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No longer needed for its military muscle, a 275m-long aircraft carrier has been transformed into a theme park and 148-room luxury hotel in northern China.
No longer needed for its military muscle, a former Soviet aircraft carrier has been transformed into a theme park and luxury hotel in northern China.
A Chinese company bought the 275m-long ship named Kiev in 1996, and turned it into the Binhai Theme Park, located near Tianjin, in 2004. Much of the aircraft carrier remains intact, and an onsite military museum displays the missile firepower used in the ship's Cold War heyday.
But the aircraft hasn't completely escaped the marks of a typical theme park. Binhai regularly puts on Hollywood-style shows, complete with special effects, fireworks and actors dressed as renegade pirates. The carrier also recently opened a Russian-themed restaurant and embarked on an ambitious plan to offer overnight accommodations.
The 148-room hotel that opened this month cost more than 100 million yuan and covers 6,000sqm of the aircraft carrier. Shunning Soviet minimalism, the rooms are decked out with luxury furnishings, including marble floors and cowhide rugs. Of course, that luxury comes at a price: a one night stay in a double cabin-style room costs about 988 RMB per night, while an upgrade to one of the three presidential suites runs upward of 28,888 RMB per night.
Those looking to experience life on an aircraft carrier for less can visit the park between 9 am and 5 pm daily for only 160 RMB.


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Chapter 16 of Kingmaker
The squad's excitement was palpable as they approached the armory. Even Jani looked as eager to have steel in her hands as the rest of them. Phedam, though, seemed uncomfortable with the situation.
"What's wrong?" Butu asked in a whisper.
"It's too early," Phedam replied. "We've had five days of drill. It's supposed to take months to get our arms. Not only have we already been assigned to a squad, but it's a squad in one of the roving companies. And it didn't exist before!"
"I think you're being paranoid, shumi," Nolen said. "We might be really good." He didn't sound like he believed himself.
Phedam glowered and slowed to talk to Tirud. Nolen looked confused at his friend's silence.
Butu thought of the conversation he had overheard between Aeklan, Zhek and Pater.
If they're raising an army, it means war is coming. And what Phedam said, that we're a special squad, that could mean a special mission. His eyes widened. A dangerous mission, something the Kadrak won't like. And maybe it's us because our mirjuvas were so recent.
Butu wanted to share this with the rest of his squad, but he knew Blay and Aeklan were both a part of it. If they overheard him, they'd know he had spied on them. He'd find some other opportunity to tell them what he had heard.
Kira waited outside the armory.
"All of you are here to polish?" she asked with hands on hips and a smile that said she knew full well why they were coming to the armory.
Aeklan came up behind the squad and went into the tent with Kira and Zhepal.
"Nolen'll be first," Blay said. "The rest of you stay close. We'll call you when we're ready for you." He followed Nolen into the armory.
"How much longer do you think we'll have to train before we get our insignia?" Jani asked suddenly.
"Our what?" Retus asked.
Jani pointed to the flaps of cloth on each shoulder of her uniform. Butu missed her braids. "Everyone has a rank insignia to show clan, assignment and rank. Colored squares for company, platoon and squad. Brass studs for enlisted ranks and silver studs for officers."
Phedam nodded in agreement, looking impressed. "From what I hear, it should take about another month to get our insignia." He sighed and gave a small shrug. "But they put us through basic drill in just five days, so I have no idea anymore."
Awkward silence fell until Nolen emerged from the armory. Butu had enough time to note the boiled leather breastplate and the hilt of the sword before Blay called him. He trotted into the tent dutifully, if not eagerly.
Zhepal was there with his knotted measuring string, which he employed as soon as the tent flap closed behind Butu. He called out measurements to Kira, who nodded and rummaged through the neatly organized piles and racks of weapons and armor. She handed a boiled leather breastplate to Blay, who showed Butu how to put it on. Like his uniform, it fit poorly, but Kira promised it was the smallest one in the armory. It was covered with sand-colored cloth much like that used to make sordenu uniforms and protected his chest, belly and shoulders.
"Children can survive almost anything, but your childhood is coming to an end," Aeklan said, the words flattened and measured by many repetitions. "Armor is a burden that can save your life, but it is not as foolproof as youth has been."
Kira handed Blay a steel cap. Butu took off his pryud and took the cap from him. The steel was cold against his shaved scalp, but it warmed quickly. Blay handed him back the pryud and motioned for him to put it on over the cap. It covered the metal completely. Butu grinned as Blay rapped his own head with knuckles. They must always wear caps under their pryuds, he thought.
Kira handed Blay a sword in its belt sheath, and Butu's hands trembled in delight as he put it on, unable to stop smiling. Aeklan droned on.
"Your sword is your most valuable piece of equipment. It marks you as an Ahjea soldier for all to see. In battle, it is your sole hope of survival and your only means of winning glory. To return from battle without a sword — neither your own nor one taken from the corpse of your enemy — is the greatest dishonor you can suffer."
Butu made a motion to draw the sword, but Blay shook his head. Kira handed Blay a large leather pouch, which Butu took from him. It was surprisingly heavy and rattled as if filled with pebbles.
"Sordenu must be versatile," Aeklan recited. "You'll train as hard with the sling as you do with a sword. A sling is as deadly as a bow, and you never need worry about running out of ammunition. Practice with stone. Make war with lead."
Butu nodded his understanding.
"Good. Once I am satisfied you know how to use sword and sling, you'll get your stripes. After that, you'll be a true sordenu. Dismissed."
Butu saluted and left the tent, grinning and eager to start training immediately. Blay called Phedam next. Nolen sat cross-legged on the ground, examining his new sword. Butu sat next to him. A metal sphere on the pommel marked Ahjea blades. Other clans had different pommels. The Nankek had a cube attached by one corner, while the Kadrak had a metal crescent like bull's horns.
He slid the sword — his sword — out of its sheath. The slightly curved blade had one edge, and tapered to a sharp point. He tested the blade with a thumb, and it cut him almost painlessly. He sucked it, grinning at Nolen, and the taste of blood filled his mouth for several heartbeats before the wound closed.
Blay called Jani into the tent as Phedam emerged, looking every bit as pleased with himself as Butu felt. Nolen stood up, sword still drawn, grinning at his shumi. Butu wished Paka was here.
I'll never get to see this for him, though. Paka's going to go home before then.
Phedam and Nolen crossed swords so clumsily Butu couldn't help but laugh. After several dramatic poses and a ludicrous spinning attack in which Nolen nearly dropped his blade, Butu could stand no more.
"That's not the way to do it. Here, let me show you."
He squared off with Nolen, who swung the same way, clearly expecting Butu to block the blade with his own, making a nice X with the swords. Butu stepped out of the way of the sword and kissed the back of Nolen's arm with his own sword. The light touch of the blade cut cloth and skin easily, red blood oozing out.
Nolen laughed and tried to counterattack. Butu knocked the blade aside easily.
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" Butu asked, adopting a fighting stance and waiting to counter Nolen's next move.
"Some of us didn't have the kluntra's son as a sparring partner," Nolen said, fingering the cut in his sleeve. The cut had already closed as his magic unconsciously healed it.
How much longer would sordenu survive if they could still heal as quickly as a child!
Butu smirked. "I'm not an expert. I just know a couple things about fighting on roofs in the dark."
Nolen moved much faster this time, and with more force than before. Butu halted the blade before it could do any real damage, but it scraped his breastplate as he parried. He countered just as quickly, and Nolen intercepted the blade the same way he had blocked Phedam's attacks.
One after the other, each with a breastplate and sword, the squad paired off and practiced in front of the armory — though practice was a bad word for the flailing most of them did.
"Aw, look. They're having fun," Aeklan said in endearing tones from the armory's entrance. Zhepal, Blay and Kira stood behind him, wearing frowns.
They all looked up in shock, and Butu winced as Phedam's sword grazed his knee. Aeklan smiled at them until he had everyone's attention, and then his face contorted with rage.
"What do you think you're doing? Do you think those are toys you're playing with?"
"No, sir!" Butu said, sheathing his sword awkwardly while trying to salute with the wrong hand.
The rest of them stared at Aeklan, dumbstruck.
"Sheath them," the sergeant said. "And then you'll run laps until I can think of a worse punishment."
"Yes, sir!" they all said, not quite in unison.
After a miserable afternoon running circuits on the obstacle course, the sergeant relented and began their training. Tirud proved the most skilled with a sword. Butu and Jani were better than the others, but the gap between Tirud and them was substantial. Retus was the worst, and Aeklan yelled constantly at him, until they switched to slings. Whereas the rest of them were lucky to get the bullets to go in the right direction, Retus consistently hit the target.
"Shepherding," he said. "Snakes can kill a sheep really fast."
At the end of the day's training, before dismissing them for dinner, Aeklan called them together. He walked up and down the short line they made in the training area, eyeing each of them severely. Abruptly, he removed two round, brass studs from a pouch and pinned one to each of Jani's shoulders.
"Your training has just begun, but your time training with me is over," he announced gravely as he pinned studs on each of them. "You're not ready, but no training I can give you can prepare you for what you will face as sordenu. You will report to Sergeant Puro at dawn. Dismissed!"
They gave one final salute and headed toward the mess hall, excited about this turn of events.
We're sordenu, now. I should be as excited as everyone else, Butu thought.
He looked from face to face in his squad. Nolen, Retus and Lujo danced with joy around Phedam, who looked as uneasy as Butu felt. Jani seemed more shocked than elated. Tirud and Blay smiled like nothing was strange about this turn of events, but Butu had his suspicions.
There's something they're not telling us.
He ate his meal in silence. He couldn't voice his concerns with Blay around, and the corporal gave no sign that he would leave them alone any time soon.
That night, just before lights out, Captain Philbe el'Ahjea gave tem company their orders. They would be leaving at dawn to participate in training exercises with the Kadrak army.
The rumors told a different story: The Kadrak were now at war with the Akdren, and the Ahjea were sending Aesh al'Kadrak reinforcements.
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December 23, 2007
Johannes Heckl - Greding, Bavaria, Germany
Assembled between Mid-July 2007 and 23rd December 2007
My name is Johannes Heckl and I am from Greding, a small city in Bavaria, Germany. I finished the big puzzle on 23rd of December 2007. In spring 2007 I saw on the internet that there was a new 'World's Largest Puzzle' available. I wanted to have a little break, to consider if it made sense for me to attempt such a big puzzle. Previously I had finished the 'Tropical Impressions' and the 'Skylines of the World' puzzles both manufacturered by Ravensburger. At that time they had been known as the world's largest puzzles. The challenge of this new puzzle enticed me to buy it.
I started with the 24,000 piece puzzle in the middle of July 2007. Until then I didn't know where I could hang it on a wall, because the largest wall our house has (without a window or door between) is about 3,5 metres. So I decided to do the final assembling on our top floor. I wasn't able to find a wooden sheet the size of the puzzle 4,40 m x 1,70 m, so I decided to buy 2 sheets 2,20 x 1,70 m and connect them into one big sheet. The most difficult part was to get the puzzle on to that sheet. After finishing each section of the puzzle I put it aside. After finishing all the sections I glued the top surface with puzzle conserver (transparent) to give more strength to the parts. Afterwards I glued the wooden sheet with wood glue and connected the 4 sections. It was very difficult, because wood glue dries quickly. To improve it I made glue stripes, that allowed a little flexibility to fit the puzzle edges to each other. It was the worst part of the whole puzzle experience, because I feared I would damage it!
I saw that some puzzlers are sorting the pieces by shape. Not me, my puzzle strategy is to sort the pieces by colours except for the puzzle edges which I did by shape, too. It's very important to have enough space to lay down all puzzle pieces right-side-up, in order to sort the colours. On this puzzle I worked with 2 big sheets 1,20m x 1,50 and 4 or 5 smaller sheets 80x50 cm. It helps a lot to work on different parts of the puzzle at the same time. For me it was difficult to stay on the puzzle for more than 4 hours a day, because I also was at work for about 10 hours a day.
My experience is, the longer each assembly session the better it is, because you can remember the locations of the the different color and shapes of the different pieces. I puzzled in my living room, and most of the time I listened to sitcoms (King of Queens, AL Bundy, Bill Cosby, Grey's Anatomy...) on television so it was not as boring as it would be without music or televison.
Another very important factor is the light. In my opinion you have to decide by the light and the colour what part of the puzzle you should work on at the time i.e. Some colours were better reflected by the day light (blue of the sea and the undersea city) other colours (black of the universe) were better reflected by the room light.
The most interesting thing on this puzzle is the composition between the elements. You have so many impressions that allows you to change the single parts. For example you get stuck by doing the sea, you can move to the animals that were normally easy to do. That helped you because further pieces were in the correct position and the puzzle quantity was reduced.
I had read in one of the commentaries, too, that that the undersea city section was difficult to assemble. I can't agree, because due to that comment I feared this part till the end of the puzzle without a reason. Ok, it wasn't easy but if you hear something you first of all think that this part could be impossible. In the end perhaps it took about 5 percent more of the time, but not more.
Altogether I can say that this puzzle was a great experience for me and I will always remember the moments where I fitted the last parts of it ( without any lost pieces!) I don't know if I ever would start a challenge like 24,000 pcs again. But perhaps if I like the subject, why not? What would be the next size 30.000 pcs, I don't know! I see it as a hobby, not as a battle against the time. You have to enjoy it.
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"Cassell to step down as federal judge in Utah": The Deseret Morning News provides an update that begins, "Utah's youngest serving federal judge has announced he will be stepping down from the bench and returning to teaching law at the University of Utah. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Paul Cassell submitted his letter of resignation to President George W. Bush, informing the president his last day on the bench is expected to be Nov. 5."
And the "Sentencing Law and Policy" provides a post titled "Breaking news (and SL&P exclusive?): federal Judge Paul Cassell resigning!"
The Associated Press is reporting: An article headlined "Prosecutors Eyeing Wiretap Problems" begins, "The Justice Department is worried that a recent appeals court ruling could make it impossible to use wiretaps to investigate members of Congress in corruption cases."
And Lara Jakes Jordan reports that "Mukasey Hit Justice Dept on Sentencing."
To convict someone of the federal crime of "willful failure to pay a past due child support obligation with respect to a child who resides in another State," must the prosecution prove that the defendant knew the child lived out-of-state? A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit today issued an interesting decision answering that question "yes."
Posted at 02:47 PM by Howard Bashman
Third Circuit holds that City of Philadelphia health workers did not violate the constitutional rights of a 16-year-old girl or her parents by providing the girl with the emergency contraceptives she requested without notifying her parents: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit issued this ruling today.
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Ninth Circuit holds unripe a challenge to Alaska Code of Judicial Conduct provisions that caused state judges seeking retention to refuse to disclose their views on a variety of legal and political issues such as abortion and assisted suicide: You can access today's ruling at this link.
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The constitutionality of strip-searching a 13-year-old female honor roll student with no prior disciplinary problems during school hours and on school premises based on the allegation she had given a classmate a prescription-strength ibuprofen tablet: A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit divided 2-1 on that question in this ruling issued today.
Posted at 02:05 PM by Howard Bashman
"Horse meat was until recently an accepted part of the American diet--the Harvard Faculty Club served horse-meat steaks until the 1970s." So begins an opinion that Circuit Judge Richard A. Posner issued today on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Today's very interesting decision rejects on the merits a lawsuit brought by the only remaining facility in the United States for slaughtering horses, which happens to be based in Illinois, against a recently-enacted Illinois law that makes it unlawful to "slaughter a horse if that person knows or should know that any of the horse meat will be used for human consumption."
Some readers may recall that in July 2007, this very same three-judge panel, by a vote of 2-1, issued an injunction pending appeal against enforcement of this law, thereby allowing the slaughterhouse to remain in operation pending today's ruling. My earlier coverage of the opinions in support of and opposed to the issuance of that injunction pending appeal appears at this link. Today's ruling dissolves that injunction.
"Talk centers on abortion rights": The Yale Daily News today contains an article that begins, "A recent Supreme Court decision was the impetus for a panel discussion on the future of abortion rights Thursday night. At the event, which was sponsored by the Yale Law Students for Reproductive Justice, three legal experts discussed the state of abortion rights after the April Supreme Court decision in Gonzales v. Carhart, which upheld the federal ban on partial-birth abortion."
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"W.R. Grace Loses Appeal In Asbestos Mine Case": This article appears today in The Washington Post.
And The Missoulian reports today that "9th Circuit overturns Grace rulings."
My earlier coverage of yesterday's Ninth Circuit ruling appears at this link.
"Regulating Microsoft": The New York Times contains this editorial today.
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"Law firm founder indicted; Melvyn Weiss is alleged to have participated in a scheme to make secret payment to plaintiffs in class-action cases": This article appears today in The Los Angeles Times.
The New York Times reports today that "Top Class-Action Lawyer Faces Federal Charges."
The Washington Post reports that "Class-Action Lawyer Weiss Indicted."
And in The New York Sun, Josh Gerstein reports that "Class Action Attorney Melvyn Weiss Is Indicted."
"UC Irvine chancellor says he 'bungled' Chemerinsky firing; In an interview, Michael V. Drake insists that his reversal was not prompted by outside pressure": The Los Angeles Times contains this article today.
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"Rulings by Mukasey Are Called Conservative, Fair": Robert Barnes and Michael A. Fletcher have this article today in The Washington Post.
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"Critics Right and Left Protest Book Removals": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "The federal Bureau of Prisons is under pressure from members of Congress and religious groups to reverse its decision to purge the shelves of prison chapel libraries of all religious books and materials that are not on the bureau's lists of approved resources."
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"Court Allows Boys' Protest via Buttons": The New York Times today contains an article that begins, "A federal district judge ruled on Thursday that two grade-school students here can wear buttons depicting Hitler Youth to protest having to wear school uniforms."
And law.com provides a report headlined "Federal Judge: First Amendment Bars School's Ban on 'Hitler Youth' Badges."
I have posted online at this link Wednesday's ruling of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey.
"Power Lineup, Swings From Right": Today in The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani has this review of Jeffrey Toobin's new book, "The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court."
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This Saturday, July 29th, watch our National Team Member, Olivia Dunne, compete at the US Classic. The U.S. Classic, which has athletes competing on the junior and senior levels, is the last opportunity for female gymnasts to qualify for the P&G Gymnastics Championships, USA Gymnastics' national championships, scheduled for Aug. 17-20 at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. Gymnasts who have already qualified to the P&G Championships use the U.S. Classic as a final tune-up for competition in Anaheim.
The competition schedule is: U.S. Classic – July 29 at 1 p.m. CT for juniors and 6:30 p.m. CT for seniors. The Hopes Championships, which features young, aspiring female gymnasts, is held in conjunction with the U.S. Classic and is scheduled for July 28 at 2:30 p.m. CT.
The six members of the U.S. Junior National Team in the field will compete during the senior session but will vie for junior titles: Olivia Dunne of Hillsdale, N.J./Eastern National Academy of Paramus; Adeline Kenlin of Iowa City, Iowa/IGN; Emma Malabuyo of Flower Mound, Texas/Texas Dreams Gymnastics; Maile O'Keefe of Las Vegas, Nev./Salcianu Elite Academy of Gymnastics; Sunisa Lee of Saint Paul, Minn./Midwest Gymnastics Center; and Gabby Perea of Geneva, Ill./Legacy Elite. The six are competing in the senior session due to the large number of junior gymnasts who qualified for the U.S. Classic.
Fans who cannot make the trip to the Chicago area can watch the junior session and the Hopes Championships via a live webcast at usagymclassic.com/live. The Olympic Channel is televising the senior competition live, and the webcast may be viewed on mobile devices via olympicchannel.com. For more information, go to usagymclassic.com


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Can someone offer advice on how to get rid of a small blot/image on my screen. It is rectangular, grey on outside with a smaller white rectangle in the middle. It is the size of a finger nail and won't move, even after several reboots. It doesn't respond to the curser or right or left clicking. I have tried Dell's support centre to no avail and have not found a topic on this in this forum. Please, I would really appreciate any advice you can give me, as this is the strangest thing. Thanks!
The first thing to do is attach an external monitor - it will tell you whether it's a faulty video card (the fault will show externally) or whether it's a faulty display panel.


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"Krist" <xtanto_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
> Hi All,
> I have data on SQL server 2000 that should be transferred into Oracle
> 9i on AIX.
> I plan to transferred it into Oracle 9i/Win2k first, that Exporting it
> into .DMP then Import the .DMP into Oracle 9i/AIX.
> Is it possible ?
> Or is it not a good approach for this ?
> Thanks for any comments,
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# AllInOne: Update what packages are available, upgrade to new versions, remove unneeded packages
# (some are no longer needed, replaced by the ones from ap upgrade), check for dependencies
# and clean local cached packages (saved on disk but not installed?,some are needed? [this only cleans unneeded unlike ap clean]).
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alias a='alias'
a ap='apt-get'
a r='ap autoremove -y'
a up='ap update'
a u='up && ap upgrade -y --show-progress && r && ap check && ap autoclean'
# && means "and run if the previous succeeded", you can change it to ; to "run even if previous failed".
I'm not sure if ap check should be before or after ap upgrade -y, you can also change the alias names.
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This can be easier to look at in ls output. Not as clean as +%Y%m%dT%H%M%S, but quicker to write.
If a session with named the same as your username already exists, then attach to it, otherwise create it
Also detaches session if attached from somewhere else.
This alias is super-handy for me because it quickly shows the details of each file in the current directory. The output is nice because it is sortable, allowing you to expand this basic example to do something amazing like showing you a list of the newest files, the largest files, files with bad perms, etc..
A recursive alias would be:
alias LSR='find -mount -printf "%.5m %10M %#9u:%-9g %#5U:%-5G %TF_%TR %CF_%CR %AF_%AR %#15s [%Y] %p\n" 2>/dev/null'
From: http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash_profile-functions-advanced-shell.html
Is used like this:
mkalias rmcache "rm -rfv app/cache/*"
Add this line to your ~/.gitconfig for a git alias "git brd" (i.e., brd = (br)anch+(d)ate) which sorts branches by date. Allows you to pass in limited "git branch" options such as "-r" (remote) or "-a" (all). (Note: forum added "$" prefix to command; obviously in gitconfig there is no "$" prefix.)
This command attempts to attach to existing irssi session, if one exists, otherwise creates one.
I use "irc" because I use different irc clients depending on what system I am working on. Consistency is queen.
Sometimes I would like to see hidden files, prefix with a period, but some files or folders I never want to see (and really wish I could just remove all together).
This was me just succumbing to the habits, but now I rarely use quit or vim directly, so beware! :)
Change n directories up, without parameters change one up
Written for Mac OSX. When you are working in a project and want to open it on Github.com, just type "gh" and your default browser will open with the repo you are in. Works for submodules, and repo's that you don't own.
You'll need to copy / paste this command into a gh.sh file, then create an alias in your bash or zsh profile to the gh.sh script. Detailed instructions here if you still need help:
Alias a single character 'b' to move to parent directory. Put it into your .bashrc or .profile file.
Using "cd .." is one of the most repetitive sequence of characters you'll in the command line. Bring it down to two keys 'b' and 'enter'.
It stands for "back"
Also useful to have multiple:
alias b='cd ../'
alias bb='cd ../../'
alias bbb='cd ../../../'
alias bbbb='cd ../../../../'
Run the alias command, then issue
ps aux | tail
and resize your terminal window (putty/console/hyperterm/xterm/etc) then issue the same command and you'll understand.
${LINES:-`tput lines 2>/dev/null||echo -n 12`}
Insructs the shell that if LINES is not set or null to use the output from `tput lines` ( ncurses based terminal access ) to get the number of lines in your terminal. But furthermore, in case that doesn't work either, it will default to using the default of 80.
The default for TAIL is to output the last 10 lines, this alias changes the default to output the last x lines instead, where x is the number of lines currently displayed on your terminal - 7. The -7 is there so that the top line displayed is the command you ran that used TAIL, ie the prompt.
Depending on whether your PS1 and/or PROMPT_COMMAND output more than 1 line (mine is 3) you will want to increase from -2. So with my prompt being the following, I need -7, or - 5 if I only want to display the commandline at the top. ( http://www.askapache.com/linux/bash-power-prompt.html )
[7995:7993 - 0:186] 06:26:49 Thu Apr 08 [[email protected]:/dev/pts/0 +1] ~
In most shells the LINES variable is created automatically at login and updated when the terminal is resized (28 linux, 23/20 others for SIGWINCH) to contain the number of vertical lines that can fit in your terminal window. Because the alias doesn't hard-code the current LINES but relys on the $LINES variable, this is a dynamic alias that will always work on a tty device.
If you want to carry on your aliases while using sudo, put this into a file which will be parsed when logging in.
sort is way slow by default. This tells sort to use a buffer equal to half of the available free memory. It also will use multiple process for the sort equal to the number of cpus on your machine (if greater than 1). For me, it is magnitudes faster.
If you put this in your bash_profile or startup file, it will be set correctly when bash is started.
sort -S1 --parallel=2 <(echo) &>/dev/null && alias sortfast='sort -S$(($(sed '\''/MemF/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g'\'' /proc/meminfo)/2048)) $([ `nproc` -gt 1 ]&&echo -n --parallel=`nproc`)'
echo|sort -S10M --parallel=2 &>/dev/null && alias sortfast="command sort -S$(($(sed '/MemT/!d;s/[^0-9]*//g' /proc/meminfo)/1024-200)) --parallel=$(($(command grep -c ^proc /proc/cpuinfo)*2))"
Returns the most recently modified file in the current (or specified) directory. You can also get the oldest file, via:
ls -t1 $* | tail-1 ;
The command creates an alias called 'path', so it's useful to add it to your .profile or .bash_profile. The path command then prints the full path of any file, directory, or list of files given. Soft links will be resolved to their true location. This is especially useful if you use scp often to copy files across systems. Now rather then using pwd to get a directory, and then doing a separate cut and paste to get a file's name, you can just type 'path file' and get the full path in one operation.


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Hertha Berlin striker Andrei Voronin is desperate for a return to parent club Liverpool.
He told Pro Sport magazine in Russia: "It's an absolutely different level of football.
"I'm a leader at Hertha and feel their fans love me but I would like to be a leader in a team which is always fighting to win the Premier League, the Champions League and which have such people playing for them as Steven Gerrard who is a symbol of the city like the Beatles.
"I see no sense in staying in Berlin saying to myself: 'OK, everyone loves me here, why do I need to play for Liverpool?'
"I'd really like a new start there. I have a contract with them for two more years. When I joined Liverpool I knew I could play at such a high level and think I proved it. The rotation of the squad by Benitez really enraged me, but he told me from the start about that and I should have been prepared for it."


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During my horrid trip thru the tornado damage I posted on last week, I did measure a few noteworthy trees. I had not been to the area for 15 years and at that time had measured some tall pitch (Pinus rigida) and shortleaf (Pinus echinata) pines. I had also measured a large paw-paw (Asimina triloba) that was a priority for a revisit. Paw Paw is not common in GRSM and is only known from a few locations.
The first tree I tried to locate was a 130'+ pitch pine. It was down. I did measure a 131.5' tree not too far away. Nearby though was the shortleaf pine I had measured in 1996 or 1997 to ~136'. This slender tree 23.4" dbh (59.4 cm) is now a record-breaking 149.2' (45.5m) tall- currently the tallest known specimen. Others in the area were in the mid 130's.
The Abrams Creek Campground and vicinity has perhaps the best example of low-elevation mixed conifer forest in the Smokies. Although not old-growth, it is very mature and contains numerous examples of tall (120'+/36.5 m) and mature pines of primarily three species; pitch, shortleaf, and eastern white (Pinus strobus). An occasional Virginia pine (Pinus virginiana) can be seen but the most impressive species (these days) is healthy eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis). The park service has a large and very successful hemlock conservation area along the creek, and the forest is quite intact and nearly pure conifer. I highly recommend a visit to this area. These days it is so refreshing to see and experience healthy hemlocks. They add a great touch of towering green and lower canopy foliage to this preserved example of cathedral conifer forest. The canopy is a constant 120' with emergent white pines to ~150' (45.7m). Years ago I did measure a 170' (51.8m) white pine but I was not able to relocate it.
I did relocate the paw-paw and it surprised me as being the tallest I have ever measured. At 62.2 (18.9m) feet it is an eastern height record for the moment- as I think Darian Copiz has a taller one to report from VA or MD. It is also large enough to be a National Champion with a big tree score of 96 points (30" X 62' X 16').
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How King Pellinore rode after the lady and the knight that led her away, and how a lady desired help of him, and how he fought with two knights for that lady, of whom he slew the one at the first stroke.
THEN King Pellinore armed him and mounted upon his horse, and rode more than a pace after the lady that the knight led away. And as he rode in a forest, he saw in a valley a damosel sit by a well, and a wounded knight in her arms, and Pellinore saluted her. And when she was ware of him, she cried overloud, Help me, knight; for Christ's sake, King Pellinore. And he would not tarry, he was so eager in his quest, and ever she cried an hundred times after help. When she saw he would not abide, she prayed unto God to send him as much need of help as she had, and that he might feel it or he died. So, as the book telleth, the knight there died that there was wounded, wherefore the lady for pure sorrow slew herself with his sword. As King Pellinore rode in that valley he met with a poor man, a labourer. Sawest thou not, said Pellinore, a knight riding and leading away a lady? Yea, said the man, I saw that knight, and the lady that made great dole; and yonder beneath in a valley there shall ye see two pavilions, and one of the knights of the pavilions challenged that lady of that knight, and said she was his cousin near, wherefore he should lead her no farther. And so they waged battle in that quarrel, the one said he would have her by force, and the other said he would have the rule of her, by cause he was her kinsman, and would lead her to her kin. For this quarrel he left them fighting. And if <96>ye will ride a pace ye shall find them fighting, and the lady was beleft with the two squires in the pavilions. God thank thee, said King Pellinore.
Then he rode a wallop till he had a sight of the two pavilions, and the two knights fighting. Anon he rode unto the pavilions, and saw the lady that was his quest, and said, Fair lady, ye must go with me unto the court of King Arthur. Sir knight, said the two squires that were with her, yonder are two knights that fight for this lady, go thither and depart them, and be agreed with them, and then may ye have her at your pleasure. Ye say well, said King Pellinore. And anon he rode betwixt them, and


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What if they made a comedy and nobody laughed? That question crossed my mind more than once while watching this almost painful early episode. How strange it is to see these characters - whom I mentally picture forever frozen at the height of their powers - back when no one really knew who they were, or supposed to be, including themselves.
Kramer bolting into the room to absolute silence; George still holding on to dreams of hair and a svelte figure; Elaine seeming like a boring, dreary side note; it was almost depressing to watch.
If it had been up to me, I'm not sure I would have kept this thing going after seeing this episode. Glad someone else was in charge!


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The First Snuggie Pub Crawl – Cincinnati, Ohio – January 30, 2009
UPDATE: 3/20/09 – The Original Snuggie Pub Crawlers from Cincinnati now have an Official Website – Go to SnuggieShuffle.com to see the latest news related to these Snuggie Visionaries.
OLD UPDATE from 2/24/09 – Check out the 'Cincinnati Six' on our new site, SnuggiePubCrawls.com. Here is the announcement from earlier today. These guys are finally going to get the credit they're due.
It is a date that will go down in history. Six men made one small step for themselves…
…but one giant leap for the Snuggie Nation. We now have the official date of the First Snuggie Pub Crawl.
On this historic night, these 6 Snuggie Pioneers bundled up in their Snuggies, braving the elements.
This night proved historic in many ways. Not only was it the first Snuggie Pub Crawl and the first Snuggie Fight, the first symptoms of Snuggie Restless Arm Syndrome arose.
Look for their website, coming soon. You have been warned. These guys are going to be huge.
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Both Christians and non-Christians have different theories on why thousands throng the City Sports Centre, to hear Pa-stor Emmanuel Makandiwa every Sunday and Tuesday.
Many have their own hypotheses of where the founder of United Family Interdenominational gets his powers and point their fingers in different directions.
Others claim that his expulsion from the Apostolic Faith Mission Church was a result of serious differences over the source of his healing powers while other churches accuse him of "stealing their people".
Some men have accused him of ruining their marriages by exposing their extra-marital affairs to their wives through his prophecies.
His followers say all allegations are a result of jealousy.
But who really is Prophet Makandiwa?
Where did he come from?
There is very little information available about him from what has been written before and from what is volunteered by others.
Towering at almost two metres, Pastor Emmanuel Maka-ndiwa (32), also known as Shingirai Chirume, can easily be mistaken for a basketball player in the American league.
He was reportedly born on December 25 in 1977, of a Muzarabani peasant family. His parents are both elders in the Apostolic Faith Mission Church in Muzarabani.
The journey began in 1993, when Pastor Makandiwa and other boys his age spent six months with the late Pastor Mukwaira going around on crusades.
The teenage Makandiwa then left for his rural home after completing secondary education at Zengeza High to help his parents back in Muzarabani till the land.
In Muzarabani, Makandiwa started taking God's word seriously and the next four years turned his life around.
With his parents, they organised crusades and preached from home.
In 1995, Pastor Makandiwa reportedly received his calling to serve God in a vision and would team up with a Muzarabani AFM Pastor, Rev Munyengeterwa , on gospel crusades.
During those years while preaching the word, God reportedly showed him that he wanted him to deliver people from the bondage of Satan.
In 2000, Makandiwa now fully engrossed in the work of Jesus Christ, enrolled at the AFM's Living Waters Bible College in Harare and graduated in 2002.
During the same year, he married Ruth Makawa.
After finishing his pastoral studies, Rev Makandiwa chose to go to Matabeleland and worked as an assistant pastor under Rev Madziire, who was an overseer then.
After ordination, he was given an assembly in Shangani. There he became the talk of the neigbourhood with his demonstration of the power of God.
In 2004, he was transferred to How Mine.
He then went to Hebron Assembly in Chitungwiza and left the church last year.
Pastor Makandiwa could not be reached for comment.
His assistant, Pastor Rukwati, said he would only be available next week.
But things were to change last year when the AFM church told Makandiwa to choose between the UFI and AFM. He chose UFI.
For the entire debate that has stalked the youthful pastor and his ministry, he is no doubt a crowd puller who has left an indelible mark on the preaching of the gospel in Zimbabwe.
Just who is Emmanuel Makandiwa?
Both Christians and non-Christians have different theories on why thousands throng the City Sports Centre, to hear Pa-stor Emmanuel Makandiwa every Sunday and Tuesday.


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My 12 year-old uses building blocks and has been slowly and steadily working with his friends to create a whole new world. If they need something they built it. If he needs a new weapon or tool, he builds it. That got me thinking about the nature of business
applications and collaboration.
So, I asked him how he did it, this is what he said. "When you first create the world you start with nothing so you have to gather resources, but it takes a while because you don't have all the right tools. You gather simple tools, like wood, then you can
make a crafting table and you can make better tools. Then you make a house so you can store things. Then you go mining with your wooden pickaxe to find iron and then you can make other better tools, then you can mine for diamonds. It a levelling process, you
keep going up as you get better things."
We grown-ups are missing a trick. The kids have all the cool stuff. We need to be able to build business applications using the same simple, incremental and, dare I say it 'fun' tools. I want to be able to work with my 'BFF's' (I think we call it collaboration
here in 'adultsville'), to build stuff quickly and simply using tools that I am becoming increasingly expert in. I need to be able to use simple tools to create the 'diamond' level!
I am not a programmer, I am a business person, but if you gave me the right tools I know I could build out my business environment just as I need it to be. I could add new things, new tools or ammunition to my arsenal if a new challenge was thrown at me.
I could change things and improve things because I know what amazing looks like, and it would be so much better if I could just do it myself sometimes.
The future is in the hands of kids like mine. They expect to be able to just pick up a piece of software and use it to build what they need. In this case, the kids have got it right!
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Program: Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5
Approximate Time: 25-30 Minutes
Resources: Swirl Photoshop brushes
Before going ahead with the tutorial, let's take a look at the final image.
Let's start our tutorial:
Illustrator part
Open up a new document in illustrator of size 650X481.89px.
Select the colors: For fill I've used a linear gradient of white color #fffff and light pink color #A31656.
For Stroke I've selected the color #662D91.
Now select the Type Tool and type "W". Font is Century schoolbook and font style is regular. Font size is 147.09pt.
Now, go to Effect and select 3D from dropdown menu and then select Extrude & Bevel as shown below.
Now make the settings as shown in the picture below and set the axis according to the image given below.
Now you'll have something like the picture shown below.
Repeat same process for next letter "E" but choose another color gradient for it. You can use same color selection like mine or you can use colors of your own choice. Use same font and adjust size.
Again go to Effect, to 3D and select Extrude & Bevel. Adjust the settings according to the picture shown below.
Repeat same process for all the letters. Use different color gradient for each. Set different axis position for each letter and place them one after the other as shown below.
Now we have our 3D colorful text effect and our illustrator part is complete. It's time to open this text effect in Photoshop for background and a bit more decoration. To do that, open a new document in Photoshop o size 900X600 px.
Now we are going to fill this document with a radial gradient of black color #000000 on both sides and dark grey color #996666 in the middle.
It's time to open our text in Photoshop and place it in the middle as shown below.
To make the text more prominent "Right click" on the text layer and go to blending options then select Bevel & Emboss and adjust the settings as shown below.
Now create a new layer and select the swirl brush and make a few swirls around the text as shown below. Keep the color of brush white #ffffff.
Now we are going to give color to our swirls and make them prominent by embossing. Right click on the swirls layer and go to Blending Options. Select the Gradient Overlay as shown below.
I've selected various colors for my gradient overlay as you can see in the picture shown below. You can use the colors of your own choice.
After that, select Bevel &Emboss and adjust the settings as shown below.
Now you'll have something like the image given below.
Create another layer for another set of swirls. I've use swirl brush # 466 here and kept the color white #ffffff.
Right click on the second layer of swirls and go to Blending Options. Select outer glow to give a luminous effect and adjust the settings as shown in the image give below.
Okay, now our colorful 3D text effect is complete.
Hope you guys had fun making it with me. Until next time take care and enjoy this colorful 3D text effect. Chao.


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Jun 18,2007
Speeding driver killed after crashing into power pole
by Cheryl McDermott
Police suspect alcohol and speeding may have contributed to the death of a 51-year old Scotts Mills man who was killed when his SUV crashed into a power pole near Highway 213 south of Molalla Sunday evening, landing upside down off the road.
A Scotts Mills man was killed when his Jeep crashed into a power pole and landed upsidedown south of Molalla Sunday evening - OSP photo Oregon State Police report that about 8:30 p.m., June 17, a 1994 Jeep Grand Cherokee driven by Salvador Pican Compean, 51, was traveling south on Highway 213 at a high rate of speed when it lost control, crashed into and split a power pole, then came to rest upside down.
Compean, partially ejected from the vehicle, was not wearing a seat belt and was pronounced dead at the scene.


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Immediate Family
About John De Mauteby
Family Information from : ◁Rezin Family Tree (filtered to reduce size) http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/57799503/person/36026911990
listed as his son - but data seems wrong in connection with his birthdate
1 Walter De Mauteby Birth 1215 in Mauteby, Norfolk, England Death 1248 married Isabell De Flegg
he had
2 Robert De Mauteby Birth 1220 in Mauteby, Norfolk, England Death 1292 married Isabel Marshall Birth 09 Oct 1200 in Pembrokeshire, Wales Death 17 Jan 1240 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England
daughter of William I Marshall & Isabel Fitzgilbert De Clare
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3 John De Mauteby Birth 11 Jan 1240 in Mauteby, Norfolk, England Death 1336 married Elizabeth Clavering Birth 1270 in Warkworth, Marston St Lawrence, Northumberland, England Death 1329 in Warkworth, Northamptonshire, England daughter of Robert Fitzroger Clavering & Margery La Zouche1251 – 1310
they had:
4 Robert De Mauteby Birth 1290 in Mauteby, Norfolk, England Death 1347 married Ela Fitzmathew1295 daughter of Thomas Fitzmathew1265 –
they had:
5 John De Mauteby Birth 1325 in Mauteby, Norfolk, England Death 30 Oct 1403 in Salle, Norfolk, England
married Agnes Beauchamp Birth 1320 in England Death 27 Oct 1403 john also married
Eleanor De Clifton Birth 1333 in Buckenham Castle, Buckenham, Norfolk, England Death 1403
john and Elinor de Clinton had had:
6a John De Mauteby Birth 1343 in Burnham Thorpe, Norfolk, England Death Dec 1374 in Paston,Smallburgh,Norfolk,England married Isabelle De Clavering Birth 1325 in Burgh St Mary,Flegg,Norfolk,England Death daughter of Robert Fitzroger Clavering1240 & Margery La Zouche and john also married Agnes Birth 1340
6b Robert Mauteby Birth 1375 in Paston, North Walsham, Norfolk, England Death 19 Apr 1418 in Paston, North Walsham, Norfolk, England married Margaret Beauchamp Birth 1382 in Paston, North Walsham, Norfolk, England Death daughter of Robert Mauteby & Mary
Robert & Margaret had:
7 John Mauteby Birth 1395 in Caiston,,Norfolk,England Death 18 Feb 1433 in England married Margaret Barney Birth 1400 in Caiston,,Norfolk,England Death 1446
Maltby-Maltbie family history (1916) Compiled and Edited by DOROTHY MALTBY VERRILL PUBLISHED BY BIRDSEY L. MALTBIE 246 HIGH STREET. NEWARK, NEW JERSEY pg 92 Arms: Quart 12. Maultby, Azure, a cross formed throughout or, Mauteby, Mawtby, Maultby.
I. ROBERT Mautby m. Sara, dau. of Robert Mantell.
Note.— This is evidently Robert (3), Pedigree IV.
II. WALTER Mautby m. (i) AHce, dau. of Roger Fitz Os- borne; m. (2) Christian, dau. of Sir Piers de Bassingham ; 6th Ed- ward I., 1278.
III. ROBERT Maltby m. Isabell, dau. of Wihiam Flegg.
Note. — This would seem to be a younger brother of Sir Walter (5), Pedigree IV.
IV. ROBERT Mawtby m. Ellen, dau. of William Marshall,
the younger, 1281 ; (first cousin to Sir Robert (6), Pedigree IV.)
V. Sir John Mautby, Kt., m. Isabel (or Elizabeth), dau. of Robert Clavering, son of Roger, Lord of Clavering, 9 Edward II. [1326]. Arms: Quart or. and gules, a bendlet sable.
- Note — For same arms see Pedigree Maltby of Scarborough, Yorkshire.
See Pedigree IV. B.
VI. Sir ROBERT Mawtby, Kt., m. Ellen, dau. and heiress of Thomas Lovayne, Kt., 1347. (Or this may have been Roger (6), who m. Ela, dau. of Thomas Fitz-Matthew de Lovayne.)
VII. Sir JOHN Mawtby, m. Elianor (Elen)^ dau. of Adam Clifton (de Bokenham).
VIII. ROBERT Mawtby, Squire, m. :Margaret. dau. and Heiress of Roger de Beauchamp of Blentnesho. Plis will 1413. See Pedigree IV. C.
IX. JOHN Mawtby, Squire, m. Margaret, dau. of John Barney (Berney), Esq., of Redham.
X. Margaret Mawtby, dau. and heiress ; born about 1420 (* ?) ; m. John Paston of Paston, Esq., son of Sir William Paston, Judge. She died about 1481-4. Her will 4 Feb., 1481, proved 18 Dec, 1484. From here the notes are a bit confused. Their children seem to have been :
- XI. Sir John Paston. b. 1439; d. unm. in 1479.
- 1 1 John Paston, living 1466.
- II William Paston, b. 1459.
- II Robert Paston.
- II Edmund Paston, youngest son, had Anne (12) Pas-
- ton, who m. William Yelverton : Constance (12),
- Margery (12), Dorothy (12) and Phillipa (12)
- Paston.
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Age 49
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Actor-producer-director Bob Balaban -- whose family still has a restaurant in the central west end section of St. Louis -- was on my show today and we discussed his work on such well-known movies as "Close Encounters of the Third Kind," "Absence of Malice," "Waiting For Guffman," "Best In Show," and "Gosford Park" (which he produced and Robert Altman won a Golden Globe for directing).
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Monday, January 14, 2002
The Statue Of Reality
In New York, they're going to erect a statue honoring the firefighters who died in the September 11th attack. Certainly, that's a noble group to honor, but the way they're going about it is all wrong.
The sculpture will be based on the famous photo, taken by Tom Franklin of The Bergen Record, of the three firemen raising the US flag over the rubble at the World Trade Center on 9/11/01. In real life, the three firemen were white. In brass life, one of them will be white, one will be black, and one will be Hispanic.
This perfect example of political correctness gone wild was a joint decision by the sculptors, the company that owns the fire department headquarters building in Brooklyn where the statue will stand, and the FDNY. Their spokesman is quoted as saying, "ultimately a decision was made to honor no one in particular, but everyone who made the supreme sacrifice."
If that's the case, this isn't the correct way to honor them. The idea isn't bad, but the execution is.
What they're doing is taking a single moment from that day, frozen forever in the shutter of a photographer's camera, and altering that image. In other words, they're creating a lie.
We have lived with enough lies in our history, from "your 401k is safe with Enron stock" all the way back to "Columbus discovered America." Some of these historic lies have taken hundreds of years to repair, so why start a new one now?
For the sake of diversity, say those who made the decision. I'm all for diversity, tolerance, inclusion, and honoring those who deserve it, regardless of who or what they are. But I'm also for veracity.
One member of a group of black firefighters -- Kevin James -- thinks what they're doing is good. He's quoted as saying, "The symbolism is far more important than representing the actual people. I think the artistic expression of diversity would supersede any concern over factual correctness."
Wrong! The truth is the truth is the truth. You may interpret actions, you may interpret thoughts, you may interpret intentions. But you must never be subjective with the truth.
The fact is that these three men -– Dan McWilliams, George Johnson and Billy Eisengrein -– were white. If they're making a statue of them, or what they did, they can't change that. What's next, sculpting the Twin Towers as pyramids?
I'm no sculptor, so I don't even know how you show ethnic differences in a statue. Unless you resort to emphasizing racial stereotypes in their features, doesn't everyone's skin color end up bronze?
To their credit, the three firefighters have not exploited their moment of fame. We haven't seen them all over the newsmagazines, talk shows, and tabloids. I'll bet they're not too thrilled with the notion of being immortalized this way, but if it's going to be them, it should be them!
Perhaps they understand that what they did that day with that flag was not heroic. Yes, their endeavor was symbolic, as if these three men were acting out a new verse to the "Star Spangled Banner," which still waves over the land of the free and the home of the brave. It proclaimed to our enemies that you can knock down our buildings but you can't take away our freedom. That's strong symbolism.
Yet the heroism of that day was not in raising that flag on that pole. It was in trying to save the lives of the thousands of people in those buildings, and the rescue and recovery efforts that followed. The heroes were not just the 343 firefighters who died, but also the ones who selflessly served that day and lived.
If there is to be a statue to honor all the firefighters, it should depict several firefighters, including all the ethnicities, races, and genders (hey, you forgot the women!!) that make up the FDNY. Have them standing side by side with their heads bowed, holding their helmets over their hearts, as if looking down at fallen comrades. There's your diversity, there's your symbolism, there's your memorial.
Change the shape of the bronze, not the texture of the truth.
Editor's note: five days after this column was published, the Fire Department of New York cancelled plans for the statue based on the firefighters raising the flag.
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Thursday, January 10, 2002
Teenage Suicide Pilot
The strange flight of Charles Bishop, the 15 year old kid who stole a Cessna 172 and flew it into the Bank of America building in Tampa on Saturday afternoon, has raised more questions as the days have gone by.
The story put every cable news outlet on Graphics Alert Status because there was a report that Bishop had left behind a suicide note, in which he had praised Osama bin Laden. No one has yet produced this note, so we don't know the details. But someone said the magic OBL words, and we were off to the Speculation Races!
For me, though, the questions begin with, why was he being taught to fly a plane at such an early age? He started taking lessons when he was 13. That's early. That's just about the age parents begin thinking about leaving their son home alone on a Saturday night, and this kid's flight instructor left him alone in the Cessna (with the keys!!) to run a pre-flight check.
He wasn't old enough to learn to drive a car, so why was it legal for him to learn to fly? Maybe you should have the skills to manage potentially dangerous ground vehicles, like mom's Acura, before graduating to Bernoulli's principles.
Not that he's the first teenager to do so. Under FAA regulations, student pilots are allowed to fly solo when they're 16, but can't get a full pilot's license until they're 17. That seems backward, doesn't it?
Another question to be raised is, why aren't there any jets at MacDill Air Force Base? That's the base that houses Central Command for US operations in Afghanistan (remember Norman Schwarzkopf being headquartered there during the Persian Gulf War?). The kid flew the Cessna right into MacDill's restricted air space, but they couldn't do anything about it, because there are no fighters stationed there.
Excuse me, but isn't the Air Force the one with the planes?
Instead, they had to scramble jets out of Homestead Air Force Base, 200 miles away. By the time those F-15s got there, the kid had crashed the plane into the bank. I guess we have to just hope that no one with truly evil intentions ever wants to fly into that airspace and do some real damage.
Whatever happened to that edict we heard so much about in the days after the 9/11 attacks -- the one that said that there would now be an air patrol that could shoot down any planes that were off course or disobeying orders to land? In this case, crewmen aboard a Coast Guard helicopter spotted the kid and motioned for him to take it down, but he ignored them. And what was the consequence of his actions? Nothing. They couldn't do anything about it, apparently.
I bring this up not because I think they should have shot him down, but because the "authorities" told us what they were going to do in situations just like this, to keep America safe, but they didn't! So, it was just a lie. Another cosmetic attempt to make you feel more secure, with no truly protective policy behind it.
In several media reports, Bishop has been described as a "troubled loner." What a shock! As if we hear about a lot of "peppy life of the party" guys committing suicide. Unless you're the Maytag Repairman, it's not good to get that "troubled loner" label.
We've also been told that Bishop may have been taking Accutane, a prescription medication for severe acne. In the paperwork for this miracle drug, in the Adverse Reactions section, along with many other possible physical problems, there's a little upbeat side effect warning that reads "Psychiatric: suicide attempts, suicide, depression, psychosis, emotional instability." Gee, sounds like just the thing for a troubled loner!
Granted, being a teenage boy is tough enough, what with the hormones raging and all. On top of that, this kid was abandoned by his father and had to move to a new state with his mother and try to re-start his social life there. Then, you pile on some serious acne, and you've got Trouble with a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for Pimples!
Given all of that, does it make sense to give him a drug that can make him even more depressed? Sounds like, pharmaceutically, he went from the frying pan into the fire.
I can't help but wonder if, somewhere on that list of possible side effects, it warns that patients who use Accutane shouldn't operate heavy machinery or vehicles.
Like, say, a Cessna 172?
posted at 4:25 PM
Categories: columns, war/terrorism
Wednesday, January 02, 2002
Pay Teachers Like Babysitters
This is to everyone who thinks teachers are overpaid. It was taken from an editorial in a New Hampshire newspaper. Author unknown.
Consider this:
If I had my way, I'd pay these teachers myself. I'd pay them babysitting wages. I'd give them $3/hour out of my own pocket. And I'm only going to pay them for 5 hours, not coffee breaks. That would be $15/day. Each parent should pay $15/day for these teachers to babysit their child. Even if they have more than one child, it's still a lot cheaper than private day care.
Now, how many children do they teach everyday? Maybe 20? That's $15 times 20, equaling $300/day. But remember, they only work 180 days a year! I'm not going to pay them for all those vacations! So that's $300 x 180 = $54,000.
Wait. I know that you teachers will say, "What about those who have ten years experience and a masters degree?" Well, maybe (to be fair) they could get the minimum wage, and instead of just babysitting, they could read the kid a story. We could round that off to about $5/hour, times five hours, times 20 children. That's $500/day times 180 days. That's $90,000! Huh?
Wait a minute. Let's get a little perspective here. Babysitting wages are too good for these teachers. Did anyone see a good salary guide around here?
Need I say more?
Signed, An Intelligent Parent


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Nathan: Well, we initially contacted the U.S. Army Entertainment liason but the really interesting stories come from the people who lived it; people who have been to Iraq and Afghanistan and have served time in the trenches, so to speak. A lot of people, when they find out that you are looking for stories, want to tell their own stories. Soldiers read the comics and comment on the accuracy and offer to share their own perspectives. It's cumulative and the stories and research is addictive. Fortunately I am limited to a certain number of pages so I am never allowed to get bogged down by it.
R: You do a LOT of travel promoting your work. Would you say that you are driven by a similar restlessness of spirit as some of your characters?
Nathan: I don't know. I guess I never really thought about it that way, but maybe. It's a lot of fun, going to the conventions and meeting fans of the work. It's encouraging. I'm going to twelve this year. At the San Diego Comic Con for instance, I met television actors who are fans and everyone from academics to hard core comic enthusiasts. The cross section of people who read some of my work is amazing! I do hope to travel less as time goes on. Eventually, as the work anchors itself into the culture, you find that you have to do less promoting and I can already see that happening a little bit.
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