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CSS OptimizationSeptember 16, 2005
Some thoughts on how to go about writing a CSS optimizer.
I received an enthusiastic message off the contact form this morning from someone writing an online CSS optimization tool. So I had a look.
The idea of compressing CSS/HTML isn't a new one; around 2000, I spent a bit of time writing a "cruncher" for my bloated markup that would strip whitespace and extraneous characters, and I know I was even following in someone else's footsteps then.
But the classic problem with markup optimizers is that they're lossy, which results in two problems.
First, you're saving only a fraction of the file size which was otherwise lost to unneeded characters. It's not true compression, it's only a shrinking of what gets sent over the wire. The savings aren't substantial, especially in light of true server-side compression like gzip. And CSS gets cached anyway, the initial download is a one-time hit. Hard to argue that the 2k or so which is only saved on the first visit to a site, and not on subsequent visits, is worth it considering this next problem.
Second, it's a one-way process; once you've stripped those characters, you're not getting them back. CSS isn't like GIF, in the sense that there's a separate original file (PSD, PNG, AI, whatever) that you can easily edit if you need to change a GIF. The CSS file is the original; try editing one that has been through the compression process, you won't like yourself very much for having done so. Post-production readability is not something to discard lightly.
With the cruncher I built (the Visual Basic source for which is long lost, so don't bother asking), the second problem was an important one to solve otherwise I never would have bothered. Assuming the source markup followed a certain set of white space formatting rules (tabs for indentation, multiple tabs for multiple levels of indentation, etc.) you can programmatically re-create it after the fact. And despite some exceptions, I managed to get this working rather well. One button was for compressing, another was for de-compressing; a file going through that process won't look exactly like the original, but it did look like something a human could edit.
What I find particularly interesting about this new compressor is that, being CSS-specific, it takes advantage of the cascade to combine like rules:
#header h2 {
font-size: 2em;
#sidebar h3 {
font-size: 2em;
The above code block would compress to something like so:
#header h2,#sidebar h3 {font-size:2em;}
64 bytes of code in the first example (including carriage returns) versus 39 bytes in the second example. The possible optimization really depends on selector lengths being reasonable though, as I could imagine longer selectors duplicated for different properties potentially causing the file size to grow, if they're really messy. Still, in general, you might be able to shave off a quarter of your file size or more.
So how would one go about writing a good CSS and HTML optimizer that I might consider using? I'm not sure you could. As evidenced by the fact I lost interest in the one I was writing, even if you manage to gracefully reverse the process, the extra time it takes to de-compress/re-compress every time I edit the file invalidates the relatively small benefits of using one. And everyone viewing my source would think my return key broke.
If, however, you were to write a just-in-time server-side post-processor (and throw in a few more hyphenated words while you're at it) that doesn't break CSS caching, then we might have something. Consider what Shaun Inman did with CSS SSC — having a script parse my CSS file just as it's about to get sent down the wire, so that the original CSS file I wrote doesn't get compressed (and thus I can continue to edit it without having to do anything extra), seems like the only way this could work.
Questions still linger about the ultimate effectiveness, given gzipping, and whether the parsing overhead is worth it. But a proof-of-concept that puts those concerns to rest could be an interesting experiment. Any takers?
I've seen very good result with Port80 "w3 compiler", but it's not a filter, just a standalone app.
I want to know EXACTLY what CSS is being sent to the browser – given the silly hacks/filters, overrides and other tricks of the trade we end up using.
For that reason I will never buy in to any sort of CSS optimizer like this. GZIP is perfectly adequate and doesn't change the structure of the file at all, and incredibly simple to implement (even if your server doesn't have mod_gzip and the like).
I also don't really see a point in compressing such small files even smaller. Especially when so many people are on broadband now. I also find the compressed code harder to edit. It takes longer to sift through the code to make changes when you eliminate so much white space. Still an interesting post though.
Pretty cool optimizer, not extremely useful unless you're google or http://www.the5k.org/ (site seems to be gone), but nice to know of just in case.
Sorry, forgot to ask, does anyone know what's up with the w3 css validator. It got a lot stricter a couple days ago, spitting out errors and warnings for things like line-height: 0; and not specifying a color with a background color or vice versa. Would be a lot of extra css to get rid of those warnings.
I think what Jared is suggesting is not a server-side script that compresses the CSS from your editable file to a compressed version every time it's requested, but instead a build process that you run when you upload new changes to said website. So, in the same way that you keep PSDs in some other directory somewhere else and create GIFs when you republish a new version of a site, you could keep clean nice CSS in that same directory and then run the compressor once, and upload the newly compressed file as a static file. I'm still not sure that it buys you much, though, as you point out.
With most compressors, as you've said, they just strip away some of the unneeded areas. Such as spaces and other areas of aesthetic coding. However, how on earth are we meant to read it once it's been compressed? It's just tidying it up, to make it harder to read. When we want to change it, we've got to find certain areas, and then still get confused later on.
I see little point in this, unless you're CSS file is gigantic, and you may been some sort of real compression, like gzip, it's not going to work. Even with the gzip, it will more than likely add additional server strain, which I'd rather not risk. In comparison with a few microseconds wait in loading.
We don't send PSDs over the wire, we send gifs or jpgs. Why not send the cleaned up version, and retain the good version in pristine format? It's not a difficult concept.
Personally, I don't bother. CSS files are rarely more than a few kb, and if they are, the odds are pretty good that you don't know what you're doing.
Another benefit to server-side just-in-time processing is that you can roll all your CSS files into the one request, saving the overheads of multiple HTTP requests. Pipelining, may, if you're lucky, reduce the problem, but the HTTP headers still need to be sent with each request.
To minimize server overhead in an on-the-fly compressor/obfuscator, why not cache the result? When the CSS is requested, check the last-modified date of the file (or hash it), and if it has changed, compress it and write it to disk. Otherwise, just serve up the cached file.
For those of you who don't get the compression thing ( and reading the comments, there's a number of you ), here's how it works:
You install a module in your webserver ( generally mod_gzip for Apache 1.x or mod_deflate for Apache 2.x, IIS users you're on your own ).
When a request comes through from a user for a compressable file ( & you can set which files can be - images are generally ignored), and the users browser says it can handle gzipped files, your webserver compresses the file and then sends it. The browser transparently decompresses it.
This ENTIRE process is hidden from the user, and is very safe since any browser which doesn't send the correct ACCEPT-ENCODING header, will be sent uncompressed files.
Yes, you do incur a VERY minor performance hit due to compression, but the fact that the user gets the file quicker ( less to download ), and your server spends less time ( and bandwidth ) serving the file, makes this a VERY effective technique at saving you money and making your site more responsive.
How effective? On my site, it serves some large ( table-laden == lots of repetitive elements ) pages at around 12kb instead of 200kb.
ps: gzip IS "true compression" & is more effective than zip.
Out of curiosity, which browsers accept gzipped data?
You guys are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist. Have you ever heard ANYONE complain about the load times of CSS files? I haven't, and I doubt I ever will. If you guys want to talk about saving bytes, find a way to get people to stop putting PDF files on the web. Compressing CSS is pretty pointless.
"It's not true compression, it's only a shrinking of what gets sent over the wire"
Rather than compressing and then decompressing your CSS file. It seems like a better solution would be to send your CSS through a build process that doesn't replace the source, but creates a seperate ready-to-upload compressed version. Then, when you need to revise your CSS you don't edit the compressed version that's out there, you edit the source and then rebuild it before uploading. This eliminates the need for the decompression algorithm and the potential problem of slight variations each time you compress and then decompress your file.
I'm not sure I really see the value of the compressor these days - unless your CSS or HTML is enormous - at least 10's, if not 100's of KBs, no one's really going to notice any change in their experience of the site. I suppose that you might see some savings in bandwidth costs if you use up enough, but even then, would you trust your obviously complex code to an automated script? Maybe it's just the size of sites I work on (few get more than a few thousand visitors a day, only one gets 10's of thousands), but I've only ever come close to exceeding my allowed bandwidth on sites that are image-heavy, and the optimization that would have made a difference was all in the image size. Would a slighly smaller CSS/HTML page-size make an appreciable difference to the bandwidth this site uses, as I imagine it uses a fair amount?
Dave I have actually been using a script I created on my site for a little while just like what you have wished for. So here's your proof of concept:
It's based off of CSS-SSC, and works very well. Check it out.
The only thing that a compressor can remove is white space and comments. Therefore the compression ratio is not going to be very high.
My JavaScript packer will do the job (with one tiny adjustment).
And I counter with "wha?" right back, and now we're stuck in a loop. (What *I* mean with that "wha?" is: care to clarify your confusion?)
"It seems like a better solution would be to send your CSS through a build process that doesn't replace the source…"
Right, that's what I mean by a server-side script that processes the file in advance. The file you upload doesn't change, but when it's sent out, it's first processed and compressed. The file that sits on the server != the file the end user sees.
"Would a slighly smaller CSS/HTML page-size make an appreciable difference to the bandwidth this site uses, as I imagine it uses a fair amount?"
That's really the question. I suspect not, but if a server-side parser can make it all happen automatically, and there's at least *some* non-trivial percentage of bytes saved, it may be worth another look.
"The only thing that a compressor can remove is white space and comments. Therefore the compression ratio is not going to be very high."
Actually Dean, the compressor I linked does more than that. It's taking advantage of the CSS cascade to combine like rules, therefore removing hand-coded redundancies beyond just white space.
I understand the gist of your point though, and you're right, the savings are nothing like even what basic Huffman could get you. Hence the constant references to gzip.
It would be nice if Dreamweaver and other like apps would have an option to "compress/shrink" CSS, Javascript and or HTML upon upload. This would not affect the local files just the ones being uploaded to the server.
…maybe I'll suggest that to them…
What about compressing attributes like the following:
I've changed it to the shorthand attribute name and also shortened the colour code.
That's sure to shave off a few bytes here and there.
Hello Dave & fellow readers!
I've tried this on certain occasions, and it seems to work alright.
What Nick probably meant is that stripping all that stuff out is compression. Being lossy doesn't change that.
Also, you can gzip and strip the same file and from my testing, if stripped file was x% smaller, gziped stripped file is around x% smaller than just gzipped and on some CSS files I've seen in the wild, this can amount to few kilobytes.
That doesn't sound all that much, unless you're using a slow connection like GPRS.
However, I absolutely agree it makes sense packing only deployed CSS and not the original file.
I doubt compressing scripts on the fly would work. The added overhead of the rewrite rules and the PHP code would reduce the kilobytes you shaved off, in all likelyhood.
As GrumpySimon says, there's no need to do clever things with the CSS - just turn on compression in your web server.
In effect, this makes the web server zip all files, send the browser the zipped file, which it in turn unzipps the file before using it. All this happens automatically, and it works today. Browsers that don't support zipped transfers get the files in plain. (Well, of course, NS4 supposedly gets it wrong, but hey, what does it _not_ get wrong?)
The only good use for something like this would be NOT the compression part, but the "optimization" part.
As an example: imagine you have this CSS:
#main {
color: black;
background: white;
width: 80%;
and somewhere further in the CSS file, due to cruft and additions, you have:
#main p {
font-family: uberleet;
color: black;
The optimizer should catch the redundant second "color: black" and remove it.
I'm sure there's even a better example, but this is just off the top of my head.
Although I haven't done this in a while, I used to have a makefile to "build" and upload sites in a manner similar to what Jared and Stuart suggested. For each file that had been modified since the last upload, the source would be sent through local Perl scripts that would strip whitespace and comments from markup, JavaScript, and CSS. If needed, the scripts would handle static includes. Then, the makefile would execute the FTP transfer to the server. It was a simple matter to run a single make command after making a few changes and I still had my original source intact for future edits. Nevertheless, the number of bytes saved was negligible.
I started creating a CSS optimiser a while ago. You can use it here:
It has lots of features but it's not finished or thoroughly tested yet, so it shouldn't be considered reliable.
There's a more mature CSS optimiser created by some other people here:
There's one reason I haven't heard. It makes your css less readable for people. So if you don't like to share your design with the rest of the world this might be a nice tool. Although it can be reversed it to much a trouble for most people.
Altough server side 'shrinking' isn't of much use most of the times I believe server-side processing is very usefull.
Take CSS-SSC.
I've made a CSS Optimizer. Its only been compiled for OS X but should compile for linux, and *maybe* windows without a problem. Here it is: http://developer.mabwebdesign.com/cssoptimizer.html
If there is enough demand I could make an uncompress option.
Be carefull with Gzip and style sheets. It is a good solution, I use it often. But. It was recently pointed out to me that one dead browser [1], although it accepts the gzipped file, has one little problem with this: it never caches the file. If the visitor only reads/looks (at) one page, it is not a big problem, but when the same visitor goes on to read many pages on your site, the benefits rapidly disappear. At least for that one browser.
Source: http://lists.over.net/pipermail/mod_gzip/2002-December/006826.html
[1] yes IE stabs you in the back, again.
"The above code block would compress to something like so: #header h2,#sidebar h3 {font-size:2em;}"
In fact, that piece of CSS code would be compressed into something like:
#header h2,#sidebar h3{font:2em}
…which is two characters shorter (I don't even know how many bytes that is. 2?)
"If, however, you were to write a just-in-time server-side post-processor (and throw in a few more hyphenated words while you're at it) that doesn't break CSS caching, then we might have something. Consider what Shaun Inman did with CSS SSC — having a script parse my CSS file just as it's about to get sent down the wire, so that the original CSS file I wrote doesn't get compressed (and thus I can continue to edit it without having to do anything extra), seems like the only way this could work."
Have a look at CSS-Compress [1].
[1] http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/web-development/css/applied-css-management-and-optimization#comment-7">http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/web-development/css/applied-css-management-and-optimization#comment-7
Myself and a mate looked into writing a module for Apache about four years ago, to parse content before it was sent into mod_gzip (if it was enabled).
Before we wrote a line of code, we put in some manual leg work to check out the possible benefits. What we found was that, it just wasn't worth the effort. At most, you'd be shaving a couple kb off an average CSS file, which is more than compensated for by mod_gzip.
I don't remember the numbers exactly, but it was something like this:
Normal: 1 unit
Optimisted: 0.8-0.9 units
GZIP + Optimisation: 0.15
With all the work involved in writing an accurate, fast module - the return on the effort just wasn't there.
I've (and many others) have noticed the same thing recently. It apparently is part of a code update to the validator, to "warn" developers of potential conflicts in their CSS. Here is a message from the CSS Validator mailing list:
Personally, I don't like the way they've implemented this, because as the poster points out, there isn't anything necessarily wrong with your code. In fact, it encourages you to add redundant code to your CSS — not a good thing in my opinion.
On the other hand, the validator doesn't know that, somewhere in your HTML, you haven't combined these classes…
I suppose a few bytes can be saved by cleaning the style sheet when the server or client does not support the gzip compression. However, in the light of the fact that style sheets generally are cached for subsequent page visits, I think it'll pay of better by cleaning the HTML, using similar measures as Dave propose, such as removing unnecessary white spaces, tabs, new lines, etc.
Thank you for an interesting article.
I don't believe what you speak of is compression. Being a developer I would call it refactoring.
I see more value in reducing duplicate code whether it be css or c++ over decreasing the number of bits sent over the wire.
I'd like to think I write some pretty damn good CSS, already optimised as much as humanly possible. The only benefit I could see would be to remove whitespace and my comments (which aren't huge anyway, usually just small comments to make it easily readable).
Given that, I did a quick calculation and found that i'd get about a 3% gain in terms of filesize, no where near enough to warrant an optimisation tool. Then you have the whole problem with the optimiser removing comments that are used as a hack like:
/* skip mac ie \*/
* html #foo {
margin: 0;
/* end skip */
Server side compression is where it's at, but even then I can hardly see the benefit for something that's getting cached anyway…
Is the time you spend on the compression solution worth less than the bandwidth costs saved?
Hahaha… yeah, to clarify my "wha"… a "shrinking of what gets sent over the wire" is exactly *compression*. I guess you feel that "true" compression requires some fancy algorithm, but it doesn't really. Your "whitespace removal" compression is a perfectly valid lossy compression. there are two many "quoted phrases" in this post.
I have written a white paper on CSS aliases while ago. Just my five cents.
CSS aliasing concept (Proposal)
Author: Daniel Duris
The point of the aliasing in CSS is to save up some redundant strings
that are used more than once in CSS file. Nowadays CSS files are sometimes
too long and it makes them incomprehensible. Also many times there are
same elements being used more than once (e.g. nested links) in CSS files.
There is need to create some shorthand for this or aliasing.
The concept of aliasing is not new and is well-known in many fields - e.g.
in databases / SQL languages for example. By using aliases, the code you write
is more comprehensible and becomes significantly shorter.
CSS aliasing concept introduces two new characters into CSS:
& means alias - serves as a pointer to an element that comes after the pointer's name
$ means aliased element - stands instead of aliased element (functionality does not
differ from today's use of elements)
——— CSS example file BEGIN=
&a1 #articles #prioritized td.title a;
$a1 {
display: block;
padding: 2px;
$a1:link {
background: #555;
color: #FFF;
$a1:visited {
background: #000;
color: #FFF;
text-decoration: none;
$a1:hover {
background: #FFF;
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
——— CSS example file END=
In the case demonstrated above the CSS file is about 90 characters shorter as compared
to one using today's CSS capabilities. For longer style sheets, this method can save
up significant amount of bytes/bandwidth, even if the style sheet is transferred only
once per web site.
Special programs could create such optimized/aliased CSS files automatically in future.
Due to the hugely complex mathematical analysis required for a CSS file larger than about 10 statements, I think your best bet for CSS optimisation is genetic algorithms. Pass it through a fantastically created fitness function and I bet a GA could produce a CSS file smaller than any CSS file even an expert human could come up with.
So why stop at the css, compress everything webpages and all, i run my css through php and send them gzipped, how does your compression comapare to zipping the unaltered css file?
see: http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/sandbox/weblog/2004/jun/the-definitive-css-gzip-method/
It seems to me that the value of stripping white-space and comments is simply not worth the trouble.
However, Doug, as you pointed out, taking advantage of the cascade can potentially result in a pretty big saving.
How about this for a program algorithm:
1. Load a CSS file
2. Apply that CSS to a set of HTML files from your site.
3. [[Somehow]] generate a new CSS file that will result in the same styles being applied to all elements in the HTML files, with the smallest possible number of rules.
The hard part, of course, is the "Somehow." I simply have no idea at this point how that would be done. And, of course, browser-specific hacks like * html and html > body will be lost.
Also, there's simply no way that this could be done fast enough for a JIT compile. It'd have to be done before-hand. However, you could write a CSS file, and then tell the optimizer to spider your site, and end up with a tidy file that could be uploaded and referenced by all those pages. This would programmatically reproduce the same process that a human goes through in constructing a CSS file, but without the "gruntwork" of optimizing and removing unnecessary rules.
@5 and others: I think it really would need to be done beforehand. Any idea involving Apache doing this on the fly is a waste of processing time for a file which is basically static. So in the "right" model, the server would have stored the exact same version the user sees. It simple won't store the version the developer created.
Then again if you really want to save time and space, store the gzipped version as well so that Apache doesn't have to gzip it on the fly. And after all that, I'm sure you would save a lot more bandwidth by gzipping everything else, than gzipping this file which is loaded once per visit to the entire site.
@27: Obviously it would have to be pretty smart to use rules like that. In the example you gave, a "div" element between the "body" and "p" with "color:white" would instantly break that optimisation, leaving it to be only useful for much more constrained rules like "body > p".
@40: That would be an awesome addition to CSS, though I wouldn't use it for that purpose… I would use it so that I only have to define colours once per occurrence.
How many times have you created a CSS file, and had the client say "it's okay… but this blue needs to be slightly less blue." Well, time to go off and change several different colours, but not _all_ occurrences of it, because that might change some things you don't want to.
It would be much better if the top of the CSS file defined a theme, and the rest of the file referenced it.
Here is a good article that cover code optimization and compression (and cache control).
You can shrink CSS by a fair amount with code optimization, but the lion share of savings would come from HTTP compression (which can be done on Apache with a mod and on IIS with an ISAPI filter).
Try caching the CSS file as well, so repeat visitors can avoid hiting the server and load it from the browser cache.
I just see a lot of common sense being cleared out of the "optimized" css.
I can more likely see this for redesigning a site or working on somebody elses un-optimized code.
CSStidy.sourceforge.net does the same basic thing though.
I would say that it is a worthwhile build methodology to routinely put your CSS through an intelligent and powerful CSS compressor. Why? In my view, the best reason for doing so is because it allows you to write your CSS in any way that suits you; to write in a style where maintenance-friendliness and readability are the only criteria, to be able to write your CSS however you like, without feeling pressurised to produce unreadable or hard-to-maintain code due to the demands of byte-skimping and without needing to feel guilty about the weight and cost of the end result if you do adopt more costly "best practice" techniques.
Many web designers seem not yet to have realised the need to decouple "source files" from "object files" in the design and build process, although the concepts of "source" and "object" code are so familiar to software engineers that they nowadays go without saying. This was astonishing to me when I first looked at CSS and (X)HTML, but I suppose that I should hardly have been so surprised, given that after all many web designers don't come from a software engineering background.
However, for those designers who are still living within the "source file" = "executable/object file" model it means that they are in a sense (if you'll allow me a software analogy) still stuck in the era of interpreted programming languages, where the source code itself is actually what is delivered to the user.
As a practical example of the kind of thing I'm talking about in respect of "design for maintenance", there's a couple of excellent articles at http://www.stopdesign.com/log/2005/05/03/css-tip-flags.html and http://stopdesign.com/log/2005/03/04/staying-organized.html#section-css on organizing your CSS source code (I'm going to start using those terms now), and commenting it properly. I think there's some excellent advice there.
I separate my sources out into sections which are "replaceable", such as colors (for example), typography and text sizes, layout and so on. This allows these modules to be more easily swapped out later on.
Molly Holzschlag's often quoted "surgical correction strategy article" is another attempt at a suggestion for process improvement, which in my view is very misguided in its implementation, because of the "source=object" error I mentioned earlier. But that's not the point. Molly is thinking about the problem of managing code properly, and her solutions and the source-code techniques discussed in the stopdesign articles <strong>cost</strong>. But that huge cost only exists if you are in the "source="object" model.
Another (excellent, but in my view incomplete) article that illustrates my point is "stylesheet suturing" (at http://www.fiftyfoureleven.com/weblog/web-development/css/applied-css-management-and-optimization ). That article illustrates how some designers feel very much torn between the desire for well-managed source code and delivering efficient CSS object code to the user and how much pain they are willing to entertain in order to try and resolve this.
That was quite a long ramble; I hope it made some kind of sense.
Oh, and in addition I do deliver everything gzip-compressed too in any event. Before you ask.
If you are Yahoo, shaving 10% off your CSS files can result in a huge bandwidth saving.
I love the CSS Tidy app that Chuck mentioned above. I was having a difficult time finding an easily accessible online copy so I put up my own version of it.
It's brilliantly handy, specifically the merging features.

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A Yuba City teen could be deported to Mexico following her conviction on felony marijuana distribution charges. She sold pot brownies to pay for a prom dress, according to reports.
Saira Munoz, now 19, was a senior at River Valley High School when, short of cash to pay for a dress, she "hired a friend to sell her marijuana-laced brownies," according to the Los Angeles Times.
She was arrested after a student became "sick off of one of the brownies."
Munoz served nine days in jail for the felony conviction and was sentenced to four years' probation, the newspaper reported.
Munoz could now face deportation in violation of a temporary visa granted her in 2000.


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Find out all about the rich fuchsia dress the royal wore in Prince George's first official portrait -- and how to get one of your own
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge bucked several longtime traditions for the first official portraits with Prince George. First, the photo was snapped by Kate's father Michael in his backyard. And second, rather than consult a stylist with racks of designer outfits for the new mom to wear, the princess chose a maternity dress from her own closet — an item that she bought several months ago from the high-street brand (and one of her go-to labels during pregnancy) Séraphine.
She loves the floaty, empire-line "Jolene" dress so much, she bought it in three colors: Fuchsia, navy and blossom print (the latter of which she wore the day after she left the hospital headed for her parents' home in Bucklebury).
RELATED PHOTOS: See even more fabulous star maternity style here!
It's clearly a dress that she feels comfortable in and one that suits her new life as a mom. And true to the Duchess's practical style sensibility, it only costs $79.
"We knew she really liked that dress, but to see her wearing it nearly a month after the birth – it's so exciting!" says Cecile Reinaud, the founder of the maternity label. "She looks so beautiful in those pictures but also so natural. I think it's a huge compliment to her that she looks like that in a snapshot, without a top-notch photographer with retouching and everything."
Seeing as Kate owns twelve items from the brand — they hand-deliver her orders directly to Kensington Palace, just a stone's throw from their flagship store — Reinaud is thrilled that the princess is still wearing maternity clothes almost one month after giving birth, noting that many celebrities tend to want to show off their unbelievable post-baby shape in regular clothing as soon as possible. "It's a lovely message to all moms out there: She is not trying to pretend that she's already lost all her baby weight and that's really refreshing."
Looking to nab one of Kate's favorite dresses for yourself? You'll have to be patient: It's on back order until Sept. 16. "We sold over 100 dresses between the hours of 2:00 a.m. and 7:00 a.m.," Rinaud says. Tell us: Do you love Kate's dress? And how cute is baby George?
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Agenda: September 19, 2013 Neighborhood Centers PEG meeting
Thursday, September 19 from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.
1900 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Conference Room 7A (Seventh Floor)
Welcome, Introductions and Updates (8:00 a.m.)
Presenter: Steve Faust, Facilitator
Comprehensive Plan Map App Review (8:15 a.m.)
Presenter: Bill Cunningham, BPS
Description: Review of the online "Map App," which will be the primary means of sharing mapping of the land use and infrastructure concepts of Part 2 of the Comprehensive Plan Update. This will be an opportunity for PEG members to preview the Map App, explore relationships between centers and other mapped elements, and discuss questions that will be raised with the broader public.
PEG Wrap Up (9:10 a.m.)
Presenters: Steve Faust, Facilitator, Bill Cunningham, BPS
Description: BPS staff will share highlights of what they learned from the PEG discussions over the past 15 months. PEG members will also be invited to share their perspectives on these discussions.
Related Material:
Neighborhood Centers PEG Recommendations Memo
Public Comment (9:45 a.m.)
Next Steps (9:55 a.m.)
Adjourn (10:00 a.m.)
For more information, please contact Bill Cunningham, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-4203 or firstname.lastname@example.com or Steve Faust, Facilitator at 503-278-3456 firstname.lastname@example.com.


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If you want to have a detail with your partner on February 14, do not think you should impress her with dinners in trendy restaurants or that you are forced to buy her a jewel or a very expensive perfume. All this is very good if you can afford it, but it is not necessary nor is it the only way to show how much you love the person with whom you share your life. Romanticism has nothing to do with a credit card!
Here are 5 ideas to celebrate a "low cost" Valentine:
Give him your words. Is there anything more romantic than a love letter? And yet, how few people write or receive one today. If you give it to your partner, he will keep it as a treasure. Even if you live together, leave it in the mailbox or with your work bag. And if writing by hand is definitely not your thing, you can also tell the whole world how much you love your partner by posting it on your Facebook wall. It is not that they need the applause or the approval of others, but it is a nice way to declare your love and recognize all the good that it brings.
Take a special walk. Whether you live in a big city or in a town, there are sure to be special places where you can spend a few hours enjoying the tranquility and beauty without spending money or paying very little. A visit to a museum or the botanical garden. A cafe with a secret garden. A tour of the park at sunset or, if you have it near, the river or the beach. Rediscover the pleasure of walking at a leisurely pace, talking about this and that, holding hands, watching the people passing by or the sunset. Without cell phone, without hurry, without consuming.
Kitchen for him or her. Preparing a homemade romantic dinner does not have to take long or be complicated. Forget about sophisticated dishes or wanting to impress them. Cook something rich, light and visually appealing. Play with colors and textures. Combine ingredients following your intuition. And if you do not want to prepare the typical dinner, make a breakfast , a snack, a brunch … Or everything! You can serve it on a tray with a flower, or buy some nice plates and napkins with hearts in the bazaar. The important thing is that you put your heart and your personal touch.
Organize an erotic evening. Enjoying the senses is a pleasure that does not cost money and that gives many more satisfactions than the most expensive of the gifts. And no, we're not giving you the typical advice of put-your-lingerie-erotic-and-turn-it-crazy. You can wear it, but there are many other ways to enjoy, more relaxed and in the end more pleasant. For example, decorate the house with candles, a natural perfume and sensual music. A simple red handkerchief covering a lamp will give the apartment an exotic look. Get yourself massage oil and dedicate yourself to traverse the body of the other calmly, without looking for anything other than to awaken your sensuality. Take a bath together, dances embraced, eat something sweet, make love slowly, savoring every moment.
Have an unforgettable detail. To make a gift is not essential to go to the mall. In fact, if you really care about the person, it's better that you do not go. Look for something that is truly special to him or her and what you can do best. For example, if you like to paint, make a picture. If you are good at singing, sing a song (even better if you invent it). If you are not especially creative or imaginative, you can look for a special detail that does not cost a lot of money. An old box or an artisan necklace. Some tickets to see a movie in a film library or a concert in a jazz room. A vintage album. The important thing, once again, is to do it with love.


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Second Beta for KDE SC 4.5 Available for Testing
KDE today announced the immediate availability of KDE SC 4.5 Beta2. Quoting the announcement:
Wrong download link in the announcement
It's now ?url=/stable/4.4.85/
and it must be
I'm not a SPAMMER!
By Artem S. Tashkinov at Wed, 2010/06/09 - 6:58pm
Blur effect
Blur effect make kde 4.5 really slow even on non transparent Windows...
I'm sure it take some time to compiz dev to make blur usable... Maybe it's not a good idea to activate this by default...
By Cédric Bellegarde at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 7:44am
systray icons ...
Will kmail, kopete & co systray icons be fixed before 4.5 ?
New icons looks cool but having mixed style icons looks bad ...
By Cédric Bellegarde at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 7:47am
I agree and second that
I agree and second that proposal. Futhermore, I would love to see matching "K" main menu logo in KDE SC 4.5, current one does not fit well in new layout. Honestly, it does not match at all IMHO.
By atarian at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 12:17pm
Sigh. Looks like many many
Sigh. Looks like many many old bugs like https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=233145 are still not fixed.
By Tom Chiverton at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 5:30pm
Bball is still not fixed,
Bball is still not fixed, still locks with widgets. I have been begging for it to be fixed for such a long time now but nothing :(
By Bobby at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 7:44pm
Yeah, and this really old
Yeah, and this really old bug, too: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153973 which makes Konqueror and other KDE web connecting applications/plasmoids mostly unusable in my office environment on laptops.
By xeros at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 8:31pm
that's an issue in Qt.
the proxy issue noted in one of the replies is actually of concern, the bball issue is one of those "there are slightly more important things to worry about" things. particularly since "lock" means "don't move" and the bball is a play-thing that requires movement. ;)
By Aaron Seigo at Fri, 2010/06/11 - 12:16am
I can't emphasize enough that
I can't emphasize enough that you guys have done a superb job with KDE 4. I can't find any real issues apart from my red ball. I am just a big boy that needs a little play ;)
By Bobby at Fri, 2010/06/11 - 8:08pm
I second that
I think personaley that it's all the little things you should sort out, along with speed optimisations and with my 173xx drivers some the effects look horrible (probably Nvidias fault). If a new user comes on and their menu freezes randomly or plasma a feels like haveing a segfault every 12 times you log in and every other time you login the panels are both half black. Then the bouncy ball locking up is the last straw. I can't live without kde4, I love it. These are the most annoying things though and if we fix all the little niggles then to the end user the desktop will seem a whole lot more polished. I think one release needs to focus on polishing and getting rid of all the stuff kde4 is known for.
keep up the great work anyway guys,
By bananaoomarang at Sat, 2010/06/12 - 9:07am
Installing the beta and starting KDE pops up a beautiful desktop! Amazing work! :)
By Mutlu Inek at Thu, 2010/06/10 - 8:39pm
R. GABRIEL from Bucharest/RO
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Nationwide Goes Another Lap With Dale Earnhardt Jr.
October 13, 2009: Nationwide Insurance, title sponsor of the Nascar Nationwide series and a partner with Dale Earnhardt, Jr.'s JR Motorsports, said that it would launch a multi-media campaign next year featuring the driver. Financial details were not disclosed.
This will be the second series of ads between Nationwide and Earnhardt. Although creative was not revealed, Nationwide said the campaign would include TV, radio, and online. Nationwide's Series Insider Web site, www.Nationwide.com/series, would feature behind the scenes videos and photos from the ad shoot in early December. Nationwide's lead agency is McKinney, Durham, NC, which in May was signed to replace TM Advertising, the insurance company's lead agency since 1998.
According to Nationwide, the effort will build off of last year's campaign, where Earnhardt Jr. talked about his family's 30-year history with Nationwide. Earnhardt Jr. and other family members currently are Nationwide Insurance customers, according to the company. Earnhardt did not post any victories in the 2009 Sprint Series and is not among the drivers now vying for the Sprint Cup. His other marketing partners include Wrangler, adidas, Unilever and GoDaddy.
"The story of the Earnhardts' experience with Nationwide helps bring authenticity to our brand and we believe played an important role in the success of last year's campaign," John Aman, associate vice president for Nationwide Insurance, said in a statement. "The way Dale Jr. and his family connect with Nascar fans and general consumers adds to our decision to continue this partnership. We see this as a great opportunity for both Nationwide and JR Motorsports." Back to Home Page


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Bought a pre-cut quilt kit at a local quilt shop about a year ago at the urging of the woman who runs the shop. This was going to be my second quilt.
When I originally went to their shop, I knew nothing about sewing and went to their Saturday quilting with the promise they would be happy to teach me to quilt. I did buy my fabric from them.
I had to stop going after my first quilt because of a death in the family and I was downsized from my job.
Finally had time to piece it, only to find out that when the single blocks are pieced into blocks of four, they're just enough off to cause major problems (about 1/4 inch off between all four) and I don't know that I can go back and square these up enough to make them work. It's so beyond my limited skills.
This is the same shop that made fun of the colors I chose for my first quilt, then offered no help when I said I wanted to machine quilt it instead of using their long arm (which of course cost me additional money - and my quilting looked like heck. I really wanted my first quilt to be nice.)
I guess I'm just a slow learner but I will never, ever darken the doors of this LQS again. I'll be driving over to Kaufman instead.
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We seem to be on an entertainment streak this week, so this seemed as good a time as any to collect my thoughts on the bygone NBC cult hit "Friday Night Lights." I'm terrified to report that throughout my viewing of all five seasons, I felt unusual things. I'm told these things were called "emotions."
Along with most Americans, I did not watch the high school football drama while it was on the air. Despite critical praise and ardent fan support, the show never found much of a following. Blame network TV in general because by the time "24" and "Lost" started to suck, I was convinced that the networks would never again air a decent hour-long drama.
I stand totally corrected, and I can only say I'm glad I discovered FNL later rather than never. Like everyone else who's watched the series' entire run, I adored it, warts and all, from start to finish. Beyond being a mostly well-acted, largely well-written sports melodrama, it actually had a more compelling racial and economic subtext than one would expect from a show about rah-rah Texas football. The story—which follows the trials and tribulations of Coach Eric Taylor, his wife and daughter, and the romances and athletic obstacles of Dillon, Texas, high school football players—had so much potential to be overwrought, eye-rolling garbage, that I never quite got over how much it wasn't.
I was continuously surprised by the genuine emotion the show could illicit. Maybe that's simply because I'm a sucker for sports narratives. "He Got Game," "Hardball," "Remember the Titans"—it doesn't really matter. If there's a team rallying around each other or players discovering deeper layers to themselves through their sport, I'm in. "Friday Night Lights," though set in Texas, reminded me again and again of high school in my hometown. Yet while trafficking in this seemingly easy, universal nostalgia for small town Americana, the show's writers did not conjure some Fox News Garden of Eden, instead creating characters worthy of fulfilling both myth and reality.
From lecher-with-a-heart-of-gold car salesman Buddy Garrity to drunken bad boy stud Tim Riggins, from sharp-witted, consistently heartbroken Landry to the intelligent but surly Julie Taylor, the show felt populated by people that you knew in some other life. This familiarity breeds a loyalty that turns the viewer into a member of the Dillon community.
Of course the show's central strength was Kyle Chandler and Connie Britton as Coach Taylor and his wife Tami. Though I hardly need to second the sentiment here, the two have such vivid on-screen chemistry, you have a hard time believing they're not actually married. The central plotline of the show, season after season, was Coach Taylor serving as father figure to troubled kids who'd never known their own: Smash Williams, Tim Riggins, Matt Saracen, and Vince Howard all abandoned by their dads, all seeking the approval and love of their football coach, who never blinks in his tough-minded support of them.
The show made Taylor Kitsch (as Riggins) a star, and to be sure there is an undeniable magnetism in Kitsch's deadpan sense of humor and simmering cool.
(And yes, I understand the ladies like Kitsch. My buddy Eric reports that while watching the show with his wife, she would audibly gasp every time Riggins appeared on screen. I would say this should serve as a warning to guys who plan to watch it with their girlfriends if Minka Kelly as Lyla Garrity wasn't so eyeball-meltingly hot.)
But for me the standout among the students was always Zach Gilford as the accidental quarterback, Matt Saracen. Playing a kid with two absent parents who ends up in the starting role after a tragic play fells up-and-coming superstar Jason Street, Gilford's shy mumble and tenacious attitude on the field make him possibly the most rootable-for television character ever. When the show cashes in on its Iraq war plotline, I was again shocked by how much sorrow it wrung out of me, with that particular development not feeling the least bit contrived but genuinely moving, tragic, and evocative of the sacrifices of the times.
(Quick but important aside: one of the underappreciated subtexts of the entire series is that it begins with star quarterback Street getting paralyzed in the pilot. This possibility then hangs like a shadow over the QBs who follow: the working poor characters of Saracen and Howard. Whereas Street has both parents and appears firmly middle class, Saracen and Howard are both solely responsible for a deteriorating grandmother and a drug-addicted mother, respectively. Should a similar freak tragedy befall either of them, there's not even the most remote safety net for the remaining fragments of their families. The empathy with which FNL portrayed the lives of the 47 percent never failed to impress me.)
Perhaps the boldest move the series took came in its final two seasons when Coach Taylor (spoiler alert) gets forced out of the school he's taken to the state finals twice in three years. He's instead given a job at the underfunded, majority minority East Dillon High and forced to stock a football team from scratch with juvenile delinquents. Moving on from its mostly Caucasian cast, "Friday Night Lights" examined a situation standard to many small Texas and Southern towns, which tend to have tight-knit white communities and then a small pocket of disaffected and troubled black and Hispanic populaces on the outskirts of town. It was the proverbial wrong-side-of-the-tracks storyline, but the show's writers handled the new setting and characters with as much skill and empathy as they did the white characters of the previous three seasons.
One of my favorite supporting characters in the entire show was Vince's father, an ex-con played with mean swagger by Cress Williams. The character's arch stayed within that tight range of humanity the writers kept every character: as sympathetic as he is reprehensible. In other words, human.
I don't want to oversell "Friday Night Lights" as a revelation. After all, it is a network show with all the associated baggage. The second season, for instance, shortened by the writer's strike, was just bad and included a truly unnecessary "I Know What You Did Last Summer" storyline. The plotting, dialogue and characterization can be as clunky and graceless as any show that must follow the commercial-break rhythm of TV writing. It misses on some casting choices and has storylines that peter out or vanish without explanation (what the hell ever happened to J.D. McCoy and his Mitt Romney-looking dad!?). It is packed full of tropes and clichés, a few of which I've identified even in talking about moments I loved it for.
Yet most works of creativity are teeming with flaws, and with "Friday Night Lights" I'm mostly concerned with the high notes, which it hit with regularity and grace. There was lyricism to this show, which every now and then seemed to surge forth with the stark power of a Steinbeck novel.
There may have been better shows over the past decade but hardly any I enjoyed watching as much as this one.


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Top 5 Adobe Illustrator Tutorials on Tuts+ in November 2013
Welcome to this month's catch up showcasing our favorite Adobe Illustrator tutorials available on Tuts+. We publish tutorials on techniques and effects to make awesome vector graphics in Illustrator. My name is Sharon Milne, the Vector and Drawing Editor on Tuts+, and it is my pleasure to share with the Illustrator community five of our most interesting and popular tutorials published during November 2013.


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These packages are all Z compressed, so your don't need to install GNU Zip to use them. ALL packages are need to get Enlightenment working. These packages work on the following platforms: Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, Solaris 8.
These packages will work on both 32-bit and 64-bit systems, and on sun4d, sun4m, and sun4u arch's.
For a glimpse of DR17, currently in heavy development under CVS, check out cuddletech's Enlightenment DR17 page. Please note that DR17 will, for the moment, ONLY build on Linux.


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October 22, 2012
Johann Muller is out for eight weeks © Getty Images
Ulster could be without captain Johann Muller for their back-to-back Heineken Cup clashes with Northampton in December after the lock was ruled out for eight weeks.
Muller ruptured ligaments around his thumb during Ulster's 19-8 win over Glasgow Warriors on Friday. Muller was turning out in his 50th appearance for the province and has been a key component in their unbeaten start to the season with them five from five in the RaboDirect PRO12 and two from two in the Heineken Cup.
The second-row underwent the surgeon's knife on Sunday and the club have said he will be out for eight weeks. With Ulster facing Northampton on December 7 and then again eight days later, Muller faces a race against time to prove his fitness by then.
Ulster's next match is away to the Dragons on Friday with Chris Henry expected to take on the captain's armband for that match.
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Queensland University of Technology avionics engineering student Bryan Huang has unveiled a mini blimp that looks a lot like a shiny, floating doughnut. The blimp may find employment as a guide to help visitors find their way from reception at CSIRO's Queensland Centre for Advanced Technologies (QCAT) to meeting rooms.
The blimp was made from a modified party balloon and constructed during Huang's summer vacation scholarship with the CSIRO. It navigates QCAT in Pellenvale, Brisbane, using a combination of infrared sensors, a pressure sensor, accelerometer and compass. The blimp is also fed information by a series of wireless "smart" sensor nodes throughout the building.
"With these tiny smart wireless sensors all around the place measuring things, sending data and making decisions, you end up with a kind of embedded intelligence," said CSIRO information and communication technologies (ICT) researcher, Phil Valencia.
"Lots of people want to be able to do this so they can track animals, measure crop conditions or monitor household energy use, for example. At CSIRO we build the systems to do that and Bryan's work is contributing to our other projects."


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1941 Chevy Pickup Truck - Charlie's Angel
'41 Juke Box
Charlie Dickerson of Jacksonville, Florida, makes his living working in the body shop at the local Freightliner dealership pulling dents and hosing down paint on a large scale. When the whistle blows, Charlie likes to head home to where his wife says she can always find him, "out in the garage working." A few years ago Charlie built a show-quality '54 Chevy pickup he sold soon after it was done, and regretted the day he did. A friend Charlie worked with knew he was aching to customize another old pickup, so he told him about a '41 Chevrolet that was only a few blocks away from their shop. As it turned out, the old Chevy was a truck Charlie had seen running around town for years, but then disappeared. The '41's owner parked it when the stock 216-inch six-banger engine started knocking like something wanted out. Charlie and his friend pulled the valve cover off and discovered the dipper-rod stovebolt had a bent pushrod, or two. Between them they got the old girl running again, but Charlie knew a stock truck wasn't what he needed. "One Sunday afternoon I started to think about how much nicer it would be to have a good suspension and brakes along with some real horsepower, so I pulled the cab, fenders, and bed clean off the stock chassis." Charlie's next step along with his friend Skip Szala was to figure out how to roll an '86 Chevy S-10 chassis underneath it. To line up the wheelbase Charlie scrapped the stock S-10 rearend, and then mounted a 9-inch Ford rearend with 3.73:1 gears he scored from Kevin Bayless eight and a half inches further back, and added 18 inches to the rear of the framerails to support the bed. In place of the stock Ford drum brakes a disc brake kit was installed by Kevin's dad, Merle Bayless, who used S-10 front calipers along with some kind of GM disc brake rotors. Because the width of the S-10 chassis was too wide to accommodate the '41 cab around the passenger side, Charlie whacked the bulge out and welded it to the inside of the framerail, along with boxing the rest of the frame. To mount the 12-volt battery next to the power brake dual master cylinder underneath the floorboards, Charlie used a Freightliner battery box that Barry Hill modified. The floor tunnel on the '41 is a Freightliner exhaust stack that was split in two and then welded in. when he spoke about all of the good people who were involved Charlie said, "I can't forget to mention all the coworkers at LC Transportation that helped me build the truck."
The interior features a Grant steering wheel, VDO gauges, and air conditioning. Keith Clark upholstered the bench seat robbed from a Freightliner in buckskin leather and stitched the burgundy tweed door panels, headliner, and carpeting. Graphic details in the upholstery include flames and a Chevy bowtie sculpted into tweed.
Between moving from one state to the next it took Charlie over five years before his '41 Chevy was ready to roll. In closing he wanted to make sure credit and thanks was given to Skip, Kevin, Merle, Barry, Jackie, Chad, Greg, Jim, Randy, J.D., Eric, Butch, Keith, John, Shawn, Tom, Josh, and particularly his wife Rhonda and children, Eric and Ashley for their love and support.


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Bactria (from Βακτριανή, the Hellenized version of Bactrian βαχλο, Pakhlo; Pashto: باختر Pākhtar; Old Persian Bāxtriš; Uzbek: Балх; Tajik: Бохтар; Chinese: 大夏 Dàxià; Sanskrit Bāhlika) is the ancient name of a historical region covering the modern-day flat regions that straddle present-day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan. Bactria was one of the ancient civilizations of Iranian peoples. It was located south of the Pamir Mountains and the Amu Darya, surrounding the district of Gandhara (said to be its "crown jewel") to its south.
Bactria was the birthplace of Zoroastrianism, and later also hosted Buddhism before becoming Muslim after the arrival of the Rashidun and the Umayyad Caliphates in the 7th century. Bactria was also sometimes referred to by the Greeks as Bactriana.
- 1 Geography
- 2 History
- 3 Tokharistan
- 4 Onset of Islam
- 5 Bactrian people
- 6 See also
- 7 References
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According to P. Leriche:[1]
Bactria, the territory of which Bactra was the capital, originally consisted of the area south of the Āmū Daryā with its string of agricultural oases dependent on water taken from the rivers of Balḵ (Bactra), Tashkurgan, Kondūz, Sar-e Pol, and Šīrīn Tagāō. This region played a major role in Central Asian history. At certain times the political limits of Bactria stretched far beyond the geographic frame of the Bactrian plain.
Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC)
The Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (BMAC, also known as the "Oxus civilization") is the modern archaeological designation for a Bronze Age culture of Central Asia, dated to ca. 2200–1700 BC, located in present day eastern Turkmenistan, northern Afghanistan, southern Uzbekistan and western Tajikistan, centered on the upper Amu Darya (Oxus), in area covering ancient Bactria. Its sites were discovered and named by the Soviet archaeologist Viktor Sarianidi (1976). Bactria was the Greek name for Old Persian Bāxtriš (from native *Bāxçiš)[2] (named for its capital Bactra, modern Balkh), in what is now northern Afghanistan, and Margiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrapy of Margu, the capital of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan.
The early Greek historian Ctesias, c. 400 BC (followed by Diodorus Siculus), alleged that the legendary Assyrian king Ninus had defeated a Bactrian king named Oxyartes in ca. 2140 BC, or some 1000 years before the Trojan War. Since the decipherment of cuneiform in the 19th century, however, which enabled actual Assyrian records to be read, historians have ascribed little value to the Greek account.
According to some writers, Bactria was the homeland of Indo-Iranian tribes who moved south-west into Iran and into north-western India around 2500–2000 BC. Later, it became the north province of the Persian Empire in Central Asia.[3] It was in these regions, where the fertile soil of the mountainous country is surrounded by the Turanian desert, that the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathushtra) was said to have been born and gained his first adherents. Avestan, the language of the oldest portions of the Zoroastrian Avesta, was one of the old Iranian languages, and is the oldest attested member of the Eastern Iranian branch of the Iranian language family.
Cyrus the Great
E. Herzfeld suggested that before its annexation to the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great in 6th century BCE, Bactria belonged to the Median empire[4] and together with Margiana formed the twelfth satrapy of Persia.[1] After Darius III had been defeated by Alexander the Great, the satrap of Bactria, Bessus attempted to organize a national resistance but was captured by other warlords and delivered to Alexander. He was then tortured and killed.[5]
Alexander the Great
Alexander conquered Sogdiana and Iran. However, in the south, beyond the Oxus, he met strong resistance. After two years of war and a strong insurgency campaign, Alexander managed to establish little control over Bactria. After Alexander's death, Diodorus Siculus tells us that Philip received dominion over Bactria, but Justin names Amyntas to that role. At the Treaty of Triparadisus, both Diodorus Siculus and Arrian agree that the satrap Stasanor gained control over Bactria. Eventually, Alexander's empire was divided up among the generals in Alexander's army. Bactria became a part of the Seleucid Empire, named after its founder, Seleucus I.
Seleucid Empire
The Macedonians, especially Seleucus I and his son Antiochus I, established the Seleucid Empire and founded a great many Greek towns. The Greek language became dominant for some time there.
The paradox that Greek presence was more prominent in Bactria than in areas far closer to Greece can possibly be explained[original research?] by past deportations of Greeks to Bactria. For instance, during the reign of Darius I, the inhabitants of the Greek city of Barca, in Cyrenaica, were deported to Bactria for refusing to surrender assassins.[6] In addition, Xerxes also settled the "Branchidae" in Bactria; they were the descendants of Greek priests who had once lived near Didyma (western Asia Minor) and betrayed the temple to him.[7] Herodotus also records a Persian commander threatening to enslave daughters of the revolting Ionians and send them to Bactria.[8] However, these few examples are not indicative of massive deportations of Greeks to central Asia.
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
"That extremely wealthy Bactrian empire of 1000 cities (opulentissimum illud mille urbium Bactrianum imperium)"[9]
Considerable difficulties faced by the Seleucid kings and the attacks of Ptolemy II of Egypt gave Diodotus, satrap of Bactria, the opportunity to declare independence (about 245 BC) and conquer Sogdiana. He was the founder of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Diodotus and his successors were able to maintain themselves against the attacks of the Seleucids—particularly from Antiochus III the Great, who was ultimately defeated by the Romans (190 BC).
The Greco-Bactrians were so powerful that they were able to expand their territory as far as India:
- "As for Bactria, a part of it lies alongside Aria towards the north, though most of it lies above Aria and to the east of it. And much of it produces everything except oil. The Greeks who caused Bactria to revolt grew so powerful on account of the fertility of the country that they became masters, not only of Bactria and beyond, but also of India, as Apollodorus of Artemita says: and more tribes were subdued by them than by Alexander...."[10]
The Greco-Bactrians used the Greek language for administrative purposes, and the local Bactrian language was also Hellenized, as suggested by its adoption of the Greek alphabet and Greek loanwords. In turn, some of these words were also borrowed by modern Pashto.[11]
Indo-Greek Kingdom
The Bactrian king Euthydemus I and his son Demetrius I crossed the Hindu Kush mountains and began the conquest of the Indus valley. For a short time, they wielded great power: a great Greek empire seemed to have arisen far in the East. But this empire was torn by internal dissensions and continual usurpations. When Demetrius advanced far into India one of his generals, Eucratides, made himself king of Bactria, and soon in every province there arose new usurpers, who proclaimed themselves kings and fought against each other.
Most of them we know only by their coins, a great many of which are found in Afghanistan. By these wars, the dominant position of the Greeks was undermined even more quickly than would otherwise have been the case. After Demetrius and Eucratides, the kings abandoned the Attic standard of coinage and introduced a native standard, no doubt to gain support from outside the Greek minority.
In India, this went even further. The Indo-Greek king Menander I (known as Milinda in India), recognized as a great conqueror, converted to Buddhism. His successors managed to cling to power until the last known Indo-Greek ruler, a king named Strato II, who ruled in the Punjab region until around 55 BC.[12] Other sources, however, place the end of Strato II's reign as late as 10 AD.
Sakas, Yuezhi and Sassanids
The weakness of the Greco-Bactrian empire was shown by its sudden and complete overthrow, first by the Sakas, and then by the Yuezhi (who later became known as Kushans), who had conquered Bactria by the time of the visit of the Chinese envoy Zhang Qian (circa 127 BC), who had been sent by the Han emperor to investigate lands to the west of China.[13]
Kujula Kadphises, the Guishuang xihou (or prince) of the Da Yuezhi, united the region in the early 1st century and laid the foundations for the powerful, but short-lived, Kushan Empire (1st to 3rd century AD), which was then overcome by the Sasanians from Persia.
Contacts with China
The name Daxia appears in Chinese from the 3rd century BC to designate a mythical kingdom to the West, possibly a consequence of the first contacts with the expansion of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and then is used by the explorer Zhang Qian in 126 BC to designate Bactria.
The reports of Zhang Qian were put in writing in the Shiji ("Records of the Grand Historian") by Sima Qian in the 1st century BC. They describe an important urban civilization of about one million people, living in walled cities under small city kings or magistrates. Daxia was an affluent country with rich markets, trading in an incredible variety of objects, coming from as far as Southern China. By the time Zhang Qian visited Daxia, there was no longer a major king, and the Bactrian were suzerains to the nomadic Yuezhi, who were settled to the north of their territory beyond the Oxus (Amu Darya). Overall Zhang Qian depicted a rather sophisticated but demoralized people who were afraid of war.
Following these reports, the Chinese emperor Wu Di was informed of the level of sophistication of the urban civilizations of Ferghana, Bactria and Parthia, and became interested in developing commercial relationship with them:
- "The Son of Heaven on hearing all this reasoned thus: Ferghana (Dayuan) and the possessions of Bactria (Daxia) and Parthia (Anxi) are large countries, full of rare things, with a population living in fixed abodes and given to occupations somewhat identical with those of the Chinese people, but with weak armies, and placing great value on the rich produce of China" (Hanshu, Former Han History).
These contacts immediately led to the dispatch of multiple embassies from the Chinese, which helped to develop the Silk Road.
Following the settlement of the Yuezhi (referred to by the Greeks as Tókharoi), the general area of Bactria came to be called Tokharistan. The territory of Tokharistan was identical with Kushan Bactria, including the areas of Surkhandarya, Southern Tajikistan and Northern Afghanistan.
The first literary mentions of Tokharistan appear at the end of the 4th century in Chinese Buddhist sources (the Vibhasa-sastra). However, the first mention of the Tókharoi appears much earlier, in the 1st century BC, when Strabo mentions that "the Tókharoi, together with the Assianis, Passianis and Sakaraulis, took part in the destruction of the Greco-Bactrian kingdom" in the second half of the 2nd century BC. Ptolemy also mentions a large Tokharian tribe in Bactria, describing the central role of the Tokharians among other tribes in Bactria. (Through an accident of naming, the term "Tocharian" now commonly refers to a branch of Indo-European languages spoken in the Tarim Basin between the 3rd and 9th centuries AD, and quite distinct from the Bactrian language spoken by the Tókharoi.)
From the 1st century AD to the 3rd century AD, Tokharistan was under the rule of the Kushans. They were followed by the Sassanids (Indo-Sassanids). Later, in the 5th century, it was controlled by the Xionites and the Hephthalites but was reconquered by the Sassanids, it was later conquered by the Arabs and then the Mongols.
Onset of Islam
Thirty years after the death of Muhammad, the Arabs defeated the Persian Sassanids during the Rashidun Caliphate. The Muslim Umayyad Caliphate, which was founded in 661, ruled over Iran and much of the Middle East, including Bactrian lands.[15]
Advancing further the Muslims faced off with the Turk Shahis ruling in Bactria and defeated them. In 663, they attacked Bactria, which the Turki Shahis had taken from the Western Turks by this time. The Umayyad forces captured the area around Balkh, including Nava Vihara Monastery, causing the Turki Shahis to retreat to the Kabul Valley.[15]
Bactrian people
The Bactrians were the inhabitants of Bactria. Several important trade routes from India and China (including the Silk Road) passed through Bactria and, as early as the Bronze Age, this had allowed the accumulation of vast amounts of wealth by the mostly nomadic population. The first proto-urban civilization in the area arose during the 2nd millennium BC. Control of these lucrative trade routes, however, attracted foreign interest, and in the 6th century BC the Bactrians were conquered by the Persians, and in the 4th century BC by the Ancient Macedonians. These conquests marked the end of the Bactrian independence. From around 304 BC the area formed part of the Seleucid Empire, and from around 250 BC it was the centre of a Greco-Bactrian kingdom, ruled by the descendants of Greeks who had settled there following the conquest of Alexander the Great.
These people, also known in Sanskrit as Yavanas, worked in cooperation with the native Bactrian aristocracy. By the early 2nd century BC the Greco-Bactrians had created an impressive empire that stretched southwards to include northwest India. By about 135 BC, however, this kingdom had been overrun by invading Yuezhi tribes, an invasion that later brought about the rise of the powerful Kushan Empire. From this point the Bactrians tend to disappear from the historical record, a disappearance made final by the Arab invasion of the 8th century AD.The Bactrians spoke Bactrian, a northeastern Iranian language, descended from Avestan, and most closely related to extinct Khwarezmian, modern Yaghnobi, and Ossetian. Bactrian went extinct, replaced by southeastern Iranian languages such as Pashto, Yidgha, Munji, and Ishkashmi. The Encyclopaedia Iranica states:
Bactrian thus occupies an intermediary position between Pashto and Yidgha-Munji on the one hand, Sogdian, Choresmian, and Parthian on the other: it is thus in its natural and rightful place in Bactria.[16]The principal religions of the area before Islam were Zoroastrianism and Buddhism.[17] The Bactrian people are primarily the ancestors of modern-day Pashtuns as well as some Tajiks.[18][19] Regarding Tajiks, the Encyclopædia Britannica states:
The Tajiks are the direct descendants of the Iranian peoples whose continuous presence in Central Asia and northern Afghanistan is attested from the middle of the 1st millennium bc. The ancestors of the Tajiks constituted the core of the ancient population of Khwārezm (Khorezm) and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania (Sogdiana). They were included in the empires of Persia and Alexander the Great, and they intermingled with such later invaders as the Kushāns and Hepthalites in the 1st–6th centuries ad. Over the course of time, the eastern Iranian dialect that was used by the ancient Tajiks eventually gave way to Farsi, a western dialect spoken in Iran and Afghanistan.[20]
See also
- Bakhtiari people
- Dard people
- Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex
- Tillya Tepe
- Bactrian camel
- Bahlika people
- Greater Khorasan
- Dalverzin Tepe
- Balkh
- Bernard, Paul (1994). "The Greek Kingdoms of Central Asia." In: History of civilizations of Central Asia, Volume II. The development of sedentary and nomadic civilizations: 700 B.C. to A.D. 250, pp. 99–129. Harmatta, János, ed., 1994. Paris: UNESCO Publishing.
- Beal, Samuel (trans.). Si-Yu-Ki: Buddhist Records of the Western World, by Hiuen Tsiang. Two volumes. London. 1884. Reprint: Delhi: Oriental Books Reprint Corporation, 1969.
- Beal, Samuel (trans.). The Life of Hiuen-Tsiang by the Shaman Hwui Li, with an Introduction containing an account of the Works of I-Tsing. London, 1911. Reprint: New Delhi: Munshiram Manoharlal, 1973.
- Cotterell, Arthur. From Aristotle to Zoroaster, 1998; pages 57–59. ISBN 0-684-85596-8.
- Hill, John E. 2003. "Annotated Translation of the Chapter on the Western Regions according to the Hou Hanshu." Second Draft Edition.
- Hill, John E. 2004. The Peoples of the West from the Weilüe 魏略 by Yu Huan 魚豢: A Third Century Chinese Account Composed between 239 and 265 CE. Draft annotated English translation.
- Holt, Frank Lee. (1999). Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria. Berkeley: University of California Press.(hardcover, ISBN 0-520-21140-5).
- Holt, Frank Lee. (2005). Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-24553-9.
- Tremblay, Xavier (2007) "The Spread of Buddhism in Serindia ― Buddhism among Iranians, Tocharians and Turks before the 13th century." Xavier Tremblay. In: The Spread of Buddhism. (2007). Edited by Ann Heirman and Stephan Peter Bumbacher. Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section Eight, Central Asia. Edited by Denis Sinor and Nicola Di Cosmo. Brill, Lieden; Boston. pp. 75–129.
- Watson, Burton (trans.). "Chapter 123: The Account of Dayuan." Translated from the Shiji by Sima Qian. Records of the Grand Historian of China II (Revised Edition). Columbia University Press, 1993, pages 231–252. ISBN 0-231-08164-2 (hardback), ISBN 0-231-08167-7 (paperback).
- Watters, Thomas. On Yuan Chwang's Travels in India (A.D. 629–645). Reprint: New Delhi: Mushiram Manoharlal Publishers, 1973.
- 12px Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bactria". Encyclopædia Britannica 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
- ^ a b P. Leriche, "Bactria, Pre-Islamic period." Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. 3, 1998.
- ^ David Testen, "Old Persian and Avestan Phonology", Phonologies of Asia and Africa, vol. II (Winona Lake, Indiana: Eisenbrauns, 1997), 583.
- ^ Cotterell (1998), p. 59
- ^ Herzfeld, Ernst (1968). The Persian Empire: Studies in geography and ethnography of the ancient Near East. F. Steiner. p. 344.
- ^ Holt (2005), pp. 41–43.
- ^ Herodotus, 4.200-204
- ^ Strabo, 11.11.4
- ^ Herodotus 6.9
- ^ Justinus XLI 1.8.
- ^ Strabo Geography, Book 11, chapter 11, section 1
- ^ UCLA Language Materials Project: Language Profile: Pashto
- ^ Bernard (1994), p. 126.
- ^ Silk Road, North China C. Michael Hogan, the Megalithic Portal, 19 November 2007, ed. Andy Burnham
- ^ a b Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition
- ^ a b The Berzin Archives od Dr Alexander Berzin ,Historical Sketch of Buddhism and Islam in Afghanistan
- ^ N. Sims-Williams. "Bactrian language". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Originally Published: December 15, 1988.
- ^ John Haywood and Simon Hall (2005). Peoples, nations and cultures. London.
- ^ Library of Congress: Country Studies; "Tajikistan – Historical & Ethnic Background": "Contemporary Tajiks are the descendants of ancient Eastern Iranian inhabitants of Central Asia, in particular the Soghdians and the Bactrians, and possibly other groups."
- ^ Cambridge Encyclopedia Vol. 8, pg. 2246, "Bactria - Geography, History, Tokharistan, Archaeological sites", with this quote "The Bactrians are one of the ancestral lines of the modern-day Pashtuns, Tajiks, of Central Asia."
- ^ Tajikistan: History Britannica Online Encyclopedia
External links
- Bactrian Coins
- Bactrian Gold
- Livius.org: Bactria
- Batriane du nord—about the Termez region, an archeological site
- Art of the Bronze Age: Southeastern Iran, Western Central Asia, and the Indus Valley, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Bactria
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Just saw Leech from the Horde, will post pics soon
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another two great figures going out. Hurricane Hordak and Leech. Matty keeps bringing all the great looking figures.
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Hurricane Hordak I'm mostly neutral to - I don't like this kind of variant, but oh well, in order to get them all, I have to get him. Maybe I'll pose him fighting dust bunnies in the back of my closet.
This was a big surprise to me. I didn't think that they would be revealing any new MOTU items until later this month or June.
I'm excited about two new Horde figures! I just hope that we can get to Mantenna sooner rather than later.
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I dunno...something is off about Leech. Maybe it's just a bad angle.
Leech looks awesome. Crap I wanted Mantenna.
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Leech... hum, I find his head looks weird, but I'll need more pics to confirm that.
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P.S. : Did you notice the Mattel guys went stupid again with the way Leech stands ? His left leg/foot is turned to an physically impossible angle, and his hands seem to be dangling...
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What is that red net piece on the left side of the picture????
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Australia's Indigenous peoples have been in this land for over 60,000 years, making their cultures the oldest living race on Earth. To better understand the recent history of Indigenous communities in Australia, have a look at key events that have affected this group of peoples since European colonisation in 1770. Some public and private institutions across Australia, such as museums and art galleries, offer educational and informational experiences on Indigenous communities. Learn more about the first peoples of Australia by exploring this list of places to visit in each state or territory capital.
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The Museum of Sydney has a large collection of Indigenous artefacts and facts about Indigenous cultures, housed on the site of the first Government House.
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The New South Wales Art Gallery has a permanent collection of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art on display in the Yiribana gallery.
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Indigenous art from remote communities can be found at the Outstation Gallery.
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Tandyana National Aboriginal Cultural Institute has an art gallery and performance space.
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Well, this makes sense: Niners iron man defensive tackle Justin Smith has a partially torn left triceps, the Sacramento Bee reported.
Smith sustained the injury early in the second half of a 41-34 win over the Patriots on Dec. 16, missed his first start since 2001 last week and has not practiced since. Without Smith for the majority of the past six quarters, San Francisco has been gouged, allowing 48 first downs, 753 yards and 66 points to opposing offenses.
The 49ers have allowed 76 points in their past two games, the most since back-to-back losses to the Chargers (48-19) and Bears (41-10) in 2006.
The 49ers, who have listed Smith with an "elbow" injury, are hopeful he can tolerate the pain and return for the postseason, according to the Bee. They can earn a first-round bye with a win over Arizona on Sunday coupled with a Green Bay loss at Minnesota.
In Smith's absence, four-year veteran Ricky Jean Francois made his fourth career start in last week's 42-13 loss at Seattle. The 49ers allowed 176 rushing yards, their most since they surrendered 207 in a 31-10 loss at Kansas City on Sept. 26, 2010.