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My 2018: Jonathan Egid
December 20, 2018 | in Essays | by Jonathan Egid
I relished the opportunity to read texts with somewhat more invigorating prose than typically displayed in analytic philosophy journals.
Israeli writer Amos Oz and Cretan memoirist George Psychoundakis are two of the highlights of Assistant Blog Editor Jonathan Egid's 2018 reading list. Addressing topics ranging from Israeli politics and the death of Jesus (Oz) to Renaissance poetry and home-brewed alcohol (Psychoundakis), the two writers nevertheless share a sense of humour and a talent for producing powerful and thought-provoking texts.
Having spent most of the first half of the year reading texts about, rather than in translation, as part of my research for a thesis on the philosophy of cultural and conceptual difference, I relished the opportunity to read texts with somewhat more invigorating prose than typically displayed in analytic philosophy journals, and my summer reading list was full of translated fiction.
High on this list was the Israeli writer Amos Oz's first new novel in over a decade, Judas. An old-fashioned novel of ideas in the tradition of Tolstoy and Thomas Mann, Judas begins with an end; the protagonist Shmuel Ash is left suddenly by his girlfriend, and then learns of his father's bankruptcy, which forces him to abandon his promising studies. He takes up work caring for an elderly cripple in an ancient house on the outskirts of Jerusalem, and the narrative follows Shmuel as he is drawn into the troubled history of this crumbling house and its mysterious and enticing inhabitants.
The narrative is interspersed with Shmuel's reflections on his now-abandoned thesis, giving the story—which takes place almost entirely in the old house and the neighbouring streets, cafes, and alleyways—a dazzling historical and intellectual scope, as Oz spans continents and centuries from medieval Al-Andalus to Galician shtetls and kibbutzim on the Sharon plain, tracing the fraught history of Jesus and the Jews. The focus of these reflections is neither Jesus nor the Jews, but on the eponymous Judas, or rather on the figure of Judas, the figure of a most reviled and hated traitor.
Section Editors' Highlights: Winter 2018
January 24, 2018 | in Dispatches, News | by Aditi Machado, Ah-reum Han, Caridad Svich, Ellen Jones, Henry Knight, and Joshua Craze
Our editors choose their favorites from the Winter 2018 Issue.
Asymptote's new Winter 2018 issue is replete with spectacular writing. See what our section editors have to say about the pieces closest to their hearts:
It's a struggle to pick just one poet to highlight from this momentous issue of our journal, but perhaps I will mention the Infrarealist Mexican poet José Vicente Anaya whose work Heriberto Yépez described as "revelation, a sacred practice against brainwashing and lobotomy" (source: translator's note). Much as each poet in this issue and the set of circumstances in which they write are distinct, I read all their works as sacred, necessary attempts to counter the forces of obliteration and oblivion against which they—and we—strive. In Anaya's case, a core element of the ritual is híkuri ("peyote" in the indigenous language of Rarámuri), the ingestion of which makes the speaker spiral, psychedelically, inward and outward, so that nothing is quite separate from everything else. The revelation is this: we've overbuilt the world and left ourselves broken. Joshua Pollock's translation recreates the visionary spirit of the hyperlingual source text to bring us the ferocity of lines such as these:
On Superhighways we hallucinate
in order to carry on living, Victor,
let's build an anti-neutron bomb
that leaves life standing
demolishing suffocating buildings /
new machines working for everyone
so that time raises us
from joy
to Art
to joy / and
HUMANity governs without government
—Aditi Machado, Poetry Editor
"[there are also] a number of young writers who are emerging, for instance, in the Gambia, who are also catering a lot to the local market. They are to come." — Tijan M. Sallah at an interview at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, 2012
It is impossible to think of Gambian literature without thinking of the poetry, short stories, and essays of Tijan M. Sallah. Sallah is The Gambia's most renowned and prolific literary figure, but what makes him most remarkable is his generosity. Sallah, like many of the great Gambian writers before him, balanced his "day job" while continuing his tireless support of other writers and The Gambia's burgeoning literary scene. For writers such as Lenrie Peters, it was being a medical doctor, while holding literary workshops for aspiring young Gambian writers; for Tijan M. Sallah, it was a successful career as an economist at the World Bank, while continuing to foster community among the Gambian diaspora's literary voices, his early contributions to the Timbooktoo Bookstore, or even—lucky for us at Asymptote—his willingness to write this essay on some of The Gambia's emerging poets. Sallah's essay is both a tribute to the previous wave of Gambian writers and a passing on of the baton to the next generation of poets. In this essay, he spotlights three of the exciting new voices in the Gambian literary landscape today. It's a must-read from this issue.
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Translator's Diary: Vincent Kling
November 27, 2017 | in Translator's Diary | by Vincent Kling
If it's true that every translation must inevitably fail, this passage would be Exhibit A.
In this final installment of Vincent Kling's translation column, En Route, Up Close, Kling discusses the difficulties of translating complicated works and considers whether one should remain loyal to meter at the expense of feel and fluidity. Kling explores translation in all its layered complexity, demonstrating with characteristic erudition and generosity the reasons why literary translation as a form resists the confines of any universally accepted code.
Two Hurdles for Translators
1. The Relatively Easy One. Two newly acclaimed releases, Emily Wilson's translation of the Odyssey and David Ferry's of the Aeneid, have prompted some discussion about what elements can and should be reproduced as closely as possible and what should—or indeed must—be altered. Reviewers are mainly concentrating on meter, because it is usually agreed that Homer's and Virgil's dactylic hexameters come across awkwardly in English; even a technical virtuoso like Longfellow couldn't always make six-beat dactylic lines work in Evangeline. Both Wilson and Ferry have opted for blank verse (beautifully rendered in both cases), and even strict Augustans like Dryden and Pope knew better than to espouse a line that's too long for flexibility in English. It was Dryden, after all, who adopted the idea of "imitation," of the need to respect the nature of the target language. Later, Richard Wilbur shrewdly recast Molière's alexandrines into pentameter, a decision that finally made the French dramatist's work performable, even palatable, in a meter that best follows the contours of English accentuation. Anthony Hecht similarly forged vigorous, muscular heroic couplets out of Voltaire's six-stress lines in his "Poem upon the Lisbon Disaster," an idiomatic, fast-moving translation that is at its most 'faithful' in changing six beats to five.
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In Conversation: Daniel Mendelsohn on his new memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic
September 22, 2017 | in Interviews | by Henry Ace Knight
What I'm interested in creating is something that combines all the things that I do in my life as a reader and writer and teacher
Memoirist, critic, and translator Daniel Mendelsohn is perhaps best known for the application of mythic paradigms from the Western classics to the analysis of popular and literary culture. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006 for The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, and finalist again in 2012 for his essay collection Waiting for the Barbarians, his criticism frequently graces the pages of The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. The forthcoming release (Knopf, September 12) of his new memoir, An Odyssey: A Father, A Son, and An Epic—about his octogenarian father's experience auditing his Odyssey freshman seminar at Bard College and their subsequent voyage aboard an Odyssey-themed cruise—occasioned this conversation with Asymptote Interviews Editor Henry Ace Knight.
Can you tell me about the genesis of the book? Was it taking shape in your mind as early as your dad's request to sit in on the Odyssey course?
No, not at all. The sequence was that early in 2011, before the semester began, he approached me about taking my course; I knew that he was interested in rereading the classics in his old age, and I said, "Well, I'm doing this Odyssey course in the spring…" And he said, "Oh, can I take it?" It didn't occur to me at the time that it might be something that I would write about. Then, about halfway through the course, at which point so many interesting and funny things were happening, I started taking notes—his interactions with the kids, the things he said about the text. Much of the book is based on the notes I took right after class, memorable exchanges I recorded. Around the midterm, I thought, "OK, somehow I've got to write about this," although I hardly envisioned a book at that point. In fact, at the end of the semester, when Froma [Zeitlin, a Classics professor at Princeton and Mendelsohn's mentor] told me about the "Retracing the Odyssey" cruise, I called a friend of mine who was the editor of a travel magazine, and I said, "My dad and I are going on this Odyssey cruise and I think I want to write about it." But I only thought I was going to write a magazine article! Then, when my dad fell ill, I started thinking all of this was…suddenly it took on a shape, you know: the class and the cruise and his illness. And so I started thinking, in a sort of inchoate way, of how all of this could add up to something: him taking the class, us going on the cruise, and him suddenly having a stroke and thereby raising the question of whether he could be his old 'self'—a very Odyssean question indeed. I started to see it all as one event moving along an arc and that that arc was the arc of the Odyssey.
Did you start to draw more and more parallels between the Odyssey and your relationship to your father as the semester progressed?
I've done this with several books now, this entwining ancient texts and personal narratives. I did it in my first memoir, The Elusive Embrace, in which I wrapped exegeses of various classical texts around a story about me and my family and being a gay man who decided to become a father—my story was interwoven with musings on classical texts about desire and parenting and so on. And then I did it in The Lost, in which the intertext is not a classical text but a biblical text: I used Genesis, with its memorable narratives about fratricide and global destruction and wandering and miraculous survivals, as a kind of foil for this family story about the Holocaust. Once you start thinking about a text, these parallels to your life start to present themselves. So in this case, because my mind was on the Odyssey, everything about what happened to Dad and me, the course, the cruise, started presenting itself as "odyssean," as potential material, and the parallels between the personal narrative and the text started to make themselves felt. So, for instance, the first major section of my book, which recreates the first weeks of the Odyssey course and our discussions of the first four books of the Odyssey, which are about Odysseus's son Telemachus going on a sort of fact-finding mission to learn what happened to his absent father, twines around flashbacks to my childhood in which I too am a boy searching for his father, trying to understand who he is. And so on.
What happens when I start thinking about a memoir is that I'll have an intuition about how a certain text is going to structure the memoir, and then once I'm thinking that way it just takes off. But of course it's only in the writing that you can really carefully work out the parallels and draw attention to them in a rather purposeful, literary way; so in this sense I'm also creating the parallels, I'm establishing them in my text for the reader. I know the Odyssey intimately, so as things were happening in real life I would think, "Oh my God, this is so Odyssean!"—like the guy on the boat with the scar. [A major revelation in An Odyssey turns on an encounter between Mendelsohn and an elderly fellow passenger who had a scar on his thigh dating to an incident in World War II. In Homer's Odyssey, a climactic moment is linked to the history of a scar on Odysseus's thigh.] When I met that old gentleman with the scar I thought, "You cannot make this stuff up!"—as it was happening, I was thinking that no one was going to believe this, it was just too good to be true. But it really happened!
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Writing-directing team Phil Lord and Chris Miller are among the busiest filmmakers in Hollywood. It's a good thing there are two of them because they seem to be leading dual creative lives. Over the course of just a few years, they launched successful careers as feature filmmakers in both animation (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, The Lego Movie) and live action (21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street). For the next chapter of their continuing saga, they will direct the Han Solo movie, while executive producing a standalone Spider-Man animated movie—that they also wrote.


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The Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust was formed in 1980 to help establish a Bone Marrow Transplant unit in Ireland. The Unit was openedin 1984, and from modest beginnings we now have a large fully modernised transplant unit sited in the new Denis burkitt Haematology/Oncology ward. The number of transplants carried out in the unit increased from 12 in 1985 to 120 in 2007.
The Trust supports the employment of special nurses, pharmacists, counsellors and the purchase of equipment and other technical support. It has purchased apartments in close proximity to the hospital to assist patients and their families. Substantial contributions have also gone to research carried out by the bone marrow transplant team under the direction of the leukaemia expert Professor Shaun McCann.
In short, the Bone Marrow for Leukaemia Trust continues to provide constant financial and moral support to the unit. Our fund raising efforts continually need support and new idea's. We welcome anyone wishing to help or advise us in this area.


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The New Digital Battlefield
North Korea has claimed a cyber-savvy force of some 4,000 expert-level hackers thought responsible for the growing number of breaches in South Korea and her allies.
Push for US Internet 'Wiretap' Law Faces Tough Road
WASHINGTON - The FBI is stepping up its effort to get broader authority to put "wiretaps" on the Internet to catch criminals and terrorists.
Amazon's knock-off problem (35 Shades of Grey, anyone?)
Be careful when you select a bestseller to purchase on Amazon, where knock-offs are prevalent -- copycats that come with Amazon's stamp of approval. Perhaps it should be called Spamazon. Until recently, if you had typed "Steve Jobs Isaac" into the online retailer's search box, the first choice that popped up wasn't the best selling book by Walter Isaacson, but instead one with the same name and a similarly sounding author, Isaac Worthington. The book appears to be selling, even though Amazon's one reviewer gives the book a single star and calls it a "poorly produced pamphlet." Presumably, Worthington's book is based on exclusive interviews with Jeve Stobs.
Hollywood faces new piracy threat
Movie fans downloading free pirated films are no longer Hollywood's worst nightmare, but that's only because of a newer menace: cheap, and equally illegal, subscription services.
Hacking Yourself Pays Off In Tighter Security
Whether you build your own penetration test team or hire a third party, pen testing is crucial for security.
DOD struggles to define cyber war
Efforts hampered by lack of agreement on meaning as the Defense Department puts its new Cyber Command in place to defend the military information infrastructure
Are You e-Discovery Ready?
Ready or not, here come the lawyers. If you're in litigation or responding to regulators, you'd better be e-discovery ready.


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APWLD fosters feminist movements in Asia Pacific to influence laws, policies and practices at the local, national, regional and international levels. We develop capacities, produce and disseminate feminist analyses, conduct advocacy and foster networks and spaces for movement building to claim and strengthen women's human rights. APWLD empowers women in the region to use law as an instrument of change for equality, justice, peace and Development Justice.
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Write like a man
A blogger finds success after pulling a Bronte and publishing under a male pseudonym
Check out this article! https://www.salon.com/2009/12/14/male_pseudonyms/
Kate Harding
December 15, 2009 2:15AM (UTC)
Today, Men with Pens blogger James Chartrand revealed that "he" is actually a lady with a laptop. After working under her real name for years, Chartrand was still struggling to make it as a freelance writer. Not only was her income negligible, but "I was treated like crap, too. Bossed around, degraded, condescended to, with jibes made about my having to work from home. I quickly learned not to mention I had kids. I quickly learned not to mention I worked from my kitchen table." Out of desperation, she started submitting work under a male pseudonym, just to see if it made a difference. And boy, did it ever.
Instantly, jobs became easier to get.
There was no haggling. There were compliments, there was respect. Clients hired me quickly, and when they received their work, they liked it just as quickly. There were fewer requests for revisions -- often none at all.
Customer satisfaction shot through the roof. So did my pay rate.
I think Mary Elizabeth Williams spoke for all of us at Broadsheet when she said in an e-mail, "Wow! That's so fucking Brontë sisters!" George Eliot and George Sand also leapt quickly to mind; when we think of women writers finding success under male pseudonyms, our thoughts naturally turn to the 19th century. But then, Chartrand also mentions Isak Dinesen, whose first book was published in 1934. And come to think of it, I've read that in the late 1990s, J.K. Rowling became known as such because her publishers feared that boys wouldn't read books written by someone named Joanne. Last spring, the website Divine Caroline made a list of seven famous female authors who used male names, including Alice Bradley Sheldon, who found it easier to break into science fiction writing in 1967 as James Tiptree, Jr., and Nora Roberts, who chose the name J.D. Robb in 1995 when she began writing detective fiction alongside her wildly successful romance novels. When much-admired political blogger Digby accepted an award in person in 2007, some of her biggest fans were shocked to learn that she's a woman.
And not long before that, the vicious harassment of tech blogger Kathy Sierra sparked a national conversation about the dangers of writing under a female name on the internet; it's not just about the unfair differences in remuneration and respect, but about the threats of murder and rape. In her 2007 essay "Where Are the Women?: Pseudonymity and the Public Sphere, Then and Now," academic and feminist blogger Tedra Osell writes, "Although both men and women said they used pseudonyms to avoid being identified by their employers, many women simply explained pseudonymity as the result of fear, not of professional repercussions, but for their or their children's physical safety. Five women reported having been 'threatened' online before taking up blogging. One man who did express anxiety about putting his or his family's real names on the Internet explicitly noted that his wife was more afraid of it than he was." And even if there's no physical danger, the emotional abuse hurled at women writers can be intense. In the wake of Sierra's decision to stop blogging, Joan Walsh wrote about the response to a Salon interview she did with Anne Lamott: "I don't want to compare that thread to what Sierra suffered; there were no threats of violence and no particularly sexual insults. But boy, there were plenty of insults, and most of them had to do with us as women -- as mothers, as sexual objects, as writers, as professional women in the world. To boil it down, we're wrinkly old hags (even though Lamott said my neck looks good! WTF?); we're narcissists and bad mothers, and worst of all, for writers, we're really bad writers, and terribly stupid. But mostly we're just bad women. Bad, bad women. And did I mention ugly and wrinkly?" Yes, male writers take all sorts of criticism online, much of it nasty, personal and unjustified -- but it's rarely so blatantly gendered.
In light of all that, then, I shouldn't have been surprised that using a male pseudonym had such a dramatic effect on Chartrand's career. Death threats and sexually degrading commentary directed at women writers seem very 21st century -- so modern! so fresh! -- but being paid half as much for the same work? Landing fewer jobs? Receiving more criticism and less respect? That just sounds so old-fashioned. I learned about women posing as men to get work in elementary school history lessons, not when I went to grad school for writing. The thought that if I'd tried writing as, say, Kevin Harding, I might have earned far more money, opportunity and authority than I have, is almost as inconceivable as it is chilling. Since the Brontë days, says Chartrand, "we've had feminism. We have the right to vote, to own property, to be members of Parliament and Congress, to get a job, and to be the main breadwinner of the family. And yet apparently we haven't gotten past those 19th century stigmas."
But that shouldn't come as a shock so much as a sobering reminder of what women continue to deal with in the workforce every day. The most embarrassing thing about my initial surprise is that I know it's all of a piece -- that the constant threats and insults directed at female writers are meant to silence us and reinforce our inferiority when employment discrimination and crap pay aren't doing that fast enough. I get furious when people insist that western women have achieved full equality, feminism is no longer necessary, the wage gap is imaginary or the lack of women in positions of power is unrelated to sexism. But even I've bought into the myth of meritocracy enough that my first thought upon learning a female writer massively increased her success by adopting a male pseudonym was, "Wow, how retro! How Brontë, how Eliot, how Sand." Certainly not "how Rowling."
But the difference a male name can still make in the 21st century -- and the connection to Kathy Sierra's harassment and the fears expressed by female bloggers in Osell's essay -- should have been obvious from Chartrand's post-script to the piece. "Oh, my real name?" she writes. "Well, I never really wanted that revealed, totally apart from the gender issue. I know better than most how quickly and profoundly revealing just a tiny bit of personal information can affect (and even destroy) people's lives. I have kids. I'm not interested in making myself vulnerable in that way. So please. Just call me James."
Kate Harding is the author of Asking For It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture--and What We Can Do About It, available from Da Capo Press in August 2015. Previously, she collaborated with Anna Holmes, Amanda Hess, and a cast of thousands on The Book of Jezebel, and with Marianne Kirby on Lessons from the Fat-o-Sphere. You might also remember her as the founding editor of Shapely Prose (2007-2010). Kate's essays have appeared in the anthologies Madonna & Me, Yes Means Yes, Feed Me, and Airmail: Women of Letters. She holds an M.F.A. in fiction from Vermont College of Fine Arts and a B.A. in English from University of Toronto, and is currently at work on a Ph.D. in creative writing from Bath Spa University
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Contrary to popular belief, the best leader in the world is not Barack Obama. Sorry to break it to the Germans but it's not Angela Merkel either. François Hollande? Not a chance.
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Contrary to popular belief, the best leader in the world is not Barack Obama. Sorry to break it to the Germans but it's not Angela Merkel either. François Hollande? Not a chance. The greatest head of state these days is José Mujica, Uruguay's president.
Better known by his nickname "Pepe", the Uruguayan is responsible for putting his small nation of only 3.2 million inhabitants on the international map. Since he took office in 2010, journalists and locals have been raving about his forward-thinking policies, like his most recent proposal in which he announced the government will legalise and control the sale of marijuana. It's a measure to fight the cartels that are now becoming a widespread problem in a country not used to dealing with drug wars.
As progressive as his ideas may sound, Mujica is not just another leftist character in Latin America's political scene. He's the personification of what true socialism should be, far from Chavez's populist speeches and Kirchner's demagoguery. He was a member of the Tupamaros, a leftist armed group that opposed Uruguay's dictatorship during the 1970s (Mujica was in prison when the military junta was toppled in 1973). After a democratic transition, Mujica was named the official candidate for the Frente Amplio in 2009 and was elected president with 52 per cent of the votes, the first former guerrilla member to reach that position.
When he assumed his new role, Uruguayans knew that politics weren't going to be the same. Mujica swore to take his country to new heights, while living a modest and exemplary life; his house is a farm in the outskirts of Montevideo, he drives a 1987 Volkswagen Beetle and donates almost 90 per cent of his salary to charity, earning him the nickname of the world's poorest president. "There are many Uruguayans that live with much less," he said in an interview with El Mundo newspaper. But his unpretentious lifestyle hasn't slowed him from signing noteworthy international trade deals (25 per cent of Uruguay's foreign trade comes from meat exports to 100 countries).
He's also stimulated regional ties. At the latest Mercosur meetings Mujica invited Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador to join the union to strengthen the political and economic block. His latest meeting with Brazil's Dilma Rousseff resulted in the signing of several bilateral-agreements that include the free circulation of goods, services and people between both countries. Mujica's growth numbers have earned him international accolades; Moody's recently elevated Uruguay's investment rating soon after Standard & Poor's raised the country's grades, quoting its positive economic prospects.
Mujica is the new face of South America's left wing, invigorating the movement with a hard-working government that puts people before egos, turning revolutionary ideas into pragmatic actions that lead to positive results. In a summit held in 2010 in Punta del Este, Mujica invited foreigners to invest in his country. "We need businesses to prosper in our nation, companies that pay taxes and generate wealth," he said. "Otherwise we'll be left with just the dreams."
Two years into his government with constant economic growth figures at around 6 per cent, it seems that Pepe's dreams are coming true.


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The release on April 18 of a redacted version of the Mueller report came after two years of allegations, speculation and insinuation – but not a lot of official information about what really happened between the Trump campaign and Russia.
Nor had there been much light shed on whether the president tried to obstruct the investigation into his campaign.
The report prepared by special counsel Robert Mueller and issued by the Justice Department provided greater detail about those questions. And it offered more information about Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
The Trump administration will want to argue that the release of the Mueller report is the end of investigating the Russia scandal.
On the contrary, the version of the report released is only the start of wide-ranging and intensive House investigations.
I served as special deputy chief counsel of the House Iran-contra investigation of the Reagan administration. We did months of hearings on the type of material that is either incomplete or redacted, as today's Congress will find, in the Mueller report.
Here are some of the ways the House will likely follow up with more investigation.
1. Bring in witnesses to testify
The House will call some of the witnesses mentioned in the report for their full story, not just their cameo appearance in this incomplete report.
For example, the report has the public's first account from Michael T. Flynn, Trump's first national security adviser. So, there are a number of contacts mentioned for the first time on the public record between Flynn and Russia that in my reading consistently demonstrate Trump's partiality to Putin and Russia.
But, until we get a House public hearing with Flynn as a witness, we will not know the full story.
Why did Trump have such a strong bond with Putin? Did Trump have a personal reason, not some foreign policy reason, to favor Russia? Why did Trump push Flynn to be favorable to Russia?
The report does not say.
With Flynn, as with many others, the report is the start, not the finish, of getting the full story.
2. Intelligence committee investigation
Attorney General Barr has announced that a "less redacted" version is, or will be, prepared for a few congressional figures. Presumably he means that the classified parts of the report that describe secret intelligence, which have been redacted, will be shown to the congressional leadership.
But, the leadership cannot itself undertake an investigation.
This is the kind of material that normally goes to the entire House Intelligence Committee. That committee can follow up with demands for documents and closed hearings. And that committee has the trusted expertise to determine that the conclusions of their inquiry can be made public, either via open hearings or by report to the House and the public.
The committee could determine what is actually known by investigators about how Russia viewed Trump and what Russia may have done that secured Trump's favor.
3. Release grand jury information
Furthermore, the report redacts not just classified information, but grand jury information as well. And Barr may well have omitted, rather than redacted, invaluable grand jury evidence, especially documents.
These could be released by the attorney general to Congress with a court order under what is called Federal Criminal Rule 6(e).
Barr refused at congressional hearings to seek such an order. But, under sufficient pressure from Congress – against the background of a public that wants the full report and the full story – he could reconsider.
In the Watergate scandal, the prosecutors got exactly such a court order so they could make invaluable evidence available to the House Judiciary Committee.
4. Limit what's limited by 'HOM'
There is a great deal of key material redacted in the report with Barr's label, "HOM" or "Harm to Ongoing Matter." That means the redacted material likely relates to an ongoing investigation by law enforcement.
This appears to have been done with a very broad brush. Under pressure from the House, backed by the public, this could be treated by Barr with a fine scalpel instead.
For example, one of the most promising avenues to investigate is the potential overlap between Russia's attempts to help Trump, WikiLeaks' dissemination of material embarrassing to Hillary Clinton, and Trump's requests for help in making material damaging to Clinton public. Who can forget Trump shouting, "I love WikiLeaks"?
Yet, Barr's broad-brush redactions wipe out a whole section on WikiLeaks. Presumably Barr is saying, by this redaction, that the case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is an ongoing matter.
As the recent arrest of Assange makes clear, there is currently an investigation into his actions by the U.S., which has charged him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. That means that WikiLeaks' interaction with the Trump campaign is not the heart of that judicial matter. Rather, the heart is about Assange working with hackers who stole the damaging material.
So the House should be allowed to pursue the part – WikiLeaks and its interactions with the Trump campaign – which is central to the House's concerns but peripheral to prosecutors of Assange.
5. Documents, documents, documents
Finally, this is just Mueller's report. Behind it is much more that would be of vital interest to congressional investigators and the public.
This 400-plus page report is not the underlying information alluded to in the report, like copies of emails or other documents, that provides broader information about so many matters.
The House has every reason to seek and to receive the underlying information.
These various examples are just the beginning of what the House can seek to find as it takes off from the incomplete and redacted Mueller report.
When I was an attorney for the House Iran-contra Committee, we received far more encouragement and cooperation from independent counsel Lawrence Walsh than is promised by Barr. And we went on to dig up striking material during months of hearings.
I believe the House will now pick up where the Department of Justice has left off.
Charles Tiefer, Professor of law, University of Baltimore
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Ricky Gervais: The Start of a Twitter Backlash?
Asked by publicists to tout the Golden Globes, British comedian Ricky Gervais decides that self-promotion on Twitter is "undignified."
By Courtney Rubin
Twitter's popularity has soared thanks partly to a celebrity love-in,'¨ but is the backlash beginning? '¨'¨British comic Ricky Gervais – perhaps best known as boss-from-hell'¨ David Brent from BBC's The Office – publicly quit the micro-blogging service within weeks of joining. He opened an account December 14 because '¨Golden Globe bosses wanted him to Tweet as he hosts the awards '¨ceremony January 17.
But after composing only five Tweets, Gervais gave up on January 9, telling his 13,000'¨ followers he was going to stop his updates because "I don't see the'¨ point." He followed up with an'¨ explanation on his blog,'¨ calling Twitter "undignified." (As opposed, say, to David Brent dance.)
"I just don't get it, I'm afraid," Gervais wrote. "I'm sure it's fun as a '¨networking device for teenagers but there's something a bit '¨undignified about adults using it. Particularly celebrities who seem '¨to be showing off by talking to each other in public."
He added: "If I want to tell a friend, famous or otherwise what I had'¨ to eat this morning, I'll text them. And since I don't need to make '¨new virtual friends, it seemed a bit pointless to be honest."
As for the Golden Globes, Gervais pointed out that the show is watched'¨ by 25 million people in the U.S. and maybe 300 million people worldwide'¨ – "tweeting about it would be a drop in the ocean," Gervais noted. '¨"Also I've got the Web site and I don't have to restrict things to 140'¨ characters. My tweeting was becoming like a tabloid version of this '¨blog, and I couldn't even put important stuff like this up."
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Failed HIV Drug Gets Second Chance with Addition of Gold Nanoparticles
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Researchers at North Carolina State University have discovered that adding tiny bits of gold to a failed HIV drug rekindle the drug's ability to stop the virus from invading the body's immune system.
The addition of gold nanoparticles to a modified version of a drug designed in the 1990s to combat HIV - but discarded due to its harmful side effects - creates a compound that prevents the virus from gaining a cellular foothold, say Dr. Christian Melander, assistant professor of chemistry at NC State, and doctoral student T. Eric Ballard.
Their findings appear online in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
The drug, a compound known as TAK-779, was originally found to bind to a specific location on human T-cells, which blocks the HIV virus' entry to the body's immune system. Unfortunately, the portion of the drug's molecule that made binding possible had unpleasant side effects. When that portion of the molecule - an ammonium salt - was removed, the drug lost its binding ability.
That's when the researchers turned to gold as the answer. The element is non-reactive in the human body, and would be the perfect "scaffold" to attach molecules of the drug to in the absence of the ammonium salt, holding the drug molecules together and concentrating their effect.
"The idea is that by attaching these individual molecules of the drug with a weak binding ability to the gold nanoparticle, you can magnify their ability to bind," Melander says.
The researchers' theory proved correct. They started with a modified version of TAK-779, which didn't include the harmful ammonium salt. After testing, they found that attaching 12 molecules of the modified drug (SDC-1721) to one nanoparticle of gold restored the drug's ability to prevent HIV infection in primary cultured patient cells. When only one molecule of the drug was attached to the gold nanoparticle, the compound was unable to prevent HIV infection, indicating that the multivalency of the drug was important for its activity.
"We've discovered a non-harmful way to improve the strength and efficacy of an important drug," Melander says. "There's no reason to think that this same process can't be used with similar effect on other existing drugs."
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Note to Editors: an abstract of the paper follows.
"Inhibition of HIV Fusion with Multivalent Gold Nanoparticles"
Authors: Mary-Catherine Bowman, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; Christian Melander and T. Eric Ballard, North Carolina State University Daniel Feldheim, University of Colorado at Boulder, et al
Published: May 13, 2008 in Journal of American Chemical Society online
The design and synthesis of a multivalent gold nanoparticle therapeutic is presented. SDC-1721, a fragment of the potent HIV inhibitor TAK-779, was synthesized and conjugated to 2.0 nm diameter gold nanoparticles. Free SDC-1721 had no inhibitory effect on HIV infection; however, the (SDC-1721)−gold nanoparticle conjugates displayed activity comparable to that of TAK-779. This result suggests that multivalent presentation of small molecules on gold nanoparticle surfaces can convert inactive drugs into potent therapeutics.
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Pennsylvania officials believe the school could be saved with a $10 million loan.
Cheyney University President Aaron Walton is implementing a new plan he hopes will keep the longest running HBCU in America accredited.
The school has until the end of its fiscal year on June 30 to prove to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education it can balance its budget and come up with a plan to get itself out of debt, PennLive reports.
If it fails, the HBCU will lose its accreditation. A loss of accreditation would mean students at the school would no longer be able to receive federal financial aid, according to WHYY. The effects would prove devastating as 94 percent of Cheyney's student body, some 375 students, rely on federal assistance to attend the university.
Walton was appointed by the school's board of governors only 21 months ago and was tasked with saving the school. The president has been on a steady mission to improve enrollment and find new sources of income since then. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education has supported his mission, going so far as to grant Cheyney an unprecedented additional year to get its finances in order.
The university faces a few significant problems. Enrollment has dropped over the past decade. In 2009, there were about 1,400 enrolled students; Now, there are only 415. In the past year alone, the enrollment rate decreased by 38 percent.
Cheyney also owes a lot of money to the state of Pennsylvania, $43 million to be exact. In a report to state senators, State System of Higher Education Chancellor Dan Greenstein said a loan of $10 million would help the school keep operating. State leaders have not authorized that loan.
The university reportedly has close to $2.3 million in cash available, enough to cover about eight more weeks of the school's bills.
A task force has been formed to create and implement a plan to increase revenue for the school system. The strategy consists in part of changing the school from a university to an institute: the Institute for the Contemporary African American Experience. The task force hopes the school will be strengthened by focusing on race-related studies.
Cheyney has also reached out to corporate partners including Starbucks and Epcot Crenshaw Corp; it has found some success in raising money this way. However, the actual amount raised from the partnerships has not yet been publicly divulged.
However, the chancellor isn't convinced Cheyney's changes will rescue it.
"At the same time, it is my opinion that Aaron has arrived several years too late," Greenstein said.
Nina-Simone Beaver, a senior enrolled in Cheyney's Keystone Honors Academy program, has faith her school will pull through.
Robert Bogle, the chair of the school's council of trustees, was even more emphatic.


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GWALIOR [Maha Media]: The school, situated in Gwalior where former Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee studied, would be developed as his memorial model school by the Gwalior Smart City Development Corporation Ltd, (GSCDCL) his memorial museum would also be established in the building.
Gwalior Smart City Development Corporation Ltd (GSCDCL) would also set-up a Vajpayee Memorial Museum on the basis of latest digital technology in the Gorkhi Higher Secondary School in the city.
Former PM Vajpayee was born in Gwalior city on December 25 in 1925 and he studied in the Gorkhi school from 1935 to 1938 in classes VI, VII and VIII.
The school building was built by the Scindias, the then rulers of Gwalior state as a royal palace in 1810. The school was setup in 1903 in this palace.
"The school building is important to us due to its historic values and so is Vajpayeeji, so we have taken it to develop as a Model School in the country as well as to set-up a museum of the former PM's memory," CEO of the GSCDCL, Jayati Singh informed news agency.
"We have called a tender for renovation, strengthening and beautification of the historic building. The Vajpayee Memorial Museum would be set up on the latest digital technology with the help of Information Technology," IAS, Jayati also informed


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Babbage | Wireless networks
Whatever happened to municipal Wi-Fi?
A movement in 2005 to blanket cities in Wi-Fi failed. But internet access is now ubiquitous anyway
By G.F. | SEATTLE
IT BEGAN in 2004 with an idealistic promise by the mayor of San Francisco, Gavin Newsom: "We will not stop until every San Franciscan has access to free wireless-internet service." But stop they did, when a privately funded municipal-scale network backed by Google, with EarthLink Networks as a partner, proved impractical. Nine years later a tiny fraction of the originally planned free network has come to life with Google's announcement of a donation to blanket 31 of the city's parks with Wi-Fi.
For a brief heyday from roughly 2005 to 2007, dozens of cities issued calls for proposals that were answered by EarthLink (without Google, except in San Francisco and one other place), MetroFi, and many others. This newspaper posed the question in March 2006, "Wi-Pie in the Sky?" (Answer: yes.) These firms promised, often at no cost to the city or county in question, to shroud tens to hundreds of square miles with Wi-Fi service. Many networks were touted as designed to reach homeowners and apartment dwellers with the addition of an indoor signal booster. In some cases, as in San Francisco, a tier or limited free usage was planned or offered alongside premium paid tiers. When launched, networks promised bandwidth of a few megabits per second, which was higher than most DSL lines at the time and comparable to many cable modem systems.
In hindsight, these efforts were doomed to failure, an expression of unwavering but unwarranted optimism by the several early metropolitan-scale Wi-Fi-router-makers who vied for hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment contracts paired with the naiveté of early network deployers. Tests showed promise, but deployment revealed severe deficiencies. The density of equipment necessary to make seamless and ubiquitous Wi-Fi work outdoors in an average city was prohibitively expensive with the technology available at the time. Our article in 2006 concluded thus: "Whether service providers will be able to meet the required technical standards and still make a profit will soon become clear." And it did, but only after oodles of cash had been spent.
San Francisco accepted a bid by Google and EarthLink in early 2006. It was dead by late 2007. EarthLink bet big on city-wide Wi-Fi because its only viable business, dial-up-modem internet access, had plummeted with the spread of DSL and cable modems. Several regulatory and court decisions had left most of America with wiring to the house owned exclusively by incumbents. Telecoms were not required to give other firms non-discriminatory access. Nor were they obliged to offer the same wholesale pricing as their in-house internet divisions. The penalties by regulators for tardy or faulty installations, if levied at all, came late and were meagre. And in any case, the Supreme Court ruling meant that cable firms did not have to provide access to competitors.
By 2008 EarthLink and others like it, including groups within AT&T and Motorola, pulled the plug on nearly every network under construction in North America. They also cancelled those on the drawing board. Portland, Oregon, had the ignominy of having to pay tens of thousands of dollars out of city coffers to remove abandoned antennas left by its partner. Many in Europe and Asia suffered the same fate, but there was less interest outside of America, as 3G mobile internet had been deployed much earlier.
Some of the first wave of companies, and a fresh batch including Meraki and Ruckus Wireless, pushed mesh networking as a solution. In a mesh network, every wireless router can relay data to any other within range. The data hop from one router to the next until reaching one connected to the internet. This decreases costs substantially. In 2008 Meraki announced a revival of the city-wide network idea in San Francisco, but without any municipal participation. While it grew for a few years to transmit terabytes of data a day at its height, the "Free the Net" network quietly disappeared a couple of years ago. Networking giant Cisco acquired Meraki in November 2012.
While large-scale Wi-Fi sputtered, mobile carriers in America and Canada appear to have been prodded into action. Together with their wired divisions they vociferously denounced any public money assigned to private city-wide networks, even lobbying for laws banning it. By 2008, however, 3G networks were everywhere, and by 2012 3G+ followed across the full footprint of AT&T and T-Mobile (albeit in fits and starts). Verizon lagged, then leapt forward with 4G LTE. Carriers now compete for the broadest LTE rollout, which provides data rates as fast as cable modems, though at a high price.
Wander the streets of San Francisco today, or any city in the developed world, for that matter, and you find it hard not to stumble on a free network. Every cafe, convention centre and airport has Wi-Fi, as do academic campuses, many city centres and retail districts. Telecoms firms like AT&T supplement mobile spectrum with Wi-Fi hotspots and zones, and most of the Wi-Fi equipment firms that survived the metro-network days sell hardware both for corporate networks and for outdoor deployment by carriers.
Three large-scale ventures did emerge from the ruins of the city-wide Wi-Fi implosion. In Minneapolis, the private firm USI Wireless operates a Wi-Fi network across the entire city, the only large American municipality with such an offering. Its success proves a rule: the city signed a 10-year, $12.5m contract with the firm that started being paid out at 10% each year long before the city could use the network's services. USI was a relative latecomer, which let it adopt newer and niftier hardware, but also just early enough to complete its network and acquire most of its customers before Minneapolis had received all the benefits of high-speed mobile internet service.
Across the Northeast, Cablevision has installed many thousands of Wi-Fi routers, providing dense and free coverage in parts of towns in its service area, but offers access only to its cable subscribers and those of other cable firms. And the mid-sized town of Mountain View, California, has an extensive, free network run by Google, which has its headquarters there.
Google's generous effort for San Francisco is rather modest. The internet giant is providing $600,000 to cover the cost of installation and two years' operation handled by a subcontractor, a figure that would have been enough to cover half a square mile with service back in 2006. Even so, visitors to the parks and recreation centres that Google will equip might be excused if, as they wander with eyes locked onto their mobile devices, they sceptically click cancel when a network named "Google Free WiFi" appears on their displays.
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