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POPSThe last untouchable in Europe More: On occasions, the bigotry was brutally enforced: in the early 18th century a prosperous Cagot in the Landes was caught using the font reserved for non-Cagots – his hand was chopped off and nailed to the church door. Another Cagot who dared to farm his fields (strictly verboten) had his feet pierced with hot iron spikes.… Even in death, the discrimination persisted – the Cagots were buried in their own humble cemeteries; there is still one in Bentayou-Sérée, a tiny village north of Pau.… I ask Marie-Pierre if she will let me use a picture of Sylvia – and the rest of her children. She shakes her head. "I'm sorry but no. It is OK for me to admit where I come from. But if people knew about my children's background, it might be difficult for them." She gazes out of the window, at the distant green Pyrenees. "In some places, the hatred lingers. Even now. The Cagots may be silent but I can still hear it."
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POPSFonts so good.... it hurts! As the person who dug this site in digg said, this site is so darn good it hurts! Get free fonts via a beautiful web 2.0 interface. Easy to navigate and so far they all work well on my MacBook Pro - I'm a happy camper.
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POPSWord Clouds - A Toy No need for me to even consider getting up from this chair or trying something I've heard about somewhere ..... exercise :-)
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POPS "ISLAM Submission to God" ADS on Public Transit In America
The “Creeping Sharia” blog had an extensive post about the Ft. Lauderdale bus ads which had some excellent background research on the issue — pointing out, for example, how the ads (and CAIR’s Web site associated with the ads) are insulting and offensive to Christians and Jews. The Creeping Sharia post also has a great deal more evidence conclusively proving that ICNA is an offshoot of Jamaat-e-Islami, the Pakistani religious party seeking to establish an Islamic caliphate. The controversy over the ads in Ft. Lauderdale led the County Commission to consider banning all religious advertising on local buses. In addition to San Francisco and Ft. Lauderdale, the same ad campaign has also appeared in Miami and Chicago. This article says the ads have also run in Orlando, Jacksonville (FL), Portland (OR), and San Antonio. Zomblog readers report seeing ISLAM ads from this campaign on buses, trains and billboards in New York, Baltimore and Seattle. Have you spotted them in your town?
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POPS7 Incredibly Speedy Ways to Read Web Pages Faster 6. How to avoid squinting so you can read faster Rather than reaching for your reading glasses or struggling to read small fonts on a webpage simply hold down CTRL and use your mouse scrollwheel in order to zoom in and out of a web page. This tip works for both IE and Firefox. 7. How to convert text to speech so you DON’T have to read faster OK, maybe you’ve just given up reading faster :) For those people in this category, you can always try out Text to Speech so you can turn catch up on your reading in your car, or on your iPod by turning text into a sound file. Here’s an excellent resource for this. * *6 Online Tools for Text to Speech you would not want to miss http://www.dancewithshadows.com/tech/text-to-speech.asp
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POPSact,build,eat,invent,learn,live,move Laky’s text treatment really seems to declare once and for all that the best solutions might literally be right in our own backyards and communities, with materials and practices that simply need to be re-examined and better utilized. As the artist openly states, “Natural materials are very expressive…they also connect me to nature which is a deep love of mine.” According to her artist website, Laky considers herself to be an environmentalist, with her work often employing materials harvested from nature and/or agricultural sources with select recycled elements incorporated. “She is attracted to humble materials and simple, direct methods of hand construction…Laky has (also) been a strong advocate for the establishment of an environmental sustainability curriculum in design and art at UC Davis.”
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POPSSHARED BELIEF IN THE "GOLDEN RULE" - part 1 I posted the Golden Rule once before in the form of a rather elaborate chart.. The fonts were a little difficult to read, and so I am now reposting in a list form. It will take more than one clip so please bear with me.
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