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Submitted by pete on June 24, 2006 - 08:08
Work on a deal for a starting goaltender continues [url=http://www.sptimes.com/2006/06/24/Lightning/Goalie_still_tops_Lig.shtml]according to this morning's article by Tom Jones in the St. Pete Times[/url], but don't expect the Lightning to go for a goaltender or a defenseman with their top draft choice. Instead, Jones mentions Cape Breton's James Sheppard, Vasteras' Patrik Berglund and Barrie's Bryan Little, all forwards, as potential choices for the Lightning. Interesting note: the Lightning's draft list is apparently only 80 players deep this year because the club is only looking for players which meet their high character standards.
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Submitted by goldenbolt on June 24, 2006 - 10:43.
Ok, the only thing that counts is to find a goaltender for the upcoming year. I would be willing to part with any of the following: Mary St. Louis - Contract and Age are an issue. Still has some trade value. The downside is he does have leadership skills which this team does seem to lack. Brad - Should fill that role as I don't see Viny ever acheiving that level of play. Too many big skates and his teamates know that more than you or I. Freddy Modin - This would really hurt as he is a personal favorite. However, still has trade value, skills (which will begin to diminish, speed is not his forte) He is the teams best defensive forward but I would give it up for a rock between the pipes. Ruslan Fedetenko - There is still a lot of hockey in this one but to me he vanished last year during the season. It is possible he just does not have the legs / speed to play in the new style game. There were stretches of games when you looked at the score sheet he played 15 - 18 minutes and you never saw him in the game. For defence men that is what you want but for a power forward I don't think so. He was superb in the Stanley Cup finals but I did not see the follow up in the 05 - 06 season. Cory Sarich - Has become slow slow slow..... in this game speed is the key. Paul Ranger is the next great d-man for the Bolts. I think Cory is in the same boat as Kubina, they have skills but not as top line players due to lack of speed. I do not expect Kubina to be back he wants a 5+ million contract won't happen unless someone is foolish. For a combination of those players we should be able to find a better goalie than Grahame and/or Burke. Nabokov not Giguere is my choice. Denis???? Too me looked like the reincarnation of Grahame. Although I admit not seeing that many of his games. Go Bolts!
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Submitted by pete on June 24, 2006 - 14:08.
You don't trade St. Louis unless you have to. He was strong down the stretch into the playoffs, far stronger than Modin. You don't trade Fedotenko unless you have to because he's coming off a career season in which he finally broke through the 20 goal barrier. He's got more left in the tank than Modin who arguably was the Lightning's worst forward in the playoffs. They're going to be able to re-sign Sarich at a reasonable price because of the poor season he had last year. I'm perfectly happy to give him a one-year rather than have three holes to plug instead of two as we're already still trying to replace Cullimore's physical presence and we're probably going to lose Kubina. Denis is nothing like Grahame.
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Submitted by goldenbolt on June 25, 2006 - 05:35.
Pete, Marty spent more time falling down in the corners this year than skating. He is being paid 5 - 6 mil you will need the room for a real goalie under the cap. Feds a breakout year? In the 'new' game 20 goals for a scorer is nothing to write home about. You are correct in that their is more left in the tank than Modin on that we agree. Sarich had a terrible year and I think for the same reason Cullimore struggled in Chicago. They are not skaters and without the ability to do the hug at the blue line, corners and in front of the net both players are hampered. In today's game the 'D' men need speed and size which is not the strenght of either of those players. Yes, Kubina is gone and that is a hole the idiot wants 4/5 mil in his dreams. Someone will pay but not the Bolts. We do need a physical 'D' man but one that has some speed is hard to find and will be costly. Hopefully we have someone in the minors to fit that bill. I only saw Denis play about 5 games..... and I was not impressed and he looked a lot like Grahame..... with the Glove hand goals. I will defer to you if you have seen more of his games, but what I saw was not good. So I guess we agree to disagree and where is that trade for a real goalie. I have the season tickets and will be upset if what we go back with is the finns from europe. Modin I agree was a dissapointment in the playoffs and there is no upside in his skills. However, the discussion is what do you give up for a 'real' goalie? IMHO these players are the trade bait. So I guess we agree to disagree and where is that trade for a real goalie? As a season ticket holder I will be very upset if what we go back with is the finns from europe in goal. Mike
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Submitted by pete on June 25, 2006 - 09:51.
The cap went up $5M which more than covers Richards' new raise and if you were to trade Modin and add that $2M+ to the roughly $3M from Kubina and Grahame leaving as UFA's there is roughly $6M to play with to get a new goalie and defenseman. The assumption that St. Louis has to be traded to make room under the cap for a goaltender doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Marty was arguably the Lightning's best forward in the playoffs. I foresee them giving him one more year to try and get back to his level of two seasons ago unless some of this Luongo to Tampa talk turns out to be true. Fedotenko has been steadily improving over the past 3 seasons. I'd be less inclined to move him out the door than Modin. Sarich skates very well for a man his size. The steps he took backwards this year were in the mental game, it has nothing to do with him being physically unable to perform to a high level. If you trade him then you're stuck trying to plug two holes in the blueline corps. I just don't see it happening. Denis is more technically sound in his sleep than John Grahame ever was. You're talking about the difference between a technically sound, classically trained French Canadian butterfly goalie and a guy whose style has been most diplomatically described as "unorthodox" and others have called "the Hungry Hungry Hippo style" of goaltending. Seriously, there's no comparison there.
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At fortysomething, straight-laced Cal Weaver (Steve Carell) is living the dream--good job, nice house, great kids and marriage to his high school sweetheart. But when Cal learns that his wife, Emily (Julianne Moore), has cheated on him and wants a divorce, his "perfect" life quickly unravels. Worse, in today's single world, Cal, who hasn't dated in decades, stands out as the epitome of un-smooth. Now spending his free evenings sulking alone at a local bar, the hapless Cal is taken on as wingman and protege to handsome, thirtysomething player Jacob Palmer (Ryan Gosling). In an effort to help Cal get over his wife and start living his life, Jacob opens Cal's eyes to the many options before him: flirty women, manly drinks and a sense of style that can't be found at Supercuts or The Gap. Cal and Emily aren't the only ones looking for love in what might be all the wrong places: Cal's 13-year-old son, Robbie (Jonah Bobo), is crazy about his 17-year-old babysitter, Jessica (Analeigh Tipton), who harbors a crush on Cal. And despite Cal's makeover and his many new conquests, the one thing that can't be made over is his heart, which seems to keep leading him back to where he began.
- Director
- Glenn Ficarra, John Requa
- Actors
- Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, Julianne Moore, Emma Stone, John Carroll Lynch, Marisa Tomei,, Kevin Bacon, Jonah Bobo, Analeigh Tipton, Josh Groban, Liza Lapira, Joey King
- Genre
- Comedy
- Run Time
- 1 hour 58 minutes
Reviews from Rotten Tomatoes
There's strong, fleetingly powerful stuff in Crazy, Stupid, Love., but like its awkwardly punctuated title, the movie jerks to a halt just when it's beginning to flow.Sam Adams, Los Angeles Times, 08.04.2011
It gets better and funnier after a labored and lumbering start, which is entirely the opposite of most Hollywood comedies.Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com, 07.31.2011
This is not the ultimate romantic comedy - the one that makes you fall as hard for the characters as they do for one another while savoring their every interaction - but it seems fresher and less recycled than much of the product out there.James Berardinelli, ReelViews, 07.29.2011
This is the sort of film that Oscar generally ignores come awards season. It shouldn't. Crazy Stupid Love is a crazy smart film.Tom Long, Detroit News, 07.29.2011


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Here's the thing about raw denim: after months and months of wear key areas like the crotch and back pockets can blow out, and your hard-earned fades and whiskers can seem like a lost cause.
Thankfully, Andrew Chen of Self Edge New York can help. The shop repairs jeans through a process called "darning." It's way more durable than a patch and essentially creates new fabric and weaves it into the old denim, creating a more natural look that gets better with age.
You can't do this just anywhere — Self Edge is one of the few places equipped with a 1950s Singer Darning Machine.
Check out how they can make your favorite pair of jeans last longer as Andrew walks us through darning process.


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Monster Jam® roars into IZOD Center in East Rutherford for three action-packed events!
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Wait. Why is Alanis Morissette in trouble?
Whoa, yes!
I was thinking more… Katy Perry.
Um, no?
Congratulations McFeely for issuing this nugget of comedy genius.
I will kiss ass too, I tip my hat to this comment.
Charlie Sheen has some recent openings in the whore department, plus having her stand next to him in court could be a real feather in his cap at the next child custody hearing.
Yeah seriously. Her life is over.
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Going beyond just regular banking, for a discerning client like you, we bring you a concept that is first of its kind in India. Enjoy a boutique banking experience, discover a wide range of banking and investment products, and feel pampered with our various value-added privileges. And what's more, these exclusive branches are designed especially for our Priority Banking customers.
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Darren Stevenson of South Park, Ethan Cardone of Ohio Township and Robert Arasin of Swissvale were taken into custody and arraigned.
Detective Lynn Havelka, a member of the Crimes Against Children Task Force, initiated the investigations against Mr. Stevenson and Mr. Cardone last year and against Mr. Arasin in February.
In each case, police found child porn on their computers during searches.
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Barack Obama: A life in pictures
Published On: Aug 01 2014 02:48:49 PM EDT Updated On: Aug 31 2014 02:00:00 AM EDT
Happy Birthday, Mr. President! Barack Obama turns 53 today. Look back at his life in pictures.
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November 27, 2015
There are only a few days left for seniors to sign up for the new Medicare prescription program. The sign up deadline is this Monday May 15. A poll shows that close to half of seniors surveyed aren't convinced the plan is a good one.
When asked if the Medicare prescription program was working forty-seven percent responded no. Thirty-percent said yes. President Bush finished up a tour earlier this week urging seniors to join the thirty one million people he says have already subscribed to the plan. Seniors can still sign up past the deadline; they will just pay more money.
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Today is the day I finally make the two winners known from the giveaway that was being held last week! The two lucky winners will be sent one set (12 cards) of the Mojo cards from Tranquil Space Designs.
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I just ran into this fairly old post on Channel 9. mstefan reported that his applications played a "Ding" noise when selecting an item in a listview (or tree) control.
It turns out that I'd had the problem independently reported to me by one of the people here at Microsoft. Here were his reproduction steps:
Complicating matters is that this didn't occur with many apps, just a couple of Windows Forms applications that the person at Microsoft had. So I dug into it a bit.
I quickly realized that the problem was that the application was calling PlaySound without the "SND_NODEFAULT" flag. I've written about this flag before (in fact I wrote that post shortly after investigating this issue, so that post contains part of the story).
Digging in deeper, I realized that the application was using version 5 of the common controls (there are two versions in Windows, v5 and v6). The problem didn't occur in the version 6 common controls (this is why most applications didn't reproduce the problem).
So why did the problem occur?
The common controls have a single routine which calls PlaySound and that code attempts to be somewhat clever. Instead of simply calling PlaySound, the code instead read the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\AppEvents\Schemes\.Default\CCSelect registry key. If the key didn't exist, it skipped calling PlaySound. If the CCSelect registry key existed, it would call PlaySound specifying the CCSelect alias.
I've actually run into this pattern a bunch in WIndows – teams decided that calling PlaySound was "too slow", or had "too much overhead" so they tried to avoid the call to PlaySound if the call to PlaySound wasn't going to do anything (once upon a time it was important to avoid calling PlaySound because it could sometimes hang your application for several seconds – this isn't the case any more if you specify SND_ASYNC).
The problem is that when you hit step 2 above (setting the "Select" sound), the control panel created the CCSelect registry key with a default value of the sound file you're setting. When you set it to "None" the control panel cleared the value of the sound contained under the key. But the key itself wasn't deleted. So the check above that checked for the registry key's existence succeeded and it called PlaySound. But because the call didn't specify SND_NODEFAULT, the PlaySound API decided to play the default sound when it realized that there wasn't a sound associated with the CCSelect alias.
I wanted to understand how this bug was introduced so I looked back at the source history of the file containing the bug. It turns out that this was actually a bug fix made to Windows XP that wasn't incorporated into Windows Server 2003. When Windows Vista was created, the team started with the Windows Server 2003 code base and incorporated all the bug fixes made since Windows XP forked into the Win2K3 code base. For whatever reason, this particular fix was missed when the team did the merge. Because the behavior was so subtle (to trigger the change you MUST go through steps 2 through 4 to get the registry key created and your app must use the v5 of the common controls).
Needless to say, it's fixed in WIndows 7.
You should compliment whoever succeeded in figuring out the reproduction steps. Most users have a lot of difficulty backtracking and remembering the options they tweaked before doing something.
Scott, believe me I did. He gave me TS access to his machine in the repro state which helped.
So was the fix to, in PlaySound, detect the case when you have a blank registry key, or to make the code that clears the select sound not just clear the key but delete it?
My intuition is that the latter is the more robust solution, but my inner paranoid programmer says that there may be other parts of Windows, or third party apps, which rely on that registry key being blank in that case and that a localised fix would be safer.
jMarkP: No, the fix was in the v5 common controls - that's where the bug was.
PlaySound was behaving exactly as designed. The problem was that the v5 common controls thought they should call PlaySound but they shouldn't.
Actually, I had this with XNews (a newsreader written in Delphi).
Mihai: Did it use the v5 common controls?
I've actually experienced this same problem on my Vista machine, and I'm trying (in vain, currently) to remember the application that caused it. As I can recall, it used a checkbox list and clicking anywhere in the list would result in a little ding! sound.
The two things that stand out, however, is that I've never set a sound for the Select event (it has always had it's default empty value) and I don't believe it was a WinForms app (though I could be wrong). If I can remember, maybe I'll reply to myself here.
A followup question if I might: this leads to something I've wondered for a while about Microsoft patching. You said this problem is fixed in Win7, which is good, but since you've identified the problem, why not fix it in Vista as well (some kind of non-critical update)? Is it just a matter of not allocating the testing resources for a non-critical problem?
Nick, feel free to report the problem to Microsoft. Let customer support know that the bug exists in Vista and is fixed in Windows 7 and ask for a hotfix.
In general the bar for taking fixes after we RTM is fairly high - almost as high as bar was at RTM (because there are extremely limited opportunities to test the fix). As such it's highly unlikely that such a cosmetic fix would be included in a hotfix.
Thanks for the reply Larry. It's obviously not a big deal, I was just wondering what the primary reason was for not fixing a bug once you discover cause and solution. I suppose a big part is probably that since Windows (n+1) has just been released, there isn't much reason or incentive to fix minor issues in Windows (n).
For what it's worth, the troublesome application was TrueCrypt. It uses listboxes (SysListView32) which ding! in response to clicks. The most obvious is the list view containing drive letters in the main window. I'll have to try it on Win7 tomorrow and see if it's fixed.
The best part about reading MSDN blogs like yours and Raymond's is the "So THAT'S why that happened six months ago!" factor you get now and then. The TrueCrypt dinging was a really odd behavior that got me wondering as to the cause. And now I know the rest of the story :)
Nick: That's close - in general non-security bugs found in version <n> that are also in version <n-1> aren't marked for back porting to older versions of the OS.
Once we ship a version of Windows, maintenance shifts from the product development team to another team and that other team decides the bar for making fixes. They triage all the bugs that we indicated might require back porting against their internal bug bar. This bug WAS marked for backporting and I don't know what the maintenance team decided to do with it.
Hmm, am I just being paranoid or this bugfix won't be backported?
Me: It will be backported if there is sufficient reason to backport the bug. But the justification has to be very compelling (think security or data corruption). This bug is quite annoying but doesn't come close to that level.
Windows is no different from any other major OS. The OS vendors (including Red Hat and Canonical) don't tend to backport fixes to older versions of their OS. Sure on *nix you can back port the fix yourself but when you do that, you kiss your support goodbye.
My favorite case of missing SND_NODEFAULT flag is the tray volume control in 2000/XP. Being GUI sound hater as I am, I always choose "No Sounds" scheme. Since the default ding (which the volume control is playing when you move it) is missing, it gets redirected to beep.sys, which is pretty amusing and annoying. I'll have to just use an empty WAV file for a default sound.
Larry, I hope this works OK in Vista/Win7 tray volume control. I havent checked that yet.
So they horribly broke backward compatibility with a silly "ding" sound every time someone clicks an item in a listview.
If you are a developer with an app that "dings" WHATS THE FIX????
Doug: Your idea of "horribly" is very different from my idea of "horribly". Remember that this only affects apps which don't use the v6 version of the common controls, that's a relatively small set of apps.
There are two solutions: 1) Use the v6 version of the common controls (you probably want to do that anyway) or 2) mung with the registry to work around the bug (you need to be very careful if you do that to avoid screwing over user choices).


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the comments are going off, I would of commented sooner but I was vomiting at the Dair kiss. Here comes the relapse.
The Rufus and Vanessa show back for season 2
Dan: To cut, or not to cut. That is the question.
Dan: This may be the first time I am more overdressed than Blair Waldorf
The Scientific reaction of a few too many Coctails!
The Hangover 3..?
@annomomus im ashuming your a Dair fan.
Looks like our annual BS Catfight has arrived.
Her last Decent Valentines day. And it looks like Blair is trying to recreate that. Hense the reason why her and Dan are in there uniforms :)
I agree with what you said about Blair this season. She is just a shell of the person that she was in season 1. She is whiny, and can't make a decision. Then she is left feeling sorry for herself. I have absolutly no sympathy for her.


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Colossal Squid Vs Sperm Whale
There is a battle raging right now between two of Earth's greatest titans. Somewhere, in the murky depths of our planet's final frontier, an intense fight for survival is being waged between the Colossal Squid and the Sperm Whale…
The Contenders:
The Colossal Squid:
"In the red corner, weighing in at a massive 495 kg (1,000 lb), reaching an incredible 14 metres (46ft) long, and boasting the largest eyes in the entire animal kingdom, the amazing, the LEGENDARY… Colossal Squuiiiiid!!!"
Calamari anyone?
Thought once to be a creature of myth, the Colossal Squid wasn't officially discovered until 1925 when a pair of tentacles were discovered in the stomach of a sperm whale. Although giant squid have been known to exist since the days of Aristotle, these two tentacles had a distinguishing property all previously observed squid lacked. Along with the powerful suckers and small teeth found on all giant squid, the Colossal Squid is also armed with sharp, multi-pronged hooks. It's sharp beak is also the largest and most robust of any squid.
An ambush predator that spends its days in depths of up to 2,200m, much of the Colossal Squid's way of life is still shrouded in mystery. As of 1999 there had only been 188 reported sightings of this creature worldwide.
The Sperm Whale:
"In the Blue Corner, weighing in at a jaw dropping 57,000 kilograms (63 ST), the largest toothed animal in existence at a ridiculous 20.5 metres (67 ft), the defending heavy-weight champion of the world… the Sperm Whaaale!!!"
Look at the size of that Moby Dick.
The Sperm Whale has a much longer history of human interaction than the giant squid. Often hunted by whalers for its oil and other products, the sperm whale has been noted to use its massive size to fight off whaling vessels. The most notable occasion (and also the inspiration for Herman Melville's Moby Dick) was the sinking of the American whaleship Essex in 1820.
An aggressive predator, the sperm whale can dive up to 2km to feast on various deep sea fish and squid including giant squid and the little known megamouth shark.
The Battle
"LLLeeets Get Ready to RUUUUMMMMBBBBBLLLEEEEE!!!!"
Unfortunately for the Colossal Squid, the sperm whale is the stronger by far in this battle of the deep. Diving deeper than 6,000ft in search of prey, the Colossal Squid seems like a promising meal to the goliath sperm whale.
The first tool in the squid's defense however are its enormous eyes. Used mainly for predator location, the squid waits in ambush for smaller prey, while keeping a vigilant eye out for impending death from above.
The sperm whale is no amateur of course and it's possible that it uses a structure in its mouth called (seriously) monkey lips to create a clicking noise of over 230 decibels (the loudest sound produced by any animal) for the sole purpose of stunning the squid from a distance.
The battle could go down in the way this very anticlimactic clip shows.
As the sperm whale moves in for the kill, the Colossal Squid would have no choice but to bust out its second line of defense, shooting a cloud of black ink into the whale's face in a last ditch attempt to avoid confrontation.
Of course, the sperm whale hunts through echolocation, meaning the blinding ink would do little to distract it from its target.
The Colossal Squid's last hope is to latch onto the whale with its giant tentacles and inflict as much pain as possible with it's powerful teethed suckers and razor sharp hooks. The whale answers back with its own sharp teeth and powerful jaw…


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Moto VE240 comes to Cricket, MetroPCS
updated 10:25 am EST, Fri November 14, 2008
MOTO VE240 announced
Cellphone manufacturer Motorola on Friday announced the new MOTO VE240 handset will soon be available to Cricket Communications and Metro PCS customers. The candy-bar phone promises to bring with it stereo Bluetooth support and MP3 capability with dedicated music keys. The VE240 has a microSD slot, enabling users to add up to 4GB of memory to the handset. Other than via wireless or wired headphones, the built-in speakerphone can playback music, which users transfer to the handset via a USB 2.0 connection.
The VE240 will be available from Cricket Communications in Tulsa on November 15th, spreading to a wider launch at both Cricket and MetroPCS in the next few weeks. Pricing information has not been announced.


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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|Anthem: Independent, Neutral, Turkmenistan State Anthem
"Garaşsyz, Bitarap Türkmenistanyň Döwlet Gimni"
(and largest city)
|Official language(s)
|Language of interethnic
|Ethnic groups (2003)
|Turkmen 85%
Uzbek 5%
Russian 4%
other 6%
|Presidential republic Single-party state
|Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow
|from the Soviet Union
|27 October 1991
|25 December 1991
|491,210 km2 [1](52nd)
188,456 sq mi
|Water (%)
|2009 estimate
|5,110,000[2] (112th)
|10.5/km2 (208th)
27.1/sq mi
|2010 estimate
|$36.047 billion[3]
|Per capita
|0.669[4] (medium) (87th)
|Turkmen new manat (
|Time zone
|Summer (DST)
|not observed (UTC+5)
|Drives on the
|ISO 3166 code
|Internet TLD
|Calling code
Turkmenistan's GDP growth rate of 11% in 2010 ranks 4th in the world, but these figures are subject to wide margins of error.[5] It possesses the world's fourth largest reserves of natural gas resources. Although it is wealthy in natural resources in certain areas, most of the country is covered by the Karakum (Black Sand) Desert.
The Turkmen government operates as a single-party system.[6] Turkmenistan was ruled by President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov (called "Türkmenbaşy" — "leader of the Turkmens") until his sudden death on 21 December 2006. Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov was elected the new president on 11 February 2007.
[edit] History
Main article: History of TurkmenistanThe territory of Turkmenistan has a long and checkered history, as armies from one empire after another decamped there on their way to more prosperous territories. The region's written history begins with its conquest by the Achaemenid Empire of ancient Persia, as the region was divided between the satrapies of Margiana, Khorezm and Parthia.[citation needed]
Alexander the Great conquered the territory in the 4th century BC on his way to Central Asia, around the time that the Silk Road was established as a major trading route between Asia and the Mediterranean Region.[citation needed]
Approximately 80 years later, Persia's Parthian Kingdom established its capital in Nisa, now in the suburbs of the capital, Ashgabat. After replacement of the Parthian empire by Persian Sassanids, another native Iranian dynasty, the region remained territory of the Persian empire for several centuries.[7]
In the 7th century AD, Arabs conquered this region, introducing Islam. The Turkmenistan region soon came to be known as the capital of Greater Khorasan, when the caliph Al-Ma'mun moved his capital to Merv.[citation needed]
Turkoman-ruled Seljuk Empire concentrated its strength in the territory of modern Turkmenistan in an attempt to expand into Khorasan (modern Afghanistan). The empire broke down in the second half of the 12th century, and the Turkmen lost their independence when Genghis Khan took control of the eastern Caspian Sea region on his march west.
For the next seven centuries, the Turkmen people lived under various empires and fought constant inter-tribal wars. Little is documented of Turkmen history prior to Russian engagement. However, from the 13th to the 16th centuries, Turkmen formed a distinct ethnolinguistic group[citation needed]. As the Turkmen migrated from the area around the Mangyshlak Peninsula in contemporary Kazakhstan toward the Iranian border region and the Amu Darya basin, tribal Turkmen society further developed cultural traditions that became the foundation of Turkmen national consciousness.[citation needed]
Between the 17th and 19th centuries, control of Turkmenistan was fought over by the rulers of Afghanistan, Persian Shahs, Khivan Khans and the Emirs of Bukhara. During this period, Turkmen spiritual leader Magtymguly Pyragy reached prominence with his efforts to secure independence and autonomy for his people. In 1885, the Russian forces seized the Afghan territory of the Panjdeh oasis (around modern-day Serhetabat in Turkmenistan) during the Panjdeh Incident.
According to Paul R. Spickard, "Prior to the Russian conquest, the Turkmen were known and feared for their involvement in the Central Asian slave trade. The neighboring rural villages of Persia and Afghanistan were the main victims of Turkmen raids, in which groups of armed men on horseback would carry away captives to be sold in the slave markets of Khiva, Bukhara, and Mari."[8][9]
At this time, the vast territory of Central Asia including the region of Turkmenistan was largely unmapped and virtually unknown to Europe and the Western world. Rivalry for control of the area between the British Empire and Tsarist Russia was characterized as The Great Game. Throughout their conquest of Central Asia, the Russians were met with the stiffest resistance by the Turkmen. By 1894, however, Russia had gained control of Turkmenistan and incorporated it into its empire.
[edit] Soviet UnionThe rivalry officially concluded with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907. Slowly, Russian and European cultures were introduced to the area. This was evident in the architecture of the newly formed city of Ashgabat, which became the capital. The October Revolution of 1917 in Russia and the subsequent political unrest led to the declaration of the area as the Turkmen SSR, one of the six republics of the Soviet Union in 1924, assuming the borders of modern Turkmenistan.
Europeanization. The tribal Turkmen people were encouraged to become secular and adopt European-style clothing. The alphabet in use for the Turkmen language was changed from the traditional Arabic script to Latin and finally to Cyrillic (Niyazov later changed the alphabet back to a Latin-based one). However, bringing the Turkmens to abandon their previous nomadic ways in favor of communism was not fully embraced until as late as 1948. Nationalist organizations in the region also existed during the 1920s and the 1930s. The Ashgabat earthquake of 1948 killed over 110,000 people, amounting to 2/3s of the city's population.[10] The nation policies of the Soviet Union, particularly in the 1920s and 1930s, actually promoted "the invention of turkmen traditions".[11] Turkmen was enjoying preferable treatment in the Soviet administration and educational system and during the Stalin years the republic had become more national in form; Turkmen became the official language for example.[11]
[edit] IndependenceWhen the Soviet Union began to collapse, Turkmenistan and the rest of the Central Asian republics first heavily favored maintaining a reformed version of the state, mainly because they needed the economic power and common markets of the Soviet Union to prosper. Nevertheless, Turkmenistan declared independence on 27 October 1991,[12] albeit one of the last Soviet republics to secede. Turkmenistan gained official recognition on 25 December 1991, a day before the final dissolution of the Soviet Union. Turkmenistan joined the U.N. the following year.
In 1991, Turkmenistan became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States, an international organization of former Soviet republics. However, Turkmenistan reduced its status in the organization to "associate member" in August 2005. The reason stated by the Turkmen president was the country's policy of permanent neutrality.[13]
The former leader of the Turkmen Soviet Socialist Republic, Saparmurat Niyazov, remained in power as Turkmenistan's leader after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Under his post-Soviet rule, Russian-Turkmen relations greatly suffered.[citation needed] He styled himself as a promoter of traditional Muslim and Turkmen culture (calling himself "Türkmenbaşy", or "leader of the Turkmen people"), but he became notorious in the West for his dictatorial rule and extravagant cult of personality. The extent of his power greatly increased during the early 1990s, and in 1999 he became President for Life.
Niyazov died unexpectedly on 21 December 2006.
In an election on 11 February 2007, Berdimuhamedow was elected president with 89% of the vote and 95% turnout. He was sworn in on 14 February 2007.
[edit] Politics
Main article: Politics of TurkmenistanSoviet Union (including 67 years as a union republic), Turkmenistan declared its independence on 27 October 1991.
President for Life Saparmurat Niyazov, a former bureaucrat of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, ruled Turkmenistan from 1985, when he became head of the Communist Party of the Turkmen SSR, until his death in 2006. He retained absolute control over the country after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. On 28 December 1999, Niyazov was declared President for Life of Turkmenistan by the Mejlis (parliament), which itself had taken office a week earlier in elections that included only candidates hand-picked by President Niyazov. No opposition candidates were allowed.
Since the December 2006 death of Niyazov, Turkmenistan's leadership made tentative moves to open up the country. His successor, President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, repealed some of Niyazov's most idiosyncratic policies, including banning opera and the circus for being "insufficiently Turkmen". In education, Berdimuhamedow's government had increased basic education to ten years from nine years, and higher education had been extended from four years to five. He has also increased contacts with the West, which is eager for access to the country's natural gas riches - but fears were mounting[when?] that the government would revert to Niyazov's draconian style of rule.[citation needed]
The politics of Turkmenistan take place in the framework of a presidential republic, with the President both head of state and head of government. Under Niyazov, Turkmenistan had a single-party system; however, in September 2008, the People's Council unanimously passed a resolution adopting a new Constitution. The latter resulted in the abolition of the Council and a significant increase in the size of Parliament in December 2008. The new Constitution also permits the formation of multiple political parties.
The former Communist Party, now known as the Democratic Party of Turkmenistan, has been the only one effectively permitted to operate. Political gatherings are illegal unless government sanctioned.
[edit] Human rightsTurkmenistan has been widely criticised for human rights abuses and has imposed severe restrictions on foreign travel for its citizens.[14] Discrimination against the country's ethnic minorities remain in practice. Universities have been encouraged to reject applicants with non-Turkmen surnames, especially ethnic Russians.[15] It is forbidden to teach the customs and language of the Baloch, an ethnic minority. The same happens to Uzbeks, though the Uzbek language used to be taught in some national schools.[16]
According to Reporters Without Borders' 2011 World Press Freedom Index, Turkmenistan had the 3rd worst press freedom conditions in the world, behind North Korea and Burma. It is considered to be one of the "10 Most Censored Countries". Each broadcast under Niyazov began with a pledge that the broadcaster's tongue will shrivel if he slanders the country, flag, or president.[17]
[edit] Administrative divisions
Main articles: Provinces of Turkmenistan and Districts of Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan is divided into five provinces or welayatlar (singular welayat) and one capital city district. The provinces are subdivided into districts (etraplar, sing. etrap), which may be either counties or cities. According to the Constitution of Turkmenistan (Article 16 in the 2008 Constitution, Article 47 in the 1992 Constitution), some cities may have the status of welaýat (province) or etrap (district).
|Capital city
|Pop (2005)[18]
|Ashgabat City
|470 km2 (180 sq mi)
|Ahal Province
|97,160 km2 (37,510 sq mi)
|Balkan Province
|139,270 km2 (53,770 sq mi)
|Daşoguz Province
|73,430 km2 (28,350 sq mi)
|Lebap Province
|93,730 km2 (36,190 sq mi)
|Mary Province
|87,150 km2 (33,650 sq mi)
[edit] Climate
Main article: Climate of TurkmenistanIt is one of the driest deserts in the world, some places have an average annual precipitation of only 12 mm (0.47 in). The highest temperature recorded in Ashgabat is 48.0 °C (118.4 °F) and Kerki, an extreme inland city located on the banks of the Amu Darya river, recorded 51.7 °C (125.1 °F) in July 1983, although this value is unofficial. 50.1C is the highest temperature recorded at Repetek Reserve, recognized as the highest temperature ever recorded in the whole former Soviet Union.[citation needed]
[edit] Geography
Main articles: Geography of Turkmenistan and List of mountains of TurkmenistanSpain and somewhat larger than the US state of California. It lies between latitudes 35° and 43° N, and longitudes 52° and 67° E.
Over 80% of the country is covered by the Karakum Desert. The center of the country is dominated by the Turan Depression and the Karakum Desert. The Kopet Dag Range, along the southwestern border, reaches 2,912 meters (9,553 ft) at Kuh-e Rizeh (Mount Rizeh).[19]
The Great Balkhan Range in the west of the country (Balkan Province) and the Köýtendag Range on the southeastern border with Uzbekistan (Lebap Province) are the only other significant elevations. The Great Balkhan Range rises to 1,880 metres (6,170 ft) at Mount Arlan[20] and the highest summit in Turkmenistan is Ayrybaba in the Kugitangtau Range – 3,137 metres (10,292 ft).[21] Rivers include the Amu Darya, the Murghab, and the Tejen.
The climate is mostly arid subtropical desert, with little rainfall. Winters are mild and dry, with most precipitation falling between January and May. The area of the country with the heaviest precipitation is the Kopet Dag Range.
The Turkmen shore along the Caspian Sea is 1,768 kilometres (1,099 mi) long. The Caspian Sea is entirely landlocked, with no access to the ocean.
The major cities include Aşgabat, Türkmenbaşy (formerly Krasnovodsk) and Daşoguz.
[edit] Economy
Main articles: Economy of Turkmenistan and Agriculture in TurkmenistanThe country possesses the world's fourth-largest reserves of natural gas and substantial oil resources.[22] In 1994, the Russian government's refusal to export Turkmen gas to hard currency markets, and mounting debts of its major customers, in the former Soviet Union, for gas deliveries, contributed to a sharp fall in industrial production, and caused the budget to shift, from a surplus to a slight deficit. Half of the country's irrigated land is planted with cotton, making the country the world's tenth-largest cotton producer.[citation needed]
Turkmenistan has taken a cautious approach to economic reform, hoping to use gas and cotton sales to sustain its economy. In 2004, the unemployment rate was estimated to be 60%.[5]
Between 1998 and 2002, Turkmenistan suffered from the continued lack of adequate export routes for natural gas and from obligations on extensive short-term external debt. At the same time, however, the value of total exports has risen sharply because of increases in international oil and gas prices. Economic prospects in the near future are discouraging because of widespread internal poverty and the burden of foreign debt.[citation needed]
President Niyazov spent much of the country's revenue on extensively renovating cities, Ashgabat in particular. Corruption watchdogs voiced particular concern over the management of Turkmenistan's currency reserves, most of which are held in off-budget funds such as the Foreign Exchange Reserve Fund in the Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt, according to a report released in April 2006 by London-based non-governmental organization Global Witness.
According to the decree of the Peoples' Council of 14 August 2003,[23] electricity, natural gas, water and salt will be subsidized for citizens up to 2030. In addition car drivers are entitled to 120 litres of free petrol a month. Drivers of buses, lorries and tractors can get 200 litres of fuel and motorcyclists and scooter riders 40 litres free. On 5 September 2006, after Turkmenistan threatened to cut off supplies, Russia agreed to raise the price it pays for Turkmen natural gas from $65 to $100 per 1,000 cubic meters. Two-thirds of Turkmen gas goes through the Russian state-owned Gazprom.[24]
[edit] Natural gas and export routesThe latest study in May 2011 stated that the South lolotan gas field is now easily as the world's second-largest gas field in terms of gas-in-place. The estimated reserves at South lolotan was about 21 trillion cubic metres.[25] The Turkmenistan Natural Gas Company (Türkmengaz), under the auspices of the Ministry of Oil and Gas, controls gas extraction in the country. Gas production is the most dynamic and promising sector of the national economy. In 2010 Ashgabat started a policy of diversifying export routes for its raw materials.[26] China is set to become the largest buyer of gas from Turkmenistan over the coming years as a pipeline linking the two countries, through Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, reaches full capacity.[27] In addition to supplying Russia, China and Iran, Ashgabat took concrete measures to accelerate progress in the construction of the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan and India pipeline (TAPI). Turkmenistan has previously estimated the cost of the project at $3.3 billion. On 21 May, president Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov unexpectedly signed a decree stating that companies from Turkmenistan will build an internal East-West gas pipeline allowing the transfer of gas from the biggest deposits in Turkmenistan (Dowlatabad and Yolotan) to the Caspian coast. The East-West pipeline is planned to be around 1,000 km long and have a carrying capacity of 30 bn m³ annually, at a cost of between one and one and a half billion US dollars.[26]
[edit] OilMost of Turkmenistan's oil is extracted by the Turkmenistan State Company (Concern) Türkmennebit from fields at Koturdepe, Balkanabat, and Chekelen near the Caspian Sea, which have a combined estimated reserve of 700 million tons. The oil extraction industry started with the exploitation of the fields in Cheleken in 1909 (by Nobel brothers) and Balkanabat in the 1930s, then production leaped ahead with the discovery of the Kumdag field in 1948 and the Koturdepe field in 1959. Big part of the oil produced in Turkmenistan is refined in Turkmenbashy and Seidi refineries. Also, oil is exported by tankers through Caspian Sea to Europe via canals.[28]
[edit] EnergyTurkmenistan is a net exporter of electrical power to Central Asian republics and southern neighbors. The most important generating installations are the Hindukush Hydroelectric Station, which has a rated capacity of 350 megawatts, and the Mary Thermoelectric Power Station, which has a rated capacity of 1,370 megawatts. In 1992, electrical power production totaled 14.9 billion kilowatt-hours.[29]
[edit] AgricultureHalf of the country's irrigated land is planted with cotton, making the country the world's tenth-largest producer.[citation needed]
[edit] Demographics
Main article: Demographics of TurkmenistanMost of Turkmenistan's citizens are ethnic Turkmens with sizeable minorities of Uzbeks and Russians. Smaller minorities include Kazakhs, Tatars, Ukrainians, Armenians, Azeris, and Balochis. The percentage of ethnic Russians dropped from 18.6% in 1939 to 9.5% in 1989.[30]
The CIA World Factbook gives the ethnic composition of Turkmenistan as 85% Turkmen, 5% Uzbek, 4% Russian and 6% other (2003 estimates).[5] According to data announced in Ashgabat in February 2001, 91% of the population are Turkmen, 3% are Uzbeks and 2% are Russians. Between 1989 and 2001 the number of Turkmen in Turkmenistan doubled (from 2.5 to 4.9 million), while the number of Russians dropped by two-thirds (from 334,000 to slightly over 100,000).[31]
[edit] LanguageTurkmen is the official language of Turkmenistan (per the 1992 Constitution), although Russian still is widely spoken in cities as a "language of inter-ethnic communication". Turkmen is spoken by 72% of the population, Russian 12%, Uzbek 9%, and other languages 7%.[5]
[edit] Religion
Further information: Religion in Turkmenistan, Islam in Turkmenistan, and Bahá'í Faith in TurkmenistanCIA World Factbook, Muslims constitute 89% of the population while 9% of the population are followers of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the remaining 2% religion is reported as non-religious.[5] However, according to a 2009 Pew Research Center report, 93.1% of Turkmenistan's population is Muslim.[32] Islam came to the Turkmen primarily through missionary activities. Missionaries were holy men and they often were adopted as patriarchs of particular clans or tribal groups, thereby becoming their "founders." Reformulation of communal identity around such figures accounts for one of the highly localized developments of Islamic practice in Turkmenistan.
In the Soviet era, all religious beliefs were attacked by the communist authorities as superstition and "vestiges of the past." Most religious schooling and religious observance were banned, and the vast majority of mosques were closed. However, since 1990, efforts have been made to regain some of the cultural heritage lost under Soviet rule.
Former president Saparmurat Niyazov ordered that basic Islamic principles be taught in public schools. More religious institutions, including religious schools and mosques, have appeared, many with the support of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Turkey. Religious classes are held in both schools and mosques, with instruction in Arabic language, the Qur'an and the hadith, and history of Islam.[33]
President Niyazov wrote his own religious text, published in separate volumes in 2001 and 2004, entitled the Ruhnama. The Turkmenbashi regime required that the book, which formed the basis of the educational system in Turkmenistan, be given equal status with the Quran (mosques were required to display the two books side by side). The book was heavily promoted as part of the former president's personality cult, and knowledge of the Ruhnama is required even for obtaining a driver's license.[34]
The history of Bahá'í Faith in Turkmenistan is as old as the religion itself, and Bahá'í communities still exist today.[35] The first Bahá'í House of Worship was built in Ashgabat at the beginning of the twentieth century. It was seized by the Soviets in the 1920s and converted to an art gallery. It was heavily damaged in the earthquake of 1948 and later demolished. The site was converted to a public park.[36]
[edit] Culture
Main article: Culture of TurkmenistanEducation is universal and mandatory through the secondary level, the total duration of which was earlier reduced from 10 to 9 years; with the new President it has been decreed that from the 2007–2008 school year on, mandatory education will be for 10 years.[citation needed]
- Akhal-Teke horse
- Yomut carpet
- Turkmen carpet
- Islam in Turkmenistan
- Merv
- Music of Turkmenistan
- Turkmen cuisine
[edit] Heritage
|Turkmenistan in the list of World Heritage Sites
|Date added
|Ancient Merv
|a major oasis-city in Central Asia, on the historical Silk Road
|unexcavated ruins of the 12th-century capital of Khwarezm
|Parthian Fortresses of Nisa
|Bagyr, Ahal Province
|one of the first capitals of the Parthians
[edit] Mass media
Further information: Communications in TurkmenistanThere are a number of newspapers and monthly magazines published in Turkmenistan. Turkmenistan currently broadcasts 6 national TV channels through satellite. They are Altyn asyr, Yashlyk, Miras, Turkmenistan(in 7 languages), Turkmen Owazy and Ashgabat. There are no commercial or private TV stations. Articles published by the state-controlled newspapers are heavily censored and written to glorify the state and its leader.
Internet services are the least developed in Central Asia. Access to internet services are provided by the government's ISP company "Turkmentelekom". It is estimated that in 2010 there are 80,400 internet users in Turkmenistan or roughly 1.6% of total population.[40][41]
[edit] See also
|Book: Turkmenistan
|Wikipedia books are collections of articles that can be downloaded or ordered in print.
- Outline of Turkmenistan
- Index of Turkmenistan-related articles
- Central Asian Union
- Foreign relations of Turkmenistan
- Geok Tepe
- Military of Turkmenistan
- Scouting in Turkmenistan
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Games, activities and bonding, is full of fun. When Coco Beach Island Resort celebrated "Employee's Day" last 18th of September 2013. The event was themed "United Colors of Coco Beach". Coco Beach Family were excited as they waited for this event to come. The first part of the event was held at the basketball court, were a prayer and inspirational message by Ma'am Connie. The Coco Family was divided in to four teams. Yellow, Blue, Green and Red. Each team started with cheering, so they can prepare themselves for the upcoming games. Each games helps them to improve communication and teamwork with fun and style.
First game is Hula-Hoop Relay. Each team formed a connected line and pass the hula-hoop. Next game is pass the Hollen or Marble. Teams will pass the hollen (marbles) to their teammates by using bamboo sticks only. Then the Wood Relay, five members on each teams, and they have to move the wood by their feet.
Afternoon Games is adrenalin rush, as effort was exerted with Marshmallow Relay, Catch the Tail, Pool Relay and Obstacle Race. Coco Family built a strong bond after this event. The games made a tighter relationships with each other and understand. After all the games. Ms. Liezel, a Zumba instructress leads everybody at the beach. As the Coco Family danced to the beat with Zumba.
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PRINCESS ANNE, Md. - Casey Morton (Mardela Springs, Md.) tied her career high with 24 points on 7-for-13 shooting to lead three players in double figures as the University of Maryland Eastern Shore rolled to a 69-52 win over Bethune-Cookman at the William P. Hytche Athletic Center Monday.
Morton added four rebounds, four steals and three assists to help UMES (5-11, 2-2 MEAC) to its third win in four games. B-CU, which received 17 points from Jasmine Elum and 16 from Jasmine Daniels, fell to 8-8 overall and 2-3 in the conference with the loss.
The win marked the first two-game sweep of Florida A&M and Bethune-Cookman since the 2008-09 season when the Lady Hawks defeated FAMU (45-38) and B-CU (72-65) in succession on Feb. 21-23, 2009 in the Sunshine State.
It is also the second time this season Morton has tied her career high. The senior also had 24 points in a 64-60 loss to American at the Hytche Center on Jan. 2.
Kwinnyata Mercer (Mount Vernon, N.Y.) and Chelsea Sanders (Rochester, N.Y.) recorded 11 points apiece. Both Morton and Mercer were a 3-for-3 from 3-point range and UMES finished 7-of-10 from distance.
A choppy game, it featured a combined 51 personal fouls, four technical fouls and 40 turnovers.
Down, 10-9, on an Amanda Hairston layup with 13:15 remaining in the half, UMES engineered an 11-0 run to go up 20-10, and didn't look back. Bria Jackson (Rochester, N.Y.) and Sanders led the way with four each in the spurt while a Mercer trey punctuated the stretch at the 8:48 mark.
Cleniece Roberts halted the run with a layup and transition but UMES scored the next eight for its biggest lead of the half. Jackson's 3-pointer made it a 28-12 game with 3:40 before the break.
B-CU responded with a 14-4 run of its own to close the half within six at 32-26. Daniels had six in the stretch, which got the Lady Wildcats back in it.
A pair of Elum free throws in the first 30 seconds of the second half cut the UMES lead to four but the Lady Hawks scored tallied an 11-4 run to restore a double-digit edge, 43-32, on another Mercer bucket from downtown from the corner, assisted by Morton, with less than four minutes gone.
Bethune-Cookman cut the deficit to 45-44 over a 3:54 span as UMES missed all three shots from the floor it took and committed four turnovers. B-CU got six from Elum to get as close as it would the rest of the day.
Morton scored the Lady Hawks next four points to ignite a 14-0 run, as Bethune-Cookman was held off the scoreboard for 6:25 until Daniel hit a jumper with 5:43 to go.
The Lady Hawks shot 34.9 percent (18-for-41) and the Lady Wildcats were held to 37.8 percent (17-of-45). UMES converted 21 B-CU turnovers into 29 points and also won the rebounding battle, 34-30.
UMES has Tuesday off before getting right back at it when the Lady Hawks host Savannah State Wednesday at 6 p.m. SSU topped UMES, 71-50, on Jan. 5.