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COMMUNISM and INDIVIDUALISM – A TROUBLED RELATIONSHIP
Posted on November 2, 2014 by c21styork
Concluding Tom's notes…
A) Lenin On the Question of Dialectics
The relationship between the universal and the individual is just that, a relationship. When taken alone – abstracted – the universal is untrue. It is untrue because it is removed from its relationship with the individual, (its opposite) which alone is concrete. It is the relationship between each that gives each its truthfulness, its lived, actual reality.
I am reminded of Hegel's "If something is abstract it must be untrue…" and how the communist movement has been alot more comfortable dealing or focusing on the universal – the group, class, people, nation than on the concrete – the individual. We have a problem with the individual; but if dialectics has meaning this must indicate that we also have a problem with the universal.
B) Marshall Berman
Berman's procrustean role description also applies to the Industrial Revolution and to early periods of capitalism generally. Peasants/small farmers and land holders, rural, labourers and artisans were sucked into the factories of the Industrial Revolution and exploited mercilessly. In Dickens 'Hard Times' he describes these modern pegs as 'hands', an accurate description of that part of the body the bosses valued. Precious little space for the individual to unfold here. That's the down side and there are clear parallels between this and pre capitalist peg fitting. The up side was seen over generations and caused by the dynamism of capitalism and the space it created for workers to organise, struggle and develop.
Two points re this:
a) the failure of most of the left to see the emergent role of the individual as a good thing; its tendency to praise in a one sided way collectivism and to associate individualism, again one sidedly, with bourgeois ideology.
b) the working class itself has made it clear through its actions and choices that it values individual growth and development and the economic development which facilitates this.
The question for communists is: do we?
Where the traditions and customs of others determine character and conduct of the individual "one of the principal ingredients of happiness" is wanting.
Marx: "liberal economy and politics generate a contradiction between the individuality of each proletarian and the condition of life forced upon him … labour." And because the capitalist state (liberal or otherwise) reinforced and legitimised that condition, it had to go – be overthrown.
It seems to me that the conflating of that aspect of 'liberal' which speaks of freedom in a general political and personal sense with liberal economics (freedom of capital, of property rights and the rights of exploitation) is indicative of a major theoretical weakness and an opportunistic slide toward an authoritarian suppression of individuality. Marx and Engels were revolutionary democrats and communists. They were in the minority all their lives and much of their polemics were aimed not only at the wacky left ideas but at authoritarian ones.
The defeat of the revolutions of '48 generated alot of despair and from this time to the end of the 1950's, in nearly all arguments between radicals and their opponents, both parties identified the capitalist economy and the liberal state with 'individualism' and equated radical aims with "a collectivism that negated individuality."
I think he is onto something, especially "a collectivism that negated individuality". The separation, or negation is metaphysical, one sided. Collectivism thus understood will never get anywhere in advanced capitalist societies as it attempts to negate our 'new fangledness'. It also conflates as per para above.
The group and personal discipline necessary in a party is thus seen as coerced, a top down crushing of individuality rather than a free act from below, of authentic action undertaken by the individuals concerned, in limiting individuality, where this individuality comes into conflict with the cause or the group's purpose. One can also identify precisely the same dynamic – and duality – in any group endeavour.
The Marxist Archive entry for collectivism is a case in point. It speaks of collectivism transcending or sublating individualism (a collectivism which does not suppress the individualism of bourgeois society). This seems confused. They get collectivism and individuality right historically and in their definition, but the socialist bit clearly gives primacy to collectivism (without individuality being suppressed) and the transcendent, or dialectical leap, only relates to collectivism. Individualism, which remains 'bourgeois', or consistent with the individuality that emerged under capitalism, remains unsuppressed but also untransformed. It is as though dialectics has had a senior's moment and forgotten that individuality too, must transcend its bourgeois limits.
This ambivalence has been characteristic of ostensibly Marxist theory although not of Marx himself. The bods at the Archive clearly understand that individuality is important but are unable to understand it as dynamic.
"Liberation from the standpoint of the bourgeoisie, i.e. competition, was, of course, for the eighteenth century the only possible way of offering the individuals a new career for freer development." Marx (SW McLellan p186)
The free development of the bourgeoisie destroyed rural communities, threw millions off the land, thereby depriving them of their livelihoods, and forced them into the hands of the bourgeoisie itself. There was nothing pretty or humane about it. Yet, as Christopher Hill shows, it was not entirely, or even principally, negative. It led, among other things, to much greater economic and productive efficiencies, less expensive and more readily available food and better clothing. It also led to the IR, the consequences of which, as O'Flinn positively observed, we are still getting used to twelve generations later.
"…private property can be abolished only on condition of an all round development of individuals, because the existing character of intercourse and productive forces is an all round one, and only individuals that are developing in an all round fashion can appropriate them, i.e. can turn them into free manifestations of their lives." Ibid p 191
As with spirituality, we have left the field of individuality and authenticity to the right – which is why we find some of their libertarian ideas attractive (presumably this must also apply to the Spiked crew).
This 50+ year old quote from Barry Goldwater is a case in point: "Every man, both for his own individual good and for the good of society, is responsible for his own development. The choices that govern his life are choices he must make: They cannot be made by any other human being, or by a collectivity of human beings." (The Conscience of a Conservative, 1960). It's like Nietzsche with a southern twang.
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I admire that you are willing to at least discuss a central issue among the many that has led so many to reject Marxism.
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Individual happiness is important, but this may mean different things to different people. Good government will strive to keep the electorate happy, within their capacity, and private property is here to stay.
I also agree with Hunter.
'Here to stay'? That's what many once believed about 'divine right' and the aristocracy too!
Yes, then the revolution will be a long drawn out operation, evolutionary.
Yet the progress that has been made over the centuries has come through revolutions, the overthrow of the old regimes and ruling classes. This is as true of the English revolution in mid-C17th as it was of the American, French and Russian and Chinese revolutions. The latter two failed but the English revolution achieved the sovereignty of parliament over the no-longer divine (ie, beheaded) monarch. As for the late C18th French revolution, when China's communist Premier, Zhou En Lai, was asked for his opinion of it in the 1960s, he replied: "It is too early to say".
It is possible that Zhou was being cryptic although I'm inclined to think not. The thing is, is that there is the Revolution and then there is the Revolution. The former is about the seizure of power the establishment of government and policy implimentation and we tend to attach this to particular dates – 1640, 1776, 1789 etc. The latter deals with what Norbet Elias, in his The Society of Individuals termed "the unfolding synthesis," the ongoing and often unpredictable development in all its myriad forms, especially in what we would now term the cultural arena – in the way we think, feel and act. Both Gramsci and Mao used the term cultural revolution (Gramsci was speaking of the ongoing effect of the Renaissance and the growth of Humanism in Europe).
The revolution, as seizure of power, does not give us a cultural revolution, it creates the arena in which cultural revolutions can be fought. We forget that the law, be that set up by a victorious revolutionary movement or laws that develop as part of the 'unfolding synthesis' after a revolution invariably play catch up to changes that have occurred and continue to occur within society, changes that then demand legal recognition where the law has previously stood in their way.
Social practises and beliefs, cultural norms if you like, pertaining to the individual are very much of this type. As feudalism degenerated in England masterless men, thrown off the land, trapsed the highways; From the 16thC Puritanism fired salvos over the feudal boughs and undermining authority by proposing that one's relationship with God was personal and not requiring the mediation and control of Anglican or Catholic hierarchy. These two developments alone indicate that the individual had arrived and was fighting for public space and recognition free of oppression. Charles and his ilk may have tried to call a halt to these and other developments but his beheading was more than just a flesh wound and the restoration was unable to get the cat back in the bag. The American and French revolutions then pushed things along further, creating further space for cultural revolution to unfold. The individual had well and truely emerged, not without birthmarks, but capable of taking things to the next level.
I suspect this is what Zhou was getting at, that revolutions create space to confront and struggle against the cultural drag effect, the obstinance of differnt types of traditional beliefs and practises, long after the soil that enabled them to grow and which they, in turn reflected, has been swept away. But Egg, this is not evolutionary, if by that you mean it'll happen by itself if we wait long enough. In philisophical jargon we can call this the primacy of the objective over the subjective. It is as well that we humans are subjective and ornery as well as objective entities because it gives us the freedom (or do we just take it?) to give history a push, to make trouble and to rebel against reactionaries.
Did Gramsci come up with the idea of the Third Way?
I think we can safely dispatch that one Egg, Gramsci made the observation from a prison cell he was never able to leave, circumstances ill inclined to promote prevarication about the need for revolution. As I had mentioned in the notes I had never thought of the Renaissance and its sequalae as a cultural revolution, but in hindsight its a no brainer. The humanist hopes it spawned, the initial salvos fired accross the bows of medievalism, raced accross Europe, as did the dark reaction to it which followed.
Interesting read on the Chinese leadership embracing Confucian values.
http://thediplomat.com/2014/09/the-chinese-communist-partys-confucian-revival/


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Winners of previous edition of the CBN Senior Open Tennis Championship, posing with some of the bank's officia
No fewer than 300 tennis players will be competing in the 2018 edition of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Senior Open Tennis Championship scheduled to hold from June 21 to June 30, in Abuja.
President, Nigeria Tennis Federation (NTF), Mr Ifedayo Akindoju said at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday that the championship would see about 200 male and 100 female tennis players in action.
Akindoju who commended the apex bank for supporting the development of the sport in the country noted that the championship would take place at the tennis courts of the National Stadium Abuja.
"The future is bright for tennis in the country if more corporate organisations can emulate CBN at various levels of tennis development.
"NTF appreciates the support and will continue to partner with CBN so that the nation can harvest more talents that will attain international fame," he said.
CBN's Acting Director of Corporate Communication Mr Isaac Okoroafor said the winners in the singles category for Men and Women would pocket N700,000 each, as over N10million—total prize money, would be up for grabs.
"The runners-up in both the male and female categories will go home with N500,000 each," he added.
Mr Okoroafor pointed out that the aim of the championship was to discover emerging tennis talents that could represent the country at major competitions in Africa and beyond.
"This event has been helping the nation to discover talents in tennis, both male and female in the last forty years, such as Kehinde Ajayi, Osaro Amadin, Veronica Oyibokia, among others.
"A number of national players that have emerged through the competition testify to its relevance in sport development.
"CBN is passionate about youth development and will continue to do that as part of our Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR).
"We really appreciate the sustained support of NTF and members of the media for their good coverage since the beginning of the championship; you are good partners in this venture," Okoroafor said.
It would be recalled that Abdulmumuni Babalola defeated Joseph Imeh 6-4, 6-3 to win the 2017 the single's men title, while Sarah Adegoke humbled Mary Love 6-0, 6-3 to clinch the female title.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Abdulmumuni and Imeh are currently representing Nigeria at the DAVIS Cup in Kenya.
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Minutes of the June 2018 Meeting
The Larchmont Public Library Board of Trustees met on June 13, 2018 at 6:45 p.m., attended by Board Chair Pamela Dubitsky (PD), Board Trustees Jennifer Conley (JC), Barbara Flickinger (BF), Barbara Liptack (BL), John McGarr (JM), Lauren Gottfried and Linnet Tse (LT), Village of Larchmont Liaison Sarah Bauer (SB), Town of Mamaroneck Liaison Jeffery King (JK), Friends of the Library Liaison Sandy Bernstein (SB), Library Director Laura Eckley (LE), Library Head of Reference Liam Hegarty (LH), Head of Youth Services Rebecca Teglas (RT) and Library Staff Assistant D.J. Brucciani (DB).
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Upon the recommendation of Director Eckley, the Board unanimously approved the hire of seasonal Library Clerks Veronica Berger, Nick Vanderpool and Margot Zeitoun. LE reported that Summer Reading Games for all age levels were underway with loads of programs, events and prizes planned throughout the summer. LE also reported that (1) she recorded a "Beach Reads" program for LMCTV with Mamaroneck Library Director Susan Riley, which will be shown throughout the summer, (2) e-newsletters highlighting the library's downloadable resources and museum pass program would be sent out in the near future and (3) Anderson's Bookstore will now be selling coffee mugs to benefit the Library. The Board discussed the e-newsletters and noted, in particular, how impressive the library's e-resources collection is and how important it is to educate the community about the availability of this resource.
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No. 3 Southern Vermont Blanks No. 6 Bay Path in NECC Women's Volleyball Quarterfinals
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Bay Path (7-14) 20 10 12 0
Southern Vermont (19-6) 25 25 25 3
K: Lydia Clifford - 6
B: 2 Players (#12, #15) - 3
D: Joanne Nazario - 11
SA: 3 Players (#3, #6, #11) - 1
K: Meg Maddalena - 10
B: Meg Maddalena - 3
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BENNINGTON, Vt. – For the second-straight year, Southern Vermont College began its run in the New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) women's volleyball postseason tournament with a 3-0 win over Bay Path University as the team swept the visiting Wildcats Tuesday night in a quarterfinal match at the Mountaineer Athletic Center.
SVC was able to stay ahead to close out the first set by a 25-20 margin, and the Mountaineer then really got things clicking to win the next two frames 25-10 and 25-12.
Southern Vermont improves to 19-6 on the year and now gets ready to, once again, take on Elms College in the semifinals. The Mountaineers fell 3-2 to the Blazers in a hard-fought semi a year ago. SVC and second-seeded Elms will line up Friday night at 7 p.m. Bay Path finishes the year at 7-14 overall.
"We took care of business against Bay Path tonight and have our eyes set on Elms Friday," said SVC second-year head coach Pat Robidoux. "Obviously, we haven't had a ton of success against Elms in recent history—dropping all of our past three matches against them. It will take a gritty team effort and a strong performance to win against the defending champions. This is our most exciting match of the year, and I am looking forward to seeing how it plays out."
With Tuesday's win, the Mountaineers have now won four-straight meetings with the Wildcats and 11 of their last 13.
SVC junior Meg Maddalena (Portola, Calif.) led all players with 10 kills while classmate Sarah Baty (Portola, Calif.) tallied 19 assists, nine digs, and six kills. Senior captain Liv Sowles (Sacramento, Calif.) had seven aces to go along with her three kills and three digs, and classmate Heidy Benitez (Tulare, Calif.) notched a team-leading nine digs on the night.
Bay Path was paced offensively by freshman Lydia Clifford (Coventry, R.I.) who had six kills in addition to recording six digs on the defensive side. Junior libero Joanne Nazario (Springfield, Mass.) had a match-best 11 digs while senior Lexi Cears (Agawam, Mass.) posted 13 assists, five digs, and two kills.
Southern Vermont jumped out to a 7-2 lead in the first set with a pair of Baty aces and two kills from junior Abby Landon (South Glens Falls, N.Y.). The two sides traded 4-0 runs before a Clifford kill eventually made it a 19-15 SVC edge. The Mountaineers used kills from Baty, Maddalena, and junior Taryn Higareda (Rosemead, Calif.) to go on top 24-17, and Higareda then finally put it away with one more swing.
SVC went on top 7-2 once again in the second game and—this time—never looked back. Sowles had three aces during a stretch of seven unanswered points which put the separation into double digits, and the Mountaineers closed out the set with another 7-2 run.
Cears and freshman Jessica Warren (Becket, Mass.) each served up an ace to give Bay Path an early 3-1 upper hand in the third, but Southern Vermont came storming back and won 11 of the next 12 behind three Maddalena kills. The Mountaineers never gave BPU a chance to get back in it and finished the night on a 5-0 run backed by three-straight Sowles aces.
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I actually never knew this was from Naxxaramus. I was recently making a Standard deck, and wondered, "Where'd my Reincarnate go? I guess this is the cue for me to start feeling old.
If you cast a golden Reincarnate on a normal minion, will the reincarnated minion become golden?
Note: Summons minions to the right, like hero power.
At first glance this card might not seem like much but it is incredibly flexible.
- It can even be cleverly used to 'reposition' a card like Flametongue Totem for surprise lethal.
turn 10 Kel'thuzad+reincarnate. Bam. Opponent forced to dish out 16 damage in one turn or else an endless stream of resurrection awaits him.
...then ancestrial spirit them both. :D Would 2 KT bring back 2 of the minion you think?
Two KT bring two of each minion. So, if you cast ressurect on the next turn, when you have two KTs - you will gain two more.
Compare and contrast ancestral spirit. I think this is an average card in a deck full of deathrattling, but otherwise I would prefer ancestral spirit. And both of these cards are completely dead without a good creature to trigger. Be wary of this card, it's the kind of card that will rarely save you when you're behind.
i quite like this card :) can't wait until i can get it!!
You end up with a Thaddius and 2 copies of the mob which will summon 2 more Thaddius when they die.
That sounds just a little broken, doesn't it?
Nope. There's no reason for that.
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The Arizona Cardinals cut quarterback Matt Barkley and have moved in a new direction by signing quarterbacks Aaron Murray and Zac Dysert to their practice squad.
The Cardinals officially announced the signings Tuesday morning.
Barkley signed with the Chicago Bears' practice squad on Sunday, leaving Arizona to ink Murray, the former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback, and former Miami Dolphins signal-caller Zac Dysert to their own practice squad, reports ESPN's Adam Schefter.
Murray, the 2014 fifth-round draft pick out of Georgia, went unclaimed on waivers after being cut by the Chiefs. He has never appeared in an NFL game but played four years for the Bulldogs and had his best season as a junior in 2012 when he threw for 3,893 yards, 36 touchdowns and 10 interceptions.
The Cardinals are Dysert's sixth NFL team after being a seventh-round pick by the Broncos in 2013. He played four years at Miami (Ohio) and is the career passing leader there, breaking Ben Roethlisberger's record for total passing yards (12,013).
After two years with the Broncos, Dysert has spent time on training camp rosters of the Bearsand Texans before joining the Bills' practice squad. He received a future contract from the Dolphins in January.
Barkley had appeared in four games with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2013 and 2014 after being picked in the fourth round of the 2013 draft. The Cardinals acquired him in September 2015 for a seventh-round draft pick in 2016.
Along with Murray, Arizona's practice squad roster started filling out on Sunday.
After making cuts to finalize the 53-man roster, the Cardinals lost undrafted rookie safety Matthias Farley, who was picked up on the waiver wire by the Colts.
However, receivers Brittan Golden and Chris Hubert plus running back Elijhaa Penny announced on social media they had accepted practice squad invites with the Cardinals.


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The 400 Blows
THE 400 BLOWS is the story of Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Leaud), 12-year-old terror of Paris. Francois Truffaut, having been a writer and editor at Cahiers du Cinema and notorious for harshly lashing out at a perceived mediocrity in French film of the time, made his feature directing debut turning childhood memories into cinema. So… the critic has become the critiqued! Actually, that worked pretty well for him. THE 400 BLOWS launched a legendary directing career, won him best director at Cannes, and has been cited as a favorite movie by no less than Akira Kurosawa. People seemed to like it.
Antoine is a kid who gets into some trouble. In fact, the title is from a French idiom that basically means "to raise hell." So this could be called RAISING HELL. The second Doinel film, ANTOINE ET COLETTE, translates to TOUGHER THAN LEATHER in my opinion. Anyway, Antoine may 400 blow and raise hell and bring da ruckus, but he's not a Bad Seed or a Problem Child. We can see that he's not any worse than the other kids most of the time. His buddy Rene (Patrick Auffay) does all the same things Antoine does, for example they steal and smoke Rene's dad's cigars together. But Antoine seems to usually be the one that gets caught or blamed. When all the kids are passing around a pin-up in class, of course it has to be Antoine that's holding it when the teacher (Guy Decomble, BOB LE FLAMBEUR) turns around.
The teacher obviously doesn't like him. He thinks he's bad, so he treats him as bad. How's Antoine ever supposed to do better when he's walking around with a target on his head? Of course he fulfills the prophecy.
Okay, so he's not entirely innocent. Plagiarizing Balzac wasn't a good idea. Also he skips school and tries to forge a note from his mom by copying Rene's real one. He thinks better of it and burns the evidence, but makes the even worse decision to tell the teacher he missed school because his mom died. That reminds me of when I was a kid and I dumped my dinner on the table and put the plate on top of it so it would seem like I was done eating and my dad would let me go back to watching THE WIZARD OF OZ on TV. It's a poorly thought out lie in my opinion, because it's not thinking far enough ahead. Antoine and I would not make good chess players. But at least I got to see the flying monkeys for a minute before I got busted, and at least we got to see that the teacher could be nice to Antoine in the short period where he had sympathy for him. If only he could do that in a non-dead-parent situation.
Antoine's mom is played by Claire Maurier (AMELIE) and his step-dad is played by Albert Remy (GRAND PRIX). They aren't terrible parents in my opinion, but Truffaut portrays them badly enough that his real parents were pissed and he had to write them a letter defending his belief that he had had a bad childhood. I got a feeling from the movie that Truffaut puts the blame for whatever's wrong with him mostly on his mom. She seems unfriendly and annoyed with him, preoccupied with looking attractive.
Things look up when stepdad gets home – he's so buddy-buddy with Antoine that at first I thought he was just a cool neighbor. Like many moms, this one is pissed that she has to be the bad cop. Dad jokes around and she has to humorlessly scold him for it. She thinks he's too lenient and part of the problem. But then when she's worried Antoine could get her in trouble – he sees her kissing some other dude while he's skipping school – all the sudden she starts trying to act like the sweetest mom in parenting history.
Antoine doesn't seem that affected by catching his mom cheating, though. I wasn't sure if maybe he didn't actually see or understand what was happening. Or maybe it's like a BEDROOM WINDOW type situation where he can't narc on her without implicating himself for being in town in the middle of a school day.
He really wants to quit school and live on his own. He tries his hand at running away. On the streets he steals a bottle of milk for nourishment, like some cartoon cat. He's kind of a weird kid. His stepdad keeps thinking he stole his Michelin Guide. What kind of a kid would want a Michelin Guide? What kind of kid would seem to his stepdad like he would want a Michelin Guide?
(That's what I wondered until I realized he did steal it, and used the pages to make spitballs.)
As a critic, one of Truffaut's big theories was that directors put too much emphasis on story and not enough on style. He wanted movies that were more true to life. Here he does it in a jail scene where a hooker mentions that she saw a police station in a movie, but it was much cleaner. Because other movies get it wrong!
According to The New Wave Encyclopedia,
"Amongst left-wing intellectuals, [Truffaut] was considered a reactionary who valued aesthetics over content." So it's not surprising that THE 400 BLOWS is very episodic, it's filmed on location and the kids' acting is mostly very natural. There are scenes that are obviously real, like the footage of Antoine riding a spinning carnival ride that takes away gravity, or the closeups of horrified little kids watching a Little Red Riding Hood puppet show. Just as gangsters in an old movie might plot inside a movie palace, little Antoine and Rene plan stealing something from Rene's dad and hocking it while they're sitting in this audience.
Some of my favorite parts are silly little comedy bits, like the long take of a classmate really fucking up while taking dictation in class, smudging the pages and tearing them out until he has no pages left in his notebook and no words written down. Or my very favorite is the overhead shot of the teacher leading the whole class jogging into town and we watch as the kids at the back of the line peel off to hide in doorways, down alleys or across the street, a few at a time until the teacher is all alone and doesn't even notice. Then it just goes on to the next scene without letting us know if there were any consequences. Like when the fox says "Chaos reigns" in ANTICHRIST.
Antoine accidentally starts a small fire in the apartment, but this actually wasn't from shenanigans. For a school assignment he made a shrine to Balzac and the candle got out of control. It's funny, his biggest crime is when he and Rene steal a typewriter, and you might think this would be the romantic notion of a character who wants to be a writer just like his author. Nope. He plans to pawn it. It might as well be a hubcap to him, he doesn't give a shit about what it does. But it looks funny seeing a little kid carrying a big, heavy typewriter and trying to act casual. He only gets caught when he realizes he can't get enough money for it and tries to return it (wearing a fedora as a disguise). He shoulda kept it to write an underground newspaper. Or just type "fart" over and over again.
He ends up in the joint, or at least reform school. There they get marched around, but unlike in regular school P.E. class you can't sneak off that easily. There was one kid who escaped, but they caught him and brought him back. He had no regrets. "So what? I lived it up for five days." Just like Antoine did during the short period where he ran away, or where his teacher felt sorry for him.
Antoine is inspired by the escapist's tale, so he busts out just like in the song "Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos" by Public Enemy. Well, a little different. He just crawls through a hole under the fence like a little dog. He gets chased but manages to give them the slip. There is a very, very long tracking shot of him running down a road to freedom, and another of him running down a sandy beach toward the ocean. Returning to Atlantis where he came from. Or maybe I misunderstood. Actually this is kinda like the end of POINT BREAK where Bodhi goes out onto that big wave and gets devoured. You don't really know for sure what happened to him. Most likely he drowned, but you never know. He could be still out there having adventures, and who knows what number of blows he would be up to at this point?
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10 Responses to "The 400 Blows"
Jeremy09
Im scared and confused by this review of a genuine cinematic masterpiece. I come here for rambling write-ups about junky action movies.
I NEED AN ADULT
RBatty024
It's been a while since I've watched this one, but I remember liking how it presented childhood as mostly awful. I don't think I had a bad childhood, but it was still frightening not having much power over your life or really understanding the world around you. Childhood is kind of scary. But at the same time the film didn't wallow in some sort of miserablism.
And while you don't necessarily realize this when you're young, kids are weirdos. They have personalities, but they have no control over them for the most part. They're just the product of their environment. So they don't really know how to act around others unless it's been pounded into them by their parents (not literally, but you know what I mean). They also don't always know their motivations for their actions. Sure, their motives are there, hidden deep down in their psyche, but they themselves can't figure them out. So I appreciate that Truffaut presents the kids as a weirdo instead of just quirky.
Borg9
Nah, this is why I come here – no baggage reviews that can take in classic hip hop and action movie references but leave out the lazy references to BOYHOOD.
Vern, if you're on a Truffaut binge, can I recommend CONFIDENTIALLY YOURS/FINALLY SUNDAY? It's based on a novel by Charles Williams, who also wrote the source books for DEAD CALM and THE HOT SPOT, and Fanny Ardent is the only PA you'll ever want.
If this is an excursion into the New Wave, then Chabrol's LE BOUCHER gets me every time.
Major Calloway
This is probably my favorite movie too, so at least I have that in common with Kurosawa. The next thing I plan to have in common with Kurosawa is getting George Lucas to bankroll me in my hour of need (my rent's overdue).
I've only seen 400 Blows, but I hope Vern is gonna do a series reviewing all the sequels.
Glad to see you visiting the classics, Vern. I saw this movie in a college film class many years ago (we also watched CITIZEN KANE, TAXI DRIVER, and SMOKE).
Isn't the last shot of Antoine turning to face the camera? With a look of confusion?
I remember the part where he lights up a cigarette in jail, not a care in the world.
This was a really weird one for me because when I first saw it when I was age 23 or so, I fucking hated it. I though it was some "oh, woe is me! My childhood was SO terrible" bullshit, from a guy that didn't really seem to have it that hard.
About 12 or so years later, it popped up on TCM, and while I didn't sing it's praises from the rooftops, I did end up thinking I was really rough on it the first time around.
I chalk it up to, when you're young there are books movies, etc. that older people pound into you that you MUST appreciate, because they are fucking GREAT. And naturally, as a youngin' you have the urge to rebel. "These fucking smug boomers think this 400 Blows is so great, let's see how great this is…" But as you yourself get older, you care way less about that shit and just take things on their own terms. Without some boomer breathing down my neck, I thought 400 Blows was a pretty good representation of a mundanely terrible childhood.
I don't know if anyone has ever equated THE 400 BLOWS with POINT BREAK before, but if not, it's about goddamned time.
May 23rd, 2016 at 12:58 am
Confidentially Yours is a good recommendation for Vern, as is Day for Night, Truffaut's ode to making movies, and The Bride Wore Black, which I suspect was an influence on Kill Bill (a husband-wife revenge picture starring Jeanne Moreau as The Bride). His English-language adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 for Universal Pictures has aged pretty well too – its groovy bent 1970s aesthetic now seems MORE futuristic and otherworldly, not LESS.
May 23rd, 2016 at 7:14 pm
This review inspired me to rewatch 400 Blows, and I forgot how damn funny this film is. It's not until Antoine is arrested that we really get a glimpse into how screwed over this poor kid is. You know that his parents aren't great, but it isn't until the last third or so of the film that you really that how shitty they really are. (And part of it is that they don't know how to be parents. They are more ignorant than evil.) I think this divide makes the ending that much more powerful. You're not expecting this sort of a gut punch.
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Q: Is there a python package that can find the most impactful group (categorical features) from my data? My problem is that I have a dataset of our campaign like this:
| Customer | Province | District | City | Age | No. of Order |
| -------- | -------  | -------- | -----| ----| -------      |
| A        | P1       | D1       | C1   | 21  | 5            |
| B        | P2       | D2       | C2   | 22  | 9            |
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And I need to find the most impactful group of customers (usually there will be >20 categorical groups). For example: "Customers from Province P1, District D1, Age 25 are the most promising group because they contributed 50% total order while being 10% of our customer base".
I'm currently using Pandas to loop through all the combinations of [2,3,4] from all my categorical features and calculate the sale proportion for each group but it is very time-consuming
I want to ask if there is already a Python package that can help to find that kind of group?

A: You can automate that by using Decision Trees.
Not all features may be useful. Eliminate trivial ones using PCA (principal component analysis)
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Jérome Pétion de Villeneuve, född den 3 januari 1756 i Chartres, död i juni 1794 nära Saint-Émilion, var en fransk revolutionspolitiker.

Pétion de Villeneuve var ursprungligen advokat. Som delegerad för tredje ståndet blev han 1789 medlem av nationalförsamlingen, där han spelade en framstående roll som en av ledarna för vänstern, blev 1791 mär i Paris efter Jean Sylvain Bailly och tillvann sig bland stadens befolkning en stor popularitet. När Pétion de Villeneuve suspenderades från sitt ämbete på grund av sin underlåtenhet att inskrida mot upploppet 20 juni 1792, förmådde Paris befolkning den lagstiftande församlingen att ingripa till förmån för honom. Han framträdde nu öppet som talesman för republikanska tänkesätt. År 1792 blev han medlem av konventet, närmade sig girondisterna, häktades den 2 juni 1793 men flydde och deltog i den federalistiska resningen. Efter dennas misslyckande begick Pétion de Villeneuve självmord.

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The  (Latin for "shroud tunic") is a simple sleeveless white linen shift worn by British Monarchs during part of the Coronation service. It symbolises divesting oneself of all worldly vanity and standing bare before God.

Following the anointing in the coronation service, the  is placed over the monarch's clothes, and then the , a long robe of gold brocade, is placed over that. Wearing these garments, the monarch is invested with the regalia, crowned and enthroned. Both garments are removed before the final procession out of the abbey. Both of these robes are of very ancient design; those used by the medieval kings of England were said to have been used by King Edward the Confessor at his coronation in 1043, however these were destroyed by the Parliamentarians after the English Civil War. In modern times, a new  has been made for each coronation.

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Q: Symfony2 Gregwar / CaptchaBundle Fatal error I did all steps from
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Added to composer.json and updated, config.yml enabled the bundle  But I get fatal error
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A: I have the same problem with Symfony2.1. I did composer install. I noted that in my output console there was not captcha bundle installed. I fixed the problem with
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A: In case of somebody bumped into my (similar to this one) problem.
I took code from https://github.com/Gregwar/CaptchaBundle and did all steps (downloaded by git clone). I put the code into \vendor\bundles\Gregwar\CaptchaBundle\
Finally when i got an error

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i downloaded another code from https://github.com/Gregwar/Captcha/ and put it into \vendor\bundles\Gregwar\Captcha\
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Their scale speed is faster than humans, they are stronger than humans (again, to scale) they have eight legs, more eyes than is really necessary and can see in every direction at once.
As if that weren't enough, they paralyse victims with a single bite and their homes are traps to catch their prey. Oh yes, a perfectly rational fear indeed.
Google may soon be feeling the long arm of the law due to the collecting of data from its Google Street View cars. The cars have driven all over the UK (and much of the world) photographing every major, and not so major, road – together with houses and buildings. The photographs have been stitched together to form Google's Street View, which is a great system that allows you follow routes and directions as if you were really there.


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An update report on the harmonization of adult reference intervals in Australasia
Gus Koerbin, Ken Sikaris, Graham R.D. Jones, Robert Flatman, Jillian R. Tate
The Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists (AACB) has over the past 5 years been actively working to achieve harmonized reference intervals (RIs) for common clinical chemistry analytes using an evidence-based checklist approach where there is sound calibration and metrological traceability. It has now recommended harmonized RIs for 18 common clinical chemistry analytes which are performed in most routine laboratories and these have been endorsed by the Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia (RCPA). In 2017 another group of analytes including urea, albumin and arterial blood gas parameters were considered and suggested harmonized RIs proposed. This report provides an update of those harmonization efforts.
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2017-0920
Koerbin, G., Sikaris, K., Jones, G. R. D., Flatman, R., & Tate, J. R. (2019). An update report on the harmonization of adult reference intervals in Australasia. Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, 57(1), 38-41. https://doi.org/10.1515/cclm-2017-0920
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Another Blow To TRS-Care: Retired Teachers Are Leaving The System In Droves
Facing increased premiums and less coverage, retired teachers are opting out of the health insurance program provided for them by the state.
By Jill AmentDecember 11, 2017 2:20 pmEducation
Gabriel Cristóver Pérez/KUT News
Earlier this year there were fears that the 32-year old health care system that covers hundreds of thousands of retired teachers was approaching a death spiral. The Teacher's Retirement System's TRS-Care was expected to experience a shortfall in excess of $1 billion.
Lawmakers came to the rescue with an infusion of cash – a temporary patch intended to shrink the system's deficit to $700 million. But now, the Austin American-Statesman reports on another threat to the program – retired teachers are leaving it in droves.
Statesman Reporter Julie Chang says some 7,800 retired teachers have requested to withdraw from the program's health insurance coverage. She says more participants leaving could increase health care costs for those who remain, because fewer members would be sharing the cost of health insurance.
"Because TRS has such a high unfunded liability, the Texas Legislature, through TRS, has had to make some difficult financial decisions, including making plans that are not as attractive to retired teachers anymore," Chang says.
Chang spoke with a retired Austin teacher whose health premium has gone up 31 percent, to $271 per month. The teacher's pension of $2,200 per month makes absorbing the increase difficult, Chang says. That's why the teacher, and others, have sought insurance on the open market.
Chang says the situation at TRS-Care is worrying, but that the system is unlikely to collapse anytime soon because legislators are likely to step in to make up the shortfall.
"But that's not to say that in subsequent years, there couldn't be changes to their health care plans in order to save the state some money," Chang says.
Written by Shelly Brisbin.
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The business listing company was the recipient of a harsh slam piece last week from a notable short seller. Should you be as alarmed as they are?
Angie's List (NASDAQ:ANGI) appeals to the buyer beware in all of us. The company has made a business out of reviews you can, supposedly, trust. In late 2011, the company debuted on the public markets and has since rewarded investors with a more than 40% return, all while unable to post a positive bottom line. However, sales growth over that same time has skyrocketed more than 160%. While the business sounds innocent enough, a recent hit piece from Citron Research sent the stock down nearly seven points for the week. The question is: Does the exhaustive research report highlight anything that investors weren't already aware of? Let's take a look and see if Angie's List is a stock you should avoid.
Citron Research is notorious for issuing scathing reports on a wide array of companies from Chinese mid caps to Intuitive Surgical. Opinions vary on the accuracy and integrity of the short-seller shop, but one cannot deny their influential prose and shocking statistics. As a public business, a Citron slam piece is one of the last things you want to deal with.
Angie's List has a terrible reputation among its customers, both end users and businesses. Customers have a hard time canceling memberships and question the integrity of the listings. Most listed businesses have an "A" grade, and seemingly anyone can apply for a listing without any due diligence on behalf of Angie's List. Businesses complain that they have to pay up for placement (in the $000s) and that it resembles a pyramid scheme.
The company has increased its sales professionals with an inadequate return in terms of new customers (around 1.14 customers per month, per sales person).
Companies like Yelp (NYSE:YELP) have much greater scale and are free of charge to customers. Even though they are not quite in the same space (Angie's List focuses on home repair, dentists, trained professionals, etc), Citron believes Angie's moat is nonexistent.
When compared to peers, such as Interactive Corp-owned Home Advisors, Angie's List is far, far overvalued.
Here is the report, if you'd like to read through the details.
It's a compelling case against the web-based company, which trades at nearly 10 times revenue. To me, though, the details are nearly irrelevant. Investors should avoid Angie's List today because it is ridiculously valued, with no indication that it can fulfill the expectations implicit in its pricing. I doubt the company is, as mentioned in the report, a pyramid scheme-like business. Like other listing services, businesses do have to pay up big time to be put in the top 10 or top 5 listings -- that's how the service makes money.
As far as customer satisfaction goes, some quick research does show distaste. It may seem ironic, but go on Yelp and type in "Angie's List." You'll find a number of plumbers and other skilled professionals with reviews from people who used Angie's List. For my town (Los Angeles), the first page was riddled with Yelp users complaining about the business listed, which they originally found via Angie's List. Is this a surefire indicator that the company is no good and unsustainable? No, but it does raise another red flag in what appears to be a red-flag store.
From personal experience, Citron Research reports can be sensationalist and very leading. Moreover, investors know the firm is short the stock -- this is how it makes money. That is not to say that the information is inaccurate or otherwise, but understand that this is not quite a Robin Hood service.
That said, Angie's List stock is unbelievably expensive. Even with the doubling revenues every couple of years, operating income has traveled in the opposite direction. Getting a business to scale, especially in this space, is very expensive, but investors need more evidence that the capital is going to good use.
In summary, I heartily recommend that investors steer far clear from Angie's List for the foreseeable future.


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Primorsko-goranska zonska nogometna liga, također kao i Zonska liga Međuopćinskog nogometnog saveza Rijeka, Primorsko-goranska zonska liga Nogometnog saveza Rijeka, je bila liga petog stupnja nogometnog prvenstva Jugoslavije u sezoni 1979./80.
Sudjelovalo je 14 klubova, a prvak je bio klub "Rab".

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 Regionalna liga Rijeka-Pula 1979./80.

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 Petar Pavlić: Crikvenička nogometna kronika : naših '90 let, Crikvenica, 2009., UDK: 796.332(497.5), str. 114-116, 226-227
 Orfeo Tićac, Edo Doričić: 60 godina sporta u Kostreni : 1921-1981, Rijeka, 1986., UDK: 796(497.5 Kostrena) "1921/1981", str. 93-94
 Vladimir Jugo i dr.: Nogometni klub Halubjan, Viškovo : srebrni jubilej, Viškovo, 1996., , str. 72-73
 kvarnerski.com, SAMO NA KVARNERSKOM: NOGOMET RIJEKE i OKOLICE dio 1. (1945-1991), objavljeno 25. srpnja 2013., pristupljeno 3. rujna 2021.

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The Rochester Lourdes Eagles boys hockey team is now ranked #20 in the latest Let's Play Hockey Class A poll. Big 9 schools Northfield and Mankato East are #15 and #17 respectively. Minnesota River is #18. We are scheduled to broadcast the Faribault Falcon boys hockey game with Mankato East Thursday night. Coverage of the game at All Seasons Arena in Mankato begins at 5:00 p.m.
In the Class A top five are Hermantown, St. Cloud Cathedral, East Grand Forks, Thief River Falls and Totino-Grace. IN the Class AA boys poll the South Suburban Conference has two representatives. #12 Rosemount and #19 Eagan. The Class AA top five include: Minnetonka, Andover, Edina, Blaine and Maple Grove.
Here are the complete Let's Play Hockey boys rankings.