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We will know soon enough why Doc wanted to leave Boston and how he feels about Rondo. IF he says NOTHING to squelch the rumors, then we know that Rondo was a contributing cause. Just like Ray Allen taking the high-road. If either Ray or Doc wanted to make clear that Rondo wasn't a problem, THEY WOULD SAY SO. Just like Lebron who squelched rumors of Danny Green's partying with them by emphatically denying it.
No denial by Doc is eqaul to a thumbs down at Rondo.
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Though Lingshan is beautiful, the Lingshan Temple is more well-known around the country. Located at the foot of the mountain, it was founded under the command of a princess of Tang dynasty, Tangminghuang's daughter. All together, there are seven temples and three convents, which include Lingshan Temple, Jinding Temple, Zhongfo Temple, Baifo Temple, Baiyun Temple, Longya Temple, Xianshi Temple, Yuantong Convent, Fuquan Convent and Yanshou Convent. Linshan Temple was afterwards nominated as the national temple by the first emperor of Ming dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang who was once sheltered here by the monks. So after taking the throne, Zhu Yuanzhang went back to the temple, nominated the leader of the monks at Jinbi feng as the presider, and inscribed the plaque writing "Shengshou ChuanSi", which demonstrates its long history of Buddhist culture. The temple is divided into three sections, with a well named "Shengjing" in the middle court whose water is cool and sweet. It is said that the spring comes from the back of Buddha, crosses the Middle palace into court, listed as the best scenic spot of Lingshan Temple, being named as "ShengSiShengJing". The west court inside the temple there erects an "Upside Down Pine" which features in big trunk in the upper part and small trunk in the lower part. It was said this pine tree was erected by the presider Haoying in Song dynasty. It is unknown whether Haoying succeeded in becoming immortal; the pine tree is ever green and still booming.
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Last week, after Jimmy Kimmel poked some fun at Kanye West by spoofing an interview West did, the always hot-headed Kanye took to Twitter to slam Kimmel, leaving fans wondering just how heated the feud was going to get. However, some were speculating that it was nothing more than a joke, and now, the rapper has removed all the ranting Tweets about Kimmel from his page. What gives?
Jimmy Kimmel is known for his comical skits, however, some folks obviously don't have a sense of humor. When Kimmel did a skit last week poking fun at Kanye West (using an adorable child by the way), West quickly took to Twitter to attack Kimmel, posting things such as: "JIMMY KIMMEL, I DON'T TAKE IT AS A JOKE..YOU DON'T HAVE SCUM BAGS HOPPING OVER FENCES TRYING TO TAKE PICTURES OF YOUR DAUGHTER. YOU CAN'T PUT YOURSELF IN MY SHOES." West also cracked his own jokes at Kimmel, claiming he looked funny, and that others were way funnier than he.
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Barbour spokesman Pete Smith said the governor wants to review the bill before commenting on it.
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Walallawita Pradeshiya Sabha Chairman Udeni Atukorala was arrested by Bribery Commission officials for allegedly soliciting a Rs 1.5 million bribe from the Bentara Paradeshiya Sabha chairman. It is reported that he had accepted the bribe to provide a permit to transport soil.
[July 01 2013]
Public Health Inspectors attached to the Kelaniya MOH Office have taken steps to launch anti-Dengue programmes in 20 schools under the purview of the Kelaniya MOH Office. The programme will be conducted on the instructions of Kelaniya MOH Dr Wasantha Rajapaksa.
[June 30 2013]
Raddolugama Pagnananda Madya Maha Vidyalaya Principal W.A.S. Wickramasinghe died following a stroke while exercising in the morning at the Rantambe Cadet Camp. Wickremesinghe, 52, was among the 97 participants in the month long military leadership training programme for school Principals.
[June 28 2013]
Senior Minister for International Monetary Co-operation and Deputy Minister of Finance & Planning Dr. Sarath Amunugama will leave for Geneva tomorrow to represent the Sri Lankan Government at the Annual Ministerial Review of the Economic & Social Council of the United Nations
[June 25 2013]
President Mahinda Rajapaksa unveiled a six feet Samadhi Buddha statue erected at the entrance to the Mihintale sacred area concurrent to the 2320 Mihindu Jayanthi commemoration. The President performed the first flower and oil lamp offering to the statue constructed by the Civil Defence Force (CSD).
[June 24 2013]
One died and four passengers were seriously injured when a train bound for Galle crashed into a lorry at Angulana . According to Police sources, the train was packed with rush hour passengers knocked the train when it was parked close to the railway track.
[June 21 2013]
A 31-year-old male, resident in Paththinigama, Galnewa was arrested by Galnewa Police on afternoon while carrying 1.508 kgs of ganja hidden in a travelling bag after alighting from a Colombo-Anuradhapura bus at Paththinigama junction.
Dosai anyone? The Ananda
Abhiman 2012 exhibition which opened
at the Colombo Ananda College
premises yesterday has many notable
exhibits and features that will be
of interest to both students and the
public. Here, a group of students
studying home science as a subject
giving a demonstration on the
preparation of dosai. Picture by
Saman Sri Wedage
Four million schoolchildren
islandwide took an oath yesterday to
energy to avert a looming power
crisis. The main ceremony was held
at Ananda
College, Colombo. Here Power and
Energy Minister Patali Champaka
Ranawaka, Education Minister Bandula
Gunawardena and Ananda College,
Colombo Principal L.M.D. Dharmasena
taking the oath. Picture by Saman
Sri Wedage
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Four million
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The Bachelor: After the Final Rose!
March 01, 2010 08:57 PM by Candace Young
Chris Harrison starts the episode of The Bachelor: After the Final Rose on ABC, saying that Jake made his decision from the heart, and that Jake and Vienna will be on the show later to share all of their plans for the future! Read on for highlights…
Chris brings Tenley out to a standing ovation from the studio audience. Tenley admits to Chris that she is nervous – and certainly feels trepidation at seeing Jake. Chris and Tenley watch a montage of Jake and Tenley, ending with the moment where he told her they were through. Tenley tears up as she watches – she tells Chris the hardest part of all that was that she was somewhat confused – she didn't understand when Jake said something was missing.
Chris points out that she still seems to have some unanswered questions, and asks if she'd like to see Jake – she would. Chris tells her to take a deep breath, hen introduces Jake. They embrace and then sit down. Tenley makes the crowd laugh by saying he smells so good!
Tenley asks Jake if he's happy. He says he is – it was the best and worst day of his life. Tenley asks again what it was that was missing – Jake thinks he still may not be able to put it in words. He says the magical spark wasn't there, and he doesn't know if it's because he was so intent on searching for it… Tenley asks about the physical connection thing – he says she made him feel, but it was an issue somehow. Tenley asks if it was a little unfair to Vienna that he was still so attached to her. Jake says he and Vienna had that spark that they didn't, but his heart still hurts for her, and she has a life friend in him.
After Tenley is gone, Jake tells Chris that Vienna's his baby – he's never had this much heat in a relationship before! He says he got everything he thought he wanted in a relationship and a million other things. They discuss how you date outside your comfort zone on this show, and learn more about yourself. Chris points out that it is controversial that he's chosen Vienna. Jake defends his choice, saying she is the best girl for him – everyone will have to trust that he let his heart lead.
It's time – for the first time in public, Jake and Vienna as an engaged couple! They hug and kiss, and Chris congratulates them. Vienna is excited that they can be out in the open now! Vienna describes that fantasy moment of walking up to Jake and having him propose. Jake admits he was pretty sure that she would say yes, but he was nervous too.
Chris asks Vienna how tough it's been since they returned to the States with all of the tabloid attention. She says it has been difficult. Jake adds that they are painting a picture of her as a person who has no values, and that's just not true.
Jake and Vienna tell Chris that Vienna is relocating to Jake's place in Dallas immediately. They will introduce their families, and enjoy some normalcy before making wedding plans. Chris says ABC is sending them back to St. Lucia as a gift! But there's more – Jeffery Osbourne is there to perform "On the Wings of Love" in person! Jake cracks up, and then he and Vienna slow dance!
Chris Harrison says the wait is over to find out who will be the next Bachelorette - she's there tonight! Chris introduces Ali! She comes out and he tells her not to cry yet – they'll have plenty of time for that! Ali is nervous, but says she appreciates the support she's received from the fans. Ali vows not to make the same mistake she made last time and let fear dictate her life. She says she'll be looking for a funny, quirky, and smart guy – and she wants 50 of them to choose from!
Chris notes that The Bachelorette will begin this May. Coming up next week is Jason and Molly's Wedding!
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March 2nd, 2010 at 5:17 pm
i'm not happy at all with you jake i thought you would know better than this why in the world would you pick that girl that you picked i dont understand your own family did not even like vienna you really messed up i think Tenley is really the girl for you and you broke her heart she really loved you vienna is not in love with you she just wants what she can get from you look how many times she tried to get in you bed this really suck the way you did tenley and you will find out that you made a big misstake thank you faye


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text: Tim Whitmarsh 2016-05-31T10:38:51-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/author/index.php?author=tim-whitmarsh Copyright 2008, HuffingtonPost.com, Inc. HuffingtonPost Blogger Feed for Tim Whitmarsh Good old fashioned elbow grease. Sappho Sings Again tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2014:/theblog//3.4691297 2014-01-30T19:00:00-05:00 2014-04-01T05:59:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ published a draft of a new pair of poems by the famous poet Sappho. Events like this are extraordinarily rare. For classicists it is like finding a new sonnet by Shakespeare or an unknown Michelangelo. Obbink runs the papyrology unit at Oxford, which specialises in publishing the huge volumes of ancient text found in a rubbish dump at Oxford's near-namesake, Oxyrhynchus (in southern Egypt). Papyrology is the study of ancient books made from pulped papyrus, the reed that grows plentifully on the banks of the Nile. By a lucky coincidence, the dry soil of southern Egypt is exceptionally well suited to preserving organic matter. The huge trove of ancient papyri at Oxyrhynchus was discovered by Bernard Grenfell and Arthur Hunt, who began working there in 1896, soon after British occupation. There is plenty of material left, so in principle there are all sorts of opportunities for discovering new texts; only a fraction of the material has been edited over the last century. (For that reason, a crowd-sourcing project has been set up, allowing interested amateurs to contribute to the editing process: do have a look if you are interested.) The vast stores have, however, been filleted by generations of directors looking for exactly this kind of thing: a thrilling discovery of a new poem. The new Sappho is not actually from the Oxyrhynchus hoard, or at least not directly. The papyrus itself belongs to an anonymous private collector in London; how he or she sourced it is not clear. And it is an extraordinarily impressive piece. Papyri are usually torn exactly where you don't want them to be, and peppered with holes. Often we are left with frustrating scraps. The Sappho piece, by contrast, gives us a single poem pretty much uninterrupted (although the beginning has, unfortunately, been lost). There are also a few lines of another poem afterwards. Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, near the west coast of Turkey, in the 6th century BC. She wrote intensely personal lyric poems about her family, friends and lovers, in a distinctive dialect called Aeolic. Although there is no author named, the new poems are certainly by her. The dialect alone doesn't guarantee that; there was another Lesbian poet who used the same dialogue, Alcaeus (a man). The verse metre, however, was a favourite of Sappho's (in fact, it is known as 'Sapphic'). What clinches it is the reference in the first surviving line to someone called 'Charaxus'. Other ancient writers, Herodotus and Ovid, tell us that Sappho had a brother by this name, an overseas trader who she chided in a poem. Yet until this publication, Charaxus' name did not appear at all in Sappho's surviving poetry. Sappho's reputation is as a poet of love, and particularly love of women. The new poem, although it dramatizes familiar themes of longing, imprecation and intense interpersonal relationships, is about family rather than eroticism. (The scrappy poem that follows it, by contrast, is certainly a love poem, directed to 'lady Aphrodite'). It is addressed to a close family member, a sibling or a parent, and speaks of their anxiety about the fate of Charaxus, who is at sea in search of goods. The dominant motif is the familiar Greek idea that mortals cannot control their own destiny and should leave their affairs in the hands of the gods; but that sermonising is deliberately made to seem hollow, since the speaker herself is as restless and frustrated as anyone. Larichus, in the last stanza, is a younger brother. The poem brings alive the mutual reliance and powerful emotional bonds that tie families together. There are many things to cherish in this poem: the autobiographical detail, the lovely metaphor of calm following a squall (particularly apt here), the psychological richness, the reminiscences of Penelope waiting for Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey ... But it is time to let the new Sappho sing for herself, for (I believe) the first time in a published English translation. ... But you always chatter that Charaxus is coming, His ship laden with cargo. That much, I reckon, only Zeus Knows, and all the gods; but you, you should not Think these thoughts, Just send me along, and command me To offer many prayers to Queen Hera That Charaxus should arrive here, with His ship intact, And find us safe. For the rest, Let us turn it all over to higher powers; For periods of calm quickly follow after Great squalls. They whose fortune the king of Olympus wishes Now to turn from trouble to [ ... ] are blessed and lucky beyond compare. As for us, if Larichus should [ ... ] his head And at some point become a man, Then from full many a despair Would we be swiftly freed. [...] marks a point where the text is corrupt. Many thanks to Armand D'Angour, Felix Budelmann, Lucia Prauscello and Martin West for informal discussions of the text. (Any errors are of course mine.)]]> Privatised Student Loans? No Thanks! tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3524734 2013-06-30T19:00:00-04:00 2013-08-30T05:12:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ This government, the government that led to the English university system joining the most expensive in the world, a decision that prompted mass protests on London's streets, has firm plans to privatise student finance. Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish universities also charge large fees (especially to non-residents), and changes to the loan system will affect them equally. It has the makings of an absolute scandal. And it is almost as much of a scandal that the mainstream media has ignored it (only the New Statesman ran a piece on it). Now, it should be said that it is not absolutely clear what 'selling off the student loan book' actually means. Are we talking about privatising the entire student loan system, including the state-run Student Loan Company? That would be a disaster. At the outset, of course, we would get all sorts of promises that interest rates would be capped. But we all know how these things work. Within ten years there would be a free market in student finance, as there is in the USA. There are many things to admire about the US, but a nation where student debt exceeds one trillion dollars cannot be said to have nailed that particular issue. Alexander's words could, on the other hand, mean that the collection of existing loans will be outsourced to private companies. It looks, at first sight, like the cuddlier option. There is precedent for this, and in fact legislation came in in 2008 to ensure that noone whose debt had been sold on would be adversely affected. But here too the implications are horrendous. Early in its term of office, as the Guardian revealed last month, the government commissioned a report from Rothschild investment bank (of all people!) into the financing of student loans. The report argued that 'investors' (sic) would be put off buying loans by the low interest rate caps. It proceeded to argue that there were two options: either remove the caps altogether, or to guarantee a higher return, using public money to make up the shortfall. This report is, according to the Guardian's sources, still being considered actively. Let's be clear about the implications: selling off student loans is likely to involve either scrapping the 2008 guarantees and raising interest rates retrospectively, or using tax-payers' money to subsidise the return to huge corporations. Whichever route they are planning to take, the situation is deeply troubling. Higher education is the primary driver of social mobility in the UK. Huge fees are already a deterrent to many, but at least when they came in we were promised a benevolent, progressive loans structure. The involvement of the private sector in student financing can only damage that. Private companies want profits, and profits have to come from somewhere. I have set up an online petition against loans privatisation, which you can sign here. Please share it. If you are or know a journalist, do make as much noise as you can. Write to you MP. If we catch this now we have time to make a difference.]]> Margaret Thatcher: Divide and Rule tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.3111442 2013-04-18T15:07:36-04:00 2013-06-18T05:12:02-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ I don't doubt that Thatcher was a fighter. I once had the privilege of seeing her in action in the Commons: she was a sensational performer, brilliantly pugilistic, and left quite an impression on the 12 year-old me. It's not hard to see where the urge to heroise comes from, particularly given the horrendously sexist world in which she forged her career. But the idea that Thatcherism was rooted in ideological war with the left is wrong. Going on some of the last week's chatter, you'd think that the 70s and 80s were all about pitched battles with gangs of marxist ultras bent on revolution. There was of course a fair bit of socialist utopianism around, but I doubt it kept Thatcher awake at night. She was at heart a pragmatist, not an ideologue. The crisis she faced when she came to power was that state-owned industries were leaking money: she would have closed down the mines even if Rupert Murdoch had been leading the opposition rather than Arthur Scargill. Thatcherism, like so many political innovations that take hold, thrived precisely because it couldn't be parcelled off into traditional left/right boxes. In fact, it was arguably an assault on the traditional values of the right as much as on those of the left. Despite what the new Tory mythologists tell us, the manufacturing industries that powered the UK economy in the 1970s weren't some socialist experiment, a red dragon waiting to be slain. State-run manufacturing was the fulfilment of the vision of those pioneering nineteenth-century industrialists who made modern capitalism. Visit a Victorian industrial village like Bournville in Birmingham or Saltaire in Bradford: they were mini-states, which offered workers housing, health and education. In the nineteenth century, free-marketeering often went hand-in-hand with a Christian, philanthropic 'socialism', a desire to better the lot of the benighted masses. The wets in Thatcher's cabinet were the heirs to this paternalist ideal of social responsibility, and many were deeply challenged by what they saw unfolding before them. For Thatcher presided over the first British government in modern times that acknowledged no duty of care for its subjects. Got no job? Not our problem: on yer bike, go and find one. For her supporters, this was progress, weaning the citizenry off the teat of state dependence. But to those in areas where pits, shipyards or steelworks had closed, there was no chance of exercising that vaunted self-determination: there were more people than ever chasing fewer jobs, and in any case noone had thought to retrain traditional working people for the new economy. The unemployed were not the government's responsibility; they were just the eggs that needed to be broken to cook the economic omelette. This is the real explanation for Thatcher's divisiveness: she governed not a nation of citizens, each with an equal right to protection by the state, but a kind of economic version of the Hunger Games, in which the odds were stacked heavily in the favour of south-eastern England. There is a reason why Tories still struggle to win seats in Scotland, northern England and Wales. It has nothing to do with persistent leftism, and everything to do with the simple truth that human beings need dignity and security. In many UK communities the anger stems from an understandable sense that they have been collectively devalued. To claim that this anger is the result simply of ideological pique, as so many on the right have done in the last week, is a grave delusion.]]> Why We Should All Fear Flying tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2980241 2013-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 2013-06-01T05:12:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ In other words, Icarus is hardly the most auspicious brand that the Greek airline might have adopted. Most passengers who cotton on will respond with a mild snigger. For others, however, it's no joke. Anxiety is thought to afflict up to one in three fliers. The mythical story of a young man dropping thousands of feet into the sea is an uncomfortable reminder of how precarious our perch is up in the sky. There is no commonly used technical term for fear of flying. No-one really uses the term 'aviophobia'. This, I conclude, is because it is not a phobia at all. Phobias are by definition irrational. Triskaidekaphobia (fear of the number 13), to take an easy example, is more than irrational - it's downright silly. Fear of being shot 35,000 feet up into the air at 500 mph in a metal tube filled with explosive liquid, on the other hand, is perfectly logical. It's all about whether the perceived threat is real and immediate or not. People terrified by the word 'spider' can be called arachnophobic, because the word on its own can't possibly hurt them; but it would be a harsh description of someone feeling a tad perturbed by the sight of a 10-foot tall Shelob lumbering towards her. Psychologists like to speculate about what triggers fear of flying. A single, memorable bad experience, or something deeper? Claustrophobia? Worries about loss of control? But I'd say the burden of explanation lies rather with the other group, those who can chillax with a gin and tonic and the latest Hilary Mantel as they hurtle towards the stratosphere. We're human beings, built for trundling around on land, and maybe taking the odd splash in the sea; we're just not made for high speeds or high altitudes. What acts of self-deception do these people perform when they convince themselves that flying is a pleasant, comfortable way of spending time? I can see that flying can be a thrilling or even a sublime experience; that's just fear transformed into a nobler register. But nice? Normal? How blind can you be to the weirdness of what's happening to you? We all know the counterargument. Oh but it is an irrational fear, we're told, because flying is safer, statistically speaking, than driving. You're less likely to die in a plane crash than to be hit by a meteorite (or whatever). Fine - but that just isn't the point. It's not the prospect of meeting one's end in a heap of molten metal that's at the root of the anxiety (although it doesn't help); it's being bounced around in the sky. It's not right. The story of Daedalus and Icarus is just one of a number of Greek myths about flying, which usually end horribly. The Greeks associated flying with the gods alone, so when humans took wing they were claiming a privilege that was not theirs. Perhaps the most famous of all is the story of Bellerophon, who captured the winged horse Pegasus and flew up to Olympus. Before he could join the divine company, however, Pegasus bucked and threw him down to earth. Stories like this aren't just morality tales about how mortals should know their place; they also remind us that as humans we are creatures of the earth. Ancient Greeks would, I'd wager, be shocked at our moral complacency as we jauntily gad around above the clouds in our tin-cans. Fear of flying isn't irrational, because flying is a serious business. Our primal urge to remain on the ground, wired deep into us, is reinforced by a deep store of traditional narrative. Anyone who has dreamed of flying or of falling has proof that these countless myths have embedded themselves into our subconsciouses. All culturally literate adults know that the sky is the realm of ancient gods, and not ours. I'll keep on flying. But I won't, thank you very much, be rid of my profound discomfort with it. That discomfort is, for me, a sign that I'm still human.]]> Keith O'Brien, Catholicism and Sexuality tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2804471 2013-03-04T03:32:18-05:00 2013-05-03T05:12:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ He will, certainly, be judged for his abuse of the status he held, for the supplying of alcohol to lower inhibitions, and for putting young men vowed to celibacy in a grievous predicament. These are weighty charges, and arguably - because of the abuse of trust - even weightier than those levelled at that other alleged predator of the day, Chris Rennard. If the police are looking into Rennard's behaviour, it may be only a matter of time before O'Brien's door is firmly rapped upon. Yet despite the gravity of the allegations, the former cardinal deserves sympathy too. Unlike Rennard, who is straight and married, he was trapped in a public role that forbids any form of expression of desire, requited or otherwise. The fact remains, however, that the Catholic Church faces a huge credibility deficit in the matter of sexuality. The saddest thing about the whole sorry story is that there is no indication that it is in any way confronting the huge ethical challenges it faces. Instead it seems to be using its traditional tactic of silencing awkward voices; willing them, in effect, into repression. One of the complainants, who has now left the clergy, has spoken to the Observer about the cold disapproval: 'I have felt very alone', he says, citing the 'cold disapproval of the Church hierarchy for daring to break ranks. I feel like if they could crush me, they would'. Keith O'Brien's own statement, in fact, betrays much of the same fear of cold disapproval. It's deeply conflicted. On the one hand, you can sense the anguish of a real human being facing up to himself. Catholicism is centrally about confession. I do believe that O'Brien is doing his level best to confront his demons, at the personal level. But it's also, tragically, overshadowed, and compromised, by that characteristically Catholic instinct to repress. It feels harsh to say it, but the statement looks like a (self?) deception. 'In recent days', O'Brien writes, 'certain allegations which have been made against me have become public. Initially, their anonymous and non-specific nature led me to contest them.' The specific allegations were made to the papal nuncio on 9 February; they were made public by the Observer on the 22nd, at which point O'Brien began his vigorous denial. It seems highly implausible that noone in the hierarchy had thought to inform him of the details by that stage. But even if it's true that the only accusations he knew of at that point were non-specific ones, that's no defence at all. He was, by his own admission, fully aware that there had been specific incidents; he was in no position to deny the charge at the non-specific level. The phrasing actually mirrors that used by Nick Clegg in the aftermath of the Rennard scandal: he similarly distinguished between the 'indirect and non-specific concerns' he knew of in 2007 and the 'direct' accusations that Channel 4 brought forward. Whoever advised O'Brien to take Clegg's handling of the Rennard affair as a model of political cunning might have a long look at him- or herself. But O'Brien's disingenuousness isn't just borrowed political rhetoric. It reflects an institutionalised culture within the Catholic Church: everything to do with sexuality is swept under the carpet. In fact, the former cardinal was himself a victim of this. As recently as 2003, in the aftermath of his appointment as cardinal, he expressed an open mind on contraception, female priests and clerical marriage - only to be slapped down by the unforgiving hierarchy. I suspect that Keith O'Brien knows as well as anyone that the Catholic Church's stance on sexuality as a whole is destructive and unsustainable. The new Pope, whoever he is, will have a huge rebuilding task in front of him. In the West at least, it's leaking public confidence by the gallon. One can only hope that the lucky conclave winner draws the right lessons from the O'Brien affair. The ethical battles humanity faces are economic, environmental and political; sexuality, on the other hand, needs to be understood and embraced, rather than battled against.]]> Gay Marriage and the Church tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2585938 2013-01-30T19:20:15-05:00 2013-04-01T05:12:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ hysteria was something that only happened in other countries. Even David Cameron seems to have thought it was a tame, uncontroversial issue that would get him a tick in his socially progressive box without causing too much trouble. How wrong he was. If there's one message to take home from all the furore, it is that one should never underestimate the desire of the pious to dictate what other people do in their love lives. All the uproar is, at one level, deeply weird. The bill to be debated in Parliament on 5 February is in itself about the tamest piece of proposed legislation in the history of anything. In practical terms, it changes very little. It's fundamentally a huge debate about the meaning of a single word. Civil partnerships already give gay couples pretty much the same rights as married straight couples. All this fuss arises, basically, because some (certainly not all) gays would prefer to have the option of using the more socially acceptable word 'marriage' to describe their long-term relationships, and because some (certainly not all) faith groups think they have a God-given right to deny them that choice. That's weird enough, but it gets weirder. Under the proposals, the Church of England and the Catholic Church will be legally barred from conducting gay marriages. And yet it is members (some of them very powerful members) of the Church of England and the Catholic Church who are objecting most vociferously. At first sight, this is just silly: it's like the FA protesting over changes to the rules of darts. Football and darts are both sports, but they have different rules. Church and civil weddings are both marriages, but they will have different rules. What's wrong with that? Well, what's wrong is that the analogy only works if you are committed to the idea that civil society has areas that are secular, beyond the reach of the Church. The most sinister fact that the kerfuffle discloses is that the Christian opponents of gay marriage simply don't accept that principle. All the post-census debate about whether Britain is 'still a Christian country' is only superficially about how people choose to identify themselves on their forms; much more fundamentally, it's about anxiety over the relegation of Christianity from its former position as beacon of national morality to its new status as one of any number of opt-in lifestyle choices. 'Hey, I'm a Christian'; 'That's so cool, I do yoga'; 'Yoga? Never got into it, I prefer darts.' That's some come-down. But for all that the gay marriage debate is a vehicle for bigger issues, it's no accident that marriage and sexuality are the battleground. The various Christian Churches have a huge problem with sexuality, and have had for a long time. Actually, perhaps surprisingly, it's not a big theme in the Christian gospels: yes, there are some passages here and there about various improprieties, but it's not a major issue. Even Paul is much, much more exercised by women who won't wear the veil than by 'men who sleep with men.' (Modern Christians seem strangely silent on the issue of female veiling: I wonder why?) It was only later, in the Roman period, that Christians got heavily into sexual repression - and they did so as a counter-cultural statement, to absent themselves from the rigorous dynastic demands of Roman marriage. Then once Christianity became the religion of empire in the fourth century, control of sexuality became an ideology, and a means of imposing power. It was then that Christianity's most pernicious dogma took root: the idea that the masses are fallen beings because they have sexual urges, and so they should accept their priestly masters as superiors. Nietzsche, in my view, is the best analyst of institutional Christianity. In The Anti-Christ he argues that the Church has always set out to deny and repress humanity's natural urges, and it does this for entirely self-serving reasons. Feeling like you can't measure up to some impossible standard of pious self-control? Who ya gonna call? Why, your local priest of course. I don't - I hope this is clear - mean this as a blunderbuss attack on all Christians. The world is a huge, complex, diverse place, and benefits immeasurably from serious moral reflection. Christianity, like all other philosophies, can save people, it can change them, it can inspire them to do extraordinary things. But let's talk for a moment in moral absolutes. Ecclesiastical hierarchies have got it badly wrong on sexuality. They have done for over 1700 years. The issue has nothing to do with God, gods or godlessness; it's about humans and their accursed desire to exercise control over their fellow beings. Let's let people live and love as they choose, and stop mistaking prurience, prudishness and power for piety.]]> Oxbridge Entry and the Power of the Market tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2515060 2013-01-20T19:00:00-05:00 2013-03-22T05:12:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ episode in the long-running series of Oxbridge admissions 'scandals' is one of the more dramatic ones. Damien Shannon is suing St Hugh's College for discrimination, after it knocked him back for a postgraduate degree, when he failed to provide evidence that he had the funds in the bank to cover living expenses. The college claimed he needed £12,900 to keep himself housed and fed for 12 months; Shannon counters that this threshold is set too high, and he was in any case planning to support himself with paid work. His legal case is based on the argument that 'the effect of the financial conditions of entry is to select students on the basis of wealth'. I can see where he's coming from. As well as having an air of paternalistic nosiness, this policy (which is not in fact confined to St Hugh's) does seem to favour the kind of student who can dip into a trust fund. On the other hand I can see the college's point of view too: it doesn't want to give a precious place to someone who won't make it through the year, and so deny it to someone else who would have done. Oxford is an expensive city, and the breakdown for the £12,900 figure isn't implausible. The argument about paid work is a bit of a red herring, since Oxford students are only allowed to work up to six hours a week. It might be said that that rule - which us designed to protect study time - is the real problem. Be that as it may (more on this below), that's not in fact what Shannon is arguing. The underlying issue is that UK universities now sit in an uncomfortable space between the state and the private sector. Oxford is a public institution with a duty to society at large, a responsibility to behave equitably and to avoid wealth discrimination. But the universities don't receive enough state funding to survive on this alone, so they need to make money commercially too, by bringing in grants, by partnering the private sector, and by maximising fee income for degrees. (This has long been the case with postgraduate degrees; the government's decision to impose hefty tuition fees on undergraduates pushes first degrees in the same direction.) Commercial transactions are by the nature socially exclusive. I can't sue Aston Martin for discrimination because I can't afford one of their cars: I just have to accept it's how the cookie crumbles. Shannon's beef with St Hugh's isn't, for sure, about the cost of the degree itself, but about their insistence that he can prove he can keep himself while studying. But from one point of view it's all part of a continuum: the college, which is retailing an expensive product, wants to be assured that all the payments that are due will come in. It's rather like a bank carrying out checks to make sure a mortgage-holder isn't sub-prime. Of course, this is a simplistic picture of the commercialisation of higher education. I very much doubt anyone at St Hugh's would be comfortable with the banking analogy. In reality there are many of us who work in the sector, and indeed in the political classes too, who still defend the idea that learning has a collective value in which we all have a share. There are certainly free-market ideologues around, but that's the point: higher education as a whole is stuck in this strange, uncertain place betwixt two sectors, and indeed two rival ideologies. Governments are equally indecisive, for different reasons. New Labour introduced tuition fees for undergraduates, and the coalition ramped them up, with the intention of creating a competitive market-place for first degrees. But there's a catch. A genuine free market would mean students having complete freedom over what they studied, and paying the full costs of their degrees. That would have the economically disastrous effect of driving them away from science, engineering and medicine programmes, which cost a fortune to maintain but in the long term help to bankroll UK PLC. Heaven forbid that the nation's universities should be filled with students pursuing cultural enrichment through degrees like English literature, when they could and should be feeding the knowledge economy. So we're left with us a funny hybrid: a free market that it is also a huge social engineering operation. The dispute between Damien Shannon and St Hugh's isn't really about Oxbridge elitism, although that certainly colours the way it's seen. It is, fundamentally, a symptom of our collective uncertainty about what higher education is for. At a deeper level, it's about the landscape of our society as a whole, as the tectonic plates of European statism and neoliberal economics continue to pull apart. These grandiose reflections aren't, I accept, much help to the nation's students. So let me sign off with a pragmatic suggestion. I have long argued that Oxford and Cambridge should be offering part-time postgraduate degrees, like most other UK universities. The arrangement is simple: you study half-time and pay half fees, and the degree takes twice as long. I've heard all the arguments against, and it's probably true that most part-time students don't experience the same sense of intellectual intensity or community that Oxbridge has traditionally fostered. But despite all the pressures I've mentioned above, we in academia remain part of wider society, and we retain a responsibility to be fair, just and open. However the public-private issue ends up being resolved, if indeed it is, there are relatively simple, practical steps we can take to make higher education more accessible.]]> Paul Emsley and Kate Middleton tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2013:/theblog//3.2478681 2013-01-15T08:58:53-05:00 2013-03-17T05:12:01-04:00 Tim Whitmarsh http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tim-whitmarsh/ This is, quite simply, the most brilliant piece of public art in recent years. It's performance art, and mass outrage is an integral part of the show. It doesn't look like Kate Middleton - but then nor do the fuzzy telephoto pics from France, or, for that matter, the airbrushed poses condoned by the palace and blazoned by the royalist press. In fact, you or I have no reason to think that we know what the Duchess really looks like. We're all skilled-up readers of media imagery; none of us takes representation for reality. The unsettling questions the portrait raises have nothing - nothing at all - to do with realism. It's obvious to anyone with eyes that Elmsley is a highly skilled painter. He hasn't painted Kate this way because he can't see what's in front of him. Technically, it's a gorgeous picture; it's just that it doesn't look like a young, beautiful princess. The fact that it doesn't depict reality shouldn't be a surprise. Art is not, and never has been, realistic, Noone ever got upset that the Simpsons are yellow and have three fingers on each hand. The best guess is that babies in Giotto's era weren't actually shrunken adults, fifth-century Athenians weren't red, and ancient Egyptians weren't matchstick people with huge, yearning eyes. No culture has really believed that the job of art is to represent reality exactly. The real problem is that, despite all the real progress that's been made in attitudes towards aging, we just can't deal with an artwork that confronts us with decay and mortality. This is actually as realistic as art gets; it's just that the reality it depicts is the upsetting truth that youth and beauty are impermanent. Most controversial is that the decaying subject the portrait celebrates is a woman. The reaction is a reminder that we are, as a culture, in no sense post-feminist. Harry may have had some schtick for cavorting naked, but Kate wins the nipple-google contest hands-down. The picture discomfits because Emsley, a man, has chosen to show us a woman who would not appear on this side-bar of the Daily Mail online. The problem is not that the portrait doesn't look like Middleton, it's that it doesn't look like the photoshopped images of female beauty that we've learned to expect from the media. Even worse, it portrays a woman who seems comfortable with her withering. She enjoys the confident assuredness of age. She is intelligent, thoughtful, and controlled. Or, to put it in more conventionally misogynist terms, bossy, interfering and nagging. Emsley's Middleton is actually a confident prediction of the media's inevitable falling out of love with her. She will, equally inevitably, find her own voice during the years to come. She'll become a real human being with a voice and opinions. She'll be a nuisance, and the establishment will come to disillusion. I'm not claiming this as prophetic guess-work on my part; it's in the script. Emsley's Kate knows that it's her destiny to be judged against the Diana narrative. That story haunts every brush-stroke of this picture, down to its disturbingly old-fashioned idiom and the death-mask pallour of its subject. I am just back from New York, where I saw the Picasso show at the Guggenheim. As we chugged up the famous spiral, my friend and I mused on how difficult it is for art now to generate the kind of public scandal that surrounded so much surrealist art, given that our world is already saturated with and sensitized to shocking imagery. How wrong we were. An understated portrait of an elegant, mature woman has horrified a nation, in all the right ways that great art should do. Paul Emsley should be very proud - and Kate Middleton too.]]>


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Demi Lovato Joins The X Factor!
May 03, 2012 07:54 AM by Shayla Perry
After what feels like YEARS of speculation as to who would take Paula Abdul and Nicole Scherzinger's place on The X Factor, it's finally official…. Pop singer Demi Lovato will join Britney Spears, L.A. Reid, and Simon Cowell on the judges' panel in the next season of the FOX reality show. Britney, we get, but what was the motivation behind Lovato? Does Simon Cowell have a thing for Disney stars turned pop singers with troubled pasts?
In a word: Possibly. But according to The Hollywood Reporter, Cowell and company are banking on Demi Lovato to help the show reach a younger demographic. Just how much their banking has yet to be revealed, but we're pretty sure it's not going to come close to Brit's reported $15 million payday.
With the new panel practically set, sources close to the show say that above all else, they're hoping to differentiate themselves from the other reality singing competitions by offering "a real point of view," which producers admit was lacking in Season 1.
Neither FOX nor Lovato's reps would confirm or deny that a deal had been reached, or that Lovato is even in the running to fill the fourth chair, but with the FOX upfront event scheduled for May 14th, don't be surprised if a major announcement is made at that time.
Besides, with Season 2 talent auditions slated for the end of the month, they're going to have to say something soon.
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Gwen Says:
May 3rd, 2012 at 9:33 am
Is Simon out of his mind? Two judges 30 and under. This is not a very balanced panel. How are they going to work with over 30s and neither of them has ever done any singing in a group. Bad, bad choices. It's goign to be worse than last year and will lose viewers.
Johnathan Says:
May 4th, 2012 at 4:20 am
I am not sure about Demi being a good fit, I see her drawing in a younger audience to see her however that is about it, and as far Britney, I think she will bring a unique point of view to the show she has been in the business her entire life and btw Gwen a little knowledge helps, Britney in 1997 was in an all girl group " Innosense ". I am sure I will be tuning in this season to see how this turns out!
Annette Says:
May 4th, 2012 at 5:53 am
I think with two judges under 30, would be a great fit for the show… I get where Simon is going with this. It would be refreshing and with the experience these two have had, they would do just fine.
meagan Says:
May 4th, 2012 at 10:31 pm
Demi and britney will both be great judges.They would bring the rates up.I think simon is making a good choice picking demi and britney.I would watch everynite for Demi.
Echo crossland Says:
May 10th, 2012 at 6:51 pm
I love the arangment. gooooddd job simon AND the producers! to the x factor 2012! aming for 25.2 million vewers


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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The divorce rate among soldiers and Marines increased last year as military marriages suffered continuing stress from America's two ongoing wars. There were an estimated 10,200 failed marriages in the active duty Army and 3,077 among Marines, according to figures obtained by The Associated Press for the budget year ended Sept. 30.
That's a divorce rate of 3.5 percent among more than 287,000 married troops in the Army, up from 3.3 percent in the previous fiscal year, according to Defense Department figures.
"With increasing demands placed on Army families and soldiers - including frequent deployments and relocations - intimate relationships are tested," said Army spokesman Paul Boyce.
The new data shows 3.7 percent of more than 84,000 married Marines divorced in fiscal year 2008, up from 3.3 percent in 2007. The Marine Corps called the increase statistically small and said officials would need to examine them farther.
"That said, Marine Corps leadership is keenly aware of the burden military families carry in a time of war," said Col. Dave Lapan, a spokesman. "Our leaders, from the commandant on down, are paying serious attention to the strain."
Some veteran and family groups question whether Pentagon figures are too low, saying they do not take into account many who divorce after leaving the service. The groups are unable to offer other estimates.
"Divorce rates are up - no doubt about it - a kind of predictable ripple effect of this pace of operations," Paul Rieckhoff of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America said in a recent interview. "And that's not even taking into account the number of marriages that are strained" but still holding together.
But defense officials say they are holding divorces down below what they might otherwise be with a myriad of efforts in recent years to support couples enduring unprecedented separations and other hardships because of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The long and repeated deployments required of many troops have been widely blamed for unprecedented stresses on military couples. Spouses at home must manage families and households without their partner. The strain also has contributed to higher suicide rates and more mental health problems among troops.
The Marines and soldiers have been the bulk of the land force fighting the two wars.
The divorce rate stayed at 3.5 percent this year for the Air Force and went down slightly to 3 percent from 3.2 percent for the Navy.
Women in the military usually suffer higher rates of failed marriages than men and that trend held true again last year. Army women divorced at a rate of 8.5 percent compared to 2.9 percent for men. Female Marines divorced at a rate of 9.2 percent, compared to 3.3 percent of the married men.
There is no comparable system for tracking civilian divorces. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the divorce rate for the general population was 3.6 per 1,000 people in 2005 - the most recent statistics immediately available; that was the lowest rate since 1970.


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The kill fell short of pre-season estimates by 37,000 deer.
An estimated 725,000 hunters took to the woods this firearm season. And even though the kill total was down, the number of licenses sold was up slightly to more than 1.7 million.
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