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smartBASIC is an implementation of a structured BASIC programming language optimized for use on low-cost embedded systems with limited memory by being highly efficient in terms of memory usage. The BASIC programming language has been around for over 40 years in many variants and platforms, a good background and introduction is available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BASIC.
smartBASIC was designed to make BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), or Bluetooth® Smart technology, development quicker and simpler, vastly cutting down time to market. The following are three good reasons for writing applications in smartBASIC:
Sample smartBASIC applications are available for download in the BL600 or BT900 Firmware Files in the Laird Bluetooth Download Center. Click here to view the BL600 User's Manual or click here to view the BT900 User's Manual. Current smartBASIC applications include:
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|Heart Rate
|Low Power / Deep Sleep
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|LED Button Test
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|Health Thermometer
|UART Close
|Buzzer Test
|Hello World
|Trimpot Test
|vSP - Virtual Serial Port (upass)
The BL600 or BT900 BLE module running smartBASIC has two different modes of operation:
By default, the module starts up in Interactive mode and checks to see if an application called $autorun$ exists in the file system. If present, it automatically runs unless the nAutoRUN input pin is used to signal that the module should skip that step. If the autorun application exits, which in virtually all cases is not the case, then the module returns to Interactive mode. It is possible to write autorun applications that continue to run to control the module's behavior until power-down, which provides a complete embedded application.
Being a structured programming language, smartBASIC offers typical modern constructs such as subroutines, functions, while, if, and for loops. Applications written in smartBASIC are event-driven rather than the sequential processing seen in early versions of BASIC.
A typical smartBASIC application source code consists of the following:
The source code ends with WAITEVENT, a final statement which never returns. Once the run-time engine reaches the WAITEVENT statement, it waits for events to happen and, when they do, it calls the appropriate handlers (written by the user) to service them.
The core language, which is common throughout all smartBASIC implementations, provides the standard functionality of any program, such as:
In addition smartBASIC adds Bluetooth Low Energy Extensions to control the wireless connectivity of the BL600 or BT900:
smartBASIC applications can be written in any standard text editor such as textpad or Notepad++ and do not require a complex or costly development environment. If you prefer syntax color highlighting, then treating the source as C or BASIC will display the code with color highlights. Applications are transferred to the module using a simple free terminal program called UWTerminal (available for download from www.lairdtech.com/wireless). Customers are able to develop their own utilities to download precompiled applications as the process involves the use of standard AT commands.
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Next time you check into a hotel, check the Bible.
If it's too liberal in its translation, then who you gonna call? Biblebusters.
That's right, you hethen Obamaites.
This lunatic right wing-nut blog called Conservapedia has decided that liberal bias has become the single biggest distortion in Bible translations as of late.
The people behind this lunacy think liberals are emasculating Christianity.
You know, like trying to give women a more important role in the Bible rather than just being whores and temptresses.
There is no mention of feminism in the Bible, Bella Abzug-breath. "Feminism seeks to impose humanistic solutions that are in direct opposition to the Word of God," staunch Bible-thumpin' conservatives bellow.
Humanistic values. Humanism is a call for human dignity, concerns, capability and rationality.
God created someone who came up with that concept. Think his name was Jesus.
By the way, liberals are inclined to believe that Jesus himself professed feminism.
No way, Jose. Jesus actually bench-pressed things he used to make as a carpenter. And he invented karate.
He wasn't a peacenik, although he did have long blonde hair and blue eyes (rather unusual in that part of the world at that time; but maybe it was more like Utah then) —- and he looked more like Chuck Norris than a frail hippie.
Moving on. Conservapedia wants to utilize powerful conservative terms.
Update words like "peace" they say. Ya, that word is used too much in the New Testament. Concentrate more on the war stuff. Instead of "Peace be with you" make it more like "You wanna piece of me!"
Stop the liberal translation of the Bible that worships socialism. If God wanted America to follow socialism we'd never bathe that often and smoke cigarettes everywhere. But enough about Mississippi.
Example of liberals using socialistic terminology: liberals don't use the word volunteer as much as they do comrade. Comrade? That's commie talk, ain't it?
Volunteerism is a bad word to liberals because it implies that you want to help the less fortunate without getting paid for it.
Conservatives are more sympathetic to volunteers — especially those who work behind the scenes volunteering to give their candidates a whole lot of money to tell lies about health care reform so pharmaceutical companies can make more money and help put more conservatives in power.
Been saved yet?
Conservapedia also aims to "express free market parables."
Jesus wasn't upset because the moneychangers were turning the temple into a marketplace. Quite the opposite. He helped them lobby for the real meaning of a free-market.
Thus, moneychangers shall now be known as lobbyists.
And how about those liberal falsehoods. Oy!
Jesus did not say "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Jesus did know what they were doing. Duh! Forgive them? You don't have to forgive anybody if you've got the last word, buddy.
Conservapedia also wants to squash the term "social justice." Why? Well besides having the word social in it (does that make conservatives anti-social?) it also implies that the law always lets minorities off the hook.
As for that famous passage, "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone," when Jesus saves a woman accused of being an adultress (there's another role in the Bible for women), that would never have happened, Conservapedia would say.
To them it would probably be something like, "Let he who got stoned with this woman get in a car and drive over the bridge in Chappaquiddick."
No telling when Conservapedia thinks the world will come to an end. A lot of the followers of this nonsense believe it will be soon.
Even George W. Bush believes that. And he did his part to inch it toward that final goal.
Since the Antichrist is now in power, it could be sooner than we think.
There's even a blasphemous movie called "2012" which is a special effects popcorn flick that uses as its compass the end of the Mayan calendar —– Dec. 21, 2012 —- to mean the end of the world.
Just another doomsday scenario for Hollyweird to make a gazillion dollars on, you say.
And how accurate have those Mayans been over the centuries anyway?
They don't even have cable.
Just in case, if you're still around in 2012 —– and there will be a mass media countdown to that day —- it will come to pass if:
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The Centre would intervene in the issue after the committee submits its report, Mr. Ramesh told reporters here. "If it was found that the provisions in the 1980 Forest Conservation Act had been violated, stringent action would be taken against those responsible, whether it be politicians or real estate groups," the minister said.
On the Centre rejecting the proposal for a hydel project at Athirappally in Thrissur district, he said the Kerala State Bio-diversity Board had in its report to the Centre listed the project's adverse impact on environment.
"The district panchayat had also submitted a memorandum to the Centre asking it not to give sanction to the project, besides various environmental groups," he said.
Dismissing state Power Minister A.K. Balan's charge that there was a "conspiracy" behind the Centre's decision not to clear the project, Mr. Ramesh said there was no question of showing neglect towards the state. Projects of other states including neighbouring Karnataka had been denied clearance citing environmental reasons.
Mr. Ramesh said like Athirappally, the project proposed at Silent Valley was also given clearance first. The decision was reversed when studies found that it would cause serious harm to the environment. He said the Centre had sanctioned the maximum number of projects to Kerala and said any kind of conspiracy theory was unwarranted.
Asked about the moratorium on Bt Brinjal, he said elaborate study was required before introduction of a genetically modified food crop in the country. "It was the first time the country was considering such a proposal and a genetically engineered food crop could not be introduced without adequate caution," he said.
In case of Bt cotton, there have been reports of success and failure which would be evaluated, he added.
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ALLAGASH WILDERNESS WATERWAY- A canoe trip down the Allagash Wilderness Waterway (AWW) is usually rewarded with more moose sightings than most people experience in a lifetime.Maine has the highest population of moose in the lower 48 states, and the northern commercial forest is home to most of these stately animals.
The moose is the largest member of the deer family in North America. The population inMaineis thriving because of current forest practices, including cutting that creates young hardwood browse that moose feed on for much of the year.
During the summer months, moose are drawn to the AWW to escape the flies and feed on nutrient-rich water plants that grow in the lakes, ponds and river that make up the 92-mile long wilderness canoe route.
In fact, one day in June last year, I counted 26 moose from Churchill Dam to Eagle Lake and return. When you see bunches of four or five moose, it doesn't take long to add up to quite a day for seeing moose.
I've seen moose feeding out in the lakes with the water right up to their back. When they put their head under to feed, they disappear. Some moose will let you get pretty close if you paddle quietly along the shoreline. It is kinda cool to actually hear them munching on water plants and see the water running off their antlers.
Seeing a moose in its natural environment from a canoe where you can see, hear, and smell this majestic creature is a thrill that you will remember for a lifetime.
Where are the best places to see moose on the waterway? They are too numerous to list, but a few good places are: on Heron Lake within sight of Churchill Dam; Churchill Lake where Thoroughfare Book enters; Chamberlain Lake where Allagash Stream enters; and Round Pond where the river enters the pond.
One of my favorite places for viewing wildlife in general is the upper end of Umsaskis Lake. This marshy area just teems with waterfowl, birds of prey, beaver, muskrat, and moose. There are many back channels to explore, and it seems like some different type of animal is seen around each bend in this swampy area.
Other wildlife that abounds in the waterway include: beaver, muskrat, mink, otter, turtles, bald eagles, and osprey. If you're lucky, you may even see a whitetail deer, black bear, or the endangeredCanadalynx.
Actually, bears have been showing up really well this summer along the woods roads. On a recent trip from Churchill Dam toAllagashLakeand return, I saw five bear; two were good-sized bruins.
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After Hitchens accepted the invite, some anonymous snipers dug up his previous appearances at Horowitz events and began demanding to know how much he's getting paid by Scaife. Though he doesn't generally respond to that kind of baiting, Hitchens was unapologetic when I interviewed him last week. "Both appearances for Horowitz were unpaid," he said, "but if Scaife wants to offer me money, I'll take it."
Does that make him a media whore? Depends on whether he's reading from someone else's script, which is yet to be seen. But whoever's paying his meal ticket, Hitchens is fast becoming the Zelig of the publishing world, a testament to his range and readiness. In addition to columns in The Nation and Vanity Fair, his byline has popped up recently in Harper's, Mother Jones, and The New York Review of Books, and on May 19, the ubiquitous scribe is set to appear at The New Yorker's literary festivalan event made possible by that wizard of the liberal media, Si Newhouse.
When asked why he gets so much heat, Hitchens sighed and said, "I wish I was more of a lightning rod." He is currently on tour with his new book, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, a reprint of two Harper's essays in which he makes the case for prosecuting the former secretary of state as a war criminal. To Hitchens's disappointment, the media has given the book short shrift, notably The Washington Post, which pleaded insipidly that we should "leave poor Henry alone." (Quite the opposite. Congress should subpoena his files, now conveniently under seal.)
Kissinger himself has not commented on the allegations, a strategy the author calls "quite clever" since it creates the impression that "there's no controversy." When I volunteered to call Kissinger's office, Hitchens said not to bother, because "all you'll get is the square root of fuck off."
Hitch watchers, chew on this: It was New Yorker editor David Remnick's idea to have Hitchens host a panel called "Hot Spots," featuring New Yorker foreign correspondents Jon Lee Anderson, Philip Gourevitch, Isabel Hilton, and Michael Ignatieff. "Hot Spots" was one of the first panels to sell out, and some of the few hundred attendees of the panel are expected to hail from the United Nations and Columbia's School of International & Public Affairs.
Hitchens says he suggested the following premise for the panel: "Is there a problem with the very idea of hot spots? Is it wrong to think of certain parts of the world as exotic or foreign or beyond redemption?" He notes that even while "we live in a culture where globalization is a mantra, many media companies are cutting down on foreign coverage." By doing so, he suggests, we risk lapsing into a mind-set prevalent in the Middle Ages, when maps of the world dubbed unknown parts to be in partibus infidelium, or in the land of the infidel.
The "Hot Spots" panel ties in nicely with a prescient story Hitchens wrote for the May/June issue of Mother Jones, "Rogue Nation U.S.A.," in which he accuses the U.S. of the supreme hypocrisy of pretending to be a world leader while pursuing its own interests. That is, America has for years exempted itself from a host of international treaties and resolutions (including those that would deter global warming, ban land mines, establish an International Criminal Court, and impose a moratorium on the death penalty), while punishing countries that shirk their own UN obligations.
While Democrats buried the hypocrisy (at one point, Hitchens reports, Clintonites resolved to stop using the term "rogue state," for fear someone might apply it to the U.S.), Republicans love to throw their arrogance in your face, as when Bush recently proposed to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. Hitchens's warnings came home to roost two weeks ago, when the UN voted the U.S. off the Human Rights Commission and the International Narcotics Control Board. Hitchens calls this an obvious act of "revenge" against U.S. unilateralismbut he sees no excuse for giving a human rights vote to the "slave-owning scumbags in Sudan."
Given the backlash, the U.S. media arguably has an increased duty to provide thoughtful world coveragejust the kind of stories on which The New Yorker prides itself. Staff writer Gourevitch says that daily papers tend to focus either on exploding crises (the "if it bleeds, it leads" mentality) or on events that "involve America politically, militarily, and strategically."
Staff writer Anderson concurs, noting that because so many newspaper editors insist on a U.S. angle, the international coverage tends to be "administration-led, focusing on U.S. policy and U.S. interests."
By contrast, says Gourevitch, the typical New Yorker dispatch is a "long, detailed, exhaustively descriptive piece" told from the point of view of the natives, which in its very complexity makes events seem clearer. Reporters often parachute in after the crisis, as when Gourevitch visited Rwanda in 1995, the year after some 800,000 Tutsi and Tutsi sympathizers were murdered. Writers typically interview a socioeconomic range of sources and occasionally shine a light on American involvement, as when a U.S. "military-intelligence officer" mocked the UN Genocide Convention and the murder of a million Rwandans, telling Gourevitch, "Who gives a shit?"
Anderson says his approach involves "trying to understand how these political cultures work and presenting them as faithfully as I can to an American public." For example, last year, Anderson proposed a story on Angola. "Here was this major humanitarian disaster in one of Africa's most naturally rich countries," he says, "and yet it was escaping the radar of most of our media. I thought it merited a new look, and David [Remnick] agreed."
What the writer found was a capital city that smelled like shit and millions of people starving to death as a result of civil war. But instead of pushing for peace, the U.S. embassy was quietly backing a president who recently granted U.S. oil companies the predominant share in the Angolan oil market.
Says Anderson, "It's important for us Americans to understand how the rest of the world sees us. We have a tremendous impact, and yet we are a big cultural island, and we tend to replicate our cultural surroundings wherever we go. We think the rest of the world wants to be just like us, but we don't know where our shadow falls. I don't think we're so much guilty of ill will as of innocence, and to some extent our reporting reflects that."
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The global environmental agenda and the global development agenda were interlinked, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Thursday while stressing that resource efficiency was a necessary condition for sustainable development.
A global growth model, which is inclusive and sustainable, would assist developing countries pursue their objectives, Dr. Singh said at the inauguration of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit (DSDS) in New Delhi.
"Resource-efficiency is a necessary condition for sustainable development, and a key element of the economic pillar of sustainability. The global environmental agenda and the global development agenda are now inter-linked," he said.
"India is committed to meeting its domestic mitigation goal of reducing the emissions intensity of GDP by 20-25 per cent by 2020."
"What is required are regulatory regimes that are transparent, accountable and subject to oversight and monitoring. I would like to mention that protection of the environment and promoting development need not amount to a zero sum game," he said.
"We in India are fully conscious of the need to conserve our resources through their utilization in a sustainable manner," he added.
"We need to re-engineer our economies in ways that are both frugal and innovative in their use of resources," Dr. Singh said.
The 13th edition of the DSDS focuses on the theme The Global Challenge of Resource-Efficient Growth and Development. It provides an efficient platform for thought leaders and policymakers to discuss effective policy mechanisms to reduce energy and resource footprint, a statement from the organisers The Energy Research Institute (TERI) said.
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Stride length: Running speed is determined by stride length times stride frequency. Every runner has an optimal stride length for each running speed, based on a complex combination of leg length and muscular characteristics. If you overstride or run with a shorter than optimal stride length you will use more oxygen. Fortunately, the vast majority of runners inherently select the optimal stride length for each running speed. It is not known exactly how we do it, but presumably running with the most economical stride length leads to less perceived exertion, and we naturally seek to run as comfortably as possible. Over time, it is possible to increase your optimal stride length at a given pace, which may lead to further improvements in economy.
Other aspects of running technique: A common misconception is that coaches can look at a runner and tell whether she is efficient or economical. Most of the differences in running economy, however, occur inside the muscles and are not obvious to even the most experienced coach. Actively correcting seemingly sloppy technique—such as arms crossing the body—has not been found to improve running economy, likely because the apparently sloppy technique is actually compensating for other variables. Over the course of months and years however, subtle changes in running technique do seem to lead to subtle improvements in running economy as your running "skill" improves. This may be due to improved ability to recruit the most efficient muscles' fibers for the task at hand. With increased experience, you may also improve your ability to relax opposing muscles and reduce the use of stabilizing muscles, reducing your consumption of oxygen.
Flexibility: Interestingly, runners who are more economical tend to be relatively inflexible. Reduced flexibility may increase the ability of the muscles to store and return energy, or increase leg stability (so stabilizing muscles are used less). Before you quit stretching, however, keep in mind that the relationship between flexibility and running economy has only been shown between runners, and does not prove that a given individual will improve her running economy by becoming less flexible.
Fatigue level: As you get tired, you use more oxygen to run at a given pace. This may be due to reduced energy return and increased use of additional muscles' fibers as the muscles fatigue, among other factors. One of the major benefits of tapering training before a race is an improvement in running economy.
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I see people posting that they have dual phaser Mark IV and some such...wha'ts the best way to get these?
Crafting? Loot drops? Provisioning them from Starbases? i feel like my ship is really weak, so what should I be concentrating on to get better gear?
You can't really put mk IV on a miranda unless you're lt commander. You're stuck with good ol' mk II gear until you rank up. You can always get bonuses from Memory alpha though.
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An independence vote in eastern Ukraine will go ahead this weekend as planned, rebels there said on Thursday, despite Russian President Vladimir Putin calling on them to postpone it.
"The referendum will happen on May 11," the leader of the rebel's self-styled Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, told reporters. A spokeswoman for insurgents in the flashpoint town of Slavyansk simultaneously confirmed to AFP that the vote would happen Sunday.
The affirmations came a day after Putin urged the pro-Russian separatists to put off the vote to give space for dialogue to end the crisis in Ukraine.
After initially being caught off guard by Putin's appeal, the rebels consulted and on Thursday rejected the Russian leader's proposition. "The date of the referendum will not be postponed," Pushilin said, adding that the council running his republic had voted to go ahead with the regional poll.
An identical referendum has also been called for the neighbouring eastern region around the city of Lugansk. There was no immediate word on whether Lugansk's rebels were maintaining their referendum.
Earlier on Thursday, Ukrainian officials rejected Putin's call for them to halt a military operation against the rebels, who have seized more than a dozen towns.
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MANILA, Philippines—Residential property developer SM Development Corp. increased its net profit last year by 17.5 percent to P4.9 billion as real estate revenues expanded at a double-digit pace, the company announced Wednesday.
Net income from real estate sales amounted to P4.7 billion, up by 16.4 percent from a year ago. Net margin stood at 22.7 percent.
Revenues from real estate sales rose by 33.3 percent year-on-year to P21.6 billion. Cash flow based on earnings, interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounted to P5.6 billion, for an EBITDA margin of 26 percent.
Return on equity inched up to 13 percent from 12 percent in 2011.
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The legal status of corporations as fictive persons is well-lampooned in the bumper sticker that reads, "I'll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one." As entities with legal status as persons, corporations do not bleed or feel pain except metaphorically, for example, when they hemorrhage cash, perform anemically, or suffer from an economic downturn or shortage of labor. Nevertheless, as fictive persons recognized by law, corporations are building blocks of commerce, government, and religion in the United States, and they have operated as organizing mechanisms in Western society since ancient Roman times. Of course, shielded by legal protection, corporations have done great harm—think of the Royal Africa Company and its role in stimulating the rapid growth of slavery in the Atlantic world in the eighteenth century. Accordingly, in the United States, constitutional amendments and labor and civil rights legislation have been enacted to constrain or outlaw numerous forms of corporate activity deemed unsafe or unfair.
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Why corporations have religious freedomposted by Amanda Porterfield
Faith as an Optionposted by Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins
Hans Joas's Faith as an Option is primarily concerned with debunking two myths: first, the idea that modernization—advances in technology and the sciences—renders religious belief obsolete; second, the argument that secularization leads to moral decay. Joas, a leading European social theorist, is more than aware that criticisms of these claims are hardly new—contemporary scholars no longer prove keen to establish a law or rule connecting modernization and secularization, and there seems to be little or no correlation between societies with higher rates of atheism and moral decline. Instead, Joas's study mainly aims to provide a series of illuminating explanations for why these views captured the imaginations of so many for so long.
Law's fragile stateposted by Claire Ma
Mark Fathi Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, examines the trials and tribulations of law in Sudan in his new book, Law's Fragile State: Colonial, Authoritarian, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan. In an interview with Jadaliyya, Massoud speaks about his motivation to uncover the essence of how law—and lawlessness—operate in the context of fragile states. Massoud also elaborates on his topic in a blog post at the Critical Investigations into Humanitarianism in Africa Blog.
Treating religions (un)equallyposted by Claire Ma
Earlier this summer, The Immanent Frame published an off the cuff exchange about the State Department's new initiative to engage religious communities in US diplomacy. Conversation and critiques are still going strong; Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, an original contributor to "Engaging religion at the Department of State," has penned a commentary for Al Jazeera America in which she critiques US faith-based engagement abroad as a violation of the separation of church and state.
The civil religion of "I have a dream"posted by Claire Ma
This Wednesday will mark the fiftieth anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s landmark "I have a dream" speech and the 1963 March on Washington. In commemoration of the great moment in American civil rights history, scholars and commentators have dedicated much of this past month to recognizing Dr. King's legacy. At Religion News Service, Yonat Shimron and Adelle M. Banks offer insights from academics of religion and discuss the speech's continued relevance.
President Carter calls upon the Catholic Church to ordain women as priestsposted by Dolores Morgan Trujillo
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter calls upon the Catholic Church to ordain women as priests as part of an interview discussing religion, faith, and women's rights with Time Magazine reporter Elizabeth Dias in order to promote The Carter Center's upcoming Mobilizing Faith for Women conference
Reading religious freedom in Sri Lankaposted by Benjamin Schonthal
As several contributors to this forum have pointed out, legal provisions regarding religious freedom do not emerge from history fully formed and self-interpreting. At their core, they are iterations of words and texts, (re)produced and (re)authorized by different persons or groups for different purposes. What they mean depends on local facts.
This contribution expands upon this observation by offering a different story about drafting religious rights in a particular place and time. I will show the ways in which religious rights, as rhetoric, serve not as apolitical instruments, but as indicia of political alliances; not as generic, universalizable norms, but as specific formulations of norms suited to particular moments and in service of particular political programs. In this version of the story, religious rights, rather than conclude conflict and harmonize societies, signpost disagreement.
Human rights and the Arab Springposted by Candice Scharf
The New York Review of Books' blog recently posted a debate between women's rights groups and Human Rights Watch entitled, Women and Islam: A Debate With Human Rights Watch.
New UNICEF guide on partnering with religious groupsposted by Wei Zhu
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) recently released a new guide, Partnering with Religious Communities for Children, intended to support UNICEF staff and other child rights organizations build effective partnerships with religious communities, in particular religious leaders, networks, and local faith communities.
Believing in religious freedomposted by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Like a good movie, the story of international religious freedom offers something for everyone. It pits cowardly oppressors against heroic saviors. It is a story of the triumph of international law over those who fail to adhere to global norms and standards. It is a story of secular tolerance versus violent religion. And today especially, it is a story of the need for the U.S. government and its friends to "convince" others—particularly Muslims—that they should endorse a particular model of religious liberty as a template for organizing and democratizing their politics and societies.
Women's Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consentposted by Taline Cox
Lila Abu-Lughod and Anumpama Rao—editors of Women's Rights, Muslim Family Law, and the Politics of Consent, a special issue of SocialDifference-Online—sat down for a conversation with the editors of Jadaliyya.
Debate on the state of U.S. religious freedomposted by Grace Yukich
In its Room for Debate forum, The New York Times recently published a debate on the state of religious freedom in the United States.
Call for writers for culture and women's rights blogposted by Annie Hardison-Moody
The global feminist blog Gender Across Borders, in partnership with Violence is Not Our Culture: the Global Campaign to End Violence Against Women in the Name of 'Culture,' is seeking writers for an upcoming series on gender-based violence, culture, and women's rights. The series will run on October 27th and 28th, and will feature personal narratives, profiles, book reviews, journalistic articles, analytical pieces, critical essays, and editorials.
Religious liberty, minorities, and Islam: An interview with Saba Mahmoodposted by Nathan Schneider
Saba Mahmood is an anthropologist who teaches at the University of California, Berkeley, and whose work raises challenging questions about the relationship between religion and secularism, ethics and politics, agency and freedom. Her book Politics of Piety, a study of a grassroots women's piety movement in Cairo, questions the analytical and political claims of feminism as well as the secular liberal assumptions on the basis of which such movements are often judged. In the volume Is Critique Secular? she joins Talal Asad, Judith Butler, and Wendy Brown in rethinking the Danish cartoon controversy as a conflict between blasphemy and free speech, between secular and religious world views. Now, Mahmood is working on a comparative project about the right to religious liberty and minority-majority relations in the Middle East. We spoke over breakfast in New York City.
Religious and secular foundations of human rightsposted by Grace Yukich
A post at the New York Times philosophy blog "The Stone" reflects on the differences between religious and secular underpinnings of human rights. The author, Anat Biletzki, critiques the argument that human rights are impossible without religion, or, particularly, belief in God. Instead, she asserts that the secular basis for human rights is in fact more faithful to humanity than religious justifications, which she defines as rooted in the authority of a superhuman creator (i.e., God) rather than in the value of the human.
Book review: Bridging the maximalist-minimalist divideposted by Annie Hardison-Moody
Must human rights be grounded in a religious or metaphysical worldview in order for them to be understood and implemented globally? Or should they be developed based on broad consensus, divorced from religious grounds? These are the questions that open Grace Kao's new book Grounding Human Rights in a Pluralist World. Kao situates herself between these two positions, developing a rationale for human rights that is based on her retrieval of particular elements of the most prominent methods for justifying human rights approaches.
Carter Center Forum on Religion, Belief and Women's Rightsposted by Annie Hardison-Moody
April 3rd marks the first day of the 2011 Carter Center Human Rights Defenders Forum. The theme for this year's forum is Religion, Belief, and Women's Rights. The formal conference on April 5-6 will be webcast live on the Carter Center's website, and select portions of the conference will be live tweeted by Carter Center staff. Follow the Carter Center's twitter feed @CarterCenter and join in the discussion at #Women'sRights11.
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From the opening statement of the editorial collective of Humanity: An International Journal of Human Rights, Humanitarianism, and Development:, published by University of Pennsylvania Press, and edited by Samuel Moyn and Nicolas Guilhot.
What Esther did for her peopleposted by Annie Hardison-Moody
Early 2011 will mark the first US television broadcast of the critically acclaimed documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. Released in 2008, Pray the Devil back to Hell awakened a global audience to the work of the women of Liberia in bringing about peace in their country after a fourteen-year civil war. The film chronicles Christian and Muslim women's combined efforts to peacefully protest the war, demonstrating that women are active participants in peacebuilding work and that religious traditions and beliefs can be a vital resource for peace and reconciliation.
The stories we tellposted by Annie Hardison-Moody
In a recent Newsweek article, "Saint Sarah," Lisa Miller chronicles Sarah Palin's iconic status among evangelical Christian women in the United States, noting that Palin blends talk of politics and faith in a way that resonates among her "mama grizzly" followers. . . . What I find fascinating in the "Saint Sarah" piece, and what I will explore over the summer in this blog, is the ways that the stories we tell—about self, nation, human rights, and other things we hold dear—often reveal a complicated intermingling of the things once characterized as distinctly separate: church and state, religion and politics, spirituality and human rights.
Religions and rights: An interview with Richard Amesburyposted by Nathan Schneider
Though currently on sabbatical at the University of Zürich, Richard Amesbury teaches religious and philosophical ethics at the Claremont School of Theology, where he is is involved in establishing a new School of Ethics, Politics, and Society. He is the author of Morality and Social Criticism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) and Faith and Human Rights (Fortress, 2008), as well as numerous articles. His interests reach across many themes and fields in which the concept of "religion" is constructed and mobilized, from human rights law to civil religion to the New Atheism.
Chinese Christiansposted by Jessica Polebaum
At the Guardian, Mervyn Thomas contextualizes the recent Chinese government crackdowns on Christian worship.
Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Na'im in conversationposted by The Editors
Talal Asad and Abdullahi An-Na'im both stand at the forefront of the challenging and constructive exchange taking place today between European and Islamic traditions of political, legal, and religious thought. At a recent event organized by Georgetown University's Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, the two scholars traded questions and criticisms concerning the concept of human rights. Moderated by José Casanova, the discussion addressed the intrinsic limitations and historical failures of the language of human rights, as well as its formidable capacity to challenge autocratic and state-centric distributions of power, creating openings for democratic contestation and political self-determination. The following is a short excerpt of the conversation, which is available for download in its entirety here (pdf). You can see video from the event at here & there.
John Milbank and the theology of human rightsposted by Charles Gelman
John Milbank, in his recent essay "Against Human Rights" (PDF), contends that Christian thought demands a notion and practice of justice as objective "right order," and resolutely does not provide the theological basis for a doctrine of human rights qua the subjectively grounded rights of the claimant, as Nicholas Wolterstorff argues in Justice: Rights and Wrongs (Princeton UP, 2009). A political order grounded solely in subjective rights is, for Milbank, anathema to Christian justice.
Wolterstorff's Bible-as-"frame"posted by Ward Blanton
In short, I agree with Wolterstorff that, while there is no theory in this extremely diverse array of biblical texts, readers may "nonetheless sense a certain rhetorical unity pervading the great bulk of these writings." We just disagree about what this narrative unity is. What if we said that the "red thread" (so to speak) which unites these tales is not a "frame" guaranteeing rights but rather the clear and repeated indication that humanity is faced with traumatic contingency, surprise, and uncertainty, and that they are at times (for this very reason) subjects of remarkable, even Promethean moments of invention?
We are all Christians nowposted by Jonathan Sheehan
At first glance, Justice is an internecine wrangle between theists (or better put, Christians). On the one side is Alasdair MacIntyre and his crowd, with their passively pious, neo-Aristotelian foundationalism. "We are waiting not for a Godot but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict," MacIntyre concludes in his After Virtue, and I assume he is waiting still, whoever happens now to be sitting in the chair of St. Peter. On the other side, those like Wolterstorff who hope that Christianity might still have something to say in contemporary conversations about politics, justice, and human rights. Kozinski and Smith take up this wrangle in various ways. But it is a wrangle that I, standing over here, view with some detachment. What do I care whether Christianity can reconcile itself with a theory of inherent rights?
Look elsewhere for agonistic social ontology: A response to Smithposted by Nicholas Wolterstorff
If it is indeed the case that "the social ontology of rights talk generally assumes that, at bottom, the kind of relation between social entities is conflictual or competitive," then I dissociate myself from that generality. No guilt by association here; I don't hang out with Hobbes. The agonistic social ontology that James K.A. Smith attributes to me is not mine. To affirm natural inherent rights is not to presuppose such an ontology, nor does my account of such rights presuppose such an ontology. Nothing Smith says shows anything to the contrary.
Must secular rights fail?posted by Thaddeus J. Kozinski
It does certainly seem, as Simone Chambers points out in "Do good philosophers make good citizens?", that Dr. Wolterstorff ultimately asserts, rather than adequately demonstrates, that only theistic belief can guarantee human rights in perpetuity for all humans. Why? I think it is because he knows that there is ultimately no philosophical demonstration possible for such a conclusion. […]
"Bob and weave": A response to Wolterstorffposted by James K.A. Smith
Nicholas Wolterstorff's calm, careful, humble response to my posts might make me look like an overly pugilistic polemicist. But I think he's just from a different school of pugilism. (As a Canadian and long-time hockey player, I think pugilism is a great way to spend a Friday night, with beers afterward.) Wolterstorff is a careful student of the "bob and weave" school of philosophical polemics, turning ill-advised haymakers into merely glancing blows. I, on the other hand, tend to be a student of the George Foreman school of philosophical polemics (and frequent user of his grills to boot!): I'm easily sucked in by rope-a-dopes. Why stop now?
Secular accounts: A response to Chambersposted by Nicholas Wolterstorff
I want to re-emphasize the structure of my discussion about secular accounts of human rights. The project of trying to ground human rights is the project of trying to find what it is about human beings that gives each and every one a dignity sufficient for their possessing human rights.
Whig Calvinism?posted by James K.A. Smith
I'll close my contribution to this symposium with some broad brush strokes by suggesting that Wolterstorff's project can be seen as a powerful, persuasive version of a Whig Calvinism, which, instead of ending up with a neoconservativism, ends up with a theistic liberalism.
Do good philosophers make good citizens?posted by Simone Chambers
Perhaps one might argue that Justice: Rights and Wrongs is not simply a contribution to a conversation among philosophers. It is also a contribution to a public dialogue about human rights and thus a conversation among citizens. Here one might argue that because human rights are the sorts of things that are instituted and enforced by governments, we need to approach the conversation from the point of view of what we could agree upon, and not from the point of view of establishing what we think is the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Whose injustice? Which rights?posted by James K.A. Smith
Wolterstorff (not unlike Jeff Stout) sometimes assumes that commitment to liberal democracy is the only way to care about justice; so a critique or rejection of the paradigms of liberal democracy or rights-talk is seen as a lack of concern for justice per se. Thus when he sketches the influential narrative of MacIntyre and Hauerwas, he narrates it as "a hostility to justice and rights"—taking it to be the case that an opposition to rights talk is equivalent to an opposition to justice per se. That seems clearly false to me (to adopt a Wolterstorffian locution!) unless one sets up the matter in a way that simply begs the question.
First thingsposted by Chris Nealon
Everywhere in Justice Wolterstorff's interest in theological and philosophical history collides with his desire for syllogism, or for causal necessity, or for foundational or axiomatic truth. He is always rushing headlong toward the moment when, blessedly, "it proves impossible not to continue" toward the terminus of thought—indeed, for the moment when we can lay down thinking altogether—even if, lost in the rush, the relief of having arrived at a foundation obscures from the mind its having reached a parallel conclusion, like the sanction of state violence.
The paucity of secularism?posted by James K.A. Smith
It seems to me that what worries Wolterstorff about "right order" theories of justice (i.e., communitarian accounts) is that they leave justice at the whim of a particular story, a particular community, and thus leave the wronged without recourse, without a basis for appeal. If rights are going to "work"—that is, if they are going to provide an extra-story and supra-community criterion for naming wrongs—then the worth of the human person needs to be grounded in some feature or property that is not conditioned by a particular story and which is a feature of all human beings.
A Christian rehabilitation of rights discourseposted by Robert Geroux
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a unique—and uniquely readable—book. It skillfully constructs a case for the continuing force of political discussions of rights, properly understood not only in their "possessive" articulations, but also more broadly as social articulations of "rights against" others in pursuit of life-goods. The point of this rather subtle turn is to take on those who would reduce rights discourse to a kind of flattened and shallow individualism, as well as to argue against modern eudaimonist thinkers who would reject the language of rights altogether. […]
Not a foundation but a raftposted by Justin Neuman
Why should we conclude that God's love for human beings takes the form of attachment love as opposed, for instance, to the agape love dominant in the Christian tradition? Why should we conclude that God loves us at all? And if God and God's love exist, why should we conclude that God loves every human being equally?
Justice and rights-talk in liberal democraciesposted by Kevin den Dulk
Nicholas Wolterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is a profoundly ambitious book. His normative aspiration is nothing less than "speaking up for the wronged of the world" by reorienting contemporary thinking on rights and justice. … But what about the practice of liberal democracy? What would it mean to govern so that members of a society can "enjoy the goods to which they have a right"? Justice is not a book of practical application, but it is clearly on Wolterstorff's mind.
Nicholas Wolterstorff's fear of the secularposted by Jonathon Kahn
The truly dynamic discussion in America today about religion and politics is not between "wall of separation" secularists and Christian political theologians attempting to turn American into a theocracy. Instead, the promising but fledgling discussion is between religious and non-religious democrats who are acutely aware of the two horns of this essential American dilemma. First, one has a right to express one's convictions in whatever terms one holds them, including religious terms; second, one cannot assume that one's fellow citizens' convictions are shaped by the same terms.
Rehabilitating religious rights talkposted by John Schmalzbauer
In December, we celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948, it has served as a charter for the modern human rights movement. Many scholars are unaware of the religious underpinnings of the Declaration. […]
Justice and theismposted by David Johnston
The central claim of Nicholas Wolsterstorff's Justice: Rights and Wrongs is that justice is based on natural human rights that inhere in the worth of human beings, a worth that is bestowed on each and every human being through God's love. He contrasts this view of "justice as inherent rights" with an alternative notion of "justice as right order," the view that was espoused by pagan philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle and dominated philosophical thinking until relatively recent times. […]
An internationalist presidentposted by John L. Esposito
In the Muslim world, as in Europe and much of the world, Obama is welcomed as an internationalist president.
Human rights in the era of the AKPposted by Howard Eissenstat
For human rights advocates in Turkey, all political alliances are necessarily alliances of convenience. The reasons for this are myriad, ranging from the particular militancy of Turkish nationalism, to the bitterness of Turkey's struggle with Kurdish separatism, to the remarkable trust that Turkish culture continues to bestow on Devlet Baba, the "Father State." Under the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), which is frequently framed as an Islamist Party and just as frequently as a liberal one, supporters of expanded human rights in Turkey have won significant victories and have many, many reasons for concern. […]
Preaching to the convertedposted by Saïd Amir Arjomand
Islam and The Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari`a is avowedly didactic, aiming to persuade Muslims in public debate that constitutional rule of law, human rights and democratic citizenship in a secular state represent the only form of political regime consistent with Islam in the modern world. Despite lengthy and repetitious exposition of the notions of democratic constitutionalism, "civic reason," citizenship and human rights, An-Na`im fails in his explicit purpose of justifying and legitimizing them in Islamic terms, which appear somewhat incidentally and do not carry the primary charge of justification. In this regard, his preaching can only have an effect on those already converted.
"Call it X"posted by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na`im
I am grateful for the kind and thoughtful comments posted at The Immanent Frame about Islam and the Secular State. It is fascinating and instructive to see a text grow to have a life of its own, with some readers adding clarification and more effective communication of what one is attempting to say. Even misunderstanding is helpful in alerting an author to the risks of miscommunication, instead of assuming that people do understand what we say as we mean it. Indeed, it is the combination of the author's purpose and the reader's comprehension that determines what is actually communicated. It is that complex outcome unfolding over time, and not an author's unilateral theorizing, that can make "a good theory," for according to Kurt Lewin's helpful insight, "there is nothing so practical as a good theory." In this light, I offer the following reflections in the spirit of contributing to a process of collaborative theory-making. […]
Does tolerance require struggle?posted by Jenny White
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's erudite and thought-provoking book Islam and The Secular State provides a clear-sighted argument made from within the Islamic tradition for a state formation that allows Islamic beliefs and culture to enter the public domain through politics (as one of many rationally contested visions) and thereby influence the laws of the land. The keys to An-Na'im's vision are Islamic morality and civic reason, both of which, in his interpretation, ensure a shared respect for constitutionalism, citizenship and human rights, and a neutral, secular state that provides an even playing field for public debate and makes sure that non-democratic instincts are kept in check. An-Na'im's utopian vision stumbles here, however, in failing to provide any mechanisms for achieving its desired outcomes beyond good will, morality, and reason. […]
Arguing with An-Na`imposted by Daniel Philpott
What is interesting about An-Na`im's arguments is that they ground the case for the secular state not in the Quran, not in claims about the presence of the imago Dei in the person or in some other source of the person's intrinsic dignity, not in natural law, some closely similar type of practical reason, or universal moral precepts, but rather in what might be called "second order" observations about the phenomenology of belief, the character of government, the lessons of history, and the like. To be sure, good reasons for the secular state lie therein. But are these arguments sufficient to ground an Islamic case for constitutionalism, human rights, and the secular state? I doubt it.
Islamic politics and human rightsposted by David Ludden
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im's expressed goal in Islam and the Secular State: Negotiating the Future of Shari'a is to convince Muslims on religious grounds that, in order for Islam to flourish, they need to establish secular states based on the protection of human rights. I would say in response that convincing Muslims of this would inflect Islamic politics progressively in a world where most of the forces that shape Islamic politics are not indigenously Islamic. […]


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