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April 30, 2007
Spitfire - Sell Photos
http://www.spitfirephoto.com/pricing.php
Spitfire Photo Pro
Manage, share, and sell your digital photos online
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April 28, 2007
Sexual Consent Form
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2777178
Sexual Consent - Viral Videos - IFILM
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April 24, 2007
San Francisco Film Festival, Apr
http://fest07.sffs.org/films/film_details.php?id=40
San Francisco International Film Festival
2007: Apr 26 - May 10
A Few Days Later ...
Niki Karimi
In her second narrative feature, Iranian writer/director/actress Niki Karimi presents a gorgeous minimalist portrait of a woman crushed by indecision. At first it seems that 34-year-old graphic designer Shahrzad goes about her daily life—working, driving, listening to phone messages—with placid ease, but her surface stillness masks a maelstrom of weighty decisions she desperately wishes to avoid making. Shahrzad is contemplating leaving her boyfriend, with whom she is raising a disabled son. At the same time, her father is very ill. Although boyfriend, son and father loom large in Shahrzad’s psyche, these characters appear infrequently. Instead, the film's focus is firmly on Shahrzad as she grows distracted at work, watches TV as a deadening means of avoidance, ignores persistent phone messages and repeatedly drives her car to the same lookout point. Her supervisor is unhappy with her latest work, an obnoxious neighbor constantly parks his SUV in her space and she must transfer her son to a new hospital. Despite her best efforts to maintain solitude and inertia, she eventually must contend with some tough choices. Karimi’s style shows the influence of Iranian master Abbas Kiarostami, with whom she has worked. Like her previous feature One Night, A Few Days Later. . . tells a gripping story of personal choice amid a vividly depicted social and cultural milieu.
—Laurie Koh
U.S. Premiere.
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Centenarian celebrates with £25k
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/6586637.stm
Mr Holden, who has two sons aged 70 and 60, puts his longevity down to porridge for breakfast and "remembering to keep breathing".
He said it was also important not to worry about anything, do as little work as possible, and go on lots of holidays.
He also plays chess every day, running a local club.
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Sorood.com
http://sorood.com/user/showdastgah.asp?dastgahId=58
www.sorood.com is a non-profit cultural organization With the help of many friends around the world. Currently the organization is volunteer based project and does not have a set budget. If anyone does not want their work to be in this Encyclopedia of Persian Music Please let us know to remove them. At this time since most friends do not want to mention their names, Mr. Houshang Pakpour is the one to be contacted.
Posted by chek at 03:58 PM | Comments (0)
April 23, 2007
Don't Bomb Bomb Iran
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiqzRN1IVtY
Posted by chek at 03:58 PM | Comments (0)
April 20, 2007
Team Dating
http://www.teamdating.com/
TeamDating.com is the next evolution in Online Dating – a website created for you to meet people the way you meet people in your normal lives…with your friends. Finally, there is a website that allows you and your friends to meet them and their friends. That’s it, plain and simple. We are an online extension of your current social lives. Chances are, you are with your friends when you go to a bar, club, restaurant, charity event, fundraiser, dinner party, the movies, the bowling alley, the ball game, or on vacation. So why can you not do online dating with your friends? Well, now you can, with TeamDating.com.
Posted by chek at 12:25 PM | Comments (0)
April 19, 2007
Bridge to Terabithia
http://www.terabithia.com/index.html
The Official Site of Author Katherine Paterson
Q. We were wondering how you were able to come up with two such totally unrelated ideas as Gilly Hopkins and Bridge to Terabithia? Did anything happen in your life, or did something you read inspire you to write any of your books?
A. Both Bridge and Gilly grew out of real life experiences. I wrote Bridge because our son David's best friend, an eight-year-old named Lisa Hill, was struck and killed by lightning. I wrote the book to try to make sense out of a tragedy that seemed senseless. I wrote Gilly after I'd been a foster mother for a couple of months and didn't feel as though I'd been such a great one, so I tried to imagine how it might be to be a foster child. How would I feel if I thought the rest of the world thought of me as disposable?
Q. When did you first know that you wanted to become a writer?
A. The fact is that I never wanted to be a writer, at least not when I was a child, or even a young woman. Today I want very much to be a writer. But when I was ten, I wanted to be either a movie star or a missionary. When I was twenty, I wanted to get married and have lots of children.
Q. When did you begin writing?
A. I can't remember. I know I began reading when I was four or five, because I couldn't stand not being able to. I must have tried writing soon afterward. Fortunately, very few samples of my early writing survived the eighteen moves I made before I was eighteen years old. I say fortunately, because the samples that did manage to survive are terrible, with the single exception of a rather nice letter I wrote to my father when I was seven. We were living in Shanghai, and my father was working in our old home territory, which at the time was across various battle lines. I missed him very much, and in telling him so, I managed a piece of writing I am not ashamed of to this day.
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April 18, 2007
Gardner downs his tools at 104
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/6567365.stm
A gardener has decided to down tools on his working life at the age of 104.
Jim Webber has been working the land in Dorset for 93 years, without taking holidays, but arthritis has forced him to retire.
He puts his longevity down to having "plenty to do and being interested in it" - as well as a bit of his "medicine" - whisky.
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Scream of the Ants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7OLLXWrOyU
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April 16, 2007
Meteorites
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6549197.stm
Mauritania's second city, Nouadhibou, is a strange frontier town that feels like the end of the world.
In the market you can buy anything from chickens and goats to traditional herbal remedies and magic potions.
But perhaps the weirdest objects of all on sale are meteorites, some of the rarest rocks on earth that land from space in the wastelands of the Sahara desert.
Meteorites land anywhere on earth and often end up in the oceans.
On land, they are most likely to be found near the Equator because it has the largest surface area, and particularly in the Sahara, as the dry climate helps to preserve them.
Providing they land on the flat hard pad rather than the soft sand dunes, meteorites are easy to spot in the desert and people will sometimes go in search of them if they see a meteor shower at night.
Caroline Smith, curator of the meteorite collection in London's Natural History Museum, says some of her meteorites are extremely valuable because, at 4,500 million years old, they are the oldest objects known to man.
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Agyeman, Freema
http://www.freemaagyeman.com/
Freema Agyeman has landed the role of Dr Who's assistant on BBC TV. Her mother is Iranian and her father Ghanaian.
Posted by chek at 03:02 PM | Comments (0)
April 15, 2007
VLF for TAX purposes
https://mv.dmv.ca.gov/FeeCalculatorWeb/vlfForm.do
Did you know that only the VLF portion of your vehicle license/registration fee is tax deductible.
Enter your Vehicle License Number, the last positions of your VIN, and the tax year to determine your VLF to enter in your tax forms.
See also: Other tax tips and info
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Cherry Blossom Festival, SF, Apr
http://www.iranian.com/Shahrokhi/2007/May/Spring/index.html
Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival
2007: Apr 14-15, 21-22
Posted by chek at 11:23 PM | Comments (0)
April 04, 2007
DHL
http://www.dhl.com/wrd/usa/ca.html
As of April 2007 there is no DHL service to Iran.
Tel: 1-480-636 2571 - International
Tel: 1-800-225 5345 - Toll Free
San Francisco
345 California St, CA 94104
555 23rd Street, CA 94107
Tel: 1-415-826 7338
San Jose
198 Barnard Ave, CA 95125
Tel: 1-408-295 3548
Tel: 1-408-295 8020
Sunnyvale
1383 Borregas Ave, CA 94089
Tel: 1-408-745 1280
Posted by chek at 04:20 PM | Comments (0)
Whatever
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/6523155.stm
Unruly children used to answer back - now they just crush any comeback with a glib "whatev-ah". How do you respond to a word that kills off all debate?
It's very difficult to respond to what is effectively a full-stop in the conversation, but the key is to give the child options by asking them a question.
"You have to be highly skilled. You lead the person in a different direction. You model their language for them. It's important the teacher models the correct language for the child - 'So are you saying to me you don't want to do this or you want to know what the other choices are?'
"You can say 'I'm sure you didn't mean that. What did you mean?' And give them choices. It does work. People can communicate."
Posted by chek at 03:29 PM | Comments (0)
e ncyclopedia
http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/
Encyclopedia - PC Magazine
Over 20,000 IT Terms
Posted by chek at 12:54 PM | Comments (0)
April 03, 2007
Writing Farsi in MS Word
http://www.laits.utexas.edu/persian/persianword/persianwp.htm
Typing Persian Word Documents with Windows.
How to use Farsi fonts.
Posted by chek at 05:28 PM | Comments (0)