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All Together. All of our individual tiles on one page for collectors and feature tiles in design schemes. For larger groups see the pairs, fireplace sets and panels & groups pages Art Nouveau, the first art movement that allowed true freedom for artists which combined with new technology produced the most amazing tiles ever. Aesthetic Movement tiles from designers who worked with industry to produce the best possible tiles. The widest ranging styles of the 19thC which were affordable. Arts and crafts, studio, innovations. Hand made or hand decorated tiles and innovative techniques which extended the spectrum beyond print and majolica Pictures and portraits. The durability of tiles made fine line art in places unavailable to other materials. Most popular in the 1870s and 1880s. Transfer prints. The primary medium of 19thC wall tile decoration superseded by majolica in the 20thC, many were hand coloured. Majolica. from 15thC origins processes advanced but the name remained the same culminating in the brilliant lead glazed wares of the early 20thC Blue and white. From the earliest days of transfer printing a popular colour combination on ceramics. Many were made by pottery companies. Gothic the first 'new' style of the Victorian era at the birth of industrial tile manufacture. Fun and bright designs not sombre as the name now implies Floral tiles with a strong nature study emphasis, botanical likenesses of the brilliance of nature. Most popular in the last two decades of the 19thC Sherwin & Cotton was the greatest art tile specialist company in the late 19th and early 20th centuries using a myriad of decorating techniques and fabulous glazes Jackfield Tiles, the greatest tile company ever (Maw & Co.) and another top five company (Craven Dunnill) were just a few hundred yards away from each other on the bank of the River Severn in Shropshire. Marsden. 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Josiah Wedgwood & Son were involved in tile making since the days of the founder in the 18thC. Most seen are transfer printed from the 1880s. Japanoiserie In 1868 trade opened up with the rest of the world when the previously rarely seen unique nature of Japanese art influenced artists worldwide. ? Pot stands and Trivets . A natural extension given the use of ceramics in tableware and the added durability of tiles many tile companies made purpose made pot stands. Miscellaneous items. Books, frames, advertising items and anything else that looks interesting and antique tile related. Pairs of tiles, great for making more of a statement, for centrepieces in fireplace cheeks and as art objects and anywhere were a pair is more appropriate. Registered Designs, over 2000 tile designs were registered between 1870 and 1915, they are a great resource for tile collectors, historians and students of art and design Collector's Tiles, Here we, to some extent, eschew condition for interest. 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Monday, January 4, 2010
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McFarlane Toys presents Cooperstown Series 7. Five players will have the honor of having their own figure. Those are Babe Ruth, Thurman Munson, Carl Yastrzemski, Tony Gwynn and Joe Morgan. {linked here} My favorite was Munson. (Pictured on the left) It looks great. No Dodgers were selected but don't worry. More toys will be made. They will be creating a series of current stars. Manny Ramirez and Russell Martin were created last year. Let's hope for a Andre Ethier or Matt Kemp toy for this year!
3 comments:
- Tom "Harley" Hamilton said...
Go Dodger Blue ! ! !
- January 4, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- M.Brown said...
Munson is not in the Hall
- January 4, 2010 at 11:02 AM
- Roberto Baly said...
I didn't say he was in the Hall. McFarlane have added players that are not on the Hall. Mostly retired players. I know it sounds weird because the series is named "The Cooperstown Series"
- January 4, 2010 at 4:40 PM
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Bar Fight in the Blue Ridge: The Coming Battle for NC 11 by John Armor
You'd think that what happens in western Carolina, in the 11th Congressional District, isn't very important to the powers-that-be in Washington. That's usually so. But not now. And two extraordinary events that have occurred a year and a half before the 2008 election for that seat, prove the point.
Some of you are aware of the TV ads now being run by AFSCME that paint freshman Congressman Heath Shuler, NC 11th, as a good guy. The ad sponsor's full name is American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. This union is committed to steady expansion of government at all levels, supported by more taxes at all levels.
Why is that union, part of the left wing of the Democratic Party, supporting Heath Shuler (who ran as a "conservative" Democrat) a year before he announces for reelection? It's simple. AFSCME is practical. If Shuler gets challenged by a hard-line liberal Democrat, like most of the Democrats who have run for this seat over the years, there are two possible bad outcomes. The liberal might beat Shuler and get trounced in the general election. Or, the liberal might damage Shuler so much that he will lose the general.
This exceptional action by this national union in 2007, has a clear meaning. The unions are trying to scare off any liberal competition for Shuler in his primary. It's a message that the unions are satisfied that they can work with Shuler for union issues in Congress.
And what gives them that assurance? Shuler has reliably voted with Speaker Nancy Pelosi on critical votes in the House, except when he sought permission to stray – on issues like stem cell research where she had the winning votes anyway, and Heath pleaded for a little independence for the sake of the folks back home.
Are the Republicans taking the 11th District as seriously in 2008? Yes, they are, as shown by the fact that the chief political strategist in the White House, Karl Rove, came to the District recently to address the annual Convention of the Republicans here. Why would someone that important show up here?
The 11th District was one of about 9 Districts which have been Republican for a decade or more, that should have stayed that way even in 2006, but which the Democrats managed to take. These few Districts make up almost half of the seats the Republicans need to retake control of the House.
Who are the voters in the 11th District? We have a few more Democrats than Republicans, but independents (those who "declined" to name a party) occupy the center, about 11% of the total. Many of the independents, and a significant number of the Democrats are like Zell Miller, former Senator from Georgia who lives just across the state line from us. These are, like Zell, conservative folks who happen to bear the label Democrat or independent.
The man who held this seat for the Republicans for 16 years, Charles Taylor, is making noises about running again. I think the only likely way for the Republicans to lose this seat to Shuler again, would be if Taylor gets the Republican nomination.
Here's why:
Taylor used to be one of the most powerful Republicans in Washington. He got himself in trouble in a number of ways. He wound up losing to a rookie with no experience – while spending a million dollars more than the challenger. Taylor was supposedly a sharp cookie. Shuler's obviously not the sharpest tool in the shed. But Shuler won in 2006.
For 2008, Shuler is stronger, Taylor is weaker. If it's the same race, the result will be the same. On the other hand, if the Republicans run an experienced, knowledgeable, honest candidate, both parties will bring in their big guns, but the Republican should win comfortably.
And, the 11th District is, next year, a mine canary for all the House races. Win or lose, the fate of the Republicans nationally will probably be the same as here, in the Blue Ridge Mountains.
[As a matter of full disclosure, the author ran for this seat in 2006, losing to Taylor in the primary.]
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posted on Monday, November 09, 2009 - 3:11 pm
I am trying to estimate the parameters of a path model where X (independent variable), Y (dependent variable), and Z (mediator) are all binary (ordered categorical) variables.
The MODEL INDIRECT statement can be used to estimate the indirect effect of X on Y via Z when a probit link function is specified in conjunction with the ULS, WLS, WLSM, or WLSMV estimator. I have observed that the WLSMV (and other LS) estimates for X and Z in the model for Y are not equivalent to the corresponding ML estimates. However, the WLSMV and ML estimates for X in the model for Z are the same. Why the discrepancy?
My preference would be to fit models for Y and Z using the ML estimator. However, indirect effects cannot be estimated when the ML estimator is used (due to the need for integration). It seems to me that I should be able to estimate the indirect effect as the product of (1) the estimate for X in the model for Z and (2) the estimate for Z in the model for Y regardless of whether a logit (ML) or probit (WLSMV) specification (estimator) is used.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 9:07 am
There are 3 factors involved here: estimator, probit/logit model choice, and z vs z* model choice (z being your observed mediator). ML can do probit, but a remaining difference between the ML approach using probit and the WLSMV probit approach is the z vs z* difference, that is, the choice between the observed binary mediator or its underlying continuous latent response variable. This choice has no impact on the regression of z on x. In the regression of y on the mediator, however, ML uses z while WLSMV uses z*. With z you cannot multiply slopes due to different link functions.
Jim Shaw
posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 11:18 am
Since my previous post, I have read that Mplus substitutes the probit model score variable for the observed categorical variable (Z) in the outcome (Y) equation.
In the context of MLE, the score is the derivative of the log-likelihood function with respect to the product of the regressors and estimated parameters. I am not sure how the score variable is derived following weighted least squares estimation, though I presume it has a similar interpretation.
This leads to two questions:
(1) If the first- and second-stage regressions were estimated using ML probit regression, could one still substitute the score variable from the first-stage regression for Z in the second-stage regression and derive consistent estimates for X (in eq. 1) and Z (in eq. 2) allowing for the computation of the indirect effect?
(2) If the approach discussed in (1) is valid, then could it be extended to nominal variables? Let N be a categorical variable that mediates the relationship between X and Y (as defined previously). Could one fit a ML multinomial probit model to N, generate score variables for each of N's categories (save 1), and then model Y as a function of X and the 3 score variables for N?
Jim Shaw
posted on Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 11:46 am
My comments regarding "N" may have been unclear. I meant to say that N is a nominal variable with 4 levels. Thus, 3 score variables would be generated after modeling of N via multinomial probit.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 9:00 am
I don't know what you mean when you say
"that Mplus substitutes the probit model score variable for the observed categorical variable (Z) in the outcome (Y) equation."
See my previous post for what Mplus does with the mediator in the Y equation.
Jim Shaw
posted on Friday, November 13, 2009 - 11:42 am
In the chapter of his logistic regression text that discusses path analysis with logistic regression, Scott Menard notes that one approach to estimating path coefficients with categorical mediator and outcome variables is to "calculate probit or logit model scores for observed categorical variables and then use these scores as input" for the structural model. He attributes this approach to the chapter you authored in Testing Structural Equation Models.
I interpreted what Dr. Menard wrote as meaning that the score variable predicted from the probit regression of Z on X is substituted for Z in the probit regression of Y on Z and X. That is, Y is regressed on Z* and X instead of Z and X, where Z* is represented by the prediced score for Z from the first regression. With MLE, the score is the derivative of the LL function with respect to x'b.
Nate Breznau
posted on Monday, October 17, 2016 - 2:58 am
In specifying indirect effects using the Model Indirect command with WLSM/WLSMV estimation, does Mplus (I am using version 7) calculate these effects following Bengt's manuscript?:
Muth�n, Bengt O. 2011. �Applications of Causally Defined Direct and Indirect Effects in Mediation Analysis Using SEM in Mplus.� Mplus Website
And is that the same method as the one tested by Valeri and Vanderweele in this paper?:
Valeri, Linda and Tyler J. VanderWeele. 2013. �Mediation Analysis Allowing for Exposure�mediator Interactions and Causal Interpretation: Theoretical Assumptions and Implementation with SAS and SPSS Macros.� Psychological Methods 18(2):137�50.
Bengt O. Muthen
posted on Monday, October 17, 2016 - 4:34 pm
Q1: Yes, but with a categorical mediator WLSMV uses the latent response variables instead of the observed categorical mediator. I recommend using ML or Bayes.
Q2. Yes.
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Personality: The papago are a friendly, likeable, and extremely laid back race of hedonists and pleasure-seekers. They enjoy good food, long naps, and smoking. They particularly enjoy smoking ghostleaf, an herb from their homeland known for it's relaxing and weakly hallucinogenic effects. Papago are generally considered to be lazy, but they can be quite capable in and out of combat when the need arises. Since their displacement, the papago have become somewhat more driven.
Physical Description: Papago stand between 5'6" and 6'0", with slight, lightweight builds. They generally weigh between 100 and 120 pounds. They have thick, hooked beaks designed for crushing. Their bodies are covered head to toe with brightly colored feathers. Their feathers can be blue, green, bright red, purple, and gold, in all sorts of patterns and combinations. They don't have hair so much as a number of long, flexible feathers emerging from the tops of their heads. These long feathers are particularly colorful. When fully outstretched, their wings span 10 to 12 feet, although papago (when not flying) are more comfortable with them folded behind their backs. An interlocking series of ligaments allows papago to lock their wings in the outstretched position, enabling them to glide for long periods without tiring
Papago hands are much like human hands, but with thick, pointed, almost clawlike fingernails. Papago legs bend both ways, usually bending forward for normal walking, and bending backward when climbing and flying. Their legs below the knee are usually yellow, with scale-like skin and ending in four-toed talons, with three forward claws and a toe claw that can fold against the side of the foot for normal walking or shift around to the back to perch and grasp. Each toe ends in a short black claw, designed for gripping.
Relations: Papago are extremely friendly. They make friends quickly and travel easily among the common races. They get along on a personal level with goliaths, but they can rarely physically perform to the standards set by the hulking brutes. Dwarves and raptorans find their laid-back attitude distasteful, and elves kill them on sight. The halflings get along with them quite well, and many caravans include a papago.
Alignment: Papago are almost entirely chaotic, with only a rare few showing lawful traits. Most papago are neutral, but the good papago drastically outweigh the evil.
Papago Lands: Papago have no true homeland anymore. They originated on a Paradise Island in the southern area of Arcas, an island where the resident shaper eliminated predators and pests, filling it with brilliantly colored flora and fauna. However, this changed when a kuo-toa army led by a titanic storm giant emerged from the water, and, in a matter of days, had slain, captured or driven off all the papago. The papago now make themselves at home on a great many islands in the southern end of Arcas, and have even spread to more distant lands.
Language: Papago speak a heavily modified dialect of Tuilvilanuue known as Paradiso. The langauges are similar on the surface, with both sharing a musical structure, a love of long, complex words, and a simplistic grammar. However, the two share very little vocabulary, with paradiso often inventing entirely new words for things. Paradiso is written with halfling annotations attached to elven shorthand.
Names: Papago names are usually simple, with a personal name and a clutch name, which is shared among all the children born from a single nesting.
Adventurers: Papago adventurers were extremely rare before the invasion of their homeland, though there was a healthy tradition of bards. However, the papago displaced by the kuo-toa invasion are much more likely to take up the mantle of adventurer.
- +2 Dexterity, +2 Charisma, -2 Constitution. Papago are quick and extremely likable, but their hollow bones make them somewhat fragile.
- Papago base land speed is 20 feet. Their talons are useful for grasping, but make them somewhat slower on foot.
- Medium: As Medium creatures, papago have no special bonuses or penalties due to their size
- Wing-Aided Movement: Papago can use their wings to help with movement even if they can't fly yet. The extra lift from her wings gives a papago a +10 racial bonus on Jump checks.
- Gliding (Ex): A papago can use their wings to glide, negating damage from a fall of any height and allowing 20 feet of forward travel for every 5 feet of descent. papago glide at a speed of 40 feet (average maneuverability). Even if a papago's maneuverability improves, they can't hover while gliding. A papago can't glide while carrying a medium or heavy load.
If a papago becomes unconscious or helpless while in midair, their wings naturally unfurl and powerful ligaments stiffen the wings. The papago descends in a tight corkscrew and takes only 1d6 points of falling damage, no matter what the actual distance of the fall.
- Flight (Ex): When a papago reaches 5 Hit Dice, they becomes able to fly at a speed of 40 feet (average maneuverability). A papago can't fly while carrying a medium or heavy load or while fatigued or exhausted.
papago can safely fly for a number of rounds equal to their Constitution modifier (minimum 1 round). They can exert themselves to fly for up to twice as long, but then they're fatigued at the end of the flight. Papago are likewise fatigued after spending a total of more than 10 minutes per day flying. Because papago can glide before, after, and between rounds of actual flight, they can remain aloft for extended periods (even if they can only use flight for 1 round at a time without becoming fatigued).
When they reach 10 Hit Dice, papago have enough stamina and prowess to fly for longer periods. They can fly at a speed of 40 feet (average maneuverability), and flying requires no more exertion than walking or running.
A papago with flight can make a dive attack. A dive attack works like a charge, but the papago must move a minimum of 30 feet and descend at least 10 feet. A raptor an can make a dive attack only when wielding a piercing weapon; if the attack hits, it deals double damage.
A papago with flight can use the run action while flying, provided she flies in a straight line.
- +2 racial bonus on Climb and Spot checks. Papago have strong grips with both hands and feet, and their eyes are unusually keen.
- +2 Racial bonus to saves against poisons. Papago are used to toxins of all sorts.
- Sound Imitation: A papago may make a bluff check to imitate any voice or sound it has heard . The result of this check is the DC of the sense motive check required to disbelieve it. This ability does not allow a papago to speak in languages it doesn't know.
- +2 Racial bonus to Bluff and Sleight of Hand checks. Papago's brilliant coloration can be distracting, and they know how to use this to misdirect opponents.
- Automatic Languages: Common and Paradiso. Bonus Languages: Tuilvilanuue, Elven, Gnome, Halfling, Goblin, and Sylvan.
- Favored Class: Beguiler. A multiclass papago's beguiler class does not count when determining whether he takes an experience point penalty.


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Susan H. Schulman has been elected to serve as Executive Board President of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC), the national labor union representing professional stage directors and choreographers. The results of SDC's recent Executive Board elections were announced November 18 at their Annual Membership Meeting.
Schulman is a graduate of the Yale Drama School, Hofstra University, and New York's famed High School of Performing Arts. She heads the M.F.A Directing Program at Penn State.
"For over 20 years SDC has been there to support and to inspire me. It is my privilege to serve as President in this tradition of community while continuing to empower and protect professional stage directors and choreographers," said Schulman.
A Tony-nominated director, Ms. Schulman was first elected to the SDC Board in 1990 serving as Executive Vice President from 1992-1996. During her tenure she co-chaired Broadway negotiations multiple times and chairs the Union's Committee on International Artists.
Broadway credits include the Tony Award-winning musical The Secret Garden as well as its highly successful national tour (Drama Desk nomination), the revival of Sweeney Todd at the Circle in the Square (Tony Award nomination), the revival of The Sound of Music (Tony nomination Outstanding Revival) and Little Women, the musical and its recent national tour. For her direction of the highly-acclaimed Violet (which received The New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Musical), Schulman was nominated for a Drama Desk Award for Best Director. She received an Obie Award for directing Sondheim and Furth's musical Merrily We Roll Along at the York Theatre. Her work can be seen regularly at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival of Canada. She just returned from Denmark where she directed a new musical composed by John Bucchino and is currently working on Stardust Road, the Music of Hoagy B. Carmichael, which she conceived and is directing.


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Wed, Apr 25
I don't get to go to Ebertfest this year.
And when I say, "I don't get to go to Ebertfest this year," I mean I don't get to go TOMORROW.
I'm shooting a movie in New York. Well, in New York, Los Angeles and, I've just been told, Iceland -- later in the year.
And this is what happens when you shoot movies. There are miscalculations, and delays, and plans get shaken away like a diagonal line on an Etch-a-Sketch.
Things were delayed today. I was supposed to fly out of NYC tomorrow morning at dawn, to be in Champaign in time tomorrow to do a screening and q&a of Big Fan (with Steve Prokopy, "Capone" from AICN) and then a late-night screening and discussion of Kind Hearts and Coronets.
And, most of all, I was going to get to meet -- and thank -- Roger Ebert.
I've kept it pretty quiet, 'cause I know how off-putting it is to engage your fan-boy screechers and drive away everyone cool, but Roger Ebert was one of my beacons. Harlan Ellison, Lester Bangs, Willa Cather, Martin Scorsese and teachers and friends you've never heard of also guided my snout out of the reprocessed Sterling, Virginia air and led me, comedy-stage-by-comedy-stage, westward. And then worldwide.
But as far as my tastes in cinema go, it was the yearly editions of Roger's Movie Home Companion, all through the eighties, which led me upwards towards Ozu and Welles, downwards to Sybil Danning in The Howling, Part II and sideways to Infra-Man ("When they stop making movies like Infra-Man, a little light will go out of the world.") I know that for a generation before me it was Pauline Kael, but I missed out on her until I'd graduated college. For a suburban kid with no car and slim pickings at Erol's Video Rentals (before it became Blockbuster) Ebert's reviews made those video store visits count. Later, when I had a car and could Ferris Bueller my way out of school and spend an afternoon at the Janus or Orpheum in downtown D.C., an Ebert review (whether it be in his books or on his TV show) made sure I didn't miss Bye Bye Brazil or The Gods Must Be Crazy or Repo Man.
So yeah, I was really looking forward to saying thanks. To saying how amazing that infamous interview with Lee Marvin was. My envy of him getting to write with Russ Meyer, to meet the Sex Pistols, and date June Mack. And most of all, to get to be there at ground zero for the French New Wave, the collapse of the Hollywood studio system, and the subsequent rise of the Easy Riders and Raging Bulls of the 70's. And to have the writing chops he had to set it all down, in newspaper offices on a manual typewriter.
Roger, if you and Ebertfest will take a chance on me next year, I will task my agents and managers to keep those days sacred, and not try to pull off the last-minute, no-sleep derring-do we tried and failed to do this year. If not, I understand. I guess, in a way, I should bless the frustration I'm experiencing right now -- my dream of getting to hash over movies with Roger Ebert has been derailed because I'm...making movies.
If you'd told my 18 year-old self, reading Roger's "My 10 Favorite Films, and Why" essay in the...was it the '87 Movie Home Companion? '88? Anyway, if you'd told him that he'd one day be prevented from hanging out with the guy who wrote so eloquently about The Third Man and Floating Weeds and Gates of Heaven 'cause he was shooting a movie in Astoria, Queens, on the same soundstage they filmed The Cocoanuts and The Emperor Jones?
He'd think, "That sucks. And it's also kind of awesome."
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008, 02:27 PM - American history in jokes,anecdotes and funny facts, Army and Navy Jokes and Anecdotes, Civil War jokes and anecdotes, Jokes and anecdotes of famous peoplePresident Lincoln received the following pertinent letter
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from an indignant private, which speaks for itself: "Dear
President I have been in the service eighteen months, and
1 have never received a cent. I desire a furlough for
fifteen days, in order to return home and remove my family
to the poor house/ The President granted the furlough.
It's a good story and true.
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Our school needed your help and you came through in a big way! Because of all our amazing donors, Elm Street students have the playground of their dreams.
Total Raised: $43,397
Every donation brought us closer to our goal.
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Rosenzweig, Jones, Horne & Griffis www.newnanlaw.com
Coweta-Fayette EMC Operation Round Up
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Coweta County Water & Sewerage Authority
Michelle and Cliff Smith
Thompson Homes Construction/Thompson Family
Avery Park Community Association
Caleb and Melissa Kammerer
Melinda and Ellis Mansour
Emily and Alan Dean
Martin and Rhonda Pate - through Art auction
The Springfield Family
Fourth Quarter Properties on behalf of Reed and Parker Roberts
The Rine Family
Cornerstone Associates (Tommy Sweet)
The Waters Family
Higgins and Smith
Robbie and Carol Cantrell
Lee-King Pharmacy (Bobby Lee)
United Community Bank
$100 or More
Brad and Alicia Bohannon
Nathan and Courtenay Lee
Brian and Carrie Wallace
Bill and Tracy Behm
Angela and Paul Lewis
Linda and Alan Miller
Clay and Christi Hildebrand
Charles and Judy Marsella
Henry and Francis Smith
Lori Drake
The Brewbaker Family
The English Family
Mark and Smith Pass – In Memory of Miss Martha Newsom
Stephan and Jennifer Leebern
The Magnus Family
Melissa Parrott
Maynard and Mary Harris
Jimmy Whitlock
Elaine and Carl Carroll, Jr.
Danny and Tabitha Magnus
The Zeumer Family
The Snyder Family
Julie and Kevin Daniell
Brian H. Turner
Darlene Turner Harper
Lori and John Harris
Lisa Buchanan
Jay and Amy Boren
Amy Lott
Ansley Campbell
Carrie Smith
Myra J. Jordan
The Kilby Family
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Reid and Michele Meyer
Dana and Kristi Johnson
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Four Corners Church
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Alice and Robin Miller
J.K. Boatwright & Co.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Sears, Jr.
The Anderson Family
Cassie Copeland
Jeffrey and Ami Elder
Tom Freeman, Lighthouse Counseling
PTO Donation: $17,000 (from annual fundraisers)
Elm Street Donation: $1,500 (from Mother-Son/Father-Daughter Dances)
Here is a site rendering of our planned playground.
Color scheme was personalized for our school.
Korkat (Carrollton, Georgia) was our planned vendor.


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The Measure app uses augmented reality (AR) technology to turn your iOS device into a tape measure. You can quickly gauge the size of objects, automatically detect the dimensions of rectangular objects, and save a photo of the measurement for later.
Before you start
First, make sure that you're using iOS 12 on iPhone SE, iPhone 6s or later, iPad (5th Generation or later), or iPad Pro, or iPod touch (7th generation). Also make sure that you're in a place with good lighting.
How to take a single measurement
- Open the Measure app, then follow the onscreen instructions that ask you to move your device around. This gives your device a frame of reference for the object you're measuring and the surface it's on. Keep moving your device until a circle with a dot in the center appears.
- Move your device so that the dot is over the starting point of your measurement, then tap .
- Slowly move your device until the dot is over the ending point of your measurement, then tap again.
After you take a measurement, you can adjust its starting and ending points. Touch and hold one of the points, then drag it where you want it to go. The measurement changes as you move the point.
Save your measurement
While the measurement is displayed, you can tap the number to see it in inches and centimeters. Tap Copy, and the value is sent to your clipboard so you can paste it into another app. Tap Clear to start over.
You can also take a photo that shows the object and its measurement. Just tap , and the photo appears in the lower-left corner of your screen. Tap it to make edits using Markup, or swipe left to save it to your Photos app.
How to take multiple measurements
- After you take the first measurement, move your device to place the dot over another location on or near the object.
- Tap to start the second measurement, then move your device to place the dot somewere along the existing measurement.*
- Tap again and the second measurement appears.
- Repeat these steps to take as many measurements as you'd like.
Tap to remove the most recent measurement, or tap Clear to start over.
* Additional measurements must start or end somewhere along an existing measurement. Otherwise, all previous measurements are replaced by the newest one.
Measure a rectangle
If your device detects that the object you're measuring is a square or rectangle, it automatically places a measurement box around the object. Tap and measurements appear for the object's width and length. Move your device slightly, and the object's calculated area appears.
While the measurement is displayed, you can tap the calculated area number to see the length of the diagonal as well as the area in square inches or square meters.
Use the level
The Measure app also has a level that you can use to straighten a vertical object, such as a picture frame, or level a flat surface, such as a table.
How to straighten a vertical object
- Tap Level in the Measure app.
- Place one of the edges of your iPhone or iPad on the object that you want to straighten. The level shows you the number of degrees off center the object is. Adjust the object until the app shows 0 degrees and turns green.
How to level a flat surface
- Tap Level in the Measure app.
- Place your device flat on the surface. The app uses two circles and degrees to show you how far off-center the surface is. When the surface is level, a single circle shows 0 degrees and the level turns green.
You can also calibrate the level to use a starting point of your choice. Hold your device at the position that you want, then tap the screen to set the level at 0 degrees. Any subsequent movement of your device shows how many degrees it's off from the level starting point that you set.


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Although the TeleNav satellite navigation system that ties in with Ford's MyFord Touch technology has been around since the end of last year in the States, it's going to accompany the in-car tech when it arrives in the UK in 2012 (around summer). So, Pocket-lint was extra keen to have a play when we visited Ford's Dearborn testing track.
The screen and voice control tech (Ford SYNC) that TeleNav's system employs are both resident in the car already, and, to be honest, if you just want a turn by turn form of satnav, you needn't even bother with the upgrade as it's built in as standard.
MyFord Touch itself can use the Traffic, Directions & Information application installed on a smartphone, and therefore offer basic satnav functionality. However, you'd seriously be missing out on some incredible features and route planning.
For starters, TeleNav's automotive-grade navigation software offers 3D mapping with visual landmarks, a business directory with around 12 million points of interest (in the US - similar to follow in UK), proactive traffic updates, and connectivity to other services such as e-commerce and weather. However, it is its route planning that has impressed Pocket-lint most of all.
Our demonstration was on a system run in a Ford Focus, and while we couldn't actually drive anywhere, the flick of a demo button had the software believing that it was on the move, so we got a good idea of how it works. Initially, using Ford SYNC, you can just tell the system an address verbally and it finds the location, then it works out not one but three separate routes.
The fastest route it discovers will be the quickest based on traffic updates, road plans and such like. The shortest route may be technically less distance from A to B, but will not necessarily be the speediest. And then there's a cunning Eco route, which is likely to take longer still, but will offer up the best fuel consumption - based on all manner of factors, such as stop and starting and overall top speed.
Another groovy feature that caught our eye was that not only does the TeleNav regularly update for traffic congestion, but roadworks are flagged too. It even alerts you to lane closures up ahead, and rapidly works out ways around them (if possible).
Admittedly, some satnavs do the same, but we've not seen the features as cunningly integrated as in this case. Also, as TeleNav uses your phone's data connection, and works with a large variety of handsets, upgrading your device to a 4G model could technically speed up updates.
Of course, that also means that you may have to increase the size of your contracted data plan, although strangely we were told during the demo that updates are downloaded via a voice call and not data - a statement contrary to what we've found elsewhere on the net (including the TeleNav website), so we're not entirely sure that's true.
Either way, thankfully your data plan (or talk minutes) won't be punished by the downloading of new maps. The MyFord Touch in-car system comes with an SD card slot, and therefore TeleNav's maps and software come on a supplied SD card. Pop it in the hole and bingo, you're good to go. If there's a map update you wish to buy, you receive a new card. Simple.
The first SD card costs $795 in the States (there's no indication on price in the UK yet), but that's relatively cheap in comparison to in-car rivals, which generally come on a DVD for installation on an interior hard drive. Updates are cheaper (around $300, we were told).
To prevent theft, each card is unique and locked to an individual car, although that also means that you can't take it with you to use with, for example, a rental vehicle. Therefore, sadly, there's no way around the exorbitant fees car rental firms charge for satnav systems. That said, if you go abroad, do you really want to pay the data roaming charges? Not on your nelly.
Ultimately, it's all impressive stuff, and we can't wait for the system to come to the UK so we can give it a proper try-out. As long as it's got Minge Land and Bell End in it, we'll be happy.
- MyFord Touch and SYNC AppLink coming to all UK Ford cars in 2012
- VIDEO: Gracenote demos Ford SYNC's new voice control features
What kind of satnav do you use currently? Do you think that mobile phones are becoming valid rivals to standalone GPS devices? Let us know your thoughts in the comments below...


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Monday, August 3, 2009
Vinography: Hardly Worth It!
I didn't know what to expect upon first meeting Hardly Walleyes, Social Media Director for Murphy-Goode Wines, but I certainly didn't expect flowers. It's not like I'm a bigshot blogger feigning humility or anything. And it's not like I expect something for free, like wine samples, airline tickets, front row seats for my favorite concerts (oooh, I hear the Captain and Tennille are making a comeback) or unmarked bills sent directly to me at Vinography: The Wine Shill, 1313 Puffpiece Lane, SF. (Let's say I did get some free stuff, I certainly always put a Full Disclosure statement at the end of each post, which is more than any of those New Jersey rabbis did at the end of their Saturday services.) But the flowers were a nice touch. And to think Hardly had gone all the way to the Healdsburg Cemetery to get them just for me!
It's hard to imagine any of you reading this don't know, but Hardly Walleyes was the lucky winner of the Murphy-Goode Social Media Position. Murphy-Goode's original idea was to pay a person $1000 for every point of their IQ over the course of the six months that blogger/tweeter/podcaster/poseur worked for the winery, up to $120,000. The stumbling economy forced them to set their sites a bit lower and when Hardly scored a dazzling 60 on the IQ exam, it was a win-win situation. After spending an afternoon with him at the personal request of Jess (call me Huckleberry) Jackson, tasting the wines and helping him tie his shoes, I can say that I believe they made the right call. Hardly Walleyes is Murphy-Goode wines. And I wouldn't be surprised if he stays on after his six months have gone by. The little guy makes the perfect pet.
Jess and the Murphy-Goode gang livin' the lifestyle! A Vinography Image
Hardly comes from our own wine blogosphere having written a never-nominated wine blog called dirtymouthwine for the past several years. Like so many of our finest wine bloggers, Hardly makes no claim to having a wide knowledge of wine, and it shows in his posts. I find it refreshing in this day and age of so-called "experts" that a person with so few qualifications can successfully make a name for himself in the wine business. I know how hard that is. And I was flattered that Hardly confided that he looked up to me as a role model in that regard. He told me that as I was positioning the flowers on an old fence rail in front of a vineyard at sundown for one of my patented Vinography Images that proves how sensitive I am. (I'll be posting that image the day after tomorrow, right after my scathing commentary on the great Rieslings of Oregon--a hint, only 24 of the 28 scored 9 or higher!)
Hardly's experience as a marginally talented wine blogger will serve him well in his new capacity. Casting an uncritical eye on the wines of Murphy-Goode is exactly what Huckleberry was hoping for, and it's hard to imagine even a dozen more IQ points would have changed that, but here is Hardly Walleyes hard at work writing and tweeting and blogging about the Sonoma County lifestyle. Oh, it's a big adjustment moving to the sleepy little town of Healdsburg after the bright lights of Atlanta, the town Sherman should have burned. But Hardly is nothing if not resourceful and he's filled his new digs with things to remind him of home--little no-skid flowers on the shower floor, Flintstones vitamins in the cupboard and all of his Jonas Brothers posters! In just a few days Hardly has made Healdsburg his home, and Healdsburg is better off for it.
Hardly and I strolled over to the tasting room in Healdsburg so I could sample the fine wines of Murphy-Goode with Walleyes as my guide. We got a little lost, but Windsor is lovely this time of year, I took another trademark Vinography Image of the Windsor Square, so captivatingly abandoned as always. When we finally arrived at the tasting room and I'd helped little Hardly zip up, the wonderful Murphy-Goode hospitality team had more flowers waiting for me, and a new Prius, which was thoughtful, and oh so Sonoma. But it was the fantastic wines that I had come for. These fine Sonoma County wines sourced from so many different vineyards are such a treat to taste, and so easy to write about with none of those long and bothersome single vineyard names all over them from appellations I think are so confusing. The Murphy-Goode wines are simple, like the great Hardly Walleyes, the little guy all wrapped up in Tweeting and Blogging and Facebooking and the Jonas Brothers, but give them a chance and they'll make great pets.
Full Disclosure: No animals were hurt in the making of this post.
6 comments:
- Samantha Dugan said...
Um.....Ron, why were little Hardly's pants unzipped?! HoseMaster just got a whole new meaning.
- August 3, 2009 at 2:03 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
My Gorgeous Sam,
This was a guest post by the great Alder Yarrow of Vinography. You'll have to ask him why Hardly's pants were unzipped, but it may have something to do with tweeting.
I hate this HoseMaster post, by the way, like everyone else, but I love you, My Sweet Sam.
- August 3, 2009 at 7:11 PM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Who is Alder Yarrow?! I want my HoseMaster back!
- August 3, 2009 at 8:32 PM
- Matt Reid said...
I thought Sherman did burn Atlanta! I learn so much from these blogs. Not just about wine!
- August 10, 2009 at 9:05 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Matt,
OK, first of all, I meant Sherman as in Peabody and Sherman. Second of all, that plant Alder Yarrow wrote this post. Thirdly, it could be read "the town that Sherman SHOULD have burned" as in he was justified trashing the dump.
But welcome aboard, oh mighty winemaker, feel free to make the HoseMaster out to be an idiot, though I do that full time myself.
- August 10, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- Matt Reid said...
HMW, I stand fully corrected! I must have missed that episode of the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. My apologies to Mr. Yarrow.
- August 10, 2009 at 1:05 PM


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Speech by Morten Kjaerum, FRA Director at the Justice and Home Affairs Council Meeting, 5 June 2014.
I am honoured to present the Agency's Annual Report to you today. European cooperation on justice and home affairs is key to ensure fundamental rights for everyone in the EU.
Fundamental rights matters to our citizens - that we see time and again in Eurobarometer surveys.
Our report shows how some of these values have come under strain during the current crisis. Trust between people, trust between communities, and trust in our democratic institutions has suffered.
Respecting, protecting and fulfilling fundamental rights is one way of regaining trust at national, as well as at EU level. The adoption of the forthcoming Strategic Guidelines creates a unique opportunity to reaffirm and strengthen our commitment to fundamental rights, in particular underscoring that security and fundamental rights are two sides of the same coin.
Our report includes concrete suggestions on how to strengthen fundamental rights protection in the EU in justice and home affairs areas.
In 2013 three fundamental rights areas stood out in particular: data protection, victims' rights and migration.
Firstly, access to data in the area of data protection
The Snowden revelations of mass surveillance highlighted that the protection of personal data is under threat. They also revealed the weakness of national oversight structures.
FRA's research highlighted the impact of the use of new technology on the rights of citizens. Online activities, direct marketing, or video surveillance, for example, caused most data protection violations. This raises questions to what extent public and private organisations that we trust are actually protecting our right to privacy and personal data sufficiently.
To respond to these concerns it is important to raise public awareness on privacy rights and on the existence of complaint mechanisms. Further more we need to strengthen the independence and increase resources of data protection authorities.
A second key area of concern is the protection of victims
The need for stronger action to protect victims' rights was evidenced by the findings of three EU-wide surveys of the Agency: first one, on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people; the second, on violence against women; and the third one, on antisemitism. They all reveal that victims do not report offences to the authorities. Let me just give you the most recent example:
Only 15% of women who are victims of violence report to the police. We saw a similar pattern in our LGBT and previous ethnic minority surveys. And when we ask victims why you do not report, the answer is always – we do not think anything would happen.
The FRA surveys also underlined the prevalence of hate crime. And let us not forget, hate crime breeds fear. Nearly a third of Jews surveyed had considered emigrating because they did not feel safe as a Jew. The recent tragic event in Brussels will certainly heighten this fear.
We believe that victims should be more aware of the existing support services. We should enhance penalties for hate crime, facilitate reporting, and improve hate crime data collection. I would like to thank the Lithuanian and Greek Presidencies, as well as the incoming Italian Presidency, for having initiated some important discussions on how to tackle hate crime effectively.
Thirdly, the area of migration needs further fundamental rights safeguards
366 migrants died in the Lampedusa tragedy in October 2013. Just last month we again witnessed yet another tragedy. Far too many people are dying as they escape persecution or simply seek a better life.
The Task Force Mediterranean was a swift and important response which set out a line of action to address many of the issues that we face. We must keep that momentum and implement the Task Force's proposals. Italy's Mare Nostrum is an important such initiative. But we need more solidarity and closer cooperation within the EU to improve the safeguards for people who need protection. And we have to ensure that EU legislation like the Return Directive is implemented in a strictly fundamental rights-proof manner.
EU Strategic Framework
Now to my final point.
The evidence in our report indicates that protecting fundamental rights is still work in progress – whether in the area of security or justice.
Our report proposes various tools that could make fundamental rights protection in the EU more effective. This includes strengthening the fundamental rights considerations when drafting or amending legislation. The Court of Justice's recent judgment on the data retention directive, that you discussed a few minutes ago, very much illustrates this point.
It also suggests that the EU institutions and Member States could consider establishing an EU fundamental rights policy cycle, leading up to an internal EU strategic framework for fundamental rights.
This policy cycle could include an annual assessment of rights in the EU, which could be informed by existing reports from EU institutions, Member States as well as the Fundamental Rights Agency's own Annual Report. This would create opportunities for jointly evaluating the progress of fundamental rights and for identifying promising practices and future priorities.
Internally, respect for fundamental rights and the rule of law are crucial for making the EU's commitment to fundamental rights within the EU more visible and tangible to our citizens. Forming an internal EU strategic framework for fundamental rights that mirrors the existing external framework would also consolidate the EU as a beacon of human rights worldwide.
We have come a long way and the foundations are very much in place. We need to ensure that respect and protection of rights keeps pace with the EU's evolution. And this is where FRA can assist you, by providing timely, robust, comparable data and analysis.
Thank you.


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Emergency Preparedness: Outdoor Survival
While we typically discuss disasters as they relate to office buildings and other structures, our lessons about emergency preparedness also apply to survival outside.
Today we will tackle some basic winter survival skills to help you prepare for unexpected winter weather whether you are trapped in your car or if you get lost while you're hiking. Recent severe snowstorms on the East Coast tested both emergency responders and numerous individuals who were affected by the stormy conditions.
Motorists in New Jersey were stranded for some 30 hours—stuck in their cars, surviving on snack food like beef jerky and crackers. Some of the storm victims used common sense, which is vital when trapped in the elements. They conserved fuel resources when running the car's heater and, above all, they didn't panic.
Here are safety tips to remember if you are stuck in your vehicle in the elements:
- Before any emergency, take steps so you are prepared. Make sure your car is packed with reflective blankets, extra hats and gloves, a small shovel, food and water and flares or other signaling device.
- Keep your gas tank full in the winter. You will need gas to run the heater. Experts recommend running the heat for 10 minutes every hour.
- Stay in your car! Unless you can clearly see rescuers or a better alternative for shelter, staying in the security of your car is the best option. This is particularly important if you are stranded on a busy roadway or have limited visibility. While your first impulse might be to abandon your vehicle and search for shelter, you risk being hit by other cars on a highway or freezing to death if you walk, unprotected, in the elements. So stay with your vehicle.
- Don't drink alcohol to warm up. Ignore those who recommend taking a sip of brandy to knock off the chill. Blood rises to the surface of the skin when you drink, which causes rapid heat loss. Also, in an emergency situation, you won't want to risk impairing your judgment.
- Watch out for carbon monoxide poisoning. In big snow drifts, it's likely your car's tailpipe may be covered by snow. Crack the window when running the heat and use a shovel or other tool to clear some space for exhaust to escape.
If you are out in the elements when a storm breaks, you might get stuck in the snow. If so, take these basic steps to ensure your survival:
- If you are going for a hike or cross country skiing, tell people where you are going and when you will be back. No search team will come looking if they don't know you are lost.
- Make sure you know how to start a fire. Simply carrying a box of matches on your hike won't help if you are stuck in the rain. Even waterproof matches can fail. Bring alternative fire-making sources such as magnesium fire starters to ensure you create sparks.
- Staying dry and warm are essentials, regardless of weather. Wear more layers than you think is necessary. This way, you will be able to remove unnecessary layers. Use the three-layer system to stay warm and toasty.
- Shelter in place. Build a debris hut. Pick a pole or log about one and a half times your own height. Prop it about three to four feet up with a boulder or stump. Then, take smaller branches and lay them diagonally on the main beam. Place leaves, grass or any other debris in between the branches and put at least one foot of similar material inside the hut. It won't win any design awards. But it will keep you relatively warm and dry.
Unlike disasters such as earthquakes or hurricanes, getting caught out in winter weather is largely avoidable. If there is a blizzard outside, you probably don't have any urgent need to be in the car. If you are skiing or backcountry-hiking, use a portable radio to stay informed. Consider joining an outdoor survival school to learn the latest techniques for safety. As always, staying safe comes down to advanced preparation and cool-headed thinking during an emergency.
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I had an issue with the SMTP server connection on Suse 9.1 and Mandrake. I could never nail it down so I upgraded Wine to version 20041019, it seemed to resolve the issue on Suse. I conclude it was an issue with Wine until I installed Mandrake.
Mandrake 10 had the same SMTP issue as well as an issue with the Authentication Type with my ISP. For some reason it kept dropping my Authentication Type from Login to Plain. Don't know how or why, but it would not stay on Login after I changed it. After I reinstalled Barca the Auth type remained in Login, but I still had a SMTP connection issues. I went through every possible idea to resolve but after 24 hours of screwing with it; wife and kids out of town, had nothing better to do, I took a shot in the dark and replaced the LAN driver. Nothing fancy, standard 3Com fast ether port.
Damn if it did not resolve the issue. At that point I was a little perplexed and decided that 24 hours was not enough and decided to reinstall Suse 9.1 with the prior version of Wine and the old Lan driver. I got the SMTP connection error again. I installed the new Lan driver and whoosh, SMTP connection issue resolved.
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For a semantic annotation task I am trying to calculate the semantic similarity between two sets of annotations: S1 and S2. Both sets consist out of multiple nodes from within one graph (in my case an ontology). The sets do not necessarily contain the same amount of nodes.
I measure the similarity between two nodes using a path-based similarity metric (Leacock & Chodorow's). By measuring the similarity between each node in both subgraphs, I can generate a semantic similarity graph, see example here: http://graus.nu/thesis/measure-and-visualize-semantic-similarity-between-subgraphs/ (in this case, the red and blue nodes are nodes from S1 and S2, the edges represent similarity between nodes).
But now I want to know how to calculate the average, mean and standard deviation of the similarity between the two subgraphs as a whole. How would I go about that? I thought about taking the shortest path for each node in S1 to each node in S2, and using these to get my avg/mean/std deviation, however different sized sets means I miss information in some cases (for example in the case where S1 has 3 nodes and S2 has 8 nodes; I'd get 3 paths). Couldn't I just use all possible edges between all nodes from S1 to all nodes from S2 to get these numbers?
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Gymnastics is one of the most popular, and consistently controversial, sports in the summer Olympics. But, despite Buzz Bissinger's scathing New York Times column from last week decrying the many corrupt elements of gymnastics — the eating disorders, the injuries, the possibility that the Chinese are allowing underage girls to compete — if you watch Shawn Johnson's near-flawless balance beam performance in yesterday's qualifying round, all that criticism falls away. Johnson finished first in the qualifiers, and even though two members of the U.S. team were hobbled by ankle injuries (Samantha Peszek and Chellsie Memmel), the team managed to qualify in second place behind the Chinese.
What was less lovely, however, was the series of tips we received about some of the commentary during the gymnastics competition. Both Anna and I were watching the event, but we missed out on this piece of lameness. Reader Lauren writes, "I heard commentators compare the heartbreak of being unable to compete due to a last minute injury to 'a tear in your wedding dress right before you walk down the aisle.' Can you imagine that kind of comparison if it were a male athlete? Why is it that even when women are achieving amazing physical feats, some of which men couldn't possibly accomplish, they still have to be reduced to feeling only the pain of a bridezilla?"
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[sigh] How many times do we have to pull quotes out of the Skeptic's Annotated Koran before these dipshits will acknowledge that the koran completely embraces the "us vs. them" attitude, that it instructs believers to abjure friendships with christians and jews (and doubtless atheists!), and insists on death for apostates?
Hmph - "out of context," my muscular buttocks!
Hah, I thought I was the only person who did that!
In our "Inquiry in the Humanities" Honors class in my freshman year of college, we were given Korans once during our discussion of religion. I shit you not, literally the first time I just randomly opened the book, there was a passage about killing non-believers. I was like "O_O;;".
Having two copies of the Koran with me myself, I have decided to perform this fun little experiment. Ok, first one, what do we have? A bit about Allah punishing the wrongdoers with terrible punishment and destroying many a township so that they lay in ruins... those who strive against us will dwell in hell-fire... truly Allah is all-knowing and all-wise... those who doubt this will find torment on the day of ressurection... unbelievers will find a humiliating torment in hell... but the believers will be in Paradise, so, yay for them! Ok, not very nice at all, let's try the second one.
On the day the lord comes, hell shall be presented to the unbelievers... Hell is prepared as an entertainment for the ubelievers... and the unbelievers shall go to hell! Ok, worst broken record ever!
Hah! Yeah I actually came across one person who said "beat" your wife means "win at her own game" and "slay" unbelievers means "slay the unbelieving part of them by converting them"
...this is what we call TAQIYYAH!
The killings are one of the more shocking aspect of Quranic teachings about non-believers. They're not supposed to befriend them. If they befriend them, it's better to befriend Christians than to befriend Jews because Jews are treacherous according to the Holy Qur'an. And then there's the issue of wife-beating which draws all kinds of apologetics and crazy arguments, sometimes even from women.
Women in the West who convert to Islam, coming from societies where women have more rights and freedoms than probably ever before, they end up in a faith where they would marry a man who 1. must be muslim, 2. may acquire three more wives if he can afford them and 3. may then physically attack her, Qur'an in hand, because this is 4:34, the verse where wife beating is endorsed if wives are not obedient. It's not a matter of whether it's acceptable, it's a matter of how to apply this verse. This is never questioned, not even by the imams. Read:
Men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance - [first] advise them; [then if they persist], forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them. But if they obey you [once more], seek no means against them. Indeed, Allah is ever Exalted and Grand. - Qur'an 4:34
The Skeptic's Annotated Bible includes the quran and the book of mormon as well:
It has all sorts of links about "What Does the Quran Say About..." this, that or the other thing, and women are definitely on the list. You might give it a look.
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