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Out of Many - Religious Pluralism in America: An NEH Bridging Cultures Project
The Newberry Library in Chicago received an NEH award in 2012 to support a two-year professional development program on religious pluralism for twenty community college faculty.
To learn more about this program of seminars and mentorship, we talked with project co-director Daniel Greene, the Newberry's Vice President for Research and Academic Programs.
1. Why did you choose American religious pluralism as the topic for your Bridging Cultures at Community Colleges project?
It's our scholarly interest. Project co-director Christopher Cantwell writes about the rise of evangelical Christianity in the nineteenth century in Chicago; I've written on Jewish intellectuals and the origins of cultural pluralism in the United States.
Second, it's a deep Newberry collection strength. Within the American context, we have strengths in abolition and its relation to religion in the antebellum period. A number of collections speak to religion in Chicago or the Midwest more broadly, and a number of local history and genealogy sources relate to religion.
Finally, it's a critical issue in American society to better understand religious pluralism and its relationship with democracy. We have a core value that goes back to the nation's founding of freedom of religion. But that doesn't tell us all how to live together or address the challenges of religious diversity in the twenty-first century.
Community college faculty are teaching religiously diverse populations, and we thought bringing religious diversity into the humanities curriculum could spur students to think differently about the American experience, both present and past. Religion is one of the fastest growing fields of inquiry within the humanities, especially within history. We're hoping to help community college faculty who are overburdened keep up with the state of the field and recognize where it is headed.
2. Have there been any particular challenges of designing and implementing a project on this topic?
We wanted to make sure that we could have civil discourse about religious diversity. I think we've been able to do that in large part because participants have been so willing and able to move beyond a simple dichotomy of a religious right and secular left. We've been continually impressed with their depth of knowledge about religious diversity in America's past, and also by what they bring as teachers to talking about the challenges they face in the classroom today in addressing these topics.
3. What do you hope that community college faculty will gain from participating?
As Chris and I were designing this grant application, we tried to articulate how a program on religious pluralism would be meaningful across humanities disciplines. Not just for scholars who are teaching a survey course in religious studies, but faculty in art history, philosophy, literature, music. Even if community college faculty might not have the luxury to design a survey course in American religious history, they might think of a (new) theme for a humanities survey course, for example. And we also wanted this to be both a teaching and research program, so we have provided time for community college faculty to dig deeply into the Newberry collection for primary sources to use in their teaching and their writing. Chris and I both have been so impressed with the sources that the community college faculty have surfaced from within the library.
4. Who are the presenting scholars and what have they brought to the project?
We chose five faculty members, not only because of their fields and publications, but because we knew them to be good and generous teachers with community college faculty. We also have been fortunate that scholars who truly have helped shape the field of American religious history have been able to participate. Last summer, Martin Marty from the University of Chicago Divinity School gave a talk that was open to the public and led a session with the community college faculty. Marty spoke about the multiple varieties and meanings of American pluralisms, rather than a singular pluralism. We had Kevin Schultz from University of Illinois at Chicago, who has written on tri-faith America–Protestants, Catholics, Jews–talking about how that model emerged in mid-twentieth century and who that includes and who that leaves out. We had Tisa Wenger from Yale University, who talked about American religious freedom in relation to specific events, such as the Pueblo Indian sacred dance controversy in the 1920s. With Aziz Huq from University of Chicago Law School, we dug deeply into thinking about religious pluralism and freedom as laid out in the Constitution and challenges that made their way to the Supreme Court. This summer, Diana Eck from Harvard's Pluralism Project will give a talk and lead a private session with the twenty participants.
5. What has emerged from the project thus far – for example, new or revised courses, online resources, campus programming, or conference presentations?
We're in the midst of a program that runs through June of 2014. Chris and I moderated and commented on a panel at the American Academy of Religion (AAR) meeting in November that included four participants, and we have a second panel at the AAR meeting in November 2013 in Baltimore.
Many of the participants are basing their research on topics of local interest, and that should mean something right off the bat to their students. The group from Georgia Perimeter has a research project on religious diversity in Atlanta, for example. The group in El Paso is researching missions in the Southwest; the group from Ivy Tech in Indianapolis is doing intensive research on Islam in the Midwest.
There's also been a lot of campus programming that has emerged already as a result of this program. Ivy Tech has had multiple panels to present research on Islam and the Midwest, and has also successfully applied for the NEH Muslim Journeys Bookshelf. We know of the intention among the some of the community college faculty participating to design new courses. Many of them have modified existing courses already, whether an introductory humanities course or an American literature course, but I know of some who have already petitioned administrators to get a new course on the books on American religious history. Online resources may come later as well.
The community college faculty and scholars have participated in a closed blog where we've presented work-in-progress and had an ongoing conversation. Next year we plan to launch a more public website about the project. We hope to demonstrate that at the AAR meeting this fall.
6. Any memorable moments during the project activities?
There's been a deep sense of collegiality. This group came together with different religious backgrounds and different regional backgrounds, and quickly became a cohort and a community that has stuck together even through the twelve months between coming together at the Newberry in the summers.
Professor Marty's private seminar stands out as well. What happened in the seminar that morning was such a free exchange of ideas and such a deep sense of support from him for post-secondary teaching that I think those community college faculty walked away with a renewed sense of themselves as scholars and as teachers. There was this breaking down of a divide between community college faculty and university faculty that I hope continues over the course of the project.


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This is... interesting. Microsoft has found a great way to get your money for new and old content, and you better pay up if you want to keep playing with the big boys in Gears of War 2. The company is releasing a retail package that includes all the previous map packs for the title, as well as seven new maps and a new campaign mission that features an all new "stealth mode." The package is called the All Fronts Collection, will be sold at retail for $20, and is a great deal for people who want to get caught up with all the downloadable content and be up to date with long-time players.
After the jump, we'll describe all the new maps, as well as tell you how MS is going to royally annoy long-time fans of the game.
Here are the new maps:
- Allfathers Garden: Honor the sacred grounds of the Coalition founders in this explosive map, where powerful weapons catalyze fast and furious action at this COG landmark.
- Memorial: Set near the Eternal Flame, which pays tribute to the fallen soldiers on the battlefield, a hard-fought battle ensues at the Tomb of Unknowns. Putting their flank formation and evasive skills to the test, players will fight to control the Boomshot.
- Sanctuary: Once a peaceful ground for reflection and remembrance, all that remains of the Sanctuary is the chill of death. Feast your eyes on the arsenal of weapons available as you make your way through the tight paths and blind corners of the Locust-damaged temple corridors.
- War Machine: In the abandoned train station that once served as a hub for travel, players will need to master the Longshot, Mulcher and Boomshot weapons to advance the fight while evading fire from the platforms above.
- Highway: Take the fight deep into the Locust Hollow in the complex passages of this underground highway system brimming with enemy vermin. Stick together, separate the enemy and have an exit strategy ready or it'll be a one-way trip.
- Way Station: Sitting in limbo between death and "processing" are Locust way stations filled with fallen COG soldiers. Tread lightly and practice patience as it's better to sacrifice firepower for stealth while navigating this minefield of hidden grenades.
- Nowhere: Set in the middle of what was once a destination for weary desert travellers, the land is now barren and devoid of life. Pick off your enemies with the Longshot sniper rifle and make your way to the stairwell with a well-fortified team during this intense firefight.
So the package will contain those seven maps, plus the "Flashback" Map Pack, "Combustible" Map Pack, and the winter-themed "Snowblind" Map Pack. You also get a poster, strategy guide, an Xbox Live theme, and a new video with Cliffy-B. So your $20 is well spent, looking at everything you get in the retail package.
But what happens if you already own all the previous map packs? The "Dark Corners" map pack with the seven new maps and campaign chapter will be available as a download through Xbox Live. The price? 1600 points, or $20. Yup, no matter how you buy it, you're paying for the old map packs.
I don't know what the thought process behind this pricing could be, but man, that seems greedy. That's $2.85 a map, approximately. No poster for you, either.
The retail package is a find if you're playing catch-up with all the older maps, but everyone else is getting scammed. Both the download and the retail product will be available for purchase on July 28 for $19.99.


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Dr. Reinhard Huetter, professor of Christian theology at Duke Divinity School, has been named the Rev. Robert J. Randall Professor in Christian Culture at Providence College for the 2012-2013 academic year/
I will let the press-release give the details:
Expert on St. Thomas Aquinas Selected New Randall Chair
Dr. Reinhard Huetter, professor of Christian theology at Duke Divinity School, has been named the Rev. Robert J. Randall Professor in Christian Culture at Providence College for the 2012-2013 academic year.
The Randall Professorship was established in 2002 as the College's first endowed chair. It is named for the priest and scholar who taught at PC for more than 25 years in the Department of English, the Development of Western Civilization Program, and the Liberal Arts Honors Program.
Huetter is the ninth scholar to serve as the Randall Professor. He will teach a course in the Liberal Arts Honors Program, Thomas Aquinas on Faith, which he said will be an introduction to Aquinas' theology as well as an introduction to thinking about the Christian faith.
He also will present lectures to the College community during the fall and spring semesters.
"I am thrilled about — and grateful for — the opportunity to teach and write for one year at Providence College, and I am very much looking forward to meeting the students and the faculty," said Huetter. "I already have some friends on the faculty and am looking forward to making new friends and becoming, for one year, part of an academic community about which I have heard so many good things."
A native of Lichtenfels, Germany, Huetter holds a master of theology degree from Duke University and a doctor of theology degree from the University of Erlangen in Germany. He teaches systemic and philosophical theology and has developed a special interest in the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas.
His new book, Dust Bound for Heaven: Explorations in the Theology of Thomas Aquinas (Eerdmas, 2012), will be published in late summer. Among his other works are Reason and the Reasons of Faith (T&T Clark Int'l, 2005), edited with Paul J. Griffiths, and Ressourcement Thomism: Sacred Doctrine, the Sacraments, and the Moral Life (The Catholic University of America Press, 2010), edited with Matthew Levering.
Huetter was awarded the Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology. He has been a visiting fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of Religion, University of Chicago; a research fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry at Princeton Theological Seminary; and a visiting professor at the University of Jena, Germany.
In addition, he is an elected member of the American Theological Society, president of the Academy of Catholic Theology, a distinguished fellow of The Saint Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and an ordinary academician of the Pontifical Academy of Saint Thomas Aquinas.
"We are indeed thrilled to have a scholar of such high reputation at Providence College," said Dr. James F. Keating, associate professor of theology and chair of the Randall Chair Committee. "His background in Protestant theology and recently acquired expertise in Catholicism and, in particular, the thought of Thomas Aquinas, will enhance our students' learning and the overall intellectual culture of our academic community."
— Vicki-Ann Downing
From here: http://www.providence.edu/news/headlines/Pages/randall-chair-2012.aspx
It will be a great joy to have Dr. Hütter join Providence College next year as the Randall Chair. Students in our Graduate Program in Theology will especially benefit, as Dr. Hütter is tentatively scheduled to teach a graduate seminar on the Virtue of Religion in Thomas Aquinas.
We look forward to welcoming Dr. Hütter this coming semester.


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Don't worry about John Boehner. Yes, there seem to be near-constant rumors and suspicions of a revolt against him, and Republican members of the House have been conspiring with Texas senator Ted Cruz. But it's unlikely to actually cost him his job. He's probably going to survive and remain as speaker of the House just as long as he wants to. At least, as long as divided government and the Republican House majority last.
Over at The New Republic, Noam Scheiber argues that Boehner's job will "almost certainly" be lost if he allows the debt limit to be raised with mostly Democratic votes. That's probably wrong. To see why, however, we need to step back.
See, the reasons that Boehner has seemingly been five minutes from getting ousted throughout his speakership have nothing to do with Boehner; they're structural. Which means that any possible speaker—Boehner, Majority Leader Eric Cantor, Michele Bachmann, or Ronald Reagan risen from the dead—would have pretty much the exact same problems.
Essentially, it all comes down to one quick equation: divided government plus Tea Party equals one frustrated speaker. Divided government, especially in a partisan era, sets up a basic fact that nothing can pass into law without both the speaker and the president signing off on it. That's no big deal for most parties and their congressional leaders, but this particular party, with its Tea Party hyperpartisanship, has a particular aversion to compromise—especially with the Kenyan socialist in the White House, but also with House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi or Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
That combination is bad enough if there's something a party wants to do; it's even worse when there's something it must do, such as funding bills or increasing the debt limit. It sets up as convoluted a situation as one can imagine for the speaker: Boehner has to somehow wind up with something that both he and Obama can live with without appearing to compromise, and generally without even negotiating. Fun!
Indeed, it's even worse than that. Republican politicians are constantly terrified of being seen by their constituents as squishes or RINOs (Republicans in name only), which means that mainstream conservatives—who, by any rational standard, are in fact very conservative—try hard to prevent any distance from opening between themselves and those at the extremes of their party. Not only that, but because the party doesn't really have policy goals to speak of outside of ever-lower taxes for rich people, the differences between the extremes and the mainstream tend to be over tactics, not substance. All of which doubles back on itself to re-enforce the strict "principle" of avoiding negotiations and compromise.
Again: None of that has anything to do with John Boehner. Nor is there anything that any speaker could really do about it.
The incentives driving members of the Republican conference are all external to Congress; they're found in Tea Party politics, the ways that the Republican-aligned press works, and other things that no speaker could do much to change. Since everyone—and especially any potential successor speaker—knows all of that, it's unlikely that anyone would mount a coup against him. Any successor would rapidly find himself or herself with exactly the same problems plus one: There would be a new precedent established for what to do with the speaker when things go wrong—overthrow them.
Besides, it's likely that most mainstream conservatives in the House Republican conference appreciate what Boehner does for them. He schedules plenty of votes on nutty nonsense that allow them to show off as "true conservatives." That's what the latest round on the continuing resolution to avert government shutdown on Saturday night was all about. He sometimes chooses losing a fight to cutting a deal, which goes well with the preferences of the Tea Partiers they are most sensitive to (yes, that's crazy, but it's not crazy for the speaker to be responsive to his conference). It's likely that when Boehner has brought measures to the House floor to pass with mostly Democratic votes, as he did with the fiscal-cliff bill and as he may well still do for the continuing resolution and the debt limit, that most Republicans who vote against those bills are happy to see them pass—without their votes. The truth is that mainstream conservative representatives are probably pleased, too, that Boehner winds up as the scapegoat in some of these confrontations. Better him than them.
For most House Republicans, John Boehner is doing what they need him to do, even when they're (publicly) upset with him. And he's further protected because the same things that might make him vulnerable make the job unappealing for anyone else. It's easy to see why all of that might make him happy to step away from the job voluntarily … but if he wants it, and he keeps finding ways to avoid the very worst calamities, the job is probably his for a good long while.


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General Programming → Debug Stream
Dexter Industries has created a great introductory blog post on the debug stream, which can be found here.
"Traditional" Debugging Techniques
| Debugging a program – finding the errors and correcting them – can be a slow process in solutions without a run-time debugger. Without a debugger you may have to resort to different techniques such as:
Both of the above techniques are available in ROBOTC; however, a real-time debugger eliminates the need to resort to them. There's no need to add code for debugging to your program. A built-in debugger provides better functionality without ever having to modify your source code!
There is also a built-in Debug Stream that you can use to keep track of your program from behind the scenes. For example, you could print a message to the Debug Stream when you enter and exit loops, functions, etc. Then you can view the cached Debug Stream to help in the debugging process.
|void writeDebugStream(const string sFormatString, ...)
|(void) Writes a String to the Debug Stream.
|void writeDebugStreamLine(const string sFormatString, ...)
|(void) Writes a String to the Debug Stream starting on a new line.


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According to a new report from the International Energy Agency, U.S. oil firms can count just one Iraqi oil field to their name.
The agency says:
Commentators largely agree that the federal authorities have driven a hard bargain with international oil companies in these contracts. The agreed maximum remuneration fees are at low levels per barrel of oil produced, meaning that the overwhelming share of the revenue generated is retained by the government; but this is offset, in part, by the prospect of high volumes, the expectation that the fields are of such size and quality that there is little technical risk and the consideration that companies are not taking on price risk or exploration risk.
In 2009, Time's Vivienne Walt wrote about the beginnings of the lockout. She talked to one anonymous Iraqi official who explained what had happened:
The bidding was extremely tough. My guess is that [the U.S. companies] could not match the offers from others." In Iraq, at least, the victor has no special claim on the spoils of war.
For what it's worth, ExxonMobil scored the second-largest field in the country.
And American companies are doing much of the actual drilling.
But that pales in comparison to royalty amounts development companies will get.
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Organized by the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church, the day of service has consistently grown in size, expanding to 20 new projects with volunteers working from 8:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in communities and neighborhoods in need.
"The Day of Service and other efforts are a great way for citizens to come together, serve the community and help transform the neighborhoods of our city," said Mayor Kevin Faulconer.
Key projects include repainting the Alpha Project Transitional Housing site downtown, repainting the Barrio Station building, entryway beautification in Broadway Heights, installing fencing for a future Urban Farm site in Southeast San Diego, building picnic tables at the Jackie Robinson YMCA, bench construction at the Presbyterian Urban Ministries, constructing box gardens for seniors, cleanup of Memorial Skateboard Park, volunteer service at the Jacobs Cushman San Diego Food Bank and cleanup of Lincoln and Point Loma high schools and Gompers Academy.
Many faith-based groups have joined in the effort, including members from Point Loma United Methodist, Southeast San Diego Presbyterian, Westminster Presbyterian and Ocean View Church. Key volunteer groups will include Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, the Point Loma Association, Veterans Village of San Diego, high school and college student groups and many others.
Volunteers are still needed for projects and will be provided a free T-shirt and lunch.
"The Day of Service has been a highlight for our church, and it's given us the opportunity to help neighborhoods in need and to put faith into action," said Karla Shaw, associate pastor of the Point Loma Presbyterian Church.
Many school projects are included in the effort, including Dana Middle School and elementary school sites in Ocean Beach and the Peninsula. Environmental clean-up and restoration projects will include the Famosa Slough wetlands, San Diego River, Sunset Cliffs Natural Park and Cabrillo National Monument as well as work on city parks.
The Day of Service includes a variety of projects so all ages can participate, including creating cards and writing letters to the military, sewing in the prayer quilt ministry, baking cookies, preparing food for the homeless, delivering plants to shut-ins and singing for senior citizens.
"This is an opportunity for everyone to participate for the greater good of our city," said Byron Wear, Day of Service event co-chairman and former San Diego city councilman.
In addition to the Day of Service, future efforts will match neighborhood projects and needs with volunteers and organizations wanting to transform San Diego.
Contributions are needed to purchase project materials. Forward tax-deductible contributions to the Point Loma Community Presbyterian Church made payable to: PLCPC – Day of Service, 2128 Chatsworth Blvd., San Diego, 92107.
For more information, call (619) 326-8894 or sign up at www.pointlomachurch.org/serve/day-of-service.


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Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger backs FIFA's transfer ban on Barcelona
Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has backed FIFA's decision to hand Barcelona a year-long transfer ban for breaching rules on the transfer of players aged under 18.
The Spanish champions were sanctioned on Wednesday by FIFA's disciplinary committee for breaking regulations in the cases of 10 under-18 players, and have been punished with a transfer embargo covering two windows and fined 450,000 Swiss francs (£305,000).
Barca subsequently announced they would be appealing against the ruling to FIFA and, if necessary, would then take their fight to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).
Wenger believes the whole system needs to be examined for the long-term good of the global game.
He said: "Certainly they have not respected the rules.
"The rule is quite simple, you cannot move the players before the age of 16 unless their parents move for professional reasons, so that of course creates a bit of a debate – do the parents move for professional reasons or not?
"In this case, FIFA has judged the parents moved for football reasons and that is why they were banned because they have not respected the rules."
Wenger added: "I think the rules need to be changed, because there is more competition now to get the young players, and you will always be in a debate as to why did the parents move?
"There is more money in the game, so the parents will be tempted to give their young boys a chance to have a great career.
"What is not right is that the children move under the age of 16 without their parents. That is absolutely not right.
"Do they have to change the rules so you allow children to move with their parents if the club takes care of the parents? Maybe we have to go that way because it happens."
Arsenal themselves were once criticised by Barcelona for taking on Cesc Fabregas as a youngster after the player had initially been at their academy.
Wenger added: "At the time they were critical of us, you look at their players who came out from their youth academy are people like (Andres) Iniesta. He came (to Barcelona) at a very young age from the north of Spain, so they have always scouted people all over Spain.


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I saw the recipe on 52 Kitchen Adventures and made a couple changes, one by mistake and a couple intentionally. The original recipe calls for raisins which I'm not a huge fan of but I do love baked pumpkin goods with walnuts, so I added walnuts instead.
This recipe is pretty simple to make. The only time consuming part is portioning out each mini muffin, which is much easier with a small Oxo scoop. The original recipe states the yield to be 36 mini muffins, but I got 74 from the recipe!
Granted I did make an error with the buttermilk, which may have changed the yield slightly but it couldn't possibly have made it double. I mistakenly added a 1/2 cup of buttermilk, so in a panic I decided I should add less oil, so I reduced the oil to a 1/4 cup. Surprisingly, the muffins turned out perfectly, and as a bonus they have a little less fat :)
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Prep Time: 5 minutes
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Ingredients (74 mini muffins)
- 1 1/4 cups whole wheat flour
- 1 cup all purpose flour
- 2 1/2 teaspoons pumpkin pie spice
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
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- 1 cup pumpkin puree
- 1/2 cup buttermilk
- 1/4 cup vegetable oil
- 1/4 cup molasses (or honey)
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 large eggs
- 3/4 cup chopped walnuts
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Line a mini muffin pan with paper liners.
- In a large bowl, combine flour, pumpkin pie spice, baking soda, ginger, and salt. Add walnuts and set aside.
- In a medium bowl, combine brown sugar, pumpkin, buttermilk, oil, molasses, vanilla and eggs. Stir well with a whisk. Then add mixture to the dry ingredients.
- Stir the two mixtures together, just until combined. Add two teaspoons of muffin batter to each paper liner (I use a small Oxo scoop).
- Bake for 11-12 minutes, until a toothpick comes out clean. Remove muffins from pans immediately and cool on a wire rack.
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We are standing at the cusp of a computing and industrial revolution with the use of 3-D printers, one technology expert said at a conference recently.
"Once in a generation a new technology comes along that has the potential to transform just about everything—think printing press, steam engine, telegraph and now 3-D printing," Jim Kohlenberger, a former chief of staff in the White House Office of Science and Technology, said at a conference in Brooklyn, New York on Monday evening.
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I'm feeling good. My appetite has come back somewhat; I don't think I ate over 600 calories each day the first few days following FANS. I was nauseous and felt like I could barf any second. For some reason I felt most horrible while driving. I had to pull over a few times while Tyler and I were driving to school. Odd.
Thursday night I and Topaz hit the trail for 5 miles. It went very well, I did a slow jog and he raced me..and won.
Friday night I jogged another 5 miles and felt fine.
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PARIS, FRANCE and SAN DIEGO, CA – July 29, 2010
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Microsoft is in talks with HTC to get its Windows Phone operating system loaded onto the manufacturer's Android phones as a second OS, according to reports from Bloomberg. Terry Myerson, head of the software giant's operating systems unit, is reported to have reached out to HTC over allowing its Android devices to dual-boot into Windows Phone, with the reduction or elimination of licensing fees purportedly being offered as an incentive. Myerson is planning a visit to Taiwan to meet with HTC execs over the proposal, the outlet's sources say.
Additionally, one Bloomberg source claims HTC has no current plans to release any more standalone Windows Phone handsets, which might explain Microsoft's apparent desire to shoehorn its OS onto future HTC phones through a dual-booting option.
We've heard from our own sources that HTC has indeed been looking at the engineering cost of making an Android/Windows Phone dual-booting handset a reality. It's unclear how far the project might have progressed, however, nor whether Google might attempt to throw a wrench in the works by blocking certification of such a device. Indeed, it's hard to see how Microsoft's piggy-backing on sales of HTC Android phones would directly benefit anyone besides Microsoft. Users, for instance, would be presented with two wildly divergent software experiences — and marketing this kind of handset could present its own problems.
Windows Phone commands just a 3.7 percent share of the smartphone market, which Microsoft will be looking to increase through its recent agreement to purchase partner Nokia's smartphone division. Similarly, HTC has been struggling to compete against Korean rival Samsung, which dominates the Android handset space, and today posted a $101 million quarterly operating loss. If the two were to co-operate on a phone that dual-boots between Android and Windows, it'd certainly be one of the most unusual smartphone software pairings we've seen in some time.
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Righthaven Goes After Pajamas Media, Despite DMCA Agent & Strong Fair Use Case
from the thought-righthaven-was-avoiding-those-things deptIt's been a little while since we covered what newspaper copyright troll Righthaven was up to, but Eric Goldman alerts us to one recent legal filing from the operation that raises some questions. Historically, Righthaven has been careful to avoid websites that have registered a DMCA agent, knowing that under the DMCA it's supposed to issue a takedown notice before suing. However, this case, in going after the successful blog network Pajamas Media, appears to ignore the fact that Pajamas Media has registered.
Of course, one argument to get around this is the claim that the post is written by an "employee," rather than a user, but even so, Righthaven is probably skating on pretty thin ice here. Under the DMCA there's a clear process to remove infringing works, and Righthaven has apparently failed to follow that process.
Separately, after getting smacked around in some early cases, Righthaven had promised to avoid filing its lawsuits over cases that pretty clearly appeared to be fair use. In this case, the complaint is about a photo concerning TSA patdowns that originally appeared in the Denver Post, which was later posted as a part of a story to Pajamas Media. But, there's a really strong fair use claim here. If you look at the original post -- now sans photograph, you see that the post itself includes significant commentary about the image. This isn't a case of someone just grabbing a photo to illustrate a story. Instead, the opening paragraphs -- which clearly identify and link to the Denver Post as the source of the image -- are about how this image has "become the symbol" of the "Don't touch my junk" movement. It would seem that this gives Pajamas a really strong fair use claim, since the image was being used within a news report for commentary on the iconic nature of the image. Newspapers and other media have long used similar situations to claim fair use over imagery.
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I regularly talk to people who have ended up on the wrong side of the law and want to keep the incident out of the newspaper.
My answer is invariably a polite no-can-do. If the situation is a matter of our usual public record, it all goes in the paper.
We make no exceptions.
Employees of this newspaper are held to the same standard — including me.
Which brings me to the point of this column. On Saturday night, in a neighboring county, I was charged with DUI.
I wanted you to hear it from me first.
I can't go into the particulars right now, except to say my blood-alcohol test was below the legal limit, and I respectfully and fully cooperated with everyone involved.
Based on the circumstances — and the fact that my blood-alcohol test was below the legal limit — I plan to plead not guilty and let the case play out in the legal system.
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As editor of this newspaper, I can be considered a public figure. Communities have the right to hold public figures to a higher standard, and when some other local public figures — usually elected officials — have fallen into trouble, you have read about it on our front page.
As someone whose newspaper has to publish the troubles of others, it is only fair that I have to publish my own, when circumstances warrant it. And so I'm choosing to make my own DUI charge front page news.
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He said he had four studies in his house so we can imagine him writing a poem in one of his studies before breakfast, then in the next study writing a hundred pages of a novel, then in the afternoon he writes a long and brilliant essay for the New Yorker, and then in the fourth study he blurts out a couple of poems. John Updike must have been possessed of a purer energy than any writer since DH Lawrence.
I've seen it suggested that such prodigies suffer from an enviable condition called 'pressure on the cortex'. It's as if they have within them an underground spring which is always on the point of eruption. He has produced an enormous body of work. He is certainly one of the great American novelists of the 20th century.
He alone could hold his head up with the great Jews - Bellow, Roth, Mailer, Singer - it was entirely typical of him that, as a sideline, he became a great Jewish novelist too, in the person of Henry Bech, the hero of several of his books. That seems to me to be an essential Updike trait, never being satisfied with any limitations always demanding far more than his fair share.
There aren't supposed to be extremes of uniqueness - either you are or you're not - but he was exceptionally sui generis. He himself was too much under the spell of Joyce, and in a novel like Couples you can see that he set himself the task of bringing Joyce to America. I don't think he could see this - the great stylists are the ones you shouldn't be influenced by, but it was a noble attempt and with a treasury as deep as Updike's he could afford to have a few near misses.
Joyce himself said that certain things were too embarrassing to be written down in black and white. Updike was congenitally unembarrassable and we are the beneficiaries of that. He took the novel onto another plane of intimacy: he took us beyond the bedroom and into the bathroom. It's as if nothing human seemed closed to his eye. I think he was probably of the pattern of his generation. As he said, 'My wife and I had children when we were children ourselves.' The wild oats period came in early middle age.
For me, his greatest novels were the last two Rabbit books - Rabbit is Rich and Rabbit at Rest. With that fourth novel in the tetralogy, he had the homerun with all the bases loaded. His style was one of compulsive and unstoppable vividness and musicality. Several times a day you turn to him, as you will now to his ghost, and say to yourself 'How would Updike have done it?" This is a very cold day for literature.


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Fifth Circuit Says No, You Fucking May Not Strip Search A Classful Of Female Students To Find $50
from the because-of-course-you-can't-the-hell-were-you-thinking dept
The Fifth Circuit Appeals Court convened to write an opinion [PDF] the judges shouldn't have had to write. But then, of course, they had to because the lower court screwed everything up. The first paragraph sums up the issue -- and the appeals court's decision -- succinctly and devastatingly. (h/t Raffi Melkonian)
During a sixth-grade choir class, an assistant principal allegedly ordered a mass, suspicionless strip search of the underwear of twenty-two preteen girls. All agree the search violated the girls' constitutional rights under Texas and federal law. Even so, the district court dismissed the girls' lawsuit against the school district for failure to state a claim. We reverse.
The school admitted it violated the students' rights. It admitted it performed a search without justification or guiding policies. It all but started cutting settlement checks and yet the lower court said no viable claim was made by the plaintiffs.
The background: in an attempt to locate $50 that went missing during a choir class, the entire class was searched. Given the nature of the search, this quickly changed the definition of "class" from a "a number of students studying the same course" to "a number of students suing the school." This maybe wouldn't have gone as far as it did, but for the invaluable assistance of the school's police officer.
When no money turned up, the school police officer "suggested that girls like to hide things in their bras and panties."
I sincerely hope this person is now chronically underemployed. Why escalate things needlessly? No one was looking for weapons or even illegal drugs. It was cash -- something easy to lose. That $50 has gone missing does not necessarily mean it was stolen. That it may have been stolen does not necessarily mean the female class members would have stashed it in their undergarments.
Without seeking permission from the students or informing their parents, the vice principal had the school nurse perform a strip search of all the students.
Higgins took all twenty-two girls in the choir class to the female school nurse, who strip searched them, taking them one at a time into a bathroom, where she "check[ed] around the waistband of [their] panties," loosened their bras, and checked "under their shirts." The girls "were made to lift their shirts so they were exposed from the shoulder to the waist."
Do the ends justify the means?
No money was found.
The district's policy for searches is a mess. An unconstitutional mess. As the court points out, it gives no guidance to administrators on how to reach its self-generated standard of "reasonable cause" before performing a search. However, it does tell administrators searches by school personnel should be as non-intrusive as possible and only when there's a "reasonable" belief contraband might be found.
The only discipline handed out for this mass violation of rights was a memo chastising the Vice Principal for performing a search to find something not actually considered to be "contraband." But the court points out that this memo misses the whole point of Constitutional protections and the school's obligation to leave those (and their students) unmolested.
Regardless, the supposed lack of "contraband" appears to have been the principal's only concern; the memo never criticized the search for invading the underwear of twenty-two preteen girls, or for doing so without particularized suspicion.
In fact, the principal's memo seemed to suggest strip searching students was acceptable as long as the principal was given a heads up.
The memo further made clear that, at least in the principal's mind, such strip searches of students are not per se improper under school district policy. Rather than forbidding all strip searches going forward, the memo requested: "In the future, if you feel a student must have a search requiring a strip search, please notify me before proceeding."
Addressing the lower court's fuck ups, the Appeals Court first points out the question of Constitutionality has been answered firmly, with some of that coming from the defendant school's own admissions.
[T]his clearly established law means that Higgins violated the constitutional rights of the twenty-two girls unless Higgins reasonably suspected that the missing $50 cash (1) would be found on that particular girl's person and either (2) would be found specifically in that girl's underwear or (3) would pose a dangerous threat to students. For what are perhaps obvious reasons, the parties do not dispute that the alleged search failed all three conditions. It was clearly unconstitutional.
The school tried to claim the plaintiffs had nothing to support their claims. It tried to portray this as allegations about an unconstitutional policy. But the Appeals Court notes the plaintiffs are actually alleging the school had done nothing at all to provide search guidance to its administrators. This changes the judicial math a bit. [Emphasis in the original.]
To be clear, the argument is not that the school district's written search policies are facially unconstitutional or that they caused the alleged constitutional violation by themselves. Rather, the "official municipal policy" on which Plaintiffs attempt to hang Monell liability is the school district's alleged policy of providing no training whatsoever regarding its employees' legal duties not to conduct unreasonable searches. In other words, as currently presented, this is a "failure to train" case.
This allows the plaintiffs to move forward with their allegations, overturning the lower court's dismissal. The Appeals Court notes this reversal isn't meant to suggest the plaintiffs have enough evidence to prevail on this claim -- only that they should not have seen their case dismissed during the first round of pleadings by the lower court.
But what seems obvious to everyone was somehow unclear to the vice principal who ordered the searches. The court notes there really can only be one entity to blame in this matter: the school itself for failing to give officials proper training on students' constitutional rights. Just having a policy several steps removed from the actual limitations demanded by the Fourth Amendment isn't enough. The courts don't expect police officers to know the nuances of every Fourth Amendment decision governing the searches of full-grown adults so it sure as hell isn't going to expect a school administrator will have this all nailed down without outside instruction.
Filed Under: 4th amendment, 5th circuit, 6th grade, strip search, students


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With more than three-quarters of the ballots recounted, it looks like Norm Coleman has held his edge on Al Franken for the Senate seat he currently occupies. The number of ballot challenges has topped 3,000, though, so in the end the canvassing board will eventually decide the winner:
The number of ballot challenges in the U.S. Senate recount surged again on Monday, passing 3,000 overall and clouding the question of who's picking up ground in the hotly contested race.
More than 78 percent of the votes had been recounted as of Monday night, and Republican Sen. Norm Coleman's advantage over DFLer Al Franken stood at 210, according to a Star Tribune compilation of results reported to the secretary of state and gathered by the newspaper. Before the recount, Coleman led Franken by 215 votes out of about 2.9 million cast, a margin that has fluctuated over the past week.
Each candidate's vote total has fallen by more than 1,100 since the recount began, and the bulk of the drop apparently is the result of ballot challenges by the other side, which may or may not be upheld by the state Canvassing Board next month. Each campaign has challenged more than 1,500 ballots.
The Strib thinks that Franken has gained 46 votes on Coleman since the start of the recount outside of the ballot challenges. That's not enough to swing the election, if that trend continues. Only 22% of the ballots remain to be counted, and at that rate Franken will only gain a handful more. As I have written in the past, the optical-scan system used by most of Minnesota has tremendous reliability, and the microscopic changes seen prove that.
Of course, they're not done counting, either, but should finish soon. I tried to warn people that vote counts could fluctuate wildly, especially at the beginning, but we've seen pretty remarkable stability each day. Until the recount process finishes and the canvassing board reviews the ballots, there's little to report or be done.
Side stories seem to erupt every day anyway. One precinct used a Franken worker as an election judge for the recount, which got a short bit of attention. However, in the end, the Coleman campaign challenged more ballots in that precinct than did the Franken campaign (11 to 7), which indicates that this wasn't much of a story at all.
The canvassing board will provide the real focus for this recount. We're fortunate to have four widely-respected jurists on this panel who will not countenance any shenanigans, even with the strongly partisan Mark Ritchie as a statutory member as Secretary of State. Those challenge decisions will favor Coleman in the end if Franken observers keep challenging ballots like this:
The only opportunity Franken has to overtake Coleman at this rate is to get previously rejected absentee ballots added to the count. Even the Star Tribune can't stomach that notion:
"Count them all" has a nice democratic ring to it. (Note: that's a small "d.") DFL Senate candidate Al Franken's campaign has that much going for it, as it calls for adding several thousand previously rejected absentee ballots to the Senate election recount that has been in progress since Nov. 19.
But that shouldn't be enough for the state Canvassing Board, which is set to meet Wednesday for a hearing on Franken's request. Adding previously untallied ballots to the recount should require something more: a foundation in law. …
This state is blessed with election laws that are definitive and clear. The chapter on absentee ballots alone runs 20 pages in the statute books. The rules setting out what does and does not constitute an acceptable absentee ballot are taken very seriously by election judges. That does not mean that human error did not occur on Nov. 4, or that every aspect of the statute itself would withstand a court test. But let the courts decide.
Even Mark Ritchie, the DFL Secretary of State, recognizes that the Canvassing Board's mission is not to adjust state law, but to properly manage a recount according to existing statute. Franken will have to go to court to get state law overturned on ballot handling, which they know will be almost impossible, thanks to Minnesota's clear and reasonable statutory requirements for absentee ballots. The Canvassing Board, four of whose members serve on state appellate courts, will understand the distinction, even if Franken does not.


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