the rhythm of the sound track, the movie simply doesn't work. New Yorkers saw the subtitles, of course, but Allied Artists apparently decided to let the rest of the country see a wretched botch of a dubbing job.
I wouldn't be surprised if the dubbed version flopped; "Z" ran for months in its exquisite subtitled version, but flopped in the neighborhoods because a lousy dubbed version was substituted.
Let's face it. Movies by director like Chabrol or Costa-Gavras are intended for the more literate section of the movie audience. You can dub a spaghetti Western and nobody cares, but mess with Chabrol and you're eliminating the very quality audiences respond to in his work.
In any event, we're seeing the good version here, and it is one of the best Chabrol films since he began his new career as a student of murder. With Godard veering ever more erratically into left field, and Truffaut exhibiting an alarming tendency to get cute, it's actually beginning to appear that Chabrol will become the front-running French director of the 1970s - commercially, and maybe even artistically.
Yet as recently as 1967, in his "Interviews with Film Directors," Andrew Sarris was actually able to write about Chabrol in the past tense: "He quickly became one of the forgotten figures of the nouvelle vague . . . Chabrol found himself so demode by the mid-1960s that he was forced to accept commissioned projects to keep his hand in."
But just then, when his career as a serious director seemed most in doubt, Chabrol arrived at the 1968 New York Film Festival with "Les Biches." It was an artful combination of lesbianism and very Chabrolian irony, with a nice bit of murder at the end, which forced you to re-think all the characters. And Chabrol, the first of the New Wave directors to be hailed and the first to be dismissed, was very clearly back in business again.
Les Biches
"Les Biches" was the first film Chabrol made with Andre Genovese, a young Parisian who is, Chabrol says, the only producer he has ever been able to work happily with. They followed it with "La Femme Infidele" (1969), Chabrol's greatest critical success since "Les Cousins" a decade earlier. Then came "This Man Must Die," "Le Boucher," one of the hits of this year's New York Film Festival, and "Le Rupture," still unseen in the United States. ("We're certainly going to have to change that title for the American release," Chabrol notes cheerfully.)
Taken together, this group of films seems to announce that, at 40, Chabrol is finally realizing the great promise of his early career, There have been 18 Chabrol features so far, and they reflect a distinctly erratic chapter in the history of the New Wave. Chabrol was there at the very beginning, first as a critic for Cahiers du Cinema and then as the director of perhaps the first New Wave film. His "Le Beau Serge" (1958) preceded Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" by a few months, and when Godard's "Breathless" appeared the original triumvirate of New Wave directors was established. It still rules.
Chabrol's sensationally successful "Les Cousins" followed, also in 1958, and the next year he made "A Double Tour" and "Les Bonnes Femmes."
Although he was by then routinely linked with Truffaut and Godard, his style and taste in material didn't resemble theirs (nor did they resemble each other, of course, although they made a convenient grouping because of their common disregard for the existing writer-dominated French cinema.)
Chabrol's 1962 "Landru," from a screenplay by Francoise Sagan about a World War I mass murderer, can be seen in hindsight as characteristically Chabrolian but having little connection with the concerns of other New Wave directors. It was coolly professional and exhibited the fascination with murder that has been his subject in all the recent films produced by Genovese.
Le Boucher
"Landru" was a commercial and critical success, but "Ophelia" the same year was a failure, beginning a period of involuntary idleness for Chabrol. He married the actress Stephane Audran in 1962 (she was Jean-Louis Trintignant's former wife and had starred in "Les Cousins"). And then he announced a number of projects, but nothing came of them. In 1964 he directed the first of three comedy thrillers he considers potboilers.
All three were frankly jobs done for money, and if some auteur critics defended them, not many others found them worthy of Chabrol. A 1967 "comeback" project for Universal's European production division, "The Champagne Murders," starred Anthony Perkins and was praised in France. But the mutilated U.S. version was a disaster.
One night recently, Chabrol sipped a Scotch and soda in the Greenwich Village apartment of a friend, and talked about it.
"How do you become a director? First, you must start. Second, you must find a producer who is a human being. Andre Genovese is a human being. I can say of all my previous producers that I hated them and they hated me. Just before I met Andre, things were at their blackest. I was doing 'The Champagne Murders,' and the producer, so called, was a young man named Jay Kanter who was in charge of Universal's operation over there.
"He was a good agent, they told me. Why not? But as a producer he was a joke. After I finished the film, they brought in an editor who was described as a 'doctor.' He was supposed to make a film out of my film. So what did he do? He made a hodgepodge. For the English version, he cut out 20 -minutes, and inevitably they were the exact 20 minutes for which I made the film."
Chabrol spread his hands in a gesture of futility. "Editors have an uncanny ability to find what you feel is most important, and cut it out," he said. "I could have made a stink, but I wasn't in a very strong position just then. At least they let me have the final cut for the French version. Perhaps I'm not the purist I ought to be. When we were all writing for Cahiers, we looked at Hollywood films that everyone thought were commercial, and we discovered art and morality in them. Fifteen years later, with these recent films of mine, perhaps I'm taking art and morality and making them commercial . . ."
In a sense he's correct, although "commercial" is a word too negatively charged to describe the exquisite subtlety of "Le Boucher" or "This Man Must Die" (even if they are advertised as thrillers).
Perhaps professionalism is the quality that ought to be substituted; the early Cahiers critics appreciated that quality to such a degree that they actually prized directors whom accepted routine assignments and turned them out competently. Even today, when the budget is not exactly critical, Chabrol makes a point of telling you that John Ford shunned covering shots, and that every shot Chabrol takes is in the film.
Because Genovese respects this, Chabrol says, he gives Chabrol a free hand in making his films, and that, you see, is why the last three years have been so productive for Chabrol.
"Most of the French producers," Chabrol explained, "are like Zanuck. No, not like Zanuck. Like a little Zanuck. I have a certain regard for Zanuck himself. You know I used to work for him. That's right! I was the Paris publicity man for 20th Century-Fox in 1955."
Chabrol sipped his Scotch very seriously, for comic timing, and then allowed himself to grin. "When I quit," he said, "you'll never guess who got my job. I gave it to Jean-Luc Godard. Of course he was even worse as a publicity man than I was.
"He always made sure to have the lavatory key. He would come into the office and look busy for an hour, and then say he was sick. Then he would lock himself in the lavatory and read scripts. I know the feeling because I like to read all the time myself, when I'm not watching movies. During the war I was sent out into the country -- I must have been about 10 at the time -- and I read detective novels all day.
Ten Day's Wonder
"It was at that time I first read 'Ten Days Wonder,' by Ellery Queen, which will be my next film. In writing the script, I worked from the very same copy of Ellery Queen that I read 30 years ago.
"When I wasn't reading I was going to the movies. I saw 'Snow 'White' at least 10 times between 1937 and 1940 and I think it influenced my work, a little. It was a good horror film. The death of the witch was the best thing Disney ever did. Of course, murder always heightens the interest in a film. Even a banal situation takes on importance when there's a murder involved.
"I suppose that's why I choose to work with murder so often. That's the area of human activity where the choices are most crucial and have the greatest consequences. On the other hand, I'm not at all interested in who-done-its. If you conceal a character's guilt, you imply that his guilt is the most important thing about him. I want the audience to know who the murderer is, so that we can consider his personality."
Chabrol said he is rather happy right now about the way his career is going.
"With the films since 'Les Biches,' I think I'm on the right track. Not that I was ever on the wrong track, but I believe that period of idleness helped me think things over. You might consider a concert pianist, suddenly unable to give concerts. So he sits at home and practices for two or three years, until somebody hires him again. And then they don't think about the two years, they think about how well he plays . . .
"Certainly I'm happy right now making these films about murder. My interest isn't in solving puzzles, but in studying human behavior. Nothing else interests me so much. I'm not a chansonnier, a man obsessed with the events of the day. I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest. I think Godard's political films have been messy. Right now, Jean-Luc seems to be going through a bachelor's crisis: Should I marry politics or remain free?"
Chabrol leaned forward to share a confidence.
"I'll tell you a Party secret," he said. "Spiro Agnew is a double agent. Of course, he doesn't know it, but that's the best kind of agent there is -- because he can never blow his own cover!"
His face opened into a beatific smile. He finished his Scotch. He sighed. "Now we go back to France to make a film about murder again," he said. "In this one, I kill everyone, but it's no big deal. They're living at the beginning and dead at the end. In between, there's a story about a man who breaks the Ten Commandments, one by one. Catherine Deneuve will star, and of course Orson Welles will play God." I have many Chabrol reviews online. Use Search on my home page. Here is my Great Movies Collection review of Le Boucher. From the Telegraph, the best Chabrol obituary..
Chabrol's 50th and final film: "Inspector Bellamy" (2009)
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Claude Chabrol, who died Sunday, Sept. 12 at 80, was a founder of the New Wave and a giant of French cinema. This interview, which took place during the 1970 New York Film Festival, shows him at midpoint in his life, just as he had emerged from a period of neglect and was making some of his best films.
Claude Chabrol's "This Man Must Die" is advertised as a thriller, but I found it more of a macabre study of human behavior. There's no doubt as to the villain's identity, and little doubt that he will die (although how he dies is left deliciously ambiguous).
Unlike previous masters of thrillers like Hitchcock, Chabrol goes for mood and tone more than for plot. You get the notion that his killings and revenges are choreographed for a terribly observant camera and an ear that hears the slightest change in human speech.
From the Grand Poobah in Toronto: It was slightly chilly and I threw on my Toronto International Film Festival jacket and hurried out of the hotel. Only an ooh and an ahh from behind me at the Elgin Theater alerted me that I was wearing my official Roots 20th anniversary jacket. Since 2010 is the festival's 35th anniversary, that's not bad, n'est-ce pas? I hope that at the theater my T-shirt wasn't peeking out.
The Grand Poobah writes: I carry a little Canon S60 digital camera so small it tucks in my jeans pocket. Sometimes, all by itself, it will take a great photograph. Here are Lena and Werner Herzog. She is the acclaimed photographer. This was taken shortly after Herzog and Errol Morris held their lively onstage conversation, which I video recorded from the front row.


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No Sixers coach before draft? No big deal
When last we saw Sam Hinkie – which, as it turns out, was just the second time we've seen the man since he was installed as the Sixers' new president and general manager – he was at Xfinity Live for an event with Dr. J (see story). We've mentioned this before, and we'll probably mention it again, because getting a glimpse of Hinkie is a rare thing – like catching reclusive author Harper Lee out in public. Or a yeti.
During the event, before he could make his escape and return to what we can only assume is the underground analytics command bunker where he works in secret, Hinkie said, "This is a busy time of year" and the Sixers "still have plenty of work to be done." He was talking about the ongoing coaching search and next week's NBA draft.
"There are a lot of draft prospects in and out and a lot of work behind the scenes," Hinkie said, "and that's the way I like it."
When asked how the stealthy coaching search is coming along, Hinkie replied: "So far, so good."
Then he pulled a smoke bomb from his jacket, smashed it on the floor, and disappeared without a trace, Batman-style. (Ed. note: That didn't happen.)
While Hinkie thinks the coaching search is coming along just fine, "so far, so good" is probably not the language some panicked Sixers fans and media members would use to describe the process. Among those who are predisposed to talk Sixers basketball in June – an admittedly small group – the predominant opinion seems to be that the organization needs to replace Doug Collins before it drafts a player with the 11th overall pick next week.
Over the last few weeks, I've received e-mails and seen tweets from concerned fans that don't understand drafting a player before finding a coach. The take – and this is a simplified summation of the collective view – is rooted in worry that the draft pick, whomever he might be, might not fit the style of the new coach, whomever he might be.
That is a popular position, and some reporters have adopted it as well. At the Phillies game the other day, one hoops-mad journalist said the same thing. His fear was that the Sixers will take someone the new coach might not like. I thought about it for a while and then came up with a super smart rejoinder that floored him and won the argument:
What's the big deal here? The Sixers need a coach. Everyone agrees on that much. And they should probably interact with the public and inform them on the process rather than going completely silent (see story), because pretty soon the few people who care about pro hoops in this city might stop and move on to something more stimulating, like a reality marathon on Bravo.
But is it really imperative that the Sixers find a head coach before the draft? The notion that the new draft pick might not fit the new coach's style is amusing, if only because the premise forgets that the Sixers' roster already has several players that the new coach – or any coach – might look at only to shake his head and wonder how he could possibly work with that fellow. Kwame Brown. Spencer Hawes. Lavoy Allen. Kwame Brown. (Did we mention Kwame Brown?) What's one more? If the new guy doesn't like the new kid, well, dissatisfaction with the roster – aside from everyone not named Jrue Holiday, Thaddeus Young and, depending on how rose-colored your basketball goggles are, Evan Turner - is pretty much a prerequisite for taking the job.
Which brings us to the second reason why it's not a big deal: The head coach gig for this team at this time is a caretaker position. The next head coach of your Philadelphia 76ers is not a long-term solution. (You're not shocked.) The next head coach will be here to help mend a decaying team. By the time the Sixers finally start playing better basketball – when (if?) they're ready to make the playoffs again and actually compete – the next guy will be replaced by another next guy, and the cycle will continue. That's how the process works.
It isn't important whether the new head coach absolutely loves or absolutely loathes the new draft pick. It's important that the new head coach helps prevent a bad situation from getting worse before he eventually moves on or gets fired. As far as the draft pick goes, it's only important that Hinkie digs him.
"The job," Hinkie said at the aforementioned Xfinity Live event, "is about acquiring talent, bringing new players in that can be a pipeline of players for the organization for the future."
He's right. That is his job. And he's out there doing it. Presumably. That's the problem with undisclosed locations – cell/internet reception can be spotty.

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Boat parade caps picturesque Home for the Holidays
Published: Thursday, December 20, 2012 at 5:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 4:15 p.m.
DAYTONA BEACH - There is no better place to be than Home for the Holidays, and for area residents, home often means by the water to watch the 12th Annual Halifax River Yacht Club Christmas Boat Parade after a day of holiday fun on land.
On a picture perfect day, even Santa Claus could have worn shades as the city, together with the Halifax River Yacht Club, put on a day of festivities for residents beginning with the Home for the Holidays event that took place on Beach Street at Riverfront Park.
While kids rode ponies, peered into the petting zoo pen at goats and pigs, and gave Santa their Christmas lists, parents sampled the food and brought lawn chairs for an afternoon of seasonal music.
Entertainment was provided by Calvary Christian Praise Band and Choir, Warner Christian Academy Velvet Blues Marching Band, the 14 Annual Downtown Opry Christmas Reunion featuring Linda Cole, and Michael Leone.
As a highlight of the day, holiday songs were sung by All-Night Yahtzee, a premier a capella group from Florida State University.
The day's events came to a dramatic close with dozens of residents standing by the river and taking to the bridges to view the fireworks display that signaled the start of the boat parade. The boats, festively decorated with lights, Christmas trees and holiday pirate motif's broadcast tropical steel drum Christmas music. Culminating in a judging at the Halifax River Yacht Club, holiday cheers were passed from ship to shore and to all a good night.
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TULSA, Okla. – A very good season came to a disappointing end Friday for the Washington women's golf team.
No. 6 Washington finished off the NCAA championships with its low round of the event on a good day for scoring at Tulsa Country Club, but the Huskies fell to 17th after a 6-over 286 for a four-day total of 47-over 1,167.
"It was frustrating. We are going to need to do some soul-searching and figure it out," said UW coach Mary Lou Mulflur. "Really, there were so many things that we did well this year, I don't think anyone saw this coming. I don't know where we failed them or what we didn't do and should have."
Duke won the team title with a 10-over 1,130, two shots ahead of USC. The Trojans' Doris Chen won the individual title by two shots with a 6-under 274.
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Washington's SooBin Kim shot a 2-under 68 Friday to finish tied for 16th at 5 over. She was one of three Huskies making their NCAA tournament debuts, and only senior Kelli Bowers had played in the team portion.
"We might have underestimated their lack of experience a little bit, but they are all such seasoned players," said Mulflur. "The goal isn't just to get here, but to do well."
UW men delayed
The first day of the NCAA championships never got started for No. 8 Washington. Heavy rains suspended play for the day with only a few teams having teed off. UW was scheduled for the last tee times and had their entire round suspended by rain. Play will resume on Saturday morning and the teams will play as many holes as possible at Prairie Dunes in Hutchinson, Kan.


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Early for the game thread Theo...but its good you started it before someone else did...your karma is better.
Those numbers against Beckett are pretty good for some of those guys, but I do not expect that they will be able to hit him quite as well tomorrow. In fact, when Beckett is "on", no one is going to hit him well. I am looking for a Sox win tomorrow-once again on the back of Josh Beckett, the AL Cy Young winner, and our Mr October


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Not a BAMA fan but it's easy to pull for Henry. Class act throughout his time at Bama and even before. http://jacksonville.com/business/columnists/2015-12-15/story/mark-woods-yulee-classmate-down-syndrome-once-shared-backfield...View Topic - Replies (8)
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| Rookies from one school making huge impacts - Mobiletiger on 11/17/14 at 7:51 pm
This year's crop of rookies from LSU maybe contributing more than any school in recent memory. Blue in Houston, Hill in Cincy, Mett in Tenn, Landry in Miami, Beckham in New York. I think Wirght in Cincy is getting a lot of PT as well. Most LSU fans think it should be easy to replace all that talent....View Topic - Replies (6)
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http://www.al.com/alabamafootball/index.ssf/2013/10/saban_to_alabama_fans_stay_the.html LSU fans get in an uproar about people leaving the games early. It seems it is not just an LSU problem after all. ...View Topic - Replies (14)
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The saints vs 49ers playoff game last year. It seemed like the saints had done enough to win that game but played soft and let the niners go right down the field for the winning TD to vernon davis. :banghead: Oh yeah and :geauxtigers:...View Topic - Replies (1)
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A fundamental change in the way thousands of Colorado students pay for college may be the result of a simple misunderstanding between the governor's staff and some college presidents.
Gov. Bill Ritter thought leaders of the state's public colleges were not sufficiently excited about getting more than $200 million in oil and gas tax money to run their schools when they received an e-mail about it in March.
So, shortly before filing an initiative that would raise taxes on oil and gas companies, he decided to instead devote the money to scholarships.
That disappointed college presidents, who say they in fact did want money from the initiative to go straight to their general funds as originally planned. They say they were just asking questions about the proposal.
They wondered how the money would be divvied up. Some pressed the governor on his strategy for staring down one of the most powerful, and wealthy, industries in Colorado.
"For higher-ed CEOs, I thought we were relatively enthusiastic," said Kay Norton, president of the University of Northern Colorado. "We're in higher education; we question everything."
Steve Jordan, president of the Metropolitan State College of Denver, agreed.
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By Admin - Liverpool IWW, October 12, 2015
This afternoon, members and supporters of Liverpool IWW held an information picket outside the town centre job centre, on Williamson Square. We are one of several IWW groups and other activist organisations holding demonstrations at job centres this week. Scottish Unemployed Workers Network called for solidarity with claimant advocate Tony Cox, who faces court in Forfar tomorrow on the ludicrous charges of threatening behaviour, refusing to give his name and address and resisting arrest. He was arrested at an Arbroath job centre last January, whilst representing a highly vulnerable unemployed woman.
Scottish Unemployed Workers Network assert that:
"We believe that this case highlights the climate of fear that is evident within many job centres, but that it is not only benefit claimants that are treated with contempt. Welfare advisors are also being subjected to bullying and intimidation, as in the recent case of Mike Vallance at High Riggs Job Centre, when they attempt to represent, often highly vulnerable, benefit claimants. The SUWN will resist any and all attempts to curb the rights of welfare and citizen advocates to represent the unemployed, and we ask you to join us in our fight to ensure that ADVOCACY IS NOT A CRIME."
"We believe that this case highlights the climate of fear that is evident within many job centres, but that it is not only benefit claimants that are treated with contempt. Welfare advisors are also being subjected to bullying and intimidation, as in the recent case of Mike Vallance at High Riggs Job Centre, when they attempt to represent, often highly vulnerable, benefit claimants. The SUWN will resist any and all attempts to curb the rights of welfare and citizen advocates to represent the unemployed, and we ask you to join us in our fight to ensure that ADVOCACY IS NOT A CRIME."
In Liverpool today, we distributed info provided by Edinburgh Coalition Against Poverty, backing up with legal statements the fact that 'advocacy is not a crime'. Claimants visiting the job centre took our advice enthusiastically, and were generally pleased that someone was taking a stand against the Department for Work and Pensions, and the bullying regime inside job centres. Our social networking presence also got a number of likes and follows during the picket.
In fact, the response was so positive that we will soon begin a regular series of job centre info distribution pickets, offering advice, encouragement and solidarity to claimants – who represent some of the most vulnerable elements of the working class.
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By Admin - Twin Cities IWW, October 10, 2015
This summer, IWW member Anja was fired from her job at Crocus Hill Academy, a daycare. She was told that it was for talking to current and former coworkers about issues with their boss, Imran Khan. Two weeks later, Anja had yet to receive her final paycheck, her personal belongings, or a copy of her personnel file, which she had requested. Three union members from the Twin Cities IWW branch accompanied Anja to the daycare to deliver a demands letter. Mr. Khan reacted aggressively, shouting at and threatening the union delegation, accusing Anja of mistreating children, and calling St. Paul Police. He refused to accept the letter, and police asked IWW members to vacate the property.
The following day, a larger group of IWW members leafleted the daycare. As Mr. Khan yelled from the door, union members talked to parents about Anja's firing and other grievances. Upon Mr. Khan's continued refusal to receive the letter, branch members conducted a call-in and social media campaign against Crocus Hill Academy. Within a few days, Anja received a call from the school's new director, begging her to give him a copy of the demands which Mr. Khan refused to accept. She has since received her final paycheck and an additional check for $120 to compensate for her personal belongings and personnel file, both of which Mr. Khan "misplaced."
Manipulative, lying bosses like Mr. Khan are a danger to all working people, especially when they punish workers for protected activity like talking about work conditions and steal wages. But when we stand alone, or when we look to the government for help, we give up our power to fight. When we come together with other working people, we can get what we deserve. Direct action works and solidarity wins. Get in touch with the Twin Cities IWW if you have problems at work.
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By Kevin Rashid Johnson - Kevin Rashid Johnson, June 3, 2015
I have, as an active leading member of the New Afrikan Black Panther Party – Prison Chapter (NABPP-PC), recently joined the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) upon its founding the Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC).1
The IWOC's stated purpose is to "function [ ] as a liaison for prisoners to organize each other, unionize, and build solid bridges between prisoners on the inside and fellow workers on the outside."2 To this end the IWW has recognized:
"Prisoners are on the front lines of wage slavery and forced slave labor where refusal to work while in prison results in inhumane retaliation and participation in slave labor contributes to the mechanisms of exploitation. The [IWW] has consciously grasped the importance of organizing prisoners so that prisoners can directly challenge prison slavery, work conditions, and the system itself: break cycles of criminalization, exploitation, and the state sponsored divisions of our working class. At the same time, the prison environment and culture is a melting pot of capitalistic and exploitative tactics and all forms of oppression. These poisons must be challenged in prisons, institutions, and in all of us, through organized working class solidarity."3
"Prisoners are on the front lines of wage slavery and forced slave labor where refusal to work while in prison results in inhumane retaliation and participation in slave labor contributes to the mechanisms of exploitation. The [IWW] has consciously grasped the importance of organizing prisoners so that prisoners can directly challenge prison slavery, work conditions, and the system itself: break cycles of criminalization, exploitation, and the state sponsored divisions of our working class. At the same time, the prison environment and culture is a melting pot of capitalistic and exploitative tactics and all forms of oppression. These poisons must be challenged in prisons, institutions, and in all of us, through organized working class solidarity."3
The NABPP-PC has unity with this line and purpose, and allies with the IWW to these and broader ends. Indeed we have for years advanced the idea of extending union membership to prisoners.4 So the IWOC's founding is right on time!
The NABPP-PC is not a traditional communist party, but rather a pre-party formation that advances the cause of revolutionary intercommunalism, and whose target base is the oppressed urban masses and prisoners (the lumpen and unemployed in particular5 ) of all nationalities, "races," etc., but especially New Afrikans/Blacks. Within the NABPP-PC we have the White Panther Organization (WPO) and Brown Panther Organizing Committee (BPOC), which operate as arms of the NABPP-PC to bring our line and strategy to all other oppressed peoples.
The NABPP-PC is guided by the ideological and political line of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism (MLM). We unite in camaraderie with all whom we can to oppose the oppressive capitalist imperialist system, racism and repression, whether they share our line or not.
Various strata of the working class in Amerika have been spontaneously rising in protest against unsatisfactory work conditions and wages. From those in the lower service trades, to teachers, to public sector workers. Many have been oriented to more radical politics than mere trade unionism which only aspires to workplace and wage reforms. This was evidenced in the Occupy Wall Street movement that began in September 2011 and quickly spread across Amerika. Various 'mainstream' sectors have been reaching for political lines that address greater social ills like capitalist driven environmental crisis, imperialist wars, the proliferation of "terroristic' violence especially in regions of the world destabilized by the policies and actions of the US and its allies, police violence, sexism, prevailing racism, mass imprisonment, etc. Only a thoroughgoing revolutionary political line can connect clear analyses and solutions with these questions.
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By Angry Language - LibCom.Org, September 27, 2015
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are not the official position of the IWW and do not necessarily represent the views of anyone but the author's.
Ultimately, we were forced to go down the legal route. That means that IWW members at LSSE only got the legal minimum, despite our belief that the callous mistreatment we suffered while at the school entitled us to further compensation. In any case, we got more than Craig had ever planned to give us.
We're proud to say that in our effort to make Craig pay up, the workers ran militant and well-organised campaign. We occupied the school. We forced Craig to resign as a governor of the Bancroft School and to shut down the website of another one of his business interests, Asparagus Consulting. We hassled him at his residents' association. We held numerous pickets and protests in Leicester Square and at the Drapers' Guild, where Craig is a member of some note – actions which did not go unnoticed by senior officers of the organisation.
To any other workers who may ever have the misfortune to work for Craig, we have a message for you: if he mistreats you in any way, you've got the support of the Angry Language Brigade and the IWW. It doesn't matter if you're a language school worker or not; if Craig's your boss, we got your back.
And let this be a message to any future would-be business partners: Craig Tallents is a toxic asset. Besides his consistently underhanded business practices, he's got two organisations who are ready and willing to picket and protest anywhere he sets up shop.
Jon Bigger, the IWW caseworker who helped the workers, said "this case was a good example of a boss trying to hide when the going got tough. Future workers and business partners of Craig Tallents will no doubt take note of his actions. Bosses should take note of ours."
For those who've followed the dispute, one of the key issues was that Craig had illegally and intentionally misclassified a number of teachers as self-employed. This meant that when Craig shut down the school, he thought he could do so without paying those teachers thousands of pounds in holiday and notice pay.
The good news is that if you've been misclassified – a major problem in language schools – you have recourse. Raise it collectively with your workmates or contact HMRC who can contact your employer to make them sort out their records and pay you any back pay to which you may be entitled. HMRC can be contacted anonymously, but it's probably best if you have someone like a union rep call on your behalf.
Submitted on Wed, 09/30/2015 - 9:04pm
By Immanuel Ness - CounterPunch, September 22, 2015
By embracing collective bargaining through the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935, or Wagner Act, organized labor deprived workers of their capacity to contest private and state power. This compromise closed out any possibility of building a mass-based labor movement for decades. Rather than advancing the interests of workers, the NLRA circumscribed workers' aspirations for democratic syndicalist and autonomist unions.
In examining the long-term failure of organized labor, we must first note the alternative, organic, autonomous workers' movement embodied in particular by unions affiliated with the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in the early 20th century. From its inception in 1905 until the 1920's, the IWW represented a significant alternative to contract unionism. The IWW stood for the solidarity of all workers and it was fiercely opposed for that reason — by capital, by reformists such as Daniel DeLeon of the Socialist Labor Party and by the American Federation of Labor (AFL).[i] The IWW engaged in a genuine form of democracy and a mass industrial organizing model ultimately adopted by the AFL and the Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO), which both utilized for very different purposes.[ii]
The IWW employed sabotage, direct action and strikes through the equivalent of workers' councils in both the community and at the point of production, while disavowing the legitimacy of the state and recognizing that any agreement with business must be temporary. The Wobblies vigorously negotiated with employers but were never deluded that agreements would bring labor peace.
That the solidarity of all workers was not just talk for the IWW is evidenced by their organization of Blacks, immigrant workers from Mexico and Southeast Asia, and women in, for example, the Bread and Roses Strike. Historian Peter Cole has richly demonstrated that the IWW embraced multiracial unionism, perhaps most notably in Philadelphia's Maritime Workers Local 8, where Black workers maintained a majority.iii
The IWW achieved major gains for U.S. workers into the 1930s while (and because) it emphasized solidarity and workers' control. When AFL and CIO unions expanded dramatically as a result of upheaval that began in the early 1930's, they, by contrast, mostly failed to stimulate enthusiasm among workers. Riding the massive wave of sit-down strikes to positions of power, leaders of insurgent unions contributed greatly to sublimating the continuation of such militancy by throwing their support behind modest and incomplete New Deal reforms that ultimately weakened the capacity of workers to confront capital directly. In the area of labor relations, the NLRA was the fulcrum.
Many workers who participated in the sit-down strikes in mass production industries considered unionization synonymous with control over the enterprise, as was recognized immediately by capital. Given the breadth and ongoing militancy of the labor upheaval, the most astute corporate leaders soon expressed willingness to yield select rights provided that employer absolutism in the workplace was maintained. The NLRA proved to be the mechanism for doing so and responsible labor leaders proved willing junior partners in quelling worker militancy. For approximately a year after the wave of sit-down strikes, many workers were surprised to learn that their unions, as sanctioned by the NLRA, set up a framework that restricted their autonomy.
In his account of the Flint sit-down strikes, Sidney Fine wrote of how UAW members "were reluctant to accept the customary discipline exercised by management" and "ran wild in many plants for months." Union committeemen aggressively pressed the grievances of union members upon oftentimes unyielding foremen, and as a UAW member later conceded, "Every time a dispute came up the fellows would have a tendency to sit down and just stop working."iv
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So I have a 10 gallon tank that is currently set up as a freshwater tank, whose inhabitants will soon be moving to a 29 gallon. I've always wanted a saltwater tank and am thinking of a fish only tank. What, if anything would I be able to have in a ten gallon? What, if any are the problems I might face converting the tank? I plan on doing a complete takedown of the tank if I decide to do this...replacing the substrate with marine live stuff, starting the tank with ocean water. Will the current freshwater heater do the job? What about the filter? I have the smallest tetra whisper filter on the tank and it does a good enough job for freshwater but I'm assuming the requirements are totally different. I like striped damsels and the cheaper clownfish (not sure what species) and those are what I would prefer but if it's not possible in a tank this small then I would consider other fish.
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Ok, that's really what I wanted to know...exactly confirmed what I was thinking. Since the 10 gallons occupant's are only a handful of tiger barbs, which are perfectly content where they are, I may just dedicate the 29 gallon as my first saltwater attempt. I assume that with saltwater tanks it's along the same lines of bigger=easier to maintain as it is with freshwater.
True, but you won't have many more options in a 20 gallon. I would suggest that you can keep 2 or 3 very small fish in a 20 gallon. However, filtration enhancements will become more important, and additional live rock and sand costs will be needed. Dollar for dollar, I would honestly suggest that you wait and purchase a larger aquarium sometime down the road. A 38 gallon to 55 gallon tank would allow you more flexibility and be much more stable. It would also be less expensive per gallon.
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