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act in episodes so it s really a hybrid distribution of one big story the episodes are simply act 1 and the movie will have act 2 and act 3 in it so one does not work without the other gq so there are stories in the episodes that won t resolve until the movie jason bateman there are many many questions that these episodes ask that only the movie will answer and there are many stories where the loop is closed inside the episodes but the overall story the bigger story once you see the movie you will see that oh this story started with those fourteen episodes because the action in these fourteen episodes happens simultaneously each character has their own episode there s a michael episode a gob episode a lindsay episode a maeby episode and the action across the episodes is happening simultaneously if i m driving down the street in my episode and gob s going down the sidewalk on his segway you could stop my episode go into his episode and follow him and see where he s going it s not exactly like a choose your own adventure type of thing but mitch has written these episodes exclusively for the distribution platform and format of netflix knowing that they were all going to be released like an album on the same day so certain clues are revealed to you based on the order in which you watch them there will be an order that is suggested but because part of the fun of what he does is so dense and multilayered i mean if you could see the writers room before we started shooting the cards and literally the strings of yarn different colored characters where plotlines and index cards are matched to this one and then there s an entire other room that is the movie it looks like a beautiful mind written by jasdye at 12 41 pm 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels comedic enterprises friday march 22 2013 cps and further de stabilization we re stabilizing our district so we can build the academic performance chicago public schools ceo barbara byrd bennet on the closing of 52 schools in one year we ve recently discussed how a mayor who is quickly undermining the public sector and removing funding from anti violence measures in the city has also blamed residents for the gang centric violence in their own neighborhoods and now he closes down more than 50 schools in these same high poverty high crime underresourced segregated neighborhoods in one shot in one year without adequate research cost analysis just decides it needs to be done tells us it needs to be done holds some hearings wherein parents come out in droves to voice loudly their disapproval where parents protest where parents and students testify that shutting down their schools is dangerous and destabilizing where parents hold mic checks to send signals to cps that cps needs to listen to us and cps ignores u s they send out proxies but the proxies are bored rahm is nowhere to be seen no wait he s riding the slopes when this announcement is made on his behalf what effect will all this have there are some things we can guess but for the most part we ve already seen the effects of closing down several schools simultaneously it s violence kids having to choose between gangs in a highly segregated city replete with racialized violence against young people do you really believe that something horrible won t happen just as the shooting numbers are decreasing children and care givers will begin the new year at the tail end of a lethal summer running from gangs thanks rahm and barbara in the meantime hundreds of chicago residents have been summarily fired so much for stabilization byrd bennett written by jasdye at 12 18 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels apartheid chicago cps rahm emanuel schools in crisis wednesday march 20 2013 waiting for scabby schools in crisis iii i know unions are often vilified as the unjust protector of the lazy incompetent shiftless worker especially when it comes to public sector unions and it s particularly fashionable to blame teachers unions such as the chicago teachers union for poor performance of schools and students especially thanks to liberal movies like waiting for superman there are times when it is true that unions protect bloating ineffeciency or bad workers but those few cases are stymied out of proportion the enemy isn t the unions no in fact they protect against growing inequity and in the case of education unions against the corporatization and privatization of education they protect against the current tides that would turn our students into commodities a tide that we see is unrelenting in the post secondary world with overwhelming debt to an increasingly costly higher education rather the enemy is a mindset that says most of our children are not welcome to the education that the wealthy kids in the wealthy regions have the enemy is a mindset that places high accountability on teachers to bring test scores of students with high stress levels with malnourished stomachs in overcrowded and underresourced schools up to par with wealthy well fed well regulated students with private tutors and classes no larger than fifteen a piece our children are taught to the test wealthy children are taught to succeed i m not hating it s just that we need that as well the enemy is a system that takes what little money goes to working class and black brown students and sucks it out through the industrial testing machine to assess what students are learning through worthless and disenfranchising bubblesheets bubblesheets that teachers spend the better part of the year teaching their kids how to fill correctly so they d have a chance to allow the school to not be drastically defunded no the union member who is teaching my daughter how to read and add in english and spanish is doing a fantastic job because she has some protections and she is being compensated decently for it as well not as high as should be but decently as should be i worry about the next few years as my daughter will have to in order to meet national standards that unions are trying to fight against even as the administrators shout do not resist conform more and more to testing apparatuses that stifle intellectual curiosity the main problem isn t the unions or their pensions the main problem is that teachers are not encouraged to educate in a cooperative and meaningful fashion but compelled to conform to normalizing and competitive corporate powers that s what propaganda like waiting for superman is about diane ravitch it bears mentioning that nations with high performing school systems whether korea singapore finland or japan have succeeded not by privatizing their schools or closing those with low scores but by strengthening the education profession they also have less poverty than we do fewer than 5 percent of children in finland live in poverty as compared to 20 percent in the united states those who insist that poverty doesn t matter that only teachers matter prefer to ignore such contrasts if we are serious about improving our schools we will take steps to improve our teacher force as finland and other nations have done that would mean better screening to select the best candidates higher salaries better support and mentoring systems and better working conditions the daily show with jon stewart get more daily show full episodes indecision political humor the daily show on facebook teachers unions are among the only forces fighting for education of our youth in the us so called liberal education reformers whether their names be duncan pritzker guggenheim or byrd bennett fight for educational funds using the the people s investment money to make a few people rich this is the price we pay for not wanting to adequately fund our future written by jasdye at 8 57 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels chicago education schools in crisis teaching unions workers rights tuesday march 19 2013 robbing widows blind thinking about a certain megachurch pastor in the area and how he connected himself with other megachurch pastors one of whom is both unsavory and infamous and how they are all about the money in the guise of being all about the ministry and god and how they have zero accountability because their churches are non denominational and their elder boards which in the schematic of ceo like churches run by the head pastor act as well a board are staffed by and headed by complete yes men thinking in wider terms about how much is too much teachers are assailed for making around 50 000 a year with a kind of venom usually reserved for the evil landlord from vaudeville plays while a successful whatever that word means pastor can make 600 000 even as his church is millions of dollars in debt a year a successful businessman can make one fourth to a hundred times as much pastors moneybags and burns the rubric for successful in this case is messed up of course how do we measure success by the amount of money one is able to siphon from parishioners customers clients workers widows and the impacted communities how we measure the success of teachers has already proven to be completely fallible erroneous and dangerous so maybe we should redefine success and re calibrate its measurements thus while we re at it we we should reconfigure how we determine compensation maybe success should look be assessed on the overall value our work gives to the world in terms of the worker her neighbors the community the world in other words the assessments should be tied to value and worth of the work and the worker as they relate to the greater good of the world as a much larger goal rather than the explicitly limited topic of finances and how much money is generated saved returned for in the former we value people we value work we value life we value knowledge we value wisdom we value relationships and everything that is good which we desire to share with one another in the latter money when our work is tied into such a limited use our work is of little use it is stifled and we as workers and as beings are stifled with this correction in goals we must also ask what is it that we value and who and how we value additionally when a pastor as ceo makes the primary goal money he or she devalues the very flock that he is supposed to guide and care for he looks upon his congregation not as fully human beings to be loved and nurtured and cared for but as products and banks to be reaped and profited from the widows no longer need care and solace they need to be unloaded of their houses the orphans no longer need protection they are just in the way of the pockets of professional parents now we must ask how to compensate the worth is in the work and the worker but again we ve tied it all to money and thus limited all three money should neither be the primary evaluation nor the primary compensation for under that rubric a few will position themselves to acquire the most while most are purposefully positioned to acquire little and are thus sacrificed not only is this game not fair it is not just not only are the rewards for the work not equitable they are not humane some must starve while others have so much money they don t know what to do with it this is cruel and unnecessary and does no promote value or work it promotes brutality a brutality that makes itself exceedingly well known in third world conditions that live within first world nations this is what i say let every teacher make just more than living wage allow every pastor to also make as much as a living wage every executive also frame it on the living wage every farmer harvester technician politician homemaker lawyer accountant mechanic doctor journalist bureaucrat deliverer janitor etc all should make roughly a living wage with modifications weighted to the worth of the work provided that may sound cruel but this is also what i believe every home should be available and affordable and safe and functional for every person and family unit every part of medical and dental care should be completely accessible qualitative and covered every meal should be accessible healthy adequate and free from poisons and heavy process so maybe that means a re assignment of value and property and maybe a james macdonald won t have as much monetary property as before but then he won t have as much debt to worry or make his congregation worry about either that would seem to go well with the whole jesus thing anyway written by jasdye at 3 54 pm no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels church income inequality justice sustainable community wealth sunday march 17 2013 the infantization of chicago schools in crisis ii as a new parent with some of my upbringing stuck deep inside me i found the idea of an incredulous toddler maddening i had to learn to break the habit of spanks and taps all of which hurt my daughter incredibly more than any other act of hurting she trusted her parents i learned and i was given the gift of her trust so i learned in the process that i couldn t just pick her up and do my will she would have to make up her mind of her own volition this would take a lot of patience on my part a patience that i didn t always want to sacrifice but she was worth it the trust she endeared in me was worth it her dignity and humanity was worth it and the chance to retain a leadership status into the future is worth it contrast that to this skeezbag of a pastor who claims to pick his wife up everyday just to show her who s boss the amount of abuse that happens in that household and within his congregation is unfathomable for sure but what happens when a mayor and his staff does that to an entire metropolis is this not systemic abuse let s look at chicago s mayor rahm emanuel and chicago public schools chief executive officer barbara byrd bennett emanuel and byrd bennett are positive that the best things for chicagoans are what emanuel and byrd bennett insist are the best things for us and then they tell us that we will thank them for it in the future but that their austerity plans are the best for us now they may even try to convince us that we like their plans right now byrd bennett in fact never once showed at one of the loud cantankerous school closing hearings held throughout the city i was involved in one and heard from several friends and media reports in the majority of others parents were irate parents were upset they did not want their children s schools shut down and they overwhelmingly asked for more resources not less but then there s byrd bennet treating us like confused children everybody got it that we really needed to close schools that we really needed to consolidate whereas rahm has previously worked hard to attack teachers and other union workers including those dreadful evil librarians and bus drivers as being shiftless and out of touch as being enemies of the public 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