Tim Hart played a rich and important part in the revival and popularisation of traditional English folk music. He enjoyed great success as a founder member of the band Steeleye Span, who, together with Fairport Convention, pioneered an innovative form of English folk-rock, performing traditional songs on electric instruments.
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Mr B S Vohra, CEO of Sikh Blog www.sikhsindia.blogspot.com has launched another blog for the welfare of East Delhi Resident Welfare Associations, on this New Year’s Day. Almost 200 Registered RWA’s as well many more of the unregistered RWA’s are being connected by him on a single platform. The details of the new blog have been published by prominent News Papers of Delhi such as Hindustan times, Dainik Jagran, Amar Ujala etc
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Ramaninder K Bhatia, TNN 2 January 2010, 05:42am IST Chandigarh: For the victims of 1984 anti-Sikh riots, the new year has certainly brought new hope, beginning with permission for prosecution of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar. A day after a go-ahead from Delhi Lt Governor, comes another heartening news that nearly 31 appeal cases involving 98 riot-accused, which were hanging fire in courts since 1996, will now come up in the Delhi High Court on January 6
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Missions Issue: Human Trafficking from Urbana 09 on Vimeo .
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Human Trafficking
Harold Camping , a false prophet who first predicted the world would end in 1994, is at it again. Camping operates Family Radio, a worldwide evangelical radio ministry he turned into a cult of Christianity
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False prophet Harold Camping sets another date for rapture: May 21, 2011
It’s good, if you’re a university administrator, to keep a cool head when the word “hotbed” is being thrown at you. One admires that unnamed UCL official who dryly commented that if Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab had come to the UK intending to blow up planes, he would surely have done chemistry rather than mechanical engineering. The sad state of the failed bomber’s death-to-the-infidel underpants seems to bear that out.
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Our universities face a radical upheaval
Once again the vulnerability of air travel to terrorism has been exposed. The existing measures deployed for passenger security at airport security points didn’t stop the Christmas Day airline bomb plot suspect who had explosives sewn into his underwear
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Profiling, not scanning, will stop potential plane bombers
This January I resolve to keep reminding myself that the Labour Party matters less with every passing week. The only and increasingly interesting political question is what the present Opposition will do with the working majority the voters will soon, surely, be handing it.
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Mercy can’t exist if distress has been abolished
Christopher Hitchens waxes cynical about the security measures that failed to prevent the latest hilarious-if-it-wasn’t-true attack : No sooner is the fanatical and homicidal Muslim arrested than it turns out that he (it won’t be long until it is also she) has been known to the authorities for a long time. But somehow the watch list, the tipoff, the many worried reports from colleagues and relatives, the placing of the name on a “central repository of information” don’t prevent the suspect from boarding a plane, changing planes, or bringing whatever he cares to bring onto a plane
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Red Shrieking, Green Conditions
For years, our missing co-founder Douglas LeBlanc was the GetReligionista who was officially in charge of posting “ hathos ” alerts linked to mainstream media coverage of religion news. He’s still out there, lurking, and he sent us an alert this morning for the first hathos alert of 2010 and it is a goodie. But first, for those on the outside, what is “ hathos ”
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Hey pope, go hide somewhere
In the wake of Delhi Lieutenant Governor’s Office granting sanction to CBI for prosecution of Congress leader Sajjan Kumar in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case, BJP on Thursday asked why Jagdish Tytler was being “spared” and demanded time-bound trial against the accused. “What about Jagdish Tytler (another Congress leader accused in the riots)?
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The Dec. 2009 issue of Scientific American seems unusually boring at first sight. At a more thorough reading though, it has some interesting tidbits relevant to this blog: A bouncy universe Recent theoretical physics calculations by Horava split time from space in the General Theory of Relativity
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Uplifting science news: universe and environment
Invoking the the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict , the government of Jordan has asked Canada to seize the portion of the 2000-year old Dead Sea Scrolls that are on display until January 3 from Israel at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum. Canada, Jordan and Israel have all signed the Convention and its First Protocol. (Signers of Convention , Protocol .) The Convention is aimed at assuring that cultural property is not damaged during armed conflict.
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Jordan Seeks Dead Sea Scrolls From Canada Under UN Convention
Dear Religion Clause Readers: Happy New Year! As we enter 2010, I want to again thank all of you who read Religion Clause– both long time followers and those who have joined us more recently. With the advent of the Obama administration last January, some readers asked me whether there would continue to be sufficient church-state and religious liberty developments to sustain the blog
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Happy 2010 To Religion Clause Readers!
The South Windsor, Connecticut, Board of Education has voted to move South Windsor High School’s 2010 graduation from the First Cathedral in Bloomfield to the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. The move came after Americans United and the ACLU threatened to sue the Enfield school system which also uses the Cathedral, and made preliminary inquiries of South Windsor. (See prior posting .) Wednesday’s Hartford Courant reports that the Cathedral has charged fees of $7400 to $8000 for schools to use its facilities.
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Connecticut School Will Move Graduation Away From Cathedral
I just came across a radio feature by Paul Butler of Moody Radio. It was aired back in July on Prime Time America, but somehow I missed it. It lasts about seven minutes and includes snippets of Erwin Lutzer, K. Edward Copeland and yours truly. Instead of a post to start the new year, here’s a radio clip: Click here for Paul Butler’s production blog
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Prime Time America – Radio Interview
GetReligion readers likely are familiar with John Allen, the National Catholic Reporter ’s ace Vatican reporter. His latest column analyzes the biggest Vatican stories of the last 10 years . An aside: is anyone else annoyed at all of these “best of decade” lists coming a year prior to the end of the actual decade?
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What Catholic media bias?
Answer: Rick Warren. Despite what popular opinion is about the guy’s psychopablum and mushy mandates of the Gospel, I really have never heard of this guy beg for a dime. What with the books, the appearances (presidential and every other type) and his sizable bank account, I thought at least he was above this.
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In Philadelphia on Wednesday, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals enforcement officers, executing a search warrant, found the remains of more than 500 animals in a home whose most recent occupant was last seen five days ago. CNN reports that officials believe the animals were sacrificed as part of Santeria rituals.
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Remains of 500 Animals From Santeria Rituals Found In Philadelphia House
Rakesh Bhatnagar / DNA New Delh: An “insane” cop, who turned Ram to Ravan within minutes and shot dead six members of the Sikh community at a police station during the 1984 riots, was given life by the Allahabad high court recently. The court upheld a trial court judgment delivered two years ago on July 30, saying Tilak Ram acted out of rage, not insanity, as claimed. A group of Sikhs running from a blood-thirsty mob near Meerut had sought refuge at a police station where Ram was posted 25 years ago, at about 3.50 am on November 5, 1984
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‘Mad’ cop gets life for killing 6 during anti-Sikh riots
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I’ve stretched out the lessons I noted from watching a low budget film to three posts. We’ve considered the importance of speech, the challenge of natural speech in unnatural circumstances (like preaching), the need for less important lines, and the importance of historical/cultural details in the telling of an historic story. Two more lessons for us, one potentially overwhelming and one hopefully very encouraging! 5. The je ne sais quoi of engaging the audience. What makes the listener or viewer sit forward?
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Final Preaching Lessons from a Low Budget Film
Paul Harvey Just following up on some of previously posted-about topics. First, ” Dissertations on His Dudeness, ” NY Times , December 30, has more on religion/philosophy, cult movies, and The Big Lebowski , which we had posted about here previously. Secondly, over at Immanent Frame is more on “Religion and the Historical Profession,” including several scholars weighing in on an uptick of interest in religion in the historical profession, as discussed in a recent AHA study and reported on by Inside Higher Ed; we blogged about it previously here (with links to all of the above)
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Dissertations on Dudeness, the Historical Profession, and Francis Asbury
The top eleven religious states were all in the Confederacy.
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Most religious states
A review of the major winter holidays celebrated in the United States reveals that only one is focused specifically on the growth and development of LGBT people. While Gay Pride celebrates the anniversary of Stonewall in June, the Bridge of Light on …
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In bombed-out, blockaded, wartime Britain, Winston Churchill is recorded as having insisted on two things: daffodils must make it from the Isles of Scilly, and women must have a sporting chance of acquiring a bit of slap.
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Lipstick and daffodils won’t save Britain now
Next week Dubai formally opens the highest thing yet built, the next generation of skyscraper: the heavenscraper. At 818m, about 2,684ft (or thereabouts, secrecy on this subject being part of its artificial mystique) it will be both the tallest man-made structure, and the tallest inhabited building, on the planet. At least for the time being.
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Towering ambition always comes before a fall