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Production of the Mustang began in Dearborn, Michigan on March 9, 1964 and the car was introduced to the general public on April 17, 1964 at the New York World's Fair. It is Ford's third earliest nameplate currently in production. Original sales projections projected less than 100,000 systems for the first year. This mark was gone beyond in 3 months from rollout. Another 318,000 would be sold throughout the model year (a record), and in its first eighteen months, more than one million Mustangs were built. Looking for Mustangs for sale in Gardner IL is easy now. Just use the internet to search for them near you.
Classic Mustangs For Sale
All these were VIN-identified as 1965 models, but numerous changes were made at the conventional opening of the brand-new design year (start August 1964), consisting of the addition of back-up lights on some models, the introduction of alternators to replace generators, and an upgrade of the V8 engine from 260 cu into 289 cu in. In the case of at least some six-cylinder Mustangs fitted with the 101 hp 170 cu in Falcon engine, the rush into production included some unusual quirks, such as a horn ring bearing the 'Ford Falcon' logo beneath a trim ring emblazoned with 'Ford Mustang.' These attributes made sufficient difference to require classification of the 121,538 earlier ones as "1964 1/2" model-year Mustangs, a difference that has withstood with perfectionists. Buy Classic Mustangs in Gardner IL and live the muscle car dream.
The 1973 OPEC oil embargo brought with it more strict contamination laws and the desire for fuel-efficiency. This was also the first time in vehicle history that the Big 3 were needing to take on imports. The new Mustang II was smaller than the first version however, due to the added devices needed to meet brand-new US emission and security regulations, was much heavier than the first model. Performance was lowered and in the first year just 385,993 cars were offered. Second generation Mustangs were readily available between 1974 and 1978 and offered in a coupe and hatchback variation. 1979 the Mustang was redesigned a 3rd time. This time it was based on the larger Fox platform and the interior was truly large enough for four individuals. The trunk was larger and so was the engine bay. The body styles offered included a coupe, hatchback and in 1983 a convertible. In 1979 the Third generation Mustang worked as an Indianapolis 500 rate car and Ford built 10,478 celebratory replicas. The third generation Mustangs were produced from 1979 to 1982. Now has never been a better time to buy the Ford Mustang Of Your Dreams in Gardner IL with special collector financing available.
4th generation design was readily available from 1994 to 2004. 1994 Brought about the first significant redesign for the Mustang in 15 years. Patrick Schiavone incorporated several styling from earlier Mustangs. The base design featured a 3.8 OHV V6 engine from 1994 to 1998, and was mated to a conventional 5-speed manual transmission or optional 4-speed automatic.


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Ash2 needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 167 designs submitted by 37 freelance designers.
Kangaroo Island Sailing
****We think a white background is smarter, But the new background colour of the yachts hull - which the logo will be against is ROYAL BLUE. However a white background logo could be stuck onto a blue hull... We have also uploaded a photo of our Spinnaker colours which could be incorporated into the logo!?
We are targeting the wealthy over seas tourist from Europe/America. This could involve backpackers to wealthy families.
We are also targeting the interstate tourists coming to visit Kangaroo Island. Wealthy families who can afford to pay top dollar for a pristine sailing trip.
Last of all we will target corporate companies who may be interested in social team building days etc...
We would like to keep the logo Simple, not too busy. It needs to be Smart, Clever and Sexy!
We are a new business starting up as a sailing charter focussed at cruising Kangaroo Island - South Australia.
We had the idea of possibly involving a Kangaroo and a sail (or a sailboat instead of a sail). Maybe solid images? or maybe outlines? Possibly the outline shape of Kangaroo Island? What about all 3??? The possabilities are endless...
OR if you have a better idea go for it!!
The business name is "Kangaroo Island Sailing"
This logo will be used on our website, and also will be enlarged and put onto the side of the yachts hull.
The background colour of the hull is now ****ROYAL BLUE****
It needs to be Simple, Smart Clever and Sexy! It should also stand out and catch the eye, so be creative and have fun!
Find out how a design contest works or learn more about our logo design services.

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Reviewed by Trinity M. (age 8)
I love this book because it is very funny and interesting. I also like it because it has so many colorful pictures. This book reminds me about when I want to keep my lamp on all night.
I think this book is a good read for all ages. It is easy to read and understand. The funny parts of this book which kids will enjoy are when she pulls the lamp down the slide.


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Whether you are seeking apartments in columbia sc near your workplace or you want an apartment in the downtown area, the city won't disappoint you. The capital of the state of South Carolina is the region's center for cosmopolitan life. With live music, entertainment, food and activity; the place can't disappoint anyone who is looking forward to an exciting yet smooth life. On weekends, the nightlife of Columbia is complemented with award winning restaurants and live music which is certainly going to drive people out of their apartments.
Besides the entertainment and activity, there is more in Columbia that people like. For people who don't like music and concerts, rather their love of life is nature; the Congaree National Park offers 22,000 acres of natural land to explore. With species of fauna and flora inhabiting the area, one is unlikely to get bored. So, on weekends if you are looking forward to escape the hum of downtown, a trip to the park can make a memorable and exciting day for you. The Fort Jackson training center is the largest, owned by the US Army. If you are in the forces, you could consider the fact that the training center is in Columbia.
You can find spacious apartments in the woods or anywhere else in the city. Some of these apartments are located two minutes from downtown. Therefore you can keep near the city and at the same time you can escape into the silent and serene confines of the woodlands. These apartment complexes have different facilities for people. There are resort style swimming pools, fitness centers and business centers. Some complexes will also have shopping malls within the building. Tennis courts with lighting to allow playing at night time are yet another opportunity to keep you entertained in the city.
When it comes to health facilities, some apartment complexes and residential areas also provide round the clock fitness centers and cardiovascular centers. While you have access to business centers, tennis courts and swimming pools, you can also feel relieved about the health and security measures that are offered by the managers of these apartment homes. There are other facilities like private balconies and patios where you can sit and sip coffee in the cool summer breeze. Inside the apartments you will find facilities like dishwashers, microwave ovens, dryer units and disposal units.
Depending on how you have sought to resolve the issues that you face in apartment hunts, the whole process is worthwhile once you find the place that you can call home. You can use programs like SplitWise to split the costs between roommates if you are sharing your apartment. There are also other maintenance matters to be taken into account once you have leased an apartment.


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Apple Google Maps
The new Google Maps application is demonstrated in New York on Thursday, Dec. 13, 2012. The world's most popular online mapping system returned late Wednesday with the release of the Google Maps iPhone app. The release comes nearly three months after Apple Inc. replaced Google Maps as the device's built-in navigation system and inserted its own map software into the latest version of its mobile operating system. (AP Photo/Karly Domb Sadof)


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THR: pre-release tracking for [SPID4] suggests 6-day opening of 125 or more. (adjust should be Tue-Thur + [Fri-Sun x 2.7]) on Jun 20, 18:52
"Total awareness strong across every demo...def interest, males of all ages appear eager...interest also is good among females < 25, less on Jun 20, 18:55
I really don't have the numbers to compare to other past super hero movies but... on Jun 20, 19:09
Do you mean no film "ever" has matched those numbers, or just no film coming up in the future? {nm} on Jun 20, 19:11
No film that is currently in their list of upcoming films. Numbers only go through 7/6/12 {nm} on Jun 20, 19:12
Not surprising considering the dearth of "must see" product. The real test is to see how it compares when BATM3 comes on the radar. {nm} on Jun 20, 19:13
Not sure why the formatting was all funky. But the info is at the bottom of the long blank space. {nm} on Jun 20, 19:11
Comparison for MIB3 two weeks out: 07, 93, 49, 12 (closest comp I could quickly find) {nm} on Jun 20, 19:14
Thanks for providing the actual numbers, btw. {nm} on Jun 20, 19:18
No prob. If D.Mac has a problem with it, just let me know. I know someone used to post them years ago. {nm} on Jun 20, 19:20
the real question is: how much of that 125 will be spent Tue-Thur without the multiplier? {nm} on Jun 20, 19:05
FYI, the last year we had July 4th fall on a Wednesday was 2007. The top opener that year was Transformers 1 which opened on Monday the 1st on Jun 20, 19:08
no {nm} on Jun 20, 19:26
no, no one asked for reboot so fast... {nm} on Jun 20, 19:29
ugh, Spidey...you're gonna make me do extra math next month {nm} on Jun 20, 19:32
Isn't SPID4 a 2.2 multiplier because of July 4th? {nm} on Jun 20, 22:48
I wouldn't think so, considering it's still a 3 day BO count. {nm} on Jun 21, 05:23
I wouldn't think so, considering it's still a 3 day BO count. {nm} on Jun 21, 05:23
Hmm, how did that happen? {nm} on Jun 21, 05:24
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The expression tourne-dos or tournedos, "to turn the back", has been in use in la belle langue for at least 4 centuries. One early usage was for "coward". It was also used in the marketplace to design doubtful cuts of meat or especially fish that were flipped over in the display case in order to hide their shortcomings. That much is accepted. It is later on that things get fuzzy. Apocryphal theories abound regarding the origin of the special presentation of filet mignon known as tournedos Rossini in . The chef Escoffier averred in 1903 that too many arguments were being made about the orgin of the name, without any solid evidence to choose the one over the other. Here is a sampling of six, not all with the same ring of plausibility:
fillet of steak dish, 1877, from Fr., from tourner "to turn" (see turn) + dos "back." According to Fr. etymologists, "so called because the dish is traditionally not placed on the table but is passed behind the backs of the guests" [OED].
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It's a word in the culinary field with the uncertain etymology, since the French word split becomes "tournez" and "dos"and literally means lower back. For some it was the Rossini's butler to determine the name of the cut, because in order to keep the procedure secret, gave his finishing, always on his back to the guests. For others, the birth of the term took place during a lunch made at the Cafe des Anglais in Paris. Here Rossini, suggesting the recipe to the chef and receiving only complaints, was forced to respond: "Et alors, tournez the dos!" (then, turn your back). Finally, another version would indicate Carême as the creator of the recipe in honor of his friend the Master.
Rossini's tournedos
The French Dictionary of the Academy of Gastronomes gives one account for the origin of the name, which first made its appearance in the mid 1800s. "In the last century, the stalls backing onto (tournant les dos) the central alleys of the fresh fish pavilion, in the Paris Halles [markets], were assigned fish of doubtful freshness. By analogy, the name tournedos was given to pieces of filet of beef that were kept for a few days in storage. An indiscretion is said to have led to the word's appearing on a restaurant menu one day; the public, not knowing its origin, adopted it."
Larousse says another possibility is that the great opera composer Rossini placed an extravagant order for filet mignon with foie gras and truffles in a restaurant that surprised the headwaiter so much, he had the dish served behind the backs (dan les dos) of the other customers.
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The French tournedos is a schwa sandwich, but that nicety is lost on my eye at the meat counter, where I read a French mangling of tornado. In this picture, do you see the small whirling storm? A rotating funnel cloud on the barbecue:
It's not hard to find others with the same idea.
Josh ordered the steak tornadoes (26 euros)- the cut of meat which I've noticed he almost alwas orders.
While we're on the subject, the word tornado itself only picked up the sense of turning later in life, via an eggcorn mechanism. From etymonline:
tornado 1550s, navigator's word for violent windy thunderstorm in the tropical Atlantic, probably a mangled borrowing from Sp. tronada "thunderstorm," from tronar "to thunder," from L. tonare "to thunder". Metathesis of o and r in modern spelling influenced by Sp. tornar "to twist, turn," from L. tornare "to turn." Meaning "extremely violent whirlwind" is first found 1620s.
The speculations about "tournedos" derivations look like textbook folk etymologies.
If "tornado" really is (via metathesis) from the Spanish word for thunder, then the English "turnado" (3 examples below drawn from hundreds on the web) would an eggcorn. However, the OED gives "turnado" as a variant spelling of "tornado" and cites examples of this spelling from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
: "While she was shopping a turnado hit the grocery store and killed everybody. "
: " Everything seemed as if a turnado had just struck, everything destroyed."
: "Does anyone know where i can get a fs2004 weather download? like a hurricane or a turnado or somethin like that?
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Transfer news: Chelsea complete deal to sign Porto striker Christian Atsu
Chelsea have completed the signing of Christian Atsu from FC Porto and he will spend this season on loan at Vitesse.
Last Updated: 01/09/13 2:31pm
Atusu has joined the Blues on a five-year-contract for a reported £3.5m fee and will be loaned out to Vitesse Arnhem for the rest of the season.
The Ghana international is a left-sided player who can play as a winger or second striker.
Atsu joined Porto in January 2010 from Cheetah FC and finished the season with the club's Youth Player of the Season award.
Andre Villas-Boas included him in Porto's senior side for the first time in the same season but he remained on the bench.
Atsu spent the 2011/12 season on loan with Rio Ave where he made 30 appearances and scored six goals, earning him the Player of the Season gong.
The 21-year-old broke into Porto's first team last term, turning out 17 times in the league and also played in a Champions League last-16 tie with Malaga.
Ghana called Atsu into their senior side in 2012 and he has been a regular since, scoring in the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year.


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The Differences Between Ketchup and Catsup
Mad Men Season 6 Episode 3 recap
They were explained to me for the first time. You? I always thought catsup was supposed to be spicy, which sounded kind of appealing. But the differences were drawn clearly here: one is delicious and special and unique, and the other just …isn't.
That was, of course, the case with a number of plotlines this episode. The ketchup plot, other than weirdly highlighting Pete's miserable apartment, mainly served to spend a long time showing us what we've known, but now really know – Don is lagging creatively. Peggy, on the other hand, is at the top of her game. Don needs Peggy back if he's going to survive. Which is great, and not a moment too soon, because having Peggy spinning her wheels for Chaough isn't that exciting. Still, it's not like I think she'll come back without a fight. They are now opposites. Ketchup and its pales-in-comparison cousin, Catsup. Don will need Peggy to change his fate – which, if even Ken Cosgrove feels entitled to chastise him now, is slipping more quickly than we think. In general, not seeing what's going on at SCDP as much, business-wise, tells me they're getting complacent – even as they tell Harry otherwise.
Speaking of Harry – I don't want to rush the larger conversation that forms the meat of the episode, but I do want to say that it's one of Roger's enduring qualities (and Bert Cooper's too, I suppose) that he can tell a weasel at first glance. He seems to never have been wrong about a person in his employ, even if he can tell that they are somehow useful. He will give Harry all the money in the world – but not a partnership. Because he knows what that would mean, and basically understands people – arguably better than anyone else in the office. It's been true for Pete, which may even have had the odd effect of making Pete more of a person, and it's certainly true for Harry, who appears to be good at his job even though I would like him to screw off forever. He's just so gross. But I understand this to be the point.
For Joan, however, oh, Joanie. I can't decide when I feel worse for you – when your decision is undermined right in front of Scarlett and random passersby, or when Harry screams out that you slept your way into the job (which, to their credit, nobody flinches at), or when you got real with your friend about how belittled you felt.
What kills me here is that this is where Joan has been before. We've seen it – remember in season 1, when her birth certificate was printed up on the wall? Joan is in no mans' land – quite rightly not part of the secretaries' pool, but simultaneously not truly part of the upper cadre. Harry – who can't even get entrée into the room – calls her Joan, and in return she calls him Mr. Crane. That might get me more angry than anything else – the idea that even the titles and names that she's earned are disrespected, regardless of what the whispers might be about how she gets there. But who can she tell, really? Joan has always kept her own counsel at work. There are any number of fleeting glances that tell us Don might know what's up – but he's not really that interested in helping…or he would.
And the difference in perception is partly Joan's own. She hasn't pushed for a glam-er office, it doesn't seem. She doesn't demand to be called Ms. Holloway (or is she still Mrs. Harris?) She doesn't even tell Harry, as he well deserves to be told, that she utterly outranks him. But, as her ambitious friend tells her, just being there makes the difference. Just being a part of the visual lineup of the place, mixing the sexes, continuing to poke holes in the establishment, and holding her head up high – even if she starts with a target as easy as Dawn.
How did we feel about Dawn this week? Clearly we've been asked to care about her and get to know more of her in and outside work. Furthermore, she's eager to please in the extreme, going so far as to tell the former Mrs. Harris that it doesn't matter who likes her or not as long as Joan does – aren't these echoes of Joan herself, who didn't need to be liked? For that matter, of Peggy, who never participated in the office bacchanals? Peggy virtually begged Dawn to want more, last year, so maybe now we're there. She may never aspire to be Peggy, but she may look up and want to be Joan – which, is that almost as good? Just as good? Better?
By contrast, of course, it is hard to feel anything about the "struggles" facing Megan Draper. I just don't care that much, because she's too childish to know what she wants. I was reflecting tonight that it was a long time since we'd seen her and Don getting sexual and violent at once, but tonight came close. Whatever about swinging, whatever about Don's affairs – the point here is he can't stand to be cuckolded, or seen to be. Sure, that's fine. But the other point is that, as the hilarious swinging matriarch pointed out, Megan wouldn't want him to be. She'd want him to be defending her and a little bit jealous and possessive. She wishes he would be more dramatic about his love for her. It's his lackadaisicalness that makes her crazy – and thus, she knows the difference between the cool wife she wishes she was, and the one she actually is. The difference between ketchup and catsup.
Finally, Stan's beard has made me completely turn around on him. Um, yum. Delicious.
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
Paris in Pink - Imaginarium Designs
I have an Imaginarium Designs project to share today. Actually it's for tomorrow, but it's already tomorrow in Australia, so here you go! For those of you looking to buy the Imaginarium Designs Chipboard, visit HERE for information. These chippies are NOT yet available in the USA, but hopefully they will be soon!
Here is my layout for today. What I love about being on this team is that I get to just "let it all hang out" in the creativity department. I can use whatever products I desire, as long as I use the ID chipboard. I had myself a blast with this Paris-themed layout!
I created a project with many layers, including a pocket. The long rectangle piece on the left side...that is Prima packaging! It was too pretty to toss, so I inked it up and used it!
To create the butterfly (IDS0001) and Paris word (IDW0002), I painted the chipboard with white acrylic paint. Then I sprayed the chipboard with Goosebumps Texture Spray. Once the spray dried, I inked with chalk ink.
I really had fun cutting out bits and pieces from Graphic 45 and 7 Gypsies papers, plus digging into my stash of flowers for just the right buds to accent my page! All the pink works great with the photo - which my husband took, and he framed those roses perfectly! So pretty!
I created some contrast by adding bits of black here and there. To make the scrolls, I used a frame (IDT0006), and cut it apart. I then inked it with black ink. Love the using black with the cream, kraft, and pink.
This layout reminds me of an old fashioned scrapbook or memo board. Photos and odds and ends. Romantic and soft and vintage.
Thanks for looking. Make sure to hop over to the Imaginarium Designs Blog to see what the other designers have been making!
Imaginarium Designs Chipboard: Medium Butterfly, Tiny Frames, Paris
Graphic 45 Papers: Kraft Reflections Glimpse of Paris; Curtain Call Tour de France, Moulin Rouge, Curtain Call Borders; Once Upon a Springtime Spellbound, Woodland Fantasy
7 Gypsies Papers: Lille
American Crafts: Peach Cardstock
Bazzill Basics: Sugar Cream Cardstock
Prima: product packaging
Clearsnap: Colorbox Graphic 45 Decades Antiquing Ink Dark Cashmere, Venetian Lace, Triumphant Red; Colorbox Fluid Chalk Ink Rose Coral, Rouge
Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist Peach Delight, Crushed Shells
Close to My Heart: Archival Ink True Black
Tsukineko: Goosebumps Clear Texture Spray
Deco Art: White Acrylic Paint
Wild Orchid Crafts: Flowers
Teresa Collins: Clock
Craft supply: Glue
Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L: Foam squares
Scotch 3M: Tape runner, foam tape
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Gorgeous Layout Gloria. Love the layers and how you put everything together, it is extremely classy. xReplyDelete
Why is it you always want what you can't get? lol...those chippes are fantastic...so is you use of them. It all looks wonderful. TFSReplyDelete
Loving Paris and all things Paris, this layout jumped out at me. LOVE all the layering and all the bits and pieces you have used . Love the PP and the soft colours. Just a beautiful layoutReplyDelete
this is grogeous ! I love the several layers of paper with little bits hiding behindReplyDelete
This may be one of my favorite layouts in the history of man. Gloria, this is gorgeous!ReplyDelete
Hi Gloria! Its so lovely to meet you! :) and thank you for your kind words on my blog! You do such lovely work! I'll certainly be popping by every now and then for a peek!ReplyDelete


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Hemophilia B is a hereditary bleeding disorder caused by a lack of blood clotting factor IX. Without enough factor IX, the blood cannot clot properly to control bleeding.
See also:
Alternative Names
Christmas disease; Factor IX hemophilia
Causes, incidence, and risk factors
Hemophilia B is caused by an inherited
Females have two copies of the X chromosome. If the factor IX gene on one chromosome is defective, the gene on the other chromosome can do the job of making enough factor IX.
Males have only one X chromosome. If the factor IX gene is missing on a boy's X chromosome, he will have Hemophilia B. Most people with hemophilia B are male.
If a woman has a defective factor IX gene, she is considered a carrier. This means the defective gene can be passed down to her children. Boys born to such women have a 50% chance of having hemophilia B. Their daughters have a 50% chance of being a carrier.
All female children of men with hemophilia carry the defective gene.
Risk factors for hemophilia B include:
- Family history of bleeding
- Being male
The severity of symptoms can vary, and the severe forms become apparent early on.
Bleeding is the main symptom. It is often first seen when the an infant is circumcised. Additional bleeding problems usually show up when the infant starts crawling and walking.
Mild cases may go unnoticed until later in life. Symptoms may first occur after surgery or injury. ur in response to surgery. Internal bleeding may occur anywhere.
Symptoms can include:
- Bleeding into joints and associated pain and swelling
Blood in the urineor stool Bruising
- Excessive bleeding following circumcision
- Gastrointestinal tract and urinary tract hemorrhage
- Prolonged bleeding from cuts, tooth extraction, and surgery
- Spontaneous
Signs and tests
If you are the first person in the family to have a suspected bleeding disorder, your doctor will order a series of tests called a coagulation study. Once the specific defect has been identified, other people in your family will need tests to diagnose the disorder.
Blood tests results may include:
Partial thromboplastin time(PTT)
- Normal
Prothrombin time
- Normal
Bleeding time
- Normal
- Low
Factor IX
Treatment includes replacing the defective clotting factor. You will receive factor IX concentrates. How much you get depends on:
- Severity of bleeding
- Site of bleeding
- Your weight and height
To prevent a bleeding crisis, people with hemophilia and their families can be taught to administer factor IX concentrates at home at the first signs of bleeding. People with severe forms of the disease may need ongoing, preventive infusions.
If you have severe hemophilia, you may also need to take factor IX concentrate before surgery or certain types of dental work.
You should get the Hepatitis B vaccine. People with hemophilia are more likely to get hepatitis because they may receive blood products.
Expectations (prognosis)
With treatment, most people with hemophilia are able to lead relatively normal lives. However, death from extreme blood loss can occur.
If you have hemophilia, you should have regular check ups with a hematologist.
Complications can include :
- Long-term joint problems, which may require a joint replacement
- Bleeding in the brain (intracerebral hemorrhage)
- Thrombosis due to treatment
Repeated transfusions may slightly raise the risk for
Calling your health care provider
Call your health care provider if:
- Symptoms of a bleeding disorder develop
- A family member has been diagnosed with hemophilia B
- If you have hemophilia B, and you plan to have children; genetic counseling is available
Genetic counseling may be recommended. Testing can identify women and girls who carry the hemophilia gene.
Testing can be done during pregancy on a baby that is in the mother's womb.


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Monday, September 7, 2009
27 comments:
- david gemmill said...
ahhahahhahahaha coooll!!! last 2 are my favorites. AWESOME WORK BUDSTAR!!!!!!!!!
- Mon Sep 07, 12:34:00 AM 2009
- Benjamin Anders said...
I like all of them but I absolutely love the scarf one.
Great job, Nico!
- Mon Sep 07, 12:44:00 AM 2009
- patrick said...
These are great!
Scribbles' boobies start at her collar-bone
- Mon Sep 07, 01:17:00 AM 2009
- david gemmill said...
the lips on the 3rd one : BARNEY'S SON!
- Mon Sep 07, 01:18:00 AM 2009
- WIL BRANCA said...
These hipsters gave me an erection.
Now I'm mad.
- Mon Sep 07, 06:42:00 AM 2009
Awesome drawings, Nico!
- Mon Sep 07, 07:22:00 AM 2009
- Tim said...
I like em. Shag could cut glass with her nose, lips, AND nipples.
- Mon Sep 07, 08:15:00 AM 2009
- Niki said...
Shagg kinda weirds me out but I love the other three!
- Mon Sep 07, 08:40:00 AM 2009
- TV's Kyle said...
Rock awesome.
- Mon Sep 07, 08:58:00 AM 2009
- Vincent Waller said...
You've been busy. Nice work.
- Mon Sep 07, 09:05:00 AM 2009
- Jessica said...
I love these bitches! Too cute. p.s. those pants DO make Shagg's butt look big.
- Mon Sep 07, 11:19:00 AM 2009
- Kali Fontecchio said...
I like Scribbles, her name is cute too!
- Mon Sep 07, 04:59:00 PM 2009
- callie! said...
These are so coool! I don't think my hipster girls can stand up to yours! Scarfie is the best looking, but like I said Scribbleshirt is the most Whore of them all and thus the most hipster and best. She wins!
- Mon Sep 07, 05:07:00 PM 2009
- Molly said...
Wonderful! Scarfie is also my fav.
- Tue Sep 08, 10:04:00 AM 2009
- Katie said...
CUTE NICO!! I like the hair and lips on Hoodie! They're all super cute. Nice colors too! :D
- Tue Sep 08, 11:36:00 AM 2009
- Winny! said...
I like these little hipsters! they all kinda look like me!!! hehehehe
- Tue Sep 08, 12:51:00 PM 2009
- Nico said...
David- thanks, budsticker! your comment was pretty BARNEY'S SON
Ben- i think I like her the best too. :) thank you!
Patrick- thanks! she has tons of pent up teen angst and shouts a big FUCK YOU to everyone, so her tits are pretty much going to start wherever she feels like it!
Wil- sorry buddy. This should help.
John- thank you! I like 'em too kinda, heh.
Tim- this is why we do not mess with Shagg.
Niki- is it because she has a crush on you?
Kyle- Nope, you.
Thanks Vincent!
Jess- thanks, they love you too! Big butt, so what!
Kali- thanks! Scribble says "poo on the world, but that Kali chick is pretty rad"
Callie- thank you, dearie! DRAW now and post yours, I can't wait to see!
Molly- thank you!! She is pretty shy
Katie- thanks Katie! I make a really big deal about my choice of colors, so that's awesome that they are noticeable and make a good difference!
Whitney- thank you!! But I disagree, you are simply a treasure. these hipster girlies are little devils, really.
- Wed Sep 09, 01:21:00 AM 2009
- david gemmill said...
shit is TAF dood TAF
- Wed Sep 09, 03:05:00 AM 2009
- WIL BRANCA said...
- Wed Sep 09, 10:14:00 AM 2009
- Ricky said...
Nico... I'm impressed! These are all phenomenal, dude.
- Wed Sep 09, 01:41:00 PM 2009
- Zach Bellissimo said...
Hahaha silly hipster kids. I gotta see those everyday on the way to the city. The last one with the glasses is my favorite. This would be a great comic idea btw (me thinks) :]
- Wed Sep 09, 02:51:00 PM 2009
- Hammerson said...
Wow, great work! Really nice fluid lines and excellent color choices, and the characters are full of comic potential ("Scarfie" especially).
- Wed Sep 09, 02:59:00 PM 2009
- Nico said...
Ricky- That means a ton, dude. Thanks so much for looking!!
Zach- I have a love/hate with hipsters. I can't stand their attitude and outlook on life. Actually, pretty much everything they are about annoys the crap out of me. I admit that I have a real love for the hipster fashion sense, though. :D
Hammerson- Thanks budler! All this positive response for the girls makes me want to make a comic about them! We'll just have to wait and see, won't we?
- Wed Sep 09, 04:28:00 PM 2009
- Katie said...
I'm with Zach and Hammerson! COMIC! COMIC!
They could be waiting in line at daikokuya, talking about how they totally aren't hipsters.
Hoodie: Like...god...just because I live in Silverlake everyone thinks I'm a hipster...so annoying...
Scribbles: I know, someone was like "did you get that shirt at Urban Outfitters?" and I'm like, '"uh...no WAY, this is VINTAGE."
Shag: I like Urban Outfitters!
Specs: ...
Hoodie: Shut UP Shag!!! People are gonna think we're...(whispered tone) hipsters...
- Wed Sep 09, 06:24:00 PM 2009
- Marlo said...
Wow, Nico! I agree with everyone, these are brilliant! congratulations!
- Wed Sep 09, 06:39:00 PM 2009
- Nico said...
Marlo- Jesus, it's MARLO!!! How the heck are ya, lady?! I miss you so much. Thank you for the sweet comment!
Katie- um, OMG. Want to be my official comic writer???
- Wed Sep 09, 10:37:00 PM 2009
- Brett W. Thompson said...
Ahaha, awesome!!!!
- Fri Oct 02, 02:40:00 PM 2009


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|The Man
He is sorely missed. We shall not see his like again.
It may seem incredible to some, but here, two years after the day I woke to discover that my icon and hero had succumbed to pancreatic cancer at the age of 75, I still get tears in my eyes just thinking about it. At some point between that first giddy discovery of Naschy's work, through countless visits to his monster-choked realm, from the dizzying heights of his Waldemar Daninsky saga to the saddening lows of his bitter, fallow years, Naschy stopped being just an image on the screen, just an old man from a foreign land whose interests and passions neatly dovetailed with mine; he became, in a sense, one of my dearest friends. And his loss was hard to take. It still is.
|The Myth
Though I have delved deeply into the legacy Naschy left behind, I still have much to discover. Later today I will be posting one of these until-now-untapped discoveries. But in the meantime, as my tribute and monument to my much admired and even-more missed old friend, I collect here all the Naschyness of the blog for your reference and enjoyment.
Rest in peace, Paul. Gracias.
|The Legend
- Frankenstein's Bloody Terror (1968)
- Assignment Terror (1970)
- The Werewolf vs. the Vampire Woman (1971)
- Dr. Jekyll vs. the Werewolf (1972)
- Fury of the Wolfman (1972)
- Horror Rises from the Tomb (1972)
- Crimson (1973)
- Curse of the Devil (1973)
- A Dragonfly for Each Corpse (1973)
- The Hanging Woman (1973)
- The Hunchback of the Morgue (1973)
- The Mummy's Revenge (1973)
- Vengeance of the Zombies (1973)
- Count Dracula's Great Love (1974)
- The Devil's Possessed (1974)
- Exorcismo (1975)
- Muerte De Un Quinqui (1975)
- Night of the Howling Beast (1975)
- Inquisición (1976)
- El Transexual (1977)
- The Frenchman's Garden (1978)
- El Caminante (1979)
- Los Cantabros (1980)
- Night of the Werewolf (1981)
- The Beast and the Magic Sword (1983)
- El Ultimo Kamikaze (1984)
- Rojo Sangre (2004)
EDIT: It appears I've jumped the gun with my grief, as Naschy's official date of death is November 30. :( I'm letting this stand, though--expect my review of my latest Naschy viewing tomorrow.


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Turkmenistan, Turkmen Türkmenistan, country of Central Asia. It is the second largest state in Central Asia, after Kazakhstan, and the southernmost of the region's five republics. The country is bordered by Kazakhstan on the northwest, Uzbekistan on the north and east, Afghanistan on the southeast, Iran on the south, and the Caspian Sea on the west.
After Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan is the least densely populated of the Central Asian states. Much of its waterless expanse is inhospitable to plant and animal life. Except for oases in narrow strips dotted along the foothills of the Kopet-Dag Range and along the Amu Darya, Morghāb, and Tejen rivers, deserts characterize its sunbaked sandy terrain. From 1925 to 1991 Turkmenistan was the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, a constituent (union) republic of the Soviet Union; it declared independence on October 27, 1991. The capital is Ashgabat (Ashkhabad), which lies near the southern border with Iran.
Deserts occupy nine-tenths of Turkmenistan's territory. The Karakum is one of the world's largest sand deserts, taking up the entire central part of Turkmenistan and extending northwest into Kazakhstan. Topographically, four-fifths of Turkmenistan consists of the southern part of the Turan Plain. Mountains and foothills rise mainly in the southern part of the republic, the Kugitangtau and Kopet-Dag ranges being spurs of the Pamir-Alay mountain ranges. The Kopet-Dag is geologically young, its instability indicated by intermittent earthquakes of great destructive force.
Turkmenistan's main rivers are the Amu Darya (ancient Oxus River), which flows along its northeastern border toward the Aral Sea, and the Tejen, Morghāb (Murgab, or Murgap), and Atrek; there are also numerous small mountain rivers. However, the geographic position of the rivers and the direction of their flow do not coincide with the location of cultivable lands; the most fertile—and still insufficiently used—lands lie chiefly in the south, northeast, and west, whereas the principal rivers run mostly in the east. The Karakum Canal, completed in 1967, is one of the world's largest irrigation and shipping canals. The water lost from these canals through irrigation and from evaporation in the arid climate contributes to the shortfall of the Amu Darya and other streams in their lower courses.
Turkmenistan's position deep inside Asia and the character of its relief are responsible for a strongly continental climate, which exhibits great fluctuations in temperatures during the day and the year. The average annual temperature is 57–61 °F (14–16 °C), but this figure masks an extremely wide range. The temperature seldom falls below 95 °F (35 °C) during summer days, and the absolute maximum high temperature in the southeast Karakum reaches 122 °F (50 °C) in the shade. By contrast, in winter the temperature in Gushgy, in the extreme south on the border with Afghanistan, drops to −27 °F (−33 °C). Precipitation occurs mainly in the spring and ranges from about 3 inches (80 millimetres) per year in the northwest desert to as much as 12 inches in the mountains.
Plant and animal life
Except in the oases and mountain valleys and plateaus, the vegetation is of a pronounced desert character. In the mountain valleys of the Kopet-Dag, wild grapes, almonds, figs, and walnuts are found, while juniper and pistachio trees grow on the open slopes. On the riverbanks and islands of the Amu Darya stand tugai (dense floodplain forests) of black poplar, willow, reed, and cane.
The desert is home to foxes, wildcats, gazelles, and tortoises, while the mountains support goats, cheetahs, lynx, snow leopards, and porcupines. Jackals, wild boars, various species of birds, and the rare pink deer inhabit the tugai; wild donkeys roam the Badkhyz and Garabil plateaus in the southwest. Vast flocks of ducks, geese, and swans make the east coast of the Caspian Sea their winter home. In the Caspian, fishermen find abundant herring, sprat, roach, and sturgeon; before it became heavily polluted, the Amu Darya supplied edible carp, barbel, and pike.
Settlement patterns
There is much variety in the different regions of Turkmenistan, but two broad divisions may be seen: an oasis region—characterized by adequate water supply, cultivated lands, and developed industry—composed of the Kopet-Dag and other oases; and a desert region, subdivided into western Turkmenistan, with a well-developed industrial base, and the Karakum, with cattle raising and deposits of natural gas and oil.
The Kopet-Dag oasis stretches along the northern foothills of the Kopet-Dag Range, the slopes of which offer large areas for nonirrigated farming; both the mountains and foothills are also rich in mineral resources. The economic and cultural centre of the oasis is the capital city of Ashgabat. The development of the capital has stimulated industry, turning an agrarian oasis into the industrial-agrarian core of the republic.
The Morghāb oasis is famous for its fine-staple cotton, silk, handmade carpets and rugs, and Karakul sheep. The Morghāb River, the lower reaches of which are crossed by the Karakum Canal, can supply more water for irrigation. Mary (formerly Merv) is the centre of the oasis and the surrounding region.
Separated from the Morghāb by a stretch of the Karakum, the Tejen oasis formed along the Tejen River. Before the construction of the Karakum Canal, only small areas of wheat, barley, and melons could be cultivated because of the scarcity of water. After the oasis was crossed by the canal, however, and the Hauz-Khan Reservoir built, large areas were irrigated, thus making possible the cultivation of long-staple cotton and the construction of cotton-processing plants. The economic and cultural centre is the town of Tejen.
The middle Amu Darya oasis, in contrast to other oases, stretches almost without interruption for hundreds of miles and is almost entirely cultivated. The Amu Darya waters are very rich in silt, an excellent natural fertilizer. Raising of cotton and silkworms has long been widespread in that area, which is also an important producer of kenaf and other fibre crops. The adjoining deserts provide fodder for Karakul sheep. Industries processing agricultural products and mineral raw materials have been developed in the oasis as well. The economic and administrative centre of the oasis and the region is Chärjew (Chardzhou), the second largest city and industrial centre in Turkmenistan.
The lower Amu Darya oasis lies in the ancient delta of the Amu Darya and was long one of the most important agricultural regions of the republic. The oasis is cut by a dense network of old riverbeds as well as by irrigation channels and ditches beginning in neighbouring Uzbekistan. Reductions in the lower Amu Darya's flow threaten to impair this oasis's agricultural output, however.
The desert of western Turkmenistan is an enormous and almost waterless expanse, but its mountainous part, which is an eastern continuation of the Caucasus Mountains, has mineral and fuel resources. The latter's deposits of oil, rock salt, and common lake salt are of great importance. Western Turkmenistan is one of the most industrially developed regions of the republic, emphasizing oil extraction and refining, chemical and mining industries, and fisheries and fish processing (along the Caspian Sea). The rural population is engaged mostly in raising sheep, goats, and camels.
The Karakum and the other featureless deserts enter, in part, all the above-mentioned areas. They are distinguished by the same desert landscape, lack of surface water, exceptionally meagre precipitation, and high summer temperatures. At the same time the desert is a zone of fuel and mineral resources, and its richest pastures can be used year-round for sheep, goats, and camels.
The Turkmens are a Muslim people who speak a language belonging to the southwestern, or Oğuz, branch of the Turkic linguistic group. Turkmens make up some four-fifths of the republic's population, up from three-fourths at the end of the 20th century and about two-thirds in 1970, largely because of a relatively high birth rate. There are smaller numbers of Russians, Uzbeks, Kazaks, and Tatars.
The population is distributed unevenly, with few people in the Karakum Desert and mountain regions but large numbers in the oases. With the development of the Turkmenistan economy during the Soviet period, many non-Turkmen skilled workers and scientific and technical intelligentsia immigrated to the republic.
About two-thirds of the ethnic Turkmen population lives in rural settlements and villages. The urban population consists mainly of outsiders, those from Russia being concentrated in the principal urban centres.
For centuries the Turkmens were divided into numerous tribes and clans, the largest being the Tekke, Ersari, and Yomut. Prior to the Russian Revolution most of the Turkmens were pastoral nomads, though during the 18th and 19th centuries many had settled in the oases and become agriculturalists. Their tribal organizations and loyalties were strong. They had always been warlike and had commonly hired themselves out as mercenaries to various rulers in Central Asia and Iran. Turkmenistan's incorporation into the Soviet Union had the effect of bringing greater unity to the Turkmen tribes and of giving them the beginning of a sense of nationhood.
Turkmenistan specializes in cotton growing and in the extraction of oil and natural gas. Turkmenistan's resources underground in the western plain and underwater along the Caspian Sea include extensive reserves of oil and natural gas as well as deposits of mirabilite, iodine, bromine, sulfur, potassium, and salt. The mountains and foothills contain dolomites and marl, which are used for fertilizing calcium-deficient soil. In the 2010s Turkmenistan's principal trading partners included China, Turkey, Russia, and the United Arab Emirates.
The cultivation of fine-staple cotton and the raising of Karakul sheep, horses, and camels contribute most to the agricultural economy. The Karakul breed accounts for seventh-tenths of all sheep in the republic. There are several prized varieties of Karakul pelts: the glistening black arabi, the golden sur, and the silver-gray shirazi. The Akhal Teke and Yomut breeds of horses deserve their fame as handsome, fleet animals with great endurance. Arabian dromedary (one-humped) camels are indispensable in desert areas for transporting sheepherders, for drawing water from deep desert wells, and as a source of wool, milk, and meat.
Turkmenistan leads Central Asia as a producer of silkworm cocoons, primarily from the middle Amu Darya oasis. The lower Amu Darya oasis, lying in the Amu Darya delta, long supported one of the most important agricultural zones in Turkmenistan. Grown in the warm climate there are medium-staple cotton, alfalfa (lucerne), sweet sorghum, beans, kenaf, sesame, grapes, vegetables, and melons, and cattle and silkworms are raised. Serious problems, however, threaten the prosperity of this region. The disastrous decline in the Amu Darya's outflow, the effects of extreme pollution from pesticide and chemical runoff, and soil and water salinization resulting from the desiccation and shrinkage of the Aral Sea threaten to ruin the Amu Darya delta as an agricultural producer for Turkmenistan.
In less-populated western Turkmenistan, people raise sheep, goats, and camels and cultivate some grain and melons. In the south, near Tejen, lies the Badkhyz Nature Reserve with its pistachio woodlands. Pistachios also grow in the Gushgy district, watered by a tributary of the Morghāb River, at Turkmenistan's southernmost point.
The radical reconstruction of the republic's economy was completed by 1930. Old branches (cotton ginning, oil pressing, and carpet making) were retained, and new ones (heavy and light industry, such as food processing) emerged.
Petroleum deposits and the associated oil industry are centred in the Caspian plain in western Turkmenistan and in the offshore oil fields to the west of the Cheleken Peninsula in the Caspian Sea. Turkmenistan oil is of a very high grade, both as a fuel and as a raw material for chemical production. A network of pipelines links natural gas deposits in western Turkmenistan with Ashgabat, Türkmenbashy (Krasnovodsk), Cheleken, and the central regions of the republic. Additional pipelines link Turkmenistan with a number of natural gas-importing neighbours, including Russia, Iran, and China (by way of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan).
Significant in the chemical industry are the Chärjew superphosphate plant, mirabilite from the vicinity of the Garabogazköl (Kara-Bogaz-Gol), sulfur from Gaurdak, iodine and bromine factories on the Cheleken Peninsula, and the production of detergents at the Turkmenbashi oil refinery. Thermal power stations using liquid fuel operate at Nebitdag, Ashgabat, Büzmeyin (Bezmein), and Türkmenbashy, while a station at Mary burns natural gas. Hydroelectric plants include the Hindu Kush plant, as well as plants at Kaushtubent and at the Dashköpri Reservoir on the Morghāb River.
The republic's engineering and metal-processing enterprises include shops for repairing diesel locomotives, railcars, and agricultural machinery. Plants in Ashgabat and Mary produce oil-field and refinery equipment.
Silk-winding and silk-weaving mills, as well as cotton, cotton-wool, and worsted mills are important. Artificial furs, leather footwear, and sewn goods also are produced. Domestic industries, especially carpet and rug making, occupy an important place in the republic's economy. Turkmen carpets and rugs, long renowned for their durability and unique designs, are exported to more than 50 countries. Among Turkmen carpets well-known in the West are those made by the Tekke, Yomut, Salor, and Ersari Turkmens and called by those names. The food industry's most important branches include those producing vegetable oil, processing fish and meat, grinding flour, and making wine. Turkmenistan exports oil, butter, wine, fish, and salt to nearby countries.
The great dispersion of the towns in Turkmenistan requires extending rail lines to serve a scattered population efficiently, but the existing communications system falls far short of achieving that goal. A main trunk railway connects Türkmenbashy via Ashgabat and other towns with Tashkent in Uzbekistan, throwing off branch lines from Mary to Gushgy and from Nebitdag to Vyshka. Another line extends from Chärjew along the Amu Darya as far north as Qŭnghirot (Kungrad) in Qoraqalpoghiston (Karakalpakstan). However, trucks now carry most of the country's internal freight, and such traffic is developing more rapidly than rail transportation.
Pipelines completed in the 21st century allowed Turkmenistan to increase exports of natural gas. In December 2009 a 1,100-mile (1,800-km) natural gas pipeline linking Turkmenistan with China was opened; it was largely funded by the China Development Bank. Passing through Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, it was Turkmenistan's first high-volume export pipeline to completely circumvent Russia. Early the following year a new 19-mile (30-km) pipeline between Turkmenistan and Iran was opened, augmenting an older, smaller pipeline that continued deliveries to that country.
Water transport includes a merchant fleet and a ferry plying the Caspian Sea between Türkmenbashy and Baku in Azerbaijan. Air service from Ashgabat to Baku and Tashkent has been reduced since 1991.
Administration and social conditions
Turkmenistan adopted a new constitution in 1992, replacing the Soviet-era constitution that had been in effect since 1978. The new constitution established legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government, dominated by a strong executive. The president, the head of state, was to be elected for a maximum of two consecutive five-year terms, but Turkmenistan's first president, Saparmurad Niyazov, extended his term to 10 years in a 1994 referendum. A People's Council (Khalk Maslahaty)—made up of the president, members of the parliament, regional representatives, chairmen of the high courts, the cabinet, and other officials—had the authority to call national referenda, plan economic and social policy, and declare war. Despite having significant de jure powers, this council largely functioned as a rubber stamp for Niyazov's decisions.
After the death of Niyazov in 2006, his successor, Pres. Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov, led efforts to reshape Turkmenistan's government while retaining the overwhelming presidential powers wielded by his predecessor. In September 2008 the Khalk Maslahaty accepted a new constitution that established a multiparty system and saw to the council's own dissolution. Under the 2008 constitution, the powers previously held by the council were nominally divided between the president and an expanded unicameral parliament (Mejlis), whose 125 members are elected by territorial districts to five-year terms. The president was elected by direct popular vote to a five-year term. This provision was amended in 2016 at Berdymukhammedov's urging to extend the length of a term to seven years. The president is empowered to appoint governors and mayors and may dissolve the legislature only in the event that the Mejlis is unable to select a speaker.
Turkmens received their education from traditional Muslim schools in Bukhara and Khiva until the collapse of those khanates in 1920. There was also a scattering of New Method schools established by Muslim reformers (Jadids) early in the 20th century in such towns as Kerki and Chardzhou (now Chärjew). Only after 1928 did the Soviet school system begin to displace these Muslim educational institutions, with the result that literacy rates remained low for many years. By the 1960s and '70s several higher educational institutions functioned in the republic—the Turkmen State University in Ashgabat, a teachers college, and medical, polytechnic, and agricultural institutes. The Turkmen Academy of Sciences was founded in 1951 and directed from Moscow until the late 1980s. Then, as now, education was provided tuition-free to students, and those selected for higher education received stipends from the republic's budget. The recent lapse of communist ideology and the rising demands for freer speech and press have affected the educational system of Turkmenistan. All curricula and publications previously dominated by the Communist Party's censorship and propaganda now require thorough editorial change. The designation of Turkmen as the state's official language also has necessitated reorientation in instruction, curricula, and teaching materials.
Cultural life
The widespread Turkmen traditional practice of composing poetry orally gave way, after printing became well established in Turkmen centres in the 1920s, to writing and to the dissemination of verse and prose in book form. Although written Turkmen literature dates at least to the 18th-century poet Mahtum Quli (Magtim Guli), it underwent a burst of growth when the literary publications of the new republic began to appear in the late 1920s and '30s. Outstanding graduates of Bukharan seminaries such as Abdulhekim Qulmuhammed-oghli (d. c. 1937) brought about a renewal of intellectual and cultural life in Soviet Turkmenistan. Qulmuhammed-oghli served in the anti-Soviet Basmachi resistance movement, later became a communist nationalist, and influenced younger intellectuals through his activities as a writer, editor, researcher, and cultural organizer. All such efforts came to an end in the 1930s when the purges instigated by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin and carried out locally by Russian and Turkmen communists destroyed this small core of outstanding intellectual leaders, including Qulmuhammed-oghli. After that, Soviet-educated intellectuals dominated cultural life. Among these figures, Berdi Kerbabayev attained some renown for his novel Aygïtlï ädim (1940; The Decisive Step) and a later novel, Nebit-Dag (1957), as well as plays, poems, and translations.
Though the authoritarian government remains hostile to competing ideologies that lay claim to the loyalty of the population, the fervent young followers of the imams and ishans (Muslim religious leaders) attract some followers to a much closer attachment to the Islāmic heritage as well as lifestyle.
The Turkmen-language literary publications that appeared in Soviet Turkmenistan in the late 1920s and '30s first used a modified Arabic script, then a modified Roman alphabet, and finally a modified Cyrillic alphabet. After independence Turkmen writers, religious leaders, and educators entered a debate over their alphabet; though many wished to return to the Arabic writing system, Turkmenistan adopted a modified Roman alphabet.
A studio in Ashgabat produces films, and television stations transmit from the capital and from Türkmenbashy. Until recently, most broadcasting and films employed the Russian language rather than Turkmen. Broadcasts in Turkmen are often translations of programs that originated in Russian and other languages.Viktor Borisovich Zhmuida Edward Allworth
It is possible to follow the development of human habitats in southern Turkmenistan from Paleolithic times to the present. Some of the earliest traces of agriculture in Central Asia were discovered some 20 miles (32 km) north of Ashgabat in the Neolithic Jeitun civilization, which may be dated to the 5th millennium bce. The Jeitun civilization was followed by a series of other Neolithic cultures, and a cultural unification of southern Turkmenistan occurred in the Early Bronze Age (2500–2000 bce). During the course of the following half millennium, some urban centres were created; the ruins of Namazga-Tepe cover approximately 145 acres (60 hectares). From about the mid-3rd century bce to the Sāsānian conquest in the 4th century ce, Turkmenistan formed part of the Parthian empire (see Parthia).
Into this land came, probably in the 11th century, the Turkmens, strangers, as it were, with no links to any previous civilization of the region. Contemporary historians did not distinguish them from the Oghuz, a loose confederation of Turkic tribes present in the region since the 9th century. Turkmens came under the rule of the Seljuq dynasty (1038–1194) of Oghuz tribes, and they weathered the Mongol invasions (13th century) quite well; the southern tribes became part of the Il-Khanid empire, and the northern tribes belonged to the Golden Horde. One of the Turkmens' principal occupations for centuries after the decline of Mongol rule was robbing passing caravans.
Until 1924 the Turkmens never experienced even nominal political unity. Their organization was exclusively tribal, and the tribes were either nomadic and independent or subject to neighbouring Persia or to the khanates of Khiva and Bukhara. During the 16th and 17th centuries the Chaudor tribe led a powerful tribal union in the north, while the Salor tribe was dominant in the south. During the 17th and 18th centuries the ascendancy passed to the Yomuts, Tekkes, Ersaris, and Saryks, who began to move out of the desert into the oases of Khorezm and to the Atrek, Tejen, and Morghāb rivers and to adopt a settled way of life. There was bitter rivalry among the tribes, particularly between the Tekke and Yomut, while the Goklans, inhabiting part of the Khiva oasis, were opposed to both. Thus, while the Tekkes were the principal opponents of the Russian invasion in the 1860s and '70s, the other tribes either failed to support them or helped the Russians.
The first notable Russian expedition under Prince Aleksandr Bekovich-Cherkasski in 1717 met with failure; however, in 1869 a Russian military force landed on the eastern coast of the Caspian Sea and founded the port of Krasnovodsk (now Turkmenbashi). In 1874 the Transcaspian military district was established, and in 1881 this district became the Transcaspian province, which in 1899 was made part of the governorate-general of Turkistan. There was fierce resistance to Russian encroachment, but this was finally broken by General Mikhail Dmitriyevich Skobelev at the Battle of Gök-Tepe (now Gökdepe) in 1881. The Turkmens took an active part in the revolt of 1916 against Russian rule, particularly in the town of Tejen, where many Russian settlers and officials were murdered.
After the Russian Revolution, during the Civil War (1918–20), Turkmenistan was the scene of sporadic fighting between the Social Revolutionary Transcaspian Provincial Government and the Bolshevik troops trying to penetrate from Tashkent. The Social Revolutionaries were for a time supported by a small British force of 1,200 men with its headquarters in northeastern Iran. The British force was withdrawn in April 1919, and Red troops captured Ashgabat in July 1919 and Krasnovodsk in February 1920. Bolshevik rule was thereafter established.
Until 1924 the Transcaspian (after 1921 called the Turkmen) province formed part of the Turkistan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, while the remaining districts of Turkmenistan were embodied in the Bukharan and Khorezmian Soviet Socialist republics formed in 1920. The Turkmen S.S.R. was formed in 1924 out of the Turkmen province, together with the Turkmen rayony (sectors) of the former Khorezmian Republic (Tashauz [now Dashhowuz], Takhta [now Tagta], Ilyata, Kunya-Urgench, and Porsa) and of the Bukhara Republic (Chardzhou, now Chärjew, Kerki, and part of Sherabad). It formally became one of the U.S.S.R.'s constituent republics in 1925. During the Soviet period Turkmenistan benefited from educational and health care modernization but experienced political repression.
The republic declared independence on October 27, 1991, and adopted the name Turkmenistan. In the early years of independence, a corrupt regime led by the dictatorial rule of Saparmurad Niyazov failed to improve the quality of life for the population, despite the interest of foreign investors in Turkmenistan's natural gas resources. During the course of Niyazov's rule, his primary interest proved to be propagating an elaborate personality cult. In addition to declaring himself president for life, Niyazov pursued a number of extravagant projects to this end. Atop a monument called the Neutrality Arch, a gold statue in his likeness—one of the many such statues and portraits scattered throughout the country—was designed to rotate to continuously face the Sun. He called for a "Golden Age Lake" to be constructed in the desert at a cost of more than $6 billion, and his semiautobiographical Rukhnama ("The Book of the Soul") was established as required reading in all of Turkmenistan's schools, even forming a part of driver's exams. He renamed days of the week, months of the year, a crater on the Moon, a breed of horse, a canal, a city, and a wide range of ideas and places after himself and members of his family. A large proportion of state money—at the beginning of the 21st century, estimated at more than half of the country's gross domestic product—was funneled off to a special presidential fund; much of this revenue was to subsidize special construction projects emphasizing the president's prestige. This systematic diversion of revenue, as well as various "reforms," resulted in a crippling decline in education and health care services.
In late 2006, after more than two decades of rule, Niyazov died suddenly of heart failure. Fears that the absence of a designated successor would threaten the country's stability were not immediately realized, though the naming of former minister of health Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov as acting president—a departure from the dictates of the country's constitution—was greeted with some surprise. The country's first (at least nominally) contested elections were held in February of the following year, and, amid widespread criticism that they were marred by fraud, Berdymukhammedov was declared the winner and was formally inaugurated as Turkmenistan's president.
Early in his presidency, Berdymukhammedov took steps toward dismantling the vestiges of Niyazov's personality cult and reversing some of his controversial orders. Adjustments included ending bans such as those on ballet and opera, reversing Niyazov's decree renaming the days of the week and months of the year after himself and members of his family, and ordering that the Neutrality Arch, with its large gold effigy, be moved from the capital's centre to its southern reaches. Berdymukhammedov was elected to a second five-year term as president in February 2012, although the ballot was generally regarded as fraudulent.
In December 2012 Turkmenistan held a parliamentary election that was billed as the first to feature multiple political parties. In reality, the political process remained under the government's tight control. Only parties with official recognition participated in the election, and individual candidates were carefully screened to ensure their loyalty to Berdymukhammedov.
In February 2016 a commission headed by Berdymukhammedov drafted amendments to the constitution that would increase the length of a presidential term from five to seven years and remove the upper age limit on the president, which had been set at 70. Observers generally saw the amendments, which went into effect just months before the presidential election scheduled for February 2017, as further evidence that Berdymukhammedov intended to hold the presidency for life. As expected, Berdymukhammedov won a seven-year term in 2017 with 98 percent of the vote.Denis Sinor The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica


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Through a partnership with Khan Academy, the J. Paul Getty Museum is expanding its open educational content program.
The museum is providing a variety of art history and art resources with the aim of "developing a rich personalized learning environment across a broad variety of topics, from the making of a medieval manuscript to the conservation of Old Master paintings."
The Getty had already embarked on a program to make its resources available to online audiences through its Open Content Program, which includes making every one of the digital images to which it holds the rights freely available for use without restriction or permission. There are more than 10,000 high-resolution images available in total through the OCP portal.
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Councillor Brian Ridgway, Derbyshire County Council's Cabinet Member for Council Services said: "There are almost 3,200 unemployed young people in Derbyshire and we want to do all we can to find a brighter future for as many as possible.
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Please give him a hug from me and remind him there is hope for significant improvement.
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After its debut in Thailand, Cambodia and Pakistan, Xi Jinping: The Governance of China has become a top seller and been well-received among local officials and scholars, with many hailing the value of the book for both its language and its outreach.
The book, which outlines the political ideas of the top leadership in China, has been released in Thai, Khmer and Urdu versions in the respective capitals of the three countries in the past two weeks.
A Thai publisher sold more than 2,000 copies of the book in a single day after its launch in Bangkok on April 7, with many readers inquiring on social media about ways to purchase the book, reported Xinhua news agency.
Thai Deputy Prime Minister Wissanu Krea-ngam, who had read the book, said it was written in beautiful language, even though it was not in the form of a novel or essays.
"I believe that to be a great leader, one has to be a good reader, good thinker, good speaker, good writer and good doer, and I found President Xi has achieved all of them after I finished reading this book," he said.
In Phnom Penh, more than 700 officials, scholars and entrepreneurs, including Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen and five deputy prime ministers, attended the launching ceremony for the book on April 11.
Chea Munyrith, director of the Confucius Institute of the Royal Academy of Cambodia, said publishing a Khmer version will enable the Cambodian people to better learn about China and Xi himself.
Chea, who assisted in the translation of the book into Khmer, said it offers insights for government officials and scholars on how to properly manage a country.
"That is why it is important for the officials, students and scholars in Cambodia to read through the book," he said.
At the launching ceremony of the Urdu edition of the book in Islamabad on Friday, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said the book is as much about the contemporary world as it is about China.
"What has touched me most is that this book is not just about high-level politics, but also about moving stories of common people, their lives and inspirations about hard work and family values," he said.
"This book is as much about the "Chinese Dream" as it is about the global dream to have a peaceful, harmonious and connected world," he added.
Building a community of shared destiny is an important concept embodied in Xi's thoughts on governance of the nation, said Jiang Jianguo, deputy head of the Publicity Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and minister of the State Council Information Office.
"And this concept has been included in the resolutions passed by United Nations organisations," Jiang said in Islamabad.
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Oct. 11—Faculty Emeriti Association
It was uplifting to speak with individuals who helped build the JMU culture
It was truly uplifting today to speak with members of the Faculty Emeriti Association. During their careers they exemplified the priorities of teaching and the professor-student relationship as central to JMU's educational culture. Some today said they hope that increased pressure on young faculty members to publish will not have a deleterious effect on that longstanding strength. When we talk about JMU—as a hybrid combining elements of the small liberal arts college and the research-intensive university, we must think about that critical balance - in teaching and research, faculty workload and work/life—not by trying just to emulate what another university is doing, but doing it in the right way for Madison. To maintain and enhance our own unique culture and identity, I think that's one of the really important challenges we face.
There were strong opinions about maintaining the live classroom experience
Retired faculty members offered strong opinions on the live classroom environment as the basis of the Madison Experience. One acknowledged that online courses have their place. Here is yet another issue of balance for JMU to study. While there is pressure on universities to rely more and more on technology for instruction, one thing that I have heard as a countervailing point from a lot of parents is, "You know, by the time my child gets to be 18, I actually would like them to get some personal interaction and not just to be home in front of a computer." I actually think it's more important than ever to have the personal interaction. I have a 13-year-old. I see other teens spending so much time with the technology, but not relating to one another. Those are hard questions about the future of higher education with which we need to struggle.
These retired professors are still in touch with their past students
We have been hearing consistently along the "Why Madison?" Listening Tour—and we've heard it again today—that one of the greatest strengths of JMU has been that the faculty gets to know the students as individuals and people. In the classroom, as mentors of research and also through advising, these relationships are a result of time and effort by the faculty. It was even suggested that professors could perhaps cultivate these qualities in an online instructional environment. Maintaining that personal connection is important as we go forward, and will be the key to making any kind of instruction effective. When I asked for a show of hands for how many retired faculty members are still in touch with past students, almost every hand in the room went up. That is really remarkable. There are a lot of other institutions where you'd see a very different result. That's a great example of the Madison culture and identity in action.
The desire for improvement motivates JMU's penchant for change
One of our newly retired professors mentioned today that change comes about because the faculty is constantly trying to improve the curriculum for the students. The result, she said, "is change for the good of the students, to make them better, to make them stronger, to make them more marketable." And that's something I really noticed too. The attitude at Madison is not just to say, "Well, we've always done it this way," but it's to try and ask those questions—about assessing what we're doing and constantly thinking about innovation. That's certainly been very evident to me so far, and I really appreciate that positive attitude. The discussions that make these improvements occur is what we are trying to tap for the "Why Madison?" Listening Tour.
Fundraising suggestions will help us perpetuate the Madison culture
This group seems to know better than most, that in the past the assumption was, "Well, the state will provide the resources that we need, and we'll just keep raising tuition." We know now that to fulfill our hopes and dreams for the future that those sources alone are not going to be sufficient. We need to think about other sources of revenue, and other forms of support for the university. We have a strong base of alumni, 97 percent of whom say they are happy with their JMU experience, and yet just 7 percent make a gift to JMU. So I asked the Faculty Emeriti group for ideas, since they taught these alumni and know them, for suggestions on building that culture of philanthropy. Not only did these retired professors say they would help in any way they can, they offered concrete ideas. Their ideas including asking graduating classes to challenge one another to raise funds, focusing efforts on both spouses for the days when the university was a woman's college only, and encouraging alumni to make a gift in honor of a living professor. There was discussion about events the Faculty Emeriti group might organize at which retired professors and alumni can come together and renew their relationships. Lastly, there was a very good suggestion that we ask our freshmen to be of service to JMU in the same way we ask them to be involved in the larger community. JMU is also worthy of their service and in the future, of their financial support. These kinds of specific examples are very useful.
I found spending time with these retired faculty members personally inspiring
I'm struck by what fantastic role models for our community these retired faculty members are. This event was inspiring to me personally, to hear the stories of faculty emeriti and to think about all that they contributed and continue to contribute to JMU. I am optimistic about the future when I think about everything that they've done, and the legacy they have created here.
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Apple seems to be moving to reduce its reliance on Samsung for the manufacture of the A-series processors found in iOS devices, and are possibly planning a move to another company for the production of future chips. While Apple and Samsung have been at odds in the smartphone market, they've remained close partners in manufacturing. The increasing rivalry between the two companies when it comes to the former is cited as the reason for their deteriorating relationship when it comes to the latter. The The Korea Times reports that love-hate might be turning into pure hate.
According to industry sources, Apple has not collaborated with Samsung in the process to develop its A6 microprocessor used in its latest iPhone 5. Samsung has handled the manufacturing of the processors used in previous iPhones and believed to have contributed in their design to some degree.
Apple is still relying on the Korean firm to manufacture its chips but has made it clear it will no longer use its rival's technology, according to a senior Samsung official.
In addition to several lawsuits, Apple has hired a senior Samsung chip designer away from the company at a crucial time when both companies are intensifying their chip design efforts. The hire further drove the wedge between the two companies. A split makes the most sense for Apple, who undoubtedly loathes using a rival as the manufacurer of the brain of their most important devices and is bringing an increasing amount of chip design in-house. Samsung, on the other hand, stands only to lose the multibillion-dollar Apple contract if and when Apple makes the transition away from Samsung for new chip production.
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