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Tajikistan, officially Republic of Tajikistan, Tajik Tojikiston or Jumhurii Tojikiston, Tajikistan also spelled Tadzhikistan, country lying in the heart of Central Asia. It is bordered by Kyrgyzstan on the north, China on the east, Afghanistan on the south, and Uzbekistan on the west and northwest. Tajikistan includes the Gorno-Badakhshan ("Mountain Badakhshan") autonomous region, with its capital at Khorugh (Khorog). Tajikistan encompasses the smallest amount of land among the five Central Asian states, but in terms of elevation it surpasses them all, enclosing more and higher mountains than any other country in the region. Tajikistan was a constituent (union) republic of the Soviet Union from 1929 until its independence in 1991. The capital is Dushanbe.
Several ethnic ties and outside influences complicate Tajikistan's national identity to a greater extent than in other Central Asian republics. The Tajik people share close kinship and their language with a much larger population of the same nationality living in northeastern Afghanistan, whose population also includes a large proportion speaking Dari, a dialect of Persian intelligible to Tajiks. Despite sectarian differences (most Tajiks are Sunni Muslims, while Iranians are predominantly Shīʿites), Tajiks also have strong ties to the culture and people of Iran; the Tajik and Persian languages are closely related and mutually intelligible. The Tajiks' centuries-old economic symbiosis with oasis-dwelling Uzbeks also somewhat confuses the expression of a distinctive Tajik national identity. Since the early years of independence, Tajikistan has been wracked by conflict between the government and the Islamic opposition and its allies.
More than nine-tenths of Tajikistan's territory is mountainous; about half lies 10,000 feet (3,000 metres) or more above sea level. The Trans-Alay range, part of the Tien Shan system, reaches into the north. The massive ranges of the southern Tien Shan—the Turkestan Mountains and the slightly lower Zeravshan and Gissar ranges—define the east-central portion of the country. The ice-clad peaks of the Pamir mountain system occupy the southeast. Some of Central Asia's highest mountains, notably the Soviet-named Lenin (23,405 feet [7,134 metres]) and Communism (24,590 feet [7,495 metres]) peaks, are found in the northern portion of the Pamirs. The valleys, though important for Tajikistan's human geography, make up less than one-tenth of the country's area. The largest are the western portion of the Fergana Valley in the north and the Gissar, Vakhsh, Yavansu, Obikiik, Lower Kofarnihon (Kafirnigan), and Panj (Pyandzh) valleys to the south.
The entire southern Central Asian region, including Tajikistan, lies in an active seismic belt where severe earthquakes are common. Seismologists have long studied the region, especially in connection with the massive hydroelectric dams and other public works in the area.
Drainage and soils
The dense river network that drains the republic includes two large swift rivers, the upper courses of the Syr Darya and the Amu Darya, together with their tributaries, notably the Vakhsh and Kofarnihon. The Amu Darya is formed by the confluence of the Panj and Vakhsh rivers; the Panj forms much of the republic's southern boundary. Most of the rivers flow east to west and eventually drain into the Aral Sea basin. The rivers have two high-water periods each year: in the spring, when rains fall and mountain snows melt, and in the summer, when the glaciers begin to melt. The summer flow is particularly helpful for irrigation purposes.
The few lakes in Tajikistan lie mostly in the Pamir region; the largest is Lake Karakul, lying at an elevation of about 13,000 feet. Lake Sarez was formed in 1911 during an earthquake, when a colossal landslide dammed the Murgab River. The Zeravshan Range contains Iskanderkul, which, like most of the country's lakes, is of glacial origin.
Tajikistan's soil is poor in humus but rich in mineral nutrients. Sand, shingle, scree, bare rock, and permanent snow and ice cover about two-thirds of the surface.
The climate of Tajikistan is sharply continental and changes with altitude. In the warm-temperate valley areas, summers are hot and dry; the mean temperature in July is 81 °F (27 °C) in Khujand (Khojand) and 86 °F (30 °C) in Kŭlob (Kulyab), farther south. The corresponding January figures are 30 °F (−1 °C) and 36 °F (2 °C), respectively. In very cold winters, temperatures of −4 °F (−20 °C) and lower have been recorded. Annual precipitation is slight and ranges between 6 and 10 inches (150 and 250 millimetres) but is higher in the Gissar Valley. In the highlands conditions are different: the mean January temperature for Murghob in the Pamirs is −3 °F (−20 °C), and temperatures can drop to −51 °F (−46 °C). In this area precipitation barely reaches 2 to 3 inches a year, most of it falling in summer. Moist air masses move from the west up the valleys, suddenly reaching low-temperature areas and producing locally heavy precipitation, mainly heavy snow of as much as 30 to 60 inches of annual accumulation.
Plant and animal life
The topographic and climatic variety gives Tajikistan an extremely varied plant life, with more than 5,000 kinds of flowers alone. Generally grasses, bushes, and shrubs predominate. The country's animal life is abundant and diverse and includes species such as the great gray lizard, jerboa, and gopher in the deserts and deer, tiger, jackal, and wildcat in wooded areas or reedy thickets. Brown bears live at lower mountain levels, and goats and golden eagles higher up.
Settlement patterns
Much of Tajikistan is unsuitable for human habitation, but those desert and semidesert lands suitable for irrigated farming have been turned into flourishing oases, with cotton plantations, gardens, and vineyards. The population density is also high in the large villages strung out in clusters along the foothill regions. There are also narrow valleys that support small villages (qishlaqs) surrounded by apple orchards, apricot trees, mulberry groves, and small cultivated fields.
Less than one-third of the country's Tajiks live in urban areas, including the two largest cities, Dushanbe and Khujand. Smaller towns include the old settlements of Kŭlob, Qŭrghonteppa (Kurgan-Tyube), and Ŭroteppa (Ura-Tyube) and the newer Qayroqqum, Norak, and Tursunzoda. Russians no longer dominate Dushanbe's ethnic mixture; they constitute less than one-third of the city's inhabitants. In Tajikistan, as in the rest of Central Asia, there has been a general trend toward ruralization. Since 1970 the urban proportion of the population has declined, in part because the rate of natural population increase is greater among the rural population.
Most Tajiks continue to live in qishlaqs. Such settlements usually consist of 200 to 700 single-family houses built along an irrigation canal or the banks of a river. Traditionally, mud fences surround the houses and flat roofs cover them, and each domicile is closely connected with an adjacent orchard or vineyard. In the mountains the qishlaqs, sited in narrow valleys, form smaller settlements, usually 15 to 20 households. On the steep slopes the flat roof of one house often serves as the yard for the house above it. This mode of home construction makes Tajikistan's mountain villages especially vulnerable to damage from the frequent strong earthquakes that characterize this region.
The name Tajik came to denote a distinct nationality only in the modern period; not until the 1920s did an official Tajik territorial-administrative unit exist under that name. The area's population is ethnically mixed, as it has been for centuries, but more than four-fifths of the population is ethnically Tajik, a proportion that rose with the emigration of non-Tajiks during the protracted civil war.
On the basis of language, customs, and other traits, the Tajiks can be subdivided into a number of distinct groups. The Pamir Tajiks within the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region include minority peoples speaking Wakhī, Shughnī, Rōshānī, Khufī, Yāzgulāmī, Ishkashimī, and Bartang, all Iranian languages. Another distinct group is formed by the Yaghnābīs, direct descendants of the ancient Sogdians, who live in the Zeravshan River basin.
So closely are the Tajiks mixed with neighbouring Uzbeks that the Soviet partition of the area in 1924 failed to segregate the two nationalities with any degree of thoroughness. With nearly one million Tajiks in Uzbekistan and more than one million Uzbeks in Tajikistan, these nationalities remain in intimate, though not always friendly, interrelation. The country's other ethnic groups include Russians, Tatars, Kyrgyz, Ukrainians, Germans, Jews, and Armenians.
Tajikistan's economy depends on agriculture, which employs two-fifths of the labour force. The civil war that followed Tajikistan's independence had a devastating impact on agriculture and industry in the republic. In the 2010s the country's principal trading partners were China, Turkey, Russia, Iran, and Kazakhstan. The central bank issues the national currency, the somoni.
Tajikistan possesses rich mineral deposits. Important metallic ores are iron, lead, zinc, antimony, mercury, gold, tin, and tungsten. Nonmetallic minerals include common salt, carbonates, fluorite, arsenic, quartz sand, asbestos, and precious and semiprecious stones. Energy resources include sizable coal deposits and smaller reserves of natural gas and petroleum. Some of the fast-flowing mountain streams have been exploited as hydroelectric power sources.
Farming still leads industry in importance in the economy of Tajikistan, and cotton growing surpasses all other categories of the country's agriculture. Other important branches include the raising of livestock—including long-horned cattle, Gissar sheep, and goats—and the cultivation of fruits, grains, and vegetables. Tajikistan's farmers grow wheat and barley and have expanded rice cultivation. Horticulture has been important in the territory of Tajikistan since antiquity, and apricots, pears, apples, plums, quinces, cherries, pomegranates, figs, and nuts are produced. The country exports almonds, dried apricots, and grapes.
Agriculture in Tajikistan would be severely limited without extensive irrigation. By the end of the 1930s the Soviet government had built two main canals, the Vakhsh and the Gissar, and followed these with two joint Tajik-Uzbek projects, the Great Fergana and North Fergana canals, using conscripted unskilled labour in a program that drew wide criticism from outside observers for its high toll of fatalities. After World War II the Dalverzin and Parkhar-Chubek irrigation systems were built, along with the Mŭminobod, Kattasoy, and Selbur reservoirs; the Mirzachol irrigation system; and a water tunnel from the Vakhsh River to the Yovonsu Valley.
Pesticides and chemical fertilizers used on the cotton fields have damaged the environment and led to health problems in the population. The upriver irrigation systems carry these pollutants into the rivers descending from Tajikistan's mountains and into neighbouring republics.
Tajikistan's light industry is based on its agricultural production and includes cotton-cleaning mills and silk factories; the Dushanbe textile complex is the country's largest. Other branches of light industry include the manufacture of knitted goods and footwear, tanning, and sewing. There is a large carpet-making factory in Qayroqqum. Food-processing industries concentrate on local agricultural products, which include grapes and other fruits, various vegetable oils, tobacco, and geranium oil, which is used in perfume. The metalworking industry produces looms, power equipment, cables, and agricultural and household implements.
Most of the electric power generated in Tajikistan is hydroelectric. Major power stations operate on the Syr Darya at Qayroqqum and on the Vakhsh River at Norak and Golovnaya. A thermal station supplements them near Dushanbe. The chief mining and ore-dressing area is in the north; coal mining and oil extraction are among the oldest industries in the country. The extraction of natural gas began in the mid-1960s at Kyzyl-Tumshuk and in fields near Dushanbe, and a chemical plant built in 1967 produces nitrogen fertilizer.
Tajikistan's limited railroads handle just under half of the country's freight turnover, the rest of it going by truck. More than half of the roads and highways have paved surfaces. Airline flights to Tehrān and Islāmābād, Pakistan, connect Khujand and a few other towns with the outside world via Dushanbe.
Administration and social conditions
In 1994 voters approved a new constitution to replace the Soviet-era constitution that had been in effect since 1978 and amended after independence. The new constitution establishes legislative, executive, and judicial branches. Unique among Central Asian republics, Tajikistan's constitution provides for a strong legislature rather than a dominant executive, though the president is head of state. The prime minister serves as head of government.
Tajikistan is a republic with two legislative houses: the National Assembly and the Assembly of Representatives. Members of the National Assembly, the upper chamber, are in part appointed by the president and in part chosen by local deputies to serve five-year terms. Members of the Assembly of Representatives, the lower chamber, are elected by popular vote to five-year terms. The legislature has the authority to enact and annul laws, interpret the constitution, and confirm presidential appointees. The president is elected directly for a maximum of two five-year terms and appoints the cabinet and high court justices, subject to approval by the legislature. The highest courts include the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the Supreme Economic Court (for commercial cases), and a Court of Gorno-Badakhshan, which has jurisdiction over the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. Although the constitution lists numerous rights and freedoms of citizens, it provides a mechanism by which these rights and freedoms can be, and are, severely restricted by law.
With Tajikistan's government immobilized by domestic political instability, the educational system has received insufficient direction and support.
Early in the 20th century, Tajiks in those Central Asian communities where the Jadid reformist movement had installed its New Method schools received the rudiments of a modern, though still Muslim, education. The educational establishment was dominated until the 1920s, however, by the standard network of Muslim maktabs and madrasahs. Soviet efforts eventually brought secular education to the entire population, and levels of Tajik literacy are now relatively high. The country's higher educational establishments included numerous research institutes that functioned under the separate budget of the Academy of Sciences in Moscow until the breakup of the U.S.S.R. Since then, a drastic decrease in financial support from the government has curtailed much of these institutions' former activity. The chronic problem of placing indigenous graduates in employment commensurate with their training besets the Tajiks, for outsiders such as Slavs, Tatars, and Jews have long held most academic and bureaucratic positions in the republic.
Health and welfare
The system of medical care in Tajikistan does not adequately protect public health in a time when environmental pollution has become a major problem owing to the careless application of pesticides and chemicals in agriculture. Moreover, poor health and sanitary conditions permit the easy transmission of communicable diseases. Both the inhospitable environment and the low general standard of living have led to infant and maternal mortality rates exceeding those of any other Central Asian republic, and the rates throughout Central Asia far exceed those recorded in the West. Amenities such as paved roads, modern communications, potable running water, indoor toilets, and modern indoor heating and electrification are still confined to urban areas and thus benefit mostly non-Tajiks. Conditions in most rural areas remain primitive, though the state has worked to improve housing and community services. Although a high percentage of rural women work on the farms, they still tend to raise many children.Edward Allworth
Cultural life
The area now called Tajikistan has an ancient culture, and many popular traditions and customs have been retained, including the costumes worn by both men and women and such ancient festivals as the New Year celebration, known as Naurūz, which takes place on March 21, the period of the vernal equinox. A newer festival celebrates the gathering of the cotton crop. These colourful affairs incorporate horse races, horsemanship, and wrestling contests.
Although religion was actively persecuted during the Soviet period, Muslims (mostly Sunni) continued regular mosque worship and observed religious holidays where possible. In the late 1980s, religious persecution abated and religious practices revived.
The principal language of the republic, Tajik (known to its speakers as Tojikī), with distinct northern and southern dialects, belongs to the southwest group of Iranian languages, in the Indo-European family; it is very closely related to Dari and is also used widely in neighbouring Afghanistan. The language of the Pamir Tajiks belongs to the eastern Iranian group. Tajik was formerly written in a modified Arabic and later in the Roman alphabet, but since 1940 it has used a modified Cyrillic script. Writers from this region have made notable contributions to literature since the 10th century ce, and a vigorous folk literature continues.
A number of Tajik poets and novelists achieved fame during the 20th century. They include Abdalrauf Fitrat, whose dialogues Munazärä (1909; The Dispute) and Qiyamät (1923; Last Judgment) have been reprinted many times in Tajik, Russian, and Uzbek, and Sadriddin Ayni, known for his novel Dokhunda (1930; The Mountain Villager) and for his autobiography, Yoddoshtho (1949–54; published in English as Bukhara); both Fitrat and Ayni were bilingual in Uzbek and Tajik. Abū al-Qāsim Lāhūtī's poem Taj va bayraq (1935; Crown and Banner) and Mirzo Tursunzade's Hasani arobakash (1954; Hasan the Cart Driver) respond to the changes of the Soviet era; the latter's lyric cycle Sadoyi Osiyo (1956; The Voice of Asia) won major communist awards. A number of young female writers, notably the popular poet Gulrukhsor Safieva, have begun circulating their work in newspapers, magazines, and Tajik-language collections.
Tajikistan's government recognized Tajik as the official language of the state in 1989, and the new constitution affirms this status while according Russian special privilege. The Tajik language has secure status in cultural life—which the widespread use of Russian, and at one time Uzbek, had limited—as well as in administration and education.
The Tajik National Theatre, which was established in 1929, long presented opera, ballet, musical comedy, and puppetry. Regional theatres and troupes later appeared in towns such as Nau. Tajik studios have produced feature films and documentaries and have dubbed films from elsewhere. Radio and television services expanded during the later decades of Soviet rule, and Dushanbe has had a television centre since 1960. Broadcasting and the performing arts suffered deep cutbacks after 1985, however, when Soviet subsidies diminished and then ceased entirely.Aleksandr Ilyich Imshenetsky Edward Allworth
The Tajiks are the direct descendants of the Iranian peoples whose continuous presence in Central Asia and northern Afghanistan is attested from the middle of the 1st millennium bce. The ancestors of the Tajiks constituted the core of the ancient population of Khwārezm (Khorezm) and Bactria, which formed part of Transoxania (Sogdiana). They were included in the empires of Persia and Alexander the Great, and they intermingled with such later invaders as the Kushāns and Hepthalites in the 1st–6th centuries ce. Over the course of time, the eastern Iranian dialect that was used by the ancient Tajiks eventually gave way to Farsi, a western dialect spoken in Iran and Afghanistan.
The Arab conquest of Central Asia that began in the mid-7th century brought Islam to the region. But tribal feuds weakened the Arabs, and, with the rise of the Sāmānids (819–999), the Tajiks came under the rule of an Iranian dynasty. The first Turkic invaders (from the northeast) seized this area of Transoxania in 999, and, because both conquered and conquerors were Muslim, in time many Tajiks—especially those in the valleys of the Syr Darya and Amu Darya—became Turkicized. This resulted in the transformation of a formerly purely Iranian land into "Turkistan." The name Tajik, originally given to the Arabs by the local population, came to be applied by Turkic invaders and overlords to those elements of the sedentary population that continued to speak Iranian languages.
Until the mid-18th century the Tajiks were part of the emirate of Bukhara, but then the Afghans conquered lands south and southwest of the Amu Darya with their Tajik population, including the city of Balkh, an ancient Tajik cultural centre.
Russian conquests in Central Asia in the 1860s and '70s brought a number of Tajiks in the Zeravshan and Fergana valleys under the direct government of Russia, while the emirate of Bukhara in effect became a Russian protectorate in 1868.
After the Russian Revolution of 1917, a considerable proportion of the Tajik people was included in the Turkestan A.S.S.R. established in April 1918. In August 1920 the Revolution was extended to the khanate of Bukhara, which embraced most of the territory occupied by modern Tajikistan; the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic was declared in October 1920, and early in 1921 the Soviet army captured Dushanbe and Kŭlob (Kulyab). Tajikistan was the scene of the Basmachi revolt in 1922–23, and rebel bands under Ibrahim Bek operated in eastern Bukhara until 1931. The Tajik A.S.S.R. was created as part of the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic (S.S.R.) in 1925; in January 1925 a Special Pamirs region was created out of the Kyrgyz and Tajik parts of the Pamirs, and in December 1925 this region was renamed the Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region. In 1929 the status of the Tajik A.S.S.R. was raised to that of a Soviet socialist republic. The change in status marked the first time that the Tajik people had their own state, albeit not a fully independent one, as it was still part of the Soviet Union.
As a full-fledged member of the Soviet Union, the underdeveloped, mountainous Tajik S.S.R. underwent a spectacular social and economic transformation. A sense of nationhood was instilled in the Tajik people—particularly by B.G. Gafurov, the leader of Tajikistan's Communist Party from 1946 to 1956 and a historian respected in the West. Dams were constructed for electric power generation and irrigation, and industry was developed in the Vakhsh River valley. Soviet health care and education were gradually introduced in the republic. The village of Dushanbe (known as Stalinabad from 1929 to 1961) was transformed into a modern capital city boasting the Tajik State University (1951) and the Tajik Academy of Sciences (1948). Such progress notwithstanding, Tajikistan remained the poorest republic of the Soviet Union.
The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led to the somewhat reluctant declaration of full independence on September 9, 1991. Once independence was achieved, turmoil—degenerating into civil war—plagued the new country; communists fought to retain power in the face of opposition from an alliance of Islamic and democratic forces. The presidential election of November 1991 was won by Tajikistan's former communist strongman Rahman Nabiyev, and in March 1992 massive nonviolent demonstrations protesting his dismissal of opposition elements began in Dushanbe. After government forces opened fire on the demonstrators in April, violence soon spread to the southern city of Kŭlob and elsewhere. Opposition forces drove Nabiyev from office in September and briefly took power, but by November a government led by Emomali Rahmonov (from March 2007, Emomali Rahmon) and backed by Russian troops had regained control, ending the first phase of the civil war. A mass exodus to Afghanistan followed. Sporadic fighting continued as the Islamic fundamentalist forces and their allies, now based in Afghanistan, continued to launch attacks on the Russian and Tajik troops guarding the border.
By the mid-1990s the fighting had left tens of thousands dead and had displaced more than a half million people. In 1994 government and rebel elements reached a tenuous cease-fire, and Rahmonov was subsequently elected president. Sporadic fighting continued until June 1997, when a peace agreement brokered by the United Nations, Russia, and Iran essentially ended the war and produced some order in the strife that had characterized much of Tajik life since the country's independence. The endemic political unrest had a deleterious effect on the country's economy, which was dependent in large part on foreign aid.
Following the agreement, rebels began to reenter political and social life, though small groups of dissenters continued to engage in attacks on government targets, and Rahmonov was elected to another term in office in 1999 with the support of some of his former adversaries. The flow of militants from Afghanistan slowed after the overthrow of the Taliban in late 2001, but smaller numbers of determined Islamic extremists continued to sift across the border, disrupting life and commerce in Tajikistan and other Central Asian states. Moreover, the fall of the Taliban led to an upswing in narcotics production in Afghanistan, and Tajikistan soon became a major transit point for Afghan heroin and opium headed for markets in Europe and elsewhere.Denis Sinor The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
After his electoral victory in 1999, Rahmonov sought to establish the authority of the central government throughout Tajikistan, arresting some regional warlords and carrying out a campaign to disarm non-state militias. He also began what many observers saw as a drift toward authoritarianism, using the presidency to increase his personal power and steer the country away from the political pluralism called for by the 1997 peace agreement. The U.S.-led war against the Taliban in Afghanistan in 2001 provided Rahmonov with a favourable climate for a crackdown against the Islamic opposition in Tajikistan. He accused the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT)—which under the peace agreement was one of the opposition groups entitled to a percentage of government posts—of extremism and began dismissing members of the party from their official positions. The party itself, however, remained legal in Tajikistan. Meanwhile, Rahmonov began to install his extended family and personal associates in dominant roles in politics and business in Tajikistan.
In 2003 Rahmonov's position was strengthened when voters approved a referendum on a package of constitutional amendments that Rahmonov had requested as necessary to modernize the country. These included an amendment loosening presidential term limits, which made it possible for Rahmonov to hold the presidency until 2020.
The suppression of opposition parties and the muzzling of independent media intensified in the run-up to the legislative elections held in February 2005. Independent newspapers were closed, and opposition parties reported that local election boards had refused to place many of their candidates on the ballot. The final result was a lopsided victory for Rahmonov's People's Democratic Party, which won 52 of the 63 seats in the Assembly of Representatives.
Rahmonov himself was easily elected to another seven-year term as president with nearly 80 percent of the vote in November 2006. The IRPT, the largest opposition party, had not to fielded a presidential candidate after longtime party head Said Abdullo Nuri died earlier in year. Several other opposition parties nominated candidates, but the parties were too small and poorly known to pose a threat to Rahmonov.
In March 2007 Rahmonov dropped the Russian suffix (-ov) from his surname as an acknowledgment of Tajik identity. The change initiated a trend of "Tajikization" of surnames that was followed by many senior members of the government.
Rahmon won another term as president on November 6, 2013. A coalition of opposition parties and groups, including the IRPT, had attempted to nominate a candidate, but harassment by the authorities prevented her name from reaching the ballot. Five other parties were able to get their candidates on the ballot, but none were well-known enough to receive significant support.
In September 2015 the government banned the IRPT—until then the only legal Islamist party in the former Soviet republics of Central Asia—and placed it on a list of extremist and terrorist organizations. Several of the party's leaders were later charged with having orchestrated a coup attempt in 2015 and were sentenced to life imprisonment in 2016 in a case that IRPT supporters and human rights groups denounced as politically motivated.
In May 2016 voters in Tajikistan approved a referendum on a package of constitutional changes that included lifting term limits for President Rahmon and lowering the minimum age for presidential candidates from 35 to 30. The amendments further strengthened the Rahmon family's already tight grip on power; the amendment concerning presidential term limits had been written to apply only to Rahmon, based on his special status as "Leader of the Nation" granted by the Assembly of Representatives in 2015, and the amendment concerning the age of presidential candidates was widely seen as a way to clear a path to the presidency for Rahmon's son Rustam, who would be in his early thirties at the time of the 2020 presidential election. Another amendment in the referendum banned all political parties based on religion.


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Brendan Rodgers has told Luis Suárez he has threatened Liverpool's image and their prospects of receiving the benefit of doubt from referees with the admission he dived in an attempt to win a penalty against Stoke City.
The Liverpool manager issued his first public rebuke of the club's leading striker after Suárez revealed in an interview with Fox Sports Argentina that he cheated to try and win the game at Anfield in October. Following the goalless draw Tony Pulis, the Stoke manager, labelled Suárez "an embarrassment" and called on the Football Association to introduce retrospective action for diving, while Rodgers said he was at a loss to explain Suárez's actions but did not take the matter further.
Suárez's televised confession, however, has been deemed "unacceptable" by the Liverpool manager, who has said he would deal the Uruguay international "in house". Rodgers would not elaborate on the nature of any disciplinary action but it is understood Suárez will not be fined by Liverpool. The striker will not be censured by the FA for his comments.
"Certainly from our perspective it is unacceptable," said Rodgers. "It is not something we advocate here. Our ethics are correct. This is a big club and whatever people do say goes around the world, and what was said was wrong and not acceptable – he takes that and we move on. There is no one bigger than the club or the club's image. The comments, from our point of view as a club, are not what we would want to hear."
Suárez told Fox Sports Argentina that foreign players, particularly those from South America, are treated differently in the British media and that the reaction to his recent handball against Mansfield Town demonstrated unfair treatment. He also admitted: "Sometimes you do things on the field that later you think: 'Why the hell did I do that?' I was accused of falling inside the box in a match and it's true I did it that time, because we were drawing against Stoke at home and we needed anything to win it. But after that everybody jumped out to talk – the Stoke coach and the Everton coach – I understood that the name Suárez sells [papers]."
Rodgers has defended Suárez through several controversies but denied the striker's comments had undermined that support. He said: "I don't think I've been put in a difficult position. I've only ever called it honestly. I have defended him when I feel it is right and will continue to do that. I don't feel let down, I'll just call it like it is. I said at the time it was the wrong thing to do. I need to protect the club and the group and if anything puts that in jeopardy I will deal with that. Luis is aware of my feelings."
A key concern for the Liverpool manager is the potential impact of Suárez's admission on the team for the remainder of the season, with Rodgers fearing it could influence referees. He added: "It doesn't help him and, more importantly, it doesn't help the team. Anything detrimental to the team I don't take lightly. It's been difficult for us this season with regards penalties. We've only had one. The team always going into every game looking to win in the best possible way and sporting manner, and we don't want that to change.
"But this situation might affect people's thinking. I'm not saying it will do, but it could do. It might make people think twice about things and that's certainly something we don't want. The team puts maximum effort into the game and I wouldn't want second thoughts going into anybody's mind."
Unlike the Everton manager, David Moyes, who condemned Phil Neville immediately after he dived against Liverpool this season and revealed he had fined his captain a week's wages, Rodgers insisted the nature of Suárez's punishment should remain private.
He said: "I've spoken to Luis on it. I'm not sure it makes a big difference if we are saying he is fined one week's, two weeks' or four weeks' wages. The bottom line is that from my perspective as the manager and leader of the club it was wrong to say what he said. It was not acceptable. This club has always kept its matters in house, and that's what we will do."
This article was written by Andy Hunter, for The Guardian on Wednesday 30th January 2013 22.30 Europe/London
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. - A University of Florida offensive lineman has been charged with stealing a scooter.
Campus police say redshirt freshman Jessamen Dunker was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with vehicle theft, a third-degree felony, and driving with a suspended license, a misdemeanor.
Maj. Brad Barber says an officer observed Dunker tailgating a campus maintenance truck Wednesday morning. After seeing that Dunker's scooter didn't have a license plate, the officer pulled Dunker over near Ben Hill Griffin Stadium. During the stop, the officer learned that Dunker's license was suspended and the scooter had been reported stolen.
Dunker was being held in the Alachua County jail with no bail set. It wasn't clear if Dunker had an attorney.
UF athletic association spokesman Steve McClain says Coach Will Muschamp is aware of the arrest and will address it when he returns from a recruiting trip.
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Syria Expert: U.S. Should Have Armed Rebels
Washington Institute's Andrew Tabler explains the U.S. helping to arm Syrian moderate rebels over the past several years is a major cause for extremists in the country to be able to inflict such widespread violence. Photo: AP.
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Erdenet, with a population of nearly 75 000, is the second largest city in Mongolia and capital of Orhon province.
One of the world's large open pit copper mines is the reason for this city.
This is why Èrdènèt is, with Ulaanbaatar, the most developed town of the country and, with Baga nuur, the cleanest one.
Get In
You can see the Mongolian transportation page. One daily night train leaving at 20:20 from Ulaanbaatar, arriving at 08:00. Four coaches daily, mini-vans and car service from Ulaanbaatar's Dragon coach station (West of the town, on Peace avenue). First class train is about USD20. Dining car on the train with Mongolian food, juice, cokes, beer, snacks etc.. The third class ("common") train is the cheapest way to go to Erdenet: 6 800 MNT. Mini-vans will then drive you from the station to the city centre (8 km from the station) for 800 MNT. Coaches go from Ulaanbaatar for 11 000 MNT and can take more for extra luggage.
The highway is paved all the way from Ulaanbaatar, but it is two lane and not well maintained. Some people avoid the car and mini-van services because the drivers tend to drive too fast and there are many accidents.
It is possible to bicycle, but watch out for speeding cars.
Get around
It is possible to visit the open copper mine, the biggest copper mine in Asia, take your passport. There is also a museum of the mine.
You can rent tourism material (but no vehicle) at Fiable.biz, a small company managed by a French. It's possible to give back in Ulaanbaatar the things your rented.
If you want to go back home with a Mongolian carpet, this is the place. There are small ones. Erdenet carpet was one of the first ISO 9001 certified companies in the country.
There are many restaurants in the downtown area. Including at least two Korean, one Chinese, one Russian, two vegetarian.
Get out
You can go to Russia or China from Èrdènèt by train via the town of Blacksmith (Darkhan (city)) or by different means via Ulaanbaatar.
An experimental web site giving train schedule is timetable. You are supposed to be able to order online, but it doesn't always work.
Èrdènèt has 2 coach stations. The one for Darkhan (city) and Ulaanbaatar is at East of the city centre, at the extremity of Sùhbaatar street, in Builders square (Барилагчдын талбай, Barilagčdyn talbai). The one for Bulgan and Mörön is at the South-East of the city, in a place called Dômôg, with a "Дөмөг ХХК" red sign at the top of a building.
Four daily coach services to Ulaanbaatar, coach service to Bulgan City.
Microbuses and cars
MicroBuses and cars (public "taxis") to Ulaanbaatar and Darhan, with no schedule: they leave when full.


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Peugeot's Optimism May Not Be Justified
The French car maker's management is upbeat despite a $6.74 billion loss last year. Dow Jones's Steve McGrath says the future isn't all in Peugeot's control. (Photo: Getty Images)
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Condé Nast lets you play model in their new video game, Fashion Hazard, available on both iPhone and the iPad. [Source]
Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas puts her hair in the hands of celeb stylist Ted Gibson. [Source]
Spin Magazine has cancelled their Nov/Dec issue. [Source]
Record label, Fueled By Ramen, is raising money to support The Academy Is… band member Andrew Bishop Mrotek AKA The Butcher. Andrew was violently mugged at the end of July and has been in and out of the ER undergoing several surgeries. He is also without health care and FBR has said that any support that fans can provide will significantly help towards his bills. [Source]
Remember that brawl between Chris Brown and Drake not too long ago? The nightclub is allegedly suing them for $16 million. [Source]
Lady Gaga x Kendrick Lamar collaboration on the way! [Source]
The Jonas Brothers will come together again for a one-time concert. [Source] I want this.
TLC taps into a new reality "looking for love" show called "Secret Princes." [Source]
ABC's Revenge has decided to make a re-cast decision for Emily's mentor, Satoshi Takeda. [Source]
Teen Mom's Farrah Abraham released a new music video. Apparently, auto tune is her best friend. [Source] Too awful to actually post the video on my blog
ABC Family has cancelled "Jane By Design." [Source]
NBC's 'Tonight Show' has laid off 20 employees. [Source]
The city of Bremerton will re-name a street for Olympic gold medalist Nathan Adrian. [Source]
Amazon Local will begin delivering Capitol Hill's Eltana bagels. [Source]
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Vince Gill Celebrates 20 Years in the Grand Ole Opry
His youthful tenor never seems to age, so it's hard to believe Vince Gill has been making music for decades. In fact, he released the first of his 12 solo albums, 'Turn Me Loose,' way back in 1984.
Since then, Gill has charted more than 40 singles, sold more than 22 million records and won 20 Grammys. At this point, he's running out of milestones — but there was still one left for him to celebrate on Saturday, when he marked 20 years as a member of the Grand Ole Opry.
Gill celebrated the occasion with a group of friends and family that numbered some of Nashville's brightest stars, including Emmylou Harris, Martina McBride, and Gill's wife, Amy Grant.
"I spent so many years struggling and never knowing if any of this would ever happen for me," Gill reflected backstage before the show. "When a couple hits finally turned up in 1990 and allowed me the opportunity to get invited out here, it meant the world to me. If you ever strum a guitar, play three chords and sing a hillbilly song, this is the mecca. This is the place you dream of getting to come and it doesn't get any better."
"He's a great writer, a great singer and a great player and a very hard worker," added John Anderson. "He's a very good man. I'm flattered to be here this evening. It's a pleasure to be here in honor of Brother Vince. I wish him 20 more great years. If anybody's got 'em coming, he does."
Gill will kick off those next 20 years with a new album, 'Guitar Slinger,' due this fall.
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Escape Style: Using Globes as Decor
A former roommate of mine had a really cool inverse color globe that was also decades out of date. Nevertheless, that globe was a source of some of our most memorable conversations about hard-to-pronounce names, places that no longer exist and countries where we'd like travel. While some may think it's a fad, globes are a great source of inspiration and, as our house tours prove, an easy piece of décor.
1. Ashley Ann's $500 Light and Lovely Remodel
2. Maggie & Ryan's Quietly Colorful Queen Anne Apartment
3. Alison & Jeff's Eclectic Williamsburg Railroad
4. Inside Out: Adrienne is Not Afraid to Ship
5. Leticia & Daniel's Vintage Cool Condo
6. Christy & John's Logan Square Bungalow
7. Krystal's San Francisco Studio
8. Leah & Rich's Evolving Patina. A tutorial for making the globe pendant light can be found here.
• Decorate Like a Globe Trotter
• Vintage Globe Decor: Trend or Timeless?
• Roundup: Globes in Homes
• Taking Globe Decor To The Next Level
• Green Tour Décor: Get the Look with Vintage Globes
• Easing/Increasing Wanderlust: Custom Maps & Globes
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text: Share: Comments Print June 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM Get ready for Mariners first base job-sharing and Morse…in outfield Posted by Geoff Baker Throw Justin Smoak back into a first base/DH mix that was already crowded for the Mariners and you get…some overcrowding. That's why Smoak is on the bench tonight — despite three well-hit balls last night, including a home run — and Michael Morse is at first base. Kendrys Morales is the DH. There's a lefty on the mound, so the right-handed bats are trumping Smoak's switch-hitting abilities. Mariners manager Eric Wedge said he's going to give subsequent time off to Morse and some to Morales in order to help them recover from injuries. That means Smoak will get his turn on those days. But I asked Wedge how it's going to work once the Morse and Morales injuries are done. In other words, is he going to keep this merry-go-round going between the three with one guy sitting every three days? "You've got to just get Morse into the outfield," Wedge said. "That's what we've got to try to do. He did some work yesterday. He's going to do a little more today. For a first day in the outfield yesterday, (trainer) Rick (Griffin) felt pretty good about it. So, it was a good first day." As a follow-up, I asked Wedge how comfortable he was with Morse as an outfield defender. His advanced defensive metrics aren't very good, though it's never a great idea to look at those in two-month samples. The metrics of past years suggest Morse is a below-average defender, though they said the same thing about Jason Bay and he's looked very good playing in left field this year. We've all seen Morse make some gaffes with our naked eye and take some long routes to balls. But how much of a factor is that when offset by his healthy bat? Even unhealthy, he's still one of the team's most dangerous hitters. And can we say — based off 2 1/2 months of Ultimate Zone Zone Rating (UZR) or Defensive Runs Saved (DRS) metrics — that his defense offsets his offense? No we can't. Those metrics are not reliable over such short terms and can fluctuate greatly. We don't know whether he's just a little below average or really, really bad out there. And thus, if we don't know, we can't say how much WAR (Wins Above Replacement) value he has been worth, as I've seen some try to argue. So, as I said, I asked Wedge what he thought. "Right now, he's still limited," Wedge said. "I'm not comfortable putting him out there right now. He's just going to have to continue to get better before he can get back out there." The implication being that Wedge is comfortable enough with Morse out there when he's healthy. Question answered. Now, before anyone goes throwing any WAR numbers at me, please, just remember, there is not enough info to make a 2 1/2-month WAR argument. Not if you're using defensive metrics as a component that are nowhere near reliable in such a small sample. If the defensive number is tainted, the WAR score will be tainted. Seriously, we had this discussion over the winter and many folks wrote in saying that people who use WAR would never stoop to making small sample arguments involving less than a full season of numbers. Well, guess what? I see people making those arguments nightly, whether on Twitter, in the Lookout Landing blog and comments section, our own comments section and other places when it comes to Morse and Raul Ibanez. Again, to those people making such claims: you don't know whether the WAR numbers have any real accuracy this soon into the season. Please stop throwing them out there to suggest Morse's glove and baserunning overrides his bat. You don't know that they do. Putting Morse in the outfield may very well be a not-so-great idea from a defensive standpoint. But nobody out there has any evidence his defense negates his offense. A flawed, short-term WAR sample does not constitute evidence. In the end, if he does play the outfield, the people running the Mariners had better have some proprietary information that suggests his bat can more than offset his glove. Otherwise, the team will lose more than it wins and those making the decisions will pay for it dearly. That's how it works. In other news, Bay is again out with a hamstring issue. Wedge said he's have liked to have hi in there against lefty C.J. Wilson tonight — which is why the Mariners kept Bay's right-handed bat in the first place — but his leg is not healed sufficiently. Comments | More in pregame | Topics: michael morse; justin smoak; kendrys morales; eric wedge


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Consensus Report
Polar Icebreakers in a Changing World: An Assessment of U.S. Needs (2006)Polar Research Board
Each report is produced by a committee of experts selected by the Academy to address a particular statement of task and is subject to a rigorous, independent peer review; while the reports represent views of the committee, they also are endorsed by the Academy. Learn more on our expert consensus reports.
The United States has enduring national and strategic interests in the polar regions, including citizens living above the Arctic circle and three year-round scientific stations in the Antarctic. Polar icebreaking ships are needed to access both regions. Over the past several decades, the U.S. government has supported a fleet of four icebreakers -- three multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard ships (the POLAR SEA, POLAR STAR, and HEALY) and the National Science Foundation's PALMER, which is dedicated solely to scientific research. Today, the POLAR STAR and the POLAR SEA are at the end of their service lives, and a lack of funds and no plans for an extension of the program has put U.S. icebreaking capability at risk. This report concludes that the United States should continue to support its interests in the Arctic and Antarctic for multiple missions, including maintaining leadership in polar science. The report recommends that the United States immediately program, budget, design, and construct two new polar icebreakers to be operated by the U.S. Coast Guard. The POLAR SEA should remain mission capable and the POLAR STAR should remain available for reactivation until the new polar icebreakers enter service. The U.S. Coast Guard should be provided sufficient operations and maintenance budget to support an increased, regular, and influential presence in the Arctic, with support from other agencies. The report also calls for a Presidential Decision Directive to clearly align agency responsibilities and budgetary authorities.
Key Messages
- Deferred long-term maintenance and failure to execute a plan for replacement or refurbishment of the nation's icebreaking ships have placed national interests in the polar regions at risk.
- The committee finds that both operations and maintenance of the polar icebreaker fleet have been underfunded for many years, and the capabilities of the nation's icebreaking fleet have diminished substantially.
- The nation needs the capability to operate in both polar regions reliably and at will.


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Today at Comic-Con, Microsoft debuted its limited edition Star Wars themed Xbox 360. The console pays homage to R2-D2 while the controller is a tribute to C-3PO. And there's more to the set that meets the eye: The astromech droid's signature sounds will be woven into the console functions. You can take a listen at the previous link.
The unveiling comes hot on the heels of the Kinect Star Wars game, which uses the motion-based gaming technology to give players an immersive Star Wars experience. Developers also said a pod-racing feature will be included in the Kinect game. It's the closest you're ever going to get to wielding a light saber or piloting a pod racer.
The limited edition console will go on sale this holiday season for $449.99 and will come packaged with a white Kinect, the Kinect Star Wars, Kinect Adventures, and a 360 wired headset. It runs a 320 GB hard drive as well "exclusive downloadable content," which Microsoft did not detail.
For more pictures check out our photo gallery on the Star Wars Bundle.
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In fact, when it comes to breaking up with a brand, some people find it quite easy.
An infographic from Get Satisfaction and Column Five illustrates the top reasons why people unsubscribe from brand emails or stop following a brand on social media.
According to the graphic, most customers break up with brands because they post or email too frequently and the content becomes repetitive. Customers may originally follow a company because they want to stay updated, but they don't want to hear about everything the company is doing.
Consumers are most likely to unsubscribe from brand emails first (91 percent), but they cut ties on Facebook (55 percent) and Twitter (43 percent) fairly easily, too.
If your company wants to avoid being kicked the curb, take a long look at how you can keep your customers' love alive:
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Kristin Piombino is an editorial assistant for Ragan.com.
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Over the years, I've made ten separate trips to New York but I'm embarrassed to say that until this most recent stay, I had never set foot inside of a Dean & DeLuca store. I'd heard people constantly praising the New York locations as if they were a sacred place where one would make a religious pilgrimage in search of treats. Truth be told, I'm not a foodie so I kept on wondering what the big deal was. Why were these stores so different from typical supermarkets?
Two weeks ago, I was walking through Soho with Gala and we decided to stop into the flagship location that started it all back in 1977. Once we entered, I immediately understood what the hype was all about.
Upon entering, the first thing I noticed about Dean and DeLuca was the overwhelming variety and impeccable service. The employees all wore perfectly pressed white uniforms with little name tags. This couldn't be America!
Dean and DeLuca reminded me of a quaint neighborhood shop but slightly bigger and much, much better. Just the bakery alone could give you heart palpitations. Cookies, cakes, tarts, and confections beyond description lined the perfect little glass cases. My senses were overloaded so I settled on some small heart-shaped cookies.
Even though the store is quite compact compared to the typical American supermarket, they somehow showcase more items than one could ever hope to encounter in one place, perfectly arranged like a museum for food.
The produce section was also a sight to behold. Perfectly stacked rows of fruits and vegetables glistened under the lights.
And, as if the arrangements of fruits and vegetables weren't enough, a small selection of flowers were also available.
If I were a rich and famous chef, I'm pretty certain that I would do all of my shopping here.
Meats, cheeses and jugs of old fashioned milk also made an appearance. The mass chain grocery stores dotting the U.S. need to take note of the atmosphere, ambience and old school charm that this place evokes.
Exotic varieties of fresh baked bread were proudly showcased.
Gourmet chocolates including gold-flecked edible buddhas, colorful animals and small squares infused with otherworldly flavors all competed for attention. How could you choose just one?
Silver canisters of spices with minimal packaging were perfectly aligned on trays. Magical potions? Perhaps.
It should be noted that Dean & DeLuca is pricey. This isn't a place that you frequent if you're purchasing a month's worth or groceries (Trader Joe's is much more appropriate).
Instead, Dean & DeLuca is about the visual experience. It is a place that is ripe with new discoveries and culinary delights that cannot be found anywhere else. Dean & DeLuca will make your tastebuds sing and your wallet hurt. But isn't that how the best things in life usually are?


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Nessie has graduated High School and looking forward to her new life at Yale. With Jacob by her side and Edward and Bella's encouragment, Nessie faces life, adventure, and possible threats to her family as she finds herself.
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Rain drizzled on the window of the little stone cottage in the woods. It rains every day in Forks, well, it seems like it rains every day. I thought as she looked out the window; waiting, wondering. Staring at my rain streaked reflection in the window, I can't help but to think about my life. I have always had whatever I wanted, I've never wished for something that wasn't given to me. With a father like mine, I don't even have to say a word when comes to my needs and wants, he reads my thoughts like an open book. So what is missing from my life? I bit my lip, contemplating my life. I am glad that I have the house to myself. The ability to be able to think whatever I wish and not have to worry about the sad look in dad's eyes when I think of something unhappy is a welcome change from the façade I keep of constant happiness.
Sometimes I believe the façade; I have no reason not to be happy. I have pretty much everything. A perfect Mom and Dad, Aunts and Uncles who would do anything for me, Grandparents who love nothing more then just being with me. And I have my Jacob. I feel a smile spread across my face as I think about Jacob. My Jacob. I feel so ungrateful and selfish that I would ever think that I am missing something. Mom and Dad have done everything they could to make sure I have a normal life, well as normal as a 4 year old teenager could have. Maybe I am feeling this way because we are leaving so soon. Since I graduated high school two weeks ago, it feels like I don't know what I am doing. Mom and Dad assure me that I will be happy at our new home, and Jacob will be coming too. But Connecticut is so far away from Forks. I'll be so far away from the rest of the pack, and Grandpa Charlie. Even though everyone promises to visit, the thought of leaving everything I love so much breaks my heart.
I turn away from the window and the rain that I have come to love and go to the kitchen. I'm not really hungry, I hunted with Alice this morning, but the pint of Ben & Jerry's in the freezer is calling to me. And Jacob will be over soon, and there should be some food for him since he always likes to eat. "Jacob", I sighed aloud as I dug my spoon into the Mint Chocolate Cookie ice cream. Things have been changing between us too. I have always felt like Jacob was mine and that we have a bond that is so unexplainable, it has to be magic. Jacob said we needed to talk today, and he said it in that serious voice he uses sometimes. I feel like it's going to be something big. Horror struck me. What if Jacob isn't coming to Connecticut? Maybe that's why Mom and Dad left, so that they don't have to be around to hear my heart break. So Dad doesn't have see and feel the pain in my mind. I glance at the clock on the wall, its 2 o'clock now, so Jacob will be here in an hour. I walk to my room to look in the mirror, pint in hand. I stare at my reflection. Maybe if I looked extra pretty today, Jacob couldn't tell me he's not coming with us. Maybe he would have to stay. Everyone always tells me how beautiful I am, how stunning. As I look in the mirror, I can see what they mean. I have my mother's chocolate brown eyes, at least, the eyes she used to have, my dad's hair color. Maybe Alice would come over to help get ready, help me look extra special. Can Alice make me look un-leavable?
I contemplate my options as I put away the half eaten pint of ice cream. Maybe Alice would tell me what will happen tonight, though she has been avoiding me lately, probably because she has already seen what Jacob is going to do. I decide to call her to have her come over, and that second my phone buzzes awake. I smile to myself thinking how awesome my relatives are.
"Hey Alice, I was just wondering if you wanted to come over to hang out, maybe try a new make-up look or something?"
"What's up Nessie?"
"Don't play dumb Alice, isn't doesn't really work for you."
"Yeah, I know. I'll come over, but really, you don't need to do anything to look stunning, and you know it…however, I did see you wearing the most incredible emerald green cocktail dress, so you know I had to buy it, so I'll bring it over, see you in a second!"
I snapped my phone shut. So Alice has seen what is going to happen tonight, and I was wearing a cocktail dress. That is a little odd; I am usually pretty casual when it comes to hanging out with Jacob. Before I could think more about it, Alice was sitting on the couch.
"Jeez, what took you so long?" I joked. Of all the talents I inherited from my parents, the speed was not one of them, though I am grateful that I am at least faster then the average human.
"Well, let's get to it", Alice chirped. "Not like there is a lot we have to do for you, but Jacob is going to be early and I want to be out of here before then. I saw that Alice was trying to suppress a smile. Maybe what she saw wasn't so bad, or maybe I had mistaken that expression and she wasn't suppressing a smile, but weakly trying to fake one. Alice worked her magic in no time, just as she always did. She really was an amazing aunt, and I think she was happy that I didn't quite inherit my mothers sense of fashion…I have always been Alice's dress up doll, so I don't think it would be possible not to love clothes like she did. Alice gave me a quick peck on the cheek and gave me that same suppressed/weak smile. Good luck she whispered as she danced out of sight.
I looked over myself in the mirror. Examining the details of the dress Alice had got for me. It truly was beautiful, and I wondered how Jacob could ever think to leave me. I could never leave My Jacob. Just as I felt tears welling in my eyes, I heard Jacobs knock. Really it was a lock of knock with a quick Hello while he was walking in. I could smell Jacob as he walked through the door. He didn't have the same sweet smell that my family had, but it was an intense woodsy smell that filled the air. Aunt Rose hated it, but I think it is great, it reminded me of so many great memories I have with Jacob.
I walked down the short hall and turned into the kitchen where I knew Jacob would be rummaging through the fridge.
"Hi there" I murmured, slightly nervous that he would sense the tears that were fighting to come out.
"Hey Nes" He was distracted, trying to find something that was appealing. As he shut the door and looked at me, I could see the smile in his eyes.
"Jeez Nes, you look pretty dressed up for the afternoon." Jacob said, half laughing.
"Yeah, I know, it's Alice" I said, slightly embarrassed by my thought of trying to look un-leavable.
"Hey, I'm not complaining. As long as you don't mind standing next to me." Jacob teased. I could tell Jacob came in his car, his clothes were all intact, and his hair was pulled back. He looked just as good as I could ever hope for.
"So, what's the big deal today? Are we going anywhere, or should I just go put some jeans on?" I asked. Half of me hoped we were going out; Jacob couldn't do anything to hurt me in public, right? He would never do that. But then again if we stayed home, my desperate pleading for him to stay might not look so pathetic.
"We're going somewhere, and you should keep the dress, I like it…but you'll need a jacket or something." Jacob said, looking at me over his plate of food. I left Jacob to finish eating, looking for a coat. On my bed there was a beautiful Ivory brocade coat that matched the style of the dress perfectly. Alice left a little note almost forgot! Her dainty and perfect handwriting written on a post it note. She must have snuck back in here after she left. I grabbed my coat and looked myself over one more time in the mirror, just to make sure my reflection didn't show the total wreck I was inside. Everything looked perfect, too perfect. Maybe Jacob was tired of having other guys eye me everywhere we went; maybe he was tired of defending me. I couldn't dwell on those thoughts. I wouldn't allow myself, not when he was so close.
I walked back out to the living room where Jacob was now waiting for me, he had just finished eating. He held the door open for me, and as we walked out, I notice the rain had cleared up and the sun was peaking through the rain clouds. As we walked to Jacob's car, I couldn't turn my thoughts off; I never felt like this around Jacob, there was never tension between us. I couldn't understand what was wrong with me. Jacob noticed how quite and distant I was, though he didn't say anything. Was it because he knew how much he was going to hurt me. He held the door open for me as I climbed into the dark SUV. Windows were always dark for my family, at least the windows we face in public. I was lucky that my skin held only the slightest shimmer in the sun while Mom and Dad and the rest of the family sparkled in the sun.
"So, where are we going?" I asked Jacob as we drove on a small path through the forest.
"Not too far" Jacob smiled as he tapped the steering wheel to the music.
I took a deep breath, realizing that tonight could be the beginning of a new life. A new life, without my Jacob. The panic pressed on my heart from all side, and a think lump in my throat swelled. I swallowed hard and tried to keep my composure. I didn't want to make anything harder for Jacob. I wouldn't let him know how much this hurt, because that would make him sad, and I didn't want Jacob to feel any pain in his life. So I sat there, composed myself, and looked forward through the windshield, wishing this car ride never had
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2010-11: Two-year letterwinner and will be a team captain for the second-straight season ... one of the team's top wrestlers after posting a 33-17 record over his first two years ... expected to be the team's top option at 133 or 141 pounds this winter.
2009-10: Led the team in wins, finishing the season with a 16-7 overall record while competing primarily at 141 pounds ... finished 5-0 in Centennial Conference matches during the regular season ... led the team with 44 takedowns ... also notched 21 escapes, five near falls and three reversals ...finished as the runner-up in the 141-pound weight class at the W&L Invitational ... was awarded the team's J.C. Peebles Memorial Award for showing spirit and thrill of competition ... received Division III Scholar All-America honors by the National Wrestling Coaches Association.
2008-09: Finished among the team leaders in wins with a 17-10 overall record and a 4-3 mark in Centennial Conference matches as a 133-pounder … had two wins by pin … notched a team-best 52 takedowns, 22 escapes and three reversals … placed fourth in the 133-pound weight class at the W&L Invitational … completed his rookie campaign by winning six of his final eight matches, including a fourth-place finish in the 133-pound weight class at the Centennial Conference Championships … received the D.C. Montgomery Memorial Award as the team's top first-year wrestler.
High School: Lettered in wrestling and lacrosse at New Trier Township High School ... two-time wrestling team captain and two-time Team MVP ... three-time first team all-conference selection and a three-time state qualifier ... helped lead the team to a pair of conference and regional championships ... holds the school records for wins and takedowns ... named an Illinois State Scholar.
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MACON, Ga. – Lipscomb senior forward Garret Pettis has been named the Atlantic Sun Men's Soccer Player of the Week, the conference office announced, Monday.
Pettis scored a career-high four goals in Lipscomb's 5-0 victory against North Florida, Sunday. The Elizabethtown, Pa. native tied the Lipscomb record with his offensive explosion, equaling the mark set by Scott Mason against Centenary on Oct. 24, 2005; no A-Sun player had scored four goals in one contest since Mason. The performance is also tied for the seventh-best goal-scoring output by an individual in single game in A-Sun history.
"He was supremely frustrated, as we all were, after Friday's loss (to Jacksonville)," said Lipscomb head coach Charles Morrow. "We challenged the players on Sunday, and obviously he responded. It's good to see him get going at the right time of the year; hopefully he keeps it going through the rest of the season."
The scoring binge came quickly for Pettis; he scored all four goals in the first 30 minutes of play, Sunday.
With his final goal of the day, Pettis tied former teammate Miguel DaSilva for most goals in a career by a Bisons player with 32.
"It was timely, not only in terms of us needing points (in the conference standings), but in terms of him tying the single-game mark and tying Miguel for career goals," said Morrow. "For him to do that all in one day is a pretty big day."
Pettis is now the A-Sun's season-leader in points (19) and tied with Belmont's Brandon Tarr for the league lead in goals (8).
The award is Pettis' first weekly award by the conference office this season, and the third of his career. He's the first Bison to win a weekly A-Sun award since Joey Chiappetta for the week of Oct. 18, 2010.
ETSU's Nick Dykes earned A-Sun Defensive Player of the Week honors.
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DAVOS, Switzerland (Feb. 17) - Jessie Diggins (Afton, MN) and Liz Stephen (E. Montpelier, VT) cracked the top 15 in Davos at the final FIS Cross Country World Cup before the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships open later this week. Diggins was 14th and Stephen 15th as Therese Johaug of Norway got the win in the 10k freestyle.
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Jessie, Liz and Holly capped off a positive weekend for our women's World Championships Team. But that being said, the Davos results have left us a bit unsatisfied with each athlete feeling as those they had a little more to offer. This is a good sign that the team is coming into peak form. They are expecting the body to feel good now and they're eager to get their first starts in Val di Fiemme. Today meant something a bit different for each athlete. It was the second best distance result of the year for Jessie and while she has been tying together very solid results all season, today's result came with the fourth fastest 5 km split. The snap she knows she has is returning. For Liz, Davos presents some challenges in that the course skis as a long gradual uphill grind. She tends to excel in steeper V1 terrain and today I saw some patient and powerful V2 out of her on course. This has been a missing gear for Liz and today we saw it working. For Holly, this weekend has been a double confirmation that she has overcome a flat post-Tour de Ski period and is ready to launch another bid for the top here in Val di Fiemme.
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As I've learned more about suspension systems for hammocks and tarps, I thought out what I thought would be the perfect SLTRL. Lo and behold as I was browsing your products I discovered you are smarter than me because you thought of it first... the Single Line Tarp Ridge Line - Dutch Edition with Dutchware. Exactly the way I would do it.
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Island House South Beach
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Island house South Beach can be found in the heart of South Beach, just a stones throw away from Miami's Shops, Pubs and Restaurants.
The hostel offers a range of different rooms from single rooms to studios and suites.
There is a complimentary breakfast served daily in the breakfast room where you can enjoy the view over looking Collins Avenue and beyond to South Beach. Enjoy a complimentary beer at the Weekend happy hour which is the perfect place to relax after a busy week site seeing, You can also get to know your fellow travellers and swop stories at the bar.
All major credit cards accepted including Express Visa and Mastercard.
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Room rate is not inclusive of state and local taxes, currently 13%. Check-in time is 2:00pm and checkout time is 11:00am
Please note: 100% of the first night will be charged on the day of booking. In order for us to apply your room rental. You will need to present the same credit Card at the check-in, so that we can imprint your card. We also need to make a copy of your identification, such as driver License, State or Military ID, Pass port or Visa.
Cancellation: If you cancel 3 days before arrival date, no fee will be charged by the property. If cancelled later or in case of No-Show, 100% of the first night will be charged. The rates are based according to the number of person reserved. You are welcome to have additional guest(s) however, there is an additional charge for extra guest(s) at the rate of $25.00 per persons/per nights, and some additional taxes.
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