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I have been somewhat of a casual photographer for as long as I can remember. I come by it naturally - I get it from my dad. Most of my computer memory is taken up by photographs. Sometimes, in some places, I take the same photographs over and over. Because visual beauty is something I want to remember.
Over the past (almost) 2 years, I have fallen in love with yoga. And, I must admit, a huge part of that had to do with photography. If we want to get really specific, I fell in love with yoga because of self portraits. I completed a course called Curvy Beloved with Anna Guest-Jelley and Vivienne McMaster in June of 2014 (you can read my reaction here). Since then, I have continued both my personal yoga practice and my yoga self-portrait practice.
I know yoga selfies can be judged harshly, but taking and posting them brings so much into my life. My yoga self portraits clarify who I am to myself. This commitment takes time, and props, and gear, and a willingness to pause. It means that sometimes I pull over, get out of the car, and strike a pose. It means that I use trees and rocks and pots and pans to get my camera in the right spot. It means that I carry props and a travel mat in my car (and that mat is usually pretty filthy). Sometimes it means that I get strange looks. And sometimes I'm sharing photos where my hair is wonky or I haven't washed my face or cleaned off my bathroom countertop. But for every reason I have not to post a photo, I have twenty reasons why I should.
I take yoga selfies to remind myself that every practice matters. It has been a process to learn to communicate with my body and understand what it needs. Some days it is Mountain Pose in my bathroom, while feeling the cold floor under my feet and looking myself in the eye. Some days, it is a powerful Warrior pose. Each moment, each breath, that I look inside and respond to my needs is an important moment in time. It is my commitment to practicing yoga daily that matters just as much as what each practice looks like.
I take yoga selfies because they allow me to become part of something beautiful. When I see a beautiful landscape or a beautiful mural or a beautiful sunset, I now know how to put myself into that scene. I am able to create a visual memory that includes me. I don't have to rely on my memory for the experience, I can see myself in it. I remember this day at Shaker Village. I remember how the grass was just slightly damp and I went to a yoga class after taking this picture with a wet seat. I remember the feeling of this day in the midst of the dozens of pictures I have taken of this building. I was there. It was a beautiful day in a beautiful location. And I was there.
I take yoga selfies because I want to show that there is no such thing as perfection. And that is perfectly okay. The photograph above is probably the proudest I have ever been of a photograph. I was practicing in my kitchen. It was before I learned to use my phone and timer apps. I was using my big camera, sitting it on the kitchen floor under the kitchen table with a remote control. My hair was in a headband. I was wearing a ratty pink Turkey Trot 5K tshirt. And I could feel the sun on me. I went into a little supported bridge and I snapped the picture. The sun isn't photoshopped in. This photo is legit and pretty magical. However, if you look closely, you'll see that the block under me is wobbly. It isn't completely on the ground. It needs to be moved a little closer to my feet. It isn't a great expression of the pose, even such a relaxed pose. But none of that matters. Because the photograph - and me, because I am in it - is beautiful.
I take yoga selfies because I believe that the basics are beautiful. So many of the yoga portraits that float around are of impressive poses and/or impressive places. My Instagram feed is full of arm balances and twisty pretzel poses, frequently on top of a mountain or in front of a waterfall. There is nothing wrong with these sort of pictures. In fact, I must love them or they wouldn't be in my feed. But that is not my my life or my practice. My practice is usually in my yoga room/office or my living room. You'll see props and various expressions of poses. Warriors, folds, twists. Pretty basic. Very beautiful and just as valid.
I take yoga selfies because I want to end the talk of yoga for "six pack abs, a tight ass, and an end to cellulite." (Yes, I actually heard that on a video advertisement for a yoga class.) I mean, look at me. I have a belly and boobs and a butt. Yoga changed my life. And, you know what? My during/after picture would look just the same as my before picture. Belly, boobs, butt? Check! All still there! Still not an issue. Yoga is so much more than physical exercise. And I hope my portraits convey that.
I take yoga portraits to show what it is like to just be. In so many ways, we are pulled to be better. Ten steps to be a better this, a better that. Work towards meeting a physical goal, a time goal, complete a program, get a promotion. Yoga is my chance to just take a deep breath and be. Even if just for a breath, to release the expectation to be better. And, instead, just be. On a trail. At the end of my run/walk intervals. With my blood pumping in my ears and my self-judgement going crazy. Prop up my phone with some sticks. Take a forward fold. And be.
I take yoga selfies because of my cat. I mean, seriously. How many of you follow me in on Instagram just for Herschel Cat? Good grief, can that girl photo bomb.
What speaks to you? What can you bring into your day to help you learn how to speak and listen to yourself? It may not be yoga. It may not be self-portraits. But I so strongly encourage you to build a habit that makes you feel alive. And foster it. And feed it. Because it will keep you going.
Want to see more? You can follow my (almost daily) yoga practice on Instagram - I'm @krissiebentley. You can also see short videos of my daily practice on my vimeo page.
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Called by the Turks Osmanlıs, after the name of the founder of the dynasty Osman I (Ar., ʿUthmān), the Ottomans were Oghuz (Tk., Oğuz) Turks who came out of Central Asia and created a vast state that ultimately encompassed all of southeastern Europe up to the northern frontiers of Hungary, Anatolia, and the Middle East up to the borders of Iran as well as the Mediterranean coast of North Africa almost to the Atlantic Ocean. As a multiethnic, multireligious, and multicultural entity, the Ottoman Empire was the last of the great Islamic empires, which emerged in the later Middle Ages and continued its existence until the early twentieth century.
Conquest, 1300–1600.
This initial period of Ottoman expansion came to an end during the reign of Bayezid I (r. 1389–1402) who, influenced by the Christian princesses and their advisers at the Ottoman court, replaced the gazi tradition of conquering Christian territories with seizure of the Turkoman Muslim principalities in Anatolia; at the same time he substituted Byzantine for Muslim practices in his court and administration. The Muslim Turkomans who had led the conquests into Europe as gazis refused to participate in attacks on their Muslim coreligionists, however, particularly since the spoils available was far less than in Europe, so the conquests to the East were accomplished largely with contingents furnished by Christian vassals. Many of the displaced Anatolian Turkoman princes took refuge with the Mamlūk sultans who since 1250 had displaced the Ayyūbids in Egypt and Syria, or with the rising Tatar conqueror of Iran and Central Asia, Tamerlane, where they sought assistance in regaining their territories. The Mamlūk Empire was then attempting to expand its influence north from Syria into Cilicia and the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, but it was by this time too weak to provide substantial military assistance to the Turkomans. Tamerlane also preferred to move through Iran into India, but fearing that Ottoman expansion eastward past the Euphrates might threaten his western provinces, he mounted a massive invasion of Anatolia that culminated in his rout of the Ottoman army and capture of Bayezid I at the Battle of Ankara (1402). To ensure that no single power would rise up to dominate Anatolia and threaten his domains, he went on to ravage the peninsula and restore the surviving Turkoman princes before resuming his invasion of India.
Bayezid I died in captivity, but enough of his sons survived to contest for power during the Ottoman Interregnum (1402–1413) that followed. Initially Prince Süleyman, based at Edirne, managed to retain Ottoman power in Europe with the assistance of the Christian vassal princes of southeastern Europe. Ultimately, however, his efforts to restore Ottoman rule in Anatolia were defeated by his brother Mehmed, supported by the Turkoman gazis who had remained along the Danube fighting against the Hungarians, and who had opposed Bayezid's expansion into the Muslim East as well as the Christian vassals' influence in his court. As Mehmed I (r. 1413–1421), he restored Ottoman rule between the Danube and the Euphrates, driving out Christian influences in the court and inaugurating a policy, continued by Murad II (r. 1421–1444, 1446–1451) and Mehmed II (r. 1444–1446, 1451–1481) "the Conqueror" (Fâtih); this policy instituted direct Ottoman administration in both Europe and Anatolia in place of the indirect rule through vassals which had characterized the previous century.
This restoration was accompanied in 1453 by Mehmed II's conquest and long siege of Byzantine Constantinople. The city had been ravaged and largely depopulated since its occupation by Latin Crusaders in 1204. But Mehmed intended to restore it to its old splendor and prosperity so it could serve as the capital of the restored Roman Empire that he wished to create. Therefore, instead of following the Muslim tradition of sacking cities that resisted conquest, he used his army to rebuild it and then carried out a policy of forced immigration (sürgün) of peoples from all parts of his empire to repopulate it and restore its economic life as quickly as possible. Mehmed repopulated the new capital with Christians and Jews, in addition to Muslims.
The rapid expansion of the Ottoman dominions created severe financial, economic, and social strains. These were, however, successfully resolved during the long and relatively peaceful reign of Sultan Bayezid II (r. 1481–1512), thus making possible substantial expansion in the first half of the sixteenth century beyond the boundaries of the first empire, across the Danube through Hungary to the gates of Vienna and eastward into the territories of the classical Islamic empires of the Umayyads and ʿAbbāsids. Sultan Selim I (r. 1512–1520) "the Grim" (Yavuz), in response to the rise of the Ṣafavid empire in Iran starting about 1500 and its threat to Anatolia and to the regional balance of power, first defeated the Ṣafavids at Chaldiran (1514) in eastern Anatolia, and then went on to conquer the Mamlūk dominions during a rapid campaign through Syria and Egypt in 1516–1517, soon afterward adding the Arabian peninsula to his domains. With the confrontation of the Safavids and the conquest of Arab world complete, the Ottoman Empire's strategic and ideological focus shifted. The sultans became guardians of the hajj and the holy places of Islam, and claimed primacy in the Islamic world as the Great Caliphs. The Ottoman Empire became the most powerful state in the Islamic world.
Sultan Süleyman, "The Lawgiver" (Kanuni; called "The Magnificent" in Europe), who ruled from 1520 to 1566, supported by an alliance with France against their common Habsburg enemy, went on to conquer Hungary (1526) and to put Vienna under a siege (1529), which though unsuccessful was followed by the creation of a system of border gazi warriors who carried out guerrilla warfare with raids well into central Europe during the next two centuries. With the stalemate in land warfare, the struggle between the Ottomans and Habsburgs was transferred to the Mediterranean Sea. Süleyman created a powerful navy under the leadership of the pirate governor of Algeria, Grand Admiral Hayruddin Barbarossa; the commander not only brought Algeria into the empire as a province whose revenues were set aside in perpetuity for support of the Ottoman navy, but also made the entire Mediterranean into an Ottoman lake. Süleyman also expanded Ottoman power in the East; after conquering Iraq and the southern Caucasus from the Ṣafavids (1534), he built an eastern fleet that from bases in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea conquered the Yemen and broke European naval efforts to blockade the old international shipping routes through the Middle East and then went on to assist Muslim rulers in western India and Indonesia against the Portuguese and others. Under Süleyman, the Ottoman Empire became a world power.
The reign of Sultan Süleyman marked the peak of Ottoman power and prosperity as well as the highest development of its governmental, social, and economic systems. The Ottoman sultans preserved the traditional Middle Eastern social division between a small ruling class (askeri or "military") at the top, whose functions were limited largely to keeping order and securing sufficient financial resources to maintain itself and carry out its role, and a large subject class of rayas (reâyâ, or "protected flock"), organized into autonomous communities according to religion (millets) or economic pursuit (esnaf, or "guilds") that cared for all aspects of life not controlled by the ruling class.
Membership in the ruling class was open to all who declared and manifested loyalty to the sultan, his dynasty, and his empire; who accepted the religion of Islam; who knew and practiced the "Ottoman Way," a highly complex system of behavior including use of the Ottoman language, a variant derived from Turkish, Arabic, and Persian; and who knew and carried out the particular practices used by one or another of the groups into which the ruling class was divided. Those who failed to meet these requirements were considered members of the subject class regardless of their origins or religion. Thus ruling class members could be the children of existing members, but only if they acquired and practiced all the required characteristics. Members could also come from the devşirme system of recruitment among Christian youths, which was carried out on a large scale in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; the recruits were converted to Islam and educated in the Ottoman Way in the palace school established by Mehmed II and continued by his successors. Other members entered the ruling class as slaves or captives of existing members, or as "renegades" who came to the Ottoman Empire from all the nations of Europe, seeking their fortunes under the banner of the sultans. In general, all ruling class members who came from a Turkish or Muslim heritage, including the former members of the ruling classes of the Seljuk and Mamlūk empires and their descendants, formed a Turko-Islamic aristocracy; converts from Christianity formed a separate devşirme class. The two groups struggled for power and prestige, with the ruler seeking to balance them with equal positions and revenues in order to control and use both.
Members of the ruling class were divided into "institutions" according to function. The Palace or Imperial Institution in the Topkapı Palace consisted of two branches: the Inner Service (enderûn), including the Harem, was charged with producing, maintaining, training, and entertaining sultans, and as such comprised the sultans themselves, their wives, concubines, children, and slaves; the Outer Service (birûn) included servants of the sultan who were involved in affairs outside of as well as within the palace, in fact exercising the sultan's function of directing the army and administering the empire. The Scribal Institution (kalemiye), constituting the treasury of the sultan and including all the "men of the pen" (ehl-i kalem), carried out the administrative duties of the ruling class, in particular assessing and collecting taxes, making expenditures, and writing imperial decrees and most other administrative documents.
It included the grand vizier (sadr-ı azam) and other officials holding the rank of vizier and the title pasha (paşa) who met as the imperial council (divan) in the kubbealtı section of the second courtyard of the palace and were in charge of supervising and leading the Ottoman system on behalf of the sultan. The Military Institution (seyfiye) included the "men of the sword" (ehl-i seyf) charged with expanding and defending the empire and keeping order and security: the sipahi cavalry, commanded for the most part by members of the Turko-Islamic aristocracy; the Janissary (yeniçeri) infantry, military arm of the devşirme, which comprised the most important part of the Ottoman army starting in the sixteenth century and constituted the principal garrisons and police of major cities and towns of the empire; the Ottoman navy, long commanded by grand admirals who were given the governorship of Algeria as well as control of the customs duties of most of the ports of the Mediterranean to provide them with necessary revenues; the artillery (topçiyan); and various other corps. Finally there was the Religious or Cultural Institution (ilmiye), led by the şeyhülislam (Ar., shaykh al-Islām) and composed of "men of knowledge" (ehl-i ilm, ülemâ; Ar. ʿulamāʿ), constituting not only the leaders of prayer (imāms) and others serving in the mosques, but also the judges (qadi) and jurisconsults (müfti), and all others in the realm of culture; to these persons the title efendi was given, as it was to members of the scribal class, who also had to undergo religious training. The Islam maintained by the Ottoman ülema was orthodox Sunnī.
Within the institutions of the Ottoman ruling class, organization was maintained largely in accordance with financial functions. Each position had certain sources of revenue, either taxes of varied sorts, fees levied in return for the performance of official duties or salaries paid by the treasury. In general, all revenues in the empire were considered to constitute the imperial wealth (havâssı hümayûn) of the sultan, who alienated it on occasion in perpetuity as private property (mülk) or for religious foundations (vakıf, evkâf; Ar., waqf, awqāf) or maintained it in financial/administrative units (muqataʿât) intended to produce revenues for the sultan and his ruling class. Out of the revenues that were left as muqataʿât, some were assigned as emanets to collectors (emins) who were paid salaries for carrying out their duties, for the most part consisting of collecting taxes or fees without additional functions; some were assigned to officials of the state or army who used the revenues entirely as their own salary (timars) in return for performing functions in addition to collecting the revenues, as viziers in the imperial council or as officers of the sipahi cavalry or the artillery corps; and some were assigned as tax-farms (iltizam) to tax-farmers (mültezims) as the result of bids won by those who promised to pay the treasure the largest share of their annual revenues, since unlike the timar holders they performed no other function than the collection of revenues. Regardless of the source of revenues, the holders of the muqata'ât were given only enough authority to make certain that taxable revenues were produced; the producers of the revenue, whether cultivators, artisans or merchants, maintained property rights to pursue their own occupations as long as they delivered the required taxes.
Subject class.
In the countryside, villages were for the most part constituted entirely of members of one millet or another. In the larger towns and cities, quarters (sg., mahalle; pl., mahallât), surrounded by walls and guarded by gates, were set aside for each millet. There was no municipal government as such in traditional Ottoman society. Whether rabbis or bishops or imams, the religious leaders of each quarter or village carried out all the secular functions not performed by the ruling class, basing these duties on their own religious laws as interpreted in their religious councils and courts, and conducting their affairs in their own languages and in accordance with their own customs and traditions. Thus they organized and operated schools, old-age homes, and kitchens for the poor. Leaders of the different urban millets came together on occasion for specific functions that required general cooperation, such as the celebration of certain festivals or organization against attacks, plagues or fires; but for the most part each lived independently with little input either by members of the ruling class or by members of the other millets.
Reform and Modernization.
From the late eighteenth century onward the Ottoman Empire faced three prominent challenges, and responses to these challenges once more transformed the empire in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, thus paving the way for the Tanzimat period. The first was a strategic threat posed by the Russian Empire. In the eighteenth century, the emergence of Russia as a great power brought about a shift in the balance of power, at the expense of the Ottoman Empire. The Empire was in decline militarily, and Russia was eager to fill the vacuum that Ottoman weakness had created in the region. There were a series of Russo-Ottoman wars, resulting in the Russian invasion of Ottoman territory in the Balkans, southeastern Europe, and the Caucasus. The Ottomans were persistently defeated by the Russians (with the exception of the Crimean War of 1853–1856), and the very heart of the Ottoman Empire, the capital Istanbul, was often threatened by the Russian army. At the same time, the decline of the empire and the prospect of its disintegration created a power struggle among European Great Powers. This struggle, known as the Eastern Question, over the fate of the empire to safeguard the strategic, territorial, and commercial interests of the European Great Powers in the Ottoman domains, lasted until the end of the empire.
The second challenge was the emergence and spread of nationalist ideas and movements in the Ottoman Empire after the French Revolution, first among non-Muslim elements, and then among non-Turkish Muslim elements. From the beginning of the nineteenth century until the end of the First World War, the empire faced a series of nationalist and separatist uprisings, from different ethnic groups, seeking to break up the empire in order to secure their independence. The uprisings of the Christian minorities, supported by Russia and other European Great Powers, who sought to use these movements as vehicles to extend their influence within the Ottoman body politic and, ultimately, to replace Ottoman rule with their own. It started with the Greek revolution early in the century and continued in Serbia and Bulgaria; later in the century, it spread to Macedonia and to the Armenians in Anatolia. The resulting loss of territories and large-scale massacres of Muslim (and in some cases Jewish) subjects by the rebels as well as by the newly independent Christian states of southeastern Europe, aimed at securing homogenous national populations for the new nation-states, led to massacres and countermassacres that characterized the empire, with little break, during the last half century of its existence.
The Ottoman statesmen developed a number of responses to these challenges. First, all these challenges pushed the Ottomans into a new series of reforms directed towards centralization and Westernization. To save the empire, the foremost need was better military; better military required more revenue; more revenue required centralized administration and finance, and this required the abandonment of decentralization and elimination of âyâns. Therefore, an administrative centralization process began along with military modernization. Military modernization in turn gave way to bureaucratic, administrative, and legal modernization, and the state underwent a period of Westernization in political, social, economic, and cultural fields throughout the nineteenth century.
The traditional decentralized Ottoman system became increasingly centralized; the central government extended its authority and activity to all areas of Ottoman life, undermining, though not entirely replacing, the millets and guilds. Since functions were expanding, moreover, the traditional Ottoman governmental system in which the ruling class acted through the imperial council was replaced with an increasingly complex system of government, divided into executive, legislative, and judicial branches. The executive was organized into ministries headed by ministers who came together in a cabinet led by the grand vizier. The legislative function was given to deliberative bodies, culminating in a partly representative council of state in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and in the democratically elected parliament introduced initially in 1877–1878 and then again in the Young Turk constitutional period (1908–1918). Administration was turned over to a new hierarchy of well-educated bureaucrats (memurs) who dominated Ottoman governmental life until the end of the empire. The reforms introduced during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries transformed the Ottoman Empire into a relatively well-governed and modern state. Emphasis was laid, however, on institutional and physical reforms, with the centralized bureaucracy exercising far more control over the lives of the subjects than was the case in the traditional decentralized Ottoman system. As a result, liberal political movements, led by the Young Ottomans during the years of the Tanzimat and by the Young Turks during the reign of Abdülhamid II, demanded political and social reforms as well. For all the difficulties and deficiencies in the implementation of government-sponsored reforms, it is clear that the Tanzimat era initiated a process of social and economic change, the development of modern communications, including telegraph lines, and steam navigation.
Furthermore, since the Empire was militarily too weak to tackle the external threats, effective diplomacy was therefore regarded as an essential guarantee of the Empire's survival. The Ottoman statesmen attempted to exploit the balance of power between the European powers and to exploit their rivalries, especially those between Britain and Russia. During the Tanzimat period, Britain (and France and Austria at times) emerged as the main supporter of the Empire against Russia. Although the Ottoman Empire was weak in comparison with the European Great Powers, it remained a significant international actor whose independent decisions could materially influence the interests and behavior of more powerful states. After 1856, the Ottoman Empire was formally admitted by treaty into the European state system, and her status as a great European power was recognized.
Sultan Abdülhamid was a staunch authoritarian. He dissolved the parliament in 1878, establishing his own absolute control over the executive organs of government. He was determined to control in detail the initiation and implementation of policy. He ignored the rules of bureaucratic hierarchy, exerting personal authority over provincial as well as central officials. He was a strong centralizer, determined to curb all tendencies toward provincial autonomy. Abdülhamid saw Islam and Muslim solidarity, expressed in a common loyalty to the caliphate, as crucial to the empire's efforts to resist European penetration and the separatist aspirations of his non-Turkish Muslim subjects. This policy was expressed in much official deference to Islam and to religious leaders and in an officially sponsored religious propaganda that at times assumed a "pan-Islamic" form by appealing to Muslim solidarity outside the Ottoman Empire. Abdülhamid emphasized Islam domestically in order to invoke the loyalty of his Muslim subjects—in particular non-Turkish Muslims like the Albanians and the Arabs. The reign of Abdülhamid was one of considerable achievements in the fields of social and economic reform. He continued the beneficial aspects of the Tanzimat reforms and encouraged construction of schools, railways, harbors, irrigation works, telegraph lines, and other infrastructure projects. He also encouraged improvement in finance, trade, mining, and agricultural export, as well as in education, civil administration, security, and military affairs. However, his financial caution significantly limited the extent of his civil and economic reforms. Unlike the Tanzimat statesmen, Abdülhamid avoided peace-time alliances with the Great Powers, maintaining an overall diplomatic stance of "neutrality" or "non-commitment." Abdülhamid distanced the empire from its former protector, Great Britain, and harmonized relations with the empire's traditional enemy, Russia, initiating the longest period of peace in Russo-Ottoman relations for more than a century. He also inaugurated a close relationship with Germany in order to restrain Britain and Russia.
Opposition to Abdülhamid's regime was led by the Young Turks, a group consisting of intellectuals, students, and both civilian and military officers. Their chief organization, the Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), consisted mainly of young officers of the general staff who were serving in Macedonian provinces, demanded the restoration of the parliament as a means to curb autocracy and preserve the integrity of the empire. The CUP staged an uprising in Macedonia in the summer of 1908. Fearing internal chaos, the sultan proclaimed the restoration of the parliament on July 24, 1908. A counter-revolution broke out in Istanbul in April 1909 against the policies of the CUP. The CUP crushed this rebellion and also dethroned Abdülhamid on April 27, 1909, falsely accusing him of having instigated the rebellion.
During the second constitutional period (1908–1918), the Ottoman Empire experienced the most democratic era of its history, with a myriad of political parties electing deputies to the Ottoman parliament, which enacted major secular and liberal reforms. An initial period in which members of all the different nationalities worked to strengthen and preserve the empire was brought to an end by Austria's annexation of Bosnia, Bulgaria's annexation of East Rumelia, and Greece's annexation of Crete. Unrest in Macedonia and in other provinces resumed, with the forceful Ottoman military responses to restore order compounding the violence. Ottoman territorial losses continued, with Italy's invasion of the provinces of Libya in the Tripolitanian War (1911–1912) and the victory of the newly independent states of southeastern Europe during the First Balkan War (1912), which pushed the Ottomans out of all their remaining European provinces and threatened their control of Istanbul itself. As thousands of refugees flooded into Istanbul, and as the remaining parts of the Empire fell into increasing despair and chaos, the CUP leaders Enver Pasha, Talat Pasha, and Cemal Pasha were in January 1913 able to end the internal political turmoil by a coup, and establish a Triumvirate that successfully defended Istanbul and took advantage of disputes among the Balkan states during the Second Balkan War (1913) to regain Edirne and eastern Thrace, and introduced major military, social and economic legislation.
The CUP's primary aim was a defensive foreign policy and rapprochement with the Entente Powers (Britain, France, and Russia). In order to save the territorial integrity of the Empire, the CUP, especially after the traumatic effect of the Balkan Wars on Ottoman public opinion, was convinced that only an alliance with Britain (and the Entente) could guarantee the survival of what remained of the Empire, and tried to seek support from London and Paris, but this proved impossible for the politics of the European powers of the time, and by the start of the First World War the Ottoman government had failed to fulfil its objectives. The CUP leaders were convinced that neutrality would be disastrous for the Ottoman Empire since it would leave it isolated and at the mercy of the belligerent states. In the end, the Triumvirate formed an alliance with Germany and entered the war, despite the wishes of certain sections of military and political elites and intellectuals to stay out of the war.
During the First World War, the Ottoman Empire faced hostilities in eastern Anatolia against the Russians and in Mesopotamia, Arabia, and Palestine against the British and their allies. Although they successfully resisted an armada of British–French naval and land forces in the Dardanelles in 1915, they were less successful in other areas: the Russians penetrated deep into eastern Anatolia and the British captured Baghdad, Palestine, and Syria. Throughout the war, the Allies signed a number of agreements for the partition of the Ottoman Empire. As a result of the Anglo-Franco-Russian agreements of March–April 1915 (known as the Constantinople Agreement), Britain and France agreed that the question of Constantinople and the Straits would finally be solved by annexing the area into the Russian Empire. Under the Sykes-Picot agreement of April–October 1916, Russia was also given most of eastern Anatolia (including Erzurum, Trabzon, Van, and Bitlis), with France to receive Syria and Cilicia and Britain to gain control of Palestine and Mesopotamia in exchange. By 1917, Russian forces occupied territories east of the Trabzon–Van line; the Ottoman army was only able to regain eastern Anatolia after Russian forces had evacuated as a result of the outbreak of revolution at home. As a consequence of Russia's withdrawal from the war, arrangements with Russia, including the Constantinople Agreement, were annulled.
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Area code 313 is an area code within the North American Numbering Plan serving Detroit and most of its closest suburbs in Wayne County, Michigan. It includes the enclave cities Hamtramck and Highland Park, as well as Allen Park, Dearborn, Dearborn Heights, Ecorse, Inkster, Melvindale, the Grosse Pointe communities, Lincoln Park, Redford, River Rouge, and Taylor north of Goddard Road and east of Holland Road.
The Numbering Plan Area 313 was created as one of the original 86 plan areas in 1947. It included the entire southeastern quadrant of Michigan, including Metro Detroit, Flint, and the southern part of Michigan's "Thumb."
Because of the demand for new telephone service, area code 810 was created for the northern suburbs, Flint, and the "southern" Thumb on December 1, 1993. On December 13, 1997, the 313 area was further divided, creating area code 734 out of Washtenaw County (Ann Arbor), Monroe County, plus western and downriver Wayne County.
Area code 679 has been reserved as a future overlay to the 313 area.[1][2] Relief planning is in progress[1] and 2019 estimates do not expect 313 to be exhausted until 2032.[3]
In popular cultureEdit
Rappers from Detroit, especially Eminem, often mention the 313 code in their songs in reference to this area and its notoriety. One of the tracks from his 1996 independent debut solo album Infinite is titled "313". In the 2002 film 8 Mile, featuring Eminem, the 313 area code is mentioned multiple times in the film, primarily because of the film's setting in Detroit. Eminem's character, B–Rabbit, and his friends call their group "three one third", their nickname for the area code.
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External linksEdit
- Map of Michigan area codes at North American Numbering Plan Administration's website
- List of exchanges at AreaCodeDownload.com, 313 area code
|Michigan area codes: 231, 248/947, 269, 313, 517, 586, 616, 734, 810, 906, 989
|North: 248/947, 586
|West: 734
|Area code 313
|East: 519/226
|South: 519/226, 734
|Ontario area codes: 226/519/548, 249/705, 289/365/905, 343/613, 416/437/647, 807


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Carrie Contacted me and asked to get just a couple shots of Baby B for a dedication service - we decided to go with a mini session and fit in a bit of a family session as well! I am so glad we did! This family was too cute! and I loved that we were able to do the photos on their family farm! We were a bit worried about the weather as it was spitting in the morning - but it turned out to be just a gorgeous evening with just a PINCH of sun in the perfect spot! I LOVED that she wanted to get B dirty! It started with just a bit of dust- and turned into full on mud once dad busted out a water bottle! Something so adorable about a muddy baby!!
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Purple is a favourite colour for 60s psychedelic era costumes and loud zoot suits. Other purple costumes include royalty (once upon a time they were the only ones who could afford purple dyes), mermaids, fairies, and purple people eaters. Browse these online shops for purple costumes:
- Angels Fancy Dress – the leading fancy dress shop in the UK with costumes for every occasion. Top quality costumes, they deliver UK and international.
- Jokers Masquerade – A large range of high quality fancy dress costumes and accessories. Based in England with UK wide and international delivery, (excluding U.S and Canada) See their purple costumes, wigs and accessories
Purple food and drink ideas
- Purple coleslaw: shred or finely chop some red cabbage and dress with a vinaigrette or mayonnaise. Add some chopped red onion if you like the taste. Sprinkle with some dried cranberries for an interesting twist.
- Purple Carrots – use the new purple carrots – careful they stain fingers.
- Beetroot makes anything purple – bake it, put in a salad, or crack open a tin.
- For purple fruit salad, chop up a selection of purple fruit and mix in a bowl with a bit of fruit juice to prevent browning. Purple fruits include blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, plums, red grapes, cherries. Dragon fruit and passion fruit are purple on the outside.
- Purple jelly: buy a packet of jelly crystals, or for a fruitier version use fruit juice (try grape juice) and unflavoured gelatin — the packet usually has instructions.
- Purple meringues made from egg whites, sugar, and food colouring. Serve with berries!
- Purple drinks include grape juice and juice blends with blueberries or other purple berries. Make purple ice cubes by adding a small amount of food colouring to water before putting in ice cube trays and freezing. Herbal teas, fruit teas and tisanes come in a wide range of colours and can be served hot or as an iced tea.
- Purple alcoholic drinks include sangria made with red wine and a purple fruit juice, and cocktails made with the liqueurs Parfait Amour and Black Sambuca.


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Rene Perez
Rene was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, but his family decided to return to their home land Puerto Rico. After graduating from high school, Rene joined the United States Army where he became a photographer and served for 13 years.
After his Army carrier, he found work in Dallas, Texas, working as a utilitarian photographer and lab technician. In 2003 he was approached to be a mentor for a photography studio in New Orleans, Louisiana.
In 2006 Rene started painting at the Jackson Square where he has been painting since. Rene Perez hopes to continue his spiritual travels as a painter.
"I am an artist at the Jackson Square in New Orleans, LA. I have been on the fence since 2006, I treat every customer like they were a part of my family. I am always honored when customers go home with one of my paintings; its like taking a little of me into their home. I paint what makes me happy, of course, with a bizarre personal touch." R. Perez


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Andrea Sorensen
This is my 9th year at Assumption and I'm excited to be co-lead teaching in the toddler room with Ms. Brandi and Emily S. I've enjoyed working with the little ones and look forward to what this year brings. This past spring, my husband Craig and I celebrated our 17th wedding anniversary. We have three children, Vincenzio, Haley and Ava. As a family, we enjoy camping, bike riding, swimming and bowling.
Brandi D'Angelo
This is my 4th year at Assumption and I am excited to be co-lead teaching in the toddler room with Ms. Andrea and Ms. Emily S. I have an Associates degree in Early Childhood Education and have a little one of my own, who will be a year old in November. Working with children has always been something I am very passionate about and I look forward to an exciting year.
Emily Surzyn
For the past few years I have been an assistant at Assumption and am very excited to spend this year as a Lead Teacher alongside Ms. Andrea and Ms. Brandi ! Toddlers are one of my favorite ages and I love to see their personalities and minds blossom every day. I am in my final year of pursuing my Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education with concentration in Early Childhood Education and Language Arts at Oakland University, when not at work or school, I enjoy nannying, teaching yoga, reading, traveling, and spending time with my family. I look forward to a wonderful year ahead.
Claudia Kiriazis
This is my second year at Assumption. I love working with the children and seeing all their happy faces. My first 10 years of experience working with toddlers and preschoolers was working with my mother who owned and operated two Gymboree learning programs in the area. Since 2005, I have worked as an assistant teacher at 2 child care centers in the Royal Oak area and assist in Sunday School at our church. I am looking forward to spending many years at Assumption. I enjoy watching movies, working puzzles, spending time with my family/friends and babysitting.
Emily Athey
I am a student at Wayne State pursing a degree in Elementary Education. This is my 2nd year at Assumption and it is such a joy! I love coming to work everyday and watching the toddlers learn and grow. When I'm not at work, I might be face painting, traveling or just spending time with my family. I look forward to a great year getting to know your little ones as their personalities blossom.
Keri Charetien
This my 2nd year at Assumption Pre-School and Toddler Center. I am an assistant teacher to Ms. Brandi, Ms. Emily and Ms. Andrea in room 11. My husband Mike and I have been married for almost 25 years. We have four beautiful daughters; Lindsey, Lauren, Hannah and Hailey. We also have two beautiful grandchildren; Michael and Pennelope. As a family we enjoy soccer, traveling, boating and camping. It is such a pleasure for me to be at school and be part of your children's developments.
Kathy Michaux
This is my 2nd year at Assumption. I ran my own at-home day care for 8 years and after taking some time to pursue other dreams, it is great to be back working with children and watching them grow. I have two daughters, Becca and Jenna that make me a very proud mother. They both attended the preschool program here at Assumption so it is nice to be a part of this school again. In my free time, I enjoy bike riding, walking my two dogs, watching movies, going out with friends and spending time with my daughters.


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And the first draft of The Pearls of Darkness Affair is finished. Now, it's time to print out a copy and take the red pen to it.
This story took way too long to write, but given this summer, everything's taken too long to write.
I need to concentrate on getting "Crossed Swords" done and I need to finish the edits and retype "Sword of Fate" and get both of those off to the editor. Then we can consider some of the other stuff to come.
Wow, it feels good getting some of the stuff off of my plate.
"The first draft of anything sucks. That's why they invented editing."
And the second rule:
"You can't edit a blank page."
Just let it rip. Write, edit, and then write more.
Even if you don't sell it, you learn something from the act of writing. You have to simply keep going, even when it sounds horrible. Probably because it may be. But, once you have it, then you can go back and say, "this isn't too bad, just needs polishing," or "Self, you were right, this sucks" and edit it out of the book.
But, you can't edit yourself into not writing. That's getting the cart before the horse.
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* You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln
We are on the brink of a very busy political season in Poland. The year 2018 might have been a prelude to the election year, but the times of decision making are still ahead. The decisions that will have an impact on not merely one electoral term but the consequences of which will last a decade to come. There's no doubt that the forthcoming double-election (to Polish and European Parliaments) shall determine the shape of Polish politics for much longer than mere four years.
Municipal Elections Tied
Last year's municipal elections were the chief playground for the key political players. Although both hegemonic political blocs announced their success (after all, it's difficult to announce a defeat), the result was a majority draw, to use boxing terminology. The dress rehearsal, even though it didn't lead to a clear result, revealed that independent candidates were winning the race.
Of course, each municipality is different and, therefore, it so often happened that an independent candidate was supported by several parties. Yet, the results clearly showed that independent candidates won in 80 major cities, which makes up 75% of all spoils.
Their success was even more significant on the lower municipal levels and amounted to approximately 80%.
How would the voters behave if it were national elections? And what were the reasons for their support for an independent? These seem to be the key questions asked by the leaders of Polish parties. Actually, the most frequently asked question seems to be how to redistribute the voter support for independent municipal election candidates, which may be a group with a huge electoral potential. Those who will manage to tap into this part of the electorate with an appealing message, may thoroughly change the Polish political scene.
Anti-PiS Is Not Enough
Both the times of municipal electoral campaigns and the last three years on the Polish political scene passed under the slogan of great success propaganda. The main objective of such activities was to mobilize core electorate and to dissuade undecided voters. This approach was successful only to some extent as a relatively good (for Polish standards) voter turnout was a sign that, on the one hand, people are interested in local affairs, whereas on the other hand, a lack of acceptance of the actual state of the society might be observed.
Why then were voters more likely to support independents instead of the mainstream anti-PiS (Law and Justice) parties and movements? The support for the heads of cities and towns representing their own committees is usually a direct consequence of weak opposition, which is commonly perceived as fighting only to secure their own interests instead of that of the entire Polish society.
For one thing, key opposition parties are now seen as the sides in an internal conflict within the political elites, instead of as representatives of the people. Secondly, if waken up in the middle of the night, even the most ardent supporters of the opposition bloc would be incapable of listing even a few of the core postulates of the opposition. Even if such postulates existed, they were not "sold" well to the public and, therefore, did not resonate in the public debate.
The list of errors on the side of Polish opposition parties is a long one. Let us, however, focus on two of these.
Politics is one of several professions that require credibility and public trust to be the key terms defining an ideal candidate. How can one trust a politician who three years earlier said that he became an MP to put an end to the age of the politics of "warm water in the tap" practiced by Civic Platform, whereas now they stand together? Is a politician who changes electoral declarations every two weeks credible? Clearly not. Credible are, however, those opposition leaders who dream of power and nothing else.
The state of the political opposition in Poland is not good. People, including myself, are tired of voting for anti-PiS parties and movements. Claiming that voting for Civic Coalition (KO) is the only way to stop the United Right (ZO) is not a viable argument, not really.
Meanwhile, Jarosław Kaczyński, the gray eminence of the Law and Justice party, has already mastered the skill of hiding away "inconvenient" politicians in the party closet. He's also holding a prominent spot in there. If the opposition is to win the elections, it should start doing the same – Grzegorz Schetyna (the leader of Civic Platform) and Katarzyna Lubnauer (the leader of Nowoczesna) shall be hidden away. Younger, more credible, and distinguished politicians should be at the forefront of a political campaign. Only such candidates have a clear advantage over their opponents within the PiS party – they are smarter, better-behaved, and much nicer looking.
Marek Migalski, a former MEP and a Polish writer has recently said in a TV programme that "if PiS may be pushed aside from holding power, the only time to do it is this autumn". It's hard not to agree with this statement – the 2019 elections will determine the shape of Poland for at least a decade.
During the next term in a row Law and Justice might change not only the law, but also the media and business landscapes. They would become unstoppable. If the opposition enters the election race in its current form and shape, regardless of whether it presents a unified front or not, with the same narrative and leaders, it will surely be defeated.
This is why our voice, the voice of a younger generation, must now be heard. We want to appeal to the current opposition leaders and compel them to stop playing with politics and leave the stage, before we all lose.
The publication is not an editorial. It reflects solely the point of view and argumentation of the author. The publication is presented in the presentation. Start in the previous issue. The original is available at: 4liberty.eu


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Students of Fashion and Interior Design were taken for an educational excursion to Hyderabad.
The students visited Golconda Fort, a UNESCO World Heritage Site where they experienced a Sound and Light Show, and also visited the famed Charminar.
They also toured Chowmahalla Palace and the Salar Jung Museum, where they were exposed to the life from the times of the Nizams. A day visit was organised to Pochampalli village, where the students were privy to the step by step process of the creation of Pochampalli Sarees. They students also spent a day at Ramoji Fim City, a day of fun and frolic.
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Fiber Optics Laboratory
Course Level
Course Texts
G. Keiser, Optical Fiber Communications, 3rd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2000
Recommended texts:
- C.R. Pollock, Fundamentals of Optoelectronics, Irwin, 1995.
- Ghatak and K. Thyagarajan, Introduction to Fiber Optics, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
- A. Yariv, Optical Electronics in Modern Communications, 5th edition, Oxford. 1997.
- G.P. Agrawal, Fiber Optic Communication Systems, 3rd edition. Wiley Inter-Science, 2002.
Course Links
Course Description
This course is designed to familiarize students with the physical properties of fiber optic components and systems. There will typically be two lectures per week during the scheduled class meeting times, and a total of eight lab experiments. The instructor will also try to set up demonstration experiments for other topics not formally covered by an assigned lab. The lectures should provide sufficient background material for the lab experiments as well as a good foundation in fiber systems. During the first week of classes, students should form a lab group of approximately three students, and decide on a meeting time. Check with the TA about available meeting times. Each lab experiment will be set up for approximately eight class days. This will allow some time to repeat certain parts of a lab that students are unsure of or wish to check. There will be a final exam covering both lecture and lab material.
- Homework: 6-7 assignments
- Eight lab experiments
- Exams: 1 midterm exam, 1 final exam
- Typical grading policy: 15% homework, 45% lab reports, 40% final exam


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Understanding the origins of the phenotypic diversity in nature that surrounds us is a key question in biology. While selective forces drive this process at the population level, phenotypic diversity at the level of an individual is generated anew during embryonic development. The modification of developmental patterning processes, which can result in the variation of morphological features of an organism, thus provides the phenotypic substrate for natural selection to act upon.
Over the last three decades, advances in molecular biology and genomics have revealed surprisingly little variation in the genetic tool-kit that different organism have at their disposal to achieve this goal. Moreover, even distantly related species seem to use remarkably conserved gene cassettes for patterning during embryogenesis. So how is the astounding phenotypic diversity amongst various animal phyla generated, given such limited differences in the number and nature of their genes?
"Regulatory evolution", i.e. changing when and where a particular gene is activated, has emerged as a powerful mechanism to drive the functional diversification of a limited gene repertoire. Evolving new gene expression patterns during development provides for a highly flexible and modular approach to morphological evolution, while avoiding pleiotropic effects usually associated with gene coding region mutations. Thanks to technological advances in sequencing technology, the molecular mechanisms of regulatory evolution can now be investigated in many species and tissue types, across different developmental stages.
We are taking advantage of these novel experimental approaches, to address fundamental questions in gene regulation and patterning during vertebrate embryogenesis. In particular, we are investigating how regulatory evolution is driving morphological diversification, while also trying to understand potential evolutionary and developmental constraints in this process. Moreover, we are interested in how cell fate decisions and complex tissue composition can affect the evolvability of organ patterning. To gain a better understanding of the underlying molecular and developmental mechanisms, we are focusing our efforts on the following three topics:
As a model system, we study the development of the vertebrate skeleton, and its associated neuromuscular system. The individual bones of the skeleton provide solid internal support for the general physical appearance of the highly diverse vertebrate bodyplans. At the same time, their flexible articulation, in conjunction with various attached muscle groups, forms the mechanical basis for different types of movements. Across vertebrate species, these skeletal elements and the associated musculature show tremendous variation in both size and shape, yet they all are generated from very similar cellular building blocks during embryogenesis. We are studying how cell differentiation and embryonic patterning can get modified on an evolutionary time-scale, using a variety of experimental approaches including comparative embryology, functional genomics, cell culture, bioinformatics and modeling.
Embryonic skeletogenesis occurs through the initial condensation of mesenchymal progenitors, followed by differentiation into the various skeletal cell types. These include chondrocytes, the bone-forming osteoblasts and joint progenitors that build the connections between mature skeletal elements. Depending on anatomical location, three distinct mesenchymal progenitor pools contribute to the different parts of the vertebrate skeleton: the somitic mesoderm forms the axial skeleton, whereas the lateral plate mesoderm and the neural crest give rise to the appendicular skeleton and parts of the cranial skeleton, respectively.
We are studying the gene regulatory mechanisms underlying the generation of these cell types, originating from distinct embryonic sources and in different species. We use next-generation sequencing techniques to interrogate the transcriptional output, chromatin state and transcription factor binding profiles of these cells during maturation, both in vivo and in vitro.
The highest degree of morphological diversification, as well as functional specialization, of the vertebrate limb skeleton has occurred in its most distal part, the so-called autopod. Most of the diversity relates to the number of digits present, as well as the skeletal patterns of each individual digit. Each digit pattern is determined by the number and size of its bony elements, the phalanges, and how they are connected to each other via synovial joints. These configurations are specified by an embryonic sequence of inducing phalanx versus joint cell fates, as the individual digits are growing out during autopod development. Understanding how these phalanx versus joint cell fate decisions are made would thus allow us to decipher the underlying developmental mechanism of autopod morphological diversification.
We are using experimental embryology, single-cell RNA-sequencing and bioinformatics to unravel the molecular aspects of these cell fate decisions. In collaboration with Dagmar Iber's group (D-BSSE ETH Zürich) we aim to develop in silico models of this patterning process, to better understand its evolutionary flexibility.
During development, the musculoskeletal apparatus of the vertebrate limb integrates and patterns diverse tissue types with distinct embryonic origins. Namely, the bones of the appendicular skeleton originate from the lateral plate mesoderm, while the musculature and its innervating motor neurons derive from the somatic mesoderm and the neural tube, respectively. How is the patterning of such distinct embryonic progenitor populations coordinated, in order to give rise to a fully functional, moveable limb? Moreover, what are the potential developmental constraints originating from such patterning interdependency between different tissue types?
We are studying the patterning of these three tissue types in vertebrate autopods, hands and feet, where the appendicular skeleton shows the highest degree of morphological diversity and functional specialization. We are using chicken experimental embryology as well as genetic mouse models (in collaboration with Rolf Zeller's group, Department of Biomedicine, Uni Basel) to address these questions.


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Vote like your rights depend on it. This set of 60 eye-catching postcards was designed especially for "Postcards to Voters" and other get out the vote campaigns. Sending handwritten, personal notes to voters can have a huge impact. Send them to friends, a member of congress, or someone in a swing district.
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Father's Day: Bellingham: Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen opens their doors, this Father's Day.
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Chuckanut Brewery & Kitchen, located at 601 W. Holly St. Bellingham, is celebrating Father's Day on Sunday, June 19th. The whole family is invited to Chuckanut Brewery where Dad will be treated to discounted pints! This offer only stands on Father's Day, so there is no better way to show your appreciate for Dad than letting him choose from the nine lager and ales on tap at a special reduced price!
June brings extended summer hours, which means more time to enjoy great food and beer with the family! Treat Dad with something delicious to eat from Chuckanut's menu or from the June Locavore menu with a pint of his favorite Chuckanut brew. There is plenty of room for the entire family in the dining room, on the waterfront patio, or on the side patio where you can play darts, table tennis, and foosball! If you have a party of six or more, make a reservation at 360-752-3377 so we can provide you with exceptional service for our extraordinary Dad's!
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One of the most important tools of your app marketing campaign (with or without paid acquisition) is Keyword Optimization (KWO). With it, you'll improve your keyword pool, i.e., the collection of words on your app's metadata that are scanned by search engines.
Choosing great keywords and key-phrases takes time, and you have to make a considerable list of words and phrases that are somehow related to your app. The list should have hundreds and thousands of key-phrases and keywords.
After you've brainstormed your list, it is time to filter the bad terms out and choose your final set of keywords. Pay attention and take your time to make a great selection. The keywords you choose will impact directly on your app's exposure, downloads, and, therefore, revenue.
There are several methods out there to choose keywords. The one that worked best for me is the straightforward, three-step Relevance, Competition and Volume method, and I'll show you how you can do it and why you should do it.
If you have to learn one thing from reading this article, it's this: relevance is king. Period.
The single most important aspect to consider in keyword selection is relevance. Without relevance, you get no conversion, no matter how great your app, icon, screenshots, or video previews are.
Imagine the following situation: you search for a "golf assistant app" and the third app you see is an ice hockey game. Unless you love any sport that is about hitting balls with sticks—in that case, you should try baseball too, I heard it's awesome—you wouldn't download it.
People want to download what they are looking for. It's that simple.
And this is cool, because users who downloaded your app from the search results are usually after apps with the highest quality. They were looking for your app, after all. They just didn't know it yet.
Since you don't get downloads from keywords or key-phrases with no relation to your app, don't waste your time using them. Even if you do get them, user quality will be low: they won't engage or spend on your app.
So, how do you know a keyword is relevant? Basically, you will know if the keyword or key-phrase is relevant if it falls in one of the following categories:
Put yourself in the user's shoes: what am I expecting when searching for that key-phrase? Ask people if necessary, or Google it and analyze the results. Is your app related to the results?
After you boiled down your list to relevant keywords and key-phrases, you have to check the competition. Your goal here, after all, is for users to discover your app. However, for keywords with robust competition, you are not likely to appear in the first 10 or 20 positions in the search results, which is as far as most users are expected to go on iOS 8.
Evaluating competition is hard because it's relative to the strength of your app or marketing budget. If you're going barehanded in advertising, relying on App Store Optimization (ASO) alone, start by looking at keywords with weak competition. Make sure you'll rank high for them just with organic downloads. Look for apps with similar theme, functionality, or production values and see how they performed for this keyword or key-phrase.
If you're going to make a strong paid user acquisition campaign at launch, you can use keywords with stronger competition. If you think you can't rank among the top 10 apps for that keyword or key-phrase, cut it out. Don't hesitate. If people can't find your app through it, the key-phrase is worthless to you.
With this step, you will probably cut most of your keywords, leaving only key-phrases. It's hard on today's app store to find good keywords with low competition. That's not a problem, though, since there are a lot of good niches with key-phrases.
How do you check competition? The most obvious way is to look at some "competition" or "difficulty" data from the keyword research service you're using. I prefer to actually see the apps myself, just to be sure.
Search the App Store for each keyword and key-phrase you're aiming for. Look at the top 10 apps and ask yourself these questions:
After you have come up with relevant key-phrases with competition you can handle, choose the ones with the largest traffic/search volume. Look at Google Trends, Google Keyword Planner, or your favorite App Store Optimization tool; all of them have data for search volume.
Choose the top one or two key-phrases and try to place them in your App Name, since it has more weight in the search results ranking algorithm, and you will rank higher for it. But do it in a way that your app name makes sense when reading it. A keyword-stuffed looking name, like "Adventure Candy King: Clash of the Titan Clans – Amazing Puzzle Power Magic Game with Golden Hero", will probably get your app rejected by Apple.
Remember: this step has the lowest priority. Don't look at search volume until you have filtered your list by relevance and competition.
After you've chosen all key-phrases and keywords you want to use, you're ready to place them in the app's metadata. The search engine looks for keywords on the App Name, Keywords, In-App Purchase Display Name, and Publisher Name fields. You're probably too late for the last one, but distribute your keyphrases among the rest of them.
Pay attention to how you're allocating the keywords used in key-phrases. If you don't know how to do it, read this guide and understand how key-phrases work on the App Store.
In a nutshell, Keyword Optimization is Relevance, Competition, and Traffic, in that order.
Keyword research takes time, so don't rush through filtering and choosing or your work could go to waste. This is something that will directly influence your download numbers, so take your time and do it right.
If you're working with paid acquisition through ad campaigns, you might want to read this article to understand how Keyword Optimization and, therefore, App Store Optimization, can drive your effective cost per install (eCPI) down.
This is just my favorite method for choosing keywords, though. What other methods do you use to choose keywords?
About the Author: Evaldo Rossi is the Founder of WordData - App Store Optimization (ASO). Follow him on Google+ and check out his blog to learn more about ASO.


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Lamping Elementary is named in honor of Frank Lamping who is perhaps best known for helping to establish the middle school concept in the Clark County School District. Mr. Lamping gave Clark County 30 years of dedicated service prior to his retirement.
1963-1965 Coordinator, Special Education, CCSD
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1967-1974 Principal, Hyde Park Jr. High School
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Frank Lamping, a first generation American, was the youngest of seven children. He was married for over 40 years to the late Betty Lee Kirk, a Pittsburgh native. Frank Lamping has two sons, Kirk and Clark.
Mr. Lamping began his education career in Pittsburgh, first as a student at St. Ambrose Catholic Elementary School and then at North Catholic High School. After serving in the military for three years during the Korean Conflict, he attended Slippery Rock State Teachers' College where he received his undergraduate degree and then master's degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
Mr. Lamping taught in the Pittsburgh Public County School District for several years before moving to Las Vegas in 1963. Mr. Lamping was honored with the privilege of opening two new schools, Kenny C. Guinn and Thurman White. Kenny C. Guinn Junior High School, which he opened in 1978, was the first school in Nevada to receive the President's Excellence in Education Award.
Frank Lamping received several awards recognizing his contributions as an educator:
Milkin Family foundation honoree as an outstanding educator
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Profiles in Excellence Award from the American School Board Association for his Parent Involvement Through Technology
The Book of golden Deeds Award from the Exchange Club of Las Vegas for the Outstanding Educator of the Clark County School District and his community involvement
Recognized by the United States Department of Education and Nevada State Department of Education for the development of exemplary schools
University of Notre Dame Exemplar Award for Education
Boss of the Year award from the American Business Women's Association
Recognized by Nevada State Department of Education for outstanding school in 1983-1984, 1984-1985, and 1986-1987
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