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For the last couple of years WWE's WrestleMania pay-per-view event has had many of the more prominent spots on the card dominated by wrestlers who only perform part-time. While there's little doubt that Triple H, The Rock, The Undertaker, Chris Jericho and others remain popular with fans the amount of time devoted to them on the biggest card of the year may be detrimental to WWE in the long term.
As well, another large part of the problem is how the part-timers are being used. For the most part the majority of their matches have involved them facing either each other or other already established main event stars such as John Cena or CM Punk.
The only exception to that has been Chris Jericho who last year at WrestleMania 29 put over Fandango. Fandango's win over Jericho at WrestleMania 29 helped to establish him as someone that WWE audiences should watch and since that time while the storylines he's been involved in haven't been the best, WWE audiences still react when he comes to the ring.
In many ways the Jericho/Fandango match is an example of how WWE should be using all of the other part-timers at WrestleMania, particularly when you factor in the fact that in the last year or two, a huge amount of that younger talent has begun to connect to the audience in a big way. What they need now is that rub at WrestleMania to firmly state that they should be considered being at the same stature as previous generations of WWE talent. That can only happen if they're put in matches with the part-timers or other main event talent and if some of them win those contests.
World Wrestling Entertainment is in a very unique place that they haven't been since John Cena, Randy Orton, and Batista were getting their start in the WWE almost 10 years ago. For the first time since that time, WWE has a huge amount of younger talent that you can picture being part of the main event picture now or in the very near future.
Perhaps the most prominent of these is all three members of The Shield. While many point to Roman Reigns, because of his size and charisma, as being the obvious one to become WWE World Champion in the future -- but you can also picture the same happening with Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose. Each member is able to garner a reaction from the live audience, are strong on the mike, and are definitely great performers in the ring.
Alas, for WrestleMania XXX this year The Shield will be facing Kane and The New Age Outlaws in a six man tag-team match. While this means The Shield will be featured in their own match one-on-one matches for each member likely would have been a better choice and is a clear indication of how the minutes of the PPV are going to be broken down.
An argument can also be made that The Wyatt Family is similarly poised for a similar breakthrough, but from a character point-of-view, it's really only been Bray Wyatt that has been firmly established with the fans. The promos that Bray Wyatt has been doing are something that fans haven't seen since the early Mankind ones when Mick Foley first started with the WWE. However, in the case of Wyatt he has set for WrestleMania XXX a program with John Cena which is one of the best decisions WWE has made. While it is highly likely that Cena will get the win at WrestleMania XXX, just the fact that Bray Wyatt is facing him is significant and the match itself should be given a fair amount of time.
The WWE tag team match with the Usos defending against the Real Americans (Cesaro & Jack Swagger), Ryback and Curtis Axel, and Los Matadores should be a good match, but complicated with so many participants.
Unfortunately, that's where the good news may have ended for the rest of the younger talent such as Big E, Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow, Dolph Ziggler, Titus O'Neil, Sheamus, and others with the only spot on the card being offered to them being the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal. Anyone who has seen a battle royal is fairly aware that because all the talent starts the match off together in the ring, typically it is only when the competition is winnowed down to the last four or five performers that they get a chance to shine and that is usually only for a couple of minutes.
Ultimately, the use of the part-time wrestlers from the WWE Attitude Era such at Triple H, The Undertaker, The Rock, and others needs to change because it is becoming increasingly obvious that they will only be wrestling for a little while longer. If that's the case that time should be spent helping to establish the next generation of stars. Otherwise the amount of time devoted to them should be decreased and more time should be given to the younger talent so they can have their WrestleMania moment.
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HDR workflow with hugin
This tutorial doesn't cover reasons why you might want to stitch in HDR format. It is a simple HOWTO listing the tools available and how to use them with hugin.
Working with HDR images is fairly extreme behaviour. If you just want higher quality output than you get with typical 8bit photography, then you probably want to look at a 16bit workflow with hugin.
Still here? There are two basic ways of creating an HDR panorama:
- Stitch several panoramas of the same scene, each one at a different exposure, and merge them together into a single HDR file.
- Create a set of HDR shots of the scene and then stitch them together.
Each has advantages and disadvantages: The first technique is simpler and has the advantage that the final HDR step can be skipped and substituted with a Contrast Blending approach, but has the potential for misalignments causing ghosting problems. The second technique is presented here since it involves a greater range of techniques.
- 1 Preparing the HDR images
- 2 Stitching with hugin
- 3 Post processing
Preparing the HDR images
Unless you have an expensive HDR camera, you will be merging bracketed shots to create the HDR images - Unfortunately this means that you are limited to static scenes and landscapes.
Taking bracketed shots
The number of shots required depends on the dynamic range of the scene you need to capture and the capabilities of your camera.
Many cameras have an auto-bracketing mode that takes three or five shots two stops apart with one press of the button. This may be adequate, though a typical outdoor scene might have a dynamic range of eighteen stops which would require eight shots two stops apart.
Whatever method you choose, it should be obvious that you need a good tripod to keep the camera steady.
Merging bracketed shots with pfscalibration
There are other tools for merging bracketed images, but pfscalibration is Free Software and does the job.
Calibrating the camera response curve
Generally when a digital camera creates a JPEG or TIFF file, it takes a 12bit per-channel dynamic range image captured by the CCD and compresses it using a camera response curve into a 8bit output file.
So JPEG and TIFF files need unrolling with a calibrated camera response curve so they can be mapped into the linear space of the floating-point HDR image.
If you are working with RAW images, the camera response is generally linear and doesn't need calibrating, so you can skip this step.
A quick way to derive the response curve for later use is to take a series of five bracketed JPEG shots one stop apart. eg. 2, 1, 0.5, 0.25 & 0.125 seconds exposure. First extract the exposure times from the EXIF data:
jpeg2hdrgen *.jpg > mycamera.hdrgen
Then extract the response curve, by comparing the photos, and save it:
pfsinhdrgen mycamera.hdrgen | pfshdrcalibrate -v -s mycamera.response
By default this mycamera.response file contains a weighting table that effectively throws away the brightest and darkest pixels. So open the file in a text editor, find the weighting table at the end, and change the zeroed values (0.000000000) to a positive number (0.001000000).
Aligning the shots
Even with a tripod, unless you have a programmable camera, remote control or very steady hands; it is unlikely that your series of bracketed pictures align perfectly, so:
- Start up a new hugin project for each series and load the images.
- Create a few hundred control-points between each pair of consecutive photos with the g key in the control point tab.
- Fine tune all points and delete any with a correlation less than 90% (ie. enter -0.9 in select by distance and delete).
- Optimise positions and delete any control points with an error greater than 0.2 pixels, reoptimise.
- Adjust the field-of view in the stitching tab to something slightly smaller than the input size so there are no transparent edges.
- Stitch to multiple TIFF format.
- Rename the output TIFF files to match the input images.
These TIFF files need to have the alpha channel stripped away, you can do this be converting to and from PPM format with ImageMagick:
convert DSCN4804.tif DSCN4804.ppm convert DSCN4804.ppm DSCN4804.tif rm DSCN4804.ppm
Merging the bracketed images to OpenEXR HDR format
Create a hdrgen file listing each of your bracketed photos and their exposure times, you can base this on the mycamera.hdrgen file created earlier.
Then use this and your camera response file to create an EXR file:
pfsinhdrgen mypicture.hdrgen | pfshdrcalibrate -v -f mycamera.response | pfsoutexr mypicture.exr
Check the output with pfsview:
pfsinexr mypicture.exr | pfsview
Converting to floating-point TIFF format
hugin doesn't yet read EXR files, so you need to convert to TIFF.
pfstools should be able to create HDR 32bit floating-point TIFF files directly, but for some reason, this doesn't work for me. So open each EXR file in cinepaint and save as TIFF.
Correcting chromatic aberration
Now is a good time to correct chromatic aberration and vignetting with fulla using pre-calibrated data for your lens.
Stitching with hugin
The TIFF images can be loaded into hugin as per usual with a couple of caveats:
- Everything will appear very dark since our images represent linear sensor data.
- Information about the field of view was lost, so this will need to be re-entered manually or re-optimised with PTOptimizer.
Stitch the images as per usual into a TIFF file, you can use enblend as the final step.
Post processing
This TIFF file is in floating-point 32bit per channel IEEE format. This is impossible to display in its entirety at once, so you possibly want to create final 8bit per channel human-readable images.
Otherwise, typically a HDR panoramic image is used as a lightprobe for 3d rendering, in which case you are now done.
Adjusting in a GUI tool
There are various image editors that can open this file such as cinepaint, krita, vips and HDRIE. The capabilities vary so you need to experiment.
Alternatively, use pfstools to manipulate the image: pfstools has the facility to read HDR TIFF files, unfortunately it chokes on the alpha channel created by nona and enblend - Use cinepaint to open the TIFF file and save as EXR.
This can be viewed with the pfsview GUI tool:
pfsinexr stitch.exr | pfsview
A quick way to create a usable 8bit per channel image is to select a gamma of 2.2, fit to dynamic range, zoom 1:1 and save as PNG.
Tone mapping
tone mapping aperations use HDR compression to compress high [[dynamic range]] images.
A related package to pfstools called pfstmo can do automatic tone mapping of an HDR image and compress it into a low dynamic range output. There are many options and techniques available, commands look like this:
pfsinppm stitch.exr | pfstmo_drago03 | pfsgamma -g 2.2 | pfsout stitch.png


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- Fashion designer Stella McCartney - Dad is Paul McCartney and some of the family roots have already been published. Strong Irish background - it would be interesting to see the places where the elder McCartney and Mohin families lived. And her mother, Linda Eastman's family name was Epstein. Linda's father changed the name. That side of the family would be interesting as well.
- Whoopi Goldberg - just because.
- Russell Crowe - I know nothing about his Australian heritage, and he's an interesting enough character on his own that he surely must have some fascinating ancestors.
- Either Dan Brown or Patricia Cornwell, best selling authors. Everyone else probably wants to see J. K. Rowling, so I'd opt for a different popular author.
- Tom Hanks - because I read once that he is related to Abraham Lincoln's mother, Nancy Hanks.
- Brad Pitt - just so my friend, Jan, could meet her celebrity Hillhouse cousin.
- Brian Wilson, founder of the Beach Boys, who is my 10th cousin, once removed, through our common Mayflower ancestor, Francis Cooke. I'd like to see how a professional genealogist documents the lineage back to the Mayflower passengers.
- Jane Fonda, because of her family's Nebraska roots. Her father, Henry Fonda, was born and raised in Nebraska and made his acting debut at the Omaha Community Playhouse. I'd like to learn more about the older generations of that family.
Friday, August 5, 2011
Open Discussion Weekend: YOUR Ideal Season of Who Do You Think You Are?
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Johnny Depp! He was born in KY, his parents were born in KY, his 4 grandparents were born in KY, his eight great grandparents were born in KY and 15 of his 16 great grandparents were born in KY. I'd really like to know more about his Kentucky ancestry. And, of course, he's an excellent actor and totally nice to look at!ReplyDelete
Of course, Johnny Depp! How could I forget about him!ReplyDelete
George Clooney! Eddie Izzard! Cate Blanchett!ReplyDelete
Good choices, Sassy Jane! I see a big season shaping up!ReplyDelete
Was going to wait until morning, but you have the wheels turning! Since I'm from Maryland, would love to learn more about our John Waters. Waters directed Serial Mom and Hairspray. Would be some episode!ReplyDelete
John Waters would be good, too! He's quite the character.ReplyDelete
Don't forget Johnny Depp was in John Water's Cry-Baby. Could be a double episode!ReplyDelete
Betty White...no wait...Dolly PartonReplyDelete
I agree about Betty White, John Waters and a lot of the others. I'd also like to see an episode with Mariel Hemingway (because of who her grandfather was) and Drew Barrymore because of her illustrious pedigree. I also think Carrie Fisher, Linda Ronstadt, Liza Minnelli, Maria Shriver and the actor Oliver Platt (a cousin of Princess Di) would be interesting choices. There are a lot of older stars that I'd love to see on the show too like Margaret O'Brien or Annette Funicello. It would also be nice if they had more authors on...ReplyDelete
Frances and Leah - more good choices! Celebrities with a celebrity lineage. Carrie Fisher does an extremely funny family relationship chart in her HBO special where she talks about her dad, Eddie Fisher, leaving her mother, Debbie Reynolds, for Elizabeth Taylor. She says, "For you younger people, this would be like Debbie is Jennifer Aniston, Eddie is Brad Pitt and Elizabeth is Angelina Jolie."ReplyDelete
Susan, this was so much fun that I had to come up with my own list - http://rootsandrambles.blogspot.com/2011/08/my-ideal-season-of-who-do-you-think-you.htmlReplyDelete
I love your choices! But there are so many good ones I think we have enough options for 3 or 4 more seasons! LOL
Oh, man how did I forget George Clooney off my lists. LOL. If the comments keep pouring in here I'll need to keep adding to my list! :)ReplyDelete
David Schwimmer was once listed as an upcoming celeb on the UK version, but that episode never happened. I'd like to see if he can trace his Schwimmers to Mukacheve, where mine are from.ReplyDelete
I haven't really considered any others that I would want to see. Just want to see some with similar backgrounds.
I hadn't thought about doing someone of similar ancestry, but that's a great idea. Thus, I 'd choose Jackie Evancho (since Andy Warhol is dead, lol). I want to see the pros deal with the whole Slovak, Rusyn, Ukrainian debate. It could come to blows, which could lead to some great cross-marketing. Anyone ready for Extreme Genealogy?ReplyDelete
This is fun! I too am interested in Kentucky genealogy so I agree that Johnny Depp is a fun choice (for all mentioned reasons). My other picks would be:ReplyDelete
Alan Alda-I've adored him since I was a kid watching MASH.
Maya Angelou-she is such a prolific writer
Diana Gabaldon-another writer that I think is really interesting
Kurt Russell-because why not?
Goldie Hawn-I think she has an interesting background
Shirley Mclaine-she's different and two for one since she is Warren Beatty's sister
The list could go on, but those are the ones I could think of off the top of my head!
This isn't as fun a response, but my ideal celebrities would be those who might attract new audiences (especially younger viewers) and possibly introduce them to genealogy.ReplyDelete
Some have been suggested already, but others that come to mind are Nathan Fillion, Hugh Jackman, Zachary Levi, David Boreanaz, Tina Fey, Daniel Craig, Michael C. Hall, Justin Bieber, and Neil Patrick Harris. Essentially, I'd like to see anyone with a currently (or recently) popular show/movie/album (e.g., Craig, Fey, Boreanaz, Bieber) and/or a cult following of fans (e.g., Fillion, Levi).
I'm not personally a fan of all these folks (e.g., Bieber, Harris), but I think WDYTYA represents a unique opportunity to make genealogy more mainstream, which is more important to me.
Johnny Depp's Kentucky roots would be wonderful. I think I'd like New Yorker Lady Gaga too. Clint Eastwood has old New England roots so I'd like to see him on the show. Maybe Janet Jackson for the Jackson family. David Duchovny has diverse roots. How about Puerto Rican ancestry? Maybe Roberto Alomar, recent baseball hall of fame inductee. Wow, this is really fun!ReplyDelete
I would love to see Soledad O'Brien. Her mother is Afro-Cuban and her father is of Irish descent from Australia. Any of her family lines would be interesting. And as a New Orleanian, I would choose Harry Connick, Jr.ReplyDelete
I think that seeing our surviving Presidents' would be interesting. I agree that drawing in more young people is a good idea. I am thinking that maybe Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, or some of the other young performers would interest them. Robert Redford, John Travolta, Madonna, Ellen Degeneres and Oprah would be some of my other choices. I ilke many of the others people have mentioned too.ReplyDelete
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I loved Bill's list - I agree that we need to have at least a few young and hip stars to raise the awareness of profession with a new set of fans. Selfishly, I'd like to see less east coast work. In the interest of them both, how about some Texas celebrities like Jensen Ackles (Supernatural), Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Hilary Duff, Beyonce Knowles (I might skip that one), Matthew McConaughey...the list goes on and on.ReplyDelete
Beyond that, Joshua Jackson (just because) and James Garner - that would be a good way to explore his Cherokee roots, visit a nice mid-America state like Oklahoma, and to hear about his interesting life.
Ooh, I like genealogyaddict's list with Matthew McConaughey. When I think of him I also think of Matt Damon, who does a wonderful McConaughey impersonation, so Damon would be on the list. Morgan Freeman, Vigo Mortensen, Robin Williams (I think he's funny), Ryan Reynolds and through in Scarlett Johannson.ReplyDelete
Oh yeah, Johnny Depp's family is from Metcalfe County, Kentucky where my mother and her family are from.


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Carrie Underwood Gets 'Blown Away' on the Cover of Billboard
Carrie Underwood took the April/May 2012 cover of Vegas magazine, and this week she's staring back at us from the front of Billboard's April 21 issue. Looking striking in black with black lace gloves, Underwood is more intentionally disheveled than we usually see her, with her blonde locks blowing freely as the starlet holds them back. The cover story bears the title 'Carrie Underwood Plays On.'
The cover is perfectly appropriate, since Underwood is preparing to drop her fourth studio album, 'Blown Away' on May 1. The 'Good Girl' singer recently credited her fans for her booming country music career, which obviously just keeps on growing.
"It's been really, really great to have that support from the beginning," she says. "They made me. They put me where I am, literally, through their votes and through their support and through them buying the albums afterwards. And I know there have been so many that have really hung in there and really been there since the beginning."
The live debut of Underwood's latest single 'Good Girl' — from the new album — took place on the stage of the 2012 ACM Awards. In a backstage interview after the awards show, Underwood opened up about the title of her new record, saying, "The title's actually a song that's on the album. It's really cool and dramatic, and I love that we could do something fierce with the cover and just kind of have that, I don't know, that woman, sexy, strong thing going on."
Anyone who sees the Billboard cover will no doubt agree that Underwood has all of the above — and more — going for her.


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Chicken breasts tend to get a bad rap, often considered to be the least flavorful part of the chicken due to its lack of fat. In my kitchen, though, chicken breasts are allowed to shine, especially in a tasty recipe like this one. I take great care to brown the chicken breasts first, then I gently cook them in a tomato sauce that infuses them with flavor and keeps them moist, helping to prevent the chicken from becoming dry or rubbery.
To make the dish a more well-rounded one-pot meal, I add canned chickpeas and kale. For texture, I top it with garlic-and-herb breadcrumbs, which I had quickly toasted in a pan before cooking the chicken.
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When the Dodgers led the Steelers to a SB title…
What's your prediction for today? And where are you watching…anyone reading this from Dallas and planning on being at the game? I'm going with 31-21 Pittsburgh…and for a refresher on the last time the Dodgers led the Steelers to a Superbowl title, check this out. One thing you can learn from this post is proof that in three years, I still haven't figured out how to properly post photos on this blog (follow the link all the way back to here for a "photo" of Beimel, Wade and Polamalu).
Meanwhile, Inside the Dodgers jumped from No. 11 to No. 4 on the MLBlogosphere's Latest Leaders, so hopefully the new content we're adding is of interest to Dodger fans around the world. And congrats to Dodgerfilms for being the top fan blog among Dodger folks. His video compilation of all the homers he's caught in BP and in-game caught our attention last week when it got retweeted like crazy.
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Green Bay 38-35.
Okay…football is officially over. Time to get ready for Dodger Baseball!!!!
Hi ITD
Well I guess I picked the right team.
Now that football is over, it's time to gear up for Dodger Baseball and NASCAR (#11 in 11). This is one of my favorite times of the year in the sports world 🙂
Well, at least it was an exciting game! And now it's time for everyone to think about Dodger baseball, instead of just us diehards.
Thank you very much for the link. I appreciate it.
Congratulations to Dodgerfilms! Great to see another Dodger blog here in the MLB blogs and congratulations to you Josh and everyone posting here at the ITD for jumping from 11 to 4.
Also you did not mentioned it before but for the 2010 MLB blog Pro list, ITD t least beat Inside Giants blog.
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FEMYSO PRESS RELEASE: Only by imposing a moral and economic price on Israel can it be convinced to change its disastrous policies
1st June 2010
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The Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations (FEMYSO) is shocked and dismayed by the killing of civilian activists by Israel and the wounding of dozens of others in the Mediterranean Sea. With this attack, Israel has crossed all boundaries of morality, legality and civilisation.
The flotilla of six boats which was on its way to deliver and distribute humanitarian aid and basic relief goods to the Gaza Strip included many young activists from across Europe who were motivated to join the convoy by a shared sense of humanity with the suffering people of Gaza.
While Israel attempts to point the finger at the activists, it is clearly Israel´s actions which created a desperate need for the international aid convoys to Gaza in the first place. The Gaza Strip has been under a relentless Israeli siege since June 2007, causing widespread misery. A UN fact-finding mission called the blockade "collective punishment", while UN officials have described the situation as "grim", "deteriorating" and a "medieval siege".
Israel has for the past 3 years refused entry for even ordinary household items, at its own whim, including light bulbs, candles, matches, books, crayons, clothing, shoes and mattresses. Even school textbooks and basic stationery have been refused entry or delayed.
This is having a catastrophic effect on the lives of Palestinian children and youth. According to the World Health Organization, a third of children under five are anaemic, while 80% live in poverty. The impact on the education system has been equally devastating.
During the military offensive, at least 280 schools and kindergartens were damaged, and approximately 84% of schools are operating shifts in order to try to accommodate students. The terrible conditions together with the severe trauma caused by Israeli military attacks have caused a continual decline in achievement. Even those students offered the opportunity to study in European universities are barred from travelling abroad by Israel, stifling the intellectual advancement of young Gazans.
Those brave human rights activists who have given their lives represent all those across the world who believe in the right of all people in Gaza to a life of dignity and peace, not humiliation, degradation and misery.
FEMYSO President, Mohammed Adil Rehman, said today: "The deaths of these brave activists must not go to waste. FEMYSO calls on the EU and all member states to ensure that a full, independent, international enquiry is conducted into Israel´s actions. As a major global player and Israel´s biggest importer of goods, the EU has a special responsibility to act. Mere words are insufficient - only by imposing a moral and economic price on Israel can it be convinced to change its disastrous policies."
Thus, FEMYSO calls on the EU to consider suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement, which gives Israel preferential trading terms. Article 2 of the Agreement states that relations shall be based on "respect for human rights and democratic principles", which Israel has clearly violated through its actions. Lastly, we call on all citizens of Europe to make their voices heard and use their rights to advocate on behalf of those in Gaza who have no rights and no voice.
For any further information, please contact our office:
FEMYSO Office
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Tel: +322 280 69 22
Fax: +322 280 69 23
Leadership Training Programme 2009-2010
FEMYSO's Annual Leadership Training Programme is moving to its second stage.
Dates: 8th - 11th April 2010
Location: Koln, Germany
The first stage of FEMYSO's Leadership Training Programme took place in December 2009 at Nottingham University, Nottingham, UK. The participants came from many diffirent European countries and the main tutor was Prof. Rafik Beekun from the United States. It was a resonding success and all participants were eager to absorb what they had learnt and were looking forward to the second stage. The second stage will take place in Koln, Germany with participants arriving on the evening of Wednesday, 7th April 2010 and leaving on the evening of Sunday, 11th April 2010..
Looking forward to seeing you all there...!!
International Women's Day - Press Release
Brussels, 8 March 2010
On the occasion of International Womens Day 2010, the Forum of European Muslim Youth and Student Organisations (FEMYSO) celebrates the enormous advances made by women across the world, of all faiths, races, nationalities and backgrounds. Women have made great advances in the field of education, employment, innovation, social rights, political participation and many others.
However, many challenges remain. Muslim women in Europe continue to be seen by many as oppressed, downtrodden victims, with little capacity for independent thinking or action. The image of the subjugated Muslim woman is used to justify discrimination and perpetuate prejudice on the street, in the workplace, political discourse and even in our legislatures. Laws supposedly aimed at liberating Muslim women only succeed in further demonising them and restricting their right to live and participate as equal European citizens. Meanwhile, the voices of Muslim women themselves are curiously absent from these debates not for any lack of capable Muslim women, but often because of a lack of willingness to listen.
Regressive laws proposed in some European countries restricting the freedom of Muslim women to choose the way they dress will only be yet another obstacle to their participation. We believe that it is time to stop talking about European Muslim women and talk to and with them. European Muslim women must be allowed to tell their own story, voice their own opinions and make their own choices.
In these current times of widespread ignorance and misunderstanding about the position of women in Islam both by those within Muslim communities and outside - we wish to highlight and revive an egalitarian spirit of Islam, which emphasises the equal value and dignity of women and men. Indeed, the Muslim world produced a large number of outstanding female scholars and custodians of knowledge as early as the 7th century, on whose work much of the edifice of Islam was built. Indeed, as the Prophet Muhammad said, "Seeking knowledge is mandatory for every Muslim", both women and men.
FEMYSO is working to ensure there is more education and awareness-raising among Muslims themselves to enable European Muslim women to be active and full participants in public, social, economic and political life. We extend out hands to our wider European communities to work together to make this years theme Equal Rights, Equal Participation more of a reality for all women in Europe.
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Finding Our Voice: How to Engage with the Media
We are very happy to inform you that FEMYSO has launched a new exciting training seminar called Finding Our Voice: How to Engage with the Media, which will take place from the 14th to the 19th of April 2010, in La Chaux-de-Fonds,Switzerland. This training course will give participants in-depth training by media experts and professionals from across Europe on how to engage with the mainstream media, empowering you and your organisation to know how to engage effectively with the media, actively confront
media stereotypes, utilise all mainstream media more effectively, and make the voice of Muslim youth heard.
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For any more information please contact firstname.lastname@example.com , +32 22806922
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Marwa al Sherbini, a pharmacist of Egyptian origin, was brutally stabbed 18 times in a Dresden court room as she gave testimony against a German man who had been accused of a constant stream of hate and xenophobic behaviour towards her and her family that had been going on for some time. Alexander W, Marwas 28-year-old neighbour, had been harassing her for months, calling her a terrorist, an Islamist whore and forcefully removing her headscarf on several occasions. He had been found guilty and fined a mere 700 Euros. During the appeal, his reaction was to pull a knife and to stab her 18 times while her 3-year-old son Mustafa looked on; Marwa died on the spot. Her husband who rushed to save her was both stabbed by the man and shot by the police, who reportedly believed he was the assailant.
Citizenship - A user's guide for European Muslim Youth
Brussels talks - Ethics in Economics
The Tool Kit is targeting faith-based youth organisations working on local, national, regional or European levels, encouraging them to engage in the promotion of IRD. The Tool Kit also aims to encourage youth platforms such as National Youth Councils, to explore possibilities for IRD within their work. Finally the Tool Kit also aims to provide trainers with practical information on specific considerations they need to make in the organisation of events that involve religiously diverse groups.
The Tool Kit can be used as a reference for activities, as an information background on the specificities of the monotheistic religions, as a tool for learning about the concept of IRD, and as a way of exploring the similarities between the different religions.
What do the chapters include?
The first chapter of this Tool Kit aims to serve as an information point which you may want to refer to as a source of inspiration before developing your own IRD activities. This chapter is mainly gathering theoretical information on IRD, its history and objectives in Europe. It is not intended to replace a more academic research, but will however provide you with useful information on the motives and objectives of IRD and its current state of development. Reading this part, you will also understand how important it is for youth organisations to get involved in developing and improving the current reality of IRD. This chapter also deals with stereotypes and prejudices related to religions, to provide you with ideas on how to deconstruct and overcome those through youth work and non-formal education.
If you and/or the youth organisation you are active in are considering engagement in IRD activities but dont know how to start such dialogue, the second and third chapters aim to give you hints, tools and examples on how to get started.
Chapter two will give you tips on some preconditions that you and your organisation should usefully keep in mind and implement in order to develop fruitful dialogue activity.
Building upon that, chapter three will gather a comprehensive overview of the tools that have been developed by several youth organisations and international institutions already active in the field of IRD.
The tool Kit is published thanks to the support of the European Youth Forum (YFJ) and is the work of the members of the European Youth Forum's Faith-Based Expert Group (Ecumenical Youth Council in Europe (EYCE), European Union of Jewish Students (EUJS), the International Young Catholic Students International Movement of Catholic Students European Coordination (JECI-MIEC), Pax Christi International, World Student Christian Federation Europe (WSCF-E) and FEMYSO). Further contributions to the Tool Kit came from the European Peer Training Organisation (EPTO) and the International Federation of Catholic Parochial Youth Movements (FIMCAP).
FEMYSO training course on "Interreligious Dialogue : Yesterday - Today - Tomorrow, A European Muslim Perspective", from the 4th to the 9th of March 2009 in Spain
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- Game 7 • Fairleigh Dickinson (3-4)
- Dec. 6, 2010 • 5 p.m. ET
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The Bulldogs return home for the first time since Nov. 20 and for just the second time this season. Yale opened the season with five of the first six games on the road, but now will play the next four games inside the friendly confines of John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs will not hit the road again until a year-ending tournament at Fordham University on Dec. 28-29. This is Yale's first game against Fairleigh Dickinson in seven seasons. Yale is looking for its first victory since a season-opening win at Holy Cross.
Last Time Out
Yale played without starting guards Megan Vasquez and Yoyo Greenfield in a 74-62 loss at Providence. The pair collided in practice earlier in the week and suffered mild concussions that prevented them from dressing for the game. Sophomore Symone Roberts scored 11 of her game-high 18 points and tallied six rebounds and four steals to lead the Friars. Teammate Miranda Tate also had 18 points. Michelle Cashen and Allie Messimer each scored 12 points to lead the Bulldogs.
Home Sweet Home
Yale is playing just its second game at home this season tonight when it faces Fairleigh Dickinson and first home game since Nov. 20, when it lost to Delaware. The Bulldogs opened the season with five of their first six games away from the friendly confines of John J. Lee Amphitheater. The Bulldogs will play their next four games at home, beginning tonight against FDU. They will then host in-state rival Sacred Heart before breaking for 10 days for the Fall semester final exams. The action will ramp up when the players return from exams with a thrilling contest against Florida State. The Bulldogs will be looking for their second win in 10 attempts against an opponent from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The homestand will conclude against another in-state rival, Quinnipiac, on Dec. 20.
Welcome Return
Senior captain Yoyo Greenfield and sophomore Megan Vasquez, both starting guards for the Bulldogs, are expected back in the lineup tonight against Fairleigh Dickinson. They both missed the game at Providence after a collision in practice earlier last week left them both with a mild concussion. It was the first time this season that both players missed a game and the first time that Greenfield missed a start since Yale visited Penn on Jan. 29, 2010. She started 27 of the 28 games she played in last season, while Vasquez has started 19 of the 33 games she has played in at Yale.
Time To Shine
Due to the injuries to starting guards Yoyo Greenfield and Megan Vasquez, the Bulldogs saw a pair of players earn their first starts of their collegiate careers at Providence. Aarica West certainly got her chance to shine. She played a game-high 33 minutes and made almost every one of those minutes count. She collected a career-high seven assists to go along with four points, five rebounds and three steals. Alicia Seelaus also earned the chance to start, playing 16 minutes while recording three points and two rebounds. The pair of sophomores have played in all six games this season.
Bring On The NEC
Tonight's game against Fairleigh Dickinson represents the first of three games against opponents from the Northeast Conference. Yale is slated to meet Sacred Heart on Wednesday, Dec. 8, and Quinnipiac on Dec. 20. All three games are home games for the Bulldogs. Yale is a combined 23-27 against eight of the 12 teams in the NEC. Yale has never faced Robert Morris, Monmouth, St. Francis (Pa.), or Mount St. Mary's.
Strength In Numbers
Despite allowing an Ivy League-worst 74.0 points per game, the Bulldogs are still showing some positive signs on the defensive end. They are the top team in the Ivy League in steals with an average of 10.2 per game, an average that dropped from 11.5 per game after the Bulldogs were held to just five steals at UC Davis. They are also second in 3-point defensive shooting percentage, allowing a league-low 14 made threes on just 26.4 percent success. Offensively, the signs are just as positive. The Bulldogs are third in the Ivy League in scoring (60.4 points per game) and second in free-throw percentage (73.6 percent). They are also third in the league in assists (13.2 apt) and third in 3-pointers made per game (6.2).
Every Day is Mother's Day
Senior forward Mady Gobrecht is the daughter of head coach Chris Gobrecht. They are the only current active mother-daughter, coach-player tandems in Division I women's basketball. This is the sixth time in Yale's 157-year athletic history that a head coach is mentoring his or her child in a varsity sport, and the first where the combo is mother-daughter (men's fencing: Robert & Maurice Grasson, 1936-38; baseball: Smoky Joe & Joseph Wood, 1939-41; men's basketball: Howard & David Hobson, 1952-55; men's squash: John & Jack Skillman, 1954-55; football: Jordan & Harry Olivar, 1957-59).
The Fab Four
Yale has bolstered its lineup for 2010-11 with four freshmen that are expected to make an immediate impact. Guard Amanda Tyson, forwards Janna Graf and Alexandra Osborn-Jones, and center Zenab Keita comprise one of the strongest freshman classes during Head Coach Chris Gobrecht's tenure.
Nice to Meet You
Non-conference games against Florida State, Delaware and Villanova will all be first-time meetings. The scheduled West Coast trip will mark just the second meeting Yale has had with California and UC Davis.
Making the Rounds
The Bulldogs' 14 non-conference games feature opponents from nine different conferences (ACC, Big East, Pac 10, America East, Big West, Northeast Conference, Atlantic 10, Colonial Athletic Association, and the Patriot League.
Schedule Strength
Seven teams on the Bulldogs' 2010-11 slate participated in the postseason last spring. Florida State and Princeton earned a berth in the 2010 NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament. Five other Bulldog opponents participated in the WNIT, including WNIT champion California.
Dominating The Leaderboard
After leading the Bulldogs in scoring last season as a freshman, sophomore point guard Megan Vasquez is already making her mark on the Ivy League leaderboards. Counting all games through Nov. 29, Vasquez is sixth in the Ivy League in scoring (12.6 points per game), third in 3-pointers per game (1.8), and fourth in assists (2.8 apg), which is tied with teammate Yoyo Greenfield. She is also sixth in 3-point shooting percentage (40.9 percent), seventh in free-throw percentage (76.9 percent), and 20th in rebounding (4.4 rpg).
Top Thief
Despite missing the first game of the season, junior forward Michelle Cashen is making a name for herself among the top defenders in the nation. Cashen has collected a total of 12 steals in the four games that she has played in for the Bulldogs. She matched her career-high of five steals on two separate occasions this season — at Boston University and again last week at California. Her average of 3.0 steals ranks her first in the Ivy League for steals per game and 36th in the nation for stats that include games through Nov. 28.
On The Holiday Horizon
Following this stretch of four consecutive home games, the Bulldogs will depart for the Bronx to take part in the Fordham Holiday Classic, joining the teams from Fordham, Villanova and Sienna. On Dec. 28, Villanova will meet Sienna and Yale will take on the tournament hosts. On Dec. 29, Yale will face Villanova, while Fordham will square off against Sienna. It will be the 16th meeting against Fordham, which leads the series 10-5, while it will feature Yale's first-ever game against Villanova.
California Dreaming
The Bulldogs' West Coast trip gave them a chance to face a pair of foes that they have met only once prior to the 2010-11 season. On Nov. 23, Yale met California for the first time since 1979, in Berkeley, where they fell 64-41. Last month's meeting was the sixth loss for the Bulldogs in six tries against a Pac-10 team. The Bulldogs then headed east to take on UC Davis, where they lost a hard-fought battle against the Aggies, 73-62. For Ericka von Kaeppler, the trip was a chance to play in front of friends and family. She grew up in Palo Alto, which is located just south of Berkeley. Two other Bulldogs also had the opportunity to play in their home state, but still hours away from home. Yoyo Greenfield is a Los Angeles native, while Aarica West is from Buena Park.
Thanksgiving Still A Family Affair
Although the players and coaches were away from their families for the Thanksgiving holiday, they still found a way to make the holiday feast a family affair. Following the Nov. 23 game against California, sophomore forward Ericka von Kaeppler and her family entertained her coaches teammates at their home just outside of Palo Alto, Calif., on the night before Thanksgiving for a home-cooked dinner. They traveled to the campus facility at UC Davis on Thanksgiving morning and staged an early morning practice in preparation for the Nov. 26 game against the Aggies. Following the practice, the players and coaches gathered together for a Thanksgiving feast with each other in the afternoon to celebrate the holiday as a team in Sacramento, a short 20-minute ride away from the UC Davis campus.
Scouting Fairleigh Dickinson
Fairleigh Dickinson is coming off of a 9-20 campaign in 2009-10, during which it finished and 11th-place 5-13 in the Northeast Conference and failed to qualify for the NEC's postseason tournament. The Knights, however, return all 13 players from last year's squad, including all five starters and add one freshman in Desiree Crawford. The Knights opened the season with two wins in their first three games, but they have since dropped three of their last four contests. Tonight is the third straight road game for the Knights and the final game of a road trip that included losses at Stony Brook (68-51) and Lafayette (51-37). Against Lafayette, FDU held a 19-7 lead early in the first half, but Lafayette opened up the second half with a 24-7 run and held on for the win.
Welcome Back
All three of Fairleigh Dickinson's assistant coaches are in their first year in that role with the team. However, two of them are not strangers to Head Coach Peter Cinella. Assistant Coach Mercedez Walker and Graduate Assistant Coach Jennifer Walkling both played for Cinella at Fairleigh Dickinson. Walker, a Stratford native, finished her college career as the Knights' all-time blocks leader (180) and finished with 477 points (4.2 ppg) and 433 rebounds (3.8 rpg). Walkling was a four-year starter and graduated in 2008 as the eighth all-time leading scorer (1,243 points) and third all-time leading rebounder (851). Both were seniors during Cinella's first year at the helm.
Blocking Machine
Junior center Esther Wallace has picked up her defensive effort in the last three games for the Knights. After just four blocks in the first four games, including none against Columbia, Wallace has turned things around with a whopping 15 blocks in the last three games, including a career-high six blocks at Stony Brook on Dec. 2.
Common Opponents
Fairleigh Dickinson has already faced four opponents that Yale will see in the 2010-11 season. The Knights tipped off their season with a 78-37 loss at Princeton followed by wins at Columbia (61-50) and home against Army (52-43). Their fourth game of the season was home against Fordham, which will host Yale in its holiday tournament on Dec. 28-29. Fairleigh Dickinson fell to 2-2 with the 62-56 loss.
Series History
This is just the third meeting between the two teams, but the first time Yale has faced the Knights during Chris Gobrecht's tenure. Fairleigh Dickinson holds a 2-0 advantage in the series. On Dec. 30, 2003, the Knights defeated the Bulldogs, 78-69, at Yale. On Dec. 30, 2002, Yale dropped a narrow, 71-67 loss at FDU. Yale is a combined 23-27 against eight of the 12 teams in the NEC. Yale has never faced Robert Morris, Monmouth, St. Francis (Pa.), or Mount St. Mary's.


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These are the frequently asked questions for Spiritual Life at the University of Mount Union
Spiritual Life FAQs
What is the University's religious heritage?
The University of Mount Union was founded by a Methodist young adult as a seminary (a college) for young men and women in 1846. The University continues to honor its heritage, tradition and relationship as a part of the United Methodist Church.
Where do Catholics go for Mass? What happens on days of obligation?
During the academic year priests from area churches celebrate Mass on Sunday evenings at 6:30 p.m. On special days a service is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. that day to allow area priests to offer Mass and then be able to return to their parishes for the evening services.
How can I find a church in the area?
Area churches are invited each year to an annual religious life fair or open house to set up displays and be present to invite students to find a church 'home away from home' with them. Often churches provide the Office of Chaplain with information that can also be sent by email to students who list their own spiritual/religious preference with the University. It is a FERPA violation to provide student information to churches; your student information is protected.
Is there a required Chapel service?
Mount Union discontinued mandatory Chapel in 1974. The services offered on campus are open to all students, staff, faculty and administration. Community members often visit as well.
How can I become a part of the worship services on campus?
For Catholic services the contact person is through the FLOCK organization on campus. Eucharistic ministers and musicians are always welcome! With ecumenical Christian services each group has a contact name and person. Musicians and readers are encouraged to contact the student leadership or the Chaplain for more information.
I don't have a car. How can I attend services off campus?
If you are willing to be picked up by a church member, often the Chaplain's Office will find out from the local church the name and number of a contact person and provide that information to the student. There are staff and faculty members who offer to provide rides to their local churches if students wish to attend a service.
How do I get involved with Spiritual Life on campus?
Pick up a weekly schedule found on tables in the chapel and bring a new or old friend so it won't be so scary or intimidating the first time. Drop by the Chaplain's Office and ask questions about each group. Contact the chaplain by email firstname.lastname@example.com with your questions.
I'm not a Christian but I do practice my beliefs in another religious tradition. How can you help me?
The Office of the Chaplain maintains a calendar of major world religions and keeps current on special days for any listed religious preference of students. Any dietary concerns can be shared with the Chaplain email@example.com, Residence Life Staff (if living on campus) email@example.com, or the AVI Food Systems directors email@example.com. If worship space needed it will be provided, as the university is able to accommodate.


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Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado --half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother's Taíno Indian language and his father's Spanish.
But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety. He learns how to live on land again, among people who treat him well. And it is he who must decide the fate of his former captors. Latino interest.
Author Notes
Margarita Engle is a Cuban-American poet and novelist. Her books include The Wild Book, Tropical Secrets, The Firefly Letters, The Lightning Dreamer, When You Wander, Mountain Dog, and Silver People. She has received several awards including the Jane Addams Children's Book Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Américas Award, and the Claudia Lewis Poetry Award for The Surrender Tree and the Pura Belpré Award and the Américas Award for The Poet Slave of Cuba.
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Booklist Review
*Starred Review* Engle, whose award-winning titles include the Newbery Honor Book, The Surrender Tree (2008), offers another accomplished historical novel in verse set in the Caribbean. Young Quebrado's name means the broken one, a child of two shattered worlds. The son of a Taino Indian mother and a Spanish father, he is taken in 1510 from his village on the island that is present-day Cuba and enslaved on a pirate's ship, where a brutal conquistador, responsible for thousands of deaths throughout the Americas, is held captive for ransom. When a hurricane destroys the boat, Quebrado is pulled from the water by a fisherman, Narido, whose village welcomes him, but escape from the past proves nearly impossible. Once again, Engle fictionalizes historical fact in a powerful, original story. With the exception of Quebrado, all the characters are based on documented figures (discussed in a lengthy author's note), whose voices narrate many of the poems. While the shifting perspectives create a somewhat dreamlike, fractured story, Engle distills the emotion in each episode with potent rhythms, sounds, and original, unforgettable imagery. Linked together, the poems capture elemental identity questions and the infinite sorrows of slavery and dislocation, felt even by the pirate's ship, which remembers / her true self, / her tree self, / rooted / and growing, / alive, / on shore. --Engberg, Gillian Copyright 2010 Booklist
Publisher's Weekly Review
Newbery Honor-winner Engle (The Surrender Tree) continues to find narrative treasure in Cuban history. Like her other novels in verse, this one is told in multiple voices (too many, in fact), some based on historical figures. The action takes place in the early 16th century aboard a pirate ship captained by Bernardino de Talavera, a failed landowner who literally worked his Taino farmhands to death then, rather than face prison, stole a ship and became the first pirate of the Caribbean. He kidnaps an orphaned boy to translate for him and takes a hostage-the powerful governor of Venezuela, whose actions in the New World have been as despicable as Talavera's. After a storm wrecks the ship, all three wash up on Cuba's coast among a native population, and two new voices and a new plot thread are introduced. The story, based on historical events, feels too rich for Engle's spare, broken-line poetry. Still, the subject matter is an excellent introduction to the age of exploration and its consequences, showing slavery sinking its insidious roots in the Americas and the price paid by those who were there first. Ages 12-up. (Mar.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
School Library Journal Review
Gr 6-10-It's been said that history is written by the conquerors and, indeed, there are countless one-sided accounts of brave European explorers boldly "discovering" the New World. Here's a welcome antidote to all that biased mythology. Written in unrhymed verse and from alternating characters' perspectives, Hurricane Dancers provides a much more nuanced, personal, and thought-provoking imagining of what really happened when diverse cultures began colliding in the Caribbean in the late 15th and early 16th century. The story centers around a young slave dubbed el quebrado, "The Broken One," whose half-Spanish, half-Taino Indian ancestry makes him critically valuable as a translator for the sailors, who exploit his skills to intimidate and enslave the Natives they encounter. He is a captive on a stolen pirate ship commanded by Bernadino de Talavera as the tale begins, but the tables turn when a hurricane dashes the vessel off a Caribbean Island. Quebrado, Bernadino de Talavera, and his brutal conquistador hostage Alonso de Ojeda all survive, but when the former commander once again tries to employ Quebrado's skills to dominate the Natives, the young man realizes that he not only has the power to refuse and reinvent himself, but also finds that he controls the fate of his former captor and his injured, unstable hostage. Unique and inventive, this is highly readable historical fiction that provides plenty of fodder for discussion.-Jeffrey Hastings, Highlander Way Middle School, Howell, MI (c) Copyright 2011. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.


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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
American-born former Israeli basketball star Tal Brody is urging fellow Israelis and supporters of the Jewish state around the world to combat the destructive BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement with what he calls "financial Zionism."
In a column for the Times of Israel, Brody notes that while Israel's hi-tech sector and large corporations are doing well on the global scene, small Israeli businesses are suffering at the hands of those of Israel's critics that want to punish her for perceived injustices against the Palestinians.
"It is a phenomenon that cannot be trivialized, because literally thousands of Israeli jobs could be lost should the tide not be reversed," writes Brody.
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Detroit, the Motor City, was founded in 1701 by a French fur trader named Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac. Prior to being the center of the automotive industry the city was home to a shipbuilding business and then built railroad cars. Henry Ford began making cars here in 1896 and by the early 1900s Ford, GM, Chrysler and Pontiac had all set up shop in Detroit. Detroit once had over 1.5 million people, but it now has roughly 700,000. However, the Detroit Metro Area still has 3.7 million people and is one of the largest cities in the United States. Much of the activity in Southeast Michigan has moved from the city of Detroit to the suburbs and even further afield. When visiting Detroit and Southeast Michigan with a dog you will find a lot to do. You will have to drive, however, as things are spread out.
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Cooler Master slims down the mechanical keyboard; check out the Quickfire
Subject: General Tech | March 5, 2012 - 02:57 PM | Jeremy Hellstrom
Tagged: input, mechanical keyboard, cherry mx blue
The recent move to mechanical keys has really opened up the keyboard market and choosing one is now about more than just a few backlights or media buttons. Scott has done a great job in showing what is meant by a mechanical keyboard as well as the differences between the main types in a recent article. One drawback to the mechanical keyboards is their size, they tend to be on the large side and are not the most easy portable of keyboards. Benchmark Reviews found a keyboard that might offer the best of both worlds, Cherry MX Blue switches on a trimmed down shell.
"Although mechanical keyboards have been making a comeback in recent years many of the design are quite bulky in comparison to their rubber dome counter parts. Looking to fill this area of the market Cooler Master designed the Storm QuickFire Rapid mechanical keyboard using the venerable Cherry MX Blue switches, fit into a comfortable 14" x 5" design. This makes the QuickFire Rapid perfect for LAN parties or mobile workers who may want a better typing experience than their laptops are able to offer. Benchmark Reviews will evaluate if the Cooler Master QuickFire Rapid is the perfect pint size keyboard or if corners were cut in order to meet size and price goals."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- QPAD MK-50 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard @ techPowerUp
- SilverStone EC03 USB 3.0 adapter @ Bjorn3D
- Thermaltake's Meka G1 and G-Unit keyboards @ The Tech Report
- Corsair Vengeance K60 @ XSReviews
- SteelSeries Kinzu V2 Pro Edition Gaming Mouse @ Tweaktown
- Cyborg M.M.O.7 Mouse Review @ Hardware Secrets
- Roccat Kone[+] Gaming Mouse Review @ Legit Reviews
- Corsair Vengeance K90 @ Guru of 3D
- Logitech Cube Grab-and-Go Mouse @ Tweaktown
- Gigabyte Aire M1 ultra Portable Mouse @ Funky Kit
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NCIX had the black version for $66 (US dollars) and free shipping, so I thought it was time to grab a mechanical keyboard.
If you still need a ten key, I believe there are mechanical keypads that can be bought, such as those from companies like Adesso and Filco.
I dig the separation of the ten key from the rest of the keyboard, as it cuts down on used desk space, and I'm guessing it will help somewhat on the ergonomic front.


text: Soooo, yesterday this guy I know sent me something he had written in hopes I would link to it. This was rather presumptuous, considering the thing was some sort of critique of some sort of literary novelist I had never heard of, but I had to admit "presumptuousness" has historically been a pretty effective strategy for Dudes in General, and in that vein check out this sentence, regarding a literary movement he has dubbed "Magic Feelism": "Like dishwashing detergent, they have a sterilizing effect, they emit a slightly chemical smell, and they leave your skin feeling soft." Dishwashing detergent? Soft? Relative to the hydrochloric acid with which you usually cleanse yourself because the trick is not minding that it hurts? [N+1]


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Twenty-six inch 'Drop' pendant lamp from the Scraplight series by contemporary eco-conscious lighting designers Graypants. Handcrafted from recycled cardboard, the 'Drop' light fixture is precision cut with a laser cutter and constructed by hand using non-toxic adhesive to produce a tough yet elegant and completely original design.
The architectural shape of the pendant lamp provides a warm, intimate and ambient glow suitable for any occasion or type of space and all 'Drop' fixtures come standard with a two-metre long fabric cord with a matching powder-coated ceiling canopy. – L.R.
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Captain's Report
Captain's Report by Capt. Dan Armitage --
Carrying a beam of 92 inches, the 172 is broad enough for its 16' 8" length to offer good stability and deck space. The standard package comes with three pedestal seats and six mounting positions in which to place them. A fourth seat is offered as an option – as is snap-in carpeting for the cockpit sole and a good selection of canvas options for protection from the elements.
Both the forward and passenger cockpits are surrounded by an extra-wide gunwale that is reinforced with back-plating to provide sturdy mounting positions for angling accessories such as downriggers and multi-stick rod holders.
Fishing Features
Anglers will appreciate the 25-gallon Flow Rite livewell system that draws water in and circulates it in the bottom of the tank while a hole in the top allows air to mix with the water. A separate recirculating pump works in a continuous loop to keep aerated water moving at all times, and a transom drain system provides for easy tank cleaning. Since many of the northern anglers this boat targets use live bait, I'd like to see a baitwell option – at least a combo livewell that includes a bucket for minnows or leeches.
The standard Pro Angler is a no-frills fishing boat, with an easy-to-clean vinyl sole and simple vinyl snap-in curtains to cover the storage areas under the aft casting deck. The boat offers amenities that only anglers are likely to appreciate, including toe rails on each side of the cockpit for a firm foothold when fighting and landing fish to flush-mounted cleats that pop-up only when needed to secure dock lines rather than fishing lines.
The hull of the 172 is backed by what Smokercraft refers to as AIRS (Advanced Integrated Rib System) that features hand-formed, hat-shaped ribs on 10-inch centers to provide strength and rigidity. All the hull seams are double-riveted. The deck is built of marine-grade XL plywood that is specially treated to resist rot and warping and carries a lifetime warranty.
Smokercraft's reverse-chine "Hydra-Lift" hull design. Not only does this design give lift to the hull to possibly make it faster, but it also definitely adds greatly to stability.In previous tests I've done on Smokercraft fishing models, the boats' hulls are among the best among aluminum small craft for turning aside water and offering as dry a ride as possible in rough conditions. The boats also track extremely well, both at planing speeds and while trolling, thanks to multiple keels that are riveted onto Smokercraft's hulls. IIn the case of the Pro Angler 172, that hull is the popular Hydra-Lift design and features five keels – which also help protect the hull against underwater obstacles, while trailering and when beaching the boat on rocky shorelines.
For recreational freshwater fishermen who want a rig built to withstand the rigors of chasing bass, pike, muskie and walleye across much of North America, since its introduction in 2004, the 172 has proven to be a good choice. The boat is built to withstand rough roads, rocky launch ramps, and bumpy water without offering the frills that send the price of comparable fishing boats beyond many weekend warriors' means. Like all Smokercraft fishing models, the boat is "DIY friendly," designed with features like back-plating to accept optional accessories as you can afford -- or find you need – them. Of course, you can consider the options such as trolling motors and fish finders offered by Smokercraft to add them to the base package when you buy it. With a base price of $21,399 matched with a Mercury 90 ELPT Optimax and custom trailer, the Pro Angler package represents a fair deal for fishermen who want a time-proven hull from a time-proven boat manufacturer of practical fishing boats.
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Linus, Sarah and the Linux Civil Code
Jul 22, 2013 5:00 AM PT
Anyone who has ever spent five minutes in the Linux blogosphere is probably already well-aware of Linux creator Linus Torvalds' propensity for speaking his mind in the plainest of terms.
It was just slightly more than a year ago, after all, that he dropped an "F-bomb" on Nvidia, though that's by no means been the only example over the years.
Well, Torvalds is surely no stranger to criticism for his blunt approach, but recently an example arose to make that disapproval more clear than ever.
The critic this time around? None other than a Linux kernel developer named Sarah Sharp.
'Not Acceptable'
"Seriously, guys?" wrote Sharp in response to an email exchange involving kernel developer Ingo Molnár and Torvalds himself.
"Is this what we need in order to get improve -stable?" Sharp went on. "Linus Torvalds is advocating for physical intimidation and violence. Ingo Molnar and Linus are advocating for verbal abuse. Not *f---ing* cool.
"Violence, whether it be physical intimidation, verbal threats or verbal abuse, is not acceptable," Sharp added. "Keep it professional on the mailing lists."
Sharp concluded with an invitation to discuss the matter at the next Kernel Summit, adding that, "I won't be the nice girl anymore."
An Historic Move?
History has often shown that sometimes it just takes a single small voice in the dark to bring about monumental change.
Will Sharp's protest go down in history as one such example?
That's what Linux bloggers have been trying to figure out, on Slashdot and beyond.
'Be the Bigger Man, Torvalds'
"There are a lot of things which we may want our children to emulate about Linus Torvalds, but his use of language is not one of them," offered Robin Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor.
Indeed, "it's called being a pro versus being an ass," Slashdot blogger hairyfeet agreed. "Torvalds falls firmly in the latter.
"Be the bigger man, Torvalds," hairyfeet urged. "If I can do it with customers that make me want to scream then you can do it with someone with years of education."
'He Should Watch His Mouth'
Similarly, "I think Sarah Sharp is correct to point this out," Google+ blogger Kevin O'Brien opined. "There is no reason that the kernel team *needs* to be an abusive environment, and it is well-known that it is, and that Linus is the main reason.
"There may be a group of emotionally immature men who will defend Linus, but adults should be capable of working together with a certain level of respect," O'Brien added. "In most companies Linus would have been fired long ago for his behavior."
Torvalds "should watch his mouth nowadays," quipped Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol. "There are ladies around, listening. Not good, not good at all."
'She Is Right'
Linus is "wrong on this one," blogger Robert Pogson agreed.
"Linus' point of view is that he needs to crack a whip from time to time to keep the herd of cats moving in the right direction," Pogson explained. "Sarah is simply asking for civility. She is right. It is possible to herd cats by persuasion.
"Shouting and swearing adds nothing to the conversation," he added. "Linus could get a treadmill or go jogging to raise his level of endorphins. He doesn't need to tell the world how he really feels when it's supposed to be about technology rather than emotions."
In fact, "clear guidelines and private messaging could accomplish what Linus wants without any of the flaming," Pogson pointed out.
"Linus long ago established that his ability to reject commits was the supreme feedback," Pogson added. "That's brutal enough for getting the message through to the most stubborn cat. A brief, executive-summary type of message would do."
'You Can Change, Too'
As for swearing being "a part of Linus," that's just an excuse -- "a very poor one," Pogson said. "Grumpy old hermits use excuses like that. Linus is the head of an international consortium of developers working on a huge project. Foul language is just a waste of bandwidth on LKML. It certainly is not inclusive of valuable contributors like Sarah, who works with Intel.
"In my teaching career, I observed that I could go all summer without hearing a swear word while my students used the F-word like punctuation," he noted. "When I communicated this to my students they refused to believe me."
Bottom line: "Believe it, Linus," Pogson concluded. "There are people who just want to get on with the job rather than read foul language in the inbox. You changed the world. You can change, too."
'She's in the Wrong'
Not everyone was so sure, however.
"I have a great deal of sympathy for Sarah and her point of view here, and I cringe when I see some of the responses she's gotten as a result of her taking this stand," Linux Rants blogger Mike Stone told Linux Girl. "I think she has some very valid points."
That being said, however, "I think she's in the wrong here," Stone opined. "Linux is Linus's house, and she's a guest. That's why it's called 'Linux' and not 'Sarax.' You don't go into someone else's house and rearrange their furniture without asking."
'She's Free to Not Participate'
Some of Sharp's responses also "feel as if she's attempting to assume some kind of parental position over the mailing list ('I'm not going to put up with that #$&@ any more')," Stone suggested. "If she doesn't like the way the mailing list is run, she's free to not participate.
"What she's not free to do is tell Linus how to behave in his own house," Stone concluded.
"I think that Linus has been pretty mellow in his responses considering, and that's honestly surprised me," he added. "I'd be more on Sarah's side if she brought this up as a suggestion and less as what feels very much like a demand."
'I Don't Think She Understood'
Similarly, "I just don't get why she thought it was her business to complain about a conversation between Linus and someone else," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack suggested. "It seems like an attitude of, 'I'm here now -- do things the way I want.'"
The worst part is that "I don't think she understood the original email," Mack added. "Linus wasn't advocating physical violence -- he was making jokes about Greg's size. On top of that, he was right about sometimes needing to be harsh with people to avoid them thinking they can just keep pushing.
"It's actually one of the more annoying things I've learned about human nature," Mack concluded. "It seems a significant number of people don't think someone is serious about something until they are angry."
Torvalds has a point, Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. agreed. "Sometimes you'll have to say 'no' -- let's hope it's still in a respectful way."
'Why Can't We Do Better?'
Last but not least, "it is complicated, and yet, not at all," Google+ blogger Brett Legree told Linux Girl. "Respect for others -- that's all this is about, really.
"Development of the Linux kernel WAS historically a volunteer effort, but it is not a small, volunteer project any longer, it is a billion-dollar venture," Legree pointed out. "Linus and Sarah are paid by different companies to work on the Linux kernel. This is a business setting, thus the rules of engagement can and probably should be different."
The LKML "can and should change policy," he opined. "It is possible to run an effective project AND be respectful of all involved.
"Of course, it is certain that this kind of thing happens in other companies," Legree added. "Steve Jobs was known to be hot-headed, and Steve Ballmer most definitely is (chair!)."
At the same time, "why can't we do better?" he mused. "Why can't we show the world that we ARE better? This would be another way."