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POPSVatican Condemns Hallowe'en Last year a newspaper controlled by the Italian bishops, Avvenire, called for a boycott of Hallowe'en, calling it a "dangerous celebration of horror and the macabre" which could encourage "pitiless sects without scruples". Earlier this week the Catholic Church in Spain also condemned the growing popularity of Halloween, saying it threatened to overshadow the Christian festival of All Saints' Day. The Bishop of Siguenza-Guadalajara, Jose Sanchez, said there was a risk that Halloween could "replace Christian customs like devotion to saints and praying for the dead."
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POPSJoop Advises Merkel to Don More Revealing Clothes German Chancellor Angela Merkel is used to unsolicited remarks about her dowdy taste in clothes. Now, fashion designer Wolfgang Joop has come up with an unusual tip for the world's most powerful woman: Wear more low-cut tops.
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POPSWeblog Disclaimer Heretofore and unto now, a blogger hosted weblog has had to rely exclusively on the blanket disclaimer provided for the corporate body of blog*spot addresses. While this kind of disclaimer is usually sufficient to protect a blogger from liability, it falls short when dealing with inherently offensive content, websites with a mind of their own and authors who are excessively paranoid about being dragged into court. With the above firmly borne in mind, we propose this weblog disclaimer.
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POPSNiqab Debate in Egypt: Divided Scholars Hijab, chador, burqa or niqab? " The veiling of Muslim women continues to provoke controversy. This time it is the niqab, or face veil, at the center of the conflict-charged fundamental debate within the Islamic world.
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POPSHamideh Mohagheghi: Die Barmer Theologische Erklärung aus islamischer Sicht Im Dialog ist es unentbehrlich, offen und ehrlich über die Differenzen zu sprechen, das Selbstverständnis der Anderen wahrzunehmen und die Unterschiede mit Respekt und Anerkennung stehen zu lassen. Das Ziel des Dialoges kann nicht eine Vereinheitlichung der Religionen sein, jede Religion hat ihre Besonderheiten und Einzigartigkeiten, die zu pflegen und zu bewahren sind. Die Barmer Thesen (incl. English translation): siehe ↗ Clip .
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POPS480.000.000.000 € für das Spielcasino Deregulation = Enthemmung Wenn die enthemmten (Ab)Zocker mit ihrer Kiste feststecken, macht das nix: Mütterchen Staat holt sie da raus, und nun: ein neues Spiel, ein neues Glück!
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POPSEach Small Candle Halfdan Rasmussen was born in Copenhagen, Denmark January 29, 1915. He was a resistance fighter during the German occupation of Denmark in W.W.II and became a well known poet often writing about social issues and human rights. Halfdan Rasmussen was also loved for his nonsense verses written for children. Halfdan Rasmussen almost became a national-poet of Denmark. He died in 87 years old on 2nd March 2002. In 1979 Amnesty International (Denmark) published a small book with poems about Human Rights (ISBN: 87-980852-2-0). Among the best were a small poem from Halfdan Rasmussen titled "Ikke Bødlen". The English Translation of Ikke Bødlen: Not the torturer will scare me Nor the hate and the torture Nor the barrels of death's rifles nor the shadows on the wall Nor the nights When the last star of pain is falling to the ground But the blind indifference of the merciless world
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POPSVom Aussterben bedrohte Wörter What's this all about? Click here for an English explanation. Do words go to vocabulary heaven when they die? A Berlin author is out to find the most beautiful "endangered" word in the German language -- and to save other dying words from a morbid fate. New words enter the German language every day. Many of them are borrowed from English, like "Blockbuster" and "Brunch." Others -- like "cool" and its more German-sounding equivalent "geil" -- belong to an ever changing youth culture. Omissions are just as common as additions. Some words simply fall into the black hole of disuse. Some are forgotten because they no longer apply to modern life. Still others are eventually rejected for sounding old-fashioned or out-of-date.
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POPSFriedensnobelpreis für Barack Obama - Begründung des Komitees Das norwegische Nobel-Komitee hat beschlossen, den Friedensnobelpreis 2009 an Präsident Barack Obama zu vergeben für seine außergewöhnlichen Bemühungen zur Stärkung der internationalen Diplomatie und zur Zusammenarbeit zwischen den Völkern. Das Komitee hat dabei besonderes Augenmerk auf Obamas Vision und seine Arbeit für eine Welt ohne Atomwaffen gelegt.
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POPSJoumana Haddad: "Erotik ist der Puls des Lebens" Joumana Haddad ist libanesische Dichterin, Journalistin und Kulturredakteurin der Tageszeitung "An-Nahar" in Beirut. Mit "Jassad" (Arabisch für "Körper") gibt sie das erste erotische Hochglanzmagazin der arabischen Welt heraus. Es erscheint seit Dezember 2008 vier Mal im Jahr. Joumana Haddad hat bisher fünf Gedichtbände geschrieben, die in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt werden. Auf Deutsch: "Damit ich abreisen kann" (Lisan-Verlag Basel) und "Liliths Wiederkehr" (Verlag Hans Schiler). Die Autorin spricht sieben Sprachen und hat mehrere Bücher übersetzt. 2006 erhielt sie den "Arab Press Prize". English translation: With her erotic cultural magazine "Jasad" ("Body"), Lebanese poet and journalist Joumana Haddad deliberately breaks taboos in a society that likes to draw a veil over the human body – both literally and figuratively. Qantara.de - "Eroticism is the Pulse of Life"
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POPSUSA: Panel votes to restore abstinence education money Late last night, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) pushed through an amendment in the Senate Finance Committee authorizing $50 million in funding for abstinence-only programs as part of Health Care Reform- despite over 10 years of evidence that these programs do not work. By a razor-thin vote of 12-11, the Senators on the Finance Committee gave conservative ideology a victory over science and common sense. See ↗ Advocates For Youth .
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POPSThe real reason that capitalism is so crash-prone When a person walks, lifting and dropping each foot in turn, he or she produces a slight sideways force. If hundreds of people are walking in a confined space, and some happen to walk in step, they can generate enough lateral momentum to move a footbridge"just a little. Once the footway starts swaying, however subtly, more and more pedestrians adjust their gait to get comfortable, stepping to and fro in synch. As a positive-feedback loop develops between the bridge’s swing and the pedestrians’ stride, the sideways forces can increase dramatically and the bridge can lurch violently. The investigating engineers termed this process “synchronous lateral excitation,” and came up with a mathematical formula to describe it.What does all this have to do with financial markets? Quite a lot
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