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Sorry for the posting again, but it is time to defence opensource products. Please see the reply from Andy Schwierskott (attached below), obviously one side is not telling the truth :-) Who is making the product a free-download, and who is selling a similar product for money? It is not very likely that Sun lies, as it is giving the product for free, not only on its own hardware, but on all the platforms with SOURCE!! > I can't imagine that a sales person would actually > say something > untrue. ;-) > > Please don't confuse the comments of one sales > person with the tactics > and opinions of a company as a whole. > Again, who is making the product a free-download, and who is selling a similar product for money? > And that's why the LSF sales process consists of a > 30-day demo. Andy Schwierskott reply: ************************************************************************************************************** I'm Andy Schwierskott from the Sun Grid Engine engineering team. Thank you very much for giving me the possibility to give you some answers to your questions. It is not our attitude to make negative comments about competetive products. We are aware that out in the field are several mature resource management products, not only Platform's LSF, but a couple other products as well. With Sun Grid Engine we can offer you a stable product for free which is available for the Solaris and Linux platform from Sun and through our partners for many other Unix operating systems as well. There is an old story used by some people who try to say that Sun Grid Engine doesn't scale well. This statement is simply not true. If you read Sun's statements about its committment to Sun Grid Engine, you will see that there is exacactly one important change in Sun's focus which happened last year in July: Sun aqcuired Gridware to be able to provide solutions for Grid computing. Since that time Sun released the Gridware product as Sun Grid Engine in September for Solaris and for Linux in January. This year in july Sun published the complete Grid Engine code under an open source license at http://gridengine.sunsource.net This committent gives the community the certainty that Sun will not withdraw its committment to the Grid Engine technology. It also assures that support for non-Solaris platforms will always be available. In recent press releases Sun pointed out its comittment to Grid computing and how Sun uses Grid Engine for its own product suite. E.g. see http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-09/sunflash.20010919.1.html http://www.sun.com/hpc The Grid Engine team is alive and more active than ever. There have been no layoffs in the Sun Grid Engine engineering team. If you are interested in evaluating Sun Grid Engine, please feel free to download and evaluate the software. If you are interested in getting further feedback from Sun, please send an email to ge-feedback at eng.sun.com if you want to be contacted by us directly. --- Andy Schwierskott, Grid Engine Support, Sun Microsystems __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Make a great connection at Yahoo! Personals. http://personals.yahoo.com
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The longtime foodie series will be ending its delicious run, and we couldn't be more sad to hear the news. We're not alone--Image Unlimited sent us this reaction from the Mayor's office:
"TV Diner and its fabulous team have been a Boston staple for many years, bringing attention and prosperity to our amazing local restaurants. The City is lucky to have Billy and Jenny, and I want to thank them for their hard work," Mayor Thomas M. Menino said. "I have no doubt that they have much more in store for us, wherever they land."
Salad dressing to go?
Many of you, while the summer has faded away, are still taking part in all sorts of events where you are bringing a dish. Even if you are just bringing lunch to work or school try this ten second tip for salad lovers.
You know those spice containers? The ones with a plastic top with holes? When you finish the spices, don't throw them out. Wash them and store because they make the best "to go" dressing containers ever.
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Need a prosciutto di Parma? Here near Parma, Italy, you can visit a prosciutto bar!! It is a new idea where not only can you buy the prized cured ham of the region of Emilia Romagna but you can also sample the many other cured meats that this region is known for including Culatello, Coppa, Salsicce and other pork products. You will know you are buying true prosciutto di Parma by looking for the Ducal crown embedded on every ham. Always buy the ham from a reputable store, and it should be sliced paper-thin. Domestic prosciutto is not the same product!
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I'm a train guy.
I've always enjoyed flying, for both business and pleasure. But I've come to the conclusion that for travel between Boston and New York, nothing beats the train. Sure, you could drive and maybe arrive an hour earlier. But then again, you might hit traffic on the way. (Or even while you're in the city…on more than one visit to New York, it took me nearly as long to maneuver a few short blocks, as it did to drive from Boston!)
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Anchovy Stuffed Peppers
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12 anchovies in salt
1 c. red wine vinegar
12 small red round hot cherry peppers
Small bunch parsley
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Open up and remove the bones from the anchovies. Pour the vinegar into a small bowl and "rinse" the anchovies in the vinegar and set aside.
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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC Review
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Made2Game The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: Dawnguard DLC Review Score: 7/10
Formats: PS3, PC, Xbox 360
Format Reviewed: Xbox 360
Developer: Bethesda
Publisher: Bethesda
Reviewer: Mick Fraser
Given Bethesda's reputation for DLC (the infamous horse armour not withstanding), it's understandable that we went into Dawnguard expecting great things. Broken Steel and The Pitt were two fantastic expansions to Fallout 3, while Oblivion's Shivering Isles add-on is one of the best examples of DLC we've had the pleasure of playing.
Unfortunately, Dawnguard falls somewhat short of all three of these. It's not that it doesn't add anything new, because it does – and we'll discuss that shortly – but because the new stuff it adds is really just more of the old stuff.
Before we go on, we'd like to point out that more Skyrim is a good thing. Our James slapped a big fat 10 on it in November, and we're still playing it now almost 8 months later, flaunting our continued joy in the face of the numerous bugs and glitches that would dearly love to rob us of such fun. The big problem with Dawnguard – particularly if you install it before you've rinsed the original content – is that at no point does it feel new.
The Vampire Lord form looks impressive, and turning into bats is cool, but you won't overuse it
The meat of the DLC is a divergent questline involving the titular Dawnguard and their arch-nemeses, the vampires. If you're past level 10 when you install the expansion you'll be approached by a member of the Dawnguard and invited to take up the good fight by visiting their fortress. As with every other quest, you can choose to answer the call whenever you please (or ignore it altogether, but that's a bit of a waste of 1600 MS, innit?) – but the longer you leave it, the more irritated you'll become by constant vampire attacks every time you leave a building at night.
At a certain point you'll meet the vampire overlord, Harkon, who will offer you the chance to become a Vampire Lord if you agree to help destroy the Dawnguard. Whichever choice you make you're looking at between eight and ten hours of questing, either delving into dungeons, recovering lost artefacts or killing copious amounts of the other side. If we're honest, the added tasks sometimes swim dangerously close to filler territory, even going as far as to fluff out the runtime with dull collection quests.
Certain elements are very cool, though. For example, becoming a Vampire Lord will give you a powerful new form to transform into (and will cure your Lycanthropy if you're already thus afflicted). Though it locks you into a 3rd Person perspective, it also balances this by allowing you to switch between melee and magical attacks and letting you upgrade your vampirism with a new perk tree (there's also a new skill tree if you choose to tell Harkon to go suck his own neck and stay a werewolf).
The new skill trees make vampirism and lycanthropy much more enjoyable and worthwhile
Siding with the Dawnguard might not be as glamorous, but it's equally as entertaining as you go rooting around in crypts and dungeons armed with your brand new crossbow. It's a powerful precision weapon and packs a meaty punch when you thwack a bolt through a vampire's eye. Bolts are scarce though, as you can't craft them in the same way as you can now craft arrows.
Speaking of crafting, a new set of weapons is available for top-tier smiths (which is almost everyone thanks to the ridiculously easy-to-level smithing skill) crafted from all those Dragon bones you've been hoarding. They don't look particularly pretty, but they're high in damage and weight, great for melee specialists or for outfitting your housecarls.
New areas aren't in great abundance considering the size of the questlines as they mostly look the same as all the other areas, though the Soul Cairn is quite visually impressive. A plane of Oblivion to which you'll be sent for reasons we won't divulge here, the Soul Cairn is strikingly vivid but, ultimately, mostly devoid of interesting things to do.
The crossbow is our favourite new addition. Precise and meaty, it's perfect for killing vampires - or anything else for that matter
Little additions like a spectral steed (still not as awesome as red-eyed old Shadowmere), a Hell Hound companion, mounted combat (nowhere near as cool as it sounds unless you're a bowman) and tougher, legendary dragons (because, let's face it, after you've killed your first thirty Skyrim's standard winged lizards are a bit of a cake-walk) enhance what's already there without feeling like game-changing extra content.
There's also a problem with performance. Bugs and glitches are hardly a new devilry in Bethesda's frozen north, but it seemed to us that with Dawnguard installed, Skyrim became buggier than ever before. Within an hour of play we'd become irrevocably stuck in several mountainsides and had to reload to solve the problem, and our rather expensively-decked-out Lydia simply kept on dying from sheer stupidity to the point that we eventually left her idiot corpse lying on a cavern floor and went and hired up Calder instead – who actually fared no better (it's as if Bethesda are trying to persuade you to ditch the housecarls like yesterday's newspaper and pick up the new companions instead).
The Soul Cairn looks great, but it's ultimately a big old empty space with some cool lighting effects
Overall, it's impossible not to recommend Dawnguard to fans of Bethesda's epic – after all, it takes Skyrim and heaps on more Skyrim – but it's hard to argue that it's truly worth 1600 points. It is more substantial than a lot of modern DLC, granted, but unless you've got a major compulsion for all things vampiric, you won't find a great deal to hold your interest beyond the main game. Dawnguard is no horse armour, we'll admit, but it's no Shivering Isles, either.
Words by Mick Fraser (Twitter: @Jedi_Beats_Tank)
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- This project represents an investment of about 170 euros
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- Project got approved, we're going for it!!
On a side not, Bert's house got featured on the cover of the city magazine, making him (un)officially the FIRST CITIZEN OF GHENT. Please be sure to address him in the correct manner, from now on.
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- We're 800+ on the account, excluding the money in cash.
- We need to figure out about rent payments and obligations, normally rent must be paid from July onwards. Sand will check with Kurt.
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We discussed doing something for the "Gentse feesten" street festival.
One idea raised was creating a challenge/poster to hang/distribute on the festivities as to inspire new members to check out the space.
Most probably we are not going to organize anything in the space itself as we will all be drunk, at the "feesten" itself.
[edit] TI chip + board offer
Bert (the first citizen of ghent - tfcog from here on) pointed out that the story ti-estore.com was doing very cheap TI cpu's + board (+/- 4$) and free shipping, with a max of 3 boards per order. A link to the site has been put up on the mailing list.
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4 effective homemade remedies to cure blackheads
In a hot, humid air in countries such as Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia or other tropical countries, we often have problems with pimples and blackheads. If blackheads are the bane of your life and you have a sensitive skin or low on budget to buy facial products, raid the kitchen and try out these effective 4 homemade recipes!
*Gelatine (or Gelatin) - Can be found in some gummy candies as well as other products such as marshmallows, gelatin dessert, and some low-fat yogurt.
These were classical homemade remedies and somehow it really helps a lot!
15 minutes later....
Tip: Whenever using a facial scrub, it is advisable to scrub in circular motions for 5 minutes or less. Do not let the scrub to dry off on your face, it does more harm than good.
Hope this helps! :)
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The terms youth, junior, intermediate and senior are used to identify 4 distinct, hockey equipment age-group size ranges. These size categories are based on height, weight, waist size and chest size, as well as age and other applicable dimensions. The terms are used for the sake of general age group sizing. Toddler/Tyke sizing is also one of the age groups that you will find listed in apparel and goalie equipment, but it's not quite as common as the others. Generally speaking, here's how the age group sizes are broken down:
- Toddler/Tyke (2-4 years old)
- Youth (3-8 years old)
- Junior (7-13 years old)
- Intermediate (12-14 years old)
- Senior (14+ years old)
Depending on which piece of equipment you're dealing with, the terms may have slightly different definitions. For instance, typically, protective gear (elbow pads, shin guards, etc.) is only made in youth, junior and senior sizes. So in this instance, "intermediate" sizes are accounted for by the extension of senior sizes downward and junior sizes upward (i.e. Senior small or x-small & Junior large or x-large). Sticks, on the other hand, are made in youth, junior, intermediate and senior sizes. Goalie equipment, more specifically goalie leg pads and sticks, is produced more frequently in all 5 size ranges due to the extremely precise measurements used for goalie equipment sizing.
Of course, in order to provide a proper and precise fit, each of these age group size ranges are broken down into more specific sizes, whether small through large (etc.), or in the case of sticks, 40 to 110 flex. In order to disambiguate these terms we'll define each of their applications more clearly.
Hockey Protective Gear
Protective gear is sometimes offered in intermediate sizes, although it is rare because the intermediate size range is narrow enough to be encompassed by senior and junior sizes instead, as previously mentioned. Also, player's protective gear is not typically offered in toddler/tyke sizes because most children do not start playing hockey until they are at least 3 years old, in which case they can wear youth equipment. Here are the general dimension ranges encompassed by each age-group size. (Senior size range is represented here by the minimum dimensions – i.e. Senior X-Small – on upward.)
Hockey Equipment Sizing Age Groups | |||||
Age (yrs) | Height (ft) | Weight (lbs) | Waist (in) | Chest (in) | |
Youth | 3 - 8 | 3'0" - 4'8" | 35 - 75 | 18" - 24" | 20" - 28" |
Junior | 7 - 13 | 4'2" - 5'4" | 60 - 120 | 22" - 30" | 25" - 35" |
Senior | 14+ | 5'2"+ | 115+ | 28"+ | 34"+ |
As you can see, these ranges are relatively broad, so they are broken down into about 3 to 5 specific sizes, such as Junior X-Small through X-Large, or Senior Small through Large, and so on. Sometimes, manufacturers produce more size options for a particular model than they do for another. That being said, it's very important to look at the sizing chart for each specific model. For instance, one pair of Senior Large ice hockey pants from a model offered in Small, Medium and Large may be a slightly different size than a pair of Senior Large pants from a model offered in X-Small, Small, Medium, Large and X-Large. Basically, as the size range becomes broader or narrower it may affect the measurements of each specific size within the range. Always check the sizing charts when you're ordering protective gear.
Hockey Sticks
Hockey sticks are usually offered in youth, junior, intermediate and senior sizes. Not only are the sticks different lengths, they also differ in diameter and flexibility. The difference in shaft diameter is slight, but noticeable, and corresponds to the average hand size of the players in each age group. Shaft length increases by about 3-4" as you move up from one age group to the next (i.e. Youth=48" – Junior=52"). Hockey shaft flexibility is measured by the amount of force (in lbs) required in order to flex the shaft 1" in the center.
Here's a general breakdown of hockey stick shaft flexibility, length and age group sizing:
Hockey Stick Flex Ratings and Lengths | ||||
Age Group | Height | Weight | Recommended Shaft Flex | Stick Length |
Youth (3-8) | 3'0"-4'8" | 40-80 lbs | 40/42 Flex | 46-49" |
Junior (7-13) | 4'4"-5'1" | 70-110 lbs | 50/52 Flex | 50-54" |
Intermediate (11-14) | 4'11"-5'4" | 95-125 lbs | 60 Flex | 55-58" |
Intermediate (12-14) | 5'2"-5'8" | 100-140 lbs | 65/67 (Light Flex) | 55-58" |
Senior (14+) | 5'5"-5'10" | 125-175 lbs | 75/77 (Mid Flex) | 57-61" |
Senior (14+) | 5'7"-6'1" | 150-200 lbs | 85/87 (Regular Flex) | 58-62" |
Senior (14+) | 5'10"-6'4" | 180-235 lbs | 100/102 (Stiff Flex) | 60-63" |
Senior (14+) | 6'1+ | 210+ | 110/112 (X-Stiff Flex) | 60-63" |
Hockey Apparel
Sizing can be a bit confusing when it comes to apparel. The biggest problem is that each manufacturer seems to be operating on a different set of sizing standards. Meaning, CCM Senior Large t-shirts are not exactly the same size as Bauer Senior Large t-shirts. In addition, the terms "boy's", "children's", "youth", and "junior" are often used interchangeably. But sometimes they are used conjunctively, identifying separate and distinct size ranges.
Most commonly, "junior" and "youth" are used interchangeably in apparel sizing, but there are instances where youth sizes are smaller than junior sizes. The same can be said of "boy's" and "children's" sizes. As always, it's best to refer to the specific sizing charts that pertain to the products you're ordering, rather than simply hoping for any kind of consistency from one item to the next.


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While the overall unemployment rate is falling, it has remained stubbornly high for the long-term jobless, those out of work for twenty-six weeks or longer. If Congress doesn't act to extend the Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, 1.3 million of these Americans will lose their unemployment benefits before the end of the year. Another 850,000 will be cut off by March, 2014.
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In this CNN Money Report, long-term unemployed Americans talk about the difficulties they face while they struggle to find work.
Nelson Mandela's passing has elicited a flood of personal memories and tributes from people he touched across the world. I am one of those people. In elementary school in Dallas in the early 1980s, I was fascinated by the televised images of mock shanty-towns on US college campuses. Questions about the South African divestment campaign started me down a path that opened up a world of social justice and politically inspired change.
In 2003, I visited South Africa during the World Summit on Sustainable Development and spent weeks working alongside local organizers in townships around Johannesburg and learning about the strategies they used to thrive even under the oppressive apartheid regime. Everywhere I went, I was blown away by how powerful the women were. Vocal and forthright, they were often their communities' spokespeople and leaders.
That experience of strong female leadership owed more than a little to the Constitution of 1996, put in place largely by Mandela. In its new Bill of Rights it listed not only race as impermissible grounds for discrimination, but "gender," and then "sex" and then, uniquely, it also added "pregnancy." And in case the meaning of that was not clear, the Bill of Rights went on (emphasis added):
Everyone has the right to bodily and psychological integrity, which includes the right
a. to make decisions concerning reproduction
b. to security in and control over their body; and
c. not to be subjected to medical or scientific experiments without their informed consent.
This official recognition that gender equality requires embracing reproductive freedom remains a high-water mark of international law. This important commitment was foreshadowed by a bill passed months before the constitution went into effect. The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy law—which replaced one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the world with one of the most liberal and humane—allows South African women full autonomy to decide when to terminate a pregnancy in the first trimester, complete with financial assistance if required. (Abortion is also allowed within widely defined exceptions in the second trimester.) With this act, President Nelson Mandela transformed the lives of millions of South African women.
In the Jewish tradition we have a saying we repeat at every Passover Seder: "dayenu," or "it would have been enough." It would have been enough for Nelson Mandela to put his life on the line in 1964 in the struggle for racial equality. It would have been enough for Mandela to inspire us through his twenty-seven years in prison. It would have been enough for him to lead successful negotiations with then-President de Klerk to abolish apartheid. But once he had become his country's first black president, instead of resting on his laurels—or resting, period—he tackled the issue of abortion, which was considered even more controversial in South Africa at the time than it was here. Why would he do this?
In his famous April 20, 1964, "Speech from the Dock," given just before he was sentenced to life imprisonment, he offered a clue:
I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.
The simple answer, then, is that he had more left to do. Mandela acted, as he always had, not out of political calculation but with laser-like moral focus. He knew that for women to have full freedom and equality, we must have autonomy over all issues pertaining to our lives, especially our reproductive destiny.
Mandela's intimate experience with poverty and oppression showed him that reproductive freedom was intrinsically tied to economic security. Thus, this Nobel Peace Prize winner known worldwide for his pursuit of human equality chose as one of his first acts of elected leadership to cement that fundamental cornerstone of women's equality into law.
Although a solid, consistent majority of Americans support the protections outlined in Roe v. Wade, well-funded attacks on reproductive freedom are consuming an enormous amount of time and attention in our country. So I was fascinated to see in all the press coverage of Mandela's death how little was said about his legacy of advancing abortion rights.
It's been mentioned primarily on women-defined blogs and press, which is important, but not enough. Major network tributes and even mainstream progressive outlets have not seen fit to mention it.
Unsurprisingly, his legacy championing women's basic freedoms is not lost on extremists in this country hell-bent on taking them away. With their typical tone-deafness, they opine:
"Nelson Mandela has the blood of preborn children on his hands … lots of them," wrote anti-choice blogger Jill Stanek on Saturday.
"[I]t makes no sense for pro-life Christians to praise Mandela's example considering what he did with that power once he became president," wrote Paul Tuns, editor of the Canadian pro-life publication The Interim.
"The organization Keep Life Legal asked the question: "What about apartheid in the womb?"
One of the first things I noticed when I joined NARAL Pro-Choice America as president was how much these extremists depend on their aggressive public vitriol to stigmatize the medical procedure of abortion and silence the majority in this country who understand that reproductive rights are vital to the freedom and self-determination that makes us Americans. The anti-choice lobby trades in hatred and fear to frighten people into avoiding the issue so they can they win by forfeit.
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In attacking the moral leadership of one of the world's most beloved freedom fighters, these zealots have once again gone too far. But their slander is not the only reason we must talk about Mandela's contributions to women's freedom. We must go there, because he went there. If we want to honor Nelson Mandela's commitment to a society "in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities," we only do it justice when we loudly recognize that his vision of human dignity included women's freedom to make their own decisions about when we have children.
Tribute after tribute has unfolded with this chapter deleted, leaving all the successes and gains for South African women invisible. I am not going to bow to that pressure to hold my tongue. I will praise Mandela loudly and proudly for refusing to leave women behind. And if enough of us do so, maybe someday soon all women can be assured the respect and freedom that Mandela fought to bring to the women of South Africa.
Jessica Valenti reports on the latest legal battles over birth control.
Here's a worrying counterpoint to the progress in US-Iran talks: the United States is seeking a major buildup of its armed presence in the Persian Gulf, including stepped-up arms sales to the countries of the Saudi Arabia–led Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). The GCC is essentially an anti-Iran alliance of the Arab kleptocracies of the gulf, including the flashpoint nation of Bahrain, where a Shiite majority population has been challenging the ruling Sunni monarchy—and where the US fleet in the Persian Gulf is based.
The American strategy might not work too well, however, if Iran continues to reach out to the Sunni Arab states of the gulf seeking détente. Recently, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif toured several of those countries—but not Saudi Arabia, still sullenly hostile to Iran—seeking to improve relation with Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. (Iran already has good ties to Oman, another GCC member, and in fact Oman happily hosted secret talks between Iran and the United States in the period before the interim accord was reached in November between Iran and the P5+1.) In an important sign that Iran is genuinely seeking to better relations with the Arab states of the gulf, according to Defense News Iran has moved a squadron of air force and Revolutionary Guard warplanes off the disputed island of Abu Musa in the middle of the Persian Gulf. The island, occupied by Iran since the Shah seized it in 1971, has long been a point of contention between Iran and the UAE, and during his swing through the gulf recently Zarif told the UAE that Iran was willing to talk about resolving the standoff.
Also touring the Gulf, this weekend, however, is US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, who seemed intent on bolstering the American military role in Iran's backyard. Reported The Washington Post:
Speaking to American sailors standing at attention on the deck of the USS Ponce, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel vowed on Friday that the United States would keep a robust military presence in the Persian Gulf and build stronger ties with the region's Arab states, even as it pursues negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program.
Hagel visited Bahrain, where Saudi Arabia's armed forces violently suppressed a pro-democracy movement in 2011, and as the Post noted without irony: "Hagel appeared more interested in mollifying the monarchs than the protesters."
In a speech that provided a detailed summary of the American military footprint in the all-important region, Hagel told the assembly of GCC defense poohbahs in what's called the Manama Dialogue—Manama is the capital of the island nation of Bahrain—that the United States upping the ante:
"We have a ground, air and naval presence of more than 35,000 military personnel in and immediately around the gulf. Going forward, the Defense Department will place even more emphasis on building the capacity of our partners in order to complement our strong military presence in the region."
There's plenty of money to be made for America's military-industrial complex in the Persian Gulf, where Saudi Arabia and the other kleptocracies have ordered tens of billions of dollars worth of US military hardware.
According to The New York Times, despite the fact that the United States and Iran's naval forces have had several eyeball-to-eyeball engagements in the Gulf lately, the U.S. military role in the region is ramping up:
As part of that longer-term effort, the number of coastal patrol ships based in Bahrain to conduct maritime security missions is set to double, to 10 ships, by next spring, from five vessels two years ago. Six Coast Guard vessels perform similar duties. Ship crews are now assigned one- and two-year tours, instead of rotating every six months.
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Meanwhile, says another Defense News report, Hagel encouraged the GCC states to form a NATO-style alliance that can happily purchase integrated US-manufactured weapons systems:
Speaking at the Manama Dialogue international security conference here, Hagel encouraged GCC members to create a military alliance and said he'd like to better integrate the US missile defense systems with those of the GCC to enhance collective capabilities.
And Hagel added, in what can only be interpreted as a threat to Iran:
"The DoD will continue to maintain a strong military posture in the region. As we have withdrawn U.S. forces from Iraq, are drawing down our forces in Afghanistan, and rebalancing toward the Asia Pacific, we have honored our commitment to Gulf security by enhancing our military capabilities in the region. We've deployed our most advanced fighter aircraft throughout the region, including F-22s [fighters], to ensure that we can quickly respond to contingencies. Coupled with our unique munitions, no target is beyond our reach."
To be sure, the Obama administration is moving forward in search of a permanent accord with Iran, and President Obama himself said over the weekend that such a deal is within reach. But rattling sabers in the Persian Gulf won't make the accord any easier.
Read Bob Dreyfuss on the US-Iran deal.
Over the summer, the Chicago Board of Education held a vote whether to shut fifty-four schools. Ultimately, the board voted to close fifty schools, a controversial decision that drew criticism from the city's teachers union, parents, and students. Of the students affected by the closures, 88 percent are black, 10 percent Hispanic, and 94 percent come form low income households.
The city, including Mayor Rahm Emanuel dismissed concerns that the closures are a form of racial discrimination by promising students would have access to better facilities in what are called "welcoming schools." Though some students and parents expressed concern that children would have to walk longer distances, oftentimes through dangerous parts of the city in order to reach their new schools, officials promised all the hassle would be worth it because the old, "bad" schools would be gone.
President of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Karen Lewis was skeptical from the beginning:
"Closing 50 of our neighborhood schools is outrageous and no society that claims to care about its children can sit back and allow this to happen to them. There is no way people of conscience will stand by and allow these people to shut down nearly a third of our school district without putting up a fight. Most of these campuses are in the Black community. Since 2001 88% of students impacted by CPS School Actions are African-American. And this is by design."
Lewis added, "These actions unnecessarily expose our students to gang violence, turf wars and peer-to-peer conflict. Some of our students have been seriously injured as a result of school closings. One died. Putting thousands of small children in harm's way is not laudatory."
But while the solution was tough, Emanuel insisted it was necessary:
"If we don't make these changes, we haven't lived up to our responsibility as adults to the children of the city of Chicago. And I did not run for office to shirk my responsibility," he said.
Emanuel was out of town when schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett made the closures announcement.
Now, Chicago students and parents are beginning to fully comprehend the consequences of the closures and "welcoming schools," and unsurprisingly, their real-life experiences are vastly different to city officials' claims. Some Chicago families complain of overcrowding and an overall lack of support during the transition.
Devion Allen, an eighth grader, used to attend Lafayette Elementary, a school Allen describes as being "like a family." In an interview with the AP, Allen said, "It's not fair" in response to the city's plans to turn the empty building into an arts high school operated as a contract school, publicly funded but privately run.
Allen now attends a "welcoming school," The Choplin School, which is so overcrowded that the staff has been forced to give up on promised transitional provisions like a computer lab, the library, and art and music rooms. The AP also reports that the school's psychologist, occupational therapist, and speech pathologist are working in windowless, unvented spaces that were formerly storage closets.
Sometimes, students are tested in these spaces.
The environment in the "welcoming schools" mirror the very complaints officials made of the original "bad schools" that they argued needed to be closed. Classrooms are still overcrowded and resources are scarce.
Special education students also have suffered, say teachers and student advocates. At least one school that has dozens of new special ed students, the Courtenay Language Arts Center, has yet to set up a behavioral health team to assess those children's needs in a faster, more organized way, staff members say.
And teacher Michael Flynn says his school is using a room not much larger than one of those closets as a special education room for 13 children because there's simply no other option.
"There's not enough space. There's not enough resources," said Flynn, a longtime seventh-grade literature and social studies teacher at the James Otis World Language Academy, a welcoming school northwest of downtown Chicago. Despite the school's name, the world languages teacher was among those who lost a classroom because of the space constraints and, instead, travels from room to room.
These kinds of findings aren't new. University of Chicago research published in 2009 (pdf) found that previous closures in Chicago also didn't do anything to better students' education. In fact, the closures didn't boost reading and math scores unless students transferred to higher-achieving schools, but a very small percentage of them actually ended up at those schools.
"Only 6 percent of displaced students enrolled in academically strong schools, while 42 percent of displaced students continued to attend schools with very low levels of academic achievement," the report read.
The opposition to the education reformers in Chicago, and all across the country, continues. Students and teachers from more than sixty cities are slated to participate in a day of protest Monday that is being billed as the largest unified opposition to educational reforms that organizers say have devastated families and communities.
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From Baltimore to Philadelphia to New Orleans to Chicago, parents, students and teachers will protest against mass school closings, the growing practice of turning over management of public schools to private companies and other measures that disproportionately hurt low-income students of color, organizers say. The day, which will feature dozens of coordinated events, is being organized by a coalition of labor, civic and civil rights organizations.
"The Day of Action is important because young people are under attack when it comes to public education," Murphy, a high school senior who hopes to attend Howard University or Bowie State University next year, told The Root. "We have found that the educational decision-makers do not value the thoughts and opinions of young people. That creates a critical gap when it comes to making decisions about our future."
This article was originally pubished in the student-run NYU Local.
Members of the NYU Student Labor Action Movement gathered on the 12th floor of Bobst Library on Friday December 6 to sing carols about workers' rights. Likewise, they delivered a letter to John Sexton urging implementation of an updated code of conduct to protect the rights of workers in unsafe factories in Bangladesh that produce NYU apparel. The University Senate unanimously passed a resolution yesterday submitted by SLAM, specifically requiring NYU's licensees to sign the Accord on Fire and Building Safety in Bangladesh across the 28 factories that produce NYU apparel in the country. Only one licensee, Adidas, has signed the accord to date.
In the letter that SLAM members left with Sexton's office today, the student activists cite the Rana Plaza disaster in April, where 1,132 workers died in a factory collapse, as well as the more recent Aswad textile factory fire in October. "While garment factory workers are fighting for their lives, our university, as a consumer of these products, has a moral obligation to ensure that those who produce our collegiate apparel can do so in a safe environment, without fear of dying at the workplace," the letter said.
For today's event, part of SLAM's ongoing End Deathtraps campaign, the carolers rewrote popular Christmas tunes. To the tune of "Jingle Bells," students sang: "N-Y-U, N-Y-U, safety is a right / Oh what fun it is to stand with workers in their fight!" They also presented "Joy to the Workers" and "Workers' Rights Are Coming To Town" before finishing with "Twelve Days of Workers' Rights." ("On the first day of Christmas, John Sexton gave to me workers' rights solidarity!")
Robert Ascherman, a sophomore in the Gallatin program and one of SLAM's carol writers, celebrated the University Senate's decision. "We're really excited that NYU is finally standing up for workers' rights," Ascherman said, but the campaign to establish workers' rights is not yet complete. "All decisions at NYU go through John Sexton himself. The [Senate's] decision was really just an advising decision on updating the code of conduct, so we went caroling to encourage him to do what's right."
SLAM had also previously discussed the recommendation with university senators, faced off against Sexton at this semester's town halls, held a "die-in" at the University Senate, and written to Sexton about the issues at stake.
"It's one thing to update our code of conduct," Ascherman said. "What's really going to be a test of NYU's morality is whether or not it boycotts these companies. We'll continue to fight this campaign through to the end."
David Simon, former newspaper reporter and creator/writer/showrunner of Homicide, The Corner, The Wire and Treme, is known for his often angry denunciations of modern-day captialist America and the staggering gap between the well-off and the struggling. Last month he appeared at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas in Sydney, Australia, where he spoke at length on these themes.
It took a month, but on Sunday The Guardian published a highly edited version on its site—under the title, "There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show"—which drew wide attention. As far as I can see, no one posted the video of his entire talk, however, along with questions from a host and the audience. So here's one excerpt from the edited piece and then the full video.
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Societies are exactly what they sound like. If everybody is invested and if everyone just believes that they have "some", it doesn't mean that everybody's going to get the same amount. It doesn't mean there aren't going to be people who are the venture capitalists who stand to make the most. It's not each according to their needs or anything that is purely Marxist, but it is that everybody feels as if, if the society succeeds, I succeed, I don't get left behind. And there isn't a society in the west now, right now, that is able to sustain that for all of its population.
And so in my country you're seeing a horror show. You're seeing a retrenchment in terms of family income, you're seeing the abandonment of basic services, such as public education, functional public education. You're seeing the underclass hunted through an alleged war on dangerous drugs that is in fact merely a war on the poor and has turned us into the most incarcerative state in the history of mankind, in terms of the sheer numbers of people we've put in American prisons and the percentage of Americans we put into prisons. No other country on the face of the Earth jails people at the number and rate that we are.
We have become something other than what we claim for the American dream and all because of our inability to basically share, to even contemplate a socialist impulse.
Senator Debbie Stabenow, a Democrat, supports another potentially disastrous cut to food stamps, writes Greg Kaufmann.
It's one of the most frequent questions people ask me about conservatives: "When they say X, do they really mean it?" Does, for example, Rick Santorum really mean it when he says about Nelson Mandela, as he did in a recent interview with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News, "He was fighting against some great injustice, and I would make the argument that we have a great injustice going on right now in this country with an ever-increasing size of government that is taking over and increasing people's lives—and Obamacare is front and center in that." And I have to answer that largely, as astonishing as it may seem, they do.
Never mind that the size of government is not "ever-increasing" (see here). Empirical debunking cannot reach the deepest fear of the reactionary mind, which is that the state—that devouring leviathan—will soon swallow up all traces of human volition and dignity. The conclusion is based on conservative moral convictions that reason can't shake.
Recently the outstanding political reporter Brian Beutler, now writing for Salon, wrote in a piece headlined "Right-Wing Extremists Face New Moral Conundrum" that as long as Healthcare.gov isn't working like it is supposed to, Republicans could "ignore the moral imperative they face" to help their constituents get healthcare. "A working site that can service a million people a day destroys that excuse. Some conservative groups have been craven and reckless enough to actively discourage people from enrolling in Affordable Care Act coverage." I guarantee, though, that few or no conservative politicians are losing sleep over this. Instead, they judge themselves heroes. Waylaying their constituents' ability to avail themselves of federally subsidized healthcare is not a "moral conundrum" for them. It is a deeply moral project. The immorality, as they see it, would be to allow people to become dependent on the state for their health.
I've been repeating myself, but clarity is very important here: know thine enemy. (OK, we're liberals; we don't have enemies. Know thine adversary.) Theirs is a morality entirely incommensurate with liberalism—but it is a morality.
One of its theorists was the Christian reconstructionist theologian Dr. Rousas J. Rushdoony. He wrote in his 1972 book The Messianic Character of American Education that since "the nuclear family is the basic unit of God's covenant," undermining the vaulting ambitions of the secular state was a godly duty. But you don't have to be a Christian Reconstructionist or advocate, as Rushdoony did and his followers do, returning to biblical punishments like stoning to share the same intuition. Even mild-mannered Gerald Ford, usually not judged a frothing right-winger, used to love the nostrum "A government big enough to give everything to you is big enough to take everything away."
Relying on government is slavery: it's a consistent trope within modern conservatism. We see it today from the extremist doctors who refuse to "submit" to being reimbursed for their services by Medicaid, or even the government-tainted private insurance companies. They're organized in a 4,000-member group called the American Association of Physicians and Surgeons. Senator Rand Paul is a member; its website features him asserting that if you believe in a "right to health care," then "you believe in slavery." And what kind of moral person believes in slavery?
Then there's the old saw that the deal the Democrats supposedly offer African-Americans—you vote for us; we give you free stuff—returns them to "slavery." The first use of that metaphor I've identified was by Ronald Reagan in 1968. A black reporter asked him why there were so few blacks at Republican events. The California governor politely but forcefully replied that it wasn't Republicans who were racist but the supposedly liberal Democrats who "had betrayed them…. The Negro has has delivered himself to those who have no other intention than to create a federal plantation and ignore him." The New York Times reported, "Reagan handled the situation so smoothly that some of the newsmen aboard his chartered 727 suggested, half-seriously, that the Reagan organization had set up the incident."
What does this insight—that conservatives are immune to charges of "immorality" when it comes to denying citizens government services because they believe "hooking" people on government services is profoundly immoral—mean in terms of practical politics? For one thing, that Democrats will never get political credit from conservatives for downsizing or "reinventing" government. Just to speak of the state as something other than the source of all evil is enough to send chills down right-wing spines. Had JFK lived to give the speech he was scheduled to give at the Dallas Trade Mart on November 22, 1963, he intended to set conservatives straight: "At a time when the national debt is steadily being reduced in terms of its burden on our economy, they see that debt as the greatest single threat to our security. At a time when we are steadily reducing the number of Federal employees serving every thousand citizens, they fear those supposed hordes of civil servants far more than the actual hordes of opposing armies." But I don't think Texans were going to turn in their John Birch Society membership cards, the scales falling from their eyes, when they learned of the facts.
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And given the rank anti-empirical irrationalism that undergirds such convictions, it's not like the White House can now avoid brickbats by somehow "submerging" progressive action by the state. Which, unfortunately, is what the Obama Administration has habitually tried to do. "Design of the Affordable Care Act," as The Washington Post reported in a major investigation last month, "was hampered by the White House's political sensitivity to Republican hatred of the law—sensitivity so intense that the president's aides ordered that some work be slowed down or remain secret for fear of feeding the opposition. Inside the Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, the main agency responsible for the exchanges, there was no single administrator whose full-time job was to manage the project."
But it's not like their overabundance of caution earned a single Republican vote in Congress, or kept Republican attorney generals from suing to end its implementation, or four conservative Supreme Court justices from seeking to strike down the entire act (and a fifth, John Roberts, from ruling on its legality in away that set a precedent that might make future major government initiatives harder to constitutionally defend). It couldn't have. Conservatives' deepest moral convictions determined their reaction in advance. Anything liberals do to use the government to help people will be judged by genuine conservatives as an abomination; always have, always will. But genuine conservatives are in the American minority, as I wrote here last month. Isn't it better to simply sin boldly and let our conservatives devils have the hindmost? Use the state to make people's lives better. Do it without apology. That's our moral imperative that should be beyond compromise.
In Part Five of this series, Rick Perlstein discusses conservatives' complicated relationship to the truth.
"The mere dimensions" of À la recherche du temps perdu, the critic Ernest Boyd wrote in The Nation in 1924, "are sufficient to inspire respect, and to arouse curiosity in that section of the public which likes to talk about books rather than read them…. The result is that there has been much more enthusiasm displayed over Marcel Proust than knowledge of his work."
Almost ninety years on, that has never been truer than it is now, as some of the writing occasioned by last month's centenary of the publication of Swann's Way, the first volume in Proust's magnum opus, showed. It is nearly impossible to find an article on the anniversary not containing the word "madeleine."
From our first notice of Proust to our most recent—the first-ever publication in English, in 1971, of excerpts from Proust's prefaces to the writings of art critic John Ruskin—The Nation has always displayed both enthusiasm for his work and knowledge of it, consistently marveling over "Proust's conviction that we recapture the past, with its emotions, not by any effort of the intelligence but through the accidental stimulus of an odor, a musical phrase, an involuntary movement, a flavor upon the tongue" (Dorothy Brewster in 1926), or "his power to communicate an egotistical absorption in the poignancy of a cherished pain" (Joseph Wood Krutch in 1930).
Even our first review of his work, in the December 7, 1921, issue, recognized the permanent impact the Recherche would have upon world literature.
"Of all that has been written of Marcel Proust," Ellen FitzGerald wrote, "little has been said of what he is contributing to the novel in this growing landmark."
Some critics dismiss it as a novel of manners; others appreciate it as a product of style. No one has pointed out that this "Recherche du temps perdu" is a reviving and even recreating of old matter and old method into new effects, is what every novel should be—a discovery of something new both in life and art.
This novel has no hero, no dominant character whose destiny is the reader's concern. Yet unless the reader of these volumes sees that the anonymous, negative, impersonal character of the child, boy, and youth who successively has the place of hero is a triumph of creative skill, all the more powerful because his unobtrusiveness is the very vantage point from which he observes, analyses, projects, paints whole groups, he misses the first marvel of M. Proust's skill…The prologue, an exquisite bit of reverie, establishes the poetical mood of the hero, how he is to see his world. Memory has perhaps never been so demonstrated to be what Plato called it—the mother of the Muses. The pain, the sensitiveness, the inexplicable suffering of a child have never been distilled into more wistful poetry. Child psychology has something precious in these pages, just as it has in James Joyce's "Portrait of the Artist." M. Proust's method is of the two the more rational…
Poetry deepens as memory penetrates unafraid into the sanctuary of emotion, passion, beauty of every kind. A temperamental, intellectual youth and his world live for us again, a world where the pale cast of thought admits little gaiety but touches instead to new issues a whole epoch where mood gives perspective to all the scenes. How everything expands and deepens because the mental reliving quickens consciousness to an almost wizard power!
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Timed to coincide with the hundredth anniversary of Swann's Way last month, Yale University Press published Proust biographer William Carter's "new, more accurate, and illuminating" revision of the first volume of C.K. Scott Moncrieff's classic translation, itself published from 1922 (the year of Proust's death) through 1930 (the year of Moncrieff's death), which "corrects previous translating missteps to bring readers closer to Proust's intentions."
As early as 1924, The Nation's Ernest Boyd—a signer of the famous Greenwich Village Bookshop Door—recognized the need for such a revision, arguing in his review of the second Moncrieff volume that he didn't see it as "anything more than an ordinarily competent piece of translation…an exercise in the manner of Henry James." Moreover, Boyd wrote, "Mr. Scott Moncrieff is guilty of actual blunders, which are rather elementary in many cases, and indicate, at best, an unfamiliarity with the fine shades of French, which is a serious defect in the translator of a work which rests upon a perfect feeling for the nuances of French speech and manners." He then went on to skewer a few glaring mistakes—"Mr. Scott Moncrieff's misfortunes with 'barbante,' 'barbifant,' and 'raseurs' are worthy of a place in a collection of schoolboys' 'howlers' "—and to declare his work "not the greatest translation," but adding, "nor is Proust himself, for that matter, the greatest French prose writer of the age."
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Beginning with The Cities of the Plain, or in the more recent style, Sodom and Gomorrah, in 1928, The Nation's longtime drama critic (and resident Proustian) Joseph Wood Krutch reviewed each new Moncrieff translation as it was published. (The last, Time Regained, was completed by Frederick A. Blossom after Moncrieff's 1930 death.) Perhaps the most telling feature of the series of reviews, excerpted below, is that almost every single one calls each successive book under review at least as good, if not better, than its predecessors. One "yields to none of the previous volumes in interest or beauty"; another "is at least an example as striking as any other of the nature of that sensibility peculiar to him"; and another, the last, is "more essential than any of the other single volumes to an understanding of Proust." Reading Krutch's (uncollected) reviews of Proust now, one is reawakened not only to the power of Proust's writing and of the best writing on Proust, but also to the thrill it must have been to read his work, as Krutch wrote, "as they have appeared one by one" rather than "at a single gulp." Perhaps the closest contemporary readers will get to retrieving that irretrievable experience is in the publication of William Carter's revised Moncrieff translations, scheduled to be released annually for the next several years. Krutch's commentaries from the pages of The Nation will be an invaluable aid for newcomers and veteran Proustians alike.
Volume 4: The Cities of the Plain (1928): "One of the earliest English commentators upon the work of Marcel Proust was disturbed by what he regarded as a moral obtuseness on the part of the author…. but he who cannot accept…our author's willingness to sink the gentleman as well as the man when his curiosity is aroused had best make up his mind once and for all that Proust is not for him, because Proust would not be Proust had he not renounced all the obligations of life at the same time that he renounced life itself…
"When, burying himself in his chamber, [Proust] brought his life as a human being to an end the result was not at all to detach himself from it in the sense of freeing the logical faculties from the bondage of the senses, since his consciousness remained, what it had always been, primarily a realm of finely discriminated sensations, and since he turned not from perceptions to thoughts, but merely from perceptions to the memory of perceptions. But the fact that he was dead in the sense that he no longer planned to take any part in life, that he no longer felt any desires capable of eventuating in an act, not only made it possible for him to live passionately in memory and to approach more nearly than, perhaps, any other man ever did to that 'total recall' which is a psychological impossibility, but also made inevitable that disappearance of all ethical or conventional standards which distressed the English commentator."
Volume 5: The Captive (1929): "Proust was doubtless led to his all but obsessive interest in the contrast between the absolute value of our desires while they last and the rapidity with which they can, nevertheless, utterly disappear, by his own experience with the complexities of the sexual passion. Though assigning a wholly romantic value to this last he nevertheless completely dissociated the idea of love from the idea of permanence, and his realization of the fact that a change in his dominant desire made, in effect, a new person of him led him to notice how many similar if less striking examples of the same phenomenon are to be observed when we consider the interests, opinions, and even manners of a man. And at last it came to seem to him that it was folly to speak of himself, of Albertine, or of Charlus as though any one of them were an entity maintaining its identity while time flowed past, and that a novel could be significant only if it were everywhere dominated by the sense that even the personalities for which the constantly recurring names stand are as fluid as the medium through which they float…. Others have struggled to rescue something from the flood; they have cherished at least the delusion that there are certain rocks around which the waves break. But his is a universe in which every molecule is fluid."
Volume 6: The Sweet Cheat Gone (1932): "Disillusioned enough he was with many things, with morals for example, and he had neither any code nor any standards besides those which his tastes supplied. Yet there were capacities and faiths which he still retained. He still believed, for example, in the sufficiency of the senses and in the value of art. He never, like so many moderns, found himself in a world limited and debased by the impossibility of escape from psychology, anthropology, and Freudianism. The world was still absorbingly, still amazingly, interesting. Women, most women, were to him magical and mysterious. Conversations were witty, salons were thrilling, and artists—even contemporary artists—incalculably great. In a word, he respected his desires, his tastes, and his amusements, and hence, though experience might be predominantly painful, it was neither meaningless nor mean. And that perhaps is the secret of the individual charm of his world. It is one viewed with the critical freedom of modern thought and one in which skepticism rules. Yet it is somehow glamorous as well."
Volume 7: The Past Recaptured (1932): "Once [the Recherche] has been read, it is literally unforgettable. The experiences which it affords become never-to-be-lost parts of one's own experience. Half a dozen of the individual characters, as well as the conception as a whole, are solid, unescapable, and like some event of history they are always there whether one approves or disapproves, admires or despises. No student of literature, whatever his opinions or his tastes, can forget its existence, and it could no more be done away with in response to an aesthetic whim than a pyramid or a cathedral could be done away with by some advocate of an exclusively "modern" world. Of how many other books written during the last thirty years can that be said?
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Krutch's status as one of the pre-eminent interpreters of Proust in his time—and perhaps any time—was affirmed in 1934, when he provided the introduction to the four-volume Random House edition of Moncrieff's translation—described by Random House publisher Bennett Cerf as "one of the typographical masterpieces of 1934" and "one of the most successful publishing projects in the history of Random House"—which was reviewed in The Nation by Krutch's close friend (and former literary editor of the magazine) Mark Van Doren. Though he dutifully complimented a "compact and beautiful introduction," Van Doren wrote that Proust's work itself would probably not survive the advance of his novel's great subject, Time. Van Doren's self-described "minority report" argued that Proust—the hero of whose books "spends most of his time in bed with three women—his mother, his grandmother, and [his housekeeper] Francois—always there to caress him and indulge him, to kiss him goodnight, to draw his curtains in the morning, to roast him a delicious fowl when he is hungry, and to tiptoe out of hearing when he wants to think"—was "preposterously, insufferably, spoiled," and therefore condemned to supply his readers with an incomplete world stocked with incomplete characters." The Recherche, Van Doren concluded, would not be popular forever, and seemed upon reflection "both wonderful and trivial, both mammoth and minor."
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There's a lot of news this week on the American Legislative Exchange Council and the related network of state-based think tanks, the State Policy Network.
Almost a year ago, when I was at a small upstart blog called Republic Report, we first sent a letter to corporations involved with ALEC, asking them to leave the organization, given its role in crafting the Stand Your Ground law in Florida. The Guardian unveiled a trove of documents revealing that ALEC has suffered tremendously from the negative press around those efforts, which involved a group of left-of-center organizations, including the Center for Media and Democracy and Color of Change. Many businesses actually did leave ALEC.
While ALEC seems down, they're not out. According to the documents obtained by The Guardian, ALEC and its allied organization, SPN, have redoubled their efforts to expand and find new funding streams. The documents suggest fundraising off of gambling efforts, efforts to push worker retirement accounts into dubious 401(k)-style plans, and other corporate giveaways that ALEC and SPN can spin into legislative templates and advocacy. Specific corporations and lobbying organizations are listed as prospective donors. The money just never stops.
This is the inherent difference between right-leaning organizations and their counterparts on the left. Large corporations view their right-wing giving as a strong return on investment. For almost every major conservative issue campaign, at least on economic policy, the wealthy and powerful ultimately benefit, meaning their donations to groups like ALEC and their cohorts are well-served. If corporate donors give to the left, as they sometimes do, they risk higher taxes, more empowered workers and less influence over elections. So it should be no surprise the the vast majority of corporate wealth in politics flows to the right and far right.
This pattern has repeated itself for many decades, though it has accelerated in recent years. During the course of my research on how the conservative movement rebuilt itself in the aftermath of the 2008 elections, I found myself digging through many historical files that show this dynamic repeating itself like an endless feedback loop.
On the occasion of Nelson Mandela's passing this week, it is worth remembering that many American conservative organizations opposed his struggle by fighting against sanctions and divestment from the apartheid regime that oppressed him.
For ALEC, that meant partnering with corporations that faced calls for South African divestment and creating template legislation to block the pro-Mandela movement.
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Below is a camera phone picture of one Legislative Update from ALEC describing its campaign in the 1980s to block South African divestment. During this period, ALEC's corporate membership included a number of businesses with interests in South Africa, including IBM:
For more on how the recent history of the conservative movement, including the role of ALEC and SPN, my book The Machine: A Field Guide the Resurgent Right delves much deeper. Also, The Nation has a thorough investigation of SPN/ALEC in the April 15 edition, which you can find here.
Allison Kilkenny takes a closer look at the effects of Chicago school closures.
Miami. Baton Rouge. Jacksonville. Columbia, South Carolina: these are not the places that immediately come to mind when considering America's HIV epidemic. But in the ranking of US cities with the highest HIV rates, they are numbers one, two, three and six, respectively.
On Thursday The New York Times ran an important story by Donald McNeil Jr. about the "new face" of HIV— young, poor black and Hispanic men who have sex with men. One thing not mentioned in the article—which focuses on New York City—is the geography of the epidemic, which is now concentrated and most deadly in the Southern states. While only 37 percent of Americans live in the South, half of new HIV infections originate there. Eight of the ten states with the highest rate of infection are in the South, as are nine of the ten states with the highest AIDS fatalities rates.
McNeil focuses mostly on the scarcity of resources available to fund targeted messaging in black and Hispanic communities, and that's certainly a problem. But the regional dynamics of HIV, and the fact that young men of color who have sex with men actually engage in less high-risk behavior than their white cohorts suggest that messaging isn't the only thing needed. McNeil's conclusion is that when it comes the spread of HIV among young men of color, "the prospects for change look grim" because "the national response is fragmented and hesitant."
There are two policies on the table that could have a profound effect on the rate of new infections in the United States, which has hovered near 50,000 new cases a year for a decade: the expansion of Medicaid, and comprehensive immigration reform. The implications of these policies for HIV are magnified by the fact that their impact would be particularly strong in the South.
Medicaid and immigration reform won't change the social conservatism of the Bible Belt, which expresses itself in a lack of comprehensive sex education, stigma, absence of needle exchange programs and a general "sweeping under the rug" of conversations about sexual health and risk reduction, explained Susan Reif, a researcher at Duke University's Center for Health Policy and Inequalities Research. But those policies can change some of the material circumstances that have made the Deep South the locus of the HIV epidemic, namely the higher rates of poverty, higher proportions of uninsured people and more limited access to care.
"Right now, Medicaid expansion is really one of the most important things that we need," said Rainey Copps, executive director of the Southern Aids Coalition. Eligibility criteria are more stringent in Southern states than in other regions, leaving many of the people who are at highest risk for HIV uninsured, limiting their access to preventive care, testing and treatment. The Affordable Care Act was designed to close this coverage gap by expanding eligibility to all adults with incomes below 133 percent of the federal poverty level. Every state in the Deep South except Arkansas has opted out of the expansion.
Because of the South's stringent eligibility requirements, Medicaid programs in those states cover far fewer HIV-positive individuals than others do. Nationally, Medicaid is the primary form of insurance coverage for people with HIV/AIDs, and still a quarter of HIV-positive Americans are uninsured. In the Deep South, HIV-positive patients below the poverty line have to be so sick with AIDS that they reach disability status before they qualify for coverage.
"With the Medicaid expansion we could have included a lot more people who are HIV-positive in Medicaid, and therefore they would more readily be able to access medication and medical care. It's very disappointing that that's not going to happen," said Reif. She noted that increasing access to treatment isn't important only for people who are already sick. It also helps to slow transmission of the virus.
Because of the significant economic benefits that the expansion offers states, it's likely that Southern lawmakers will eventually come around on Medicaid. But that will still leave out one group at high risk for HIV: undocumented immigrants, who don't qualify for any coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Without legal protections, undocumented immigrants are less likely to seek out testing and treatment, and they're harder to reach with public health campaigns. Accordingly, immigration reform that offers a path to citizenship, as well as access to care for people in the process of legalization, should be a priority.
"The nationwide, government-led effort to increase HIV testing and awareness and to incorporate HIV-positive individuals into the care system as quickly as possible will flounder [sic] if any sectors of the population are excluded due to a short-sighted reluctance to extend benefits based on immigration status," warns the Deep South Project and the Latino Commission on AIDS.
It may not be a coincidence that the region with the worst HIV rates also has the fastest-growing Hispanic population, one increasingly subject to discrimination. "We have an area where the epidemic is high, an area where we know that there is a community that has lived in the shadows for years, and where access to information, care, prevention, testing and treatment is limited," said Robin Lewy, director of education at the Florida-based Rural Women's Health Center. She doesn't believe that lack of awareness or stigma within Hispanic communities necessarily accounts for their vulnerability to HIV. The problem, Lewy said, is that "immigrants in general cannot prioritize HIV. Their priorities are survival, economic realties, problems of acculturation and xenophobia."
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Of course, not all Hispanics are immigrants, and Lewy believes that demographic research that goes beyond race is needed in order to understand how HIV really plays out between groups. "You have to distinguish a Mexican-American third generation man from a Guatemalan man who crossed the border three months ago," she said. "We have to respond to great inequalities within the epidemic, and one of the ways to do that is to recognize and celebrate the uniqueness of our different communities."
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A call for papers for the conference, with submission deadline of 19 March 2010, was distributed on the American Association of Law Libraries' Academic Law Libraries Special Interest Section (AALL ALL-SIS) listserv (restricted to AALL ALL-SIS members) on 27 January 2010.
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