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Sex education, educator accountability and fears over federal intrusion into Utah schools dominated discussions of public education at the Capitol this year, often overshadowing budget talks.
Lawmakers decided to give schools $36 million to pay for 12,500 new students expected in the fall and boost per pupil spending by more than 1 percent, though that money likely will be just enough to cover rising retirement costs.
State Superintendent Larry Shumway said he is pleased to see the additional money, but warned that it could be difficult for districts to give teachers raises, as other rising costs could eat up the per pupil spending increase.
Sharon Gallagher-Fishbaugh, Utah Education Association president, said the UEA also is grateful for the increases, but disappointed that lawmakers chose to fund a number of education bills to put money toward different types of education software programs rather than put more money toward teacher cost-of-living increases.
Lawmakers, however, spent much of their time this session focusing on other, sometimes more controversial issues.
Like sex education.
Rep. Bill Wright, R-Holden, succeeded in passing a bill to allow Utah school districts to skip sex education and to make sure those districts that choose to keep it teach abstinence-only.
Opponents argued that parents already have a choice under current law, which requires parents to opt their children into the class if they want them to participate. Proponents, however, argued that instruction in contraception simply doesn't belong in schools, and abstinence is the only sure way to prevent pregnancy and disease.
As of Thursday evening, more than 15,000 people had already signed an online petition asking Gov. Gary Herbert to veto the bill.
Lawmakers also wrestled over questions about new academic standards called the Common Core. The state school board adopted the standards, which were developed as part of a states-led initiative, about a year and a half ago.
Some conservative groups and lawmakers questioned whether the state could lose local control over education by implementing them. State education leaders, and even U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, assured them that wasn't the case. A resolution, SCR13, asking the state school board to "reconsider" its decision to adopt the Core died for lack of action in the House Thursday night.
Lawmakers also made significant changes to educator employment laws this session, passing SB64 crafted by freshman Sen. Aaron Osmond, R-South Jordan, after months of meeting with education groups and teachers.
The bill would require school administrators to receive yearly evaluations and eventually tie 15 percent of their pay to performance. It would also create new performance categories for district employees, including teachers, based on annual evaluations and tie those ratings to scheduled raises and continued employment.


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YRF Entertainment's Uday Chopra is all set to partner with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam to produce and finance 'Grace of Monaco'. YRF Entertainment teams with Stone Angels on Nicole Kidman film, now in pre-sales at Cannes.YRF Entertainment CEO Uday Chopra has announced he is joining forces with Pierre-Ange Le Pogam of Stone Angels to produce and finance the upcoming Nicole Kidman vehicle, "Grace of Monaco". The film, to be directed by Olivier Dahan ("La Vie En Rose"), starts production this fall in South of France. YRF Entertainment's development head, Jonathan Reiman, will serve as executive producer, along with the film's writer, Arash Amel. Inferno is currently selling foreign rights to the film at the Cannes Film Festival.
The movie tells the story of efforts by the late Princess Grace of Monaco (the former Grace Kelly, played by Nicole Kidman) to make peace between her adopted country and France. Grace, just 33 years old and having just given up an acting career to become Monaco's First Lady, maneuvered through a political minefield to resolve the situation, as detailed in the film.
The project is the latest move by YRF Entertainment, a Beverly Hills-based production and financing company that is a subsidiary of Indian studio Yash Raj Films, to develop, finance, and produce English language films for the U.S. and global market. Both Uday Chopra and Pierre-Ange Le Pogam are particularly pleased to be teaming up to bring "Grace of Monaco" to the big-screen.
Chopra says, "'Grace of Monaco' is the kind of movie that has a perfect blend of talent and sensibility that YRF Entertainment is proud to be a part of. We look forward to a great partnership with Olivier and Pierre-Ange."
Le Pogam says, "When I first read the script written by Arash Amel, I thought it was a great story to tell, with a lot of artistic, historical and emotional potential. This is why I invited Olivier Dahan to become the director because he has this artistic vision. When Olivier and I met with Nicole Kidman for the first time, we felt immediately she was the right artist to portray Princess Grace. When I then met with Uday, I had the same feeling after our conversation. He was obviously the right partner because of his beautiful vision of the movie. We are very proud and enthusiastic to be sharing the experience of working together with YRF."
YRF Entertainment is currently also overseeing post-production on Peter Glanz's upcoming comedic feature, "The Longest Week", starring Jason Bateman and Olivia Wilde, and has a slate of films in development.


text: Interest in human sexuality has long been linked to progressive thinking. Erotica fans may not be aware of the connection, but their prurient interests have helped popularize technology ranging from VCRs and DVD players to the Internet, and many smut peddlers have presented visions of the world where social ills, from racial intolerance to the generation gap, are overcome by a healthy libido. The archivists at Something Weird Video, who have spent more than a decade collecting drive-in and grindhouse ephemera for home-video release, have dedicated their latest double-feature DVDs to a set of exploitation pictures with a message. From the era of the Billy Jack/Walking Tall/Deathwish revenge fantasy comes 1975's David Friedman-produced, William Castleman-directed Johnny Firecloud, which stars Victor Mohica as a Native American who witnesses the degradation of his people at the hands of corrupt lawmen and rednecks, until the day that he snaps and goes on a blood-splattered rampage. The same disc features the 1972 Friedman/ Castleman collaboration Bummer!, about a troop of groupies who go from laughing it up at an L.A. topless club to ducking the violent sexual advances of a psychotic bassist (played by familiar character actor Dennis Burkley, at the start of his career). Also available is a DVD pairing of two youth-culture "exposés": the 1966 Sunset Strip travelogue Mondo Mod and the 1967 San Francisco study The Hippie Revolt, both of which mix documentary footage of druggies, rockers, and political activists with staged scenes of pin-up girls taking their clothes off in front of psychedelic light displays. As usually happens with Something Weird products, the added attractions steal the show from the main features. The Mod/Hippie disc is highlighted by a running commentary from '60s California scenesters Johnny Legend and Eric Caidin, who reminisce about what it was really like to play in a band, score dope, and live on a commune. They undercut the breathless sensationalism of the films' original narration by making honest observations about the tedium of stoned-out sitar jams, as well as the fact that pretty earth-mother types rarely put out. The Johnny Firecloud/Bummer! disc contains a commentary by Friedman, who has talked about his movies for Something Weird DVDs before, but here goes way off topic to discuss his career in low-budget nudie pictures and explain why his brief, profitable detour into hardcore pornography and the Ilsa movie series ruined the fun and cleverness of B-picture huckstering. Both discs also offer copious trailers for period drive-in fare, which demonstrate Friedman-style marketing savvy in their attempts to tease the audience with skin while pretending that the movie being sold represents an honest account of contemporary problems. The sweet delusions of semi-talented filmmakers trying to tell compelling stories in a formulaic, money-making genreand the customers who hide their lust for violence and carnality behind a feigned interest in hot-button issuesreaches a head in the trailer for Girls In Trouble. In phony man-on-the-street interviews, actors posing as theater patrons praise the film for its up-to-date honesty, while dropping the phrase "so much sex and nudity" with hilarious regularity.


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Branson, Missouri is known for its annual Veterans Week Celebration, during which they honor the sacrifices and courage of those who have served for their country.
In years past, the Factory Merchants Mall has been used as a headquarters for Veterans Week activities. Last year, this was not the case, but for the 2012 Branson Veterans Week the facility will once again be used by the Branson Veterans Task Force as a launching point for many activities and create an area for veterans to gather and reminisce.
The Factory Merchants Mall, known as the Red Rood Mall to locals, provides a free space for the task force to set up a registry, offer free meals to veterans, entertainment and a day room for veterans to relax and catch up with fellow veterans.
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1 Jeremiah was still confined to the Court of the Guard when the word of Yahweh came to him a second time, as follows,
2 'Yahweh who made the earth, who formed it and set it firm -- Yahweh is his name -- says this,
3 "Call to me and I will answer you; I will tell you great secrets of which you know nothing.
4 For this is what Yahweh, God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah which are about to be destroyed by means of the earthworks and the sword;
5 about those now fighting the Chaldaeans, only to fill the city with corpses, those whom I have slaughtered in my furious anger, those whose wickedness has made me hide my face from this city:
6 Look, I shall bring them remedy and cure; I shall cure them and reveal a new order of peace and loyalty to them.
7 I shall bring back the captives of Judah and the captives of Israel and shall rebuild them as before.
8 I shall cleanse them of all their guilt, by which they have offended me, I shall forgive all their guilty actions, by which they have offended me and rebelled against me.
9 And, for me, Jerusalem will become a name of joy and praise and pride for all the nations on earth to see; when they hear of all the prosperity that I shall give, they will be seized with fear and trembling at all the prosperity and the peace that I provide for it."
10 'Yahweh says this, "In this place of which you now say: It is a ruin, without human or animal, in the towns of Judah and desolate streets of Jerusalem where there is neither human nor animal, once more will be heard
11 shouts of rejoicing and mirth, the voices of bridegroom and bride, and the singing of those who bring thanksgiving sacrifices to the Temple of Yahweh: Give thanks to Yahweh Sabaoth, for Yahweh is good, for his faithful love is everlasting. For I shall bring back the country's captives, as before, Yahweh says."
12 'Yahweh Sabaoth says this, "In this ruinous place, without human or animal, in all its towns, once again there will be pastures for the shepherds to rest their flocks.
13 In the towns of the highlands, of the lowlands and the Negeb, in the territory of Benjamin, in the districts round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah, once again the flocks shall pass under the hand of someone who counts them, Yahweh says.
14 "Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall fulfil the promise of happiness I made to the House of Israel and the House of Judah:
15 In those days and at that time, I shall make an upright Branch grow for David, who will do what is just and upright in the country.
16 In those days Judah will triumph and Israel live in safety. And this is the name the city will be called: Yahweh-is-our-Saving-Justice."
17 'For Yahweh says this, "David will never lack a male descendant to occupy the throne of the House of Israel,
18 nor will the levitical priests ever lack male descendants to stand before me and offer the burnt offering, to burn the cereal offering and offer sacrifice every day." '
19 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah as follows,
20 'Yahweh says this, "If you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night do not come at their due time,
21 then my covenant with David my servant might also be broken and he would have no son to reign on his throne, and so also might my covenant with the levitical priests, who are my ministers.
22 As surely as the array of heaven cannot be counted, nor the sand of the sea be measured, so surely shall I increase the heirs of David my servant and the Levites who minister to me." '
23 The word of Yahweh came to Jeremiah as follows,
24 'Have you not noticed what these people say, "The two families which Yahweh chose he has now rejected"? So they despise my people, whom they no longer think of as a nation.
25 Yahweh says this, "If I have not created day and night and fixed the laws governing heaven and earth,
26 why, then I shall reject the descendants of Jacob and of David my servant and cease to choose rulers from his descendants for the heirs of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob! For I shall bring back their captives and take pity on them." '
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Greenbeard was the navigator aboard the Flying Dutchman, under the command of Davy Jones. He was usually seen operating at the helm of the Dutchman.
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Despite his name, he had no visible beard to speak of, though he did have a lattice of green seaweed strewn all over his body. His head was conical with crusty, coral-like green flesh and a pair of round yellow eyes sunk into slit-shaped sockets. Greenbeard also had mussels for teeth. As he had become very plantlike, he did not need to eat or sleep.[1] Additionally, he seems to have had a moderate case of Tourette Syndrome, causing his head to twitch involuntarily to one side or another.
When the crew boarded a wreck, it was he who killed the Chaplain, and got help by Ratlin to throw the body overboard. After Will Turner joined the crew and stole the key to the Dead Man's Chest from Jones, Greenbeard was approached by Bootstrap Bill Turner, who informed him the captain wanted Bootstrap to relieve Greenbeard. The navigator snarled in response, likely not believing Turner, though relinquished his post anyway. It transpired that Bootstrap had indeed been lying, and had been helping his son escape the Flying Dutchman. Afterward, Greenbeard, along with other crewmembers, was chosen to reclaim Jones' chest and key on Isla Cruces. He was also one of the crewmembers that was run over by Will and James Norrington's wheel. Later, he was seen at the helm of the Flying Dutchman when the ship rose from underneath the sea to ambush the Black Pearl. At Jones' orders, he turned the ship to the starboard side in order for it's crew members to get a clear shot at the Black Pearl.
Sometime after the East India Trading Company gained control of the Dutchman, he fought in the battle around Calypso's maelstrom, during which he fought one of Jack Sparrow's crewmen with his bare fists when Sparrow attempted to steal the Dead Man's Chest. He transformed back to his human form as Will Turner became the new captain of the Dutchman.
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Fez is the second largest city in Morocco, and the nation's former capital. This fascinating destination is like a window onto a forgotten age, and when you embark on a holiday to Fez, you will find yourself entering into a world that has remained mostly unchanged for centuries.
The city of Fez is composed of three regions; Fes el Bali is the oldest of these, an ancient walled citadel. After that there is Fes-Jdid, which emerged in medieval times, and then the more modern French Quarter, known as Ville Nouvelle. The first of these is perhaps the most striking, and has been declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. This is where you'll find some of the most fascinating sites on a holiday to Fez, including the University of Al-Karaouine, which was founded in 859AD. Fez has sometimes been referred to as the 'Mecca of the West', or the 'Athens of Africa'.
The medina in Fes el Bali is the largest in the city, and is reported to be the world's largest car-free urban zone. A visit to this medina is an experience in itself, as you enter into a timeless maze of narrow alleyways, market stalls and street performers. You're likely to come across snake charmers, fakirs, and merchants selling items as diverse as fine fabrics, spices, livestock and designer clothing! It's certainly a great place to come if you're looking to pick up a cheap souvenir from your holiday in Fez. Check out other holidays to Tangier and holidays to Rabat.
Be sure to try the local cuisine, too – on a holiday to Fez you'll get the chance to savour some of the finest Moroccan delicacies, including the famous tagines, hearty stews, grilled meats and colourful salads. Mint tea is the most popular drink here, and it is usually served in a small glass with a generous helping of sugar.
Other attractions on a Fez holiday include a range of holy sites, such as the shrine known as Zaouia Moulay Idriss II. This important religious monument was built in 1440AD, to commemorate the death of Moulay Idriss II, one of Morocco's former rulers. Another popular attraction is the Dar al-Magana, which is Arabic for 'clock house'. This curious building houses an antique water-powered clock; a revolution in engineering, when it was constructed in the 12th century. Then there's the beautiful Ibn Danan Synagogue, a Jewish place of worship dating back to the 17th century.
Holidays in Fez will appeal to anyone with a love for culture, history and diversity. It would make a good option for a family holiday, or for anyone who just wants to experience something different. Book all your holidays to Morocco with lastminute.com.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce has named Texas the top exporting state in the nation for the seventh year in a row based on 2008 export data. Texas' exports increased more than 14 percent over the last year, totaling $192.14 billion, approximately $23.92 billion more than 2007.
"Maintaining our rank as the nation's top exporting state is proof positive that Texas has sound policies in place to cushion it from the effects of an economic downturn," said Gov. Perry. "By maintaining low taxes and reasonable and predictable regulations, business in Texas can continue to flourish, ensuring our ongoing position as a top exporting state and competitor in the global marketplace."
Texas' top export recipients in 2008 were Mexico, Canada, China, the Netherlands and Brazil which respectively imported $62.08 billion, $19.2 billion, $8.4 billion, $7.06 billion and $5.96 billion in Texas-manufactured goods and services. Texas' top exporting industries in 2008 were chemicals, computers and electronics, machinery, petroleum and coal, and transportation equipment which posted increased exports of 9.5 percent, 5.1 percent, 9.3 percent, 72 percent and 2.74 percent, respectively.
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The Federal Reserve Board on Monday announced its approval of the applications and notices under sections 3 and 4 of the Bank Holding Company Act by American Express Company and American Express Travel Related Services Company, Inc., both of New York, New York, to become bank holding companies on conversion of American Express Centurion Bank, Salt Lake City, Utah, to a bank, and to retain certain nonbanking subsidiaries, including American Express Bank, FSB, Salt Lake City, Utah.
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If you take the Commerce Street bridge or Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge and head southward into Oak Cliff on Sylvan Avenue, you'll get a closeup look at the Sour Grapes Crew's handiwork on the Belmont Hotel's retaining wall, a long stretch of colorful art next to work by famed street artists Shepard Fairey and JM Rizzi. The Sour Grapes piece, fittingly, gets the most real estate. Done freestyle, it's a collection of anthropomorphized cartoon pyramids, paletas, humps and blobs with the word "DALLAS" contrasting in big white letters. It's brightly colored and feels childlike and fun yet with a bit of urban grit to it. In other words, it feels like the Oak Cliff you're about to enter.
If Matt Purvis hadn't hurt his back playing high school football, Dallas' theater scene might never have met its newest hot leading man. Purvis, 24, grew up in Southlake, where he played ball and danced with a competitive all-guy hip-hop team. After his injury kept him off the baseball diamond too, he tried theater for the first time his senior year at Southlake Carroll High, nabbing a good part in Pajama Game. That got him hooked on acting, which he pursued with roles in Rent, Chicago and a dozen other shows at Grapevine's Ohlook Performing Arts Center, all while earning his marketing degree at UNT. Shortly after college graduation, Purvis was cast in dual leading roles in Theatre Too's production of the dirty puppet musical Avenue Q, which ran for a solid year. The week it closed, he got a lead in Theatre Arlington's musical Altar Boyz (running through October 6). "For me, theater used to be a release to get away from school or my job," Purvis says. "Doing Avenue Q for so long was a huge step. It validated my decision not to stop performing."
If you're a straight couple that includes an adventurous, open-minded lady and a guy with a functional cardiovascular system, make Saturdays at The Lodge part of your date-night rotation. Between 4 and 9 p.m., entry is free for couples (we're pretty sure this applies only to those that include a female — sorry, cheapskate dudes, no claiming to be a gay couple to weasel out of paying the cover). Even better, $25 gets dinner and dessert for two. And it's not just a buffet of chicken fingers — we're talking steak, seafood or pasta. Take advantage of happy hour prices before 9 p.m. and you'll save enough to buy her a lap dance like the good old-fashioned romantic gentleman you are.
The competition for this honor was surprisingly fierce this year. On the one hand, it's hard to top the shamelessness of Bikinis, which evicted a long-time Hill Country resident to make way for Bikinis, Texas. (At the town's grand opening, the servers made plaster casts of their breasts for a Hollywood Walk of Fame-style display.) Were this issue published in May, they would be the clear winner. But DFW-based Redneck Heaven enjoyed a late surge when its Anything But Clothes Day — featuring body paint, gumballs and, in one case, twin bags of swimming goldfish — was banned by the Lewisville City Council. In other words, the girls were just too damn naked. Truly a stroke of marketing genius.
The music at beer festivals is usually pretty lousy. And at music festivals, beer tends to be a mercilessly overpriced afterthought, with selection that ranges the spectrum all the way from Bud Light to Miller Lite. But when The Common Table and Spune Productions teamed up with Paste Magazine, they put equal emphasis on both. They've now pulled off three of the events, two in Dallas and one in Fort Worth, bringing in great indie acts and breweries. Acclaimed acts Delta Spirit, Blackalicious, Freelance Whales, Cults and Leagues set the mood at the most recent Dallas installment perfectly, and some of the best breweries in the world — including plenty of local and Texas companies — offered hard-to-find and unique brews to sample. The idea was such a hit, there's a spinoff fest called Canned in Denton October 5, as well as plans for Untapped events in Houston and Atlanta.
For two years, Chad and Nellie Montgomery's Fair Park brew fest has brought in dozens of breweries offering hundreds of great beers at reasonable prices. This year's edition included a handful of food trucks as well, which cut down greatly on the wait along with offering a better selection of potential pairings for the suds. The location, within stumbling distance of the Fair Park DART train station, meant there were no excuses for drunken driving afterward. And the specialty and one-off brews were some of the best we've seen at a beer fest. Inspired by Denver's Great American Beer Festival, the two want to grow their own fest into a destination event, and with a sell-out crowd of 5,300 at the 2013 Big Texas Beer Fest, it may well be on its way to such a status. We'll drink to that.


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This read was an unexpected masterpiece for me. Absolutely recommended to those who are interested in Women's studies and such, but even aside from that - recommended to anyone - this is not one of those feminist books you will think pretentious. I would venture to call it a humanist book, rather, and with a focus on the female problems which are still relevant today. I still maintain that this was a book ahead of its time, and to us it can show how our current lives, our world - our time came about. Personally, I feel I have become a hundred times richer as a human being by reading it.
P.S. For anyone interested, a Project Gutenberg e-book edition of the work can be obtained online without any charge. This book is now public domain.
I found Gissing's women to be more "stock" characters, in contrast with the deeper and more rounded portrayals in Mary Taylor's Miss Miles.
Isabel was soon worked into illness. Brain trouble came on, resulting in melancholia.
I am 30 and have considered myself 'on the shelf' for an immeasurably vast number of years. Though not unsought (so my pride makes me add) nevertheless the trend of my life has bent towards spinsterhood always, for various reasons. I think it's important for this context to be made plain in my approach to Gissing's The Odd Women. I am One Of Them, one hundred years on.
I've noticed that even in the best literature; in books written by women; in books with strong central women characters; in almost any context at all – love, sex and/or marriage has been the source of satisfaction held out to every fictional woman, whether they get it or not, and whether the getting of it turns out well or not. Take Dinah Morris from Adam Bede for example. She is so strong, so committed to her cause, so different from other women; and she turns away a pleading for marriage from a good man consistently throughout the book. And then, the ending, all of a sudden – deflation. Let me make this clear: I have nothing against love and marriage. I like to read a good romance as much as the next woman. I am happy for people who find love and live happily ever after. If whatever True Love may be ever recognisably comes my way, I will not turn it away on any high-falutin' principle. But it nevertheless annoys me that fiction cannot allow a woman to stand on her own. The general idea of a 'strong independent woman' in this current generation is one who doesn't get tied down, but nevertheless has a fairly robust sex life, which defeats the purpose in this context. Single women in any generation are either eccentric, faded and sad, or desperate. (The only exception is the rich old women you find in Trollope or Thackeray, who are imperious and intimidating. Also, allow me for a moment to promote Barbara Pym, a notable exception I greatly appreciate).
The problem is, how to portray a woman who stands on her own in a way that is realistic? I cannot deny that love is a central force in life. With all the will in the world, one can't realistically push it into a back corner and pretend it doesn't matter. Whether one possesses this Love or not, it still is a forceful presence in a person's life (men as much as women? Surely?). So we have a fine balance, an interesting dilemma: love matters; yet without it, some might choose to stand alone rather than pursue a false representation of it. Why is this not explored more in fiction? It's a rich mine of exploration.
Which finally brings me to Gissing's novel. Published in 1893, by a man, at that! and yet all my ramblings above are the exact issues he deals with in this book. I think he does it with extraordinary sensitivity. I haven't explored feminist fiction in any depth, but my limited experience of it seems to focus on wider political issues. This book does not do that, even though one would almost certainly call it a feminist novel. He limits its feminist explorations to the quiet inward experience of life in a single woman. There are a range of female characters, all single (at least at first), some weak, some strong, all intelligent. Outwardly, the choices in life for them are few: one turns to drink, another to an unhappy marriage, another to social causes. But the real meat of the novel is how they approach their situation on the inside. The stronger women ask themselves the really hard questions, and they find a way, just like anyone else does, to accept the hard and pursue the good, and make a way in life. They are whole people, no different to a married person! Funny, that.
Gissing overcomes many difficulties men of his era would have fallen into so easily. He does not masculinise strength in a woman. He sensitively depicts a powerful relationship between an independent woman and an independent man in a society where such a thing is rare and strange, thus putting all sorts of strains and boundary-testing in a struggle between the two. Intelligence, strength of will, originality, decisiveness: these qualities in the 19th century were considered wholly masculine – and I admire Gissing for his ability to see beyond the norms of his times. He doesn't get everything perfect – some moments made me cringe just a little, but I give him all credit – he was dealing with a subject so naturally foreign to him, as a man, and as a resident of 19th century England, and he did it courageously.
The book is, if nothing else, a struggle with perilous concepts bravely undertaken.
Worth reading, but I don't think it's as good as New Grub Street. The back cover presents it as being about the "surplus" women Victorian Britain was always going on about, but mostly it's not. Virginia's alcoholism and Alice's horrific work experiences are only mentioned in passing. Mostly it's about what I guess is Gissing's big theme, how society makes real marriage, real unions, impossible. In New Grub Street, it was poverty that got in the way, and here it's society's insistence that a woman has to be a wife that actually makes marriage between equals impossible. The story mostly focuses on Monica's bad marriage, and the attempted union between two free thinkers who don't think so freely as they believe they do. I think that was the point. These two subplots are gone into with a fair amount of detail, and there are times when the level of detail becomes excruciating.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0140433791, Paperback)Virginia and Alice Madden are odd women', growing old alone in Victorian England with no prospect of finding love. Forced into poverty by the sudden death of their father, they lead lives of quiet desperation in a genteel boarding house in London. Meanwhile, their younger sister Monica, struggles to endure a loveless marriage she agreed to as her only escape from spinsterhood. But when the Maddens meet an old friend, Rhoda Nunn, they are soon made aware of the depth of their oppression. Astonishingly ahead of its time, "The Odd Women" is a pioneering work of early feminism. Gissing's depiction of the daring feminist Rhoda Nunn, it is an unflinching portrayal of one woman's struggle to reconcile her own desires with her deepest principles.
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Class of 1963, Golden Blugolds, and friends in Schofield Auditorium
Chancellor James Schmidt welcoming the Golden Blugolds to campus.
Chancellor James Schmidt presenting the 50 year Golden blugold pin to 1963 grad, Jacqueline (Moldenhauer) Fedie.
Faith (Kappus) MaCaghy and her husband, Larry both received 50 year pins.
Dr. Jerome Johnson '63
Jean (White) Wold '63 pinned by Chancellor, her husband, James Wold also received his 50 year pin.
Kermit Culbertson '63
Corinne Charlson '51 greets Chancellor Schmidt with Carol Endl '51
Sally Hibbard Hanson and Chancellor Schmidt in the Alumni Room, where memorabilia of her father, Richard Hibbard, is on display.
Carol (Shirley) McDonough '63
Alumni Board Student Rep. Emily Kjelstad, and David Sanders '63 talk over lunch.
Bob Mickelson '59 and Don Gilbertson '59.
Marty '61 and Jane Hanson
Jim Bollinger '57
Nancy Gilbertson '57, Chancellor Schmidt and Billie Kenitzer '57.
1963 Alum, Jerry Geske
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Posted By Alex Belth On July 14, 2011 @ 9:58 am In 1: Featured,Links: Sportswriting,Magazine Writers,Sportswriting | Comments Disabled
Ah, now Grantland [2] has something here that really smokes. They are running a "Director's Cut" series reprinting old pieces of sports writing. First up, is Tony Kornheiser's profile of Nolan Ryan from the debut issue of Inside Sports [3]. Kornheiser was a wonderful long-form writer, first at Newsday, then the New York Times, where he covered basketball and wrote, "That Damned Yankees," which stands as one the finest stories on George Steinbrenner.
For the first year-and-a-half of its run, Inside Sports was terrific. It was run by John Walsh. Tom Boswell was their baseball guy, Pete Axthelm contributed a column. Diane K. Shah was there. Gary Smith got his start as a magazine writer there and once wrote a wonderful basketball story called "Tinkerbell and Sweet Lou." Kornheiser did several bonus pieces, including a classic one on Joe Nameth, and the great Pete Dexter also did takeouts for them–on Jim Brown, Randy White, Daryl Dawkins, and the Tooz. Len Shapiro wrote about Bill James, John Schulian about Mark Aguirre and Gary Fencik, George Kimball on George Brett, and Dick Young wrote a fine piece on Duke Snider [4]. Oh, yeah, Leonard Gardner, who wrote perhaps the finest boxing novel of them all [5], covered Duran Leonard.
Pat Jordan wrote the most celebrated story in the magazine's history, a profile of Steve and Cyndi Garvey. The Garvey's sued Inside Sports' parent company (The Washington Post) and the ordeal put Jordan's career on hold for more than a year (though he wrote two more pieces for them: a spring training story on the Yankees, and a profile of Steve Dalkowski). The suit, however, kept the magazine going longer than expected, according to Jay Lovinger, one of its editors. The case was eventually settled, the Garveys got divorced, and the Post sold the magazine. It was never the same.
I'm looking forward to this series. It's a real mitzvah when you consider that the majority of the greatest sports writing is not available on-line.
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Last year, when then-Auburn offensive coordinator took off for Arkansas State, no one could believe it. Turns out, we should have seen this possibility.Gus Malzahn was hired today by Auburn as their head football coach to replace Gene Chizik. Chizik lasted only two years after his championship run in 2010. But more importantly, Chizik lasted only one season without Malzahn.Malzahn's departure to Arkansas State may have been surprising. But when it was all said and done, he won the Sun Belt title, and had the same people he left asking him to return.Malzahn is playing with house money for a few years. If there is the slightest whisper that he might get canned during a rough patch, Malzahn could possibly walk into another job just as easily as he left for Arkansas State.Looking back, it was a very sneaky move by Malzahn. Did he throw Chizik to the wolves with a "you can't win without me" WWE tag team breakup moment?Regardless of the why, Malzhan looks like a ninja a year later.
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VATICAN CITY -- In the Catholic Church, it's true that everything old can be new again, and the Vatican wants one of those things to be the art of "apologetics" -- dusted off and updated to respond to new challenges, including those posed by militant atheists.
The term "apologetics" literally means "to answer, account for or defend," and through the 1950s even Catholic high school students were given specific training in responding to questions about Catholicism and challenges to church teaching.
At least in Northern Europe and North America, the effort mainly was a response to Protestantism. Today, while sects and fundamentalist groups challenge Catholics in many parts of the world, almost all Catholics face objections to the idea of belief in general, said Legionary of Christ Father Thomas D. Williams, a professor at Rome's Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University.
Father Williams is author of "Greater Than You Think: A Theologian Answers the Atheists About God," written in response to the late Christopher Hitchens' book, "God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," and similar works.
Over the past 50 years, apologetics lost its general appeal because "it was considered proselytism," an aggressive attempt to win converts that was replaced by ecumenical dialogue, he said. It didn't help that many Catholics started seeing all religions as equally valid paths to salvation, so they thought it was best to encourage people to live their own faith as best they could without trying to encourage them to consider Christianity.
Among the Regina Apostolorum students, he said, there is a renewed interest in apologetics -- usually covered today under the heading of fundamental theology. "You can change the name, make it gentler and nicer, but you always have to give reasons for your hope and belief," he said.
While there have been scattered attempts to train Catholics to explain their faith to others since Vatican II, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has asked for a more widespread effort to get apologetic material into the hands of Catholics.
In early January, the congregation issued a note on preparing for the Year of Faith, which will begin in October. Addressing national bishops' conferences, the congregation said, "It would be useful to arrange for the preparation of pamphlets and leaflets of an apologetic nature" so that every Catholic could "respond better to the questions which arise in difficult contexts" from sects to moral relativism and from secularism to science and technology.
The congregation included a reference to the biblical admonition from the First Letter of Peter: "Always be ready to give an explanation to anyone who asks you for a reason for your hope."
The passage continues by saying responses should be given "with gentleness and reverence," which Jesuit Father Felix Korner said means taking the attitude that "the person talking to me has a real question; through the question I discover the deeper grounds of my hope and joy; I try to respond by making myself and our faith understood."
The Jesuit, a theology professor at Rome's Pontifical Gregorian University and expert in Christian-Muslim relations, said, "Apologetics in the restricted, poor, primitive sense later became: 'I learn some answers, and I respond to any question as if it were an attack by refuting the other.'"
To make apologetics part of a true Christian witness, he said, involves "being interested in the newness of the question" posed and "challenged by its rationality, daring to explore deeper my own tradition and hope."
Pope Benedict XVI and the Pontifical Council for Culture have chosen the path of dialogue to explore the issues and objections to faith raised by some secular humanists, atheists and agnostics. The pope invited nonbelievers to his day of dialogue for peace in Assisi last October and the pontifical council has launched a dialogue project called "the Courtyard of the Gentiles" to explore issues raised by experts in the fields of politics, economics, law, literature and the arts.
An effort to combine dialogue and apologetics is found in Catholic Voices, an organization in the United Kingdom that compiles detailed responses to current questions and trains Catholics to present official church teaching civilly and clearly in the media when questions are raised on controversial topics.
The need for articulate Catholics who could remain calm under fire became evident after a 2009 formal debate in England in which Hitchens and the actor Stephen Fry faced off against Nigerian Archbishop John Onaiyekan of Abuja and Ann Widdecombe, a Catholic member of Parliament. The crowd clearly was on the side of Hitchens and Fry, who argued against the motion that "the Catholic Church is a force for good."
Jack Valero, coordinator of Catholic Voices and U.K. press spokesman for Opus Dei, said the group began by trying to respond to objections raised by groups protesting Pope Benedict's 2010 visit to Scotland and England. The issues included homosexuality, contraception, assisted suicide, clerical sexual abuse, abortion, AIDS, same-sex marriage and women in the church.
"Once we had identified the issues, we studied how best to answer them and developed our apologetics materials," Valero said.
But having written responses isn't enough. "If somebody communicates aggressively, which is not a very Christian way to behave, then the message does not come across," he said.
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Last week, Marcell Dareus told reporters that he was hoping for a fresh start to this season after being benched at the end of last season for tardiness to meetings and getting arrested on a possession charge.
He followed that statement with yet another arrest this weekend, proving that his maturity level is not where it needs to be.
Dareus was arrested and charged with multiple charges, with reckless endangerment being one of the more serious of the bunch. He was reportedly drag racing and left the scene of an accident that caused property damage.
Dareus is sliding down a slippery slope, as his continuous involvement in negative headlines will not only hurt his image and value as a player, but it will certainly cause a distraction for his teammates. Buffalo Bills head coach Doug Marrone says that he will continue to support Dareus, however.
"Obviously, we all know and are well aware that Marcell has made some poor decisions lately and the one thing is that I've been working with him and he's dealing with a lot of personal issues too," Marrone told Buffalobills.com. "I spoke with him at length and we spent a lot of time together talking about a lot of things. As of now, he's not going to be attending the OTA's, but he'll be attending the mandatory minicamp when we come back. I just want to make sure that I'm clear that everyone understands that I believe in Marcell and I will do everything I can to make sure that we can get him on the right track. Really that's the situation. There are a lot of things going on, a lot of personal talk and that's really all I'm going to comment on. The conversations we had are between us and we're working this thing. I'm disappointed in all of our players anytime anyone of us, including myself, when we make poor decisions. It's a reflection of the team, which is a reflection of me and it's a reflection on this organization."
Dareus may be going through some personal issues that are clouding his judgment, but he's still a professional in the NFL and an adult. Personal issues are not an excuse for drag racing and using synthetic drugs.
It helps Dareus that Marrone is supporting him publicly while he confronts whatever issues he is dealing with. Hopefully for him and Bills fans he is able to get back on track. Dareus is entering his fourth season and is coming off a season where he registered 7.5 sacks and 71 tackles, both of which are career highs. If he can get his off-field issues under control, he could certainly become a dominant part of what will appear to be a very tough defense.Tags: Buffalo, Buffalo Bills, Football, NFL


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The death of legendary street figure Horace White was the most read story on the Times Series website in 2012.
Web figures published today show more than 34,000 people read the initial report into the much-loved 54-year-old's sudden passing on September 24.
Horace was extremely well-known in the North Finchley area where he hung around outside shops and chatted to passers-by for more than three decades.
Coverage of his untimely death and subsequent tributes that poured in during the following days attracted huge interest on social networking sites too.
As well as being the most read, the story headlined 'Legendary street figure Horace has died' was tweeted more times than any other article.
On the Times and Independent Series Facebook page, four stories covering Horace's death filled the top four most 'liked' by readers, a tribute to the popularity of the man.
The second most popular was our live coverage of a dramatic situation in East Barnet on January 11 when police were left in a stand-off with a man hanging out of a block of flats waiving a crossbow.
The man was eventually talked down from his flat and after receiving treatment in hospital, was committed under the Mental Health Act.
The tragic death of retired social worker Hilary Lee, who was fatally struck by a lorry as she cycled through High Barnet on October 16, was also in the top-five most read stories.
Meanwhile, a video of the daring jewellery raid by a gang on motorcycles in Brent Cross and a report on alleged abusive comments made by Councillor Brian Coleman during a public meeting also made the top ten.
Smash-and-grab thieves stole an estimated £2million of jewellery during the Brent Cross raid on November 6, while Councillor Coleman was investigated for allegedy swearing at a member of the public on April 4.
The story on Councillor Coleman and the coverage of the armed man were also among the most tweeted and most 'liked' on Facebook.
A pre-piece detailing an open day at rugby club Saracens' new home at the former Copthall Stadium, now named Allianz Park, attracted the most read comments this year.
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Drones - The Nuclear Weapon for This Generation?
Jonathan Langley
Cricket may not be a real sport as far as the Olympics are concerned - and, seriously, how do they decide that stuff? Shooting, walking and about 25,000 iterations of cycling make the cut, but rugby, cricket and darts don't? Someone has blundered. - but it seems to breed a fair amount of courage.
At least, one could be forgiven for thinking that after reading about Imran Khan's latest exploits.
Khan is, of course, one of the most famous cricketers of this (or at least my) generation. He is also an outspoken politician in his native Pakistan.
Khan recently announced that he would be ignoring a Taliban threat to send him home in a body bag if he went ahead with a planned visit to Pakistan's South Waziristan region, near Afghanistan.
Take that, synchronized swimmers. You are, of course, some of the greatest athletes in the whole of the Olympics, pushing the human body to its gymnastic limits, performing feats of endurance and strength in perfect harmony with several other athletes, all while running the risk of drowning and never failing to smile.
You do all that and then brave the sneers and jibes of people who think, for some unfathomable reason, that managing to run in a straight line for nine seconds is more impressive.
But even you, consistently underestimated aquatic heroines, aren't Imran Khan. The "it's not sport if it might be mistaken for art" crowd may be tiresome, but they have never blown up a swimming pool.
Jeremy Clarkson may be intimidating, but he is not the Taliban. For a start, the Taliban seems to care quite a lot about clothes. So, even though you were my favorites in these Olympics, my award for sporting courage this month goes to Khan.
When he received the alleged threat from Islamic militants, Khan was planning to visit Waziristan to protest the use of military drones to kill suspected militants in his country.
Drones, if you're unfamiliar with the term, are "unmanned vehicles," sort of like remote-controlled planes or helicopters, armed with real weapons.
And the reason Khan is protesting them is that the United States has been using them extensively in parts of Pakistan, at times, according to critics, killing civilians with them.
Recently, The Spectator ran an interview with author Daniel Suarez on the subject of these highly effective and still relatively new weapons.
Swarming drones, micro-drones, drones with the ability to recognize faces and drones enabled to make "kill decisions" without any human being involved are all possible and most already exist.
Like the courage, skill and genius of synchronized swimmers, ethical questions around drones and their civilian surveillance potential (also already a reality in many places) deserve more serious attention than they currently get from most of us, according to Suarez.
There are two issues to consider: the use of drones to attack targets in a sovereign country, and the use of drones at all.
The first is easy to discern ethically: ask yourself how the United States would react to Cuba accidentally killing a few U.S. citizens on U.S. soil as they attempted to track down threats to Cuban security. Or imagine if Canada did it.
One suspects a storm of a particularly unpleasant and unhygienic kind would be unleashed.
So far, Pakistan has not unleashed a storm of anything but protest and reduced cooperation against the U.S.
If this does not strike you as in some way odd or unfair, you clearly think there is something about the United States (The predominant race? The professed religion? Military strength as a manifestation of God's blessing?) that gives it rights that no other country has.
If the U.S. example is too distant, try this: the equivalent situation to Pakistan's for us in the United Kingdom is a 7/7 bombing every month, but with better equipment. If that were ever to happen (and I pray it does not), I'm pretty sure the Church here would have something to say about it.
I know what you're thinking: "The people being killed are military enemies, not civilians."
Well, first of all, that's not what locals in Pakistan say. And second: so what?
Are military targets in the U.K. and assassinations of British soldiers on home leave from fighting in Afghanistan fair game for our enemies?
If we promise not to feign outrage if that ever happens, then I think we and our allies will have earned the moral right to similarly kill enemies outside the theatre of war.
The fact, of course, that such killings are by their nature extra-judicial raises the question of using weaponized drones at all.
Assassinations of the kind the United States is involved in mean that a small group of powerful people get to decide who lives and who dies without having to prove it to anyone likely to disagree with them. We deplore it in Syria, but when we're doing it, it's fine.
You don't have to be a religious person to object to this, but the Church, so far, has been eerily silent on the subject.
From a Christian perspective, I would argue that all warfare is regrettable and all machines whose sole purpose is to prematurely end lives should be anathema to us.
But drones are special. Worse. In a "traditional" war, one side may literally outgun an enemy and outclass them in terms of training, but both sides take risks. Both sides sustain deaths.
The tragedy of war is at least not entirely one-sided. Citizenries back home have to face the fact that war is more than theory: it has real consequences, felt by grieving families and injured veterans and, ultimately, by governments who need to listen to voters.
If a war had no "home-team" casualties, how long would it take for the public to start to question whether it was ultimately necessary? I suspect such a war would eventually not even make the papers.
Christians cannot hope for casualties on either side of a conflict, but they must work for peace.
And the clinical, detached, video-game warfare offered by drone technology promises longer wars and less interested citizens. Gamblers without a stake in the game, nations of mob-bosses, keeping their hands clean while hired killers distance them from the wet work.
Drones could be our generation's nuclear weapons, but most of us seem to be sleepwalking through the historical moment when we might intervene in their proliferation.
Drones are already a fact of life. Recently, there was a major expo for manufacturers and buyers in the United States, and President Obama is said to personally oversee drone assassinations.
This particular malevolent genie will not go back into its bottle without a fight. But better now than when tens of thousands of jobs rely on the production of what just a few decades ago would have been thought of as a menace from the world of science fiction.
Jobs, you remember, are the reason why the United States cannot cut its military spending: an arms plant in almost every state makes an ever-expanding military industrial complex good for votes.
Let's not let democracy's future be hijacked by death from above.
Jonathan Langley writes for a number of Christian publications and blogs for Huffington Post UK and The Narnian Socialist Review. This column first appeared at The Baptist Times and is used by permission.


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Right down to the bare bones effect Doomed Freedom perfectly mimics its predecessor,Doom. Everything from the in game Hud to the menus conjures up a satisfying sense of Deja Vu. The Hud appears exactly as you remember along with the face that turns bloody with your diminishing health. The face looks a little different because it's Doom clone so they have to make some minor changes! If you have never played the original Doom and perhaps grew up on a PSX or PS2, then get ready for some clunky controls. Navigating is a bitch and I realize how spoiled we are with the evolution of menus. Remember, this is part of the charm and mirrors what we used to think was 'Good' for a menu.
Along with the menus and Hud, the controls are Doom-alicious and can be customized to your preference. Trying to move and aim is the furthest thing from precision but the running and gunning at numerous enemies while just trying to survive is exhilarating and today's shooters just can't create the same feeling. Not surprisingly the controls take some time to get used to but, when you do the nostalgia is pure bliss. To make sure I give plenty of warning for those of you who never played Doom, I repeat–the controls are awful compared to todays standards–but this is how the fun started back in the old days.
The strangest thing happened, I played this well over 10 years ago and everything looks familiar, but the layout and enemies are different…Ah sorry, I forgot it's Doomed Freedom and not "Doom". Where is this nonsense going? The levels include everything in the original source from the colour key cards blocking your progress to the acid/lava rivers that flow beneath your feet. The coolest parts are the new scares of hidden enemies. I literally jumped out of my slippers from being surprised a few times! All the original enemies are represented but, like the head in the Hud, all have a different skin to them. Don't worry the attacks are the same…including the fireballs.
The Disclaimer (this is a first for me): Doomed Freedom is almost an exact replica of Doom and offers a bloody good time. Like the original, the graphics and camera can cause motion sickness and are not pretty to look at. So if you're a new gamer who's first system was a PS2 then maybe avoid this game unless you want to experience what gaming was like when it started to move over into 3d. Now for all you older gamers, rev up your DeLorean–this is an awesome gaming vacation.
The Bottom Line:
While Doomed Freedom is a remarkable remake of Doom, it mimics retro menus and controls, the in-game and menu UI will turn off many new players. However, if you remember sneaking out of bed while your parents were sleeping to play one more level then you will absolutely love Doomed Freedom.


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Jesse Guardiani schrieb am 04. March 2005:
>>To me FBSD is going into the same direction Linux has already gone.
>>Old unix virtues like stability are sacrificed (...)
>I don't see 4.x as being the rock of reliability
It's (IMHO) much better than the 5.x branch. Although (as I said
above) FBSD is going into the same direction as Linux.
>I have a 4.x machine that crashes every few months or so even without
>high load.
That's the main reason why I chose OpenBSD.
>I have a linux machine that is just as reliable as my production 4.x
>machine. The uptimes are comparable.
Which only proves my point (see above). FBSD and Linux are (IMHO) not
the most stable unixoid Operating Systems and (again IMHO) not ideal
for a router platform. However OpenBSD's security policy and features
like pf (there is a reason why it's ported to other BSDs) and CARP
should make it a favourite for embedded router platforms.
>I think what you have to realize is the incredible amount of complexity
>these OS's deal with
I am sorry, but there is no excuse for crashes/freezes. That might be
okay for Desktop machines, might be normal in Mickysoft's small world,
but it's unworthy of a unixoid OS.
Sure I can reboot m0n0wall via cronjob every two days, but this is
just lame.
>I don't push a massive amount of traffic across my 4801 (maxed out T1),
>but mine is far from unreliable. Have you tried a different 4801?
I bought a WRAP and disabled the cronjob. Although a hardware fault of
the Soekris seems unlikely, I cannot exclude it. I'll see how long the
WRAP keeps running.
>Production lines are fairly reliable usually, but they do produce bad
>batches from time to time.
You are right: one cannot be sure whether the hardware has some kind
of flaw. Since there seem to be not many freezes, it really might be a
problem on my side.
Thanks for your response and kind regards


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Wed, Nov 7, 2012 | By Halil M. Karaveli
This article was first published in the Turkey Analyst, vol. 5 no. 21 (www.turkeyanalyst.org), a biweekly publication of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center. © Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center, 2012.
Turkey's governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been well served by the confrontational style of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Confrontation and the perpetuation of high political tension have helped to keep the base of the party mobilized. However, there are now many signs that indicate that confrontation fatigue is spreading among the population. The majority of Turkey's population does not want to remain engaged in the confrontation with the regime in Syria, and President Abdullah Gül has concluded that he can mount an effective challenge to Erdoğan in the contest for the presidency by casting himself as the advocate of moderation and reconciliation at home.
On October 29, on the day of the 89th anniversary of the Turkish republic, police in Ankara violently dispersed thousands of secularists who attempted to march to the mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish republic. The march had been outlawed, as the secularists had allegedly been planning to provoke and commit acts of violence. When the secularist protesters nonetheless did gather at the city center, President Abdullah Gül ordered the governor of Ankara to show lenience toward them; subsequently the police barricades on their way were removed. However, that in turn drew the ire of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan who stated that the police barricades should not have been removed. In what amounted to an act of defiance against President Gül, Erdoğan stated that "there cannot be a double-command at the helm of the state".
Yet the opposing stances of the president and prime minister as to how the demonstrators on October 29 should be treated underline that there is indeed a growing dissonance between the two men at the helm of the Turkish state, with Erdoğan — as usual — standing for confrontation and with Gül, who has always taken care to make a cautious impression, now explicitly positioning himself as the advocate of societal reconciliation and reason.
Erdoğan is not a politician who shies away from confrontation. Indeed, that is in essence what characterizes his leadership style. Erdoğan has rarely made any serious attempt as prime minister to engage in constructive dialogue with political opponents; be they secularists or Kurds, he tends to treat them with utter disdain. But picking fights with adversaries and rivals, at home as well as abroad, may no longer serve Erdoğan's political purposes as well as has been the case so far; on the contrary, the polarizing effects of his confrontational style are increasingly resented also by adherents of his own political movement, which makes him — for the first time — politically vulnerable. Meanwhile, Erdoğan's confrontational foreign policy, notably the attempt to bring about violent regime change in neighboring Syria, has made Turkey vulnerable to the counter-measures of those regional powers, chief among them Iran, that his polices have challenged.
Speaking before parliament on October 1, Gül made the case for the release of the opposition legislators who are incarcerated, and the president has similarly taken a moderate stance toward the Kurdish prisoners who are on hunger strike demanding better conditions for Abdullah Öcalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK). Erdoğan meanwhile, has been dismissive toward the prisoners and has not shown any concern for their dangerously worsening state of health.
While Erdoğan seems to assume that hard line policies and confrontation is going to continue to pay off politically, Gül has apparently reached the opposite conclusion. As his seminal speech before parliament on October 1 clearly demonstrated, Gül is challenging Erdoğan, and he does so by appropriating the cause of democratic reform and societal reconciliation; what is interesting is that Gül has concluded that he stands to gain politically from casting himself in that role, which suggests that there is indeed a constituency for reform and reconciliation to be mobilized.
Prime Minister Erdoğan plans to become Turkey's first popularly elected president in 2014, and he is currently attempting to change the constitution and introduce an executive presidency that would enshrine one man rule. But Gül has advertised that he does not intend to quietly step aside in 2014, and some polls in fact show Gül to be ahead of Erdoğan in the contest for the presidency. And it may very well be that Gül is better at reading the public mood than Erdoğan.
For the first time since becoming prime minister, Erdoğan is not in tune with public opinion on a major issue; according to the polls, a vast majority of the population — around seventy percent — disapproves of the Syrian regime change policy of the AKP government, and an overwhelming majority is similarly opposed to any kind of Turkish military intervention in Syria.
Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, whom Erdoğan wants to see toppled, has proved to have far more staying power than Erdoğan had expected when he set about to engineer regime change in Damascus. Al-Assad has also — together with his ally Iran — managed to turn the tables on Ankara by playing the Kurdish card against Turkey. Thus, what was supposed to demonstrate Turkey's, and thereby Erdoğan's power — that Turkey, in the recent words of Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu is the "master" of the Middle East which it supposedly "owns" and is going to "redesign" — has instead served to expose Turkish vulnerabilities and the limitations of its power. What had seemed to be a golden opportunity to project Turkish power has the potential to turn into a security nightmare for Turkey. It may also confound Erdoğan's personal political plans.
What may prove consequential for Erdoğan's political future is that his foray into the Syrian civil war is contributing to widening the cracks among the coalition of Islamic movements that sustain the power of the AKP.
Ali Bulaç, a leading Islamic intellectual writing in the daily Zaman, recently laid out the case against Erdoğan's "personalized foreign policy", condemning his attempt to overthrow al-Assad. The Zaman writer warned that a Turkish military intervention in Syria would provoke an enmity between the Arabs and the Turks "lasting centuries", that it would once again subordinate civilian power to the military, make the Kurdish problem intractable "and perhaps most dangerously", embroil Turkey in war with Iran and its proxies Iraq, Syria and Lebanon (presumably Hezbollah). The power struggle that has erupted between Erdoğan and the Islamic movement of Fethullah Gülen during the last year may explain why such criticism is voiced at this particular juncture in the main media outlet of the Gülen movement.
But it is also a fact that Erdoğan's Syrian regime change policy is in variance with the material interests — as well as with the attendant worldview — of the Anatolian, pious middle class. In fact, the pious middle class, which has been the main engine of the AKP's rise to and entrenchment in power, has a vested interest in a non-ideological, business-friendly international environment, not in sectarian and religious strife.
Erdoğan's Middle Eastern adventurism runs counter to such fundamental class dynamics, and has indeed already come at a significant cost for the Anatolian middle class. The economic hubs in southern Turkey have suffered substantial losses in income as a result of the collapse of trade and business with Syria. And neither has the pious middle class any interest in the perpetuation of confrontation at home, be it with the secularists — a minority that has already been evicted from power — or with the Kurds, a minority that the state has been unable to subjugate despite decades of warfare and oppression.
The interests of the ascendant Anatolian middle class were best served when Turkey sought to have "zero problems" with its neighbors. Turkey's imperial ambition to "redesign" the Middle East, meanwhile, is about to squander valuable Turkish soft power in the region. A recent survey by TESEV, a Turkish NGO, which was undertaken in sixteen Middle Eastern countries, demonstrates this fact; whereas Turkey was viewed positively by 78 percent of the respondents in the region a year ago, that percentage has now gone down to 69 percent. 66 percent of the Middle Eastern populations nonetheless still want Turkey to assume a more active role in the region; however, the case of Syria is a notable exception, with only 39 percent of the Syrians endorsing a greater Turkish involvement in the region.
Turkey's rulingparty has been well served by the confrontational style of Prime Minister Erdoğan; confrontation and the perpetuation of high political tension have helped to keep the base of the party mobilized. However, there are now many signs that indicate that confrontation fatigue is spreading among the population. The majority of Turkey's population does not want to remain engaged in the confrontation with the regime in Syria, and President Gül has concluded that he can mount an effective challenge to Erdoğan in the contest for the presidency after 2014 by casting himself as the advocate of moderation and reconciliation at home.
Kemalism may have been thoroughly defeated, but Kemal Atatürk's famous dictum "Peace at home, peace abroad" resonates perhaps more powerfully today than it has done in a long time. And that is something that speaks for Gül in the contest between him and Erdoğan for the presidency.
Halil M. Karaveli is Senior Fellow with the the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program Joint Center and the Managing Editor of the Turkey Analyst.


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National Public Radio's "Fresh Air [2]" welcomed Times columnist Paul Krugman on Tuesday, ostensibly to talk with host Terry Gross about his recent cover story on the Euroland for the NYT's magazine. But Krugman predictably touted the superiority of Europe's welfare state (Hat tip colleague Tim Graham). From the online transcript:
GROSS: Now, the Europeans have had a very strong safety net for people who are unemployed, health care benefits. There are countries like France that have very good benefits for new mothers. So there's a strong safety net there. But there's more and more people now who need that safety net because of unemployment. So how has that affected the economies in European countries? And I'm wondering also how that's affecting your thinking about strong safety nets and their pros and cons.
KRUGMAN: I think it cuts both ways. On the one side, those strong safety nets have meant that the amount of sheer misery in Europe is considerably less than here. You've actually had a roughly same depth of recession in terms of GDP, in terms of industrial production in Europe, as in the United States. But in the United States, that has really meant incredible individual hardship. In Europe - even in the troubled economies, and very much so in the stronger economies like France or Germany - there just hasn't been - things have not been so terrible.
Actually, unemployment hasn't risen as much in Europe as it has here because there are more - there's more regulation of hiring and firing, which has helped to sustain jobs. And those who do lose their jobs don't lose their health benefits. They have a lot more support. So in a lot of ways, Europe is weathering this crisis better, as a human process, then we are.
On the other hand, European budgets - because they have such a strong social safety net, European budgets are hit very hard when there is an economic slump. So some place like Spain, they moved from a budget surplus to a huge budget deficit in the face of the slump, and it's not because of anything - or not much because of anything the Spanish government did. It's just because, well, they had a lot of taxes, and the revenue has plunged, and they have a lot of benefits that have to be paid because of their system. They are, in some ways, more fiscally vulnerable to a slump than we are.