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Judy Blume (née Sussman; born February 12, 1938) is an American author. She has written many novels for children and young adults which have exceeded sales of 80 million and been translated into 31 languages. Blume's novels for teenagers were among the first to tackle such controversial matters as racism (Iggie's House), menstruation (Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret.), divorce (It's Not the End of the World, Just As Long As We're Together), bullying (Blubber), masturbation (Deenie; Then Again, Maybe I Won't) and teen sex (Forever), and as such have been the source of controversy over the appropriateness of such topics for her middle school audience.
A lifelong avid reader, Blume first began writing when her children were attending preschool, and published her first book, The One in the Middle Is the Green Kangaroo, in 1969. The decade that followed proved to be her most prolific, with 13 more books being published, including many of her most well-known titles, such as Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (1970), Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing (1972), Otherwise Known as Sheila the Great (1972), and Blubber (1974).
After publishing novels for young children and teens, Blume tackled another genre—adult reality and death. Her novels Wifey and Smart Women shot to the top of The New York Times best-seller list. Wifey has become a bestseller, with over 4 million copies sold to date. Her latest and third adult novel Summer Sisters (1998) was widely praised and has sold more than 3 million copies. It spent 5 months on The New York Times Bestseller list, with the hardcover reaching #3 and the paperback spent several weeks at #1.


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Jared Hughes necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 44 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
Woodland Realty is a small real estate company located in Southwest Alabama. Roughly half of their business is residential sales, while the other half is hunting, timber, and rural land, with some commercial/industrial.
The target audience is both residential homebuyers and outdoorsmen (hunters and rural land buyers).
Attached is a very general wireframe to base the design on, along with a site map. Feel free to stray from it.
See original site:
- Outdoors-oriented theme (trees, land, wildlife, wood, etc.)
- Logo will remain the same, but needs to be cleaned up (no original file available)
- Nav menu will be graphics-based (please choose a unique font for use throughout the site)
- Green / beige color scheme is preferred, white content area background
- Container width 900px
- Unique, subtle background pattern
- Harsh, obvious gradients and drop shadows unacceptable
- Clever icons/background graphics for section headers and sub-nav (text-based, but would like an @font-face font)
Note: In the wireframe attached, I do not have a "Welcome / About Us" section on the homepage. If you can fit that in tastefully, that would be good. It's not critical.
The top section on the homepage, where it will contain stock photos with the categories to the right, will function similarly to the headlines/photos at the top right of http://www.cmt.com.
There are excellent design examples attached.


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Truth, Beauty, Charm, Strange
Nefertiti's chin, mouth, and nose, and the uraeus cobra are placed along the vertical axis of the face. The nostrils are exactly one finger distant from each side of this median line; the outer ends of the eyebrows are three fingers from the median line and the center of each ear is four fingers,
It happened to the visitor for the first time at a recent Kumano Kuroemon Exhibition. It was as if he was put under a magical spell. His feet felt glued to the ground and he could not move; he could not pull himself away from Kumano's guinomi display no matter how hard he tried.
The visitor went home that night only to find himself still unable to break free from Kumano's spell. He looked at Kumano's scary face on the cover of a Toh book and thought what a gentle spirit Kumano is.


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How Can I Identify Boards Revision in FieldFox?
To identify system board revision in FieldFox
- Press keypad number 7 (System) on FieldFox
- Select Service Diagnostics menu tab
- Choose System Information
FieldFox will display screen shot as below. System board information is loacated at SB Identity row.
The HW=003 represents the board revision. In this instance it is revision 3.


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Case Closed - Season 4 Box Set [Viridian Collection] (DVD)
Title: Case Closed - Season 4 Box Set [Viridian Collection]
Volume: DVD
Running time: 635
Distributor: FUNimation Entertainment
Release date: 2010-03-23
Suggested retail price: $29.98
Age rating: 13+
The criminal mind is a twisted place, and Jimmy Kudo knows the shady corridors of humanity better than any detective in the game. There ain't a bad guy in town who can outsmart him, so they try to put the super sleuth down for a dirt nap. But instead of ending up in a shallow grave, Jimmy wakes up to find himself turned back into a kid. Utilizing his unlikely new persona and the latest in crime-fighting gadgetry, he tracks down his assailants as boy detective Conan Edogawa.
Contains episodes 80-105.
Special Features: Character Spotlight, Conan's Gadgets, Trailers.
Spoken Languages: English, Japanese, English subtitles.
(added on 2010-06-04, modified on 2013-05-02)
- Encyclopedia information about Case Closed (TV)


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Thomassiapik Sivuarapik was born on June 11, 1941 in a small camp about ten miles south of Puvirnituq. He lives there with his wife Lizzie, also an accomplished carver, and their four children. Two men who had particular influence on Thomassiapik's artistic development were his father, Charlie Sivuarapik, and his uncle, Isah Qumalu Sivuarapi. Both of these well-known carvers encouraged Thomassiapik from an early age to translate into stone, the various animal and figurative images in his mind's eye. Charlie was an instrumental force in establishing the Povungnituk Sculptors Society; Thomassiapik continued this family tradition of community leadership by acting as a spokesperson for such important issues as establishing a hospital in the region, and the James Bay Agreement.
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The state Ethics Commission has brought a complaint against former Worcester County Sheriff Guy W. Glodis for allegedly urging Worcester County Jail officials to place an inmate in a work release program at the request of a friend and campaign supporter.
The Enforcement Division of the Ethics Commission has filed an order alleging that Mr. Glodis violated two sections of the state conflict of interest law by making the request to county jail officials.
A hearing on the allegations will be scheduled within three months. If the commission finds that the former sheriff violated the conflict of interest law, Mr. Glodis could be fined up to $10,000, officials said.
Mr. Glodis said yesterday that the inmate was released as a result of jail overcrowding — not because of his political connections.
The order detailing the allegations asserts that David G. "Duddie" Massad, a local businessman who is chairman and majority stockholder in Commerce Bank and Trust Co., was a friend and campaign supporter of Mr. Glodis when the alleged violation occurred in 2009. The order alleges that one of Mr. Massad's employees, who was overseeing construction of an automobile dealership showroom in Auburn, was due to begin a four-month sentence at the Worcester County Jail for a larceny conviction.
On Oct. 28, 2009, the day before the inmate was scheduled to begin his sentence, Mr. Massad contacted Mr. Glodis and asked if the inmate could be placed on work release so that he could continue to oversee the project, according to the Ethics Commission.
The commission did not name the inmate.
However, the timeline matches with the inmate being Joseph T. Duggan III of Shrewsbury, a friend of Mr. Massad's and a former contractor who had been stripped of his state construction supervisor license after a number of customers complained that he had pocketed their money without finishing the jobs for which he was paid.
The Telegram & Gazette previously reported that Mr. Duggan, who was supposed to serve four months in prison for scamming a Worcester homeowner out of $18,000, was placed into a work release program on Oct. 29, 2009. Mr. Massad had paid the $18,000 in restitution for Mr. Duggan, and a judge agreed to reduce the two-year jail sentence to four months.
Mr. Duggan was placed in the work release program despite a written sheriff's department policy that had been approved by Mr. Glodis less than two weeks earlier that barred inmates with "warrants or cases pending before any court" from participating in the work release program.
At the time, Mr. Duggan had two criminal cases pending in Westboro District Court.
The state law authorizing sheriffs to establish work release programs requires that inmates be permitted to leave confinement only "during necessary and reasonable hours for the purpose of working at gainful employment."
For the first two months of his sentence, Mr. Duggan signed out of the jail about 6 every morning except Sundays. He didn't return most days until after 8 p.m., according to prisoner movement logs obtained by the Telegram & Gazette in 2010. In late December 2009, Mr. Duggan was released on an electronic monitoring bracelet for the remaining two months of his sentence.
Mr. Glodis worked as a business development officer for Mr. Massad's Commerce Bank for about 18 months in 2005, before taking over as sheriff.
According to the complaint from the Ethics Commission, Mr. Glodis allegedly agreed to contact jail officials about the request from Mr. Massad, and told Mr. Massad someone from the jail would contact him if the inmate could be placed on work release.
The next day, a jail official contacted Mr. Massad, and told him the inmate would be placed on work release, provided that Mr. Massad assumed responsibility for picking up and returning the inmate to jail, according to the Ethics Commission.
Mr. Glodis said yesterday that he expects to be vindicated when the alleged violation is heard.
"I'm confident this issue will be resolved in a timely and just manner, and I am confident that no ethical laws were violated," he said. "I certainly understand the due diligence of the commission to look into the matter." He added that other factors will show the inmate assignment to work release was not unwarranted.
An independent three-member panel at the jail voted to release the inmate with no influence from Mr. Glodis or the sheriff's office, Mr. Glodis said. Further, he said, the jail was at the time operating under a federal consent decree to release nonviolent, non-sex-offender minimum security inmates. He said that particular inmate met all three of those criteria.
The Ethics Commission stated that Mr. Glodis allegedly violated the law by using his office to provide an unwarranted privilege to the inmate and Mr. Massad.
Mr. Massad said in an interview yesterday that he did not recall all the details of what happened, but that he did remember asking Mr. Glodis if Mr. Duggan could be released to continue working on the showroom project.
"He didn't do anything wrong," Mr. Massad said of the former sheriff. "He just had somebody call me. We were right in the middle of a job. They have that all the time, the work release. I didn't ask for anything special."
Mr. Massad said that Mr. Duggan's crime wasn't so serious that he should have been disqualified from work release.
"The guy's a good guy," he said of Mr. Duggan. "He's working on a job for us right now."
Thomas Caywood and Aaron Nicodemus of the Telegram & Gazette staff contributed to this report.


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DSI: Aerial photos may save Phuket sea gypsy village
PHUKET: The Department of Special Investigation (DSI) has obtained historical aerial photographs of the Rawai beachfront dating back as far back as 1950, which may prove to be the evidence needed to save the village from being plundered by private investors.
Lt Col Prawuth Wongsinil, chief of the DSI's Consumer and Environment Protection Office, inspected the village on Friday as part of an investigation to confirm how long the sea gypsy community has been living at Phuket's southernmost beach.
The inspection followed the vow of Pol Col Narat Savetanant, director-general of the Rights and Liberties Protection Department, to investigate land claims to plots inside the sea gypsy village (story here).
"The Rawai sea gypsies filed a complaint, asking us to examine evidence in their village to prove they have been living in the area for generations," Col Prawuth said.
The evidence being sought is hoped to predate land ownership documents for the area, which would invalidate ongoing claims over land plots inside the village.
The Phuket court recently upheld claims to plots within the boundaries of the village on the basis of land documents produced, a ruling that has thrown the sea gypsy community into disarray as they are now fighting court-ordered evictions (story here).
"We have aerial photographs of the area from 1950, 1967, 1976, and 1995 until now. The aerial photographs from 1967 show the sea gypsies have been living in the area since then," Col Prawuth said.
"We are going to get more aerial photographs, taken in other years. We believe they will help us determine a clearer understanding of how long the sea gypsies have been living here," he explained.
Specialists will review the photographs to determine if any structures featured in images taken decades ago remain today, hence establishing continuous occupation of the land.
"If they can, the photos could be used to prove that the land has been occupied since the date of the image was taken," Col Prawuth explained.
The inspection team yesterday noted details of the village and collected samples as evidence. A human arm bone was recently found at the site (story here).
"The age of the bone will be able to tell us the year that the land was occupied," Col Prawuth explained.
"We will take the evidence we collected today to discuss with archeologists and forensic officers in Bangkok," he added.
"The investigation is expected to take about two to three months to complete," he said.
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Now you see him, now you don't… Patong Police hunt foreigner over $30k theft
PHOTO: Patong Police
Patong Police have yet to develop any tangible leads tracking down a foreigner who made off with US$30,000 in cash from a currency exchange booth in Kalim, north of Patong in Phuket, last Tuesday.
The man is about 168 centimetres tall with grey hair and around 60 years old, Patong police told The Phuket News.
"We have no clue what nationality he is."
He was last seen at the currency exchange booth wearing a purple polo shirt, blue jeans and black cap. Police have checked hotels in the area, police stations across the island and Phuket Immigration, but have yet to join the dots and come up with firm leads.
"Investigators have checked CCTV in the area and collected what evidence we have but we still do not know the man's name or where he was staying."
The man had visited the booth several times before Tuesday, when he disappeared with the $30,000 in US banknotes, according to police.
"It was always small amounts", he added, noting that the amounts didn't warrant staff at the exchange booth to check the man's passport before making the exchange.
The man arrived at the booth again at about 1pm on Tuesday, saying that he had 900,000 baht cash to exchange.
SOURCE: The Phuket News
Mystery surrounds security guard found dead in his Phuket room
PHOTOS: Phuket Hot News
The security guard of a hotel in Nai Yang, northern Phuket, 52 year old Yingyot Butsabong, from Maha Sarakham province, was found dead yesterday (October 16) in his room. Police remain mystified how the man came to grief.
A woman named Supattra received a call from the hotel he worked at and was informed that he didn't show up at work yesterday, so she went to his apartment to check on him.
She saw that his room was locked from the inside, so used the key she had in her possession to open the room and found Yingyot laying on the floor, face down. She thought he was just sleeping so she tried to wake him up but once she flipped him, she found that he already passed away.
She immediately called Saku police, and once on the scene, police found that there was some blood on the floor. The man had a 2 centimetre wound on his left eyebrow which was deep into his skull. There was also a wound on his chin about 1 centimetre long and about a centimetre deep. His left eye had a bruise which looked like he was attacked by a hard object.
Police report that he had been dead for around four hours in the room.
The room was not ransacked and there was no sign of fighting or theft. His body has been sent to Thalang Hospital for a detailed autopsy and to look into the cause of death.
SOURCE: Phuket Hot News
'Always Smile Journey' raises fund to provide free English classes for underprivileged people
On October 18, the 'Always Smile Journey' group and its partners will host an exhibition with plenty of fun activities at the Yak Yai Market, near Chalong Circle, in Phuket. This event was designed to raise funds to provide free English classes for underprivileged people on the island of Phuket on Saturdays and Sundays. The group does not accept donations but aims to raise money through the sales of the products available at the event.
From 2 pm to 8 pm, there will be a number of artists, musicians and performers who will keep the attendees entertained along the way. There will be a short film about His Majesty King Rama 9 as well as fun activities and games for kids and families, which are all free of charge.
The big bike crew is also a part of this event. They will ride a parade from Rawai Beach heading to the market and showcase their gorgeous two-wheel buddies.
One of the highlights of the Always Smile Journey exhibition is the 'Happening' artists group, who will draw and paint a picture of the His Majesty King Rama 9 under the name 'Street Art King Bhumibol' on a 4×10 meter sign live at the event so the guests will experience this large-scale art in action. The Happening will also offer portrait sketching for the participants.
There will also be some western menus available at the event which will be donated to underprivileged children.
This free English class project has over seven years of experience through its cooperation working with individuals and other charity organizations. Throughout the years, the group visited several areas such as Ban Laem Hoy School, Ban Bopud School and Ban Angthong School in Samui, Surat Thani province, Ban Bueng Ao Oun School and Ban Kakoh Rayong, in Surin province, Jalae Village of Lahu (Muser) in Chiang Rai province, as well as community education centers in Siem Reap, Cambodia and in Luang Prabang, in Laos.
This event is a cooperation between several groups, including Happening, Yak Yai Market and Arrow Media, Tattoo artist group, Thonburi Art School Alumni, International School of Tourism, Suratthani Rajabhat University, big bike group from Phuket, artists/performers/musicians from many provinces as well as several businesses across Phuket.
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/srv/http and other issues
It seems that the latest apache-package doesn't create the /srv/httpd directory anymore. Also I have an question about the chmod's:
- chmod o+x /srv/http
- chown http:http /srv/http
Or is this better (more secure?):
- chown http:http /srv/http
- cd /srv/http
- chmod 755 /srv/http
- find . -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
- find . -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Also keep getting PID-errors: systemd[1]: PID file /run/httpd/httpd.pid not readable (yet?) after start. (even when modules/mod_unique_id.so is disabled)
About the PHP Installation, mod_mpm_prefork seems not the best choice: https://serverfault.com/questions/383526/how-do-i-select-which-apache-mpm-to-use/383634#383634 I would vote for mod_proxy_handler
Beta990 (talk) 15:14, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
Be advised to set "allow_url_fopen" to "On" in /etc/php/php.ini in order to upgrade/update Wordpress properly from the admin panel. (does this info belong here?) --Rataxes 14:13, 23 July 2009 (EDT)
If the service httpd don't start, take a look at /var/log/httpd/error_log. If appears this line: -[alert] (EAI 2)Name or service not known: mod_unique_id: unable to find IPv4 address of "myhost" you must uncomment the line: LoadModule unique_id_module. Restart httpd and now it should work. --Nak 17:22, 22 April 2007 (GMT+1)
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hmm.. doesnt mysql come in /usr/lib/mysql niot /var/lib/mysql as directed?? - ScriptDevil
Split this article
I hope this is what the page is for.
In my opinion setting up LAMP should not contain detailed information about how to set up parts of LAMP. It would be cleaner to only explain how to bring these parts to work together. Especially because of the explanation's integrity. Further more because then users will be able to find a standalone HOWTO for setting up these parts. For example you don't have to read through this page order to get MySQL working. Because of the mentioned integrity I think it would be best to create independent HOWTOs on how to setup MySQL, php and maybe even apache and refer to them from this page.
I've started with MySQL because I know how to setup it and because some parts in this HOWTO are not needed any more and because of that are just confusing.
harlekin 21:13, 13. Mai 2007 (GMT+1)
Using SSL
Could the SSL section be expanded to include how to use .htaccess and mod_rewrite to redirect traffic for certain sections or the whole site? I found apache2-forcing-all-inbound-traffic-to-ssl to be a useful resource in this respect. Corburn 13:58, 23 March 2012 (EDT)
PHP: do not use mime type application/x-httpd-php
I would recommend deleting this advice from the article:
"Add this line in /etc/httpd/conf/mime.types:
application/x-httpd-php php php5"
Isn't the whole point of PHP to run it on the server side and turn it into text/html? Setting the MIME type as suggested here causes Firefox, for example, to offer to download the file or open it (in Notepad!!), instead of just presenting the HTML page.
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Wrong argument order?
# usermod -aG http piter
Seems like usermod accepts group as first argument and user as second, unlike gpasswd. Please check. axper (talk) 12:06, 30 August 2013 (UTC)
- I've removed the entire section as it doesn't add anything compared to the other method. --Lonaowna (talk) 09:33, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
userdir disable
I think that section need add:
#LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
to fully disable userdir.
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apache 2.4 upgrade
PHP breaks with apache2.4 install due to the PHP not being "threadsafe" by default, and MPM in apache being turned on by default, and is now core apache. PHP_ZTS[1] in AUR fixes this. this is simply php recompiled.
- You can also get PHP to work by using the
mod_mpm_preforkas described in the first note in the PHP configuration section. You are right that you can also create an thread-safe PHP, but this is not recommended by PHP devs.[2] I think way currently described is the "right" way, but I'm not sure about that. --Lonaowna (talk) 09:25, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
SSL Produces Syntax Errors When Following Guide
Hi everybody, Apache 2.4 sure did a number on a few of my dev servers, but oh well, it's Arch :)
Anyways, I decided to go back to this guide to see if I could simply remove all related packages to the LAMP server, double check that all old conf files are removed, then I started following this guide again to see if I can get my database server running again. (just in-house tracking of some misc. data, nothing too serious...)
So far, I can make it to the SSL configuration portion of Apache just fine, but once I've generated the keys, uncomment the line "Include conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf", and restart httpd, I get the following errors regarding syntax issues with SSLChiper every time:
AH00526: Syntax error on line 51 of /etc/httpd/conf/extra/httpd-ssl.conf: Invalid command 'SSLCipherSuite', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
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Sculptural ode to the Australian football playerPosted: July 4, 2011 in humour
Tags: humour
Global justice: Why global food prices rise, in tandem with global poverty and hungerPosted: June 28, 2011 in society
Tags: ethics, food security, global justice
"Global food prices are at record highs, driven by huge increases in the price of wheat, corn, sugar, dairy and oils. A complex mix of factors simultaneously boosting demand and constraining supply means the recent price surges might be just the beginning". Below is a list of some of the main factors on the demand and supply side:
- continuing rapid population growth, especially in so-called developing countries, means rising demand for food (we're close to reaching 7 billion people on this planet this year, with 9.5 billion predicted by 2050, which will be a 300% increase on 1950s' figures)
- rising prosperity, especially in Asia and Brazil: wealthier people eat differently compared to poorer people, and they eat more and are willing and able to pay more for food; meat and dairy consumption has been growing rapidly and dietary pattern developed in Western countries over centuries have shifted in developing countries in decades
- the arrival of new investors in food commodity markets (including large pension funds), being attracted by higher profits as a result of higher food prices
- ever-increasing production of biofuels: a result of peak oil, rising fossil fuel demands from growing economic power houses like China, India and Brazil, climate change concerns, misguided and unsustainable government policies and economic interventions, profiteering by energy companies and other factors that made energy prices shoot up; all have led to a reduction in available areas dedicated to growing food and diverting millions of tons of cereals away from food markets
- climate impacts, having led to weather related crop destruction over the last few years in main food producing countries like Russia, the US and Australia
- the so-called Green Revolution that started to deliver increasing outputs since the 1960 is coming to the end of its life cycle
- urbanisation and pollution are contributing to a growing scarcity of land and water; it is predicted that by 2030, 47% of the world's population will be living in areas under water stress if current trends aren't being reversed (and that will not just affect to so-called developing world)
- government policies, especially restrictions and bans on food exports having negative consequences on food availability
Interesting times ahead, not just for food supply but also for whatever exists as world peace …
Source: SMH
Ray Kurzweil on the future of language translation technologyPosted: June 25, 2011 in science & technology
Tags: technology
Ray Kurzweil is interviewed here by Nataly Kelly who works for Common Sense Advisory, a company focused on language in the context of globalisation, which of course includes translation. While her questions are informed by her work context (and sometimes lead to repetition in Kurzweil's answers), they nevertheless make Kurzweil reflect on whether and how computers will replace humans as translators.
Kurzweil already predicted more than eleven years ago in his book "The Age Of Spiritual Machines" that computers will reach a high degree of almost human proficiency in translating written and spoken language by 2029. While he was formulating his prediction, Franz Och started to work on language translation algorithms; Och today is the man behind Google Translations, which still is very crude but nevertheless has reached mainstream. Considering how rapidly technological progress happens, I wouldn't be surprised if 2029 will turn out to be a fairly conservative assumption.
But the video is not so much focused on time frames, as it is on questions based on the effects of computers on translation, like for example whether we will live in societies without language barriers because computers will comprehensively convey meanings from one language to another in an instant. Kurzweil answers that question with a categorical 'no'. Even if computer translations will be able to reach a level of proficiency that will allow us to use them for day-to-day conversation and communication, Kurzweil predicts that people will still gain immense benefits from learning other languages, the same way literature (in particular poetry) will still need humans for translation. Words do not just have literal meanings but are also carriers of cultural messages, are steeped in historical contexts and are the products of unique individual creative expression. Unless we create artificial intelligence that at least fully matches our own human one, machines relying on databases for translation won't reflect and produce the complexity and richness that humans are able to tap into when extracting meaning from words in another language.
Another question Kurzweil addresses in this context is whether computer translations will wipe out the profession of human translators, for example in non-literary fields like that of commerce. Again he answers with a 'no'. While making references to the just mentioned translation quality argument, he also suggests that new technologies bring diversification to traditional professions by providing people with new skill sets (and Kurzweil refers in this context to the introduction of synthesisers in the 1980s and the consequent changes computers have made to music creation).
While Kurzweil's historical perspective seems verifiable over longer time periods, it certainly won't hold true in the short-term. After all: car factories are not filled with masses of multi-skilled workers but with robots and a hand-full of engineers and technicians, and those workers' experience was just another repetition of what for example the weavers' trade went through in the 19th century when the steam engine eliminated it. Therefore and despite different avenues being opened for a new generation of language agents, countless translators will lose their professional career prospects forever – the same way people are losing their jobs in bookshops and record stores without being re-employed en-masse by online companies. But I guess, if you're a futurist with a fascination for technology, social justice aspects are outside your general frame of reference – which still makes Kurzweil's reflection within its own albeit limited context quite interesting.
Brain study confirms stress of life in the cityPosted: June 25, 2011 in science & technology
Tags: neuroscience
RESEARCHERS have long known that city dwellers are at greater risk of mental health problems than their country cousins. But the biology behind this was not known until now.
Results of an international study have shown for the first time how two regions of the brain responsible for regulating stress and emotion are affected by city living.
As part of the German study, 32 people were asked to do a tricky maths test while lying in a brain scanner.
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Researchers at the University of Heidelberg introduced stress by imposing time constraints and relaying disapproving feedback from examiners.
They found that when exposed to stress the parts of the brain that process emotion – the amygdala and cingulate cortex – were more active among the students who lived in or had been raised in cities.
The findings, published in the journal Nature this week, establish that there is a connection between city living and sensitivity to social stress.
Results also showed a corelation between the activity levels in the amygdala region of the brain and the size of the city each student called home: people from cities of more than 100,000 people showed more activation of the amygdala region than those from towns of more than 10,000, and those in turn showed more activation than people from the rural areas.
Previous research has found that growing up in a big city raises the risk of schizophrenia.
Originally published by The Age
New porn study reveals interesting facts on our sexual desiresPosted: June 23, 2011 in science & technology
Tags: sexuality
Source: Asher Moses, The Age
Straight men are as aroused by penises as homosexuals and have fantasies of their wives sleeping with other men, but any fears about the negative or corrupting influence of pornography are misguided, neuroscientists have found in one of the largest studies of internet porn habits.
The study also gathered some revealing insights into women's porn searches finding that, unlike men, they generally prefer erotic stories to visuals. They were also turned on by stories about masculine men sharing their tender side and being intimate with each other.
For their new book A Billion Wicked Thoughts, neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam say they analysed as much data on internet pornography habits as they could find including more than a billion web searches, a million erotic stories, a half-million erotic videos, paid porn site subscription statistics, millions of personals ads, ten thousand digital romance novels, online data responses, the world's most popular free porn sites and other data.
One of the largest studies on internet porn habits has revealed some
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The study – which they dubbed the "world's largest experiment" – found a group of about 20 sexual interests that accounted for 80 per cent of all the porn people watched and spent money on. The top five categories, in their words, are: youth, gays, MILFs (mothers), breasts and cheating wives.
Ogas said some of the interesting findings from his research included that men "prefer overweight women to underweight women" and while men generally prefer younger women, there was significant sexual interest in older women including those in their 40s, 50s and 60s.
"There's even an internationally popular genre of erotica known as granny porn," said Ogas.
"The four body parts that both straight and gay men are wired to find sexually interesting are: chests, butts, feet and penises. Heterosexual men are very interested in looking at penises, especially large penises."
Orgas said heterosexual men searched for penises almost as often as they search for vaginas and out of the top 35,000 most popular adult sites, roughly 1000 were devoted to large penises.
"This interest is perhaps inherited from our primate ancestry: chimpanzees, monkeys, and bonobos use their penis as a prominent and versatile social instrument, to signal aggression, to indicate dominance, to mark territory, and to indicate sexual interest," he said.
The study found that the largest audience for "shemale" – male-to-female transexual – porn was heterosexual men. Orgas described this as an "erotical illusion".
"These are erotic stimuli that trick the perceptual machinery of the sexual brain by combining different sexual cues in novel combinations," he said.
"A shemale has the body of a woman and a penis. The female body consists of female anatomical parts that trigger arousal (breasts and curves, for example)… but also has the cue of a penis, which is another sexual cue for men."
Ogas and Gaddam's research has been extensively covered everywhere from Time magazine to the Freaknonomics website.
The researchers have dismissed moral panic that argues pornography is encouraging men to pursue degrading and perverse sexual habits. Ogas said porn was a reflection of male desires rather than a creator of male desires and erotica generally functioned to liberate and satisfy male sexual interests.
"There is an inverse correlation between the availability of pornography and rape: the more porn that's available, the less rape," said Ogas, adding extreme pornography was a rare indulgence and did not spill over into the viewer's real life.
"Almost all fears about the negative or corrupting influence of pornography are misguided, and usually applied to other people's sexual interests."
Ogas said the easy, inexpensive availability of online erotica had been a boon to women and "sexual minorities".
He said previously women lacked a way to safely and conveniently explore their sexuality, and being able to explore their desires in the security, anonymity and comfort of their own homes was preferable to travelling to a red light district or going into the back room of a video rental store.
"Similar, for homosexuals, bisexuals and transexuals living outside of urban areas, it was very difficult to access erotica with the result that many sexual minorities felt isolated, alienated and ashamed," said Ogas.
"Now, the internet allows these groups to explore their sexuality in safety and privacy and discover that many others share the same sexual interests that they do. Knowledge is power, especially when it comes to sex."
As other researchers have found previously, Ogas said sexual cues that triggered arousal in women were mainly psychological while for men it was overwhelmingly visual. Straight man were aroused by sexual dominance while most women, and gay men, were wired to be aroused by sexual submission.
One unusual result from the research was that erotica featuring cheating wives was very popular among straight men.
Ogas explained that he believed men were attracted to cheating wives due to a function biologists call a "sperm competition cue".
"All across the animal kingdom, when a male sees another male mate with a female, this often triggers greater sexual arousal in the viewing male so that he might pursue sex more vigorously – and produce more sperm – than his competitor in order to increase his chances of impregnating the female," he said.
"The sperm competition cue also explains why men are aroused by cuckold porn, also called cheating wife porn or cheating girlfriend porn, or about fantasies of their own wife or girlfriend cheating on them.
"Though men are most definitely designed to get jealous and furious at the thought of their partner cheating on them, they can also become simultaneously aroused."
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Airports: mostly ugly, expensive and annoyingPosted: June 21, 2011 in reflections
Tags: architecture, design
As someone who frequents airports quite a few times every year, I wholly sympathise with this post by the always sharp-minded, witty, sarcastic and eloquent Fleet Street Fox
THE problem with flying is not making sure you have enough pants to last or working out how much of the local currency is a reasonable amount to pay for a beer; it's the airports.
They are the only type of construction in the history of mankind designed to make your life less efficient and more difficult.
(And before anyone smart says torture chambers, they were models of efficiency and can keep you entertained for months if necessary.)
It used to be that you parked next to the plane, waved your ticket and climbed aboard. Now you park on an unending patch of tarmac four miles from the airport where you will never find your car again, get a bus to the terminal, spend an hour in a queue to check in, spend more hours in queues having your underwear rifled and your toothpaste sniffed for explosives while being repeatedly asked to undress, then get channelled through a series of over-priced retail opportunities before you're thrown into the back of a jet with several hundred other people in various states of rage and most of whom are ready to kill.
Whoever in the world designs airports and various parts of them – in particular the seats which are too uncomfortable to sit on, and the vast, hangar-like ceilings which are exercises in ugliness and lazy architecture – needs a kick up the backside.
The purpose of all engineering and design is to make life nicer, simpler, and more efficient. Yet in the case of airports it causes low-grade misery so pernicious that, even if not manifested via the medium of multiple homicides in the Duty Free, still makes the world a less pleasant place by a factor of millions of people a year.
So, because I am stuck in this terminal for another four hours waiting for the plane which cost £200 more than it should after I missed the one before because I was having such a nice holiday, and for what it's worth, here are my suggestions for nicer airports:
* Sofas. Yes, I know they would all become like the ones in Starbucks within a week, covered in stains and food that has fallen out of someone else's mouth, but they're nice and the metal creation I am sat on at the moment is not. It's vile. It's uncomfortable, it's ugly, and it hurts to sit on it for more than five minutes. We spend hours in airports – some people have to sleep in them. I'm not asking for anti-macassars but I think we should be able to have cushions. We certainly should not have things designed entirely to stop someone having a snooze because it makes the place look untidy.
* No-one has yet found a way to hijack a plane with the use of tweezers. Let us keep them.
* Ditto nail clippers, toothpaste, foundation and bottles of water.
* We do not, generally speaking, have to be on your plane. It would be nice if everyone who works in airports realised this.
* Make some effort with the architecture. I'd happily spend days staring at the vaulted ceiling of St Pancras station, which is proof that just because you have a big open space doesn't mean it has to look like a shed. Add some beauty to the world instead of corrugated steel and plastic.
* Proper heating. Airports are always cold, and there is no good reason for this.
* Public announcements should be made by a member of staff who can speak clearly and has a pleasant voice. Not some toothless stroke victim who can't be trusted to empty the bins.
* There is no earthly reason why a cup of tea in an airport costs twice as much as one outside. Or the clothes, or the sunglasses, or the twatty keyrings.
* Gardens. Play areas for children that don't just consist of a couple of small plastic chairs. A giant piano keyboard like the one in Big. Free massages. Put some paintings on the walls. Have showers for people travelling overnight and provide toothpaste and toothbrushes in the toilets – you're making enough money out of the sunglasses to pay for it.
* Travel should be about new experiences so promote a sense of adventure by paying someone to dress up as Indiana Jones and run through the terminal screaming while pursued by a giant stone ball and some angry-looking natives. Failing that, hire a samba band.
* Lastly, if I wanted to blow up a plane I'd post the bomb or get a job as a baggage handler. Bend more of your energies to that end of things and do me the honour of presuming I'm probably not a killer.
Not yet, anyway.
Do we fancy leaders that are corrupt, murder and rape?Posted: June 16, 2011 in reflections, society
Tags: ethics, society & culture
Another brilliant article by Elizabeth Farrelly published by the Sydney Morning Herald. This time on why the privileged at the top of our societies, the so-called leaders in politics, sports and business, get away with pillaging, corruption, murder and rape. Do they have a specially sanctioned system of ethics? Do we approve of their seemingly impunity-driven Silverback actions? What is our relationship to these mainly alpha males that for example makes us think that rape is just a slight sexual digression or at the most a sex crime, instead of seeing it as a violence crime based on the assumed right to having power over someone else? Why aren't we bothered when the heads of governments and armed forces play games that kill thousands of innocent villagers?
Farrelly offers some interesting observations and reflections in her usual hard-hitting and eloquent way. One small reservation though: while I'm enjoying the bollocking those so-called leaders, the last paragraph is somewhat detrimental to the post; it deflates the whole previous argument and almost kills it. There's an easy fix though: just ignore it ;).
Gruesome gorillas in our midst
What do Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Sepp Blatter and the NSW Labor Right have in common? Only this. The grotesque sense of entitlement that lets top people act in ways totally unacceptable for the rest of us.
This is silverback behaviour. "Every group needs one," says the trailer for Mountain Gorilla, "and every male aspires to be one." True, perhaps, for those primates. But is it also – still – true for us?
When l'affaire DSK broke on May 15, France was shocked – not by the allegation that this presumed presidential contender had forced a hotel maid to perform une fellation, but that he had been jailed for it like a common criminal.
Christine Boutin, France's Christian Democrat leader, insisted DSK had been entrapped, as though it were inconceivable that this wealth-loving socialist and legendary womaniser might do wrong. This was the truly astonishing aspect of the Strauss-Kahn affair; the revelation that, at the top of this powerful and finger-pointing organisation, ethics simply do not apply.
The IMF's 2400 staffers must abide by its increasingly stringent and policed ethical code, but its 24 directors are above scrutiny.
It's no isolated case. We laugh at the Putins and Berlusconis, the Stalins and Bushes and Sarkozys, marvelling at their ongoing popularity as if we ourselves would never childishly follow such thugs. Yet we're not so different, having just spent over a decade politely re-electing a Labor government that was clearly on the nose.
Only now, for example, is the 2007 below-market sale of Currawong to alleged Labor mates referred to ICAC. Engineered by the then secretary of Unions NSW, John Robertson, and facilitated by the Heritage Council member, uh, John Robertson, the Currawong sale seemed fishy from the start. Yet only now, with Tony Kelly's vanishing, does sad little ICAC finally turn up the heat.
Or consider the weekend's honours list, giving an AO to Mick Keelty who, as federal police commissioner, deliberately betrayed 19-year-old Scott Rush to Indonesian "justice". Keelty knew Rush was small-fry, and knew the father's desperation, yet he dropped the boy into treatment we won't tolerate for cattle.
Or take sport, which should be the cleanest of enterprises but consistently turns up among the filthiest. It's dirty because of the money involved and because our reverence blinds us, but also because sport is native silverback territory.
Indeed, you might say sport derives its excitement from the tension between jungle-rule and the rules of the game. The same tension in the boardroom, however, generates cosiness and corruption. As the New York judge Loretta Preska noted in dismissing a 2007 appeal, "FIFA … still does not govern its actions by its slogan 'Fair Play'."
Sepp "let the women play in … tighter shorts" Blatter survived the Qatar corruption scandal but, as head of this graft-ridden autocracy, probably shouldn't have. Juan Antonio Samaranch, who as head of the IOC (on which Blatter also serves) was more tinpot tyrant than Spanish patrician, shamelessly parading over decades his predilection for Franco's fascists, five-star presidential suites and being addressed as "Excellency".
It's like the Kerry Packer tax question. Why do we constantly condone behaviour at the top which we ourselves would never get away with and which, as a society, we affect to despise?
One theory is that decency isn't mandated at the top because it needn't be, because silverbacks are inherently decent.
This would explain the huge public outcry, almost grief, whenever a favourite actor is found sniffing cocaine from toilet seats or a football star king-hits a colleague for fun. But were it true, such events would be rare. So, hmmm. Plausibility problem. Another explanation is that we, needing to revere our Churchills and our Menzies, simply overlook their failings. But there's a third, more disturbing possibility; that we actually select leaders who can look moral while acting in ways that are profoundly not. Leaders who have perfected the art of church-and-apple-pie Sundays while bombing the shite out of Third World villages. Leaders, that is, whose hypocrisy facilitates our own.
No surprise, then, that these primal morals accompany equally primitive attitudes to both violence and sex, blurring the bounds between these, our most primate appetites.
Open any paper and alongside the relatively innocent tabloid array of celebrity babies, boob-ads and ministerial fishnets there's a whole other, more sinister genre of forced sex: paedophile priests, Gaddafi rape squads, campus stalkers, child-immigrant rape, asylum-seeker rape, workplace abuse (and its profits), naked French chaps leaping on hotel maids and rape rampant – so to speak – throughout the armed forces.
This is silverback territory, and it's not actually sex at all. It's repression, territory and power.
For there is a neglected distinction between sex and sexual abuse. Abuse, any psychologist will tell you, isn't sex. It's power. Rape is not a sex crime – though the titillation may be sexual – but a crime of violence. Yet these violent tendencies to treat others as territory are traits we consistently prefer in our leaders.
So is this reality? Has sex-as-repression always been core human behaviour and we're just now noticing it? Or is it more that this brutal picture is the self-portrait we choose?
Even now the French press treats l'affaire DSK as a sexism issue – les phallocrates getting their comeuppance at last – while we treat it as a fascinating scandal, with added political frisson because the maid in question is black. But it's not really about sexism or racism. It's about the kind of monkeys we want running the show.
There is of course a good argument for evil, which is that perception depends on contrast. We wouldn't feel goodness without knowing its opposite. But I'm suggesting more than that. That we actually love evil, especially when it's in the closet.
Perhaps we're like those chimps in the snake-in-the-box experiment, who know there's really bad stuff in there but cannot resist going back for another peek. Are we secretly attracted to evil?
Maybe so. Then again, maybe we're overdoing this whole primate thing. Maybe we could work a little on the sapiens angle instead. If actual goodness is too big an ask, just a little wisdom at the top would go a long, long way.
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Independent broker-dealer LPL Financial (LPLA) said Thursday that Chief Marketing Officer Joan Khoury is leaving the firm and that two executives will step into new roles within its Advisor & Institution Solutions Group.
Mimi Bock will become managing director for Client Experience and Training, taking over responsibilities previously handled by Khoury, while Ryan Parker is being tapped as managing director for Investment & Planning Solutions (IPS).
LPL Financial says that most of its existing marketing functions and all of its training teams will be a part of the new CET group. The CMO position held by Khoury has been eliminated, and she will leave the company in late August.
"We recognize the importance of always evolving to ensure the right people and positions are in place to meet the expanding opportunities within the marketplace and enhance the client experience," said Robert Moore, president of LPL Financial, in a statement.
These changes come about six weeks after LPL Financial named a new head of its Independent Advisor Services unit: Bill Morrissey.
Morrissey replaced Derek Bruton, who retired from the independent broker-dealer in early April, after it expressed "concerns over his interactions with other employees." Burton had been a managing director since 2010.
"I want to recognize Joan Khoury for all her contributions to LPL Financial during the past two years, and thank her for staying on to assist in the transition, including leading us into focus14, our premier advisor conference. We wish her well in her future endeavors," Moore added.
Previously, Bock was executive vice president of Independent Advisor Services business consulting. She joined LPL Financial in 2012 from Morgan Stanley (MS).
Parker earlier served as executive vice president of IPS for LPL, which he joined in 2013 from Russell Investments. Khoury joined LPL in February 2012 from Bank of America-Merrill Lynch (BAC).


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Caleta Ramada
Judy comes ashore with Carl & Joanne, from Far Niente, at Caleta Ramada
wingssail-Fredrick Roswold
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Sunday, July 20, 1997
Caleta Ramada
Judy comes ashore with Carl & Joanne, from Far Niente, at Caleta Ramada
wingssail-Fredrick Roswold
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Saturday, July 19, 1997
July 19, 1997-Staying at the Ramada
We've been sailing back and forth across the Sea of Cortez, and now we are back on the Baja side, and have moved a little north of Loretto, to a very small cove called Caleta Ramada.
We had a great sail here from Coronado Island where we spent the night on the west side of that island after moving there just before dark from the south side where we first anchored. We both had been nervous at dinner about the sky and the SE breeze which came up and even though it was late and touch and go to move through the channel at that time (just about dark) we did and boy were we glad. All night there were gusty southeasterly winds and lightning off in the distance. Our new location was protected from the prevailing wind whereas the first location would have been nasty, very nasty. Good call.
Anyhow, our sail from there to here was in the left over wind from the night's storm and we used the spinnaker the whole way, mostly uneventful except for one 24 knot gust on the beam right as we came out from behind the island which knocked us fairly down and caused about 10 seconds of panic as we bore off, eased sheets and got back under control. The wind gods just smacked us once in passing to notify us who is boss. All the stuff fell off the chart table and a few other places which reminded us to stow things better.
Anchored in the Sea of Cortez
When we got here we took naps and then went into the beach with the dingy to burn paper garbage and to clean the dingy bottom. Sea weed and barnacles grow on the dingy so fast we need to turn it over and clean it about every two weeks. This is a hot and messy job, so we stop and go for a swim about every 5 minutes while we are working on the dingy.
Caleta Ramada is near a popular bay called San Juanico, but we have heard from several boats that San Juanico can get a lot of wave action, which makes it rolly and hard to sleep, or do anything actually, so we skipped San Juanico and came to Ramada. It is a calm anchorage and absolutely stunning to look at with clear water, white sand beaches and a beautiful view of the Sea further north. In the distance is a high rock called Punta Pulpito, about eight miles, and one island, Isla San Ildefonso. The sky is flawlessly clear and blue, and the sun, of course, is brilliant. There is one other boat here, Far Niente, with our friends Joanne and Carl, and little other sign of human life anywhere. No houses, no pangas, no jet airplanes overhead, no lights at night except the millions of stars. We'll probably stay for a couple of days, but maybe we should stay here for a couple of years.
Well, that's all for now, just another boring report from paradise.
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Mexico
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Wednesday, July 16, 1997
San Carlos
Tuesday, July 15, 1997
July 15, 1997-San Carlos, Mexico
We crossed the sea of Cortez and we are now in HOT San Carlos. It was 99.8 in the cabin all day yesterday, but the stores here are all air-conditioned, so we went shopping. Staying cool enough to sleep at night is a challenge but we are managing. Fans fans fans. Keeping beer ice cold is critical to getting through the day, and we have solved that one with an ice chest.
Marina San Carlos
San Carlos is a nice place, lots of expensive houses, a nice marina, and stunning scenery with rugged, rugged, mountains right in the marina area. Good roads here, but that doesn't matter to us much. Here in San Carlos there are a lot of cruising yachts which have been parked here while people go home for a while and avoid the heat. One storage lot has about 400 sailboats parked in it. It is across the freeway from the marina so the traffic gets stopped when the boats are moved to and from. Interesting.
We took a bus to nearby Guaymas, it is a Mexican city with few, if any, gringo tourists in evidence, particularly this time of year. It is a fishing port with a big marine industry and lots of big fishing boats. Several statues and monuments to fishermen lost in storms etc etc on the waterfront.
There are good shopping centers in Guaymas, and cash machines, so we can spend spend spend.
We'll move on north is a few days,
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, San Carlos, Mexico
Saturday, July 12, 1997
Puerto Escondito-Baja-Mexico
Friday, July 11, 1997
July 11, 1997-Puerto Escondito
We finally got email and letter mail both on July 11; big day!. We are really in the boonies here in the middle Sea of Cortez so contact with the outside world is difficult, but it is beautiful and relaxing here. We swim a lot, fishing, clamming (you dive for them) look for scallops, etc. Living is cheap when you don't have anything to buy (not many stores) no marinas to pay moorage, etc. Temps are little hot, inside boat is 80 at night, 95 and up in the day. Outside temps have been over 100. Sailing is good however with nice afternoon breezes. Fans and spray bottles help you keep cool down below.
We have been staying around in the islands near Puerto Escondito and Loreto for a month waiting for a mail package which came yesterday. Near Puerto Escondito Puerto Escondito is a very nice natural harbor where a big development started about 10-12 years ago and never finished; just roads and the foundation for a marina and a few empty buildings in the middle of a lot of cactus. A gringo trailer park (perm spots only) nearby has a store which we walk to for basic food supplies. There is well water from a tap in Puerto Escondito which is so sweet and cool we drink more water than anything else. Just behind the marina are the Sierra de La Giganta mountains. Straight up 5000 feet from the desert about one mile back from the beach, rugged and so beautiful.
But, nice as it is here, now that we have our mail we'll start moving on north again in a day or two.
Cactus on the Baja shore
Well, we'll write again soon,
Fred & Judy, SV WINGS, Mexico<


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Rep. Ed Perlmutter, D-Jefferson County, will travel to Iwo Jima with 12 Colorado WWII veterans and a group of college students next week.
Perlmutter is traveling to Japan with the Greatest Generations Foundation and the students are from Ohio State University. He will post photos and updates from the trip next week on his Facebook page.
The Greatest Generations Foundation is sponsoring the program to return the group of veterans to the battlefields where they fought in the Pacific and to commemorate the 67th Anniversary of the historic battle of Iwo Jima where many of them served. Perlmutter is traveling with Iowa Democrat Rep. Bruce Braley.
It's Perlmutter's second trip. Two years ago, he helped 12 Colorado WWII Veterans reach Iwo Jima for the 65th Anniversary after they were stranded in Okinawa when their plane to Iwo Jima was suddenly cancelled.
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I'm not a "parent" per se, but I'm a collector of dolls and I'm buying a new baby boy tomorrow. I'm trying to find good anti-religious onesies or shirts for a reasonable price (under $20). Any atheist parents know a good online store for these? Thanks in advance!! :)
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Awwh really? That''s so great to hear! :D I'm a reborn collector, expecting my second plastic bundle of joy! :)
I remember meeting someone who made these dolls for some extra income. After a bunch of people had been together for several hours at a gathering, she stepped out and then came back in with a baby--it was astounding how lifelike it looked; some people were doing doubletakes like they were afraid the baby had been left in the car for all those hours. Then the lightbulb came on; this was her latest creation.
More to the point though: Maybe something like "Born Atheist" or you could riff off of Dawkin's complaint about labelling children as Xian, Muslim, Jewish etc. and make something up that says something like
Muslim Christian Jewish Buddhist Hindu Child
Or my personal favorite: "Thank God I'm An Atheist"
i love the "thank god I'm an atheist" phrase (I've considered buying the shirt for myself many times LOL)
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Modern Hemi and IRS Turn This Challenger Into A Cross-Country Cruiser
Have you ever wanted to head out the door, get in your Mopar, and drive it across the country?
Here's one that's up to that kind of road trip: a '71 Dodge Challenger, updated into a modern Pro Touring ride by KC's Classic Cars in Bradenton, Florida.
Like many E-Body projects, this one needed more than a little help. "She was pretty rough when we started on it," says Chris Dudley. "It was originally a 318-powered plain-Jane Challenger, with a white interior and vinyl top, and it was red outside."
Some unpleasant surprises awaited under that red paint. "It was previously-done work that had been done poorly," says Chris. "Somebody had put quarters on it before we got a hold of it and did a really poor job." Also, per Chris, something had fallen across the roof at some point in its life, and there was some old bodywork in the roof.
"We just dug everything out, re-did the quarters, and put a trunk in it," says Chris of the remedial bodywork that started the project. "The rest of the floorpans were pretty decent, and there were no real major structural problems with the car."
Structural integrity was crucial, as this '71 was due to get a full-on independent suspension system all around. "That's a new Heidt's Pro G independent rear," says Chris. "We are the first shop in the country to put the Pro G in an E-Body Mopar." That's teamed with a Reilly Motorsports' AlterKtion front-end. "It already had the late-model Hemi engine mounts on it," says Chris. "I used the factory cast-aluminum crossmember from the '10 Challenger, and I made a tubular cradle, which we welded into the car, for that crossmember to bolt to. That's for ease of working on it, in case anybody had to work on the car after we were done with it." He points out that the engine and transmission can be removed from the '71 in about 30 minutes, in case any major work is ever needed on them.
That engine and transmission are a 6.1 Hemi and Tremec six-speed, from a '10 Challenger that was beyond needing major work when KC's crew harvested its powertrain, to which they added a custom tune by Dave Webber at Modern Muscle, and a tti/Flowmaster-based exhaust system. "With the tune, the long-tube headers, and cold-air intake, this thing's making about 510 horsepower, and it definitely feels like it."
No doubt the stock hood's scoops help contribute to that. "The hood is totally functional now," says Chris. "I opened up the scoops in the hood, and where I put the aluminum panel under the hood, I made a giant air chamber out of the hood. The airbox actually seals to that panel, and the scoops are functional. It came out pretty nice."
"This thing's making about 510 horsepower, and it definitely feels like it." –Chris Dudley
Inside, the '71's cabin got a 21st Century version of the Special Edition package, with custom Corbeau seats, plenty of leather trim, a Kenwood/Kicker-based sound system, and a spiffy gauge cluster by Classic Instruments that added a tach to the Challenger's original non-Rallye dash. "It's got the SpeedTachular with the speedometer and tach combined, and it's also got that new SkyFly deal where the speedometer is GPS-operated and not hooked to the car in any way."
With a modern Hemi under the hood and a four-wheel independent suspension system underneath it, Chris says that this '71 Challenger is an exceptional driver. "I was expecting more of a firm, sports car type ride, but this thing is actually pretty plush." He adds, "For a basically bone-stock car, component-wise, it hauls ass. I want to get it to the track and see exactly what it'll do. It's my guess that it's a mid-to-low 11-second car, if it'll hook."
If the Pro Touring route — with a modern Hemi-based drivetrain–is where you want to take your next Mopar project, Chris has some encouraging advice. "If you can afford to, do it! It's definitely worthwhile to upgrade." He adds, "I've built a bunch of cars, and this one's definitely a keeper, if I had a choice."
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'71 Dodge Challenger hardtop
Built By: K.C.'s Classic Cars
Bradenton, Florida
|Mopar Power
|Engine: A totaled '10 Challenger SRT8 yielded the stock 6.1 Hemi that's now under the hood (whose scoops are functional). Dave Webber at Modern Muscle did the custom fuel and ignition mapping, and the Hemi breathes out through a custom ceramic-coated exhaust featuring tti headers, Flowmaster Delta mufflers, and a custom-fabbed exhaust by Frazee Custom Exhaust Works.
|Transmission: Tremec T-6060 six-speed (from the same totaled '10 Challenger), with a Centerforce dual-friction clutch and Hurst Pistol Grip shifter.
|Rear: Heidt's independent with a 3.73 geared rear
|Sure Grip
|Suspension: Pro Touring style, with QA1 double-adjustable coilovers at all corners (Front) Reilly Motorsports' AlterKtion (Rear) Heidt's Pro G IRS
|Brakes: Wilwood four-wheel discs, power assisted
|Wheels/Tires: Billet Specialties' Dyno SLG five-spokes (18×8 inches front, 18×10 inches rear) wear Mickey Thompson's Sportsman S/Rs all around (28×10.00R18 front, 30×12.00R18 rear)
|High Impact
|Paint/Body: Original E-Body hardtop unibody wears a functional scooped hood and stretched rear wheel openings, along with PPG's two-stage Blue Streak Pearl (a '12 Challenger color). Bodywork by Bill Peake, Crystal River, Florida.
Interior: KC's Classic Cars customized it with Corbeau custom leather front buckets, a reproduction Tuff wheel from Classic Nostalgia, a reproduction dashpad from Superior Dashpads, a Kenwood/Kicker sound system, and Classic Instruments gauges (with a Sky Fly GPS-driven speedometer). Carpets are by Auto Custom Carpets.


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