Is this a cause for great joy? Are the three great religions united at last? Is peace about to break out in the Middle East? Well, no. International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the Holy City, home to three great religious traditions. Now major leaders of the three faiths – Christianity, Judaism and Islam – are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival. They say the event would desecrate the city and convey the…
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I noticed a lot of visitors are arriving here looking for information on adding drop shadows to images. As I flailed helplessly at this for a long time before finally settling on a simple method, I thought I’d add a little documentation. The previous entry I had on this was a little sketchy in that department. Also, some discussion popped up regarding text wrap at the excellent Learning Moveable Type site, so I thought I would elaborate on my method for handling images. First off, you need to go to A List Apart and read Sergio Villarreal’s excellent tutorial. Copy…
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This was who Terri Schiavo was 15 years ago or more: vibrant, pretty, bright. She was a real knockout, in fact. No wonder her husband fell in love witih her at first sight and fought so hard for her care in the first few years after her collapse, coma, and entry into a persistent vegetative state. He did everything he could to bring her back, but after several years he came to accept what the doctors told him as far back as 1994: her cerebral cortex was “all but gone.” 11 years ago. “All but gone.” Michael and the doctors…
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BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Eccleston quits Doctor Who role HUH? 1 episode aired, but he apparently fears being typecast. So just one series with Eccleston, and then yet another new Doctor. Huh.