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The prospects of Fayetteville landing a customer call center employing up to 600 people "looks even more" likely, according to a top recruiter.
Last month, Russ Rogerson, executive vice president of economic development for the Fayetteville Regional Chamber, sent an email to the city manager and assistant city manager updating them on a prospect dubbed "Project 500." Rogerson said he had received another email from the mystery company that would hire 150 people right away, eventually topping 600 in five years.
"It looks even more like they are ready to go with their decision to locate in Fayetteville," the email said.
The Fayetteville Observer obtained a copy of the Sept. 21 email this week. The Observer first reported in August the city was one of two finalists for the proposed call center. The other finalist city has not been identified.
On Tuesday, Doug Peters, president and chief executive officer of the chamber, said there was no official announcement by the company yet.
The chamber conducts economic development and job recruitment for the city, Cumberland County and the city-owned Public Works Commission under a contract. The chamber courts companies all of the time, keeping their identities secret with code names until deals are finalized and tax incentives are approved at public meetings. Chamber officials often brief elected officials in closed sessions.
Peters has previously described the project as a "customer care center" whose clients are Fortune 100 financial companies. He said the chamber has been working on the project for about a year.
Rogerson's email last month said the unnamed company "presently has a contract with a large company that will allow them to hire 150 people immediately and they plan on getting other contracts that will allow them to hire an additional 450 people over" a five-year period.
His email said the company plans to construct a $12 million building. The project is expected to be eligible for local tax incentives. The city and county have a joint incentives agreement that includes "granting back" about 50 percent of any new property taxes paid in the first five years of a project. The chamber negotiates the incentive packages.
According to minutes of a July meeting of the chamber's economic development arm, the company for Project 500 would need temporary office space for lease. The company "would like to begin work in January and would start building then" a permanent office building.
AT&T operates a call center on Owen Drive in a former Kmart store. It opened in 2001 as a Cingular Wireless facility, with the help of nearly $2 million in combined city and county tax incentives. Last fall, an AT&T official said the call center had about 400 employees.
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Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead to Host 37th Annual Scholarship Dinner
Donald H. Hazelton, Denee Rivera Barracato, Jerald S. Carter, Chy Davidson, Glenn N. Deans, Rev. Dr. Sedgwick Vaughn Easley honored
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY--The 37th annual Hempstead for Hofstra/Hofstra for Hempstead Scholarship Dinner will honor six community leaders for their service on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at 6:30 p.m. in the Main Dining Room of the Sondra and David S. Mack Student Center, North Campus.
To make a reservation or donate to the scholarship fund, please call 516-463-6636.
For more than three decades, the scholarship dinner has celebrated and cemented the bond between the University and the Village of Hempstead, while raising money to help Village students attend Hofstra.
Among the highlights of the event is the presentation of the Unispan Awards, which are named for the first pedestrian bridge over Hempstead Turnpike connecting Hofstra's North and South campuses. The award recognizes individuals or organizations for service to the community. This year's recipients are:
Donald H. Hazelton
Donald H. Hazelton is an attorney with his own practice. Prior to beginning his own civil litigation practice, Mr. Hazelton he was an attorney in the law offices of Thomas Torto. He is a graduate of St. John's University, where he earned a bachelor's degree in business and a master's of business administration. He also earned his law degree at St. John's, and has remained active as a board member of the law school's alumni association. He also is an adjunct professor in business administration and management, and founded the Jean and John Hazelton Scholarship Fund, set up in memory of his parents, both professor there, to provide scholarships to needy students.
He and his wife, Maryann, have four children, Donald, Emily, Robert and Laura.
Denee Rivera Barracato
Denee Rivera Barracato is the former Associate Director for Division I Women's Basketball at the National Collegiate Athletic Association, and a graduate of Hofstra University, where she earned a bachelor of arts in graphic design and was a star student athlete who holds the school's all-time record in career steals. She went on to play professionally for the Women's Basketball League in Puerto Rico with The Saints of San Juan. She also was drafted to play for the National Women's Basketball League with the Atlanta (GA) Justice.
She earned a master's degree in sports administration from Adelphi University, and worked there as a special projects coordinator and later, as the assistant athletic director. Mrs. Rivera Barracato is a graduate of Hempstead High School, and has served as a trustee on the Hempstead Public Library Board, and has supported organizations including the Hempstead Police Athletic League and the Hempstead Salvation Army. In 2008, she was the keynote speaker at the Hempstead High School graduation, and a year later, was inducted into the Village of Hempstead Wall of Fame.
She and her husband, Michael, live in Hempstead with their daughter, Grace.
Jerald S. Carter
The Honorable Jerald S. Carter is a graduate of Fisk University in Nashville, Tenn., and of Howard University School of Law, where he graduated #6 in his class. He returned to New York, and began his career as a member of the Nassau County District Attorney's office. He later entered private practice with his father, Shirley, specializing in criminal, labor and sports law.
In 1989, Judge Carter was appointed as an associate judge for the Village of Hempstead. He was later appointed to the Nassau County District Court. He was elected to the County Court bench in 1997, and served as an Acting Supreme Court Justice for several years.
Judge Carter has been a member of the Fisk University Board of Trustees, and is a member of the Board of Directors of "The Judicial Friends", an association of elected African-American judges. He is on the Board of Governors of Touro School of Law, where he is an adjunct professor, and has appeared as a television legal analyst on Court TV, Like It is and The McCreary Report.
Chy Davidson
Chy Davidson is interim Principal of the Senior Academy at Hempstead High School, where he has also served on various scholarship committees that have raised more than $300,000 in scholarships.
Principal Davidson's education career began in New York City, where he was first a physical education teacher and later, the Principal of I.S. 139 in the South Bronx. During his 12-year career with the Hempstead school district, he has been an assistant football coach of the Hempstead High School team, coached both track and girls basketball for Our Lady of Loretto, Catholic Youth Organization, leading his 4th grade girls to an undefeated season.
Mr. Davidson earned his bachelor's degree from the University of Rhode Island, which he attended on a football scholarship after establishing the all-time scoring record with 28 touchdowns in a single season while at Bayside High School in Queens. He earned his master's degree in Administration and Supervision from the College of New Rochelle. He is also an adjunct professor at Adelphi University.
Prior to his education career, Mr. Davidson was drafted by the New England Patriots in 1981 as a wide-receiver. He signed with the Washington Redskins in 1982 and completed his NFL career with the New York Jets in 1985.
He lives in Hempstead with his wife, Janet, and their four daughters.
Glenn N. Deans
Glenn N. Deans is co-founder and managing partner of Deans Archer & Co., Certified Public Accountants. Prior to starting his own firm, Mr. Deans was a partner with Mitchell & Titus LLP for 11 years.
Mr. Deans earned a bachelor of science degree in accounting from New York University, and a master's of business administration in financial management from Pace University. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs, the National Association of Black Accountants and the New York State Society of CPAs.
An adjunct professor at Hofstra University, Mr. Deans also serves on the board of Certified Opportunities in the Accounting Profession or COAP, an organization that introduces minority high school students to the accounting profession. A Hempstead High School graduate, Mr. Deans is very active in community organizations and has served on the boards of such groups as the Interfaith Nutrition Network, the New York Urban League, the Institute for Student Achievement and the Veterans Leadership Program.
The Rev. Dr. Sedgwick Vaughn Easley
The Rev. Dr. Sedgwick Vaught Easley has been pastor and leader of Union Baptist Church in Hempstead since April 2006. Born in the Bronx, Dr. Easley was raised in Virginia, where he graduated from Virginia Union University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and an associate major in Religious Studies. He earned a master of divinity degree from the Samuel DeWitt Proctor School of Theology of the Virginia Union University, and earned his Doctor of Ministry degree from Union Theological Seminary in Dayton, Ohio.
Before coming to Hempstead, Dr. Easley was pastor of St. Luke Baptist Church in Virginia and assistant pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, also in Virginia.
Since being installed at Union Baptist Church, Dr. Easley has built bridges between the church and the community. He is chairperson for the Nassau Affiliate of the Black Leadership Commission on AIDSA, has been the keynote speaker at the Roosevelt High School graduation, the Village of Hempstead Black History Month celebration, and the Town of Hempstead Kwanza celebration.
He and his wife, Yvette, live in Hempstead, with their daughter, MiChaela.


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Twenty Mercer students from 13 different countries visited Alexander II Elementary School during their International Week 2011 to deliver presentations about their individual countries. Thanks to all those students for helping make this educational moment a success!
Above: Amanda Bertani, from Brazil, with a 4th grade class, and Mohammed, Khalid, and Abdulaziz AlQahtani, from Saudi Arabia, with a 5th grade class.
Connections Cafe Continues to Brew Strong
After moving from the Connell Student Center to the faculty lounge in the Godsey Adminsitration Building, international coffee hour, "Connections Cafe" continues to be a place to meet and greet people from all over the world, including the United States, and enjoy a relaxing moment together. Connections Cafe is open every Friday afternoon from 3-5. All Mercer students are encouraged to stop by for a visit!
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International Leaders in the Making: Mercer Students attend GILC
Six of Mercer's best and brightest attended the Georgia International Leadership conference the weekend of February 18-20 at Rock Eagle in Eatonton Georgia. They met up with almost 200 other internationally interested students studying in Georgia to share tips on becoming a global leader. Mercer students James Blay, Branden Ryan, Laurel McCormack, Kathleen Richardson, and Rodrigo Visbal hosted a panel discussion on "Hot Topics" for international students, which was well received.
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1 week 1 day ago | Mel Wakabayashi |
He coached a Japanese team that he had also played for and the Japanese national team at the 1980 Olympics. EDIT: I guess that doesn't qualify as now, but I thought it was worth a mention anyway because Mel is awesome. |
15 weeks 3 days ago | Yost and Notre Dame |
It has generally been to my understanding that Yost wasn't as bad with religion as he was with race. The story I've heard is that he hated Notre Dame because their AD stuck his nose into some thing over rereunning a race at a track meet and he got so mad about it he swore to make sure they never got into the Big Ten when he was previously all for it and it was probably going to happen soon thereafter. Everything he said after that was pretty much gaming public opinion at the time to stick it to ND, but he was totally cool with Catholics or Jews on the team. He definitely wasn't a fan of African Americans though, and that has been well documented. |
27 weeks 3 days ago | Ohio Stadium |
And that's not being a homer. I've been there twice and both times was shocked at what a dump it is. I expected it to live up to its reputation in stadium rankings and what I got was a cynder block. The whole thing is solid concrete, and what few parts aren't concrete are painted grey to match the concrete. Even the routunda was riddled with cracks and off-color patches to the concrete all around it, while the upper bowl looks like it has gotten zero maintenence since it was first put in. Its cracked, chipping, and ugly. By far the worst stadium I've ever seen. This is out of Michigan Stadium, Spartan Stadium, Ross-Ade, Bryant-Denny (not for a game), and Bronco Stadium (also not for a game, loved the smurf turf though) for reference. Haven't been to enough other venues of different sports or the NFL to make a call on any of those, although I will say I liked the Superdome when I went for the Sugar Bowl, and I thought Progressive Field was pretty nice when I went to the Frozen Diamond against Ohio, in terms of non-Michigan, non-Detroit venues I've been to. |
28 weeks 5 days ago | So if they joined for just |
So if they joined for just one sport, why are we so sure they're going to get into the CIC? I mean, it would be great if we DID allow them in, but what's stopping us from doing that anyway? The CIC still has Chicago in it, and whether JHU joins the conference for lacrosse or not, they certainly aren't affiliated with another major conference in any way, so they could just let them in anyway. While it is practically speaking all the B1G schools, its not like they couldn't make an exception if they wanted to. Also, if the conference is willing to take on an affiliate member for sports only a handful of schools are sponsoring... WHY THE HELL DID IT TAKE SO LONG TO GET A HOCKEY CONFERENCE!? |
30 weeks 2 days ago | Wow, what a schedule. Think I |
Wow, what a schedule. Think I need to get season tickets this year instead of going individual. Just hope the team is up to playing it, unlike last year. |
32 weeks 1 day ago | I was pretty confident I'd |
I was pretty confident I'd get in, although I was a little insecure about my ACT score and decided to take it again just to be safe. I got accepted two days before my new score was released. Talk about a waste of $50 and a Saturday. Applied to MSU and MTU as backups but frankly never figured it'd be a problem anyway. I guess I thought of MSU as the backup, but in reality I likely would have gone to Tech in that case. Also, thanks to the internet, I knew before I got the letter I had gotten in. IIRC, they milked that pretty hard though. They just e-mailed me saying they had decided, then made you go to the website, go to a page, and then click on "View Decision" to find out... Also, totally jealous of your age. You were here at a rediculously good time on the athletics side of things. Hockey team coming off a national title coming in, and them and football getting one a piece while you were in school. HAVE PITY ON THE CLASS OF 2012, but have more on 2011 because that's actually probably worse (assuming 4 years) |
33 weeks 3 hours ago | That 64-bit integer... |
Is it signed, unsigned, or two's complement? |
35 weeks 5 days ago | I liked the picture... |
Until I realized they are playing my old high school in it. =/ Oh well, he'll be a good guy this time next year. |
36 weeks 5 days ago | I think you can make the case |
I think you can make the case either way, but what I felt ultimately made that a block was the guy make ZERO effort to twist to get to either side of Morgan even though he clearly should have known Morgan was likely going to beat him to that spot. If he shifted at all and hit Morgan more to the side, that's a block or a no-call I think, but the way he proceeded to knowngly crash right into the middle of his chest I think sealed his fate. |
36 weeks 5 days ago | Thought it was pretty even, |
Thought it was pretty even, although they definitely let an awful lot go. I felt this game was pretty physical. Only truely horrible call was that foul on Burke. |
37 weeks 3 hours ago | Allegidly |
Gotta remember the second one. |
38 weeks 4 days ago | This season was definitely a |
This season was definitely a failure for which the team deserves criticism for. True enough, the streak was never going to last forever, but we've had less talent than we did this year and won the conference; these guys just couldn't learn to play like a team until they dug themselves into a hole just a little too deep to get out of. Injuries didn't help, but they still should have been good enough to at least be more competitive than they were. BUT, there is a difference between being critical of the team and being a fairweather whiner. Completely ceasing all hockey coverage falls into the latter. That isn't legitimate criticism, it's completely turning your back on the team because they aren't living up to their collective draft statuses, and I think it is unbecoming of the largest Michigan sports blog, and particularly one that regularly covers hockey. The fact Brian came out and said he wasn't covering hockey because he was mad at how they were doing is even sadder. I can understand being less motivated to keep up given the cisrumstances, but just admitting you're rage quitting and mad you bought season tickets is pathetic. |
1 year 1 week ago | True |
But there's getting a break or two to fall your way and then there's the crap ND and OSU have gotten away with this year. Ohio I don't know got an excessive about of luck; only the MSU fumble really stands out to me. ND, however, has gotten every break and every call. They barely beat a terrible Purdue team, they only beat us by a TD even though we gave them 6 turnovers, they needed two gifts from the officials to beat Stanford and Pitt, and they managed to get USC one week after their starting quarterback went down with a shoulder injury. That is more than luck, that is backing into a title game, but I guess that's okay because you need a lot more than luck to beat Alabama. |
1 year 4 weeks ago | That would be excellent. Do |
That would be excellent. Do you have any more specific instruction to that site though? I'm looking at a map right now and I'm not seeing anything on sattelite that looks like what you're talking about near there. Searching for the location only yields two results that are on the other side of town. EDIT: Think I found it. http://www.columbus.k12.oh.us/specialolympics/ Google Maps search gave me the state-wide HQ which is across town. A general search turned up that, which is right where you mentioned and a VERY good parking location for $10. Very much appreciate the advice. Given your word on the people running it and the fact it is off to the side enough to be out of the way of passer-bys on the way to the stadium, that looks to be perfect and I will definitely go there. Thanks! |
1 year 4 weeks ago | Nope |
Should have taken the tickets. If going to the game means I have to wait until we win at the end to stand up and cheer, so be it, it is worth it to attend. |
1 year 4 weeks ago | Because |
Notre Dame fans are unbareable enough when they aren't winning national championships and trash talk like they do. If they actually DO get another one then it is going to be that much worse and I don't want to deal with that. Also, this year in paticular, because I feel they are grossly overrated. Yes, I know, it is difficult to say that about a team that is undefeated, but they've had more than a championship team's worth of lucky breaks this year. It took a 2-minute drive to beat Purdue, a team we now know to be exceptionally bad. We dominated their offense and lost because Denard had the worst game of his career, and we frankly moved the ball at will when we weren't turning it over. They beat Stanford on an absolutely bogus goal line call. They beat Pitt because they were not flagged for having two guys with the same number on the field. They did, to their credit, beat Oklahoma. That game was not a fluke, they showed up ready to play and they beat them. That, however, is the only quality opponent they've beaten this year without help from the other team beating themselves or help from the officials. They are a good team, good enough for 9 or 10 wins, but they have gotten quite a few breaks to be able to call themselves undefeated and I doubt that is going to cut it if/when they play in the NCG. To be clear, too, there are a lot of title teams that survive a game on a lucky break. I'm not saying that should preclude you from being deserving of a title, merely that ND has had more than one, and a couple of them have been poor officiating (although not as bad as Colorodo's 5th down; that one deserves an asterisk next to their title). |
1 year 7 weeks ago | K-State and Oregon |
I know ND gets a lot of brand-points to put them in over either of them, but ND has played almost every game very close and KSU and Oregon have been blowing out pretty much everyone, It would be a travesty for ND to get in ahead of either of them the way they are playing right now. I'd say Oregon would get the nod by virtue of the extra game they will play against a theortically quality opponent in the PAC-12 title game. If they should fall though, I still have to believe K-State's resume is good enough to overcome the bias if they win out. |
1 year 10 weeks ago | Whether mythical is the |
Whether mythical is the proper term or not, I don't think much of anybody can dispute our claims as national champions those years considering how badly we usually beat everybody we played. What's even more mind-blowing is that I seem to remember reading in Bacon's class that Yost liked to punt on 3rd down in case anything went wrong on the attempt. We put up 100+ on people working with two downs... |
1 year 11 weeks ago | Good to Know |
I've been wondering this for a while now. Definitely not happy about the date change though. I just submitted my holiday time-off requests and changing them might not be possible if it gets moved up, and it might interefere with a bowl trip if it moves back. |
1 year 12 weeks ago | The computer scientist in me |
The computer scientist in me gives you +1 for using two "=" signs to denote equality. |
1 year 15 weeks ago | Is it just me? |
I really don't think we were doomed to lose that game from the start. There were a LOT of plays in the first half that, had they gone our way, we would have been very competitive and perhaps even won the game. In particular, Denard several times overthrew wide open receivers that would have at least gotten a first down. Alabama also got two trouchdowns off of two turnovers on us. Don't forget that missed facemask that, as a result of Lewan's penalty on the same play, effectively killed the drive rather than force a do-over on the down. Make a few of those receptions and take away the turnovers, and we're maybe down a touchdown at the half, if that. Make no mistake, Alabama has the better team, and that's why the things that happened, well, happened, but even in our current state, they were in fact beatable. We just didn't execute anywhere near well enough to make it happen and it'll be a year or two before we can go toe to toe with them and be able to recover form some of the mistakes we made. |
1 year 15 weeks ago | Bama like ND |
Sounds like Alabama fans are a lot like Notre Dame fans. Run of the mill guys are terrible, but the ones who actually go to their games and know a lot about football tend to be nicer. To clarify, I am basing my experience with ND fans with how I was treated two years ago at their place against the kind of fan I and probably many others run into on the streets or at work. It was kind of creepy how nice they were, actually. I'm going back this year, so we'll see how that goes the second time, especially if we beat them in the last moments for the 4th time in a row. |
1 year 24 weeks ago | I sure hope not |
If we lost two of those three we'd be kind of screwed this year. |
1 year 26 weeks ago | 300 points! |
Yikes. Guess hitting up my friends still in school for road game tickets was a good idea after all, because I won't be qualifying for them outside of that for a long time. |
1 year 27 weeks ago | Guilty... |
Definitely thought the same thing, and then got REALLY confused when I read "Denard Robinson" and "game used" as I was scanning the OP for the link. Then the eBay page loaded and it all made sense. |
1 year 29 weeks ago | To make the screw-up clear |
To make the screw-up clear for those who don't get it and don't get the veiled answers to it above, the fail here is with SEC hockey. Not only does it not exist in conference form, but no SEC schools have a varsity hockey team, and there is only one D1 team in SEC country (that being Alabama-Huntsville, which is probably not going to last a whole lot longer). |
1 year 29 weeks ago | Computer Forensics? |
My goodness, somebody in recruiting dropped the ball bigtime on that one. At Michigan, we don't need to dedicate a department to that. We have Halderman to teach everything these is to know about things that can be remotely considered a computer. |
1 year 31 weeks ago | Thinking about how smart the |
Thinking about how smart the people of Ann Arbor are suppose to be just makes me wonder why everybody in this county is so bad at driving. You'd think turn signals were rigged to bombs in all the cars. Then again, maybe I just haven't been living here long enough to be driven completely insane by the complete lack of respect pedestrians and bike riders have for large moving metal objects. |
1 year 32 weeks ago | I suppose... |
Have to admit though, I was voting for Reeths-Puffer if it was on that list. Then I saw it wasn't a state of Michigan thing, so I was okay voting for Muskegon. |
1 year 34 weeks ago | I figured as much |
I posted this mainly because I felt it was absurb enough to share regardless of the reason; that article just happens to make an implication connecting the two. I would be curious to know what the increased athletic budget is for though. The CS department may not be getting the axe to fund athletics, but if that $2 million is for somthing dumb, it could certainly be used to save the department as extra profit. That's another reason I'm proud to go to Michigan. We not only turn a profit, we usually pump at least a couple million back into the general fund every year. |


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Vallès, Jules
Jules Vallès 1832–1885
(Born Louis-Jules Vallez; also wrote under the pseudonyms Asvell, Jean Max, Jean La Rue, and Jacques Vingtras) French novelist and journalist.
The premiere historian of the Paris Commune uprising of 1871, Vallès was assured a controversial place in history when the Commune's experiment with anarchy became a model and inspiration for such theorists and revolutionaries as Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, and Vladimir Lenin. Vallès drew upon his development as a militant journalist and insurrectionist, his difficult childhood, and his reluctantly pursued classical education to write his most widely read work, the largely autobiographic trilogy Jacques Vingtras (1879-1886). Important as an historical document, Jacques Vingtras also remains relevant as a critique of educational practices and of the isolating effects of capitalism and modern bourgeois institutions. Although linguistic playfulness and spontaneity distinguishes Vallès's writing from that of his contemporaries and successors, including Emile Zola, Victor Hugo, and Charles Baudelaire, the militant populism of his works exposed him to persecution, which eventually forced him into literary obscurity. It was not until the mid-twentieth century that scholars began to look past Vallès's political radicalism and to appreciate his qualities as a literary historian and prose stylist.
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Vallès was born Louis-Jules Vallez in the village of Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne, France, on June 11, 1832. Vallès's last name was spelled incorrectly on his birth certificate, but he maintained the error in his adult life to distance himself from his schoolteacher father, Jean-Louis Vallez. Vallès's father descended from and married into a farming family, and pursued a career as a teacher in order to obtain social status. Although Vallès's father remained on the lowest rung of the social ladder in the teaching profession, this occupation afforded Vallès the chance to obtain a classical education, and he excelled in Greek, Latin, and rhetoric. Vallès also became increasingly interested in socialist and revolutionary politics, especially in the wake of the 1848 uprising of students, artisans, and unemployed workers in Paris. He increasingly rejected the values and wishes of his father, particularly his father's insistence that he pass the baccalauréate examinations and enter into an academic career of his own. As Vallès became more politically active, reportedly organizing resistance to Napoleon III's coup d'état in 1851, his father responded by putting him in an asylum in December 1851. Vallès, mobilizing his political contacts, was released from the asylum in March 1852; he then passed the baccalauréate and left for Paris, where he found his degree useless and his financial prospects dim. Vallès participated in the bohemian life of the Left Bank in Paris, attempting law school, tutoring at a boardinghouse, and performing secretarial work for Gustave Planche. During this period, Vallès wrote jingles, dictionary entries, pamphlets, tour guides, and newspaper articles. After his father's death in 1857, Vallès earned his living by contributing to or managing various liberal daily newspapers. That same year, Vallès anonymously published the novel L'Argent. This work represents the author as a man of letters turned stockbroker but deals with this transformation with such irony and sarcasm that Vallès's true opinions about the world of finance are readily apparent.
The death of Henri Murger in 1861 was a critical point in Vallès's life. Murger had written Scènes de la vie de bohèmie—a work sympathetic to the plight of the bohemians—but Vallès considered Murger's work unsuccessful in representing the hardships and pain of bohemian life. After Murger's death, Vallès made it his goal to provide a true picture of the life of the bohemians and his own generation. The first publication of this program was an article entitled "Les Réfractaires," published in Figaro in 1861. This article and various others written between 1857 and 1865 were collected in a fictional work entitled Les Réfractaires (1865). Almost contemporaneous with this work was the Romantic novella Jean Delbenne (1865). Reactionary articles written in 1865 and 1866 appeared in the fictional work entitled La Rue (1866), which described the urban battleground of Paris where the poor and marginal mixed with the more fortunate. Vallès increased his reactionary literary output in the following years by establishing seven short-lived newspapers: La Rue in 1867, Journal de Sainte-Pélagie in 1869 (January), Peuple (February), Réfractaire in 1869 (May), Corsaire (November), Cri du Peuple in 1871 (February), and Drapeau (March).
When Prussia invaded France in 1870, Vallès was a leader of a revolutionary republican party that was defeated in the elections for a new government to negogiate peace. The new, monarchistic government took steps to remove the reactionaries from Paris, and the revolutionary movement fought back, forced the leaders of the official government to flee, and established the Paris Commune. Vallès served on the Commune's education commission and presided over its last meeting on May 21, 1871, when the official French government finally defeated the Communards. Vallès fled to London in exile in October 1871. There he wrote a play entitled La Commune de Paris (1872) and began the trilogy that would relate the social circumstances of his generation leading up to the Paris Commune. The first volume of this trilogy was entitled Jacques Vintras I (later called Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant). Published through intermediaries, it appeared first in serial form in a Parisian paper in 1878 and then in book form in 1879, with each version being published under a different pen name. After amnesty for the Communards was proclaimed in 1880, Vallès returned to Paris and released additional works that had been written in exile but had not been published: Jacques Vingtras: Le Bachelier (1881) and a collection of portraits of London life entitled La Rue à Londres (1884). During this period, Vallès began his close relationship with Caroline Rémy, known as Sèverine, who served not only as his nurse and secretary in his years of ill health but also as editor, assuring that his works were finished, polished, and published. Vallès died in Paris on February 14, 1885. Sèverine collected, edited, and published the serialized version of Vallès's third and last Jacques Vingtras novel, Jacques Vingtras: L'Insurgé: 1871 (1886).
Major Works
Vallès most significant literary achievement is his semiautobiographical trilogy Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant, Jacques Vingtras: Le Bachelier, and Jacques Vingtras: L'Insurgé: 1871. Tracing the development of an insurrectionist, the three novels chronicle the life of their eponymous protagonist from childhood (in L'Enfant) through institutional education and young adulthood (Le Bachelier) to his eventual realization as an insurrectionist in the Paris Commune (L'Insurgé). The books faithfully report the conditions of students, workers, and others who would join the movement of the Communards. The first two novels in particular offer powerful condemnations of bourgeois practices of child-rearing and education. Closely mirroring Vallès's own life, the last novel depicts the rise of Vingtras's career as a journalist, his involvement with the Paris Commune, and his hope for the future after escaping the fall of the Commune. More autobiographical writing appears in Vallès's documentation of his experiences in La Rue à Londres, written in London after the fall of the Commune. This work reveals Vallès's great love and appreciation for his native Paris (although his comparisons between Paris and London are sometimes misinformed), and is also marked by the same attention to sensory detail that distinguishes the Jacques Vingtras trilogy.
Critical Reception
Vallsè's radical politics overshadowed his literary talents until well into the twentieth century. Upon Vallès's death, influential critic Ferdinand Brunetière began Vallès's obituary reluctantly, remarking, "I shall speak of a disagreeable man." Recent critics, however, have worked toward a "recuperation of Vallesian poetics." Robin Orr Bodkin (1992), for example, argues that lifting Vallès from his undeserved obscurity will demonstrate "how his contribution points directly to the textual innovations of Nathalie Sarraute, Céline, Raymond Queneau, and Samuel Becket among others, if not to postmodern textual presentation in general." Nonetheless, most critics have considered his most important contribution to be his documentation of events surrounding the Paris Commune. Gerhard Fischer (1981) calls Vallès's mostly unknown drama La Commune de Paris "an outstanding documentary work [which] directly describes the struggles and sufferings of the people of Paris." Moreover, to some critics, Vallès's depiction of the hopes and disappointments of the working classes offers a model for modern power relations. Charles Stivale (1992) suggests that Vallès's careful narration of the forces at play during a critical political moment reveals a foundation for hope, and "forcefully introduces the possibility of resistance and the necessity of history."
Principal Works
Le Cri du Peuple [editor] (journalism) 1848-1871
L'Argent [published anonymously] (novel) 1857
Jean Delbenne [published anonymously] (novella) 1865
Les Réfractaires (novel) 1865
La Rue (novel) 1866
La Commune de Paris (play) 1872
Jacques Vingtras [under the name Jean La Rue] (novel) 1879; published as Jacques Vingtras: L'Enfant, 1881
Jacques Vingtras: Le Bachelier (novel) 1881
La Rue à Londres (essays) 1884
Jacques Vingtras: L'Insurgé: 1871 (novel) 1886
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SOURCE: "Vallès and the Pathos of Rebellion," in his The Intellectual Hero: Studies in the French Novel, 1880-1955, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1961, pp. 43-51.
[In the following excerpt, Brombert contends that despite Vallès's often misunderstood humor, his works viscerally communicate the tragic circumstances of Leftist intellectuals who were not accepted by existing institutions or by the revolutionary workers they wished to support.]
Jules Vallès' disheveled exuberance was not confined to literature. Son of a provincial schoolteacher who sent him to Paris to prepare for the Ecole Normale, he despised diplomas, preferred the more hot-blooded bohemian life, launched into revolutionary activities, gained experience in street fights and in the editorial rooms of militant papers, participated in the 1870 Commune, got a taste of jails and exile, and played until the end the dangerous game of revolt for revolt's sake. His colorful life, however, and even his role as founder of the revolutionary Cri du Peuple, might well be forgotten today were it not for the vigorous, succulent pages of his largely autobiographic Jacques Vingtras (1879-1886).
This trilogy, written with prankish zest, has not always been taken seriously. The linguistic verve suggests, from the first paragraph on, that the tone will remain truculent throughout. Metaphorical tours de force, onomatopoeic effects,...
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SOURCE: "In Search of Jules Vallès," in The French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, Vol. 40, 1967, pp. 636-42.
[In the following essay, Edmonds considers the autobiographical aspects of Vallès's Jacques Vingtras trilogy and emphasizes Vallès's contribution to the development of French political literature written to support the working class.]
Jules Vallès's colorful life (1832-1885) was marked by a bohemian existence, militant politics including participation in the Commune, imprisonment, and exile. In spite of destitution and failing health, he founded two leading newspapers of the day: La Rue, in 1867, with the cooperation of Zola; and Le Cri du Peuple, in 1871. During the twenty-year span of his literary productivity, he contributed articles to over thirty periodicals and wrote several novels and treatises. Although he received recognition as a journalist contributing to such newspapers as Le Figaro, his greatest literary achievement was Jacques Vingtras. This autobiographical trilogy appeared under three separate titles: L'Enfant (1879), first published as a serial under the pseudonym of La Chaussade; Le Bachelier (1881); and the posthumous L'Insurgé (1886). What captivates the reader is not so much the seething bitterness that characterizes his style, but the exceptional sensibility, the lyricism, and the...
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SOURCE: "Vallés and the Existential Pun," in Mosaic, Vol. IX, No. 3, Spring, 1976, pp. 27-39.
[In the following essay, Redfern examines Vallès's use of wordplay, proposing that for Vallès the pun demonstrates both the power and the inadequacy of words. Moreover, Redfern suggests, Vallès's linguistic playfulness lends a sense of freedom and vitality to his work.]
Adām (man) was created out of adamāh (earth); and we know about Peter. In the beginning was the pun, in this case a simply divine pun. Cultural historians tell us that play with words (insult-competitions, lying tournaments, joutes de jactance) is one of the most beloved practices of human beings the world over and throughout recorded time. Why, then, has it become commonplace to apologise for punning?
In both journalism and novel-writing, Vallès brought his inborn love of playing with language to bear on often serious matters. He put play to work; he made play work. Huizinga says in Homo Ludens: "You can deny, if you like, nearly all abstractions: justice, beauty, truth, goodness, mind, God. You can deny seriousness, but not play."1 This article on wordplay is a rough draft. In three senses: it is a first shot; it may taste like academic moonshine; but, in intention, it lets some fresh air in.
The fact that Vallés has only recently begun to receive the kind of...
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SOURCE: "Jules Vallès: Education and the Novel," in Gedenkschrift for Victor Poznanski, edited by C. A. M. Noble, Peter Lang, 1981, pp. 129-46.
[In the following essay, Birchall considers Vallès's trilogy Jacques Vingtras in relation to the German literary tradition of the bildungsroman, or educational novel. Birchall suggests that Vallès reworks the traditional bildungsroman by yoking together individual growth and social tranformation.]
Novels, wrote Dr. Johnson, 'are written chiefly for the young, the ignorant, and the idle, to whom they serve as lectures of conduct and introductions into life.'1 The connection between education and the novel can be traced back over more than two centuries. The emergence of the novel as a major literary genre, and the development of modern educational theory are contemporaneous processes in European thought, and can be located in common sources: the problematic relation of individual and society, and the greater weight given to environment in the formation of the individual human being. Rousseau's Emile, a founding text of educational thought, is written as a novel.
It is in German literature that the notion of an educational novel, the so-called Bildungsroman, receives its fullest development. The most notable examples are Goethe's Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre and Wilhelm Meisters...
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SOURCE: "Jules Vallès, La Commune de Paris (1872)," in his The Paris Commune on the Stage: Vallès, Grieg, Brecht, Adamov, European University Studies, Series 1: German Language and Literature, Vol. 422, Peter Lang, 1981, pp. 36-52.
[In the following excerpt, Fischer demonstrates the value of Vallès's play La Commune de Paris as a detailed and personal history of the Paris Commune of 1871, arguing that although the plot and characterizations are unrealistic, the drama vividly portrays the social and political conflicts surrounding the event.]
La Commune de Paris, subtitled by its author a "grand drame historique,"1 is an extraordinarily long play, designed indeed on an impressive scale. The text of the book edition covers 341 pages, not counting the title pages preceding numerous textual divisions. The five acts of the play are subdivided into eleven tableaux, or scenic units, each requiring a new stage setting and each in turn consisting of many scenes. Vallès has meticulously entitled every act and tableau. The list of dramatic divisions and titles is as follows:
Act I: Prologue
- tableau: Le Peuple Vaincu
Act II: La Fin de l'Empire
- tableau: Un Prince Assassin
Act III: Le Siège de Paris...
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SOURCE: "The Politics of Privacy in the Works of Jules Vallès," in The French Review: Journal of the American Association of Teachers of French, Vol. 58, No. 6, May, 1985, pp. 835-42.
[In the following essay, Lloyd focuses on the depiction of space in the Jacques Vingtras trilogy, arguing that Vallès's negative portrayal of private spaces underscores the loneliness and isolation of bourgeois life. Vallès's contrasting views of public and private spaces, Lloyd contends, reveal a sophisticated understanding of the evolution of modern institutions.]
The nineteenth century was an age of humanitarian reform of those institutions designed to house the alienated. It was also a period marked by the development of democratic institutions. The former is based on a philosophy of exclusion of unequals, the latter on inclusion of those considered to be the same before the law. The relationship between these two social trends, as paradox or logical consequence, can be fruitfully studied in the works of Jules Vallès, a participant in two of the major revolutions of the nineteenth century and, briefly, a resident of both asylum and prison.
Jules Vallès, the son of a poor schoolteacher, was educated in mid-nineteenth century France in institutions characterized by slavish respect for classical antiquity and belief in the pedagogical principles of corporal punishment, imitation of exemplary...
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SOURCE: "The Politics of Irony and Alienation: A Study of Jules Vallés' Le Bachelier," in Romance Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 1, February, 1987, pp. 27-33.
[In the following essay, Lloyd applies Karl Marx's notion of alienation to illuminate the character Jacques Vingtras 's troubled relationship to both work and workers, emphasizing Vallès's use of irony as a textual representation of alienation.]
As in all previous history, whoever emerges as victor still participates in that triumph in which today's rulers march over the prostrate bodies of their victims. As is customary, the spoils are born aloft in that triumphal parade. These are generally called the cultural heritage… . They owe their existence, not merely to the toil of the great creators who have produced them, but equally to the anonymous forced labor of the latters' contemporaries. There has never been a document of culture which was not at one and the same time a document of barbarism.1
Fredric Jameson in his recent work on the political unconscious evokes Walter Benjamin's formulation not only as a caution to those critics who strive to find progressive forces in all cultural artifacts but as a reminder to Marxian critics, like himself, that the "will to domination" is the source of art's symbolic power.2 That Jules Vallès' Le Bachelier is appealing...
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SOURCE: "Militancy in the Making: The Example of Le Bachelier," in Stanford French Review, Vol. XI, No. 3, Fall, 1987, pp. 331-44.
[In the following essay, van Slyke discusses Le Bachelier as an example of militant autobiography, using such an approach to demonstrate how the novel brings both author and reader into the text.] In proposing to study Vallès's Le bachelier as an example of what I call militant autobiography, my aim is not to dispute the justly deserved reputation of this work. I do, however, wish to examine the paradoxical means by which Le bachelier has achieved that recognition. Why I say "paradoxical" will, I hope, become clear in the course of these reflections upon militant autobiography.
First off, one must ask whether Le bachelier may be considered a legitimate example of autobiography. This work does not conform to the autobiographical pact, as defined by Philippe Lejeune; that is, in Le bachelier Vallès does not assure the readers that he is faithfully recounting his life-story in his own name. In presenting the sketch of the Trilogy to Hector Malot, Vallès claimed that the work would be "Mon histoire, mon Dieu—ou presque mon histoire."1 Furthermore, as Lejeune has remarked, the ambiguity of the pact which this work proposes to its readers is sustained by the suggestive yet equivocal relationship between the author's name, Jules Vallès, and the...
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SOURCE: "L'Enfant," in his Feet First: Jules Vallès, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1992, pp. 89-116.
[In the following excerpt, Redfern examines the first book of Vallès's Vingtras trilogy, L'Enfant, focusing on Vallès's use of sensory detail and his keen perception of the joys and injustices of childhood and education.]
In Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco writes: 'The literature of memory: he knew himself that it was the last refuge of scoundrels'. Sometimes, no doubt, but for Vallès the past was the true homeland. The only convincing fiction he could write (and he applied the same criterion to other writers) was born when he could master his facts. If home is 'the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in',1 it is also starting blocks. By the standards of ordinary success, Vallès, who never called his three novels a trilogy, was a late developer.
His fiction is heavily autobiographical, but not umbilicist. Just as simplicity cannot be swotted up, nor a sophisticate easily go native, so a grown man cannot rebecome his earlier self. He has, ineluctably, hindsight, and can hardly spurn the benefits of experience. All he can sanely aim for is to locate what is left of the child in the adult and use this to enrich his vision. Pedantic forms of keeping faith with an earlier self are self-denying and...
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They fuck you up, your mum and dad.
They may not mean to, but they do.
They fill you with the faults they had
And add some extra, just for you.(PHILIP LARKIN: 'This Be the Verse')
Vous ne réssirez pas à me dénaturer(DIDEROT: Supplément au Voyage de Bougainville)
As Sartre, and common experience, tell us, society is first mediated, transfused, to us via our families. It was inevitable that Vallès should begin at the beginning, where we are all made, unmade, or make ourselves. Just as Nizan wanted to smash the iconic view of youth as the best years of our lives, so Vallès worked to dispel the foggy myth of idyllic childhood. L'Enfant tells of child-abuse. It cuts very close to the bone, and is a crucial first stage to Vallès's wider indictment of all forms of victimisation. It is no joke, and very funny. Its hero, Jacques, gags (jokes/retches) against parental gags (vetoes).
The basic opposition within L'Enfant is between home as prison, punitive and restrictive, and various efforts to escape. In a typical instance of pointed hyperbole, Jacques finds the local jail gayer in atmosphere than home or school. In addition, of course, he is attracted to irréguliers (especially one inmate who had killed a gendarme). It is clearly a kind of inverted snobbery, of reversed values, but it...
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SOURCE: "Exile and Return: La Rue à Londres," in his Feet First: Jules Vallès, University of Glasgow French and German Publications, 1992, pp. 145-72.
[In the following excerpt, Redfern discusses Vallès's exile in London, from about 1872 to 1880, focusing on Vallès's contrasting views of Paris and London and the background for Vallès's book La Rue a Londres. Redfern also describes Vallès's efforts to work in Paris following his return from London and the defeat of the Paris Commune, particularly his work on the newspaper Le Cri du peuple.]
Long before he was forced into it, Vallès hankered for a chosen exile, an expatriation (or 'exmatriation').1 Eight years before his first trip to England in 1865, he observed some Englishmen in Paris: 'L'Anglais garde, dans son faux col trop raide et son coatchman [sic] trop large, un air ètrange et distingué. Il est muet, il a caché sa langue au fond de sa valise; s'il ose parfois s'en servir, s'il parle, on ne comprend point son langage' (I, 63). An unpromising introduction: stiffness, reserve, incomprehensibility, otherness, and yet an imposing idiosyncrasy. When he actually set off for England, the unwitting dramatic irony as regards the future is intense: Je n'ai point le douloureux honneur de partir proscrit, rien ne m'oblige au rôle d'exilé' (p. 771). And again at the end: 'Après...
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SOURCE: "Le Plissement and La fêlure: The Paris Commune in Vallès's L'Insurgé and Zola's La Débâcle," in Modernity and Revolution in Late Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Barbara T. Cooper and Mary Donaldson-Evans, University of Delaware Press, 1992, pp. 143-54.
[In the following excerpt, Stivale contrasts Vallès's and Emile Zola's representation of the Paris Commune of 1871, arguing that Vallès's emphasis on identifying and naming historical agents in his narration of class conflict makes possible the recognition and resistance of seemingly natural sources of power.]
In his provocative analysis of Zola's La Bâte humaine in The Logic of Sense, Gilles Deleuze develops the bipolar oscillation which occurs in Zola's work between the la petite hérédité des instincts ("small heredity of instincts") and the la grande hérédité ("grand heredity"), both of la fâlure ("the fissure") and of the l'Instinct de mort ("death Instinct").1 According to this model, the instincts alone seem to drive the subject's actions in the case of Jacques Lantier's love for Séverine which apparently palliates the effects of the hereditary fâlure. But, at the same time, says Deleuze, la fâlure "is actualized in each body in relation to the instincts which open a way for it, sometimes mending it a little, sometimes...
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Further Reading
Bodkin, Robin Orr. "The Creative Askesis of Jules Vallès." In Repression and Expression: Literary and Social Coding in Nineteenth-Century France, edited by Carrol F. Coates, pp. 111-34. New York: Peter Lang, 1996.
Connects Vallès to French poets Charles Baudelaire and Arthur Rimbaud in the early development of modernist poetics, specifically a poetics of resistance.
Bruce, Donald. "Discourse Analysis in Cultural Theory: 'Une Discipline Transversale."' Canadian Review of Comparative Literature 22, No. 1 (March 1995): 63-92.
Considers the example of Le Bachelier to discuss the usefulness of discourse analysis in understanding the historical specificity of literary texts and other works of art.
Bruce, Donald, and Terry Butler. "Towards the Discourse of the Commune: Characteristic Phenomena in Jules Vallès's Jacques Vingtras." Texte et Informatique 13-14 (1993): 219-49.
Uses computer-aided analysis to discover the characteristics (including neologisms, narrative rupture, and wordplay) of Vallès's texts about the Paris Commune uprising of 1871.
Kranowski, Nathan. "The Undeserved Obscurity of Jules Vallès." Romance Notes XIV, No. 3 (Spring 1973): 501-7.
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Source: Nineteenth-Century Literary Criticism, ©1999 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.


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- Apple 可能與中國電信完成簽約,全球最大電信商將開始販售 iPhone
Apple 據報已與中國移動簽約,將對 iPhone 在中國的銷售有所助益。 Apple 在 iPhone 5s、5c 發售前便傳出想與中國移動合作,以推動 iPhone 在中國的銷售。而根據《華爾街日報》的報導,Apple 已經和中國移動簽約,Apple 將可以在這個全球最大的電信商網路中,販售 iPhone。 中國移動據傳將於本月稍晚開始開始販售 iPhone,時間可能在 18 日中國移動年會前後,中國移動將宣布 4G 服務新品牌,而中國移動會在宣布 4G 服務後,開始銷售 iPhone。 中國移動的使用人數比美國最大電信商 Verizon 高出七倍之多,這項合作案將可以讓 Apple 接觸廣大的中國使用者。大中華地區,包含香港、台灣,將成為 Apple 繼美洲和歐洲之後,第三大的市場。 Source
- Apple 可能與中國電信完成簽約,全球最大電信商將開始販售 iPhone
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