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Strikes are back on screen. It is surely no coincidence that at a time when RMT union leader Bob Crow is calling for a campaign of civil disobedience against spending cuts in the UK and public- sector workers from Greece to South Africa and France are taking industrial action, film-makers are also heeding the call to arms.

Next month sees the release of Nigel Cole’s Full Monty-style yarn Made in Dagenham, about women workers in late 1960s Dagenham coming out on strike against sexual discrimination in the workplace. Last week in Venice saw the world premiere of Fran?ois Ozon’s deliriously funny 1970s-set Potiche, a comedy set against the backdrop of a provincial French umbrella factory. The workers, led by union boss Gérard Depardieu, are forever downing tools in the face of abusive behaviour from their bourgeois bosses.

What is surprising about such films is the nostalgia they show for an era which (in the Thatcher and Blair years at least) was regarded with open disdain. Strikes belonged to the troglodyte past. The images of NUM leader Arthur Scargill at picket lines in Yorkshire or Lech Walesa leading the Polish ship workers in Gdansk seemed to belong to another age. Until recently, film-makers didn’t appear interested in revisiting that age or in making movies that dealt with industrial strife.

A man champions barefoot running, comes to Minnesota

The unlikely guru of barefoot running came to Minnesota on Wednesday, and the unshod and the barely shod came to run with him.

Journalist Christopher McDougall’s quest to figure out why his foot hurt when he ran became a best-selling book, « Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen.You can get your favorite coach bags from any 4gb mp4 player which can provide you best service. »

The book — a tale of eccentric ultrarunners, a reclusive Indian tribe in Mexico with legendary ability to bound over mountain trails on primitive sandals and the role running has played in human evolution — is also a sort of an anti-shoe manifesto, asserting that an industry of expensive overengineered, excessively cushioned running shoes aren’t preventing running injuries; they are actually the cause of them.

« Running shoes are the most destructive force to hit the human foot, » he said.

According to McDougall, runners would have a lot fewer injuries if they took off their shoes and developed the running technique that comes naturally when you run barefoot.

To prove his point, he invited runners to join him on a four-mile run between the Bookcase bookstore in Wayzata and the Gear West athletic store in Long Lake, which co-sponsored the author’s appearance.

About 50 runners showed up. Most wore shoes, but a few were barefoot. And several wore minimalist shoes called Vibram FiveFingers, a sort of glove-like covering for the foot with individual pockets for each toe and a thin rubber sole.

Lyle Lange, 37, of New

Theatre review The Red Shoes, Bristol Old Vic

First, some history. Kneehigh Theatre are thirty years old, and are celebrating the start of their fourth decade by reviving the production that propelled them from their Cornish origins into an international theatre sensation.

The Red Shoes is the show that really put this company on the map, and if you are lucky enough to get one of the few tickets left for this two week run at the Bristol Old Vic, you will be left in absolutely no doubt as to why.

Based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, The Red Shoes tells the story of The Girl,,Welcome to our website to buy any product you like, many products like the Composite toe caps are on sale. orphaned and barefoot, who becomes the seemingly lucky recipient of the titular footwear. Despite their heavenly appearance, these shoes have a malevolent will of their own,Our company has been producing green 1gb mp4 player for many years, so we can satisfy your any needs. and intend that their owner dance them to the very gates of Hell.

This is a marvellous piece of theatre. It begins quite slowly as a visually drab but witty use of space, then moves through its fairy tale gaining colour and speed towards a tremendous finale that had some of the audience members giving a standing ovation. I think most of us though were too stunned to stand.

The cast of this production throw everything in to the show,You can get your favorite coach bags from any 4gb mp4 player which can provide you best service. yet a special mention must go to Patrycja Kujawska as the The Girl, who gave a performance of rare physical energy. The Red Shoes came to believable and horrible life of their own at the end of her legs, and their grotesque fate was all the more poignant for the life she had given them.

It’s entirely fitting that a play about dance should be defined by a wonderful variety of music. Waltz, opera, choral music, polka, Eastern European folk, Cut Chemist and the spirit of Stéphane Grappelli and Django Reinhardt all found their way into this production. It was probably just me, but I’m sure that a couple of numbers even took their cues from the soundtrack of Mystical Ninja on the Nintendo 64. The two stage musicians played delightfully, and I found myself moving in my seat with the flow of the music for most of the performance.

Once again the Bristol Old Vic has given the city’s theatre goers the opportunity to see a spectacular show. Don’t miss this.