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How To: Invite ALL of Your Facebook Friends to Google Plus At Once
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Using a neat little trick, I managed to send everyone on my Facebook friend list a Google+ invite. In this post, I'll show you how to do that. It's actually quite simple. If you don't have a GMail account, this will still work for small amounts of contacts, but you need to use a GMail account to process and invite all of your contacts at once. First, if you don't already have a Yahoo account, sign up for one. Otherwise, sign in and go to Yahoo Mail. The reason this works is because Yahoo and Facebook have some kind of partnership. Once logged in, go to the "Contacts" tab. Click "Import Contacts", and choose the "Facebook" option. Allow Yahoo access to your Facebook contacts. On my account, it only imported 100 contacts the first time. After the second try, I had all 257 of my Facebook contacts imported. Now that you have your contacts imported, go back to the "Contacts" tab. Click "Actions", and choose "Export All…". When asked, export as a "Yahoo! CSV" file, and remember where you saved that. You will need it later. Now go to Google Contacts. Create a new group called "Facebook". Once you have a "Facebook" group, click the "Import" link on the upper right of the page. Select the Yahoo .csv file, and make sure to choose to import it into the newly created "Facebook" group. Now that you have all of your contacts imported, if you don't have GMail, select all of your contacts and choose "Email", otherwise go to GMail and login to that. In GMail, click "Contacts" and then click the "Facebook" group. Click the checkbox above the list of contacts to select them all at once. Now click the "Email" button. You will now see all of your contacts in the "To" field of GMail or your email client. Copy the entire list, and paste it into the Google+ invite form. Click invite. Congratulations, you just invited all of your Facebook friends to join Google+.


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Agnes Miller Parker, 1895 - 1980. Artist Dated 1925
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William McCance moved to London in 1919 or 1920 with his wife, Agnes Miller Parker. This portrait of his wife is rendered in the vorticist style, with angular forms accentuated by shading in black chalk. McCance was one of very few Scottish artists to follow the Vorticism path. Miller Parker was herself an artist and had, like McCance, trained at Glasgow School of Art. She went on to become a well-known wood engraver and book illustrator.

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Mayor Anthony Silva was elected in November, 2012. He was born and raised in Stockton, graduating from Lincoln High School and Humphrey's College. Anthony is a single father of eight-year-old Caden Silva.
He has served as the President and Chief Executive Officer for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Stockton for the past six years. In 2013, the Boys & Girls Club of Stockton will be celebrating 50 years of service in our community.
From 2004 to 2008, Mayor Silva served as a member of the Stockton Unified District Board of Education and was appointed Board President in 2006 and 2007. He has also served as a City of Stockton Parks & Recreation Commissioner.
Mayor Silva has a passion for helping youth and, as a result, he sits on many local non-profit Board of Directors, including: Stockton Silver Lake Camp, Miss San Joaquin and the East Stockton Yellowjackets.
Mayor Silva has made it a priority to reduce the crime and violence in the City.
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The audio files below consist of the following: a blend of kick and overheads for each of the BDM01, the D112 and the D25 with the Yamaha kick drum (files 01-03, respectively). Then, leaving the D25 in place, I moved the BDM01 to the centre-of-kit position (04), and then to the snare (05). There are clips of the BDM01 on the Ludwig drum, both solo'd (06) and with overheads (07-08), and then isolated close-mic examples for the same drum using the D112, D25 and BDM01 (files 09-11, respectively). Finally, I've included a short sample from the bass (12). All these files were tracked using API 312 preamps to Pro Tools, via an SSL converter. There's no equalisation or compression, but I have removed unused headroom and converted the files from 24 bit to 16 bit.
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Door Graffiti
Use chalk to decorate with names, words, doodles and spontaneous drawings and have friends add to it when they visit.
Designed by Craft Marketing Connections, Inc. courtesy of Elmer's.
Material List
- Elmer's® Foam Board™, (3) sheets, Black, 20" x 30" x 3/16"
- Colored sidewalk chalk
- Matte spray sealer
- Transparent or masking tape
- Pencil
- Optional: chisel point (wide), permanent black marker
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Place each Foam Board™ horizontally, one above the other, on worktable or floor. (Wait to connect Foam Boards™ with tape until finished decorating, since it's easier to reach the middle Foam Board™ when drawing.) Use chalk to decorate with names, words, doodles and spontaneous drawings and have friends add to it when they visit, OR plan the designs as follows.
To plan designs, lightly sketch with pencil, purposely letting images run onto adjacent Foam Boards™. (This helps disguise the lines created by the separate Foam Boards™.) Use various colors of chalk to go over pencil lines, filling in some areas and leaving other areas black. Chalk smears easily so work from top, of top board, down – without getting your palm or arm into the chalked areas. If you "goof" and want to change a color, try going over it with another color. To return an area to black or to make black lines inside a chalked-in area, use permanent black marker. If an area smears, use a soft tissue to carefully wipe away. (Note: An eraser will remove chalk, but because it may leave the black a lighter color, you may want to reapply another color chalk to disguise the lighter black.
When drawings are finished, in a well-ventilate area, test spraying with matte sealer to minimize smearing: Lightly spray a bottom corner of the bottom Foam Board™. (Note: When sprayed, chalk seems to disappear but as it dries, it reappears.) If test works and image in corner appears fine, lightly spray all three Foam Boards™. Let dry. (Note: Additional drawing may be done after spraying. Simply spray those areas when finished.)
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Path to F2P Dev Blog #18
By admin @ November 4, 2011 at 5:19pm
Space Skills Revision
With today's release on Tribble, we are proud to present to you the first step in a major overhaul of the STO skill system.
First, a big thanks to all those who participated in the forum thread we posted some weeks ago about this update. We received a lot of good feedback that we incorporated into this update. There was a lot of enthusiasm and excitement about the improvements, which encouraged us that we were on the right track. We hope everyone will find these changes to be big improvement to the game.
Second, a caveat. The changes that went to the Tribble test server today are the first revision of a very large overhaul. We fully anticipate bugs and balance problems. Nothing about the system is final, and we will be looking for your gameplay feedback. There is plenty of time for revisions, so we look forward to getting your feedback on the changes.
Coming with these changes will be a free respec. Technically it's not a respec token like we have done in the past—this one is not optional. When you log into the Tribble Test Server (and eventually on Holodeck when this goes live), all your skill selections will be reset and you must re-select all your skills.
This skill update is just the first step. Only space skills have been updated at this time. Ground skills remain unchanged, except 3 space skills were moved into the ground skill section. We plan on overhauling the ground skills after we get feedback on the space skill changes.
Let's go over why the skills are being revised. There are three main reasons for the changes:
- Starfleet/KDF Training skills kept players from changing ships – If you did spec into a Star Cruiser, you were discouraged from trying an Escort because you had to respec (or you had to spec your skills broadly and could not specialize if you wanted to change ships often).
- Tactical skills discouraged players from using anything but Phaser, Disruptors, Photons and Quantums – It has been too expensive to spec into skills like antiproton, since the skills cost almost twice as much for the same bonus.
- Skills are confusing – What the heck does Astometrics do anyway?! It has been very confusing to cross reference which skills are affecting which abilities.
Here what the skills changes will look like:
As mentioned earlier, we have only updated space skills. Once the dust settles, we will work on updating ground skills.
Here is an overview of the new ship skill list:
Tier 1
- Starship Weapons Training – Improves all starship weapon damage.
- Batteries – Increases duration of battery consumables.
- Starship Hull Repair – Improves all Hull Healing abilities. Also improves Hull Regeneration rate (regeneration modified by percentage of alive crew).
- Emitters – Improves all Shield Heal abilities.
- Flow Capacitors – Improves all Shield Draining and Energy Draining abilities.
Tier 2
- Starship Energy Weapons Training – Improves all starship energy weapon damage (Beams and Cannons).
- Starship Projectile Weapons Training – Improves all starship projectile weapon damage (Torpedoes and Mines).
- Starship Subsystem Repair – Decreases the time it takes to get your subsystems back online (modified by percentage of alive crew).
- Starship Warp Core Efficiency – Adds bonus power to all subsystems when power is low in that subsystem.
- Structural Integrity – Adds bonus Ship HP.
- Shield Systems – Adds Shield HP.
- Power Insulators – Adds Resistance to Energy Drain and Shield Drain attacks.
Tier 3
- Targeting Systems – Improves Accuracy.
- Starship Maneuvers – Improves Defense.
- Electro-Plasma System – Improves Energy Transfer Rate. Improves abilities that grant power (e.g. Emergency Power to X).
- Starship Warp Core Potential – Bonus power to all systems.
- Impulse Thrusters – Improves Speed and Turn Rate.
- Graviton Generators – Improves Knock/Repel and Slow abilities (e.g. Tractor Beam, Photonic Shockwave, Gravity Well).
- Particle Generators – Improves all Exotic damage (e.g. Damage from Photonic Shockwave, Feedback Pulse, Isometric Charge).
Tier 4
- Attack Patters – Improves all Attack Pattern abilities.
- Stealth – Improves Stealth and Cloak.
- Starship Engine Performance – Adds bonus Engine Power.
- Starship Shield Performance – Adds bonus Shield Power.
- Hull Plating – Adds Energy Damage Resistance.
- Sensors – Improves Stealth Detection. Adds Resistance to Confuse and Placate.
- Inertial Dampeners – Adds Resistance to Holds, Disables, Knock and Slows.
Tier 5
- Energy Weapon Specialization – Improves energy weapon critical hit chance and critical severity.
- Projectile Weapon Specialization – Improves projectile weapon critical hit chance and critical severity.
- Starship Auxiliary Systems Performance – Adds bonus Auxiliary Power.
- Starship Weapon Systems Performance – Adds bonus Weapon Power.
- Armor Reinforcements – Adds physical damage Resistance.
- Subspace Decompiler – Improves Hold and Disable abilities (including disabling of subsystems).
- Countermeasure Systems – Improves Confuse and Placate abilities.
Note that Engineering Team Leader, Science Team Leader, and Tactical Team Leader have been moved to the career specific trees (and renamed). They are still Tier 1 skills, and all classes will continue to have access to all 3 skills. These skills, however, may change once we begin the ground skill revisions.
We fully expect that this new system to have some bugs and balance issues. We look forward to your feedback and helping us fine-tune this system.
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Girls on the Run 5k 'Fun Run' Brings Participants (and Their Families) From Across the Western Slope to Town
TELLURIDE – On Saturday, Nov. 10, 250 girls will run through Telluride Town Park and west along the River Trail, in Telluride's first-ever Girls on the Run 5k "Fun Run."
Teams of girls ages 8-12 from Durango, Pagosa Springs, Dolores, Nucla, Naturita, Norwood, and Telluride, who all began their twice-a-week after-school training sessions when school started earlier this year, will gather at the Frances Warner Field, in town park, 9:30-10 a.m.
The nationwide Girls on the Run developmental youth sports program, headquartered in Fairfax, Va., is "committed to providing pre-adolescent girls with the necessary tools to embrace their individual strengths as they enter middle and high school." Founded in 1996, it has now grown to the Independent Council of Girls on the Run International, with a network of nearly 200 locations across the U.S. and Canada.
Its mission is to "inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running," and its core values include teaching girls to "power and responsibility," "intentional decision-making" and to embrace differences "and find strength in our connectedness."
Upon signing in on Saturday, the 250 girls "get their race numbers and their race swag," including long-sleeve T-shirts and beanies, says event organizer Nicole Stone-Lankes.
Stone-Lankes, who coordinates Girls on the Run programs for San Miguel County, organized its first chapter three years ago, after seeing her first Girls on the Run event in Montrose. Each participant pays $50, for ten weeks of twice-weekly training sessions that culminate in the this weekend's race.
Stone-Lankes has been busy, in recent weeks, gathering local discounts for racers and their families, including hotel room rentals ranging for $69-100.
On Saturday, from 10-11 a.m., the young athletes will do practice warm-ups and laps, with "energy awards" at the end of each warm-up for "those girls who do something outstanding," says Stone-Lankes, from "going up to a person who's having a bad day, for example, or saying, 'Good job – way to go!' more than the other girls."
Before the start of the event, coaches will lead athletes in adrenaline-building cheers along the lines of "Peel Bananas, Eat Bananas, Go Bananas!" says Stone-Lankes, with the trademark enthusiasm she brings to her work as a personal trainer and owner of 8750ALT, the Telluride Gym.
And then they're off, starting with a loop around Town Park, and then heading west on the San Miguel River Trail, girls an
Posters advertising the event emphasize that anyone wanting "to run, walk or skip to the finish line" is welcome to participate.
For more information, visit gotrwesterncolorado.org, or call Stone-Lankes at 970/708-0721.


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Who is the Arts Leadership Digital Classroom for?
The Arts Leadership Classroom is designed for arts leaders in all phases of their career who are looking to gain new skills in the particular topics of each classroom.
How much does it cost to register for the Arts Leadership Digital Classroom?
Registration for the Arts Leadership Digital Classroom for is $150 for Americans for the Arts members, $250 for nonmembers.
How many Arts Leadership Digital Classrooms are there? And what are the topics?
There will be 2 sessions of the Arts Leadership Digital Classroom in 2014 - one in the spring leading up to the Annual Convention, and one in the fall leading up to the National Arts Marketing Project Conference.
The Arts Leaders as Community Leaders (Arts Leadership Classroom 1 –Spring) will offer 4 sessions centered around how to be creative and knowledgeable ambassadors for the arts to the larger community.
- This Digital Classroom will particularly focus on communicating the public value of the arts to non-arts stakeholders, creative cross-sector partnerships, local-level advocacy training, and techniques for building grassroots support among both infrequent more steady arts-goers.
- The program will begin in March 2014 and will conclude just prior to the Annual Convention (and the associated Arts Leadership Preconference) in June 2014.
- Ready to learn more? Check out the Schedule or view the list of speakers!
Registration is now closed.
The Fall Arts Leadership Digital Classroom will offer 4 sessions centered around how to be effective communicators, marketers, and audience and community engagement professionals.
- This Digital Classroom will particularly focus on techniques for knowing your audience and how it compares to the larger community; issues of diversity, equity, and access to art; next generation audience engagement and marketing techniques; and basic communications and marketing skill building for today's arts ecosystem.
- The program will begin July 2014 and will conclude just prior to the National Arts Marketing Project Conference in November 2014.
- Check back for more information in Spring 2014!
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- An orientation webinar and closing call
- Four 60-minute webinars (one per month for four months)
- Four 60-minute discussion-section-style conference calls
- A full syllabus, reading list, and set of practical assignments to reinforce skills, as well as resources for further study of each subject
- A shared Wiki and Google listserv to enhance and maintain connections within the cohort of participants across the country
What do I earn upon completing the Digital Classroom?
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Improvements ahead for the North Georgia Athletic Complex
DAHLONEGA, GA - Thanks to the support of a few generous donors, North Georgia College & State University will break ground this summer on a new field house for its baseball and softball teams, phase one of a multi-year effort to upgrade and renovate the North Georgia Athletic Complex.
The vision is to create a world-class experience for players and fans of the North Georgia athletic teams by building much-needed facilities to support baseball, softball, soccer, and tennis.
In addition to the field house, plans call for a baseball and softball hitting facility with a viewing area, a field house and public restrooms for men's and women's soccer, a tennis center, and resurfacing all athletic fields. These improvements are estimated to cost $8 million when all elements are completed.
"This project is more than an effort to improve athletics facilities. It is about the continued development of the university as a regional academic and athletic power and its ability to continue to attract the best and brightest students," states President Bonita C. Jacobs. "I am convinced these improvements will move North Georgia forward."
In recent years, the Bob Stein Baseball Stadium and the Haines & Carolyn Hill Softball Stadium have undergone extensive renovation and upgrades to bring them up to standards for the Peach Belt Conference. While the university has first-rate stadiums, the athletic complex is lacking in basic infrastructure such as public bathrooms, dressing and training facilities, and a concessions area.
"Athletics is essential to help the university build community to support all of our endeavors," said Lindsay Reeves, director of athletics. "We have excellent student-athletes who compete at the highest levels and need facilities to match this."
The university has put significant resources over the years into these facilities and athletics in general.
The challenge is further compounded by the smaller size of the student population of North Georgia, when compared with other Peach Belt Conference schools, and limits to which the university can charge an athletic fee. With one of the highest fee rates in the University System of Georgia, North Georgia still falls short in athletics funding due to its size.
"The two essential elements for a winning athletic program are scholarships for student-athletes and facilities. A student-athlete visiting the campus on a recruiting trip considers both elements as they make the important decision as to where to attend university and compete athletically," Reeves said.
The need for additional facilities is apparent at each practice and on game days.
"Student-athletes currently dress out in their cars in the parking lot," Baseball Coach Tom Cantrell said. "Taping and treatments cannot be performed on site, thus creating logistical challenges during practice and games."
Since joining the NCAA and the Peach Belt Conference five years ago, North Georgia has been athletically competitive in the conference. North Georgia's teams continue to qualify for the conference tournaments and post season play. This year, both the women's soccer and men's tennis teams competed in the NCAA regional tournaments and both were nationally ranked. Also, the softball team participated in the NCAA World Series for three consecutive years.
"I am extremely proud of our student-athletes who continually excel both on the field and in the classroom," Reeves said. "These facility projects will afford our student athletes the opportunity to have locker rooms, receive athletic training treatment and prepare for game day at the site of their venues."
Phase 2 of the project will include the baseball/softball hitting facility with a viewing area, a field house and public restrooms for men's and women's soccer, and resurfacing all athletic fields. The final phase will include the construction of a tennis center.
As a separate project, a convocation center is on the master plan of the university to support academic programs, convocations and graduations, and other university and community uses, including serving as the home of North Georgia basketball. More information about this project will be released as plans are able to proceed.
If you are interested in supporting this important project or need additional information, contact Lindsay Reeves at 706-864-1625 or email@example.com.


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NewsPress Release: 10/05/01
BRATTLEBORO, VT - David Townsend of Longmeadow, Massachusetts, earned a Master of Science in Internet Strategy Management from the Persons School of Marlboro College.
Born and raised in Springfield, Townsend is the former president and owner of Alco Equipment, Inc. of Agawam. He renamed the business FleetPride and sold it as part of "a national roll-up of companies in the truck parts and service industry," according to Townsend. He was employed with Alco/FleetPride for 24 years.
Townsend currently plays many roles in his community. He is a member of the finance/budget committee for Baystate Health System Health Services; a member of the board of directors of The Greater Springfield YMCA; moderator of The First Church of Christ in Longmeadow; and chairman of the Berkshire chapter of the Young President's Organization.
Townsend was among 77 students receiving master's degrees from the Persons School's three programs in August 2001: 40 for the Master of Science in Internet Strategy Management, 23 for the Master of Internet Engineering, and 14 for the Master of Arts in Teaching with Internet Strategies.
To graduate from one of the Persons School's programs, students must complete a Capstone project, the equivalent of a traditional master's thesis. A Capstone project demonstrates the mastery of the interdisciplinary curriculum and the implementation of an innovative concept for the use of the Internet in an organizational or educational setting.
Townsend's Capstone team transformed a traditional, small, family-run business into a full e-commerce corporation.
According to Townsend, "The Persons School provided me an opportunity to gain much-needed knowledge about the Internet and the ways in which it can be used to enhance traditional and startup businesses. My Capstone project allowed me to work closely with SGM Productions, Inc., a business located in the Springfield Technical Community College incubator, that has developed a series of manipulative tools to be used to enhance the language and literacy skills of children. Our Capstone team work can be viewed at http://www.ahaprinciple.com."
Established in 1997, The Persons School of Marlboro College has
become nationally known for preparing individuals for the multidisciplinary
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and online for their studies.
For more information on The Persons School of Marlboro College, please call (802) 258-9200 or visit the college online at http://persons.marlboro.edu.


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Report Is In On Women In the Media
On November 10, 2009, groups in over 100 countries gathered to monitor their news media. United Methodist Women members and communication and culture students from Augusta State University in Augusta, Ga., took part in the monitoring. After months of planning, preparation and training they brought the Fourth Global Media Monitoring Project to life. Since media plays a vital role in shaping thoughts and narratives, media entails both a privilege and responsibility. Therefore it is important for the receivers of media messages and stories to monitor them in order to ensure that the stories represent multiple perspectives. This report focuses on the part that gender plays in media.
Global Context
The Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) is the world's longest running and most extensive research on gender in the news media. It began in 1995 when volunteers in 71 countries around the world monitored women's presence in their national radio, television and print news. The research revealed that only 17 percent of news subjects—the people who are interviewed or whom the news is about—were women. It found that gender parity was "a distant prospect in any region of the world. News [was] more often being presented by women but it [was] still rarely about women."
National Context
In the 173 news stories monitored in the United States, females comprised 27 percent of the news subjects, in contrast to 73 percent male news subjects. The findings show that women news subjects were present less than half as much as their male counterparts.
Women as Subject of News
- The overall presence of women as subjects in the news was 27 percent and men 73 percent.
- In news stories on politics and government, female subjects comprised 34 percent and men 66 percent.
- In social and legal news stories, women as subjects comprised 37 percent and men 63 percent.
- In economy, female subjects comprised 36 percent and men 64 percent.
- In news on celebrity, arts, media and sports, women subjects comprised 42 percent and men 58 percent.
- Women as sources of information about news or about news subjects constituted 29 percent and men 71 percent at the local news level.
- Women were poorly represented as lawyers, judges, magistrates, legal advocates and experts (7 percent) compared to men who made news as legal experts (93 percent).
- As businesspersons, executive managers and entrepreneurs, women made news far less (27 percent) than men (73 percent).
- As government officials, politicians, government authorities, political leaders and political party staff, women made news disproportionably (25 percent) less than men (75 percent).
- Women contributed to news as homemakers and parents far more often (81 percent) than men (19 percent).
Sex of Reporters of stories with Women as Central Focus
- Very few stories had women as the central focus. Three stories that had women as a central focus on the day of monitoring were celebrity news, births and marriages, which amounted to 43 percent of the stories on the topic.
- Two stories with women as the central focus were news coverage of beauty contests, models, fashion, beauty aids and cosmetic surgery (100 percent).
- News stories with women as a central focus were 20 percent of stories on arts, entertainment, leisure, cinema, theater, books and dance.
News Subjects
In the GMMP 2005 findings, the presence of women as subjects in the news was 27 percent. In GMMP 2010, among the 384 stories, 27 percent of news subjects were female. The findings of 2010 show that the ratio remains exactly the same as five years ago. Gender inequality in the news continues to persist.
Dr. Gaye Ortiz directed the monitoring in her Communication and Culture class at Augusta State University. Ms. Ortiz sums up the need for intentional efforts to address imbalanced reporting before the next GMMP when she says, "Continued education … about gender bias and agenda-setting as well as about consumers holding media organizations responsible for unfair and inaccurate reporting of gender issues and stereotyping of gender roles [is necessary]."
Media advocacy is a key educational method to raise awareness and create a just society. To hold media accountable for gender balance in news coverage and delivery is a responsibility of all citizens. Making informed opinions about policies relating to communication, rules governing ownership, mergers and consolidation that impact the news should be an ongoing activity.
Ongoing vigilance in monitoring media and raising awareness in formal and informal learning settings are a key media literacy effort. Furthermore, these educational efforts need to accompany such action plans as holding media accountable for fair and accurate portrayal of women, assuring gender parity in the incorporation of women's perspectives and addressing public policies governing media ownership.
Glory E. Dharmaraj, Ph.D. is the coordinator for U.S. media monitoring and director of spiritual growth for the Women's Division of the United Methodist General Board of Global Ministries.


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Khuzestan Province
|Khūzestān Province
استان خوزستان
Location of Khūzestān within Iran
|Coordinates: 31°19′38″N 48°41′38″E / 31.3273°N 48.6940°ECoordinates: 31°19′38″N 48°41′38″E / 31.3273°N 48.6940°E
|• Total
|64,055 km2 (24,732 sq mi)
|Population (2013)1
|• Total
|• Density
|110/km2 (300/sq mi)
|Time zone
|• Summer (DST)
|Main language(s)
|Farsi, Luri, Qashqai and Arabic
Khuzestan Province (Persian: استان خوزستان, Ostān-e Khūzestān) ، is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the southwest of the country, bordering Iraq's Basra Province and the Persian Gulf. Its capital is Ahvaz and covers an area of 63,238 km². Other major cities include Behbahan, Abadan, Andimeshk, Khorramshahr, Bandar Imam, Dezful, Shushtar, Omidiyeh, Izeh, Baq-e-Malek, Mah Shahr, Susangerd, Ramhormoz, Shadegan, Susa, Masjed Soleiman, Minoo Island and Hoveizeh.
As the most ancient Iranian province, it is often referred to as the "birthplace of the nation," as this is where the history of the Persian Empire begins. Historically, Khuzestan is what historians refer to as ancient Elam, whose capital was in Susa. The Achaemenid Old Persian term for Elam was Hujiyā, which is present in the modern name. Khuzestan, meaning "the Land of the Khuz" refers to the original inhabitants of this province, the "Susian" people (Old Persian "Huza" or Huja (as in the inscription at the tomb of Darius the Great at Naqsh-e Rostam, (the Shushan of the Hebrew sources) where it is recorded as inscription as "Hauja" or "Huja"). This is in conformity with the same evolutionary process where the Old Persian changed the name Sindh into Hind/Hindustan. In Middle Persian the term evolves into "Khuz" and "Kuzi". The pre-Islamic Partho-Sasanian Inscriptions gives the name of the province as Khwuzestan.
The seat of the province has for the most of its history been in the northern reaches of the land, first at Susa (Shush) and then at Shushtar. During a short spell in the Sasanian era, the capital of the province was moved to its geographical center, where the river town of Hormuz-Ardasher, founded over the foundation of the ancient Hoorpahir by Ardashir I, the founder of the Sasanian Dynasty in the 3rd century CE. This town is now known as Ahvaz. However, later in the Sasanian time and throughout the Islamic era, the provincial seat returned and stayed at Shushter, until the late Qajar period. With the increase in the international sea commerce arriving on the shores of Khuzistan, Ahvaz became a more suitable location for the provincial capital. The River Karun is navigable all the way to Ahvaz (above which, it flows through rapids). The town was thus refurbished by the order of the Qajar king, Naser al-Din Shah and renamed after him, Nâseri. Shushtar quickly declined, while Ahvaz/Nâseri prospered to the present day.
Currently, Khuzestan has 18 representatives in Iran's parliament, the Majlis, and 6 representatives in the Assembly of Experts. Khuzestan is known for its ethnic diversity; the population of Khuzestan consists of Lurs, Iranian Arabs, Qashqai people, Afshar tribe, indigenous Persians and Iranian Armenians.2 Khuzestan's population is predominantly Shia Muslim, but there are small Christian, Jewish and Sunni minorities.2 Half of Khuzestan's population is Lurs.3 Tensions on religious and ethnic grounds have often resulted in violence through the last decade, drawing much criticism of Iran by international human rights organizations.
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Geography and climate
- 3 History
- 4 Politics of the Khuzestan province
- 5 People and culture
- 6 Economy
- 7 Higher education
- 8 Attractions of Khuzestan
- 9 Prominent people
- 10 See also
- 11 References
- 12 External links
The word "Khouzi" refers to people who make raw sugar from sugar cane fields of northern Sassanian plains up to the Dez River side in Dezful. Khouzhestan has been the land of Khouzhies who cultivate sugar cane even today in Haft Tepe. The name Khuzestan means "The Land of the Khuzi",4 and refers to the original inhabitants of this province, the "Susian" people (Old Persian "Huza", Middle Persian "Khuzi" (the Shushan of the Hebrew sources)) in the same evolutionary manner that Old Persian changed the name Sindh into Hind"). The name of the city of Ahvaz also has the same origin as the name Khuzestan., being an Arabic broken plural from the compound name, "Suq al-Ahvaz" (Market of the Huzis)--the medieval name of the town, that replaced the Sasanian Persian name of the pre-Islamic times.
The southern half of the province (south of the Ahvaz Ridge) was still known as "the Khudhi" or "the Khooji" until the reign of the Safavid king Tahmasp I and the 16th century. By the 17th century, it had come to be known—at least to the imperial Safavid chancery as Arabistan. The great history of Alamara-i Abbasi by Iskandar Beg Munshi, written during the reign of Shah Abbas I the Great, regularly refers the southern part of Khuzestan as "Arabistan". The other half of Khuzestan was known as Khooji due to its large Lurs population.
There have been many attempts at finding other sources for the name, but none have proved tenable.
Geography and climate
The province of Khuzestan can be basically divided into two regions, the rolling hills and mountainous regions north of the Ahvaz Ridge, and the plains and marsh lands to its south. The area is irrigated by the Karoun, Karkheh, Jarahi and Maroun rivers. The northern section maintains a Persian (Lur, Bakhtiari, Khuzi) majority, while the southern section had an Arabic speaking majority until the great flood of job seekers from all over Iran inundated the oil and commerce centers on the coasts of the Persian Gulf since the 1940s. Presently, Khouzestan has several minority and ethnic groups of Lurs-Bakhtiari, Arabs and Persians from periods of history that Arabs were not mentioned anywhere.
Khuzestan has great potentials for agricultural expansion, which is almost unrivaled by the country's other provinces. Large and permanent rivers flow over the entire territory contributing to the fertility of the land. Karun, Iran's most effluent river, 850 kilometers long, flows into the Persian Gulf through this province. The agricultural potential of most of these rivers, however, and particularly in their lower reaches, is hampered by the fact that their waters carry salt, the amount of which increases as the rivers flow away from the source mountains and hills. In case of the Karun, a single tributary river, Rud-i Shur ("Salty River") that flows into the Karun above Shushtar contributes most of the salt that the river carries. As such, the freshness of the Karun waters can be greatly enhanced if the Rud-i Shur could be diverted away from the Karun. The same applies to the Jarahi and Karkheh in their lower reaches. Only the Marun is exempt from this.
The climate of Khuzestan is generally hot and occasionally humid, particularly in the south, while winters are much more cold and dry. Summertime temperatures routinely exceed 40 degrees Celsius and in the winter it can drop below freezing, with occasional snowfall, all the way south to Ahvaz.
The province of Khuzestan is one of the centres of ancient civilization, based around Susa. The first large scale empire based here was that of the powerful 4th millennium BC Elamites.
Archeological ruins verify the entire province of Khuzestan to be home to the Elamite civilization, a non-Semitic, and non-Indo-European-speaking kingdom, and "the earliest civilization of Persia".5 The name Khuzestan is derived from the Elamite (Ūvja).6
In fact, in the words of Elton L. Daniel, the Elamites were "the founders of the first 'Iranian' empire in the geographic sense."7 Hence the central geopolitical significance of Khuzestan, the seat of Iran's first empire.citation needed
In 640 BC, the Elamites were defeated by Ashurbanipal, coming under the rule of the Assyrians who brought destruction upon Susa and Chogha Zanbil. But in 538 BC, Cyrus the Great was able to re-conquer the Elamite lands. The city of Susa was then proclaimed as one of the Achaemenid capitals. Darius the Great then erected a grand palace known as Apadana there in 521 BC. But this astonishing period of glory and splendor of the Achaemenian dynasty came to an end by the conquests of Alexander of Macedon. After Alexander, the Seleucid dynasty came to rule the area.
As the Seleucid dynasty weakened, Mehrdad I the Parthian (171-137 BC), gained ascendency over the region. During the Sassanid dynasty this area thrived tremendously and flourished, and this dynasty was responsible for the many constructions that were erected in Ahvaz, Shushtar, and the north of Andimeshk.
During the early years of the reign of Shapur II (AD 309 or 310-379), Arabs crossed the Persian Gulf from Bahrain to "Ardashir-Khora" of Fars and raided the interior. In retaliation, Shapur II led an expedition through Bahrain, defeated the combined forces of the Arab tribes of "Taghleb", "Bakr bin Wael", and "Abd Al-Qays" and advanced temporarily into Yamama in central Najd. The Sassanids resettled these tribes in Kerman and Ahvaz. Arabs named Shapur II, as "Shabur Dhul-aktāf" after this battle.8
The existence of prominent scientific and cultural centers such as Academy of Gundishapur which gathered distinguished medical scientists from Egypt, India, and Rome, shows the importance and prosperity of this region during this era. The Jondi-Shapur Medical School was founded by the order of Shapur I. It was repaired and restored by Shapur II (a.k.a. Zol-Aktaf: "The Possessor of Shoulder Blades") and was completed and expanded during the reign of Anushirvan.
The Muslim conquest of Khuzestan
The Muslim invasion of Khuzestan took place in 639 AD under the command of Abu Musa al-Ash'ari from Basra, who drove the Persian satrap Hormuzan out of Ahvaz. Susa later fell, so Hormuzan fled to Shushtar. There his forces were besieged by Abu Musa for 18 months. Shushtar finally fell in 642 AD; the Khuzistan Chronicle records that an unknown Arab, living in the city, befriended a man in the army, and dug tunnels through the wall in return for a third of the spoil. The Basrans purged the Nestorians - the Exegete of the city and the Bishop of Hormizd, and all their students - but kept Hormuzan alive.9
There followed the conquests of Gundeshapur and of many other districts along the Tigris. The Battle of Nahāvand finally secured Khuzestan for the Muslim armies.10
During the Muslim conquest the Sassanids were allied with non-Muslim Arab tribes, which implies that those wars were religious, rather than national. For instance in 633-634, Khaled ibn Walid leader of the Muslim Army, defeated a force of the Sassanids' Arab auxiliaries from the tribes of Bakr, 'Ejl, Taghleb and Namer at 'Ayn Al-Tamr.11
The Muslim settlements by military garrisons in southern Iran was soon followed by other types of colonization. Some families, for example, took the opportunity to gain control of private estates.12 Like the rest of Iran, the Muslim invasion thus brought Khuzestan under occupation of the Arabs of the Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates, until Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar, from southeastern Iran, raised the flag of independence once more, and ultimately regained control over Khuzestan, among other parts of Iran, founding the short-lived Saffarid dynasty. From that point on, Iranian dynasties would continue to rule the region in succession as an important part of Iran.
In the Umayyad period, large groups of nomads from the Hanifa, Banu Tamim, and Abd al-Qays tribes crossed the Persian Gulf and occupied some of the richest Basran territories around Ahvaz and in Fars during the second Islamic civil war in 661-665/680-684 AD.13
During the Abbassid period, in the second half of the 10th century, the Assad tribe, taking advantage of quarrels under the Buwayhids, penetrated into Khuzestan, where a group of Tamim had been living since pre-Islamic times.citation needed However, following the fall of the Abbassid dynasty, the flow of Arab immigrants into Persia gradually diminished, but it nonetheless continued. In the latter part of the 16th century, the Bani Kaab (pronounced Chaub in the local Gulf dialect), from Kuwait, settled in Khuzestan.14 And during the succeeding centuries, more Arab tribes moved from southern Iraq to Khuzestan.15
Qajar period
According to C.E. Bosworth in Encyclopædia Iranica, under the Qajar dynasty "the province was known, as in Safavid times, as Arabistan, and during the Qajar period was administratively a governor-generalate." Half of Khuzestan was not known as Arabistan. Khuzestan's northern, more populous parts, with the capital at Shushtar, retained the old name, but also occasionally was incorporated into the district of the Greater Lur due to the large Lurs population in half of Khuzestan.
In 1856, in the course of the Anglo-Persian War over the city of Herat, the British naval forces sailed up the Karun river all the way to Ahvaz. However, in the settlement that followed, they evacuated the province. Some tribal forces, such as those led by Sheikh Jabir al-Kaabi, the Sheikh of Mohammerah, fared better in opposing the invading British forces than those dispatched by the central government, which was quite feeble. But, the point of the invasion of the province and other coastal regions of southern Persia/Iran were to force the evacuation of Herat by the Persians and not the permanent occupation of these regions.
Pahlavi era
In the two decades before 1925, although nominally part of Persian territory, the western part of Khuzestan functioned for many years effectively as an autonomous emirate known as "Arabistan". The eastern part of Khuzestan was governed by Bakhtiari-Lurs khans. Following Sheikh Khazal's rebellion, the western part of Khuzestan's emirate was dissolved by Reza Shah government in 1925, along with other autonomous regions of Persia, in a bid to centralize the state. In response Sheikh Khaz'al of Muhammerah initiated a rebellion, which was quickly crushed by the newly installed Pahlavy dynasty with minimal casualties. A low level conflict between the central Iranian government and the Arab nationalists of the province continued since.
The name of 'Khuzistan' came to be applied once again to the entire territory by 1936.16 Over the next decades of the Pahlavy rule, the province of Khuzestan remained relatively quiet, gaining to hold an important economic and defensive strategic position.
Islamic Republic
After the revolution
With the Iranian Revolution taking place in early 1979, local rebellions swept the country, with Khuzestan being no exception. In April 1979, an uprising broke out in the province, led by the Arab separatist group Arab Political and Cultural Organisation (APCO), seeking to gain independence from the new theocratic rule.17
The Iranian Embassy Siege of 1980 in London was initiated by an Arab separatist group as an aftermath response to the regional crackdown in Khuzestan, after the 1979 uprising. Initially it emerged the terrorists wanted autonomy for Khuzestan; later they demanded the release of 91 of their comrades held in Iranian jails.18 The group which claimed responsibility for the siege the Arab Popular Movement in Arabistan gave a number of press conferences in the following months, referring to what it described as "the racist rule of Khomeini". It threatened further international action as part of its campaign to gain self- rule for Khuzestan. But its links with Baghdad served to undermine its argument that it was a purely Iranian opposition group; there were allegations that it was backed by Iran's regional rival, Iraq. Their leader ("Salim" - Awn Ali Mohammed) along with four other members of the group were killed and the fifth member, Fowzi Badavi Nejad, was sentenced to life imprisonment.19
Iran-Iraq war
During the Iran-Iraq War, Khuzestan was the focus of the Iraqi invasion of Iran, leading to the flight of thousands of the province's residents. As a result, Khuzestan suffered the heaviest damage of all Iranian provinces during the war. Iraq's President Saddam Hussein felt confident that the Arab population of the Khuzestan would react enthusiastically to the prospect of union with Iraq. However, resistance to the invasion was fierce, stalling the Iraqi military's advance, and ultimately opening a window of opportunity for an Iranian counter-offensive..
What used to be Iran's largest refinery at Abadan was destroyed, never to fully recover. Many of the famous nakhlestans (palm groves) were annihilated, cities were destroyed, historical sites were demolished, and nearly half the province captured by the invading Iraqi army.20 This created a mass exodus into other provinces that did not have the logistical capability of taking in such a large number of refugees.
However, by 1982, Iranian forces managed to push Iraqi forces out of Iran. The battle of "the Liberation of Khorramshahr" (one of Khuzestan's largest cities and the most important Iranian port prior to the war) was a turning point in the war, and is officially celebrated every year in Iran.
The city of Khorramshahr was almost completely destroyed as a result of the scorched earth policy ordered by Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein. However, Iranian forces were able to prevent the Iraqis from attempting to spread the execution of this policy to other major urban centres.
During 1990s
The Government of the Iran does not conduct any official ethnic census in the country, thus it is difficult to determine the exact demographics. Beginning in the early 1990s, many ethnic Persian Khuzestanis began returning to the province, a trend which continues to this day as the major urban centres are being rebuilt and restored.
Recent events
In 2005, Ahvaz witnessed a number of terrorist attacks, which came following the violent Ahvaz riots. The first bombing came ahead of the presidential election on 12 June 2005. In 2011, another wave of protests by Arabs swept the province, resulting in a dozen killed and a continuing crackdown on Arab political activists.
Politics of the Khuzestan province
Khuzestan is ethnically diverse,2 home to many different ethnic groups.2 This has a bearing on Khuzestan's electoral politics, with ethnic minority rights playing a significant role in the province's political culture. The province's geographical location bordering Iraq and its oil resources also make it a politically sensitive region, particularly given its history of foreign intervention, notably the Iraqi invasion of 1980.
Some ethnic groups complain over the distribution of the revenue generated by oil resources with claims that the central government is failing to invest profits from the oil industry in employment generation, post-war reconstruction and welfare projects. Low human development indicators among local Khuzestanis are contrasted with the wealth generation of the local oil industry. Minority rights are frequently identified with strategic concerns, with ethnic unrest perceived by the Iranian government as being generated by foreign governments to undermine the country's oil industry and its internal stability. The politics of Khuzestan therefore have international significance and go beyond the realm of electoral politics.
According to Jane's Information Group, "Most Iranian Arabs seek their constitutionally guaranteed rights and do not have a separatist agenda ... While it may be true that some Arab activists are separatists, most see themselves as Iranians first and declare their commitment to the state's territorial integrity."21
People and culture
According to the 1996 census, the province had an estimated population of 3.7 million people, of which approximately 62.5% were in the urban centres, 36.5% were rural dwellers and the remaining 1% were non-residents. According to the most recent census taken in 2004, the province had an estimated population of 4,277,998 inhabitants.22
Khuzestan is inhabited by many different ethnic groups,2 the population of Khuzestan consists of Lurs (including Bakhtiari people), Iranian Arabs, Turkic-speaking Qashqai people and Afshar tribe, indigenous Persians and Armenians.2 Half of Khuzestan is mostly inhabited by Arabs, the other half of Khuzestan is mostly inhabited by Luri people.23
Khuzestan in literature
Khuzestan has long been the subject of many a writer and poet of Persia, banking on its ample sugar production to use the term as allegory for sweetness. Some popular verses are:
"Her lips aflow with sweet sugar,
The sweet sugar that aflows in Khuzestan."
"Your graceful figure like the cypress in Kashmar,
Your sweet lips like the sugar of Khuzestan."
Nizari Qohistani
So Sām hath not need ride afar
from Ahvaz up to Qandehar."
The Persians of Behbahan speak Khuzestani Persian dialects that are unique to Khuzestan. The most widely spoken dialect in Khuzestan is Bakhtiari. Except in Susangerd & Hoveizh, Bakhtiari is found everywhere. Many Khuzestanis are bilingual, speaking both Persian and one of the following languages/Dialects: Khuzi languages such as Dezfuli/Shushtari, Behbahani, Ramhormozi, Ghanavati and Mahshahri or tribal languages such as Luri, Bakhtiari, Arabic, Bahmee, and Qashqai. Mandaee language is spoken among minority Mandaeian mainly in Ahvaz & Dezful. It is ancient Mandaee language mingled by some aspect of Khuzi. The Arabic spoken in Khuzestan is Mesopotamian Arabic, the same dialect as is spoken in Iraq. Susangerd, Hoveizh, Shadegan & lately Khorramshahr are main cities with people speaking Arabic . But main Arab ethnic groups are in nomadic and rural regions along Iran-Iraq border in southwest of province to the ahvaz urban areas. The Persian and Lurish groups of western Khuzestan all speak distinct dialects unique to their areas. It is also not uncommon to find people able to speak a variety of indigenous dialects in addition to their own.
Traditions and religion
Khuzestani folk music is colorful and festive, and each native group has their own rich traditions and legacy in this area.
The people of Khuzestan are predominantly Shia, with small Sunni, Jewish, Christian and Mandean minorities. Khuzestanis are also very well regarded for their hospitality and generosity.24
Seafood is the most important part of Khuzestani cuisine, but many other dishes are also featured. The most popular Khuzestani dish is Ghalyeh Mahi, a popular fish dish that is prepared with heavy spices, onions and cilantro. The fish used in the dish is locally known as mahi soboor (shad fish), a species of fish found in the Persian Gulf. Other provincial specialties include Ghalyeh Meygu ("shrimp casserole"), ashe-mohshala (a Khorramshahri breakfast stew), sær shir (a Dezfuli breakfast of heavy cream), hælim (a Shushtari breakfast of wheatmeal with shredded lamb), and kohbbeh (a deep-fried rice cake with ground beef filling and other spices of Arabic origin, a variant on Levantine kibbeh). Also see Iranian cuisine.
Historical figures
Many scientists, philosophers, and poets have come from Khuzestan, including Abu Nuwas, Abdollah ibn-Meymun Ahvazi, the astronomer Nowbækht-e Ahvazi and his sons as well as Jorjis, the son of Bakhtshua Gondishapuri, Ibn Sakit, Da'bal-e Khazai and Sheikh Mortedha Ansari, a prominent Shi'a scholar from Dezful.
Khuzestan is the major oil-producing region of Iran, and as such is one of the wealthiest provinces in Iran. Khuzestan ranks third among Iran's provinces in GDP.25
In 2005, Iran's government announced it was planning the country's second nuclear reactor to be built in Khuzestan province.26 The 360 MW reactor will be a light water PWR Reactor.27
Khuzestan is also home to the Arvand Free Trade Zone.28 It is one of six economic Free Trade Zones in Iran.29 and the PETZONE (Petrochemical Special Economic Zone in Mahshahr).
Karun river is the only navigable river in Iran. The British, up until recent decades, after the discovery by Austen Henry Layard, transported their merchandise via Karun's waterways, passing through Ahvaz all the way up to Langar near Shushtar, and then sent by road to Masjed Soleimanthe site of their first oil wells in the Naftoon oil field. Karoun is capable of the sailing of fairly large ships as far up as Shushtar.
Karkheh, Jarrahi, Arvand Rud, Handian, Shavoor, Bahmanshir (Bahman-Ardeshir), Maroon-Alaa', Dez, and many other rivers and water sources in the form of Khurs, lagoons, ponds, and marshes demonstrate the vastness of water resources in this region, and are the main reason for the variety of agricultural products developed in the area.
The abundance of water and fertility of soil has transformed this region into a rich and well-endowed land. The variety of agricultural products such as wheat, barley, oily seeds, rice, eucalyptus, medicinal herbs; the existence of many palm and citrus farms; having mountains suitable for raising olives, and of course sugar cane - from which Khuzestan takes its name - all show the great potential of this fertile plain. In 2005, 51,000 hectares of land were planted with sugar canes, producing 350,000 tons of sugar.30 The abundance of water supplies, rivers, and dams, also have an influence on the fishery industries, which are prevalent in the area.
There are several cane sugar mills in Khuzestan province, among them Haft Tepe and Karun Agro Industry near Shushtar.
The Karun 3 and 4, and Karkheh Dam, as well as the petroleum reserves provide Iran with national sources of revenue and energy. The petrochemical and steel industries, pipe making, the power stations that feed the national electricity grid, the chemical plants, and the large refineries are some of Iran's major industrial facilities.
The province is also home to Yadavaran Field, which is a major oil field in itself and part of the disputed Al-Fakkah Field.
Higher education
- Khorramshahr University of Nautical Sciences and Technologies
- Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences
- Petroleum University of Technology
- Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz
- Shahid Chamran University-Dezful
- Islamic Azad University of Shushtar
- Islamic Azad University of Abadan
- Islamic Azad University of Omidiyeh
- Islamic Azad University of Ahvaz
- Islamic Azad University of Behbahan
- Islamic Azad University of Izeh
- Amirkabir University of Technology, Mahshahr campus
- Azad University of Mahshahr
Attractions of Khuzestan
Iran National Heritage Organization lists 140 sites of historical and cultural significance in Khuzestan, reflecting the fact that the province was once the seat of Iran's most ancient empire.
Some of the more popular sites of attraction include:
- Choqa Zanbil: The seat of the Elamite Empire, this ziggurat is a magnificent five-story temple that is one of the greatest ancient monuments in the Middle-East today. The monolith, with its labyrinthine walls made of thousands of large bricks with Elamite inscription, manifest the sheer antiquity of the shrine. The temple was religiously sacred and built in the honor of Inshushinak, the protector deity of the city of Susa.
- Shush-Daniel: Burial site of the Jewish prophet Daniel. He is said to have died in Susa on his way to Jerusalem upon the order of Darius. The grave of Ya'qub bin Laith as-Saffar, who rose against the oppression of the Umayyad Caliphate, is also located nearby.
- Dezful (Dezh-pol), whose name is taken from a bridge (pol) over the Dez river having 12 spans built by the order of Shapur I. This is the same bridge that was called "Andamesh Bridge" by historians such as Istakhri who says the city of Andimeshk takes its name from this bridge. Muqaddasi called it "The City of the Bridge."
- Shushtar, Home to the famous Shushtar Watermills and one of the oldest fortress cities in Iran, known as the "City of Forty Elders" in local dialect. In and around Shushtar, there are many displays of ancient hydraulic engineering. There are also the Band Mizan and Band Qeysar, 2000 year old dams on the Karoun river and the famous Shadervan Bridge which is over 2000 years old.The Friday Mosque of Shushtar was built by the Abbasids. The mosque, which features "Roman" arches, has 54 pillars and balconies.
- Izeh, or Izaj, was one of the main targets of the invading Islamic army in their conquest of Persia. Kharezad Bridge, one of the strangest bridges of the world, is situated in this city and was named after Ardeshir Babakan's mother. It is built over cast pillars of lead each 104 meters high. Ibn Battuta, who visited the city in the 14th century, refers to many monasteries, caravanserais, aqueducts, schools, and fortresses in the town. The brass statue of The Parthian Man, kept at the National Museum of Iran, is from here.
- Masjed Soleiman, another ancient town, has ancient fire altars and temples such as Sar-masjed and Bard-neshondeh. It is also the winter's resting area of the Bakhtiari tribe, and where William Knox D'Arcy dug Iran's first oil well.
- Abadan is said to be where the tomb of Elijah, the long lived Hebrew prophet is.
- Iwan of Hermes, and Iwan of Karkheh, two enigmatic ruins north of Susa.
Prominent people
- Siavash Shams, famous Persian pop singer, songwriter and record producer
- Mehrangiz Kar, feminist lawyer and human rights activist.
- Ezzat Negahban, Patriarch of the Iranian modern archaeology.
- Siavash Ghomeyshi, singer, song writer and composer.
- Kaiser Aminpour, famous poet.
- Hamid Dabashi, intellectual historian, cultural and literary critic.
- Patrick Monahan, British comedian.
- Parviz Abnar, sound recordist.
- Saeed Abdevali, wrestler.
- Rahim Mombeini, is now president's deputy in charge of Iran's budget affairs
- Nasser Taghvaee, director, photographer.
- Parviz Dehdari, well-known footballer.
- Ahmad Najafi, actor, film producer.
- Mohsen Chavoshi, pop singer.
- Bizhan Emkanian, actor.
- Hamed Haddadi, NBA athlete.
- Ali Shamkhani, Iran's minister of defense (1997–2005).
- Masoud Shojaei, national football star.
- Hossein Kaebi, national football star.
- Jalal Kameli Mofrad, national football player.
- Iman Mobali, national football star.
- Ahmad Mahmoud, novelist..
- Mohammad Reza Eskandari, Iran's current Minister of Agriculture
- Mohsen Rezaee, Secretary of Iran's powerful Expediency Discernment Council
- Abu Nuwas, a well-known poet.
- Majusi the famous physician.
- Naubakht, an astronomer
See also
- Ahvaz
- Andimeshk
- Shushtar
- Susa
- Choqa Zanbil
- Islamic conquest of Persia
- Origin of the name Khuzestan
- Occupation of Khuzestan by Muslims
- Mesopotamian Marshes
- Tidal irrigation#Tidal irrigation at Abadan island, Iran
- ^ [1] National Census 2006
- ^ a b c d e f Province of Khuzestan
- ^ Lur - History and Cultural Relations
- ^ See Encyclopædia Iranica, Columbia University, Vol 1, p687-689.
- ^ According to: Sir Percy Sykes, A History of Persia, RoutledgeCurzon Publishers. 3rd edition. October 16, 2003. ISBN 0-415-32678-8 p.38
- ^ According to The Cambridge History of Iran, 2, 259, ISBN 0-521-20091-1
- ^ Daniel, Elton L. The History of Iran. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2001. ISBN 0-313-30731-8. Print. p.26
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica: p.202. Link: [2]
- ^ Hoyland, Robert G., Seeing Islam as Others Saw It, Darwin Press, 1998, ISBN 0-87850-125-8 p184
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica, p.206
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica, page 204, under "Arab conquest of Persia"
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica, p.212
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica, p.215, under "Arab Tribes of Iran"
- ^ See J.R. Perry, "The Banu Ka'b: An Amphibious Brigand State in Khuzestan", Le Monde Iranien et L'Islam I, 1971, p133
- ^ Encyclopædia Iranica, p216
- ^ Journal of Middle Eastern studies, Vol. 25, No. 3 (August , 1993), pp. 541-543
- ^ [3]
- ^ See:
- ^ BBC link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2000/iranian_embassy_siege/720640.stm
- ^ See map: http://www.iranmiras.ir/fr_site/history/jomhoori/Image-104.jpg
- ^ "Anger among Iran's Arabs". Janes Information Group. Archived from the original on 2007-07-08. Retrieved 2009-04-11.
- ^ According to the German "Gazetteer" website
- ^ Languages of Khuzestan
- ^ http://www.iranchamber.com/provinces/15_khuzestan/15_khuzestan.php
- ^ (Persian) Link: http://www.ostan-kz.ir/papercutdetail_afa_pi_191.html
- ^ BBC Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4498932.stm
- ^ BBC link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/story/2005/12/051210_ss-irannuclearaghazadeh.shtml
- ^ Link: Arvand Free Trade Zone
- ^ Link: http://www.iftiz.org.ir
- ^ Khatami hopes for self-sufficiency in sugar, retrieved on September 09, 2010
External links
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Khuzestan province.
- Official website of Khuzestan Governorship
- Khuzestan Business Directory
- Khuzestan Travel Guide
- Images of Khuzestan
- Khuzestan: The First Front in the War on Iran? by Zoltan Grossman
- Hamid-Reza Hosseini, Shush at the foot of Louvre (Shush dar dāman-e Louvre), in Persian, Jadid Online, 10 March 2009
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Sudden Ending
Family, friends and supporters bid farewell to beloved philanthropist, owner of Go Mama Go!
by Yusef Najafi
Photo by Todd Franson
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''You cannot negotiate with God.'' Those are the words Noi Chudnoff, beloved local philanthropist and owner of Go Mama Go!, a gift shop at 1809 14th Street NW, used over two years ago during an interview with Metro Weekly, explaining why she, a native of Bangkok, had become estranged from her parents by rebelling against her father's desire that she study medicine.
''If this man is to die, he will die,'' she said. ''That's fate.''
The 59-year-old Chudnoff, a Buddhist, used that same ideology when dealing with her own ailments acquired over the past year, which would eventually lead to her unexpected death on Tuesday, Nov. 6 at Holy Cross Hospital, in Silver Spring, Md.
''She had really been getting ill for nearly a year,'' says her husband, 55-year-old Jonathan Chudnoff. ''But [she] just would never go to the doctor, no matter how much I asked her.
''Finally other people started noticing that she didn't look well,'' he continues. ''When she finally called her for her medical checkup the week before last week, she couldn't even carry her purse down the street. She just lost all of her physical strength, but she still maintained that tough attitude.''
Chudnoff was diagnosed with colon cancer, and partnered that tough attitude with positivity, and a catchphrase that was inspired by her blood type.
''When she went into the hospital,'' says Jonathan Chudnoff, ''she needed blood transfusions and they told her that her blood type was B positive, so for the last 10 days or so of her life, that became her motto. And she cheerfully told everybody, 'Be positive, be positive.'''
The woman who did not believe in negotiating with God convinced herself to be positive, as she talked to visitors, family and friends, during her final days about overcoming her distaste for Jell-O and chicken broth, while awaiting a surgical procedure that was meant to fix things on Monday, Nov. 5.
That moment never arrived.
As nurses prepared Noi for surgery, she fell and hit her head causing a brain hemorrhage that would ultimately claim her life.
''I got there just in time for her to open her eyes and squeeze my hand,'' says Jonathan Chudnoff. ''Then she just lost consciousness.''
Chudnoff was kept on life support until the following morning, when her son, Nissim, flew from New Mexico to bid farewell. According to Jonathan Chudnoff, things had been shaky between mother and son, after a feature article profiling the owner of Go Mama Go! ran in Metro Weekly in 2005. It was in that interview that she spoke candidly about her son's high income and lack of philanthropy.
''She said some things about him that she later regretted,'' Jonathan says. ''For a time, he was quite angry with her. But in the last year, they were completely reconciled.... Things were good.''
Since Noi Chudnoff's death, Go Mama Go! has been filled with friends, customers and supporters, according to friend and employee Jeffrey Johnson, who also serves as the artistic director for Ganymede Arts, formerly the Actors' Theatre of Washington.
''Sometimes people just wander though the store to be in the store,'' says Johnson. ''Sometimes people buy things and you know they don't really want it -- they just want something of her to take. Other people have been coming in and literally breaking down, grieving.''
Noi Chudnoff's impact on others was evident during her memorial, on Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Source Theatre. The Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, among other artists, performed at the event, following the reading of a resolution by Councilmember Jim Graham (D-Ward 1) declaring November 10, 2007 ''Noi Chudnoff Day'' in Washington D.C.
Johnson first met Noi Chudnoff in the summer of 2005, while performing with the Source Theatre. She had attended an event there and later donated money to the theater.
''I walked in [Go Mama Go!] and thanked her for the donation, and she started talking to me about the theater and what I wanted to do with it,'' Johnson recalls.
''When she found out that we were all volunteers and not employed by the theater, she asked me...'Why don't you work here? I need help.' I started the next day.''
Annie Shaw, director of Whitman-Walker Clinic's Lesbian Services Program, frequented Go Mama Go!, and had come to know Noi Chudnoff as a close friend through the store as well as her involvement with the clinic.
''Anyone who went in was welcomed,'' Shaw says. ''There was such a sense of how pleased she was to see you. And she just took this interest in everyone. It wasn't that she would engage you in long conversations, but I always had the sensation that I was seen.''
Ward Morrison, Metro Weekly's senior Scene photographer would often capture Noi Chudnoff during the various events he covered.
''We will never know what we truly lost because her potential was unlimited,'' he says. ''Her energy is still within us, but we lost a person that wasn't afraid to do anything. Her love is why she had no fear. She could walk into any space and walk up to anyone and make things happen.... She had a unique way of touching people and making community.''
It was perhaps those qualities that caught Jonathan Chudnoff's attention when he first met Noi nearly 35 years ago through family friends upon moving with his parents to Madison, Wisconsin.
''It was Hanukkah time, and she just charmed us all,'' says Jonathan, who is Jewish. ''What was surprising is that this young woman from Thailand knew what Hanukkah was, knew to sing Hanukkah songs, knew how to play a game with the Dreidel. I was just floored that somebody from so far away, and from such a different culture, knew all this stuff about our culture and could participate in it.
''We just became friends,'' he continues. ''We'd go out sailing on the lake together, go swimming together and go to movies together. Pretty soon we were together.''
Nissim was born in 1981, four years before the Chudnoffs relocated to metropolitan Washington, so that Jonathan could attend law school at the American University. After years of working odd jobs, including floor scrubber, Japanese chef, and children's clothing manager, in addition to sending her son to school, Noi Chudnoff rented an apartment in Northwest and opened Go Mama Go!
''We'd see each other everyday,'' Jonathan says. ''Because I'd usually come in the evening to help close the store, and we'd have dinner together everyday. We were not an estranged couple. It's just that I had my work up in the Baltimore suburbs...and she had what meant the most to her here in Washington.''
''Our son was going off to college and finally after deferring to me, her child and all these other people's needs, it was time to 'go mama go,' to strike out and see what she could do by herself for herself. What you see here on 14th street is the result of that.''


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1. SEC basketball coaches talked about the league's tournament on today's teleconference with the media.
2. Alabama and Georgia will get one more shot earn an NCAA Tournament bid this week in Atlanta.
3. Auburn's Pro Day workouts will be carried on the internet by ESPN and on television by NFL Network.
4. Take a look at this breakdown of Arkansas' four-game improvement in the win column this year and I think you can figure out that the author probably isn't a pro-John Pelphrey guy.
5. Some folks can't understand Ole Miss AD Pete Boone's decision to show his personality on Twitter.
6. MSU athletic director Scott Stricklin says he doesn't want "another rehashing" of his school's handling of the Cam Newton situation.
7. The SEC Tournament bracket does Georgia no favors.
8. SEC associate commissioner Gregory Sankey will recuse himself from the NCAA's Committee on Infractions when Tennessee's case comes up in June.
9. Bruce Pearl is "still pretty burned" from yesterday's loss to Kentucky.
10. Kenny Gabriel (Auburn) and Ravern Johnson (MSU) were named the SEC's Co-Players of the Week. (Kentucky's Brandon Knight won Freshman of the Week honors again.)
11. Last season, Auburn, LSU and Florida were the SEC's best 4th Quarter football teams… Georgia, Tennessee and Vanderbilt were the worst.
12. Finally, when it comes to SEC championship events — like this week's basketball tournament — expect to see more mentions for Macy's.
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Accepted at this hotel: American Express, Discover, MasterCard, Visa
- You need to know
Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on hotel policy.
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card or cash deposit are required at check-in for incidental charges.
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges. Special requests cannot be guaranteed.
Parking height restrictions apply
- Fees
- The following fees and deposits are charged by the property at time of service, check-in, or check-out.
The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.
- Self parking fee: USD 30 per day
- Valet parking fee: USD 17 per day (in/out privileges)
- Rollaway bed fee: USD 25 per stay
- We Should Mention
This property offers transfers from the airport. Guests must contact the property with arrival details 24 hours prior to arrival, using the contact information on the booking confirmation. Children 17 years old and younger stay free when occupying the parent or guardian's room, using existing bedding. The property has connecting/adjoining rooms, which are subject to availability and can be requested by contacting the property using the number on the booking confirmation.
Awards & Affiliations
- The property is a member of Preferred Hotels & Resorts.


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Info: (760) 560-BAJA (2252) Orders: (800) 422-5292 Fax: (760) 560-0383
Baja Designs, Inc.
185 Bosstick Boulevard
San Marcos, CA 92069
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