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Crooked Teeth Dental Procedure All The Rage In Japan
Because Japan is literally millennia ahead in the realm of WTF'ery, dentists in the country are now offering 'Yaeba' cosmetic treatments, a dental procedure that makes a girl's teeth appear wonky and (obviously) more desirable. But how do they feel about lazy eyes?
Yaeba means double tooth in Japanese, but it doesn't describe major dental deformities, but rather the vampire-like look obtained when the two molars crowd the canines pushing them forward to create a fang effect. According to some sources, yaeba gives girls a feline look which is apparently makes them even more attractive, while others say it's this little imperfection that makes pretty girls look more approachable as opposed to the flawless magazine cover models of the western world.
Dr. Yoko Kashiyama and her staff at the Plaisir Dental Salon, in Ginza district, perform all kinds of cosmetic procedures, but yaeba is definitely among the most popular. Using non-permanent adhesive, she glues custom-made artificial teeth onto the natural canines to lengthen them and make them stand out.
Oh man, I've got a lazy eye (I'm talking SUPER lazy -- dude's never worked a day in his life) AND wonky teeth, you think they'd find me super handsome in Japan? "No, I think they'd find you with your arm stuck in a vending machine trying to steal a pair of worn panties." God, they really would, wouldn't they?
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Tokyo Dental Salon Specializes in Giving Girls Crooked Teeth [odditycentral]
Thanks to Daniel, who agrees one of the best ways to wonk your teeth for free is jumping off your parents' roof with a trashbag parachute. Did you live in my neighborhood growing up?
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Maureen Cox, the future first wife of Ringo Starr, was born Mary Cox on this day in Liverpool.
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Her name is Lola; she bakes the pizza.
Actually Lola is her great-grandmother's name but Cary Charbonniez claimed it for Lola's, the diminutive pizza restaurant she opened nearly five years ago in South Hills.
Demand for her artisan pizzas grows, but Charbonniez has no plans to expand her hours, the menu or her restaurant. When Charbonniez and her husband, Pierre, retuned to their native Charleston from Vermont, she opened Lola's, where the menu features creatively topped pizzas on her homemade dough served with fresh salads.
That's it. Oh, and a nice selection of beer, wines and tremendously popular house-made Sangria.
She opens at 4 p.m. for dinner only Tuesday through Sunday and stays open until the pizza dough runs out, usually around 9 or 10 p.m. Charbonniez credits the time she spent living in and attending culinary school in Vermont for influencing her laid-back approach to running a restaurant.
The well-trained and consistent staff knows the product well. They start making the dough at 11 a.m.
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Charbonnez credits her staff with Lola's smooth operation, even during the chaotic time three years ago when she and Pierre welcomed the birth of their twin daughters, who were born nine weeks early.
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Solving the NBA Lockout, Duh.
I'm no genius, but it seems simple enough to me. Give the Players 51% of ALL Total Revenues. Then after that, figure out the new contract lengths, max salary amounts, Luxury Tax, revenue sharing amongst teams, etc etc etc.
With 51% of all revenues, the Players feel like they "won" the negotiations, and can tell all their members they get more than the Owners. Personally, I think a 50-50 split of all total revenues is fair, but 51-49 gets things done much sooner. There's still some ego and pride at stake here too, after all.
The players have already given away hundreds of millions over the length of a new CBA from their old deal, by going down from the previously agreed upon 57%, to the newly proposed 53%. Going from 57% to 51% gives the Owners over $1 billion in savings over the length of a new CBA. Considering the Owners locked out the Players because they "supposedly" lost $300 million-ish dollars last season, that's not too shabby.
If the Owners insist upon 50-50 split of revenues, but under the "old rules" concerning BRI (Basketball Related Income - where they got about $400 million per year in stadium/team costs/etc "credits" off the top BEFORE splitting the rest with the Players), then a 50-50 BRI split in this situation is actually only about 47% of all Total Revenue for the Players under a new CBA. That just doesn't seem fair to me at all. I'm sorry, but I can understand why the Players wouldn't take that deal. It stinks.
So yeah, split ALL Total Revenue 50-50, and then the rest of this crap shakes out quite easily (all things considered.) Considering both parties are supposedly merely only a few percentage points away, then missing any games is very very bad. They'll end up losing more to the lockout and not having games, than they would by agreeing to a bad CBA (see: "CBA Talk: A Little Math" link below.)
But as I said above, make that happen and it's The End. Lockout is over soon. Games come back. We are all happy.
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I grew up Unitarian Universalist in a mixed religious household. That is to say my father was Jewish and my mother was Christian. The way for them to remain who they were and grow into a new religious community was to join Central Unitarian Church in Paramus, New Jersey. My upbringing in that church gave me the gift of freedom - a church that asked me to seek and find passion in my seeking, to debate, to reason, to open to the spirit of meaning and purpose, and to find myself. That was the gift of my Unitarian Universalist church. But what my church lacked was a way to help me have some discipline. And it did not put many expectations on me, leaving me untethered to drift into the open spiritual sea.
I am one who found his way back. Many did not. I sought out spiritual and religious discipline. Living and studying in India for a year and then returning there again for six months, helped me realize the power of religious faith. The second visit there was to Bodh Gaya - the place where the Buddha was enlightened and, therefore, the main Buddhist pilgrimage site in the world. I studied and learned the philosophy and practice of Buddhism, took a turn toward the Zen tradition and considered becoming a monk in Korea. During that time a friend created a silent retreat where we trekked in Nepal to the Langtang Valley, 14,000 feet up. It was in the lull of a snowstorm, where we sat silently considering whether to go further in for an extended stay in the mountains to practice meditation, that a voice called me, saying, "Return home and serve your people." This was my call to ministry, even though it took me some years to discern its meaning. It was a call home to the United States, to Unitarian Universalism and to service.
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The fund has returned 29.66 percent over the past year, 14.49 percent over the past three years, 25.89 percent over the past five years, and 9.85 percent over the past decade.
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Baron Small Cap takes a slow-and-steady approach to small-cap investing.
As of March 05, 2014, the fund has assets totaling almost $5.58 billion invested in 110 different holdings. Its portfolio consists of shares of small companies.
Recently, Baron Small Cap hasn't had any surprises. In 2008, it lost more than 40 percent, and in 2009 it gained 35 percent as small-cap stocks rallied. In both years, Baron stayed close to the middle of the pack, where it has continued to sit in 2010. Although the fund hasn't had any recent blockbuster years, it also hasn't had any disasters. As of late, the fund has found opportunities in the business services sector. Within that category, SBA Communications Corp., which owns and operates wireless communications towers, has been a particularly strong performer. The fund has returned 29.66 percent over the past year and 14.49 percent over the past three years.
Historically, the fund has had some challenges. Its performance was hit-or-miss in the early 2000s, but it began to level off by the middle of the decade. Over time, the fund has quietly built a solid track record. Says Morningstar: "Growth investors often fail because they pay too much for stocks and focus too intently on closely watched short-term data, where getting an edge can be difficult. Manager Cliff Greenberg, like his Baron cohorts, attempts to avoid these traps by paying close attention to valuation and thinking about the future in terms of years, not quarters." The fund has returned 25.89 percent over the past five years and 9.85 percent over the past decade.
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According to the fund's semi-annual report: "Baron Small Cap's investments fall into three categories: Growth Stocks, Fallen Angels and Special Situations. The fund intends to continue to invest in 'Growth Stocks' that we believe have significant long-term growth prospects and can be purchased at what we believe are attractive prices because their prospects have not yet been appreciated by investors. 'Fallen Angels' are companies that we believe have strong long-term franchises but have disappointed investors with short-term results, creating what we believe are buying opportunities. 'Special Situations' include spin-offs and recapitalizations, where lack of investor awareness creates opportunities to purchase what we believe are strong businesses at attractive prices."
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So Soundwave have confirmed those long-lingering rumours of a Title Fight / Touche Amore tour. Oddly, they also confirmed that the Melbourne show is scheduled to take place at one pretty big venue (Billboard) for two pretty teensy tiny bands. Excuse me for a moment while climb up on my high horse, and pensively stroke at my fictional moustache but this doesn't seem like an entirely sound decision. I caught both bands at South By Southwest this March (I am still on the aforementioned high horse. I have not yet dismounted. It's nice up here.) playing to 100 capacity venues and the energy was spectacular (the air, it's so much cleaner) but not quite as spectacular as the audience who took delight in ruining themselves jumping off ceiling-high speaker stacks. I can't help but think the venue size and the likely consequent price is likely to leave fans a little wary, with the bands hopefully filling a pretty cavernous room for two supremely awesome bands to play to on their first trip to Australia. It feels like no one really wins in this situation, including the peeps putting on the tour - if only 'cos I'm yearning to see them play a small show that goes a little off-the-grid insane. I'm not sure if it's my own overactive sentimentality speaking or not, but I really do feel the absence of The Arthouse already. There doesn't seem to be a venue in Melbourne that is capable of replacing it yet and it's becoming increasingly likely that there never will be.
Poison City have announced the details for their annual Weekender Festival that is scheduled to take place at The East Brunswick Club and The Tote this September. US band Bridge & Tunnel will headline, and be joined by popular local acts Screamfeeder, The Nation Blue, Mutiny, The Hawaiian Islands, Paper Arms, Fires Of Waco, Anchors, The Smith St Band, Fear Like Us, Grim Fandango, Arrows, The Gifthorse, Harmony, The Optionals, Headaches, The Scandal, Stolen Youth, Jen Buxton, Following Sea, Luca Brasi and Darren Gibson. Phew. Tickets are on sale right now, goddammit.
H20 have announced that they'll release a covers album in order to pay homage to their influences, or, perhaps, also in order to make some damn-easy money. The band will tip their hats to The Ramones, Dag Nasty, Madball, Rancid and more. It'll be out this spring via Bridge Nine Records.
The Nekromantix will release their first new album since the tragic death of their drummer Andy Martinez was killed in a car accident in 2009. The album, What Happens In Hell, Stays In Hell will be out this August 2 via Hellcat.
In a bid to replace Thrice after that very public drama, Soundwave Revolutions have added North Carolina post-hardcore act Alesana to their lineup. The band were previously scheduled to take a part in February's Soundwave but had to withdraw due to a difficult label change. The locations for the festival were also confirmed last week. Many locals were surprised to see that the Melbourne leg of Revolutions will take place at Tabcorp Park in Melton (around a half hour drive west of Melbourne). Tickets go on sale this Thursday.
Splendour sideshows are beginning to filter through (not from Kanye West through -sulkwhingewah). The Mars Volta have announced one show only at The Palace on August 7. Tickets will go on sale next Thursday.
Chris Cornell will bring his Songbook tour to Australian theatres this October after a hugely successful run in the US. Kinda serves as a consolation prize after all those rumours of Soundgarden headlining Soundwave Revolutions. Cornell will play an all ages show at St Kilda's Palais Theatre on October 19. Tickets are available next Friday.
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JOPLIN, Mo. —
Hot enough to fry an egg on the sidewalk? How about hot enough to bake cookies in your car? In Hutchison, Kan., two Hutchinson News staff members held their third annual "car-b-que," cooking food in their hot vehicles.
It sounded like fun and I had a hot vehicle, so I decided to give it a try. I put chocolate chip slice-n-bake cookies on a cookie sheet, then placed the sheet on my car dash, making sure the windows were up for ultimate heat. Six hours later, baked cookies. They turned out pretty hard, but were definitely similar to what you would get right from your oven. I probably started too early in the morning for perfect results. Next time, I'm going to preheat the cookie sheet on the dash during the morning then put the cookies on the hot sheet in the afternoon. I'll let you know how that goes.
Can't wait for that info, can you? I can see it now. My new cookbooks: "Cooking for Cars." Or "Dashboard Dishes." Or "Food in My Ford." Or "Sunroof Suppers."
Whether you celebrated the Fourth of July last weekend or have festivities set for today, chances are good you will have leftovers. Looking for some creative ways to use these leftovers? I have a few to share with you.
Chopped up hamburger patties, Polish sausage or hot dogs can be used in lots of dishes. Add a little salsa and you can make just about any dish Mexican and tasty. Cut the grilled meat into cubes and skewer them with chunks of cheese and cherry tomatoes for a quick kabob. You might be surprised what a great pizza you can make with these leftovers, too. Place those hamburger patties in a skillet and cover with canned beef gravy and a can of mushrooms for a Salisbury steak dinner. Chopped burgers or Polish sausages added to marinara sauce and cooked pasta, topped with cheese then baked until hot makes you glad you have leftovers.
Use the burgers for making stuffed peppers, sloppy Joes or taco salads. Chop up the hot dogs and add them and some chopped jalape–os to a cornbread mix, then bake for a one-dish meal or add the chopped pieces to your leftover baked beans or mac and cheese. You can also add chopped up hamburger patties to those beans.
Try today's chili cheese dog crescent casserole recipe from allrecipes.com. It uses one of my favorites, crescent rolls, to cover the chopped up hot dog and chili mixture and makes the perfect crust.
Leftover grilled steak can be the basis for a nice beef stew cooked in the slow cooker, or slice it thin for addition to a salad or barbecue sandwiches.
Grilled chicken is the perfect leftover. You can make chicken salad, a pot pie, chicken and noodles, chicken tacos or enchiladas. Add some diced chicken to some cooked spaghetti, cream of mushroom soup and cheese, then bake for a nice tetrazzini. Or spice that up with some Ro-Tel tomatoes for Mexican chicken spaghetti. I've included an easy chicken enchilada recipe for those who need an idea for their leftover chicken.
What about leftover potato salad and coleslaw? Put the slaw on your barbecue sandwiches and use the potato salad for latkes. Add a little tuna to the potato salad, fry it up in patties then top with sour cream. Doesn't that sound delicious? This one will surprise you. And those leftover deviled eggs? They're perfect chopped up and eaten on a piece of toast for breakfast or lunch because, after all, they contain the same ingredients as egg salad.
If your plan includes grilled vegetables, use them later chopped in your scrambled eggs or in a dinner casserole. Cut the grilled corn on the cob off the cob and mix with tomatoes and herbs for a nice corn salsa.
Leftover hamburger and hot dog buns? Make garlic toast or cut them into cubes, drizzle with olive oil and herbs and bake or fry up some croutons. Another option is to make the hot dog bun bread pudding for dessert using the recipe I'm sharing today. It's from Robert Irvine, and the smell of this baking will make your mouth water. Use your imagination and use up those leftovers this week or anytime you end up with extra food.
Last week, Kay Kleeman and I tried the new Japanese Kitchen at 1301 Broadway in Joplin. They just opened but are up and running and ready for dine-in or carry-out, and assistant manager Codey Ritter makes sure to take good care of all the customers. I picked the spicy chicken with fried rice from the main dish menu and it was just right -- not too hot but with enough kick to live up to its spicy name. Kay chose the teriyaki chicken and said it was delicious. She also decided to try the sushi, ordering the spicy crab roll. That serving, like our main dishes, was almost too pretty to eat, and I can't wait to go back and try something with noodles.
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Chili cheese dog crescent casserole
1 (15-ounce) can chili with beans
8 hot dogs, sliced
11/2 cups shredded American cheese
1 can refrigerated crescent rolls
1 tablespoon sesame seeds
In a 2-quart saucepan, mix chili and hot dogs. Heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally. Spoon mixture into ungreased 9x13-inch glass baking dish. Sprinkle with cheese. Separate dough into 4 long rectangles, pressing perforations to seal. Place on top of chili mixture. Sprinkle with sesame seeds. Bake at 375 degrees for 15 to 20 minutes. Yields 6 servings.
Easy chicken enchiladas
1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese
1 cup salsa
2 cups chopped cooked chicken breast
1 can pinto beans
6 (6-inch) flour tortillas
2 cups shredded Colby-Jack cheese
In a small saucepan over medium heat, combine the cream cheese and salsa. Cook, stirring until melted and well blended. Stir in chicken and beans. Fill tortillas with mixture and roll up. Place in lightly greased 9x13-inch baking pan. Spread cheese over the top. Cover with foil and bake 30 minutes at 350 degrees or until heated through. Garnish with lettuce, tomato and/or sour cream. Yields 6 servings.
Hot dog bun bread pudding
8 hot dog buns, cut into 1-inch cubes
1/3 cup golden raisins
4 tablespoons butter, melted
1 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 eggs
2 tablespoons finely chopped pecans
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
2 tablespoons sugar
Spray a 10-by-10-inch glass or ceramic baking dish with vegetable spray. Add bread to dish. In saucepan over low heat, add raisins, butter, milk and vanilla. Stir constantly and cook for 15 to 20 minutes. Remove from heat and whisk in eggs. Pour custard over buns; let soak 25 to 30 minutes. Bake, uncovered, at 350 degrees for 30 minutes or until set. Yields 4 to 6 servings.
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As the coal industry pulls up its stakes amid a shifting energy market, it is crucial that the historic memory of Blair Mountain inform our region's next epoch. For that reason alone, the land and legacy of this mountain should be preserved and honored.
The empowering history of Blair invites us to build a new kind of solidarity among West Virginians and Appalachians more generally, among those of us who feel called to stand together for a better tomorrow. As mountaineers, we have this power, but like the potential of renewable energy, it has yet to be fully unlocked.
We saw some of this power at the recent United Mine Workers mobilizations, as retired and disabled miners movingly protested an effort by Arch Coal to rid itself of retiree health benefits via bankruptcy proceedings. Never in my lifetime have I seen West Virginians reclaim their streets in such numbers. These protests remind me that though the circle can seem broken, there are bridges to be built between generations by ideas of justice that transcend history.
Where power now resides in the hands of those few who control Appalachia's coal mono-economy, let us lift up the efforts of those who bring alternative perspectives to our mountains and dare to see the forest of healthy communities for the trees of short-term gain.
This challenge is not extended lightly. As polarized as our homeland has become due to industry propaganda and divisive, non-consensual environmental actions, speaking to our true hearts' knowledge can feel dangerous, even destructive to the human connections we have left.
Appalachian mining communities have much --everything, really -- to lose when it comes to looking past our historic lifeblood in coal. But the alternative --remaining subject to an unsustainable boom-bust cycle that leaves us progressively worse off than the previous generation -- no longer feels like an option.
Blair Mountain brings a constellation of issues to light. We as Appalachians and as Americans must dare ourselves to see this mountain as more than a seam of coal, more even than the economic development opportunity for heritage tourism that it offers.
We must preserve these acres as a place of reflection, but more importantly, we must preserve the dream of resistance they inspire, the trampling of barriers they represent. We must gather there the audacity to firmly and non-violently demand economic diversity, alternative energy, and politicians who can, with our votes, deliver those dreams.
Coal has been our history. It is beautiful and complicated, and we are haunted by it. But in every moment we stand together on a mountaintop and demand something more worthy of our love of home, we make history anew.
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And I'm developing a musical with the writer Donna Di Novelli called The Good Swimmer. It's about a family of lifeguards in 1963 and uses found text in its lyrics. Stew is doing some arranging work on it.
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What is particularly unique about this adaptation of such a well-known classic?
Director Joanna Settle's work always makes you think about what the play has to do with your own life. Even with the most contemporary plays I watch I feel like I'm watching something that has nothing to do with me. She brings Shakespeare home and sits him out on the patio.
You've worked on several scores with this company and director. What do you enjoy most about working with Joanna Settle and Shakespeare on the Sound?
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That I'm a bigger bitch than Stew!
Career you would want if not a writer/performer:
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HUNTSVILLE (AP) — Texas is wasting little time this new year claiming its annual notoriety as the nation's most active capital punishment state.
Convicted killer Curtis Moore, condemned for the slayings of three people during a drug-ripoff robbery in 1995 in Fort Worth, is set for lethal injection this week in what would be the first execution in the United States in 2009.
It's the first of eight scheduled punishments this month in the U.S., all but two of them in Texas. The 18 prisoners put to death in Texas last year accounted for about half of the 37 executions carried out in the country. Since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume, 423 Texas inmates have been put to death. Virginia was next with 102.
Moore, 40, was set to die Wednesday. Two more executions are set for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice Huntsville Unit next week, then three more the following week.
The six Texas inmates set to die in January are among at least 14 with execution dates already this year. Three more are set to die in early February, four in March and another in April. Nationwide, they are among more than two dozen with dates already in 2009, according to statistics kept by the Death Penalty Information Center, a Washington, D.C. anti-death penalty group.
"The only thing I could speculate is it's a result of the backlog created by the moratorium," said Kristin Houle, executive director of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
A Supreme Court review of a Kentucky case that questioned whether lethal injections were unconstitutionally cruel stalled punishments from September 2007 until the justices last April okayed the method.
"There's some general fallout from the fact we weren't executing anyone for eight or nine months," Houle said. "I think we're seeing this throughout the country."
Alabama, for example, carried out no executions in 2008. Already for 2009, however, five are scheduled for that state, including one for Thursday. Besides Texas and Alabama, inmates from Ohio, Oklahoma, Virginia and Tennessee are on the execution calendar.
In Texas, where a record 40 prisoners were put to death in 2000, execution dates are set by trial court judges from the county where the prisoner was convicted. For inmates now with scheduled dates, legal appeals either are exhausted or in the final stages in appeals courts.
"The people in Texas are duped. They think the justice system is working," said Larry Swearingen, 37, facing execution Jan. 27 for the strangulation of Melissa Trotter, a 19-year-old student abducted from Montgomery College north of Houston 10 years ago.
"I believe it's going to be a record year," he said.
Swearingen, who's hoping late appeals will spare his life, believes he was wrongly convicted, that his court-appointed trial lawyers, "worried about their next appointment," were part of "the bubba system" and that evidence favorable to him was manipulated and hidden to orchestrate his conviction. He'll get a reprieve "if there's any integrity in Texas," he said in an interview last week.
"But there's nothing I can do about that," he said. "I'm not going to boo-hoo about it. I'll continue my praying, continue my Bible studies."
Moore is set to begin the parade to the Huntsville death house, returning this week to the same place where he was taken in 2002, only to see the Supreme Court halt his punishment about three hours before he could have been executed. His lawyers then raised the possibility he was mentally retarded and ineligible for the death penalty. The Supreme Court denied that appeal in October.
Moore was on parole for robbery when he was arrested for killing three people in a pair of shootings Nov. 30, 1995.
Roderick Moore, 24, who was not related to him, and LaTanya Boone, 21, both of Fort Worth, were found shot to death in a roadside ditch across from a Fort Worth elementary school. The same night, Darrel Hoyle, then 21, of Fort Worth, and Henry Truevillain Jr., 20, of Forest Hill, were found shot and burned. Hoyle, however, survived and helped lead police to the arrest of Moore and his nephew, Anthony Moore, who then was 17.
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n Frank Moore, 47, on Jan. 21, for fatally shooting two people in a car outside a San Antonio bar 15 years ago. Moore was a San Antonio gang member with an extensive criminal past.
n Reginald Perkins, 53, on Jan. 22, for the 2000 strangulation of his stepmother in Fort Worth. Gertie Perkins, 64, is one of six women — three in Fort Worth and three in Cleveland, Ohio — whose slayings are tied to him.
n Virgil Martinez, 40, on Jan. 28, for an October 1996 shooting rampage that left four people dead, including his ex-girlfriend, Veronica Fuentes, and her 3- and 6-year-old children.
n Ricardo Ortiz, 46, on Jan. 29, for the slaying of a fellow inmate at the El Paso County Jail in 1997. Ortiz, identified as a high-ranking prison gang member, was convicted of giving a lethal dose of heroin in 1997 to Gerardo Garcia, 22, to stop Garcia from testifying against him about bank robberies they both had committed.
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Just about every contingency the 25 commandos trained for came at them, rapidly, chaotically and dangerously, in their lunge for Osama bin Laden. - WWII pilot gets Distinguished Service Cross BOSSIER CITY, La. (AP) — A Texas man nearing his 90th birthday has been awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in a daring 1943 attack on Nazi-controlled oil fields in Romania.
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Raŝt | |
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Nickname(s): Rain City, Rasht-Heaven | |
Coordinates: 37°16′51″N 49°34′59″E / 37.28083°N 49.58306°ECoordinates: 37°16′51″N 49°34′59″E / 37.28083°N 49.58306°E | |
Country | Iran |
Province | Gilan |
County | Rasht |
Bakhsh | Central |
Area | |
• Total | 180 km2 (70 sq mi) |
Population (2012) | |
• Total | 622,209[1] |
Time zone | IRST (UTC+3:30) |
• Summer (DST) | IRDT (UTC+4:30) |
Area code(s) | 0131 |
Website | www.rasht.ir |
Rasht (Gilaki: Rèsht, Persian: Raŝt, also Romanized as Resht and Rast, and often spelt Recht in French and older German manuscripts)[2] is the capital city of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2012 census, its population was 622,209.[3]
Rasht is the largest city on Iran's Caspian Sea coast. It is a major trade center between Caucasia, Russia and Iran using the port of Bandar-e Anzali. Rasht is also a major tourist center with the resort of Masouleh in the adjacent mountains and the beaches of Caspian as some of the major attractions.
Historically, Rasht was a major transport and business centre which connected Iran to Russia and Europe, and was therefore entitled the "Gate of Europe". The city has a history that goes back to the 13th century but its modern history dates back to the Safavid era during which Rasht was a major centre of the silk trade with numerous textile workshops. The name Rasht comes most plausibly from the verb reshtan, weaving. Rasht has, along with regions around Tabriz and Teheran, one of the earliest industry plants during the last quarter of the 19th century, prominently in fields such as fishing, caviar production, the Caspian sea oil pipeline construction and textiles. During the 20th century, until the mid-70s, Gilan and the Rasht region was the third-ranking industrial city in Iran by number of workers and per capita productivity. It lost its cultural and industrial status to a large extent after the 1970s.
The people of Rasht played a prominent role in instigation and radicalization of the Constitutional Revolution. Rasht is the birthplace of Mīrzā Kūchak Khān, one of the leading figures of the Constitutional Revolution (1905–1907). His own movement in Gilan, which went by the name of Jangalihã, represented a pro-modern and social democratic programme for reformation of Muslim rituals and traditions. Mirza Kuchak khăn established the short-lived Persian Socialist Soviet Republic in 1920 after the defeat of the constitutional forces and in coalition with Iranian communists. The republic had the support of the newly established Russian Red Army. The Soviet Government, after a turn of military and political strategy proposed by Trotsky, withdrew its support and the republic itself was tormented by the inner conflicts between the newly established Iranian Communist Party (1919) and the Jangalis and other factions. The republic was finally defeated by the Iranian army under the command of Reza Shah.
Under Köppen climate classification, the city has a humid subtropical climate (Cfa).
Climate data for Rasht | |||||||||||||
Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
Record high °C (°F) | 30 (86) |
31 (88) |
34.6 (94.3) |
37 (99) |
37.6 (99.7) |
37 (99) |
37 (99) |
37.2 (99) |
40 (104) |
37.4 (99.3) |
36 (97) |
32 (90) |
40 (104) |
Average high °C (°F) | 10.8 (51.4) |
10.9 (51.6) |
13.1 (55.6) |
19.0 (66.2) |
24.2 (75.6) |
28.3 (82.9) |
30.5 (86.9) |
29.9 (85.8) |
26.8 (80.2) |
21.7 (71.1) |
17.7 (63.9) |
13.6 (56.5) |
20.54 (68.97) |
Average low °C (°F) | 1.9 (35.4) |
2.5 (36.5) |
5.1 (41.2) |
9.3 (48.7) |
14.2 (57.6) |
18.0 (64.4) |
20.2 (68.4) |
19.8 (67.6) |
17.2 (63) |
12.8 (55) |
8.3 (46.9) |
4.2 (39.6) |
11.13 (52.03) |
Record low °C (°F) | −19 (−2) |
−18 (0) |
−6.4 (20.5) |
−2 (28) |
3.6 (38.5) |
5 (41) |
11 (52) |
9 (48) |
7 (45) |
1 (34) |
−4 (25) |
−10 (14) |
−19 (−2) |
Rainfall mm (inches) | 147.9 (5.823) |
119.2 (4.693) |
111.3 (4.382) |
61.6 (2.425) |
53.3 (2.098) |
38.7 (1.524) |
40.2 (1.583) |
73.8 (2.906) |
142.6 (5.614) |
230.2 (9.063) |
170.7 (6.72) |
166.0 (6.535) |
1,355.5 (53.366) |
Avg. rainy days | 11.7 | 10.7 | 12.0 | 8.6 | 7.7 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 6.8 | 9.5 | 12.3 | 10.7 | 11.4 | 109.4 |
% humidity | 84 | 85 | 84 | 80 | 78 | 74 | 74 | 77 | 82 | 86 | 85 | 85 | 81.2 |
Mean monthly sunshine hours | 89.9 | 79.1 | 71.3 | 114.0 | 161.2 | 204.0 | 210.8 | 167.4 | 138.0 | 108.5 | 93.0 | 86.8 | 1,524 |
Source #1: World Climate [4] | |||||||||||||
Source #2: Shahrekord Meteorology Database [5] |
Gileki is spoken by more than 3 million people. The vast majority of the speakers live in the Gilan Province of Iran. It belongs to the northwestern branch of the Iranian languages. The Iranian languages form a top-level constituent of the Indo-European language family. Gileki is closely related to Mazanderani and is subdivided into two main dialects: Bie-pas and Bie-pish. Bie-pas dialect is mainly spoken in west of Sepidrud including Rasht and Fuman while Bie-pish dialect belongs to eastern part of Gilan including Lahijan and Langrud.
Mirza Kuchak Khan[edit]
Mīrzā Kūchak Khān was an early twentieth century revolutionary and is considered a national legend in modern Iranian history. He was the founder of a revolutionary movement based in the forests of Gilan in northern Iran that became known as the Nehzat-e Jangal (Forest movement). This uprising started in 1914 and remained active against internal and foreign enemies until 1921 when the movement was defeated.
Unfortunately, given the shortcomings of the advanced social thinkers and activists of the time on one hand and the stronger establishment of the old autocracy on the other hand, again the same privileged class and their political representatives took control of the new regime. The freedom fighters were not satisfied and in fact were disarmed, in some cases using force. Meanwhile the direct and indirect manipulation of the country's internal politics by Tsarist Russians and the British added to the sufferings of the people and resulted in social unrest.
It was during such tumultuous period that Mirza Kuchak Khan, in collaboration with the Society of Islamic Union, started his uprising in the northern forests (Southern Caspian). Mirza Kuchak Khan's return to Rasht was not easy since he had been expelled from Gilan by the Russian consulate for five years. His cause seems to have been a mixture of that of the newly emerging national bourgeoisie and downtrodden peasants and therefore gained momentum soon after it started. The Jangal forces (locally referred to as 'Jangalis' i.e., 'forest people' in Persian) defeated the local governmental and Russian troops which added to their reputation as potential saviors of the ideas of the constitutional revolution.
On June 12, 1918 Manjil was the site of a battle between the Jangali troops and the joint British and White Russian forces. The latter force (led by General Dunsterville and Kernel Bicherakhov) although formally just trying to organize the return of Russian soldiers back home, in reality was planning to pass through Manjil as the only passage to the Caspian in order to reach Baku and fight against the newly formed Baku commune (led by Stepan Shahumian). General Dunsterville's private diaries and notes, including those kept during his command of the Dunsterforce Mission to North Persia and Baku, are transcribed from the original by General Dunsterville's great granddaughter, and are co-located on the Great War Primary Documents Archive [3]. Mirza Koochek Khan's troops were defeated in this war because of the use of artillery, armored car and airplanes by the joint forces. Mirza's field commander was a German officer (Major Von Pashen) who had joined the Jangal movement after being released by them from the British prison in Rasht.
The Jangal movement was further boosted and gained gravity after the victory of the Bolsheviks in Russia. In May 1920 the Soviet Navy led by Fyodor F. Raskolnikov and accompanied by Grigoriy Ordzhonikidze entered the Caspian port of Anzali. This mission was declared to be only in pursue of the Russian vessels and ammunition taken to Anzali by the White Russian counter-revolutionary general Denikin, who had been given asylum by British forces in Anzali.
Modern day[edit]
Rasht is growingly turning into an industrialized town like most of the Iranian large cities and province capitals. Enjoying the Kadus International Hotel and hundreds of tourist attractions, Rasht receives thousands of foreign tourists annually, mostly from Austria, Germany, Netherlands, France, Australia, Japan and African countries like Senegal and Cameroon as well as countries from Oceania like Micronesia. Rasht is known for its famous building of municipality located in a square named "Meidaane Shahrdari" meaning "the square of municipality" which was constructed circa 1900 but being renovated each year. Due to the high amount of humidity in Rasht which damages and destroys the aged buildings, the native, older architectural texture of Rasht is gradually being replaced with the modern skyscrapers and apartments.
The culture of consumerism is prevalent among the people of Rasht as a cultural and urban center which is historically engaged in close commercial and political ties with the United Kingdom, Russia and France. Due to this background which makes the inhabitants much familiar with the industrial, cultural and political developments of the west, the finance and credit institutions are more willing to open representative offices and bureaus in Rasht and it has made the city a center of various banks and financial organizations. There are many commercial centers, malls and financial institutions in Rasht including one branch of the Exports Development Bank of Iran which is an international bank dealing with the Iranian exports. The organizers and directors of national Iranian or non-Iranian banks afford to spend considerable amounts of budgets to construct attractive and modern buildings for their offices in Rasht. Since the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, there have always been requests on behalf of Russian, Turkish and Azeri banks to open branches in Rasht and that is why the city is endowed as the "gate of Europe" in Iran. The head consulate of the Russian Federation government is located in Rasht and some of the other Caspian region countries are also keen to establish representative headquarters in Rasht alongside their embassies in Tehran. Some evidences are the University of Guilan which was constructed jointly by the governments of Iran and West Germany about 40 years ago, the building of IRIB representatives in Rasht which was constructed jointly by the Iranian and Belgian engineers.
The people of Rasht have always been regular fans of football which is the beloved sport in the city. Most of them are the fans of Damash Gilan F.C. which is a professional football club playing in the Iranian premier football league, Persian Gulf Cup. Damash Gilan F.C. is the newer version of former Pegah FC football club that belonged to the municipality of Rasht, but purchased later by the mineral water factory of Damash and changed its name and properties to Damash Gilan F.C.. The home stadium of Damash Gilan F.C. is Dr. Azodi Stadium which is an old stadium dating back to almost 40 years ago. The capacity is 11,000 people.
Following football, wrestling, judo and weightlifting are the most popular sports of youth in Rasht and that is due to the enchanting appearance of Iranian wrestlers and weightlifters in the international competitions like Olympics. The outstanding figure of world weightlifting and the two-time olympics Gold medal winner Hossein Rezazadeh is a main inspirer of Rasht youth to try Weightlifting as their professional job. Asghar Ebrahimi who was the squad captain of Iranian weightlifting team at the 2008 Olympics is from Rasht and a successful example of those youth from Rasht who tried this national field of sport after Hossein Rezazadeh.
The dominant cuisine of Rasht people is the various types of fish and Rashti people are said to spend much on books, clothes and food. They spend the leisure times going to cinemas, art exhibitions, music concerts and international book fairs that are being held in the city most of times in a year. Also the municipality kicks off sports, cultural or IT-related competitions to involve the youth in healthy and constructive activities. The most beloved competition is the annual blogging competition which awards the top young bloggers each year.
City of the Firsts[edit]
- First Public Library of Iran[4]
- First Branch of the First Iranian Bank (Sepah Bank) was located in Rasht [5]
International airport[edit]
The Rasht International airport is the only airport in the small province of Gilan and was established in 1969 with an approximate area of 220 hectares. At first, the airport just handled domestic flights to Tehran and Mashhad, but after it was renamed to Sardar Jangal International airport in 2007, additional routes were established.
The airport is in close affiliation with hundreds of flights by national and international airlines, including Mahan Air, Iran Air, Iran Aseman Airlines, Kish Air and receives more than 2000 flights annually.
People and culture[edit]
The first national library of Iran was established in Rasht under the Qajar dynasty. Furthermore, Nasime Shomal as the first modern newspaper of Iran after the constitutional revolution has been published in Rasht, but later moved its headquarters to Qazvin.
The people of Rasht speak Gileki as the maternal language and Persian as the national language. In some rural areas near the Rasht, school teachers give their courses in Gileki rather than Persian.
Colleges and universities[edit]
- University of Guilan (دانشگاه گيلان)
- Gilan university of medical sciences
- Islamic Azad University of Rasht
- JaberEbn Hayyan Institute of Higher Education (موسسه آموزش عالی جابربن حیان)
- Payame Noor University (دانشگاه پیام نور)
- Institute of Higher Education for Academic Jihad of Rasht (موسسه آموزش عالي غيرانتفاعي جهاد دانشگاهي رشت)
- Guilan Technical & Vocational Training Organization اداره کل آموزش فنی و حرفه ای استان گیلان
- Gilan Advanced Skills Training Center مرکز آموزش مهارتهای پیشرفته گیلان
For a more comprehensive treatment of the region, see the history section of Gilan.
Rasht was first mentioned in historical documents in 682 CE, but it is certainly older than this. It has seen the Sassanid era, the armies of Peter the Great and later Russian rulers, and British colonialism. The people of Rasht also played a major role in the Constitutional Revolution of Iran.
- 682: Rasht is first mentioned in historical documents.
- 1669: Stenka Razin, a Cossack warlord, plundered the city.
- 1714: Rasht destroyed by earthquake.
- 1722 - 1734: Occupied by Peter the Great during the Russo-Persian War, 1722-1723.
- 1901: A major epidemic plague devastates the city.
- 1917 - 1920: The Russian and British armed forces fight in the port city of Bandar-e Anzali and Rasht. The British retreat and the Russians occupy the area.
- 1920 - 1921 - short-living Persian Soviet Socialist Republic was established with its capital in Rasht
- 1937: A revolt, sparked by the desire to collect a "road tax" from the Russians, was suppressed.
- 1974: First university established in Rasht.
Twin towns – Sister cities[edit]
Rasht has signed the treaty of city twinning with the following cities:
Notables of Rasht[edit]
- Mīrzā Kūchak Khān One of the martyrs of freedom in Iran
- Khosrow Golsorkhi
- Mohammad Khatam
- Prof. Majid Samii President of The World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies
- Mahmoud Behzad The father of modern biology of Iran
- Fazlollah Reza Former Iran's ambassador to UNICEF
- Valiollah Ardeshiri Former Physics teacher
- Mohammad Moein A famous linguistics and literature researcher
- Hushang Ebtehaj The intellectual poet of 20th century in Iran
- Aydin Aghdashloo (Born 1940)
- Ebrahim Poordavood (Born 1885)
- Mahmoud Namjoo The world's weightlifting champion
- Arsen Minasian The Armenian founder of the first modern sanatorium in Iran
- Ardeshir Mohassess A cartoonist from Rasht
- Sadeq Saba Head of BBC Persian Service
- Susan Taslimi Actress
- Dariush Ramezani, Cartoonist
- Anoushiravan Rohani Musician
- Marjane Satrapi World award-winning film director
- Hamideh Kheirabadi Former Actress
- Youcef Nadarkhani Christian pastor sentenced to death for apostasy from Islam
- Golsar
- Manzariyeh
- Rahnemaie ranandegi
- Masjad Safi
- Diyanati
- Chomarsara
- Lakan Shahr
- ChalleKhaneh
- Noghredasht
- Ostadsara
- Pirsara
- Rashtian
- Sagharisazan
- Andisheh Complex
- Park Shahr
- Takhti
- Tazeh Abad
- Sabzemeydan
- Lakani
- Ziabari
- Sam
- Moalem
- Estakhr
- Hamidian
- Bisotun
- Motahari
- Shahrake ghods
- ^ http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=de&des=wg&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&geo=-106
- ^ Rasht can be found at GEOnet Names Server, at this link, by opening the Advanced Search box, entering "-3080876" in the "Unique Feature Id" form, and clicking on "Search Database".
- ^ http://bevoelkerungsstatistik.de/wg.php?x=&men=gcis&lng=de&des=wg&srt=pnan&col=adhoq&msz=1500&geo=-106
- ^ Rasht, Iran: Climate, Global Warming, and Daylight Charts and Data [1]. Retrieved on: June 16, 2013.
- ^ Climatological Norms of Iran synoptic stations [2]. Retrieved on: September 12, 2011.
- ^ http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/gilani-visits-land-of-his-forefathers_100563463.html
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rasht. |
- Rasht Municipality Organization شهرداري رشت
- Damash Rasht Football Team Fans Site
- Gilan Province
- Iran Chamber Society: Rasht
- Iran Chamber of commerce, Industries & Mines: Gilan
- Encyclopedia of the Orient
- Info Please
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Now located in shopping mall.. Very interesting about the fishing on the gulf coast. While we were there they had a dimenstration of fishnet repair and making.
I learned a lot about the boating industry and what hard work the seafood industry goes through to put that great seafood on our tables
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We went here to learn more about our vacation area. I think it is a temporary location in the Edgewater Mall and it is not marketed well. You just come across it near Dillard's. it has some interesting exhibits but could be much better. There is a rolling video to watch giving the history of Biloxi which is very interesting... More
I think this is run through the maritime seafood museum; it goes out of the Biloxi small craft harbor, near the McElroys restaurant. It was a fun and educational trip; we learned alot about shrimp and shrimping industry and as a bonus we saw dolphins during the trip in the sound, just outside the harbor! Net caught a small ray,... More
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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Riverside's baseball team has struggled with inconsistency at the plate and the field through the first third of the season.
But that doesn't overly concern the Warriors Coach Chris Hawkins.
"We tell our kids that you're going to lose a third of your games, you're going to win a third of your games, but what's important is what you do with that other third of your games," Hawkins said following a 7-6 road win over Capital on Thursday at Sam Carpenter Field. "This is one of those games that's categorized as that "other third" games, because it's not a for sure win or a for sure loss.
"We had to battle and being able to just come out and find a way to get it done is important. If we find a way to get it done, that's all we care about."
The Warriors (6-5) got the job done behind a solid pitching effort by sophomore southpaw Brady Wilkinson (2-1), a couple of timely hits, and a little help from four Cougars (5-9) errors.
Wilkinson struggled to control his curveball early on, walking three and throwing four wild pitches in the first two innings, before settling down in the middle innings.
Wilkinson allowed just four hits, three of which came in the first three innings and finished with four strikeouts and six walks.
"He's a kid that typically feels his way out the first inning or two and then he settles down and gets in a groove," said Hawkins, who is in his third season guiding the Warriors. "The big thing about him is that he's got utmost confidence in himself. He's not cocky, but he just has confidence in himself. He's not afraid to pound the zone and he trusts all of his pitches."
Wilkinson, making only his third start of the season, settled down when he started to control his curve.
"I struggled at first trying to find the strike zone," Wilkinson said. "Once I found the strike zone I was hitting my spots and my fielders made plays.
"I was trying to work my curveball for first pitch strikes early on. That helped me out and then later in the game I started to get my fastball over for strikes and then I just tried to mix my pitches up. That's what got them to chase a few pitches."
Capital turned both of Wilkinson's second-inning walks in to the first runs of the game when Austin Ellis' groundout plated Anthony Gavin and Brandon Thomas' single brought home Kavin Kincaid.


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