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Exclusive Persian Nightclub Open to
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Music, Dancing, Entertainment, Hors D'Oeuvres Saturday, Oct. 28, Milano, Milano Bar and Restaurant in Burlingame

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IranSara• com strongly believes in Iranian community and has worked closely with non-profit organizations to advance their goals, free of charge. IranSara's bulletin board, monthly Newsletter (Tootee), direct e-mail advertising, and on-line database management are a few of our efforts helping Iranian community and supporting their activities:

2nd and 4th Fridays of Each Month. 6 pm. Ferdowsi Society holds Shahnameh khani sessions. De Anza College, room L95, free and open to all. info at:
http://www.ferdosi.org

1st and 3rd Sunday of Every Month. 2 - 5 PM. Fremont Public Library. Persian Literature Study & Poetry Reading Sessions; Contact Info: Mr. Naaseh (510) 226-7160. Address: 2400 Stevenson Blvd, Fremont, CA.

1st Friday of Each Month. Society of Iranian Professionals (SIP) Meeting. 7:30 PM. Faz Restaurant Ballroom in Sunnyvale. Contact info: (408) 496-9093 or visit http://www.SIP-CA.org. Friday. Oct. 6th. Anousheh Ansari. 7:30 PM. Faz Restaurant Ballroom in Sunnyvale. Contact info: (408) 496-9093 or visit
http://www.SIP-CA.org.

1st Thursday of Every month - Network of Iranian-American Professionals of Orange County (NIPOC) General Meetings are held each month at OC Airport Hilton Hotel on 18800 Mac Arthur Blvd in Irvine, CA. 7:00-9:30 PM. For additional information, visit
http://www.nipoc.org or call 949-851-3993

Sept. 20 - Dec. 20 One Thousand Years Of Persian Classical Poetry From Rudaki to Nima Three hours of class per week. This semester-length seminar will deal with significant works of the most celebrated Persian classical poets. Wednesdays 7:00 - 10:00, 271 Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Tuition: $150 ;
contact: (415) 898-8509 rtanha@cmc.net
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Showtimes for Surviving Paradise,

AMC Kabuki 8
1881 Post Street (Japan Center, Corner of Filmore)
San Francisco, (415)922-4AMC
Daily at: 2:05, 5:00, 7:45, 10:00

In Person Appearance & Q&A by Shohreh Aghdashloo & Kamshad Kooshan

on Saturday, Sept 30th, at 2:05, 5:00 and 7:45
AMC Saratoga 14
700 El Paseo de Saratoga (Corner Saratoga & Campbell Avenues)
San Jose (408)871-1441
Daily at: 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20

In Person Appearance & Q&A by Shohreh Aghdashloo & Kamshad Kooshan

on Sunday Oct 1, at 3:20, 5:40 and 8:00
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Landmark Shattuck
2230 Shattuck Ave.
Berkeley (510) 843-FILM
Daily at: 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40

Friday Sept. 29th. Movie Release: Surviving Paradise (Raaz-e Behest) Written and Directed by Kamshad Kooshan be moving to:
AMC Saratoga 14 in San Jose:Surviving Paradise Starting this Friday Sept. 29 (For Two Weeks Only at:Central Info Line: 1(800) 787-4945

AMC Saratoga 14700 El Paseo de Saratoga (Corner of Saratoga & Campbell Avenues), across from WestGate Shopping Center. San Jose, (408)871-1441
AMC Kabuki 8, 1881 Post Street, San Francisco, (415)922-4
AMC Landmark Shattuck, 2230 Shattuck Ave.,Berkeley (510) 843-FILM
New Light Entertainment http://www.survivingparadise.com
survive@onebox.com - email ;(310) 754-6053 - voicemail/fax 2118 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 1111,Santa Monica, CA, 90403 For Show Times: Check Newspaper,or call 1(800)787-4945 Starring: Shohreh Aghdashloo, Keyan Abedini, Lauren Parissa Abedini, Joe Alvarez, David Wissak, David Barry, Vahik Pirhamzei, Otis Freeman

Help Iranian Refugees in Turkey: To help or learn more about this you can check the following web site:http://www.irainc.org

Sunday, Oct. 1st, 4:30-6:30 PM--Discussing Classical books--Cafe La Madeleine of Rockville Maryland. For more information and book club membership contact the organizer, Dr. Poopak Taati, 301-353-1953.

Sept 17- Nov 12; Shirin Neshat at UC Berkeley Art Museum, Neshat's skill in framing each moving image as meticulously as a still shot is rivaled only by her ability to project female sexuality onto the faces, and into interactions, of a whole nation of characters".

Sunday, Oct. 8, 2000, The 4th Annual Iranian Arts & Cultural Event- 11 AM at Quinlan Community Center of Cupertino.
Go to: iransara.com

Saturday Oct. 28th, 2000- Club Scorpio. Milano Bar and Restaurant in Burlingame Exclusive Persian Nightclub Open to "Members Only" www.clubscorpio.com Music, Dancing, Entertainment, Hors D'Oeuvres

Nov. 4, 2000, Daayeh International Alliance to Nurture Children charity Fundraising Fundraising for Disadvantaged Children In Iran. Help Daayeh make a difference in the lives of children. LAVASH Restaurant, San Francisco

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Zucchini in bread crumbs with cheese
Serving 6-8

2 lb. small zucchini
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup salad oil
11/2 cup cooked rice
1/2 cup freshly grated parmesan cheese
1/2 cup grated sharp cheddar cheese
salt and pepper to taste
2 eggs, slightly beaten
Dry bread crumbs
Melted butter

Cut ends from Zucchini and steam until tender. Reserve 2 zucchini for garnish, then dice remaining zucchini. Combine butter and oil in a Dutch oven and heat until butter is melted. Add rice and diced zucchini, then saute until golden, stirring frequently. Stir in the cheeses until melted and add seasonings. Let cool slightly, then stir in eggs quickly. Pour into a greased baking dish and sprinkle generously with bread crumbs. Slice reserved zucchini and arrange around the diced zucchini mixture. Drizzle melted butter over top. Broil about 6 inches from the source of heat until lightly browned and bubbly.
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1. Built to Last by James Collins and Jerry Porras
2. First Break all the rules, Marcus Buckingham
3. Simplify Your Life with Kids, Elaine St. James

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Where does your money GO?
Niloufar Abedi


Do you know how you spend your money?
Do you spend it on your living expenses?!
If so, how much are you spending for each of these expenses? There is a good chance that you can not answer the last question with the precision it requires. If you are like most of us, you have an idea of how much you are spending on your living expenses every month, and I can make a safe bet that your idea of how much you spend is considerably less than the amount of money it actually costs you to keep up with your life style. The good news is that you can learn the exact amount you spend monthly and use the information to have complete control over your money. Your personal finance can be the most consistent and dependable part of your life. If this sounds surprising, it should not. Think about it. Money can be handled with exactness and precision, because you can measure it in dollars and cents. The reason that most of you face many unexpected circumstances in your financial life is the lack of knowledge and understanding that are essential tools for maintaining balance in your financial life. There are two major categories in your personal finance. Your income and your expenses. Your income includes all the different revenues you have for receiving money on regular basis. It is a subject that will be covered in the next three article. In this article, the main concentration will be on the knowledge you need to monitor and control your expenses. This knowledge will help you to develop a complete picture of the exact amount of money you need to keep up with your life style, and the understanding of this picture will give you the ability to control and enhance your financial life. There are three tools that you use for developing a system to monitor and control your living expenses. they are: Tracking, Trimming, and Holding. Tracking: The action that will help you learn the exact amount of money you are spending for different expenses. It is important to realize thatexpenses whether they occur daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, semi-annually or annually have a direct effect on the amount of money you spend monthly. When you track all these expenses and anticipate the amount of money you have to have for each of them, then you can eliminate the guesswork from your finances, and you can make effective financial decisions and implement them with consistency and dependability. Your living expenses can generally be divided into eight categories. They are: Monthly expenses: Rent, food, utilities and so on. The expenses usually provide the necessities of life. Small expenses: Car wash, parking fees, afternoon coffee and so on. The expenses that keep your life running smoothly, yet they are so small that you don't consider them part of your expenses. Big expenses: Insurance, vacation, membership fees and so on. The expenses that occur once or twice a year, but their payments effect your annual budget. Seasonal expenses: Summer camps, winter's higher utility bills, spring gardens. The expenditures occur on a seasonal basis. Hidden expenses: Babysitter, the gardener, the cleaning people. Any weekly or biweekly payments you make. On these payments or purchases you are spending two to four extra payments per year. Special occasions. Annual events like birthdays and anniversaries, lunch and dinner invitations. The total amount you spend on a yearly base has a major impact on your financial life. Holiday expenses. The entertainments, gifts, meals, travel, and various other minor costs of getting together with groups of people. Surprise expenses. An old friend dropping in and you spend a weekend on town or a medical emergency, the unexpected events of your life. To learn exactly how much you have spend on these eight categories in the last two years. Follow these steps. Gather all your checkbooks, canceled checks, computerized billings, and other records you have for the last two years. Create a chart for each category of your living expenses and write down how much money you spend on each item in that category. (The more itemized you make these categories, the more useful the information will be for your future decisions.) Add the total for each item in each category and divide the result by 24. The number will show you the average monthly money allocation for each item. If you multiply this monthly average by 12, you will know exactly how much money you are spending for each item in each category of your living expenses. Trimming: The information from your tracking actions will give you the ability of making knowledgeable decisions about how you want to deal with your different expenses. Divide all your expenses into two categories. Fixed and variable. The fixed expenditure are relatively few and include such items as rent/mortgage, car payments, insurance, and so on. The majority of your expenses are in the variable category. Here is where you can make a major difference in your financial life and reduce your expenses to a large degree without effecting your life style. Review the expenses that you spend more than $200 on them monthly. Decide which of the items can be used less often. Make a selection on the items that you can spend $25 to $30 less per month. If you can make that decision on 30 items, your action will make a major influence in your finances. For example, if you trim $30 from 30 different items in different categories, you will reduce your living expenses by $10,800 annually. ($30 X 30 = $900, $900 X 12= $10,800). This is called trimming. The $30 reduction on $200 expense will not inconvenience you to a major degree. However, $10,800 will make a considerable financial impact on your life, especially if your yearly income is in the $30-$40,000 range. To make trimming work for you. Follow these steps. Use your information from tracking to decide the amount of money you will allocate for every item on the yearly basis. Then create a system that can help you keep track of what you are spending and use it to monitor what you spend in each category month by month. If you use up any allocation early and want to spend more in that category, you can analyze the other categories and decide if you can trim a little more in from them to compensate for this extra money you want to spend. Holding: Hold on to the money that you may be throwing out right now. Do you send in extra money to IRS and get a tax return at the end of the year. The money that is sitting in IRS account does not give you any interest. Does your mortgage company withhold your property taxes and insurance payments and pay them for you? These payments are due on semi-annual basis. If you hold that money instead of the company, you can be earing interest on them. There are many other actions that you take which is costing you money for very little convenience. The amount may be as little as a $100 to $500 a year, but if you calculate the total of capital and interest you can make in 20 to 30 years, you will be less hesitant to let go of your money so fast. The practice of monitoring and controlling your spending habits will take some time. However, when you finally do master the art, the knowledge and the ability will give you complete control over deciding how to spend your money. The greater advantage of this system is the fact that you have the control necessary on your financial life to know where you can free up some of your money if you want to or need to. Remember that spending habits are just that. Habits. Making a change means breaking old habits and establishing new ones. You use your time and labor to earn the money you have, and it is very reasonable for you to take the privilege of deciding how exactly you want to spend your money. Niloufar Abedi is the author of Highway to Success. To learn more about this book or to contact Ms. Abedi, please visit her official site.. http://www.abedi.com

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