• Hit F5 to refresh or turn on the automatic widget below • Email your thoughts to alan.gardner.casual@guardian.co.uk • Check out Heikki Kovalainen’s interactive guide to Silverstone 12.59pm: Right, the entourages are scurrying off the track – we are about to go! go! go! 12.56pm: I’m intimately acquainted with the Silverstone track due to my experience playing TOCA Touring Cars on the PlayStation in the late 1990s – but, they’ve made some recent alterations, so Heikki Kovalainen’s interactive guide is a recommended read. 12.45pm: BBC shenanigans thus far: Water skiing with Button and Hamilton (Button twisted his knee and almost jeopardised his race); interviewing Prince Harry – who is about eight feet taller than Bernie Ecclestone; talking to Patrick Stewart, who claims if you were going to be run over by anyone “the world champion [Vettel] would be a good place to start”. Ah, the glitz and glamour. Anyway, according to Di Resta and Button, half the track is soaked and the other half isn’t – I wonder if anyone will go with two wet tyres and two dry? They’re about to play the national anthem, which is my cue to go refuel on the black stuff (nothing like a cup of petrol to open your eyes in the morning). The race starts in 15 minutes. Don’t go away! 12.38pm: Today’s pole sitter/No2 driver (and last year’s winner). 12.34pm: Weather report, with Twitter’s Giles Richards : Proper raining at copse now woohoo! #f1 #britishgp #motorsport #silverstone Good news for the McLarens, that. Like proper Brits, they’re only truly comfortable in wet, miserable conditions. 12.31pm: The final word on off-throttle blown diffusers, from Mark Webber: “It’s nonsense. Nobody really understands it. We don’t know what’s going on. It’s very boring for the fans. I am sure only 0.1 percent of the fans [and journalists] understand what’s going on.” I think that settles it, don’t you? Preamble: Morning all, welcome to lap-by-lap, brrrrm-by-brrrrm, crash-by-etcandsoon coverage of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone. Mark Webber is on pole, as part of a Red and Bullish front row that includes the reigning champion, current drivers’ standings leader and all-round F1 uber-driver, Sebastian Vettel. Chances of a British race winner look on the skinny decaf side, with Jenson Button’s McLaren parked fifth on the grid, five places ahead of his team-mate, Anger Management’s Lewis Hamilton. Rumours that Hamilton blew his top in the paddock this morning after being charged 85p for a can of coke are as yet unconfirmed. For today’s Plucky Brit In With An Outside Chance Of Podium Glory (aka. The Johnny Herbert Award), keep an eye out on Force India’s Paul di Resta, who starts in sixth. Now, shall we do this? British Grand Prix Formula One Motor sport Alan Gardner guardian.co.uk
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Continue reading …Parade’s Top Summer Reading Pick: A Novel About Sex Abuse in the Catholic Church
July 10, 2011 No Comment
Opening up the Sunday paper might lead you to the national newspaper supplement Parade Magazine, which devoted its July 10 edition to “Summer Reading” picks. Smack-dab in the middle of the issue is “12 Great Summer Books: PARADE's picks of terrific new reads, in no particular order.” But that's not exactly true, since the first six are fiction, and the second six are nonfiction. Somehow it's not shocking that the number-one recommended book is “Faith” by Jennifer Haigh, a novel about a Catholic priest in Boston accused of molestation during the scandal's heyday in the last decade. Publishers Weekly advised, “Although this all-too-plausible story offers a damning commentary on the Church's flaws and its leaders' hubris, Haigh is concerned less with religious faith than with the faith [the accused priest] Arthur's family has — and loses, and in some cases regains — in one another.” The Wall Street Journal didn't find that much hope:
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Crowd of up to 100 people attack police patrols with petrol bombs and missiles in Ballyclare Six police officers were injured overnight in rioting between Ulster loyalists and the security forces, in the run-up to the climax of marching season. The officers were hurt during disorder on the Doagh Road and Grange Estate areas of in Ballyclare, Co Antrim, where a crowd of up to 100 people attacked patrols with petrol bombs and missiles. At one point a hijacked bus was driven into a police vehicle. There were also reports of disorder in Carrickfergus, Newtownabbey and Magherafelt. In the early hours of Sunday police were called to the Leckagh Drive area of Magherafelt to trouble involving up to 50 people close to a loyalist bonfire. Police were attacked by missiles as they tried to remove a barricade. A 27-year-old man was arrested in connection with the trouble. A number of Catholic homes were also targeted in attacks described by police as sectarian. A number of roads in Carrickfergus remained blocked by burnt-out vehicles. The Democratic Unionist Assembly member for the area, David Hilditch, who is based in Carrickfergus, said the trouble involved “cars, works vans, the hijacking of a bus and damage to people’s personal property”. He said he was aware of at least five vehicles burned out in Carrickfergus. It is understod the violence was linked to a police attempt to limit the number of loyalist and pro-paramilitary flags being erected around the Ballyclare area. The violence has erupted at a time of concerns over the most controversial parade of the marching season, which passes by the nationalist Ardoyne area of north Belfast on 12 July – the most sacred day in the Orange Order’s calendar. A nationalist resident group in Ardoyne, which is not linked to Sinn Féin, has vowed to hold a counter-march on the same day. Last year 80 police officers were injured when nationalist youths attacked the security forces after the march. The Guardian has learned that both main loyalist paramilitary factions – the Ulster Defence Association and the Ulster Volunteer Force – do not plan to police their supporters involved in the parade that passes Ardoyne. In previous years UVF and UDA ex-prisoners flanked the march in an attempt to prevent younger loyalists from getting involved in violent clashes with Ardoyne republicans. One senior loyalist source said the two organisations were not prepared to put their members on the line this year because of a breakdown in communication between some local republicans and the loyalist community. Northern Ireland Henry McDonald guardian.co.uk
Continue reading …Element5′s Mini L Solarbag brings eco-friendly energy, protection to your iPad
July 10, 2011 No Comment
Modern day solar bags are more about looks than utility — the energy conversion rates on those things aren’t exactly jaw-dropping — but if it comes between a generic satchel and one that’s Ma Earth-approved, well… you know what to do. Element5′s Swiss Made Mini L Solarbag is tailored to fit your iDevice of choice, but it’s fairly obvious that the iPad line will be most at home here. We’re guessing that the company’s taking a few liberties with that “mini miracle” tagline, and we aren’t exactly thrilled with the lack of information surrounding charging time, but those who value form over function can get their order in now for 348 Swiss Franc (or $412 in actual money). Continue reading Element5′s Mini L Solarbag brings eco-friendly energy, protection to your iPad Element5′s Mini L Solarbag brings eco-friendly energy, protection to your iPad originally appeared on Engadget on Sun, 10 Jul 2011 06:28:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Permalink
Continue reading …Liberal Media Puzzle: Why Would Those ‘Progressive, Nondogmatic’ Unitarians Be Shrinking?
July 10, 2011 No Comment
The religion section in Saturday's Washington Post spotlighted a Daniel Burke story from the Religion News Service . While reports on orthodox religions often wonder whether followers won't leave “in droves” because a church won't bend to the popular will, Burke explores why the Unitarian Universalists can't keep adherents when it tries not to have any identifiable creed at all. That's intriguing, except Burke seems to accept that the UUs don't have a “dogmatic” faith, when it appears that its inability to actually talk about God for fear offending people might be a dogma all its own, an anti-dogmatic dogma. Here's how Burke began: A recent Sunday service at the First Unitarian Church of Baltimore ended with an apology. Laurel Mendes, a neo-pagan lay member who led the service, feared that a reference to God in the hymn “Once to Every Soul and Nation” might have upset the humanists in the pews. So, Mendes explained to the congregation that religious doctrine had been duly scrubbed from hymns in the Sunday program. “I didn’t want to make anyone uncomfortable by reciting something that might be considered a profession of faith,” Mendes, 52, said after the service. “We did say ‘God,’ which you don’t often hear in our most politically correct hymns.” Welcome to a typical Sunday in the anything-but-typical Unitarian Universalist Association, a liberal religious movement with a proud history of welcoming all seekers of truth — as long as it’s spelled with a lowercase “t.” Dramatic readings from the biography of 20th-century labor leader John L. Lewis? Sure. An altar crowded with Christian, Buddhist, Islamic and Jewish symbols? Absolutely. God-talk? Umm, well . . . The other question a religion reporter might ask is: Can you call it a “religion” if the “religion” shuns “God talk”? Isn't that just a large discussion group with an avoidance strategy? The failure of the Unitarian Universalist Association to grow is a serious challenge to the liberal-media notion that orthodoxy and popularity should be opposites in the modern world.
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