Once I lived........

Once I live upon a time
A shadow I did cast
Now I'm in a different role
Not future, now, nor past


I exist because you let me
A picture I will paint
You hold me deep within your heart
I appear-although it's faint


I splash the ink upon the pulp
I dance across the stage
I'm here because you've called on me
To decorate your page


I've never had a true love
At least not one in flesh
That's how I have love to give to you
A gift that's pure and fresh


When it's just a blank you see
A void where once your art
Open up your soul to me
I'll flow throughout your heart


Where it is the music plays
the voices ring aloud
Where lovers meet, laugh and sway
I'll be amongst the crowd


I'm present in the daycare room
At theatre-back staged
I frequent many concert halls
With passion I'm engaged


Yes, indeed I lived upon a time
You must now live upon your own
Don't wait before your canvas on me
I'm You--all the way to the bone.

:-)

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Oklahoma Sales Tax Holiday Set for August 3-5, 2007

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Public Notice
July 10, 2007

Oklahoma Sales Tax Holiday Set for August 3-5, 2007

Beginning at 12:01 am on Friday, August 3, 2007, and ending at twelve midnight on Sunday, August 5, 2007, Oklahoma will hold a sales tax holiday giving shoppers the opportunity to purchase certain clothing and shoes free of sales tax. This includes state, city, county and local municipality sales taxes.

Retailers are required to participate and may not charge tax on items that are legally tax-exempt during the sales tax holiday. The sales tax holiday exempts the sale of clothing and shoes priced at less than $100 from sales taxes.

For more information and answers to common questions on the sales tax holiday, as well as a listing of sales tax exempt items please refer to the Oklahoma Tax Commission website at www.tax.ok.gov.

Related Link: Oklahoma Sales Tax Holiday Information and FAQs
Related Link: Emergency Rule 710:65-13-511 Sales Tax Holiday (pdf)

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TAKING A STAND: Nazanin Afshin-Jam, Former Miss World Canada 2003, Struggles To Save Iranian Compatriot From Execution

By arius_film@yahoo.com">Darius KADIVAR

It’s
never easy to be a teenager anywhere in the world but it is certainly
more difficult in Iran where an entire nation is subject to
particularly harsh not to say absurd so-called Islamic laws meant to
regulate all aspects of human life including the most intimate ones
since the advent of Islamic Republic more than 27 years ago. It is not
exaggerated to say that Iranian Women have since been subject to a form
of sexual apartheid. For instance the price of the blood of a Woman, is
worth half the price of that of a Man. A woman cannot become a Judge
because they consider that she cannot be objective enough. Similarly
the testimony of two Women is worth that of a single Man. Paradoxically
however it is precisely Iranian women who are at the forefront of the
struggle for social and judiciary justice in today’s Iran. The year
2003 seemed to smile to Iranian Women and raise hopes on a solution to
their unfair predicament. The Nobel Peace Prize
Laureate was indeed attributed to a former Iranian Judge ( before the
Revolution of 1979 ), now only lawyer ,Shirine Ebadi for her focus on
human rights, especially on the struggle for the rights of women and
children. Ms. Ebadi won from a record field of 165 candidates,
including Pope John Paul and former Czech President Vaclav Havel.
Interestingly the same year Iranian born Nazanin Afshin-Jam was elected
Miss World Canada 2003 and Miss World first runner-up. As if
symbolically two generations of Iranian Women separated by the turmoils
of revolution and exile were thus honored in the West, setting in their
own respective ways an example for Iranian Women worldwide to look up
to and particularly in their native country. Alas nearly three years
after the situation of Iranian women has not considerably changed for
the better. The radical laws continue to be prejudicial to Women and
the presidential election of an Iranian radical fanatic Mahmoud
Ahmaninejad (who seems to have single handedly invented in the Iranian
community anti-Semitic militancy that was virtually inexistent in
Persian society) has only encouraged his hard-line supporters to
intensify their firm grip on the country’s judiciary. At the face of
such rising intolerance in her native country Nazanin Afshin-Jam has
chosen to take a stand for the predicament of an Iranian 18 year old
namesake who is threatened by an imminent execution. Her crime? Having
fatally stabbed to death in March 2005 one of three men who attempted
to rape her as well as her 16 year old niece in a Park in Southern
Tehran. During her trial Nazanin said
“I
wanted to defend myself and my niece. I did not want to kill that boy.
At the heat of the moment I did not know what to do because no one came
to our help”. She was nevertheless sentenced to the maximum punishment possible under the current law, death by hanging …

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