Pretty women wonder where my secret lies.
I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size
But when I start to tell them,
They think I'm telling lies.
I say,
It's in the reach of my arms
The span of my hips,
The stride of my step,
The curl of my lips.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
I walk into a room
Just as cool as you please,
And to a man,
The fellows stand or
Fall down on their knees.
Then they swarm around me,
A hive of honey bees.
I say,
It's the fire in my eyes,
And the flash of my teeth,
The swing in my waist,
And the joy in my feet.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Men themselves have wondered
What they see in me.
They try so much
But they can't touch
My inner mystery.
When I try to show them
They say they still can't see.
I say,
It's in the arch of my back,
The sun of my smile,
The ride of my breasts,
The grace of my style.
I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me.
Maya AMaya Angelou's poem, "Phenomenal Woman," is offered here as a tribute to women. It appears in her collection of poems dedicated to women (Phenomenal Women, Random House, 1995).
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06/22/09
بدترين امت
آگاه باشيد كه بدترين امت من كساني هستند كه از ترس شرشان مورد تكريم و احترام قرار مي گيرند.
پيامبر اكرم
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03/22/09
Happy Norooz,
The first day of Spring and the beginning of Iranian’s calendar year.
The Iranian
calendar is an astronomical solar calendar and one of the longest chronological records in history and is currently used in Iran and Afghanistan as the main official calendar. Beginning each year on the vernal equinox as precisely determined by astronomical observations from Tehran (or the 52.5?E meridian, which also defines IRST), this makes it more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar in being synchronized with the solar year, but harder to work out when a particular date would occur before the New Year preceding that date.
Some believe that the Jalali
calendar, an ancestor of
the Iranian calendar, was introduced on 15 March,
1079
by the Seljuk Sultan Jalal al-Din Malik Shah I, based on the recommendations of a committee of astronomers, including Omar Khayyam, at the imperial observatory in his capital city of Isfahan. They mention that the calendar included the most accurate computation of the solar year at the time, and month computations were based on solar transits through the zodiac, a system integrating ideas from the Surya Siddhanta (India, 4th c.
AD). Later, some ideas from the Chinese-Uighur calendar (1258) were also incorporated. They also claim that the Jalali calendar remained in use for eight centuries.
This is the beginning of the Iranian Calendar year is AP 1388 (AP = Anno Persico/Anno Persarum = Persian year).
The
Iranian year usually begins on March 21 of the Gregorian calendar. Add
621 to an Iranian year to find
the corresponding year as reckoned by
the Gregorian
calendar.
Click on the
following link for understanding the annual change in the position of the Earth in its revolution around the Sun and the change of seasons in the Northern Hemisphere.
http://www.physicalgeography.net/fundamentals/6h.html
Akbar Torbat
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07/21/07
David & layla
He's Jewish. She's Muslim. Despite cultural chasms, 'David & Layla' are still in love.
By Michael Ordoña, Special to The Times
A comedic romance inspired by a real-life love story between a Jewish American man and a Kurdish Muslim woman, with dashes of erectile dysfunction, testicular torsion and international politics, "David & Layla" follows public-access TV personality David Fine (David Moscow) as he falls for refugee and dancer Layla (Shiva Rose) despite the religious and cultural chasms between their families and his tepid engagement to another woman.
Even considering the subject matter, the film is surprisingly political for a romantic comedy. On David's show, "Sex and Happiness," a psychiatrist compares the last two presidents' military actions and links them to the chief executives' presumed sexual health: If we want peace, he postulates, "Maybe we should obligate our leaders to eat spicy foods and have more sex."
"David & Layla" manages to be both randy and chaste, its sex is absurd but not explicit. The dialogue has its moments, such as when David's fiancée says her brother has been diagnosed with an Oedipal complex, and David's oh-so-Jewish mother retorts, "Oedipus Schmedipus, as long as he loves his mother!"
Writer-producer-director Jay Jonroy struggles to balance the love story with the cultural and political elements. It doesn't help that he favors broad acting and unsynchronized comic timing (some slapstick bits are missed by a mile). Still, Moscow eventually finds his groove as David, and Callie Thorne is amusing as his high-strung fiancée, Abby.
Packed with meals, music and religious ideas, the movie offers interesting looks into Jewish and Kurdish Muslim traditions. The climactic celebration sequence is a high point. "David & Layla" also displays an unusual grasp of complex political issues and these mini-dissertations prove to be integral parts of the film's fabric.
But Jonroy struggles to keep the romantic-comedy momentum going, falling prey to the genre's deadliest trap: Why are these people in love in the first place? Layla in particular is a somewhat opaque character. It's hard to understand why the two risk everything when they barely know each other. Their ardor, lacking a sexual spark, never seems as formidable as the obstacles.
Though it's no "Romeo and Juliet," "David & Layla" is an offbeat cross-cultural romance with a positive message.
"David & Layla." MPAA rating: R for sexual content, some language and brief drug material. Running time: 1 hour, 48 minutes. At Laemmle's Music Hall, 9036 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, (310) 274-6869; Laemmle's One Colorado, 42 Miller Alley (inside plaza, Fair Oaks Avenue at Union Street), Pasadena, (626) 744-1224; and Regal/Edwards Westpark, 3755 Alton Parkway, Irvine, (949) 622-8609.
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08/13/06
Madonna 'crucified' despite storm
Vatican accuses her of blasphemy and provocation. Madonna had inflamed Catholic groups by inviting the pope to watch her Rome (Reuters) -- Madonna has staged a mock-crucifixion in the Italian capital, ignoring a storm of protest and accusations of blasphemy from the Roman Catholic Church.
In a sold-out stadium just a mile from Vatican City, the lapsed-Catholic diva wore a fake crown of thorns as she was raised on a glittery cross during the Rome stop of her worldwide "Confessions Tour."
The Vatican had accused her of blasphemy and provocation for even considering staging the sham crucifixion on its doorstep, anger Madonna further enflamed prior to the show by inviting Pope Benedict to come and watch.
The self-styled "Queen of Pop" went on to pepper her two-and-a-half hour show with more controversial imagery, at one point showing photographs of the pope after those of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
"Did you know two miracles have taken place in Rome?," the star, dressed in skin-skimming black, later joked with the crowd. "Italy won the World Cup and the rain stopped before my show."
The 70,000 fans, crammed into the Olympic Stadium, shrugged off the scandal, by dancing, singing and jumping as she performed songs from her latest album "Confessions on a Dance Floor" and classics, such as "Like a Virgin".
Yet, the cheering lulled when she was raised on the cross and some fans from predominantly Roman Catholic Italy confessed their disappointment.
"The crucifixion was unnecessary and provocative. Because this is Rome, I wish she'd cut it out. But it's Madonna, she's an icon, and that balances out her need to provoke," said 39-year old Roman, Tonia Valerio.
It is not the first time Madonna, whose father is a Catholic Italian American, has caused religious anger for her controversial religious and sexual imagery.
Catholic leaders condemned as blasphemous her 1989 video for hit song "Like a Prayer", featuring burning crosses, statues crying blood and Madonna seducing a black Jesus.
In 2004, a Vatican group warned that her latest religious belief "Kabbalah", a mystical form of Judaism, was a potential threat to the Roman Catholic faithful.
And she looks likely to face another storm when the tour reaches Moscow in September, where the Russian Orthodox Church has advised its followers to boycott the show because of the crucifixion stunt, agency Interfax reported on Saturday.
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A comedic romance inspired by a real-life love story between a Jewish American man and a Kurdish Muslim woman, with dashes of erectile dysfunction, testicular torsion and international politics, "David & Layla" follows public-access TV personality David Fine (David Moscow) as he falls for refugee and dancer Layla (Shiva Rose) despite the religious and cultural chasms between their families and his tepid engagement to another woman.
Writer-producer-director Jay Jonroy struggles to balance the love story with the cultural and political elements. It doesn't help that he favors broad acting and unsynchronized comic timing (some slapstick bits are missed by a mile). Still, Moscow eventually finds his groove as David, and Callie Thorne is amusing as his high-strung fiancée, Abby.
In a sold-out stadium just a mile from Vatican City, the lapsed-Catholic diva wore a fake crown of thorns as she was raised on a glittery cross during the Rome stop of her worldwide "Confessions Tour."