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I have thoroughly enjoyed your music
section, not only the songs and taraneha, but also the pictures.
One such picture invoked this
request. I have three albums made by Cheshmak. Each Album contains
six cassettes of Marzieh. I have albums 1, 2, and 4. In addition
to these three albums of six cassettes each, I have her cassettes
of the same series that start 20 and ends at 34.
I do not have her
album 3 that would contain cassettes 13 through 18. I also do not
have her cassette number 19 and any numbers
past 34. The picture I saw in Marzieh's set is cassette number
20.
I would be willing to exchange copies of these cassettes
with the ones I am missing. Is there anyone who has a more complete
compilation
of her cassettes that were made by Cheshmak.
While
there is no need to mention here, I am not at all in agreement
with Marzieh's political point of views or her activities associated
with the Mojahedin. I have always loved her songs, her voice and
I always will. My most admired Iranian singers are Ghavami and
Banaan on the men side and Marzieh and Elahe on the women side.
I also love Vigen and Manoochehr's songs.
Finally, I have many
reel to reel tapes of old radio Iran
program such as Mosabeghehe Hoosh, program by Hooshange Mostofi,
Shahbaji Khanoom, recital by Roshed, Azan, and Zabihi. I also have
the Norooz programs, the speeches made by Shah and Farah. No, I
most definitely have speeches made by Khomeini. I even discarded
his stamps even though I am a philatelist.
Kindest Regards
-- Kombiz Salehi
To top * Sponsorship: AidsWalk in New York
City
I am participating in AIDS Walk New York (a 10K walk on May 15
starting in Central Park and continuing throughout Manhattan).
This is a very important issue to me and I have set an ambitious
fundraising goal of $1000, which, thankfully, I’ve already
surpassed due to the generous support of family and friends.
I am now reaching out to the larger Iranian community for its help.
There has been a lot of publicity about drug treatments, which
prolong some people's lives but they don't work for everyone and
we still don’t have a cure. Additionally, recent news reports
indicate that the HIV infection rate in Iran is increasing exponentially
and some statistics suggest that Iran has the highest infection
rate if measured on a per capita basis. Therefore, I’m asking
for your help and sponsorship. I have a personalized
webpage set
up where you can
charge a donation, if you would like to support me.
Thank you in
advance for considering sponsorship .. I greatly
appreciate it.
Warm Regards,
Parissa Behnia
To top * For international medical students
Sent by Pedram
Mizani, MD: "What we do affects 99.9% of the U.S. population;
ironically, 99.9% of the U.S. population has absolutely no idea
what we do!" says Dr. Pedram Mizani; a Family Medicine physician
from Atlanta, Georgia, and the co-founder of Graduate
Medical Consultants Group (GMCGroup). "According to the American Medical Association,
it is estimated that the U.S. will face an estimated 200,000 physician
shortage by the year 2020, if we don’t act now!"
We have too few U.S. medical students, resulting in 10,000 too
few physicians for medical residency each year: approximately 14K
U.S. medical graduates applying to about 24,000 residency positions.
The remaining 10K open internship positions are filled by more
than 40K competing International Medical Graduate (IMG). An IMG
is a descriptive term used to identify both American and non-American
medical doctors who studied medicine abroad.
"The newly publicized
physician shortage data is also astounding", states Dr. Mizani,
"the aging baby boomers, growing U.S. population and a significant
decrease
in nursing school applications enabled the U.S. Department of Census
Bureau to explain why we may suffer from 1,000,000 health care
provider shortage by year 2010, and the newly implemented 80 hour
resident work week rule means even less help in an already understaffed
medical arena. The ACGME now has to scramble to approve 10K more
internship positions, bringing the total annual need for internships
to 35,000. This is not a good situation for us to be in".
Quietly since the year 2000, a Georgia based company co-founded
by Dr. Pedram Mizani (Family Medicine) has been making a significant
difference: GMCGroup has been an avid supporter of educating the
IMG before they enter U.S. residency programs under controlled
teaching environments in the U.S. hospitals. As a result, GMCGroup
has supervised more than 13,000 medical student clinical rotation
weeks in affiliation with U.S. teaching institutions and participating
U.S. physicians.
"Our healthcare alliances with teaching
institutions enables us to provide our affiliate medical schools
with clinical experiences that are second to none!" Dr. Mizani
states firmly. "We have just finalized an exclusivity arrangement
with the Tenet Atlanta Medical Center to comprehensively manage
their IMG rotations. This is just one of the many contracts that
we have in progress".
Our medical student body of 200
is larger than any U.S. medical school’s entering class.
They enjoy a seamless transition between rotations, across 35 specialties,
in prestigious institutions such as Atlanta Medical Center, Dekalb
Medical Center, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Northside Hospital,
Henry General Hospital and Kaiser Permanente, and are trained by
180 Attending Physicians staffed at Emory University, Morehouse
School
of Medicine, Mercer and Medical College of Georgia... just
to name a few. Our mission is to train medical students from international
medical schools who desire a career in primary care, wishing
to serve the
U.S. underserved population. We are here to fulfill just that.
To top * Going to Iran? Giving a talk?
Dear friends,
Every year, many Iranian scientists go to Iran for family visits
without having an opportunity to interact with the universities
there. Having thought about this issue and with the objective of
promoting collaboration of Iranian academics living abroad with
the scientific community in Iran, a group of us established a non-profit
organization, Knowledge Diffusion Network on December 2003. To
know more about this organization, you can take a look at KnowDiff.net.
Our current project is the Visiting Lecturer Program in which
we try to facilitate the connection between the visitors and the
universities in Iran. We plan to organize lectures and workshops
for those academics who visit Iran. During the last year, we organized
18 scientific seminars in various areas in different universities
in Iran such as Sharif University of Technology, Amirkabir University
of Technology and Isfahan University of Technology. To see the
list of all the seminars, please take a look
here.
As summer is coming, many of you may be thinking of travelling
to Iran to visit your friends and family. If you are a graduate
student, a post-doctoral fellow, a faculty or a specialist, and
plan to visit Iran and are interested in giving a lecture related
to your area of research, please go to our website and fill out the
form.
Best Regards,
-- Yaser Kerachian
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* Some Assembly
Required
I wanted to let you know that "Some Assembly
Required," a short documentary
I was the director of photography on on the First Amendment and
the Republican
National Convention protests, is playing again on TV this month.
If you have
cable, perhaps you might like to watch it. It's showing May 19,
9pm on the
Sundance Channel >>> See
-- Mahyad Tousi
TousiProductions.com
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SuiteForPeace.com
Dear friends,
For those who know me, the desire to promote "The Arts" and
to
participate in the beautiful journey of human's spiritual
evolution or
the development of human's mind has always been the biggest
motivation
in life.
I have very often thought about the Rockefellers who built
so
many museums, or the Carnegie Hall, which was built by A. Carnegie
and
many others who gave their money to promote art. Oprah Winfrey
just
donated one million dollars to the Alvin Ailey Dance Co.
These
individuals' love for art (or may be even feeling guilty
for being so
rich) pushes them to help the world of arts. For whatever reason
or
whatever the cause, the private contributions in the Western
societies have helped the growth of arts at the level that we can
now enjoy
so
much of it.
Why am I telling you all of this? Because I want us to practice
the
beauty in our hearts and minds to help the art of an Iranian
artist. I
have a friend who has made this beautiful music called "Suite
for
Peace." He has spent years on this work. Instead of going
under lots of
debt like most of us, buying a home or a brand new car or taking
a
vacation, he is under lots of debt for producing a CD that can
call out
the cry of his inner desire which is Peace and Love. Ahmad Nadimi
and
his wife Emiko have made a music which aspires every one to the
greater
part of themselves.
There are many experienced musicians who have helped make this
beautiful music. Ahmad Nadimi himself is a very talented musician
who
has spent most of his life on his only dream which is cresting
his own
music. He has worked with great Iranian music masters like Mohammad
Reza Lotfi. He has studied music in Iran and later in France.
He has
played with different contemporary bands in France. Emiko Nadimi
has
been a Tokyo opera singer who for the first time feels she sings
a
peace of music that truly expresses her heart. Shahrdad Rohani is a well-known music conductor who has always
loved to
write music. He has created many pieces of music and conducted
different orchestras around the world. He has directed and arranged
"suite for Peace" for orchestra.
Khosro Soltani is also a well-known Europe-based Iranian artist
with a
very deep appreciation of music. He plays many different instruments
and has worked and studied the Renascence music beside his original
classical music and traditional Iranian music. You almost never
see
Khosro without an instrument. He has collaborated with masters
such as
Hossein Alizadeh at different times. The album No-baang-e Kohan
is
known to the lovers of the Iranian music. He has composed and
produced different CDs, such as The Great Mahour (Mahour-e Kabir).
I shared with you what my heart asked me to do. I hope your heart
will
respond. Ahmad Nadimi has spent $70.000 to produce this CD which
is not
only a piece of music but it is also a cry of love, a cry for
greater expectation of himself, of me, of you.
Ahmad now needs to promote
his CD through different music agencies and
that needs more money. You can help by buying his CD. The cost
of one
CD is $20.00. There is no limit on how much you can help but
at minimum
you can buy one CD for yourself and buy some more to give as
a gift to
your friends and family. (For additional information about the songwriter
or how to purchase the CDs or make your contribution please go
on SuiteForPeace.com.
For purchasing other works of Khosro Soltani and Shahrdad Rohani
you can
send an email to suitefropeace web site.) I
hope you purchase the CD and listen to it when you are in quiet,
and
in the stillness of your surroundings. Then you will find why
did I
write to you.
Please forward this letter to all the music lovers
you know.
Thank you.
Sincerely
-- Soheila Yahyapoor Rubin
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