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Khan Continues Demands to Overturn Loss
December 29, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, email@example.com
Former super lightweight champion Amir Khan repeated calls this past week for his loss to Lamont Peterson to be overturned or for the sanctioning bodies to mandate an immediate rematch. The split decision, following a fight in which referee Joe Cooper deducted two points from Khan for pushing, so incensed Khan's handlers that they filed official appeals to both sanctioning bodies, and during a conference call Tuesday afternoon, Khan reiterated his position.
"I think the IBF and WBA should order a rematch in my opinion and also look at the fight the way it was refereed," Khan said during a conference call while on a train to London. "Let's just see where we go from here. Overall, it was a great performance from Lamont Peterson also. We both were happy with the way we fought, but the referee and the judging just spoiled a great night of boxing."
Cooper deducted a point from Khan in the seventh and 12th rounds that Khan and his team insist came without customary warning. Cooper, however, warned Peterson repeatedly, Khan's camp said, for coming in low with his head but did not issue a penalty.
Richard Schaefer, chief executive officer of Golden Boy Promotions, which handles Khan's publicity, also questioned circumstances that unfolded immediately after the fight. The suspicious activity, Schaefer said, included judges taking an exceptionally long time after the fight to pick the winner; judge George Hill's card showing 10-10 for the seventh round and later changed to 10-8 in favor of Peterson; and the disappearance of an IBF scorecard that had the fight as a draw.
Schaefer said he spoke to IBF Champions Chairman Lindsay Tucker on Monday morning about the incident and was told the IBF supervisor at the fight said the card had vanished. Schaefer also said Tucker told him it appeared to the IBF supervisor that the D.C. boxing commission removed the card while Peterson was in the ring receiving the belt. "Then suddenly two days ago, an IBF scorecard appeared," Schaefer said. "It looks as if it was made up after the fact. No question about it. Or it was made two days ago. The printing was way too neat and consistent, not consistent with what usually a scorecard looks like. We're just outlining the facts here. There clearly is some smoke."
Khan's camp initially sent the IBF a letter stating its disapproval of the refereeing and judging, and the IBF responded by saying it did not see grounds to overturn the decision. Khan's team then filed an official appeal that Schaefer said is set to be heard in New York on Jan. 19. Khan's team is still awaiting an official reply from the WBA.
Peterson, meantime, has not announced an official rematch. Peterson said after the fight that he was willing to fight Khan again, and Schaefer said he approached Barry Hunter, Peterson's trainer, with a seven-figure offer for a bout at Staples Center on May 19. The process of setting up a rematch, though, appears on hold pending rulings from the IBF and WBA.
Community News (V13-I50)
December 8, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Philanthropist Shahid Khan to buy Jaguars
URBANA,IL–Shahid Khan, a Pakistani-American businessman and philanthropist, is all set to acquire Jacksonville Jaguars, according to media reports.
He is the president of the Flex-N-Gate company which manufactures auto parts. It employs over 12, 000 workers in U.S., Canada, Mexico, Argentina, and Spain.
Flex-N-Gate is ranked by Forbes magazine as the 168th largest private company in the United States, with estimated revenues of $2.57 billion for the previous fiscal year.
Last year Khan had launched an unsuccessful bid to acquire St. Louis Rams.
Lafayette Islamic Centre to hold community kitchen
LAFAYETTE,LA–The Lafayaette Islamic Centre will hold a community kitchen on December 10. This is the centre's first ever project of this kind, KATC reported.
The event is open to everyone, and local shelters will be given the information to invite their patrons. Gumbo will be served. Volunteers from the Islamic Center, the UL Muslim Students Association, and the Islamic Education Weekend Program will be on hand to serve those in attendance. The Community Kitchen will be Dec. 10 from 11:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
No prayer room at Purdue University Calumet campus
CALUMET,IN–University campuses across North America have a common meditation/prayer area which all students including Muslim could utilise. The Purdue University Calumet campus, however, lacks one creating a challenge for the three hundred Muslim students to offer their five daily prayers.
The issue has been brought to the front by a recent article in the Purdue University Calumter Chronicle. The adminsitration's contention is that they cannot provide a prayer space for specific religion as it is a state school. The Muslim students have asked that a common prayer open to all religions be provided.
PUC Chancellor Thomas Keon voiced his sympathy for the Muslim students' quandary, though he held the position that the school is not legally allowed to host a specified prayer room. Although the administration's hands seem to be bound in red tape, Keon shared his suggestion to work out a resolution to benefit all faiths.
"We need to have a better, long-term approach to resolving the concern. I have suggested that the campus, for the first time, develop an inter-faith counsel and I would like to find church leaders from the region and work with them to see if we can come up with a resolution. In the meantime, I have approached the Vice Chancellors about properties for sale near the campus we may be able to purchase for this specific purpose," Keon told the student newspaper.
Tulsa police captain's plea denied
TULSA,OK–A Tulsa Police Department Captain's plea to amend his lawsuit filed against the department over mosque attendance row has been denied by a US District Court judge.
Capt. Paul Fields filed a suit alleging his First Amendment rights were infringed upon after he was suspended for disobeying orders to attend a community event.
In February, Fields refused to attend Law Enforcement Appreciation Day at the Islamic Society of Tulsa. He was then suspended without pay June 12-25 for his actions.
Upon filing the suit, Fields emailed his supervisors. In the statement, he said, "I believe this directive to be an unlawful order, as it is in direct conflict with my personal religion's convictions."
Houstonian Corner (V13-I49)
December 1, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
ISGH Elections at Main Center this Coming Sunday December 04th – 9AM-4PM
The largest one community Islamic Organization in USA, the Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), has elections for various office bearers every year. Usually the last Sunday of November is Early Voting Day and first Sunday of December is actual Voting Day.
This time after several years some of the positions have only one candidate and also some persons, who used to hold higher positions in previous years, are up as candidates for minor level positions. These trends show lack of interest in the newer generation and fresh blood to become office bearers of ISGH.
Last Sunday, at the Main Center, ISGH Members came out to vote early despite extremely cold and windy weather. This year is Vice President and Treasurer Election Year 2011, while next year will be President and General Secretary Election Year 2012.
Chairman of ISGH Election Commission Azam Akhtar (www.ISGH.Org) has informed that this year, the elections are for these positions (here underneath IC means Islamic Center):
Vice President (Fuad Cochinwala elected unopposed);
Treasurer (Aftab Silat elected unopposed);
Director, Northwest Zone (Nasrattullah Attaie, Matloob Khan);
Associate Director, NW – Bear Creek IC (Mohammad Yousuf, Nusrat Mir);
Director, Southeast Zone Director (Abdool F. Rasheed, Emran Gazi, Manzoor Ali);
Associate Director, NO – Champions IC (Imran Nathani, Taher Hamid Abu Dawood, Shiraz Chohan);
Associate Director SW – New Territory IC (Rafiq Bhojwani, Jonaid Ahmed);
Director, South Zone (Irfan Bhardi elected unopposed);
Associate Director, NO – Adel Road IC (Ibrahim Badat elected unopposed);
Associate Director, NO – Woodlands IC (Ayman Khalil elected unopposed);
Associate Director, SW – Synott Road IC (Naeem Khan elected unopposed);
Associate Director, SW – Mission Bend IC (Usman Vaid elected unopposed);
Associate Director, SE – Baytown IC (Muhammad A. Malhi elected unopposed);
Area Representatives for all Islamic Centers (Masajid) of all Zones (several candidates)
PCC-USA: Positive Sign – At Last There May Be Elections on December 21st, 2011
Pakistan Chamber of Commerce USA (PCC-USA) is a leading association of Pakistani entrepreneurs in USA, with Chapters in Houston, San Diego, and New York. Fifty founding members Advisory Council, under the leadership of Dr. Ashraf Abbasi, established PCC-USA as a premier business organization in Houston, Texas, on August 14, 1997 to coincide with the Golden Jubilee of Pakistan Independence Day.
This Year 2011 may become the first, when some of the office bearers of PCC-USA will be elected after actual voting, as in the past, usually all the executive council positions used to be filled with only one nominated persons; and as such elected unopposed.
December 06th is the last day to withdraw the name from nominations and our correspondent has learned that this year, there is every chance that at least on three positions, there will be elections (of course if names are withdrawn, there will be no elections).
According to the communiqué received from Rashid Khokhar, Chairman PCC-USA Election Commission (other members being GulFaraz Khan and Zubair Ashraf), elections are for these PCC-USA positions will be held at the annual meeting of Wednesday, December 21st, 2011, with opportunity to withdraw the names by 11pm., Tuesday, December 06th, 2011:
President-Elect: Khalid Kazi and Zafar Mansuri;
Senior Vice President: Sheikh Muhammad Awais and Pervez Iqbal;
Director Finance: Ch. Mahmood Ahmed & Asif Ehsan;
Vice President – Administration: Nargis F. Ahmed (Unopposed);
Vice President – Liaison: Mian Aziz (Unopposed);
Vice President – Marketing: Zaki Mohammed Mirza (Unopposed);
Vice President – Media Relations: Mumtaz Khan (Unopposed);
General Secretary: Abdur Rauf Khan (Unopposed);
Joint Secretary: Iqbal Akhtar (Unopposed)…
Shahid Khan to Purchase NFL's Jaguars
December 1, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Parvez Fatteh, Founder of http://sportingummah.com, email@example.com
Jacksonville Jaguars owner Wayne Weaver fired longtime coach Jack Del Rio on Tuesday after a 3-8 start and agreed to sell the National Football League's Jaguars to Pakistani-American businessman Shahid Khan of Illinois. League sources told ESPN senior NFL analyst Chris Mortensen that the sale is estimated to be between $750 and $800 million.
"It's a little bittersweet, honestly, that it came as soon as it did," Weaver announced. "But the main motivation for the exit strategy was to find someone that has the same passion about the NFL, had the same passion about football in Jacksonville as we do, and I found that person."
"Wayne's legacy will be lasting, and I will always be grateful for Wayne's trust and confidence in my commitment to the Jaguars, the NFL and the people of the Jacksonville community," the 61-year-old Khan said in a statement.
Born in Pakistan, Khan left home at age 16 to attend the University of Illinois. He graduated in 1971, a year after he started working for Flex-N-Gate Corp. in Urbana, Ill. He purchased the company in 1980. Today, Flex-N-Gate is a major manufacturer of bumper systems for pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles built in North America.
"He's going to buy a home here in Jacksonville. He's going to spend time here in Jacksonville," Weaver said of Khan. "He's going to keep the Jaguars management group intact. He's keeping the Jaguars staff intact. He has a great admiration for what we've been able to accomplish here and the way we run our business here so he's keeping all that intact."
While Weaver is confident Khan will keep the team in Jacksonville, there is nothing written in the deal which obligates Khan to do that. Weaver's confidence stems from assurances Khan has made to him personally and the fact that the Jaguars' lease to play at EverBank Field runs through the 2029 season. If the Jaguars wanted to leave before the end of the deal, the lease requires the team to prove they had lost money in three consecutive seasons or to convince a local judge that the city was failing to properly maintain the stadium.
"It's pretty hard to put something in writing saying you have to do something but you have to trust individuals' integrity and I have no doubt that Shahid is going to do what he plans to do," Weaver said. "I had to be comfortable that his plan was to keep the team in Jacksonville. There's not a doubt in my mind that this team will be in Jacksonville."
Khan tried to purchase controlling interest in the NFL's St. Louis Rams last year. But minority owner Stan Kroenke pulled an end-around and exercised his right to purchase full control of the franchise. Khan's purchase of the Jaguars is subject to NFL approval. League owners will vote to ratify the deal December 14th, and if it passes it would become official on January 4th.
"US Is Destroying Pakistan"
September 22, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Imran Khan: 'America is destroying Pakistan. We're using our army to kill our own people with their money'
The Pakistani cricketing legend and politician talks about his country's damaging relationship with the US, how aid and corruption are further ruining it — and how he is sure he will be its next president
By Stuart Jeffries
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When Barack Obama announced in May that American commandos had killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Imran Khan was furious. "The whole of Pakistan felt this way. Wherever I went I felt this humiliation and anger in people. It was humiliating because an American president announces it, not our president. And because it was the American military, not our military, which this country has given great sacrifices to nurture, that killed him."
Khan stirs his cappuccino angrily. "Most humiliating of all was that the CIA chief Panetta says that the Pakistan government was either incompetent or complicit. Complicit!" But surely Leon Panetta had a point, didn't he? The world's most wanted man was living a mile from Pakistan's military academy, not in some obscure cave. "They're talking about a country in which 35,000 people have died during a war that had nothing to do with us. Ours is perhaps the only country in history that keeps getting bombed, through drone attacks, by our ally."
Khan's rage is directed not chiefly at Obama's administration but at successive Pakistani governments for entrapping his homeland in a dismal cycle of immiseration and mass deaths for the past eight years by supporting the war on terror in return for billions of dollars of financial aid. The manner of Bin Laden's killing and the national shame of its aftermath typify for Khan how Pakistan has never properly learned to stand on its own two feet. He calls it an era of neocolonialism in which Pakistan's people seem destined to suffer as much as, if not more than, they did during British colonial rule.
"According to the government economic survey in Pakistan, $70bn has been lost to the economy because of this war. Total aid has been barely $20bn. Aid has gone to the ruling elite, while the people have lost $70bn. We have lost 35,000 lives and as many maimed — and then to be said to be complicit. The shame of it!"
Arguably Khan is benefiting from that anger. The legendary cricketer turned politician hopes — even expects — to become Pakistan's next prime minister. "Every poll has shown the gap widening between us and other parties." He is modest about his impact on the polls: "It's not what I have done, it's that they have got discredited. These are the best of times and the worst of times. The best of it is that people are hungry for a change."
I sip the tea that his ex-wife, Jemima Khan née Goldsmith, has just handed me. We're sitting on huge sofas in the vast living room-cum-kitchen of her opulent west London home. He's here to see his two sons, Sulaiman Isa, 14, and Kasim 12, who live with their mother, when they return from school. Later this evening he will fly home to Islamabad.
Jemima retreats upstairs so that her ex and I can analyse what went wrong with his country — and the couple's marriage. Understandably, Khan would rather talk about the former.
He recalls his greatest cricketing achievement as Pakistani team captain, winning the 1992 World Cup. Perhaps the 2012 Pakistani election will eclipse that triumph. "I played five World Cups and it was only in the last World Cup before we won [in 1992] that I said:
'Put money on us.' Now I'm saying my party will win. I'm throwing everyone a challenge that nothing can stop this party. Nothing."
Perhaps. But Pakistani politics, to hear Khan talk, isn't cricket. "To have a senior post in the government, you have to have a criminal record." I laugh. Surely not? He names ministers who have. This was one consequence of ex-president Pervez Musharraf's 2007 National Conciliation Ordinance that gave amnesties to many politicians (including former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who returned to Pakistan as a result and was shortly afterwards assassinated). "He did the greatest disservice to us by that ordinance. And guess what — it was brokered by the Bush administration.
"My country can barely stoop any lower. All you need to do with a senior politician today is look at his assets before he came into politics and look at them after and you know why they're there. My party is made up of people who don't need politics. You need people who don't need politics to make money." But surely that implies government by gentry, by people who are independently wealthy? "Or people who are not necessarily wealthy but who are in a profession and are doing quite well out of it outside politics. Career politicians have destroyed our country."
I take a sidelong glance at Imran Khan. He's a young, fit-looking 58, dressed in western playboy uniform (jeans, sports jacket, big-collared open-neck shirt), but with an imposingly stern face that he may have inherited from the Pashtun ancestors on his mother's side of the family. He claims to be shy and introverted, but to me he conveys the enviably easy assuredness typical of English public schoolboys. Indeed, Khan is steeped in that ethos: he was educated at Aitchison College in Lahore, a so-called English-medium school, before being sent to England to study at the Royal Grammar School, Worcester, and then read philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. Ironically, one of his party's policies is that elite schools such as Aitchison should be abolished for being inegalitarian.
If this cricketing legend did become Pakistan's prime minister, it would involve a remarkable turn around in fortunes. In his early test-cricketing days, he was called Imran Khan't — and that nickname applied too to his political career. Ever since he established his political party Tehreek-e-Insaf (Movement for Justice) in 1996, Khan has fared abysmally. Even the Guardian's Declan Walsh described him in 2005 as making a "miserable politician. Khan's ideas and affiliations since entering politics in 1996 have swerved and skidded like a rickshaw in a rain shower."
Khan may have been a brilliant cricketer who for 21 years until retirement in 1992 made Pakistan a leading force in the international game. He may have once been renowned as a soigné habitué of toff nightclubs such as Annabel's and Tramp in the 1980s, and as the playboy who romanced debutantes Susannah Constantine, Lady Liza Campbell and the artist Emma Sergeant. But is he really the man to lead Pakistan from what he calls "the the edge of collapse"?
He, at least, thinks so. "The old parties are all petrified of me now.
They all want to make alliances with me and I say: 'No, I'm going to fight all of you together because you're all the same.'"
Excellent. But how does he propose to effect what he calls a soft revolution in Pakistan? "Oh hawk," he replies unexpectedly, "death is better than that livelihood that stops you ascending." He is quoting a verse from his favourite poet and philosopher, Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who died in 1938 and so missed both Pakistan's birth, its rule by dicators and corrupt dynasties, and its current ignominy.
How do Iqbal's words apply to modern Pakistan? "I take them to mean anything that comes with strings attached damages your self-esteem and self-respect — you'd better die than take it," says Khan. "A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did. Aid is humiliating.
Every country I know that has had IMF or World Bank programmes has only impoverished the poor and enriched the rich." And American aid, he argues, has had a calamitous effect on his homeland.
What Khan is planning politically echoes what he did in cricket.
"Colonialism deprives you of your self-esteem and to get it back you have to fight to redress the balance," he says. "I know for myself and my contemporaries Viv Richards [the great West Indies batsman] and Sunil Gavaskar [the no-less-great Indian batsman] beating the English at cricket was a means of doing that. We wanted to assert our equality on the cricket field against our colonial masters."
Isn't cutting foreign aid a perilous policy for a bankrupt economy?
"But it doesn't matter," retorts Khan. "We will cut down expenditure, tax the rich and fight corruption. The reason we're bankrupt is because of corruption. Asif Ali Zardari [Pakistan's current president] puts his cronies on top and they literally siphon off money."
He argues that if Pakistan's two greatest problems, corruption and tax evasion, can be solved, then the country will become solvent. "We have the lowest tax-GDP ratio in the world: 9%. If we get it to 18%, which is India, we're solvent." Not only does Khan believe he can tax the rich but also that exploiting Pakistan's huge mineral reserves will help the country escape its current mess. "A country that has no power is sitting on the biggest coal reserves in the world!"
Tehreek-e-Insaaf's other key policy is withdrawing from the war on terror. Why? "The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
"When I came here at 18 I learned about western rule of law and human rights, innocent until proven guilty. The Americans are violating all of this."
Khan wrote an open letter to Obama arguing that the war was unwinnable.
"I said you do not have to own Bush's war — you can't win it anyway.
It's creating radicals. The more you kill, the more you create extremism."
Why can't the war be won? "The Soviets killed more than a million people in Afghanistan. They were fighting more at the end than the beginning. So clearly a population of 15 million could take a million dead and still keep fighting. They [the Americans] are going to have to kill a lot of people to make any impact and they also have in Zardari an impotent puppet as Pakistani president who has not delivered anything to the Americans.
"The Americans also don't realise that this whole Arab spring was against puppets or dictators. People want democracy. So this whole idea of planting your own man there, a dictator — neocolonialism is what it's called — is not going to work any more.
"The aid to our puppet government from the US is destroying our country. We're basically using our army to kill our own people with American money. We have to separate from the US."
Khan knows what it is to be attacked from both sides. "I've been called Taliban Khan for supporting the tribal Pashtuns and I've been called part of a Jewish conspiracy to take over Pakistan. I am of course neither."
The latter allegation came when Khan married Jemima Goldsmith in 1995.
In a chapter on his marriage in his excellent new book Pakistan: A Personal History, he recalls that, when he left for England aged 18, his mother's last words were: "Don't bring back an English wife." But after his mother's death, Khan did that, even though the British press wailed that Jemima would not be allowed to drive in Pakistan and that she would have to be veiled from head to toe; even though the Pakistani media portrayed the marriage as a Zionist plot to take over Pakistan.
No matter, as Khan writes, that his wife wasn't actually Jewish (her paternal grandfather was Jewish), but had been baptised and confirmed as a Protestant. No matter that she converted to Islam and set about learning Urdu on her arrival in Pakistan.
The smears got worse a year after their marriage when Khan launched his political career. "Cross-cultural marriage is difficult, especially when one person has to live in another country. But I thought there was a very good chance of it working because people grow together if they have a common passion. But from the moment my opponents attacked her in the first election in terms of a Zionist conspiracy we had to then take her away from politics. That meant we were doing different things. We couldn't share our passions."
Jemima returned to England, ostensibly for a year to do a masters in modern trends in Islam, taking her sons with her. She never returned, the couple divorced in 2004 and she is now associate editor of the Independent and editor-at-large for Vanity Fair. They remain on friendly terms. "It was very painful that it didn't work out but that bitterness and anger that comes when a marriage breaks down through infidelity was not there. We were completely faithful to each other."
There was no way he could have moved to London? "London is like a second home, but never could I imagine living away from Pakistan." It must be tough with his sons living half a world away most of the year.
"Very tough. Nothing gave me more happiness than fatherhood. And here's someone who had great highs in his life. The biggest void in my life is not being close to my children all the time, but mercifully, thanks to my relationship with Jemima, I see them a great deal."
One way of looking at his failed marriage, then, is that it could not survive the bearpit of Pakistani politics. How could he continue in that grim game given the high cost it extorted from you? "Ever since my mother died in great pain from cancer, I have had a social conscience that can only express itself in getting involved in politics. As long as I played cricket there was hardly any social conscience. It came because of my mother and how she was treated." It also came after a spiritual awakening and renewed Islamic faith, in which Iqbal's writings played an important role.
"The No1 thing that struck me about your country when I came here was your welfare state, which I'm sad to say they are dismantling — a big mistake. I thought: 'What a civilised society.' When my mother was treated here we were paying for her and there was a national health patient next to her — equal treatment. We didn't have that in Pakistan."
After his mother's death he founded the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in Lahore in her name. "My hospital is the only one in Pakistan where doctors are not allowed to know which patients are paying and which are free. Equal treatment for rich and poor is essential."
But the hospital was only possible because of donations that he raised from the streets of Pakistan's cities. "We needed $4m for the hospital and we had run out of steam so someone suggested we just go out into the streets. I ended up covering 29 cities in six weeks and I just went into the street with a big collecting sack. Only in Pakistan would this happen."
But that Pakistani generosity, he realises, articulates an important principle of Islam, of doing good deeds to get to heaven. In the book he writes that he asked why poor people would give such high proportions of their income to a cancer hospital not even in their own town. "It was always the same reply, 'I am not doing you a favour. I am doing it to invest in my Hereafter.'"
That geneoristy proved a catalyst for Khan's political career, he writes: "I started thinking that these people were capable of great sacrifice. Could these people not be mobilised to fight to save our ever-deteriorating country?" He may have a sentimental vision of poor Pakistanis but Khan has no doubt: they will revolutionise Pakistan, led by him.
Just before I leave him to his children, he tells me that the nadir for Pakistan came last year when Angelina Jolie visited Pakistan's flood-hit area. "It's so shameful. The prime minister gave her a reception in his palace and she commented on its opulence. The prime minister gets his family in a private jet to see her, the family give her expensive presents and yet there are people dying in these flood-affected areas. They were living like Mughal emperors in splendour and our people were dying. It took a Hollywood star to point this out. Our politics can never be so shameful again." That remains to be seen.
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Miriam Khan on way to Olympics
September 1, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Ewing, NJ– Miriam KhaN is used to achieving her goals in a matter of seconds. Since graduating from The College of New Jersey, however, the path to her prized objective is not a sprint race, but rather a battle of endurance and will.
Khan, who was the 2010 NCAA Division III national champion in the 100-meter event, has been training all summer with a single finish line in mind: the 2012 Olympic Games. She is in the process of obtaining her dual citizenship from Italy and is vying to represent her mother's native country in London next summer.
"My training has gradually increased since the end of June," noted Khan, who battled pneumonia in May and June and is finally back to full strength. "My workouts have been very good and I finally ran a decent time (in Long Island)."
That 'decent' time was the second-fastest Khan has ever posted. She dashed to a finish of 11.74 seconds at the 2011 USA Long Island Track and Field Association Open Championships. She was just a blink off of her TCNJ record-time of 11.67 seconds, a mark Khan set while winning the national title in Berea, Ohio.
Khan is hoping is to attract sponsorships to help offset the cost of travel, training, and entry fees. Her plan is to compete in meets in Europe next summer prior to the Olympics.
Shehryar Khan in '40 Under 40 list'
August 18, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
SEATTLE,WA–Shehryar Khan, CEO of leading mobile and emergent technologies agency Übermind (www.ubermind.com), was named as one of the "40 Under 40" by the Puget Sound Business Journal (PSBJ), an honor that the publication hails as one of its most prestigious annual awards.
Khan was selected from a pool of 201 qualified applicants — one of the most competitive years yet for the award — for his leadership and contributions not just to his company, but also his industry and community.
While Khan's been at the helm, Übermind has seen year-over-year growth of more than 70 percent, one hundred percent staff growth from 2010 to 2011, and the addition of powerhouse clients like Apple, Target, REI, and Alaska Airlines. The company also provides the local community with time and financial resources for nonprofits, as well as employee-matched charitable donations and pro bono projects.
"I put my heart into my work," says Khan, "and I'm delighted to be recognized by the PSBJ and share the recognition with the immensely talented team of employees that comprise Übermind. I'm grateful to be part of such a dynamic team and to live in such a culturally and professionally progressive city like Seattle. I feel truly blessed, and sincerely thank the Puget Sound Business Journal for the honor."
To be selected, says PSBJ assistant managing editor Becky Monk, applicants first had to be nominated by one of their peers and then articulate their business and community leadership accomplishments in an essay-form application. Submissions were read, scored, and deliberated on by eight judges — men and women from all walks of the business community — for more than half a day to ensure that the most deserving candidates were selected.
The 2011 honorees will be feted at a special VIP reception on September 14 at Showbox SoDo. Übermind employees are thrilled for Khan's recognition and highlight his ability to not only develop sound, long-term strategies that drive the business forward but also to inspire all levels of employees with his motivational and "team first" management style. As Khan says, the function of a good CEO is to "inspire people around you to do their best work, understand their strengths and weaknesses, and create an environment in which they can excel."
Girl Sues to Wear Hijab at Abercrombie
June 30, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – A Muslim woman alleged in a lawsuit filed this week that U.S. retailer Abercrombie & Fitch forbade her from wearing her head scarf while working at a northern California clothing store owned by the company.
Hani Khan filed her federal lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, with support from the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center.
The suit accuses Abercrombie of violating Khan's civil rights by discriminating against her on the basis of religion when she worked at the San Francisco Bay area store Hollister Co., which is owned by Abercrombie.
Khan alleges that when she was hired in October 2009, she was told she could wear her head scarf, or hijab, as long as it matched the company's official colors.
But four months later, a pair of managers asked her to remove the hijab while working, and when Khan refused she was suspended and then terminated, according to the lawsuit.
A representative for Abercrombie did not return calls.
Khan's lawsuit echoes similar complaints brought against Abercrombie in the past by black, Latino and other minority workers and applicants who alleged the company had a "look policy'' that discriminated against them.
In 2004, Abercrombie reached a $40 million settlement in a federal class action lawsuit by the minority plaintiffs, and the company agreed to take steps to improve its hiring and recruitment of minority workers.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) joined in that previous legal action against Abercrombie, and this week the agency supported Khan by filing a federal lawsuit against the retailer that also accused Abercrombie of violating her civil rights.
"Growing up in this country where the Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, I have felt let down,'' Khan said in a statement.
Attorneys' attempts to reach an out-of-court settlement in Khan's case broke down in January, according to the Council on America-Islamic Relations. (Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Peter Bohan)
Profile: Nina Rehman Khan, HDF President
June 16, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Adil James, TMO
Farmington–June 15–The new president of HDF spoke with TMO Tuesday about her background, her experience with HDF, and her plans for the future.
Dr. Rehman is a physician specializing in internal medicine, with a private practice, operating at St. John and Troy Beaumont Hospital.
Human Development Foundation (HDF) is a not-for-profit formed almost 15 years ago in Illinois; it focuses almost all of its development work in Pakistan. Its annual operating budget is over $1 million, according to its verified 2009 tax return, and its coffers also hold more than $1 million.
She explains that she has been involved "on and off, as a medical student even," with HDF for many years, and that she has been involved on a regular basis with HDF since 2003, "at many levels, secretary, board of directors, to other things."
"I prefer HDF because it involves more women's health and education–women are my top priority… HDF emphasized more women and their health issues, immunizations for kids–all that attracted me more."
She speaks with admiration of the accomplishments of HDF to date, of running "over 200 schools," of microloans ("mainly to women but also to some men"). HDF provides help to get people "off the ground so they can be independent… raise their own family and be educated, and get skills." HDF provides "help with pregnancies and immunizations, free clinics in different villages, support clinics for women's health–childbirth and preventive health."
She explains of HDF's focus on Pakistan and relative silence in the US that "that's our vision." However she explains that she has considered doing some projects to help children and women in Detroit, and that HDF did do some work to relieve the suffering after Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.
"I was planning on doing more during Christmas, to help the homeless and kids [in Detroit]."
HDF is an apparently very successful not-for-profit, which claims to maintain over 200 schools in Pakistan; also clinics and even entire villages. HDF provided homes for people displaced by the floods in Pakistan, in association with APPNA.
In her professional life Dr. Rehman emphasizes women's preventive health, and anti-aging. She recently completed a fellowship in anti-aging.
Shobi Khan named COO of General Growth
June 2, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
CHICAGO,IL–Shopping mall owner General Growth Properties Inc. said Thursday that it has named Shobi Khan its chief operating officer.
Khan, 45, previously was U.S. chief investment officer at real estate investment advisor Bentall Kennedy. He is slated to join General Growth on June 13.
He will receive a base salary of $750,000, a signing bonus of $550,000 and will be eligible for a discretionary bonus next year of up to $500,000, the company said in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Khan also will be eligible to receive 400,000 non-qualified General Growth stock options.
Tasmiha Khan Named Dell Semi Finalist Fellow
May 26, 2011 by TMO · Leave a Comment
MIDDLETOWN, CT–Wesleyan University student Tasmiha Khan founder of the student organization Brighter Dawns, is a recipient of the Dell Social Innovation Competition Semi-Finalist Fellowship. Brighter Dawns applied for the Dell Social Innovation Award in January, reports the university newsletter. Their project is titled "Brighter Dawns: Clean Water for Humanity."
"Tasmiha was selected from a very strong applicant pool to join 14 other innovative fellows that represent and work with communities around the world," says Betsy Loucks, director of the DSIC Semi-Finalist Fellowship. "The Semi-Finalist Fellowship is a cohort of students from around the world who have some of the most exciting and innovative ideas for social and environmental change."
Developed to leverage the power of the group, the fellowship program provides students with mentorship, training and a small financial award to advance the development of their social innovation. The fellowship provides students with the skills, networks and experience needed to realize the potential of their social venture.
At the core of the DSIC Fellowship is the practice of peer critique. The peer critique is a forum for student entrepreneurs to seek feedback from other students, faculty, alumni and experienced professionals/entrepreneurs. Meeting around a common table, the participants generously and respectfully share their questions, advice, networks and encouragement in a spirit of collegial collaboration.
In addition to the fellowship, the DSIC also provides a travel stipend to Rhode Island for the Summer Institute on Social Entrepreneurship, Aug. 15-19.
Brighter Dawns also received a Davis United World College Project for Peace grant worth $10,000.
3 Muslim Women Elected in UK Polls
May 13, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
LONDON: Two Pakistani-British women were among the three women who became the first Muslim females to be elected to the British parliament following their success in the Thursday's UK national polls.
Yasmin Qureshi, a 47-year-old practising barrister, held on to the Labour seat from Bolton south east constituency (north west England), by taking 18,782 votes against her Conservative party rival Andy Morgan, who polled 15,827 votes.
Qureshi was contesting the election in place of Dr Brian Iddon who has retired from politics.
The other successful woman was Oxford-educated Barrister Shabana Mahmood, a Labour candidate who won with 19,950 votes.
She defeated her nearest Liberal-Democrat rival Ayoub Khan who bagged 9,845 votes.
Another Muslim candidate Nusrat Ghani who fought the election on Conservative Party ticket secured 4,277 votes. Mahmood defended the seat that was previously held by former International Development Secretary Clare Short who stepped down from Birmingham Ladywood constituency.
The third successful Muslim woman to have secured her passage to the Westminster was Rushanara Ali of the Bangladeshi-descent, who won East London constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow with 21,784 votes and in the process wrested the seat from Respect Unity Coalition whose candidate Abjol Miah got 8,532 votes.
In second place was Ajmal Mansoor of Liberal-Democrat with 10,210 votes.
However, the other Labour aspirant Maryam Khan, a 27-year-old solicitor contesting from Bury North, went down fighting to her Conservative Party rival David Nuttal who polled 18,070 votes against Khan's 15,827.
Khan was chosen to defend the seat previously held by David Chaytor, who was barred by the Labour Party from standing again and is being prosecuted over his expenses as a former MP. Labour also suffered defeat in Dewsbury, north west England, where sitting MP Shahid Malik, a junior minister, lost to his Conservative rival Simon Reevell by a narrow margin of 1,526 votes.
Reevell polled 18,898 votes against 17,372 votes by Malik.
However, according to analysts, Malik's chances were dented by another Pakistan-origin candidate Khizer Iqbal who stood as independent and returned with crucial 3,813 votes in a seven-corner contest. In Luton South constituency, Pakistan-origin councillor Qurban Hussein of Liberal-Democrat failed to unseat his Labour rival Gavin Shuker who secured 14,725 votes. Hussein, in fact, finished third with 9,567 votes behind the second placed Nigel Huddleston of the Tory party. app.
Gulam Khan:CEO of US Endoscopy
March 4, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Gulam Khan is the CEO of US Endoscopy which specializes in device design and manufacturing of accessories for GI endoscopy. Khan has traversed a unique career path to his current position. He initially earned a law degree and worked at a Cleveland practice. At the same time enrolled himself in an MBA program.
A business plan he wrote for US Endoscopy as an MBA assignment landed him as a product manager at the company and he soon was on the track to higher position. Khan was able to position his small company against the dominant players in the industry by developing new client centric strategies.
Because of his efforts Khan was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Smart Business magazine. In its profile of Khan the magazine wrote, 'US Endoscopy may be smaller in size, but with Khan in charge, this company can outwit the larger competition.'
Bollywood Scores: Shahrukh Khan Wins
By Nilofar Suhrawardy, MMNS India Correspondent
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI: By not simply rallying unitedly in favor of Shahrukh Khan-starrer: My Name Is Khan, but doing so with an amazingly zeal, Bollywood-team set the stage for film-fans across the world to head for theatres screening the movie. So much so, one got the impression that with Shahrukh as their "captain," the Bollywood-team was on the "pitch" to give Shiv Sainiks a thorough drubbing. A similar message was conveyed by headlines stating: "Khan scores, Sena misses," "MNIK wins, Sena loses," "Khan hits, Sena in pits,"…. Of course, Bollywood team was compelled to display this posture against shrill calls raised by Shiv Sena activists. The latter protested against release of MNIK primarily because Shahrukh had earlier questioned absence of Pakistani cricketers in Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket tournament. Questioning Shahrukh's "support" for Pakistani players, Shiv Sena issued a diktat saying that theatres must not release the movie- MNIK.
Initially, there were speculations that multiplexes in Mumbai would follow Shiv Sena's diktat. There were also apprehensions that screening of the movie in Mumbai and other parts of the country would incite violence and create tension. But Shiv Sena's protest failed to win people's support even in Mumbai. When 35 of 40 theatres in Mumbai decided to go ahead with the movie's release (February 12), they received an enthusiastic response from moviegoers. The movie was screened in all theatres in Maharashtra the following day. Though some stones were thrown on Friday at Fun Republic, no damage was caused. Besides, security was tight at all theatres, particularly in Mumbai to check potential violence from Shiv Sena members.
What stands out is the "secular unity" displayed by movie goers across the world, even in Gujarat. Despite saffron brigade having warned against its release in Gujarat, the movie ran to packed houses in most parts of the state. The message simply conveyed was that people are in no mood to let saffron brigade and/or its associates decide their movies' choice. Nor are they convinced by Shiv Sena questioning Shahrukh Khan's "nationality." Rather as displayed by their turning out in huge numbers to view the movie, they have asserted that they cannot be taken for a ride by such diktats. In fact in several parts of the country, Shahrukh's fans displayed their anger against Shiv Sena's protests by burning effigies of Shiv Sena leaders.
Clearly, MNIK has provided the movie-fans across the world an opportunity to convey their message. The Mumbai-people defied Shiv Sena's call, asserting that this party has little significance for him. The noise made by certain Shiv Sena leaders in recent past about their Maratha-identity has also received a big blow by the support displayed by the public here for Shahrukh Khan-starrer. Not surprisingly, Shahrukh's wife, Gauri who watched the movie at Fun Republic with her daughter, said: "Everyone should watch the movie. Shahrukh's very happy that everyone has come out supporting him." Admitting that her husband was "very sad" earlier, but was "happy" at the response received, she said: "I think the best way would be to say Jai Maharashtra. We love Mumbai and Shahrukh is really excited." Guari is co-producer of the movie, directed by Karan Johar.
Interestingly, the Hindi movie with English title, strikes a note of appeal for Pakistani viewers too. It is the first movie, starring Shahrukh Khan, being screened in Pakistan, since the government allowed Indian movies here two years ago. The crowd's interest here rests partly on the movie's title and partly on it having aroused a protest from Shiv Sena over Shahrukh's comments regarding Pakistani cricketers. Also, they support the movie's message regarding Muslims being labeled as terrorists and being discriminated against in United States after September 11, 2001 attacks. The movie does not divide the people. Aiming to bridge the post – 9/11-divide, the movie's hero wants to meet the US President so that he can tell him: "My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist." This particular message, apparently, has people across the world put their regional as well as cultural differences in the background, as it appeals to them emotionally and they understand its underlying meaning. The movie in this context has taken a major step towards bridging the communication gap, which has kept practically the whole world fairly confused and almost at the loser's end. The secular, peace-loving and also religious people are against innocents being targeted as suspect terrorists for no fault of theirs. It is time, a Muslim's religious identity ceased to be linked with terrorism simply because he/she happens to be a practicing Muslim.
With the title saying it loudly and assertively, My Name Is Khan, it is hoped the diplomatic message carried by it is understood by the powers it is addressed to. The raving reviews won by the movie, in addition to raking in millions on the very first day of its screening clearly states that the message has clicked with the people across the world. Bollywood has scored not just against Shiv Sainiks at home but also in taking a lead in successfully conveying the message till date being avoided by Hollywood!
Fazal Khan, Health Law Expert
January 28, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
Dr. Fazal Khan joined the University of Georgia School of Law in the fall of 2006 as an assistant professor specializing in health law. Khan teaches Health Law & Policy, Bioethics, Public Health Law and International Products Liability.
His current research focuses on several themes: reform of the US healthcare system, the effect of globalization on healthcare and the challenge of regulating emerging biotechnologies. Representative articles and presentations include proposals on administrative regulations to protect against epigenetic harms (and endocrine disruptors) in consumer products; ethical regulations on human drug trials in developing countries; rethinking public health laws post-9/11 to ensure adequate protection of civil liberties and effective emergency response; the potential dissonance between personal health records and electronic medical records; and ethical safeguards that would allow organ donation from anencephalic infants. Khan has presented papers at the University of Illinois, SEALS conference, Georgia State University and the Health Law Scholar's Workshop at St. Louis University. At the University of Georgia, he has given many academic presentations at the College of Public Health, the Center for International Trade and Security, the Department of Cellular Biology, the Department of Genetics, the School of Social Work and the School of Law, among others.
Khan has considerable experience in both legal and medical fields and has been interviewed and called on as an expert by both television and print media on topics ranging from national healthcare reform, assisted suicide laws and mandatory vaccination policies. As a litigation associate for the law firm of Jenner & Block, he conducted a bioethics investigation for a major academic hospital's transplant program, drafted an appellate amicus brief on the epidemiology of Agent Orange exposure and represented hospitals, physicians and pharmaceutical companies in various other legal matters. In addition, he developed a mock trial on scientific evidence for the National Foundation for Judicial Excellence and assisted in the development of the Federal Judicial Center's Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence.
He earned his bachelor's degree with honors from the University of Chicago, where he was a National Merit Scholar. As part of the University of Illinois' Medical Scholars program, he graduated magna cum laude from law school in 2000 and earned his M.D. in 2003. He served on the editorial board of the University of Illinois Law Review and was a Richardson Scholar at the College of Medicine.
Khan is proud to be active in his local community of Athens, Ga. He serves as a board member for AIDS Athens, has given several public "town hall" presentations on healthcare reform all over Northeast Georgia and is a strong supporter of local artists and musicians.
Muslims in Time of Kublai Khan
January 14, 2010 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Wang Daiyu
"The Kublai Khan Hunting Trip," by Vadim Gorbatov |
While it is widely known that the Chinese were instrumental in inventing explosives and in advancing early rocket technology, it is less known that during the time of Kublai Khan Turkish Muslims were instrumental in helping the Mongols conquer China and advancing this technology and building siege weapons. According to Muslim Heritage, between 1271 and 1273 Kublai Khan employed two Turkish Muslim engineers Alaadin and Ismail (I-ssu-ma-yin in Chinese sources). They were instrumental in building ballistic weapons used in the siege and conquest of Hang-Chow and Hsiang-yang. The Chinese sources mention that when the weapons built by Ismail were fired "the earth and the skies shook and the cannons were buried seven feet into the ground." The sons of both these engineers also worked for the Mongols.
Joe Sacco's New Book
Graphic novel on IDF 'massacres' in Gaza set to hit bookstores
By The Associated Press
Fans say graphic novelist Joe Sacco has set new standards for the use of the comic book as a documentary medium. Detractors say his portrayals of the Palestinian conflict are filled with distortion, bias and hyperbole.
One thing is certain – the award-winning author of "Palestine" leaves few readers indifferent.
Sacco's work has more in common with gonzo journalism than your Sunday comic strip: He travels to the world's hot spots from Iraq to Gaza to Sarajevo, immerses himself in the lives of ordinary people, and sets out to depict their harsh realities – in unflinching ink and paper.
One of his biggest supporters is award-winning Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman, who directed the 2008 Golden Globe winning cartoon ocumentary "Waltz for Bashir."
"Whenever I'm asked about animation that influences me, I would say it's more graphic novels. A tremendous influence on me has been Sacco's 'Palestine,' his work on Bosnia and then Art peigelman's 'Maus,'" he said in a telephone interview.
"His work quite simply reflects reality."
The American-Maltese artist's latest book, "Footnotes in Gaza," chronicles two episodes in 1956 in which a U.N. report filed Dec. 15, 1956 says a total of 386 civilians were shot dead by Israeli soldiers – events Sacco said have been "virtually airbrushed from history because they have been ignored by the mainstream media."
Israeli historians dispute these figures.
"It's a big exaggeration," said Meir Pail, a leading Israeli military historian and leftist politician. "There was never a killing of such a degree. Nobody was murdered. I was there. I don't know of any massacre."
Sacco's passion for the Palestinian cause has opened him up to accusations of bias.
Jose Alaniz, from the University of Washington's Department of Comparative Literature, said Sacco uses "all sorts of subtle ways" to manipulate the reader.
"Very often he will pick angles in his art work that favor the perspective of the victim: He'll draw Israeli soldiers or settlers from a low perspective to make them more menacing and towering."
Alaniz also said Sacco draws children "in such a way to make them seem more victimized."
Sacco himself admits he takes sides.
"I don't believe in objectivity as it's practiced in American journalism. I'm not anti-Israeli … It's just I very much believe in getting across the Palestinian point of view," he said.
In "Palestine," which won the 1996 National Book Award, Sacco reported on the lives of West Bank and Gaza inhabitants in the early 1990s. "Safe Area Gorazde," which won the 2001 Eisner Award for Best Original Graphic Novel, describes his experiences in Bosnia in 1995-96.
Sacco has been lauded by Edward Said, the renowned literary scholar and Palestinian rights spokesman, who said in his foreword to "Palestine": "With the exception of one or two novelists and poets, no one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco."
"Footnotes" – to be released in the United States on Tuesday – sees Sacco's cartoon self, with the now trademark nondescript owlishly bespectacled eyes, plunge into the squalid trash-strewn, raw concrete alleys of Rafah, and its neighboring town of Khan Younis.
Sacco draws crowded narrow streets, full of prying schoolchildren and unemployed men. His desperate characters – fugitives, widows and sheiks – mix long past fact with fiction.
"What I show in the book is that this massacre is just one element of Palestinian history … and that people are confused about which event, what year they are talking about," he said.
"Palestinians never seem to have had the luxury of digesting one tragedy before the next is upon them."
Sacco said in doing so he is trying to create a balance to what he calls the United States' pro-Israeli bias.
A scene in "Palestine" shows an Israeli woman asking: "Shouldn't you be seeing our side of the story?" Sacco's cartoon self replies: "I've heard nothing but the Israeli side most of my life."
Sacco says he puts himself into his comics because he wants his readers to see and feel what he does.
"I'm not pretending to be the all powerful, all knowing journalist god … I'm an individual who reacts to people who are sometimes afraid … On a human level, of course that colors the stories I'm telling."
Folman, who both wrote and directed the 2008 animated documentary film about a 19-year-old Israeli soldier still troubled by nightmares about the Lebanon War, says Sacco has brought something rare to the cartoon genre.
"The way he illustrates says everything about the writing – it's so unique, there is nothing quite like him," he explained.
"I really admire the guy … And I feel from his work that we share exactly the same opinions about what's happening in the Middle East … The day will come when I will meet him and hopefully work with him."
Researcher Fine Tunes Optical Tomography
November 1, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Ayub Khan, MMNS
Taufiquar Khan, mathematical science professor at Clemson University, and his colleagues are working to make the physical pain and discomfort of mammograms a thing of past, while allowing for diagnostic imaging eventually to be done in a home setting.
The group is fine-tuning Diffuse Optical Tomography (DOT) to create high-resolution images from a scattering of infrared and visible light for the early detection of breast cancer. While the method is less expensive, safer and more comfortable than X-rays used in mammograms, the problem has been generating a strong enough resolution to detect smaller breast cancers.
"The problem with DOT is that it is a 3-D method where photon density waves launched from a source travel in a banana-shaped path due to multiple scattering, whereas X-rays follow straight lines which make the mathematical problem more manageable and the resolution of the image sharper." said Khan. "With DOT, near-infrared or near-visible photons make the process safer for the body than with the radiation of X-rays, but they are difficult to track because of the scattering and absorption. So we are coming up with equations that will help get us from capturing cancers that are 4 millimeters in size, down to capturing those as small as 1 millimeter."
Khan says benefits of DOT include the elimination of harmful radiation to the body as well as false positives and negatives caused by mammography X-rays. He adds there are no harmful side effects to DOT, and some version of DOT eventually could be administered in a do-it-yourself setting at home within the next decade. In addition to breast screening, he says it eventually maybe used as part of other diagnostic procedures such as ultrasound.
Biased Frisking Of Shahrukh
August 20, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
By Nilofar Suhrawardy, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS) India Correspondent
NEW DELHI: Just as Bollywood icon Shahrukh Khan was probably not prepared for being detained by American immigration officials at Newark Liberty in International Airport in New Jersey for questioning, United States apparently did not expect the reaction that it would trigger from India. Different views have been expressed on what actually led to Shahrukh being detained (August 15). Linking his case with his religious identity- a Muslim- Shahrukh said that he was held up because his last name (Khan) came up on a computer alert list. Incidentally, the actor was in United States to participate in India's Independent Day celebrations and also to promote his new film: "My Name is Khan," which highlights racial discrimination of Muslims after September 11, 2001 attacks in United States.
Shahrukh may have been detained for a still longer time had perhaps the Indian embassy in United States not intervened. Not every Khan or any person bearing a Muslim name is lucky enough to have his country's embassy intervene in such cases. Nevertheless, the US immigration officials denied that Shahrukh was formally detained because of his last name having cropped up on their computer alert system. His security check "took a little longer because his bag was lost by the airline," according to US Customs and Border Protection spokesperson Elmer Camacho. Irrespective of whether Shahrukh's bag was actually lost or not, Camacho's statement certainly indicates United States' acknowledgement that the actor was detained for longer than routine security checks require. It defeats the view expressed by certain people that Shahrukh was only subject to routine security frisking and the actor unnecessarily made a lot of noise about the issue. This is further confirmed by US embassy in India stating that it would look into the case. "We are clarifying. We are trying to ascertain facts about the incident," US embassy official said.
Soon after the incident, Shahrukh expressed that he would avoid going to United States, as he did not want to be a part of America's paranoia of religion. "This has happened with me before and that's why it concerns me all the more. As it is I shy away from coming to the US because I don't want to participate in their paranoia about religion and everything that the US has developed into over the years. I don't want to say that it happened because I am a Muslim as it may lead to something else, but I think it had something to do with that only. We can only avoid this by not coming to the US," he said. Describing the incident as "uncalled for," Shahrukh said: "I did feel bad. I felt angry. I am glad my family wasn't there. God knows what they would have done to them."
Reacting to Shahrukh's words, US envoy Timothy J. Roemer said: "We are trying to ascertain facts of the case – to understand what took place. Shahrukh Khan, the actor and global icon, is very welcome guest in the United States. Many Americans love his films." The incident would probably not have invited reaction at the diplomatic level from both India and United States, were it a routine process to which all visiting US are subject to.
Undeniably, if an ordinary Indian possessing the same name had been detained for even longer hours than the actor, the incident would not have probably hit headlines nor would it have raised concern diplomatically, politically and among the Indian people. This also is perhaps a minor indicator of the apparent religious and racial bias, which people bearing common Muslim names are subject to in United States. While United States may still take some time to come to terms with the negative image that prevalence of this bias has earned for the superpower, it cannot be missed that Washington is gradually but definitely becoming aware of this hard reality. This probably compelled United States to issue statements at various levels on what led to the incident and that it would be looked into.
In addition to the incident having invited strong comments from several Indian politicians, Shahrukh's fans reacted strongly by staging a demonstration in Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh). Shouting slogans against the US administration, they also burnt effigy of US President Barack Obama. They termed Shahrukh's detention as an "insult to one billion Indians," (August 16). A similar demonstration was staged in the capital city also.
"We will take the issue with the United States government strongly. Such incidents involving Indians due to their religion or nationality should not happen. We will not accept it," Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel said. Earlier, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni said that India should also adopt the same attitude towards Americans. "Like they frisk, we should also be frisking them," she said.
While United States has yet to accept that biased frisking of Shahrukh- decided by his religious and racial identity- has added to the negative image about the superpower's democratic claims, Indians have reacted strongly against it, indicating that the incident is democratically unacceptable to them. Biased frisking of Shahrukh was totally undemocratic from the Indian perspective.
Aurangzeb Khan, CEO, Everspin Technologies
July 23, 2009 by TMO · Leave a Comment
CHANDLER, AZ–Aurangzeb Khan is the CEO and President of Everspin Technologies which is a global leader in integrated magnetic systems.
The Chandler, Ariz.-based company designs magnetic random access memory chips, which use magnets to store data. The company started researching the MRAM technology some years ago as part of Motorola, which then spun out all of its chip operations as Freescale Semiconductor in 2004. Everpspin then spun out of Freescale the middle of last year.
Earlier, co-founded Altius Solutions and managed it through its merger with Simplex Solutions. He then served as executive vice president and general manager of the SoC Foundry business at Simplex through its successful initial public offering (IPO) in May 2001 and later acquisition by Cadence Design Systems in June 2002.
At Cadence, he served as corporate vice president of the Strategic Planning Group and, earlier, as corporate vice president and general manager of the Design Services business.
Khan held several engineering and general management positions at Cirrus Logic, Tandem Computers (now part of HP) and Fairchild. He helped deliver several industry-first systems and SoCs to market, including the Sony Computer Entertainment GS®I-32 and PlayStation®-2 Graphics Synthesizers, the Cirrus Logic 3Ci SoC and the Tandem Computers NonStop Himalaya and Cyclone series of massively-parallel servers. Several of the SoC and systems products achieved $200M to more than $1B in annual revenues.
Khan received a master's in electrical engineering and a master's in engineering management from Stanford University and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering and computer sciences and nuclear engineering from University of Califonia, Berkeley.


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Hey guys.
I'd like to know your opinion on a subject. I come from a country where religion is not as common (New Zealand) and at work more than once we have been forced to pray.
An example would be at the end of year company lunch. The CEO of the company told a story about a man trying to get somewhere in life. I thought to myself oh yeah, I can learn something from this, until the end of his story. He ended with the man not getting where he needed to go until he accepted god into his life. He followed by saying YOU will not get everywhere you need to go unless you accept god into your life (coming from a man who started rich and ended rich). And proceeded with "let us pray", I'm surrounded by atheist's who just go along and bow their heads and say their amen's (other than me and a few select people). It infuriates me to see people behave this way just because their boss puts them in this situation. In such a large company I find it unprofesional.
Has anyone had an experience like this, I want to know how I should react to this sort of forced religion.
What the CEO did was absolutely repulsive. There is no way anyone can justify forcing someone else to accept their own religious faith and its associated practices. Furthermore, to say that one needs to accept God in order to be successful or, at least, happy in life is condescending. As an atheist, I am perfectly happy with my life without God. I personally do not find any evidence to believe in the existence of a God and neither do I need to invoke God to justify why I should live morally or be charitable (note: I do not believe that living morally and being charitable are mutually exclusive, but that's besides the point).
In fact, I would argue that such an act is unethical. The 18th Century German philosopher Immanuel Kant once said that one should "act according to the maxim that one can, at the same time, will it to be universal law." It seems to me that forcibly imposing one's religious views and practices on another cannot be willed to be universal law because if it can, then the CEO must also accept a Buddhist telling him to go vegan, for example.
Sounds like a job for
'will to power' or is it power to will; vol 1 book 1-2? or is it.. anyhew
work is work; not prayer
just like creationism is not high school or any school biology class
i hear ya though; perhaps some CEO's haven't broke free from childhood's overbearing parental influence;
or somebody's being blackmailed...by a coworker.. one of the two. ask to create a union at that right-to-pray job and see what happens~
corporate lawyers are fun too; just pool some money from others like u
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Fillmore deal done, Montgomery officials say
After months of wrangling on the details, a deal has finally been reached on building a Fillmore Music Hall in downtown Silver Spring, Montgomery County officials said Thursday night.
The Lee Development Group, which has development ambitions in the area, will give Montgomery the $3.5 million property needed for the venue, which will be run by the entertainment concern Live Nation. The site will keep the J.C. Penney façade.
Maryland and Montgomery will each kick in $4 million to help pay for the hall, which the county will own. Officials said the state and county will get $1 million a year worth of direct and indirect financial benefits from taxes and rent from the project, and will have to pay about $355,000 annually to cover its borrowing.
Boosters said adding music gigs just across the street from the AFI Silver Theater will make the Colesville Road-area a potent entertainment draw. More on the fine print of the agreement when we see the details.
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Posted at 1:58 PM ET, 11/ 6/2009
O'Malley emergency order allows paramedics to give swine vaccine
Gov. Martin O'Malley issued an emergency order Friday to help speed immunizations once more swine flu vaccine is available in Maryland.
The order allows paramedics, emergency medical technicians, and cardiac rescue personnel to give shots to the general public. Before, they could give them to each other under some circumstances.
The emergency order is essentially a bureaucratic necessity and isn't as alarming as it might sound. Maryland and other communities are ramping up for what they hope will be plentiful supplies of vaccine later this month.
They don't want long lines because of scant supplies to be replaced by long lines because there aren't enough people to give shots.
The order also gives Maryland's Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene, John M. Colmers, the power to add "additional categories of health care providers" to the list of those who can vaccinate.
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Posted at 8:53 AM ET, 11/ 3/2009
With labor talks underway, Andrews calls for pay freeze in Montgomery
Montgomery Council President Phil Andrews warned Monday that the ballooning county budget deficit - it's now hit at least $400 million, given rollbacks in expected tax revenues - will require an across-the-board salary freeze next year.
"All the alternatives to a pay freeze are worse. They are worse for the employees and they are worse for the public," Andrews said, adding that it's the only way to "avoid draconian cuts in services, layoffs and tax increases" in an already tough economy.
There's no accident to his timing: labor talks are underway between the county administration and public employee unions.
"I think it's important that that message is made clear at this point, so the parties in the collective bargaining agreements are under no illusions about what is affordable," Andrews said.
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Montgomery's Leggett proposes mid-year budget cuts
Schools, libraries, police and a host of Montgomery County departments would get a mid-year budget trim under a $30 million cost-cutting plan being proposed by county executive Ike Leggett.
But that would just be a small down payment on the far-reaching cuts needed to close next year's budget gap, which Leggett projected at nearly $370 million.
And Leggett said that big number could get bigger still. Next year's shortfall "may significantly worsen in the near future because of continued revenue deterioration and the very real potential for further and substantive reductions in State Aid," Leggett wrote to the county council, which can approve them, wait, or come up with new ones.
Among the proposed reductions: police would roll back its 2010 recruiting class from 47 to 36 officers, library materials would be cut by more than a million dollars, and public schools would take a $9.7 million hit.
For the full list of the proposed cuts, click here.
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Free speech returns to Montgomery and Prince George's parks
The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission has indefinitely suspended a series of rules slammed as unconstitutional by the ACLU. They've also agreed to work together on permanent revisions to the regulations.
Park police will no longer stop someone for holding a campaign sign without a permit, as happened to a volunteer campaigning with Montgomery GOP candidate Robin Ficker on the Fourth of July. The park rule makers also dropped permit requirements for collecting signatures and conducting interviews.
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ACLU Goes After Speech Limits in Montgomery, Prince George's
The American Civil Liberties Union on Monday demanded that officials who govern parks in Montgomery and Prince George's counties junk rules restricting free speech. The rules require a permit to carry signs or solicit signatures, according to the ACLU. "In...
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Swine Flu Close to Home for Rep. Van Hollen
The swine flu vaccine being injected in a succession of nostrils Friday in Silver Spring came too late for Rep. Chris Van Hollen's 13-year-old son. "He's flat on his back at home," said the Maryland Democrat as dozens of Montgomery...
By Michael Laris | October 9, 2009; 03:25 PM ET | Comments (0)
Can Montgomery become Cambridge or San Diego?
A county council member Wednesday afternoon joined a burgeoning local government effort to try to answer that question. Council member Michael Knapp, a former congressional aide and biotech executive, called for a broad-based program to expand research jobs in the...
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Budget Pain Coming in Montgomery: Raises, Reserves Being Examined
Montgomery County is facing a $364 million budget shortfall next year. That big number got some additional head-shaking context Tuesday: Even after a series of theoretical cuts (which would still need to be negotiated with public employees unions) the county...
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Clicking Away in Montgomery As Md. Opens Up To Speed Cameras
There's nothing like a speed camera to get drivers hot. Some residents like them - at least on their own quiet streets. But they also loathe them - at least when they get nabbed commuting. There's also the back and...
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Health Studies Proposed For Montgomery Roads
A majority on the Montgomery County council Tuesday launched an effort to require health impact studies before major roads are built or improved. Sponsor Duchy Trachtenberg (D-At Large) said a proposed road known as the Midcounty Corridor, which would run...
By Michael Laris | September 29, 2009; 03:52 PM ET | Comments (0)
Biden Talks Up Health Reform With Montgomery Seniors
Vice President Joseph Biden arrived late to a meeting with more than t200 seniors in Silver Spring Wednesday and asked them to sign a note to his 92-year-old mother so she wouldn't scold him for his tardiness. Biden came to...
By Michael Laris | September 23, 2009; 06:10 PM ET | Comments (0)
Montgomery Council Reverses Course On Land Purchase
We noted last week the dance between Ike Leggett and the county council over plans for a science city near Johns Hopkins' Montgomery campus. The particular point of contention was what to do about a stretch of land near Montgomery...
By Michael Laris | September 22, 2009; 05:58 PM ET | Comments (1)
How Some Would Save $1 Million in Montgomery
Here's an idea for how to fix Montgomery County's troubled tuition assistance program for county employees: Get rid of it, at least for next year. That was the idea floated Monday by Montgomery County Council President Phil Andrews. The program...
By Michael Laris | September 14, 2009; 04:52 PM ET | Comments (2)
GEICO Dispute Crawls On, Draws In Navarro As Council Returns
The chanting procession by 16 purple-clad demonstrators during Thursday's evening rush on Wisconsin Avenue marked the latest beat in the running conflict between Chevy Chase-based insurer GEICO and the Service Employees International Union. Representatives from the SEIU local 32BJ, which...
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One Sharp-Edged Speech, Two Views From Maryland
Sen. Ben Cardin (D) saw a clear-eyed president giving it straight. If it makes some people squirm, so be it. "I was proud the President called it like it was and I'm sure there were some people who were uncomfortable...
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A Final Fruit Fight Item: Turning The Other Cheek On Montgomery's Roadside Stands
Just in time for the Labor Day roadside rush, Maryland's State Highway Administration reached an agreement Thursday with Montgomery County activist Robin Ficker over his son's disputed fruit and vegetable stand. Ed Harris, counsel to the highway administration, said the...
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Van Hollen Talks Health Care at Leisure World
There were no disruptions or wild bouts of yelling Friday when Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D) met with more than 250 constituents in a chandeliered ballroom at Leisure World of Maryland in Silver Spring. "Please be civil," one of the...
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Fruit Detente In Montgomery?
Ah, the Montgomery County fruit and veggie wars may be coming to an end. Robin Ficker, whose son Rob's fruit stand has been at the center of a dispute over equal treatment, said today that a judge has instructed him...
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End-of-Life Politics: The View From A Hospice
For people who have spent years wrestling with the emotional complexities of caring for the dying in Maryland, the recent spasm of angry, hyper-charged debate over end-of-life issues and health-care reform has been cause for some major head shaking. Ann...
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You're Up: Marylanders Take a Swing at Shrinking Government
Gov. Martin O'Malley asked for ideas on how to cut hundreds of millions from Maryland's budget. What will be done with them? Officials released 351 pages worth of the suggestions this afternoon. Among them: "purchase a bankrupt hotel or motel...
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Mike Laris came to Maryland by way of Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Beijing and various stops around Northern Virginia and the District. He's written for The Post about everything from a part-time barber who racked up a $21,000 bill for...
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27 Jul 2013 | #1 |
Service Pack 2 (KB2687455) will not install
Yesterday SP2 became available however I am unable to install it. A window pops up asking for a file called ProPlusrWW.msi in the folder: C:\MSOCache\All Users\{91140000-0011-0000-0000-0000000FF1CE}-C The file is not there however I found it on the Office Professional Plus DVD. Still, after pointing the pop up window to the DVD location Windows update still reports the update as failed. The update also fails if I try to copy the ProPlusrWW.msi file to the default location the pop up window asks for. Ive tried a Windows update repair program that found two problems. Even though they were reported as fixed it did not solve the problem. Any ideas? Thanks. |
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27 Jul 2013 | #2 |
Hi there
try downloading the Stand alone version and applying it manually rather than via Windows update. Cheers jimbo |
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27 Jul 2013 | #3 |
Where can I find that?
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27 Jul 2013 | #4 |
I found the standalone installer. It too did not find the ProPlusrWW.msi file. After pointing the installer to the DVD with the file the installer quits with the message:
Installation failed |
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27 Jul 2013 | #5 |
Windows 7 Professional x64 Zorin OS 9 Core x64 Ubuntu 14.04 x64 Xubuntu 13.1 x64
Are you fully updated before the fact ?
I wouldn`t fret over it just yet, nothing too worry about, especially with space on a ssd. |
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28 Jul 2013 | #6 |
What do you mean "don't fret over it just yet"? Should I just ignore that the update won't install? And I do not understand what free space on my SSD has to do with it? |
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29 Jul 2013 | #7 |
The problem reported by the OP has been discussed at length on another forum (Microsoft Office 2010 Service Pack 2 (SP2) - Microsoft Help | DSLReports Forums). The consensus seemed to be that those who managed to install SP2 without any problems had all retained their MSOCache after installing MS Office and those that couldn't install it had all deleted theirs.
A couple of posters reinstalled Office 2010, simply in order to recreate the MSOCache, and they managed to complete the installation. Others sourced the required .msi file (a different .msi file seems to be required depending on the OS and the version of Office being used) from somewhere and copied it into an empty MSOCache and somehow made it work. I tried that and it didn't work for me. An internet search will turn up several threads which discuss the advisability of retaining the MSOCache after installing MS Office. The general view is that it isn't worth wasting half a GB of disk space on files that will never be needed again. After all the main benefit of retaining the MSOCache that MS has identified is that updates will install without the need to insert the original installation disk to copy any required files. Unfortunately, the inference that you can reasonably draw from MS's statement, that if you delete the MSOCache, you will always be able to use the installation disk option, doesn't seem to apply in the case of Office 2010 SP2. It may be that the MSOCache theory is a red herring and that there is another reason why a number of people are getting the same error message referring to a missing file in the MSOCache. It would be good to know if anybody on this forum has managed to install SP2 without having the MSOCache in place. |
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30 Jul 2013 | #8 |
As far as I know I've never deleted anything in the MSOCache. I use CCleaner - maybe it does although I can not find that I've selected it to do so.
Since copying the .msi file from the DVD does not help - the only solution for me will be to uninstall Office, install again and apply the update? Thanks. |
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If this last statement represents hyperbole, Canady, a student at Metro State College majoring in computer graphic design, certainly doesn't let on: In conversation, he seems genuinely terrified by many of the thoughts that creep into his brain and extremely grateful that he's found an outlet for at least temporarily ridding himself of them. Just as important, the results of his creative paroxysms are frequently fascinating. While some of his material seems little different from standard-issue death metal, his explorations of a sonic style he refers to as "power electronics" represent an intriguingly extreme approach to the industrial genre.
Forget Lou Reed: On Thanatos Descends, a Dead World CD released this summer as part of an agreement between Canady's own Malsonus imprint and the New York City label Bloodlust!, the vocalist and multi-instrumentalist proves himself to be the real expert on metal machine music. Tracks such as "(warhammer)," "(the scourge)," "(violator)" and "(deathpile)" are built upon death-metal staples--thudding/ear-splitting guitar riffs, demonic vocals and lyrics that concern violent, often misogynistic themes. But interspersed among these fairly typical offerings are experiments that venture into hitherto unexplored realms of racket. The first of these, "(thanatos I)," begins with a squeal that suggests a circular saw slicing into a car fender. It's followed by "(thanatos II [parts 1 & 2])," which rumbles with ominous, bell-like keyboards that suggest minimalist Steve Reich with a gun in his mouth; "(thanatos III [parts 1 & 2])," a cut that crashes and bangs like an automobile assembly line run amok; and the sound-effects orgy "(thanatos IV)." Taken as a whole, Dead World's non-vocal pieces are much more formidable than its comparatively accessible offerings because they allow listeners to conjure up their own dreads rather than asking them to grapple with the ones Canady makes explicit.
Canady, too, is excited by the "(thanatos)" opuses. "Without them, the album would have been a straight industrial/death-metal record," he admits. "And since I spend most of my time working on experimental music, it wouldn't have been true to me to leave it out. It's what I find most interesting right now."
A native of Denver, Canady has been into sonic doom since high school, when he was part of a death-metal act called Psychotic Society. He subsequently participated in a hardcore group, Velcro Overdose ("I'm not very excited about talking about that one," he notes) before forming Dead World with guitarist Kevin Kopp and drummer Greg Knoll during the fall of 1991. The trio cut a series of demos at Denver's Platinum Studios that impressed the suits at Pennsylvania-based Relapse Records, best known for releasing manifestos by the popular metal combo Neurosis; a contract was signed, and the tapes were released in 1992 under the title Collusion. Knoll left the band prior to its next two Relapse offerings (a full-length, The Machine, and an EP, This Will Hurt Someone), and by early 1994, Kopp was gone as well. Canady, who was living in Pennsylvania and working as Relapse's art director at the time of Kopp's departure, takes much of the blame for these lineup shifts: "I'm a control freak," he says unapologetically.
Following the recording of "Helter Skelter," a cover of Charles Manson's favorite Beatles tune that appears on the collection Death Is Just the Beginning 3, Canady severed his relationship with Relapse. He's dodgy about explaining what led to this decision. "Let's see how I can put this so I won't get in trouble," he mutters, before stating: "Basically, I just wanted to start my own label. I want to make a living being a professional musician, and the only way I could see that I could do that without making extremely commercial music was to start my own company."
Since giving birth to Malsonus (reachable at P.O. Box 18193, Denver 80218) and issuing Thanatos Descends, Canady has been in contact with death-metal and power-electronic enthusiasts all over the globe. "I've recorded cassettes specifically for people in Italy, Japan and England," he points out. "And I get letters and e-mail from everywhere you can imagine: Malaysia, Russia, Lithuania, Portugal--places you'd never expect to be into this kind of music."
The next four Malsonus releases, due during the first half of 1997, exemplify the length of Canady's current reach. They include Blunt Force Trauma, a collaboration between Deathpile (also featuring Denver's M. Todd) and Gruntsplatter, a San Diego outfit; Hollow Earth, which pairs Canady and Michael Hensley, who fronts the act Yen Pox; an album shared by Canady and the leader of the Japanese unit Aube; and a compilation of American and international noise acts to be titled The Sound of Sadism. In the meantime, Canady hopes to star in a series of live performances--he'll appear as part of Deathpile at the Lion's Lair on December 2, with Black Cell Backwards and Infasonic--and to assist in bringing touring performers to Denver. "I'm talking to bands from other parts of the country--like Black Leather Jesus, from Texas--about coming here to play," he says. "I think it's a tragedy that there isn't more of this kind of thing going on here, and I'm going to do my best to get it going."