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Tuesday, January 28, 1997

The Web

* Shahin The Bohemian
* 50 Persian fonts!
* Sufi and Rumi links
* Christian site in Persian
* Persian Outpost's Travel section
* Persian music for kids
* Immigration reform platform
* Visa information

Question

* Is there a Persian OCR

Lost & Found

-- Did you know Parviz Samii?
-- Etefagh school, Tehran
-- Ebn-e Yamin school, Mashhad

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The Web

From: Nersi Ramazan-nia <Ramazannia@earthlink.net>

Shahin The Bohemian dives deep into the Web and exposes himself. He writes:

I live my life to experience the moment, at least that's what i've been told! I've been living a big part of my life searching for love and affection and still do. All I want out of life is to make love with my paintings, to duel with my paintings, to get lost into a dark pair of eyes in which I can feel my unborn daughter, ..someone I can tango my life away with, a woman to whom I don't have to tell about "Bachianas Brasileiras" and one who will relate to those happier days of my life when everything was OK, when we slept on the roof tops in beautiful august nights inside a silken net away from the bugs and had to once in a while reach underneath it to grab that clay bowl of ice water while our mom and dads still lived together and slept inside the same house. What I search in life is simple passion,... it's passionately simple. I shared 6 years of my life with the most beautiful girl in the world, a balerina, a bohemian from Spain, another lost soul whom I loved and will always love even though she now lives in my book. Then one day I heard these funny words "Joon", "Jigar".... and I was never the same...

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Curious? Visit Shahin's WWW (weird, wacky and wonderful) site at:

//www.calweb.com/~falcon/index.html

And don't forget Shahin koochooloo:

//www.calweb.com/~falcon/gag1.jpg

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This is a one-page advertising for a Persian wordprocessing program for 50 different fonts in sizes of one to 1,000. There are samples on the page, including Nastaliq style. Take a look:

//gcwp.com/fadedimage/persian

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Anyone looking for sources on Rumi and Sufism? Go here:

//www.ccnet.com/~rudra/rumi/sufilink.htm

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This site is relatively new ("Serving Christ since August 1996"). It is pretty plain and straightforward. It has three sections, all in Persian:

-- What is Christianity
-- Frequently asked questions -
- How I became a Christian

The site is at:

//www.iranmasseeh.com

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From: Ben Bagheri <ben@connect.net>

Here's the latest posting on Persian Outpost's "Travel" section:

"The Gadook Pass: A Nostalgic Gateway to the Caspian"

By: Ali Akbar's Son

[On the new Firoozkooh highway] father always used to point out places off the road, up on the mountain or across some rice field and tell us a little story or a memory. This often made my mother very angry, since he did it while driving on those scary mountainous turns!

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To see the full text, go to:

//www.persianoutpost.com/htdocs/gadook.html

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This is the first listing of Persian songs for kids that we have found. It is on a site run by the Iranian embassy in Ottawa, Canada.

The sound quality is not that good, but you might want to give it a try. The site also includes several Azari songs.

(By the way, I checked the site again just now and it gave me a message that the Real Audio server is down or busy...)

Got to:

//www.salamiran.org/Music.html

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From: Davood Rahni <rahni@pace.edu>

For immigration related "reform" platform by many professional societies, go to:

//omni.cc.purdue.edu/~mohahmad/immig.html

for a feedback on this statement, write to:

rahni@pace.edu

Thank you Davood Rahni

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From: Aliakbar Yousefi <yousefi@gch.ulaval.ca>

Ba salam

Regarding the message about visa for Iranian-Americans they may consult the homepage of the Iran's embassy in ottawa at the following address and for more information they can contact them by e-mail

//www.salamiran.org/emb/consulate/index.html

Regards

Ali Akbar Yousefi

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Question

From: Patrick Clawson <clawsonp@ndu.edu>

I want an optical character reader (OCR) to read a lot of material in Farsi.

Does anyone have suggestions for hardware or software? I would like to know if the OCR is compatible with other scanners, if the program for running it is in Farsi or English, and if there is an evaluation copy available.

-- Patrick Clawson,
National Defense University
<clawsonp@ndu.edu>

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Lost & Found

From: Bahram Javid <BJAVID@unix1.cc.uop.edu>

Parviz Samii passed away in Iran nine months ago. But for a long time he lived in the U.S. east coast. There is very scant information about him. If anyone has any information, please contact:

Minoo Samii at this phone number in the U.S.: (718) 229-7671

Thank you.

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From: Cyrus Khalatbari <cyrusk@astral.magic.ca>

I am looking for some old friends from Etefagh school in Tehran I was there between 1976 1979, I am looking for Parisa, I use to call her "ShooShoo!!" and Saeed, Farhad, Nazila, Nazi... etc and anyone whom went to Etefagh around that time. Please contact me:

Kourosh Khalatbari
cyrusk@astral.magic.ca

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From: Mohsen Razavi <mohsen.razavi@rinmansskolan.eskilstuna.se>

Salam

I am Mohsen Razavi, 47, looking for my friends from Ebn-e Yamin High School in Mashhad (1964-1967). Some of my contemporaries were Sirus Afshar, Reza Modjb, Feridon Kashi, Farokh Zandi, Mohsen Fazel, Masoud Godarz and...

If anyone recognizes these names. please contact me at:

mohsen.razavi@rinmansskolan.eskilstuna.se

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