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February 16, 2016Written by Marcus
As part of Issue #2 of our Newsletter (distributed on 4th February, and viewable here) we ran a feature on Star Wars. The latest instalment in the franchise wowed audiences in the run-up to Christmas, and as we discovered from public reaction during our December Toy & Train Fair, this had regenerated interest in memorabilia and merchandise from the original Star Wars films of the late 1970s and 1980s.
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The release of the latest title in the Star Wars movie franchise just before Christmas tied in well with our last fair of the year, and interest in merchandise from the series was evident. We'd like to think that such events introduce young collectors to the hobby, and that some will then branch out into other areas as well, but are these tie-ins just a fad, or and will interest fade away?
Well, in the case of Star Wars, perhaps not. This time last year a rare Palitoy 'unpunched' version of Boba Fett from The Empire Strikes Back (c1980) sold for a UK record of £15,000 with auctioneers Vectis, proving that the appeal of the early films is holding strong, but what of the current crop?
Tim reckons would-be investors need to be careful. "Because some of the early pieces command such very high prices there's a misconception today that all Star Wars memorabilia will go up in value, but that's unlikely to be the case. The items that have increased significantly over the years have been the rarities, while the common figures can still be picked up very cheaply, even in pristine condition. The current peak suggests it is probably a fad, but it's certainly very hot at the moment. It doesn't always follow that all the new merchandise will turn into gold, and the chances are that the material that's clearly made to be 'collectable' almost certainly won't be!"
The passage of time has also demonstrated how important condition and packaging is. Don't throw away the box, and don't open the blister pack! This is sage advice, as anyone who has collected 'limited edition' metal figures has discovered to their cost, and now sees them offered for as little as a £1 each at our fairs.
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I have been a fan of Michael Jackson for decades and have watched this super star of musical and dance entertainment rise to the heights and then cast down due to hear-say charges and xenophobia. On June 25th, 2009, Michael Jackson was found dead in his home just hours before the King of Pop was to perform in a concert in Los Angles under circumstances that many see as suspicious. The media loudly proclaimed death as a result of an overdose of prescription painkillers. Some people speculate that he was murdered by poisoning. His doctor has been called up for questioning regarding the whole incident. Michael Jackson is a megastar around the world, except in racist and capitalist USA. Rio de Janeiro is erecting a statue in his honor in contradistinction. At home in the US, Michael Jackson has suffered only derision and slurs because of his alleged pederasty. Over the decades he was taken to court twice on such charges, the second incident alone placed health endangering stress on him. As solid evidence was lacking, he was acquitted, but the reputation stuck due to a negative media blitz. From then on the bourgeois media had a field day calling him weird, "Jacko" and the like. In any article referring to him, he was called Jacko or Jacko the Wacko and the like, despite his huge talents as a singer, dancer and actor.
The American bourgeois state and the wealth generated on the backs of historical slaves and the white proletariat has always relied on two tactics; the ignorance enforced on the working class and dividing the masses against one another along various differences. The American imperialist empire was first built by the crushing the First Nations in a genocidal pogrom that continues to this day. Competing interests historically vied for "virgin land" in order to expand wealth and territory. This meant that they had to remove societies that were in the way. As mechanical power was not fully developed or extensive, they imported slaves to do all the dangerous, dirty and hard labor to build the infrastructure of European civilization in the "new world". Slaves have always been viewed as inferior and thus treated with less respect than draft animals.
This brings us to the point of Michael Jackson's weirdness. The natural world abounds with "weirdness" (read difference) and this is not met with prejudice, but with awe. When it comes to people and customs, expect difference. One might well say that the dress code of the Ubangi is weird, or that of the Dogons, or cross dressing in our own land. But the bourgeoisie relies on racist tactics and difference to keep the masses warring on each other instead of the real enemy; their common oppressor in the form of the capitalist parasite class. Michael Jackson just happened to be a high profile example. If he was murdered as stated by some, he is not the first in high profile black people. Consider what happened to Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, both murdered in cold blood by the imperialist bourgeois.
Part of Michael Jackson's "weirdness" is based on all his cosmetic surgery and skin whitening. But this was done in a culture that for reasons of profit worships and sells a youth culture to the point that people will not be hired unless they are young in appearance and white. Even though Michael Jackson did not "want to be a color" he was still judged as a colored person; receiving the worst that xenophobic attitude could muster. Another point of "weirdness" is his apparent obsession with children and hence the handle by which the xenophobes and fundamentalist Christian mindset could mount their attacks, which were carried over from Michael Jackson and onto the gay population at large. Michael Jackson built at his own expense, a place called Neverland where he would have children visit at the consent of their parents. Two of these parents decided that Michael Jackson would be a good cash cow based on allegations of homosexual child molestation. Unfortunately, the background information on these folks is not readily available other than the fact that both cases were eventually thrown out of court. But the damage done by the hearsay was permanent and all Michael Jackson's idiosyncrasies were magnified all out of proportion and resulted in alienating Michael Jackson right out of the country. Even his family got behind the attacks, which they now regret. Michael Jackson never had a real childhood of his own, being pressed into the entertainment world at an early age as the youngest of the Jackson Five at the tender age of ten.
Attacks on Michael Jackson's character have been constant to the point of driving him from the land where he was born and raised to foreign shores where he was still virtually worshipped as the super star he really was. After successfully driving him off-shore, the media dropped him and Michael Jackson virtually disappeared in North America, but not in the rest of the world that did not fall for the hype.
Eventually, what Michael Jackson will have accomplished, that was acknowledged by the likes of Sigmund Freud, is the acknowledgement of child sexuality. Under the Puritanical code of the American bourgeoisie, this is a smack in the face and they have done everything to vilify and torment people engaged in various consensual relations. As a matter of fact, most (some 60 %) child to adult sexuality occurs within family units and relations. This even goes on in the animal kingdom. At one time, gay relationships were under attack and still are under fundamentalist mindsets. Another persecuted minority is the Muslim. Lately we have been hearing about the horrors perpetrated by the El Shira sect. We have our own El Shira law too! This is worst expressed in the form or the torment heaped upon minorities such as gay people, Muslims and blacks by fundamentalist bigots, which includes beating people until they are crippled or dead from torture.
See the article in the Workers' Vanguard "the Man in the Mirror" for further insight.


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Q: How to bind data to a Marker click in React Leaflet? I am trying to bind data so that when I click on a marker I can retrieve a value, specifically an id from a field called "station_id" in a json I am working with. At the moment I am console logging event.target, when a maker is clicked:
    markerClick = (e) =>{
            console.log(e.target);
        }

 let markers =null;
        if(this.props.showStations) {
        markers = (

            this.props.stations.data.stations.map((station) =>
                <Marker
                    position={[station.lat, station.lon]}
                    onClick={this.markerClick.bind(this, station)}>
                </Marker>
                )

        )
        }

I believe the way to approach this is by binding the markerClick function but I am unsure how to do it properly. Below is my code:
App.js
import React, { Component } from 'react';
import Leaf from './components/Leaf';

class App extends Component {
  constructor(props) {
    super(props);
    this.state = {
      viewport: {
        height: "100vh",
        width: "100vw",
        latitude: 40.7128,
        longitude: -74.0060,
        zoom: 10
      },
      latitude: 40.7128,
      longitude: -74.0060,
      zoom: 10,
      stations: [],
      showStations: false,
      selectedStation: null,
      userLocation: {}
    };
  }

  componentDidMount() {
    const request = async()=> {
      await fetch('https://gbfs.citibikenyc.com/gbfs/en/station_information.json')
      .then(res => res.json())
      .then(res=>
        this.setState({stations: res, showStations: true}))
    }
    request();
  }

  checkData=()=>{
    console.log(this.state.stations)
    this.state.stations.data.stations.map(e=>{
      console.log(e)
    })
  }

  render() {

    return (

          <button onClick={this.checkData}>click me</button>
          <Leaf
            viewport={this.state.viewport}
            stations={this.state.stations}
            showStations={this.state.showStations}/>

    );
  }
}

export default App;

Leaf.js
import React, {Component} from 'react';
import { Map, TileLayer, Marker, Popup } from 'react-leaflet';
//import './leaf.css'
//import InfoBox from './InfoBox';
import { Button } from 'react-bootstrap';
//import Search from './Search';
//import Match from './Match';
//import Modal from './Modal';
//import L from 'leaflet';
//import Routing from "./RoutingMachine";
//import { Row, Col, Grid, Container } from 'react-bootstrap';
//import ErrorBoundary from '../ErrorBoundary/ErrorBoundary'

class Leaf extends Component {

    checkData=()=>{
        this.props.stations.data.stations.map(e=>{
          console.log(e)
        })
      }

    markerClick = (e) =>{
        console.log(e.target);
    }

    render() {

        let markers =null;
        if(this.props.showStations) {
        markers = (

            this.props.stations.data.stations.map((station) =>
                <Marker
                    position={[station.lat, station.lon]}
                    onClick={this.markerClick.bind(station)}>
                </Marker>
                )

        )
        }

        const position = [this.props.viewport.latitude, this.props.viewport.longitude]
        //const position = [40.7484, -73.9857]
        return (

                <button onClick={this.checkData}>check props</button>
                <Map center={position} zoom={14}>
                    <TileLayer
                        attribution='&copy OpenStreetMap contributors'
                        url="https://{s}.tile.openstreetmap.org/{z}/{x}/{y}.png"
                    />
                      {markers}
                    <Marker position={position}>
                        <Popup>
                            A pretty CSS3 popup.
 Easily customizable.
                        </Popup>
                    </Marker>
                </Map>

        );
    }
}

export default Leaf;

A: Use the eventHandlers function inside the Marker component:
<Marker
  position={[50.5, 30.5]}
  eventHandlers={{
    click: (e) => {
      console.log('marker clicked', e)
    },
  }}
/>

A: I don't think you want bind. bind is meant to be used to give a function access to this. Normal variables should be used by one of the following methods.
You could inline your function to this:
onClick={() => this.markerClick(station)}

or change the signature of your function and curry it to this:
markerClick = (station) => (e) =>{
  console.log(station);
}

....

onClick={this.markerClick(station)}

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In connection with this statement, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summoned Hungary's charge d'affaires in Ukraine. A strong protest was expressed to the Hungarian diplomat.
"Categorically unacceptable for Ukraine is a situation when senior officials of a neighboring state call Russia's armed aggression against Ukraine, which has been ongoing since 2014, a 'civil war'," the ministry said.
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German researchers have developed a system enabling robots and humans to use passive RFID tags to map out a disaster area and send information to a command center.
Apr 22, 2008—As teams of rescue workers moved throughout New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina struck that area in August 2005, they frequently wrote codes on buildings to inform groups arriving behind them of important information, or to help those disoriented by the rubble realize they had already been to a particular site. For instance, the codes revealed whether a building was dangerous, or safe or contained rubble.
Researchers in Germany's Black Forest region have developed an RFID extension of this coding system. Their RFID-supported urban search-and-rescue concept features robots and humans working together in disaster zones to map an affected area and transmit information to a command center.
To map out an area, the group used a robot with an RFID reader antenna mounted parallel to the ground to read embedded tags.
"It works like ants do," says Alexander Kleiner, a researcher at Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in Breisgau, who wrote a thesis about RFID-based mapping for search and rescue with robots and humans. "Ants leave a trace that the others can smell to say that they have already scouted a certain area." The goal of the project, which is funded by the university and the German Research Foundation (DFG), is to create a system for efficiently mapping disaster areas using people and robots, thus speeding the rescue process and saving lives.
For instance, rescue workers and robots can jointly apply RFID tags to buildings that have already been checked following a disaster, and write key information to the tags so other teams need only read them with PDAs to discern a particular building's status, or to obtain a recommendation of where to proceed next. What's more, as various teams and robots approach via differing paths and read the tags, data can be associated to calculate the tags' location, and to generate a consistent map for use by the central command post. This is particularly useful, for example, if nearby building structures made of reinforced concrete obstruct GPS satellite signals from being read.
Last year, Kleiner and his colleagues tested the system with robots and humans on the university campus using passive RFID tags. And in early 2008, the researchers conducted a test with robots only, using active tags.


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Die Bridge of Dun ist eine Straßenbrücke nahe der schottischen Ortschaft Farnell in der Council Area Angus. 1971 wurde die Brücke in die schottischen Denkmallisten in der höchsten Denkmalkategorie A aufgenommen. Eine ehemalige zusätzliche Einstufung als Scheduled Monument wurde 1999 aufgehoben. Der nach der Brücke benannte Bahnhof Bridge of Dun liegt rund 250 m nordöstlich.

Der Grundstein der von Alexander Stevens geplanten Bridge of Dun wurde am 7. Juni 1785 gelegt. Am 27. Januar 1787 war der Bau abgeschlossen. Die vertraglich festgesetzten Baukosten beliefen sich auf 3128 £.

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Der Mauerwerksviadukt überspannt den South Esk rund 4,5 Kilometer nordöstlich von Farnell nahe seiner Mündung in das Montrose Bassin. Er führt eine Nebenstraße von geringer infrastruktureller Bedeutung mit drei ausgemauerten Segmentbögen über den Fluss. Der zentrale Bogen weist eine lichte Weite von 20,7 m auf, während die flankierenden Bögen mit lichten Weiten von jeweils 15,2 m ausgeführt sind. Oberhalb der Eisbrecher setzen Säulen an, welche die Austritte entlang der Brüstung der 5,5 m breiten Brücke tragen. Die ausgemauerten Zufahrten sind mit über Land führenden Flutbögen ausgeführt. Kleine Obelisken auf der Brüstung markieren den Beginn der Brücke.

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Redwood City, CA — April 18, 2005 — Qualys Inc., the leading provider of on demand vulnerability management and policy compliance solutions, today announced its spring release, QualysGuard® 4.0, introducing a policy compliance software development kit (SDK) and application library, a self-service MasterCard SDP module, and a real-time executive dashboard. The new version of QualysGuard now allows security managers to audit and enforce internal and external policies, on demand, without the cost and complexity associated with enterprise software.
Qualys has developed a library of pre-built applications that allow customers to determine the security status of specific corporate assets and compare them to internal policies and external standards. The library, which leverages new and existing APIs to extend the reach of the QualysGuard platform, currently includes more than 15 applications with new applications being developed and delivered weekly to customers.
Qualys has also developed a policy compliance SDK that allows customers to create custom applications based on their unique requirements. Qualys MSSP and consulting partners can utilize the SDK to easily create their own compliance applications to differentiate their QualysGuard-based services.
Regulatory Reporting — QualysGuard 4.0 enables companies to develop custom reports to automate and ease compliance for Sarbanes-Oxley, HIPAA, GLBA and others. With this application, customers can audit their network to identify any instances that do not conform to set standards, manage the remediation process and create customized reports that provide an unalterable audit trail.
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Qualys has introduced the first automated, self-service compliance solution for the MasterCard Site Data Protection (SDP) program. As an SDP approved scanning vendor, Qualys is certified to help online merchants and their consultants evaluate the security of Web sites that store credit cards data, and achieve compliance with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (MasterCard SDP, Visa CISP). Beginning June 30, 2005, MasterCard will require online merchants processing over $125,000 in monthly MasterCard gross volume to comply with its SDP regulations.
QualysGuard 4.0 includes a pre-defined scan profile that enables online merchants and their consultants to scan payment systems according to PCI requirements, a blueprint for correcting found vulnerabilities, and auto-generated compliance reports that can be submitted directly to the acquiring bank.
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Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer
Ross Raisin
Judith Reveal
In his book, Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer, author Ross Raisin emphasizes his theme of "experiment" in every chapter. He encourages having fun with writing, but also advises his readers to reach out and expand their variety of reading materials.
In each chapter he makes his statement about the chapter topic, and follows it up with specific examples—again, focusing on experimenting with writing.
The chapter topics flow smoothly from the Introduction (the seed) to the First Steps; Technique; and Honing. In each chapter he lays out a plan relating to the topic.
He covers a lot of ground, but leaves the reader with the sense that this is not a book for beginners. Having said that, the beginning writer will find some of his discussions enlightening.
In the chapter First Steps, he talks about autofiction—"the blending together of fiction and autobiography," a style first introduced in the 1970s. "What the form does . . . is challenge preconceived notions of what fiction is supposed to look like." While this discussion is interesting, the beginning writer may find it daunting.
He further discusses form here, again suggesting experimenting with story form. "Developing your knowledge of a particular genre—its conventions of structure, theme, character so that you know the specific effects that can be achieved within it, is a much better way of serving your idea than incuriously sticking to a template." Experiment.
His strongest chapter deals with technique. When he discusses place, he explains, "It is at its most charged, however, when it melds with plot and character. The meaning of the place is in its relation to the characters that live within it."
One of his best sections in the chapter on Technique is his discussion of point of view. While most creative writing books will spend a great deal of time trying to explain POV, Raisin keeps his information short and specific, using good examples of his discussion points.
Again, he brings experimenting into the picture: "Point of view is not some dry analytical component to impose upon your writing; it is something to explore and have fun with." Any writer will say that point of view can be a challenge to understand, but Raisin's explanation of the various aspects brings clarity to the subject.
And yet again, the theme of experimentation rises to the surface. "When you begin a first draft, neither style nor content will be fully formed—and it is with this first draft that you can experiment, in trying to develop that relationship."
Further in this chapter he talks about plot. "The plot of a narrative is the pattern of events that occur, set in motion by cause and effect. . . . you could think of it like dominoes: If the story is a long snaking line of dominoes, then plot is what happens when you tip over the first one."
Raisin's take on dialogue is especially enlightening. "If your dialogue does not feel convincing, it probably means that the characters speaking it are not convincing. . . . Dialogue . . . is simply another manifestation of character." Further to how dialogue affects the story, he talks about the importance of: "non-verbal features, the smiles and scowls and winks and nods, the physical distance between speakers—all of the body language that cannot be easily transcribed in the speech act."
An interesting discussion at the end of this chapter covers originality, where he attempts to explain to the reader what originality really means to a writer and a publisher. "When we talk about originality, it might be the originality of the storyline, or it might be the originality of form—but if it is truly original, the two go hand in hand. . . . So often when we say that something is original, what we really mean is just that it's bloody good."
In further discussing this topic, Raisin uses several examples of writing that may be confusing to many. In this section, these examples may be difficult for a beginning writer to read and should be taken with a grain of salt. "Of course, a work of highly inventive fiction is not going to be to every reader's taste."
In the last chapter, Honing, Raisin talks about the importance of editing: "There are two harnessed visions that go into any piece of fiction writing: the imaginative one that you set out with, and the clear-eyed editorial vision that does it justice."
According to Raisin, editing falls into two techniques: separation, that allows the writer to view his/her work objectively; and specificity, that occurs when the author does a general read-through, focusing on plot progression, character development, structure, word repetition, theme, subtlety, point of view and tense, elements, continuity, punctuation, and esotericism. If the author truly follows the editing technique of specificity, there will be at least ten read-throughs—one for each of these items.
Although this is a small book, it is packed full of information. While it may be a bit beyond the writer who is tipping his/her toe in the water for the first time, the book has many valuable hints and suggestions. Well worth the investment for anyone truly interested in understanding the path one follows to write fiction—not only for him/herself, but for those who will be reading.
Judith Reveal is an author of mysteries, historical fiction, and nonfiction. She wrote The Four Elements of Fiction: Character, Setting, Situation, and Theme.


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Q: Python curses string input while continuously updating a separate window? How can I simultaneously read a string as input in one window while updating another window? This is for using curses in Python.
This would be useful e.g. for having a program that displays some output which can happen at any time, even when the user is typing. The idea being that the user can continue to type without having the currently entered, semi-complete string get truncated or cut in the middle due to sudden output from the program.
I've tried to use and modify the code from this question: Python/curses user input while updating screen
Since the code already exists in the other question I'm not posting it again here.
However, this code only reads a single character.
I can't just call getstr, as this will block and stop updating the other window until the user has entered a full string.
It might seem obvious how to solve it: Use threads. However, this is already warned against in the aforementioned question---curses doesn't play well with threads in Python, it seems.
Another "obvious" way to solve it would be to implement your own buffer, read one character at a time, implement basic editing, and keep using select to this in a non-blocking manner.
I am hoping that there is some way to read a string in a non-blocking manner while providing basic line editing (so I don't need to implement it myself!) using curses, as I can imagine this is a rather typical use case.
Here is an attempt using threading, modified from the aforementioned example code. The problem with this code is that it garbles the display. The display remains garbled until the window is resized, then it appears fine.
The code reads user input in one window (one thread), grabs a mutex, gives the string to some shared string, the other thread grabs the mutex, and displays it.
What is wrong with this code? What causes the garbled output? As soon as I remove the other thread manipulating curses (removing the getstr call), it stops being garbled.
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

import curses, curses.panel
import random
import time
import sys
import select
import threading

gui = None

class ui:
    def __init__(self):
        self.output_mutex = threading.Lock()
        self.output_str = ""

        self.stdscr = curses.initscr()
#        curses.noecho()
        curses.echo()
        curses.cbreak()
        curses.curs_set(0)
        self.stdscr.keypad(1)

        self.win1 = curses.newwin(10, 50, 0, 0)
        self.win1.border(0)
        self.pan1 = curses.panel.new_panel(self.win1)
        self.win2 = curses.newwin(10, 50, 0, 0)
        self.win2.border(0)
        self.pan2 = curses.panel.new_panel(self.win2)
        self.win3 = curses.newwin(10, 50, 12, 0)
        self.win3.border(0)
        self.pan3 = curses.panel.new_panel(self.win3)

        self.win1.addstr(1, 1, "Window 1")
        self.win2.addstr(1, 1, "Window 2")

#        self.win3.addstr(1, 1, "Input: ")
#   user_input = self.win3.getstr(8, 1, 20)
#        self.win3.addstr(2, 1, "Output: %s" % user_input)

#        self.pan1.hide()

    def refresh(self):
        curses.panel.update_panels()
        self.win3.refresh()
        self.win2.refresh()
        self.win1.refresh()

    def quit_ui(self):
        curses.nocbreak()
        self.stdscr.keypad(0)
        curses.curs_set(1)
        curses.echo()
        curses.endwin()
        print "UI quitted"
        exit(0)

def worker_output(ui):
    count = 0
    running = 1

    while True:
        ui.win2.addstr(3, 1, str(count)+": "+str(int(round(random.random()*999))))
        ui.win2.addstr(4, 1, str(running))

        ui.output_mutex.acquire()

        ui.win2.addstr(5, 1, ui.output_str)

        ui.output_mutex.release()

        ui.refresh()
        time.sleep(0.1)

class feeder:
    # Fake U.I feeder
    def __init__(self):
        self.running = False
        self.ui = ui()
        self.count = 0

    def stop(self):
        self.running = False

    def run(self):
        self.running = True
        self.feed()

    def feed(self):
        threads = []
        t = threading.Thread(target=worker_output, args=(self.ui,))
        threads.append(t)
        t.start()

        user_input = ""

        while True:
            self.ui.win3.addstr(1, 1, "Input: ")
            user_input = self.ui.win3.getstr(1, 8, 20)
            self.ui.win3.addstr(2, 1, "Output: %s" % user_input)
#            self.ui.refresh()
#            self.ui.win3.clear()

            self.ui.output_mutex.acquire()

            self.ui.output_str = user_input

            self.ui.output_mutex.release()

            time.sleep(.2)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    f = feeder()
    f.run()

A: I tried a somewhat different approach from what is in the comments: making a thread-based system that holds locks around various points.
This seems to work more or less minimally, though it exposes a lot of the annoyance of the curses library too, and is in general probably the wrong way to do things.  Still, I present it here as an example of one way to make this work.
#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-

import collections
import curses, curses.ascii, curses.panel
import random
import time
import sys
import select
import threading

#gui = None

class LockedCurses(threading.Thread):
    """
    This class essentially wraps curses operations so that they
    can be used with threading.  Noecho and cbreak are always in
    force.

    Usage: call start() to start the thing running.  Then call
    newwin, new_panel, mvaddstr, and other standard curses functions
    as usual.

    Call teardown() to end.

    Note: it's very important that the user catch things like
    keyboard interrupts and redirect them to make us shut down
    cleanly.  (This could be improved...)
    """
    def __init__(self, debug=False):
        super(LockedCurses, self).__init__()
        self._lock = threading.Lock()

        # ick!
        self.panel = self

        # generic cond var
        self._cv = threading.Condition(self._lock)
        # results-updated cond var
        self._resultcv = threading.Condition(self._lock)

        self._workqueue = collections.deque()
        self._starting = False
        self._running = False
        self._do_quit = False
        self._screen = None
        self._ticket = 0
        self._served = -1
        self._result = {}
        self._debug = debug

    def start(self):
        assert(not self._running)
        assert(self._screen is None)
        self._screen = curses.initscr()
        with self._lock:
            self._starting = True
            super(LockedCurses, self).start()
            while self._starting:
                self._cv.wait()
        self.debug('started!')

    def run(self):
        # This happens automatically inside the new thread; do not
        # call it yourself!
        self.debug('run called!')
        assert(not self._running)
        assert(self._screen is not None)
        curses.savetty()
        curses.noecho()
        curses.cbreak()
        self._running = True
        self._starting = False
        with self._lock:
            self._cv.notifyAll()
            while not self._do_quit:
                while len(self._workqueue) == 0 and not self._do_quit:
                    self.debug('run: waiting for work')
                    self._cv.wait()
                # we have work to do, or were asked to quit
                self.debug('run: len(workq)={}'.format(len(self._workqueue)))
                while len(self._workqueue):
                    ticket, func, args, kwargs = self._workqueue.popleft()
                    self.debug('run: call {}'.format(func))
                    self._result[ticket] = func(*args, **kwargs)
                    self._served = ticket
                    self.debug('run: served {}'.format(ticket))
                    self._resultcv.notifyAll()

            # Quitting!  NB: resettty should do all of this for us
            # curses.nocbreak()
            # curses.echo()
            curses.resetty()
            curses.endwin()
            self._running = False
            self._cv.notifyAll()

    def teardown(self):
        with self._lock:
            if not self._running:
                return
            self._do_quit = True
            while self._running:
                self._cv.notifyAll()
                self._cv.wait()

    def debug(self, string):
        if self._debug:
            sys.stdout.write(string + '\r\n')

    def _waitch(self):
        """
        Wait for a character to be readable from sys.stdin.
        Return True on success.

        Unix-specific (ugh)
        """
        while True:
            with self._lock:
                if not self._running:
                    return False
            # Wait about 0.1 second for a result.  Really, should spin
            # off a thread to do this instead.
            l = select.select([sys.stdin], [], [], 0.1)[0]
            if len(l) > 0:
                return True
            # No result: go around again to recheck self._running.

    def refresh(self):
        s = self._screen
        if s is not None:
            self._passthrough('refresh', s.refresh)

    def _passthrough(self, fname, func, *args, **kwargs):
        self.debug('passthrough: fname={}'.format(fname))
        with self._lock:
            self.debug('got lock, fname={}'.format(fname))
            if not self._running:
                raise ValueError('called {}() while not running'.format(fname))
            # Should we check for self._do_quit here?  If so,
            # what should we return?
            ticket = self._ticket
            self._ticket += 1
            self._workqueue.append((ticket, func, args, kwargs))
            self.debug('waiting for ticket {}, fname={}'.format(ticket, fname))
            while self._served < ticket:
                self._cv.notifyAll()
                self._resultcv.wait()
            return self._result.pop(ticket)

    def newwin(self, *args, **kwargs):
        w = self._passthrough('newwin', curses.newwin, *args, **kwargs)
        return WinWrapper(self, w)

    def new_panel(self, win, *args, **kwargs):
        w = win._interior
        p = self._passthrough('new_panel', curses.panel.new_panel, w,
                              *args, **kwargs)
        return LockedWrapper(self, p)

class LockedWrapper(object):
    """
    Wraps windows and panels and such.  locker is the LockedCurses
    that we need to use to pass calls through.
    """
    def __init__(self, locker, interior_object):
        self._locker = locker
        self._interior = interior_object

    def __getattr__(self, name):
        i = self._interior
        l = self._locker
        a = getattr(i, name)
        if callable(a):
            l.debug('LockedWrapper: pass name={} as func={}'.format(name, a))
            # return a function that uses passthrough
            return lambda *args, **kwargs: l._passthrough(name, a,
                                                          *args, **kwargs)
        # not callable, just return the attribute directly
        return a

class WinWrapper(LockedWrapper):
    def getch(self):
        """
        Overrides basic getch() call so that it's specifically *not*
        locked.  This is a bit tricky.
        """
        # (This should really test for nodelay mode too though.)
        l = self._locker
        ok = l._waitch()
        if ok:
            return l._passthrough('getch', self._interior.getch)
        return curses.ERR

    def getstr(self, y, x, maxlen):
        self.move(y, x)
        l = 0
        s = ""
        while True:
            self.refresh()
            c = self.getch()
            if c in (curses.ERR, ord('\r'), ord('\n')):
                break
            if c == ord('\b'):
                if len(s) > 0:
                    s = s[:-1]
                    x -= 1
                    self.addch(y, x, ' ')
                    self.move(y, x)
            else:
                if curses.ascii.isprint(c) and len(s) < maxlen:
                    c = chr(c)
                    s += c
                    self.addch(c)
                    x += 1
        return s

class ui(object):
    def __init__(self):
        self.curses = LockedCurses()
        self.curses.start()
        #self.stdscr.keypad(1)

        self.win1 = self.curses.newwin(10, 50, 0, 0)
        self.win1.border(0)
        self.pan1 = self.curses.panel.new_panel(self.win1)
        self.win2 = self.curses.newwin(10, 50, 0, 0)
        self.win2.border(0)
        self.pan2 = self.curses.panel.new_panel(self.win2)
        self.win3 = self.curses.newwin(10, 50, 12, 0)
        self.win3.border(0)
        self.pan3 = self.curses.panel.new_panel(self.win3)

        self.win1.addstr(1, 1, "Window 1")
        self.win2.addstr(1, 1, "Window 2")
        self.win3.addstr(1, 1, "Input: ")

        self.output_str = ""
        self.stop_requested = False

    def refresh(self):
        #self.curses.panel.update_panels()
        self.win3.refresh()
        self.win2.refresh()
        self.win1.refresh()
        #self.curses.refresh()

    def quit_ui(self):
        self.curses.teardown()
        print "UI quitted"

def worker_output(ui):
    count = 0
    running = 1

    while not ui.stop_requested:
        ui.win2.addstr(3, 1, str(count)+": "+str(int(round(random.random()*999))))
        ui.win2.addstr(4, 1, str(running))

        ui.win2.addstr(5, 1, ui.output_str)

        ui.refresh()
        time.sleep(0.1)
        count += 1

class feeder:
    # Fake U.I feeder
    def __init__(self):
        self.running = False
        self.ui = ui()
        self.count = 0

    def stop(self):
        self.running = False

    def run(self):
        self.running = True
        try:
            self.feed()
        finally:
            self.ui.quit_ui()

    def feed(self):
        t = threading.Thread(target=worker_output, args=(self.ui,))
        t.start()

        user_input = ""

        while not user_input.startswith("q"):
            self.ui.win3.addstr(1, 1, "Input: ")
            user_input = self.ui.win3.getstr(1, 8, 20)
            self.ui.win3.addstr(2, 1, "Output: %s" % user_input)
            self.ui.refresh()
            self.ui.win3.clear()

            time.sleep(.2)
        self.ui.stop_requested = True
        t.join()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    f = feeder()
    f.run()


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Day 538: The Principality Of Sealand – All Sea, No Land, All Independent
Posted on August 17, 2019 by Marty
Happy summer everyone! Yes, it's time to welcome those lazy, slow-moving months of late evening sun, hammock-worthy afternoons and frozen drinks with suspiciously large amounts of alcohol bubbling between tiny little ice crystals. This is the day when some unredeemable schmuck will remind you that the days only get shorter from here, and that we're working our way toward winter. Last I checked, it was justifiable assault in 32 states and 6 Canadian provinces to smack around anyone who says that to you.
No, in my little corner of the world we are tuned into summer and focusing on the moment. And for those who haven't yet planned your getaway during these summer months, I'm going to suggest you point yourself toward the water. A lot of resorts and the best coastline hotel rooms may be booked though. But if you really love that salty ocean air, why not surround yourself with it? Why not take a trip to a place where that salty ocean air is the second-largest attraction, apart from the ocean itself?
I'd like to introduce you to the Principality of Sealand, where dreams – if not actual physical space – are in abundance.
Okay, okay. So it's a man-made floating platform "pretending" to be a country. But Sealand is more than some nutjob's flee-the-grid pipe dream. It has everything a young nation requires: a good back-story, international relations, a local economy, a sports legacy, natural disasters and even a couple of sort-of wars.
The 'territory' of Sealand was originally the H.M. Fort Roughs, an offshore naval base deployed in 1943 to protect the port of Harwich, Essex from those nasty Germans. The base saw no significant action, and was abandoned in 1956 when it appeared that no threat was imminent in the waters around England. Ten years later, Fort Roughs found a pair of new tenants.
In 1966, Ronan O'Rahilly operated the pirate radio station known as Radio Caroline, which operated on a ship (the M.V. Caroline, of course) in the waters outside the reach of British law. He and fellow radio radical Paddy Roy Bates decided to lay claim to the H.M. Fort Roughs as a new home base for their broadcast exploits. The base was perfect, as it was close enough to England to offer a substantial listening audience, yet it lay just outside of international waters.
After a disagreement between the two men, Roy Bates seized the tower for himself. The recent passing of the Marine Broadcast Offences Act of 1967 meant that a tower such as Fort Roughs could not legally broadcast to the mainland, so the pirate radio dream appeared doomed. Nevertheless, Ronan O'Rahilly attempted to storm the platform and take it back. He was rebuffed by Roy Bates' home-made petrol bombs and Roy's son Michael, who was firing warning shots at O'Rahilly's advancing boat.
All of this landed Roy in court with his son, with weapons charges hanging over their heads. Fortunately, the charges were dropped. The tower was beyond British international waters, and therefore out of the court's jurisdiction. Roy took the dismissal of charges as a sign.
Prior to the invasion attempt, Roy had attempted a diplomatic solution. He had declared the tower to be the independent Principality of Sealand, a delightfully oxymoronic name. When the courts refused to prosecute, Roy took it as an implicit recognition of his independent nation, which of course it was not.
Roy Bates rechristened himself Prince Roy, with his wife taking on the title of Princess Joan. A constitution was drafted in 1974, claiming Sealand to be a constitutional monarchy, with a legal system that follows British common law. Several passports were issued to people who took an interest in the small micronation; stamps, coins, and a national flag were next to follow. Everything was good and official. And then they were invaded.
This is the army that Roy Bates (third from the left) put together in 1978 during Sealand's greatest crisis. While Prince Roy and Princess Joan were enjoying a pleasant August getaway abroad (in England), a lawyer named Alexander Achenbach declared himself to be the rightful Prime Minister of Sealand, and he stormed the platform. He hired a number of German and Dutch mercenaries, who stormed Sealand with jet skis, helicopters and speedboats, no doubt looking mightily bad-ass as they effortlessly conquered an undefended platform from nobody. Well, almost nobody – Michael Bates was tending the castle, and he was quickly taken prisoner.
Roy Bates and his makeshift army took back the base and freed his son. Alexander Achenbach was then charged under Sealand law with treason, and was held pending a payment of 75,000 German deutschemarks, or about $35,000 US. The governments of the Netherlands, Austria and Germany all petitioned England for Achenbach's release, but the British government claimed they had nothing to do with it. Germany sent a diplomat to Sealand, and after a lengthy negotiation, Achenbach was released.
As a result of all this, Roy Bates received more assurance that foreign nations officially recognized his nation's existence, and Alexander Achenbach – who was really set on taking over – set up a government in exile on the mainland. This wayward government still exists; their website asserts they are still the rightful rulers of Sealand.
Sealand kept moseying along quietly through history. In 1997, Bates revoked all Sealand passports, due to the excessive number of counterfeit ones in circulation. There was an electrical fire in 2006 which sent one person via helicopter to Ipswich Hospital, but the residents were able to rebuild.
In 1987, the UK extended the definition of its international waters from three to twelve miles, placing Sealand squarely within British territory. The government refuses to acknowledge Sealand's nation status, as man-made structures are exempt from island status according to international marine laws. As of this time, there hasn't really been a conflict arising from this potential collision of sovereignties.
Sealand's economy is small, but stable. The platform housed a data farm for a few years, and an online casino is reputedly in the works. Tourism is also encouraged, though there aren't a lot of rooms (one, I think), but it would be a vacation like none other. Prince Roy Bates tragically passed away last October, however Michael continues to rule the nation, albeit from his home in Essex.
Numerous athletes have volunteered to play on behalf of Sealand, and though their unofficial status still can't get them into any major international leagues or the Olympics, they have a football team, and have participated in a number of other athletic events, like track, fencing, skateboarding and roller derby.
Hell, a mountaineer with the awesome name of Kenton Cool even planted a Sealand flag at the summit of Mount Everest last month.
If that ain't a real nation, I don't know what is.
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Humanities › English
Amelioration (word meanings)
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An Introduction to Punctuation
Richard Nordquist
English and Rhetoric Professor
Ph.D., Rhetoric and English, University of Georgia
M.A., Modern English and American Literature, University of Leicester
B.A., English, State University of New York
Dr. Richard Nordquist is professor emeritus of rhetoric and English at Georgia Southern University and the author of several university-level grammar and composition textbooks.
In linguistics, amelioration is the upgrading or elevation of a word's meaning, as when a word with a negative sense develops a positive one. Also called melioration or elevation.
Amelioration is less common than the opposite historical process, called pejoration.
See Examples and Observations below. See also:
Five Words That May Not Mean What You Think They Mean
How Word Meanings Change
Language Change
Semantic Change
Status-Word
From the Latin, "better".
Examples and Observations
"The word nice is a classic example of amelioration . . .. This is a rare occurrence, compared with the opposite process of pejoration, or downgrading.
"The meaning of nice when it first appeared in Middle English (about 1300) was '(of persons or their actions) foolish, silly, simple; ignorant, senseless, absurd.'
" . . . A shift away from disparagement began in the 1500s, with such meanings as 'requiring or involving great precision or accuracy.' . . .
"The movement toward amelioration reached its apex in the 1800s with such meanings as 'kind and considerate, friendly.'"
(Sol Steinmetz, Semantic Antics: How and Why Words Change Meanings. Random House, 2008)
"A possible example of amelioration during ME [Middle English] might be, depending on one's viewpoint, the word dizzy. In OE [Old English] it meant 'foolish,' a meaning that survives marginally in such expressions as a dizzy blonde; but by ME its primary meaning was 'suffering from vertigo.'"
(C. M. Millward and Mary Hayes, A Biography of the English Language, 3rd ed. Wadsworth, 2011)
Amelioration and Deterioration
"Amelioration, whereby a word takes on favorable connotations and deterioration whereby it takes on pejorative associations, are often telling indications of social change. There is a particularly pregnant category ably defined by C.S. Lewis as 'the moralization of status words' (1960) . . .. By this process terms originally denoting status and class slowly acquired moral connotations, favorable and otherwise, evaluative of the moral conduct commonly attributed to that class. Hence, villain, a medieval serf, and Anglo-Saxon ceorl, still lower in the hierarchy, deteriorated to villain and churlish, while noble and gentle, predictably, rose in moral connotations. In more recent times, the steady amelioration of ambitious and aggressive reveals a change in attitude towards those who seek advancement or 'success' in a highly competitive fashion."
(Geoffrey Hughes, Words in Time: A Social History of the English Vocabulary. Basil Blackwell, 1988)
Amelioration and Verbicide
"Sometimes amelioration involves weakening of an originally strongly negative meaning: so, annoy is from Late Latin inodiare ' to make loathsome,' in turn from the Latin phrase mihi in odio est 'it is hateful to me' . . .. Likewise, terribly and awfully have weakened to become alternatives for very. [Geoffrey] Hughes (1988) associates this type of amelioration with the popular press, and labels it 'verbicide,' citing tragedy which can now, in journalistic usage, be applied to an earthquake killing thousands or to a missed goal in football."
(April M. S. McMahon, Understanding Language Change. Cambridge University Press, 1999)
Pronunciation: a-MEEL-ya-RAY-shun
Pejoration in Language
How the Meanings of Words Change
Verbicide (Words)
5 Words That Don't Mean What You Think They Mean
Semantic Narrowing (Specialization)
Definition and Examples of Associative Meaning
Denotation: Definition and Examples
Definition and Examples of Dysphemisms in English
etymology (words)
Verbal Hedge: Definition and Examples
Why Do We Use Euphemisms?
An Introduction to Semantics
What Is Reflected Meaning?
semantic satiation
The Power of Connotations: Definition and Examples
What are Intensifiers in English Grammar?


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Dennis Tufano upcoming performance at Raue Center in Crystal Lake,Illinois 9/18/2010
Dennis Tufano upcoming performance at Raue Center in Crystal Lake,Illinois
Dennis Tufano's stellar show featuring the music of Bobby Darin
'As Long As I'm Singing'
Co-starring Tim Walkoe, grand prize winner on,'America's Funniest People'
Musical Director Grammy winner Michael Acosta
Directed by Ernie Lane
The show is on September 18 at 7:30 p.m
You can download the PRE-SALE order form here:
http://pixintl.com/DT_ALAIS_Raue.pdf
**Please note-the orders/payments will not be processed until July so this would just be to reserve tickets!**
Raue Center For The Arts
26 N. Williams Street
Box Office tel: 815.356.9212
From their web:
web: http://www.rauecenter.org/
The Raue Center is an intimate, independent performing arts center located in the heart of historic, downtown Crystal Lake, Illinois—right in the center of McHenry County.
The theatre is located at 26 N. Williams Street in Crystal Lake. Raue Center is easily reached by public transportation (the Metra Northwest stops less than two blocks north of the theatre) or by automobile. Less than an hour from downtown Chicago!
Dennis Tufano website: http://www.dtsings.com
Bookmark the blog here: http://dennistufano.blogspot.com
Catch Dennis Tufano updates on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DennisTufano
Join the group at: http://www.tufanofans.com
For purchase of the Dennis Tufano photo book,DT-Oh-9 by photographer/publicist Linda Matlow: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/874476
Tim Walkoe: http://www.timwalkoe.com/
posted by Linda Matlow..live from New York!
Labels: 2010, Bobby Darin, concert, Dennis Tufano, RAUE CENTER, SEPTEMBER 18, singer, TIM WALKOE
FYI: ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S THE 39 STEPS Opening in Chicago May 19,2010
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK'S
COMING TO THE
BANK OF AMERICA THEATRE MAY 19 – 30
DON'T MISS OUT ON THIS "ABSURDLY FUNNY" SHOW!
CHICAGO (April 27, 2010)― Broadway In Chicago welcomes the two time Tony and Drama Desk Award winner, Alfred Hitchcock's THE 39 STEPS, to the Bank of America Theatre (18 W. Monroe St.) for a limited two week engagement May 19 – 30, 2010. Mix a Hitchcock masterpiece with a juicy spy novel, add a dash of Monty Python and you have THE 39 STEPS. Tickets are currently available at BroadwayInChicago.com
(see below for more information).
Adapted by Patrick Barlow, directed by Maria Aitken and featuring sets and costumes by Peter McKintosh, the production is based on an original concept by Simon Corble and Nobby Dimon and on the book by John Buchan.
Seeking a frivolous night out at the theatre, Richard Hannay is lured into a world of intrigue by a mysterious woman claiming to be a spy. When she winds up dead in his flat, he flees London with the police hot on his trail. This is a classic portrayal of one man's flight from wrong accusation through a series of misadventures and old fashioned romance. THE 39 STEPS features a cast of four actors who, against all odds, breathlessly and hilariously attempt to reenact all of the characters, locations and famous scenes in Hitchcock's 1935 film thriller with just a few props and a lot of theatrical ingenuity and split second quick changes.
THE 39 STEPS opened to deliriously ecstatic reviews. Ben Brantley, New York Times, called the production, "Absurdly enjoyable! This gleefully theatrical riff on Hitchcock's film is fast and frothy, performed by a cast of four that seems like a cast of thousands. The actors themselves seem to be having a helluva good time. As does the audience." Clive Barnes, New York Post, pronounced THE 39 STEPS "Inventively astonishing, riotous & marvelous." Joe Dziemianowicz, Daily News, exclaimed, "Hitchcock probably never imagined his thriller had the makings of a hilarious comedy, but this show is a dizzy delight and an ingenious spoof, inventively directed by Maria Aitken. A fast-paced fun ride!"
THE 39 STEPS features lighting by Kevin Adams and sound by Mic Pool. Dialect coach is Stephen Gabis. Original movement created by Toby Sedgwick. Additional movement created by Christopher Bayes. Production management is by Aurora Productions.
THE 39 STEPS has been a runaway hit in London 's West End , playing to sell-out houses at the Criterion where it continues to delight and thrill audiences. The first production of THE 39 STEPS was directed by Fiona Buffini and produced on stage by North Country Theatre in April 1996 at the Georgian Theatre, Richmond , North Yorkshire .
The production received its American debut at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston , MA . The Broadway premiere began previews on January 4, 2008 and officially opened on January 15 at Roundabout Theatre Company's American Airlines Theatre.
THE 39 STEPS is produced by Bob Boyett, Harriet Newman Leve/Ron Nicynski, Stewart F. Lane/Bonnie Comley, Manocherian Golden Prods., Olympus Theatricals/Douglas Denoff, Pam Laudenslager/Pat Addiss, Tim Levy/Remmel T. Dickinson, Roundabout Theatre Company (Todd Haimes, Artistic Director; Harold Wolpert, Managing Director; Julia Levy, Executive Director), Huntington Theatre Company (Nicholas Martin, Artistic Director; Michael Maso, Managing Director) and Edward Snape for Fiery Angel Ltd. Associate producer is Marek J. Cantor.
Performances are as follows:
Wednesday, May 19 at 8 PM Tuesday, May 25 at 7:30 PM
Thursday, May 20 at 2 PM and 7:30 PM Wednesday, May 26 at 2 PM and 7:30 PM
Friday, May 21 at 8 PM Thursday, May 27 at 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 22 at 2 PM and 8 PM Friday, May 28 at 8 PM
Sunday, May 23 at 2 PM and 7:30 PM Saturday, May 29 at 2 PM and 8 PM
Sunday, May 30 at 2 PM
Individual tickets are on sale and range in price from $20 to $72. Tickets are available at Broadway In Chicago Box Offices (24 W. Randolph St., 151 W. Randolph St. and 18 W. Monroe St.); the Broadway In Chicago Ticket Line at (800) 775-2000; Ticketmaster retail locations (including Hot Tix and select Carson Pirie Scott, Coconuts and fye stores); and online at www.BroadwayInChicago.com. Tickets are available to groups of 10 or more by calling (312) 977-1710.
For additional information on THE 39 STEPS, visit
www.39StepsOnBroadway.com
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A Apollo 1, inicialmente designada como AS-204, foi a primeira missão tripulada do Programa Apollo dos Estados Unidos, que teve como objetivo final um pouso lunar tripulado. Um incêndio na cabine durante um ensaio de lançamento no dia 27 de janeiro de 1967 no Complexo de Lançamento da Estação da Força Aérea do Cabo Kennedy matou todos os três membros da tripulação.

Imediatamente após o incêndio, a NASA convocou o Conselho de Revisão de Acidentes da Apollo 204 para determinar a causa do incêndio, e ambas as casas do Congresso dos Estados Unidos conduziram suas próprias investigações da comissão para supervisionar a investigação da NASA. A fonte de ignição do incêndio foi determinada como sendo elétrica, e o fogo se espalhou rapidamente devido à alta pressão na cabine de comando. O resgate dos astronautas foi impedido pela escotilha da porta, que não podia ser aberta contra a pressão interna mais alta da cabine. A falha em identificar o teste como perigoso (porque o foguete não foi abastecido) levou o resgate a ser prejudicado pela falta de preparação para emergências.

Durante a investigação do Congresso, o então senador Walter Mondale revelou publicamente um documento interno da NASA, citando problemas com o principal contratante da Apollo North American Aviation, que ficou conhecido como "Phillips Report". Essa revelação envergonhou James Webb, o Administrador da NASA, que não tinha conhecimento da existência do documento, e atraiu controvérsia ao programa Apollo. Apesar do descontentamento do Congresso com a falta de abertura da NASA, ambos os comitês do Congresso determinaram que as questões levantadas no relatório não tinham relação com o acidente.

Os voos tripulados da Apollo foram suspensos por 20 meses, enquanto a Segurança do Módulo de comando foi questionada. No entanto, o desenvolvimento e os testes não-tripulados do Módulo lunar e do foguete Saturno V continuaram.

Tripulação

Principal

Reserva

Missão
A missão da Apollo 1 (que foi proposto para ultrapassar a URSS na Corrida Espacial), se baseava em lançar o primeiro módulo de comando Apollo em órbita da Terra, através do foguete Saturno IB. Os astronautas, que participariam da missão, foram escolhidos secretamente, e somente foram anunciados em 21 de março de 1966.

Ela seguiu os mesmos padrões dos projetos Mercury e Gemini, que consistia em missões de orbitas de módulos espaciais.

Acidente

Em 27 de janeiro de 1967, os astronautas 'Gus' Grissom, Ed White e Roger Chaffee, do Projeto Apollo, morreram no solo em um incêndio dentro da cabine de comando. O que ocorreu de fato foi um curto-circuito no interior da cabine, Grissom, via rádio, comunicava que havia fogo no "cockpit". Segundos mais tarde, podia-se ouvir Chaffee dizendo que ele e seus companheiros sairiam do módulo de comando. Mas não puderam, pois a escotilha de saída possuía apenas trancas mecânicas, e os esforços dos astronautas na tentativa de abri-la mostraram-se inúteis. A equipe que trabalhava fora da espaçonave procurava, em vão, abrir a escotilha em meio ao calor insuportável.

Quando, finalmente, conseguiu-se abrir o módulo de comando os três astronautas já estavam mortos, ainda que a roupa espacial os tenha protegido do fogo, a inalação excessiva de fumaça foi fatal. Como resultado desse acidente, toda programação do projeto Apollo foi atrasada em vinte e um meses. Durante esse período, os engenheiros da NASA modificaram completamente a cabine do módulo de comando. Cerca de 1 300 alterações foram feitas.

A primeira missão tripulada bem sucedida do projeto Apollo foi o voo da missão Apollo 7.

Ligações externas
Memorial da tripulação no Spacelog

Programa Apollo
1967 na exploração espacial
1967 nos Estados Unidos
Acidentes e incidentes espaciais


So you think you would like to try paddling on a Dragon Boat Team in Toronto? You're in LUCK! Nothing could be easier.
There are Dragon Boat Teams of every flavour. From competitive young buff and beautiful to lily dipping for fun and companionship, there is a team for you.
There are many Organizations, Associations and Governing Bodies which also help direct people to teams. Its a good place to start your search.
International Dragon Boat Federation (IDBF) is the world governing authority for dragon boating.
GWN Each year Great White North (GWN) produces over 40 dragon boat events and races raising millions of dollars for community and charitable organizations. "GWN offers start-to-finish event management services, corporate team-building experiences, social marketing initiatives, premier training camps, and equipment sales and leases. Put simply, GWN is the one-stop shop for all things dragon boat." According to their website. A good place to start if you want to paddle in a Dragon Boat Team, or just try.
If you work for a large company or organization chances are they might have a team.
There are lots of teams out there.
Banana Boat Dragonboat a recreational Dragon boat team from the GTA. They paddle out of Sunnyside-Pavillon.
There are countless Dragon Boat Races held every year and attending an event is a great way of connecting with possible teams. It gives you a chance of actually getting the "feel" for the Dragon Boat World. Google Dragon Boat Races in Toronto. YouTube is also well supplied with video of various events.
Many Existing Boat Clubs have Dragon Boat Teams.
Dragon Boats are sponsored by big companies. Most banks and many financial institutions have their teams.
Dragon Boating has been associated with charitable and ecological causes and its not surprising that many teams are of that flavour and embrace paddling as a way to fundraise or bring awareness, or even just celebrate surviving.
Gap Adventures and CN Aquatrain are 2 examples.
Mount Sinai Hospital has a dragonboat team as does Women's College Hospital.


Environment Memo | Environmental News and Analysis Environment Memo » Peak Helium?
A helium shortage means that helium balloons should cost about $100 each.
I believe there is a substitute for helium in party balloons. They call it air.
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Judges Uphold 'God' in Pledge, Currency
Daily News Article — Posted on March 12, 2010
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(from WashingtonTimes.com) AP, SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld the use of the words "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance and "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency, rejecting arguments Thursday that the phrases violate the separation of church and state.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel rejected two legal challenges by Sacramento atheist Michael Newdow, who claimed the references to God [are unconstitutional and infringe on] his religious beliefs.
"The Pledge is constitutional," Judge Carlos Bea wrote for the majority in the 2-1 ruling. "The Pledge of Allegiance serves to unite our vast nation through the proud recitation of some of the ideals upon which our Republic was founded."
The same court ruled in Mr. Newdow's favor in 2002 after he sued his daughter's school district for having students recite the Pledge at school.
[Bea noted that schools do not require students to recite the pledge, which was amended to include the words "under God" by a 1954 federal law. Members of Congress at the time said they wanted to set the United States apart from "godless communists."]
That lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court in 2004, but the high court ruled that Mr. Newdow lacked the legal standing to file the lawsuit because he didn't have custody of his daughter, on whose behalf he brought the case.
So Mr. Newdow, a doctor and lawyer [who founded a group called the First Atheist Church of True Science], filed an identical challenge on behalf of other parents who objected to the recitation of the Pledge at school. In 2005, a federal judge in Sacramento decided in Mr. Newdow's favor, ruling that the Pledge was unconstitutional.
"I want to be treated equally," Mr. Newdow said when he argued the case before the 9th Circuit in December 2007. He added that supporters of the phrase "want to have their religious views espoused by the government."
In a separate 3-0 ruling Thursday, the appeals court upheld the inscription of the national motto "In God We Trust" on coins and currency, saying that the phrase is ceremonial and patriotic, not religious.
Reached on his cell phone Thursday, Mr. Newdow said he wasn't aware that the appeals court had ruled against him.
"Oh, man, what a bummer," he said.
Mr. Newdow said he would comment further after he had read the decisions.
[Rory Little, a professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, said the Supreme Court is unlikely to review the case because Thursday's ruling is the third appellate court decision upholding the pledge.
In addition, Congress passed legislation reaffirming the pledge in 2002, following the 9th Circuit's ruling that struck it down.
"I think this is the last word on this particular lawsuit," Little said. "It's an important ruling."
Greg Katsas, who argued the currency case on behalf of the U.S. government when the appellate court heard the case in December 2007, said the panel made the right decision Thursday.
"I think these two phrases encapsulate the philosophy on which the nation was founded," said Katsas, who now works in private practice. "There is a religious aspect to saying "One nation under God," but it isn't like a prayer. When someone says the pledge, they're not praying to God, they're pledging allegiance to the country, the flag and the ideals of the country."]
NOTE: The last five paragraphs are from an AP report written by Terence Chea and posted at Yahoo News.
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1. How did the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (federal appeals court) rule in Michael Newdow's latest lawsuit?
2. On what grounds was Mr. Newdow attempting to remove "under God" and "In God We Trust" from the Pledge of Allegiance and U.S. currency?
3. On what basis did the 9th Circuit Court reject Mr. Newdow's challenge to "under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance?
4. What were the outcomes of Mr. Newdow's previous lawsuits?
5. On what basis did the 9th Circuit Court reject Mr. Newdow's challenge to our national motto "Under God We Trust" being printed on our currency?
6. Ask a parent, and a grandparent, what they think about Mr. Newdow's attempts to remove mention of God from our pledge and our currency. Do you agree with their opinions? Explain your answer.
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In God We Trust is the official motto of the United States. The motto first appeared on a coin in 1864 during strong Christian sentiment emerging during the Civil War, but In God We Trust did not become the official U.S. national motto until after the passage of an Act of Congress in 1956.
Louis A. Bowman (1872-1959) was the first to initiate the addition of "under God" to the Pledge. He was Chaplain of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution. At a meeting on February 12, 1948, Lincoln's Birthday, he led the Society in swearing the Pledge with two words added, "under God." He stated that the words came from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address. Though not all manuscript versions of the Gettysburg Address contain the words "under God", all the reporters' transcripts of the speech as delivered do, as perhaps Lincoln may have deviated from his prepared text and inserted the phrase when he said "that the nation shall, under God, have a new birth of freedom."
Read about the history of "In God We Trust" on our currency at the U.S. Treasury website ustreas.gov/education/fact-sheets/currency/in-god-we-trust.shtml.
Read about the Pledge of Allegiance at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance.
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A Tamil author and social activist. He was born in 1973 in Mangalrevu of Madurai District, Tamilnadu, India. Muthukrishnan had his schooling in NaviMumbai with a cosmopolitan background and his family settled back in Mdurai, Tamil Nadu, India in 1986. He has been a part of various fact finding missions to areas of Conflict in India He was one of the coordinators of the Asia Caravan which left from Raj Ghat, Delhi and travelled 8000kms by road through 8 countries to reach Gaza with a humanitarian aid worth One million US$. Muthukrishnan has attended various seminars at the National and International level on Developmental issues, Culture, Environment and Human Rights for the past 15 years. Muthukrishnan is the founder of Green Walk, an informal group of people who walk on roads less travelled to learn about neglected monuments. Muthu has so far identified about two dozen historical and archaeological hotspots in and around Madurai.


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Barbariae et Biledvlgerid: Ortelius 1608
Title: Barbariae et Biledvlgerid, Nova Descriptio
Author: Abraham Ortelius
Condition: Very Good Plus - age toning, issued center fold, light foxing
Inches: 19 3/4 x 13 [Plate Mark]
Centimeters: 50.17 x 33.02 [Plate Mark]
Map of northeast Africa, including the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia, the Balearic Islands (Majorca, Ibiza, Menorca, Formentera), the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, La Gomera, El Hierro and La Graciosa), and parts of Spain, Italy, and Albania.
Abraham Ortelius was a true Renaissance man. He served as Cosmographer to Phillip II, King of Spain, and in addition worked as a book dealer, cartographer, numismatist, naturalist, and historian. He had wide interests in classical scholarship and made his fortune in bookmaking and selling. He spoke six languages and had reasonable command of two others. He was without doubt one of the most prominent citizens of Antwerp in the late-sixteenth century, when the city stood as a global trading center, "the city of cities." He had contacts throughout Europe from his extensive travels and counted the brightest intellectuals and entrepreneurs of his day among his friends.
Ortelius was the first to engrave maps in a uniform format, specifically for his atlas, and provide uniform content, with 53 maps in all. Prior to this, atlases were made-to-order affairs, with no consistency in size or content. His success was such that four printings occurred in 1570 to meet demand, and the publication of the Theatrum launched 100 years of Dutch supremacy in cartography.


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I have been crazy for maple lately. It all started when Zack and I went cake tasting for our wedding. We met with Lara of Fluffy Thoughts and Zack and I were blown away by how delicious her cakes were. I think she must have had us taste just about every flavor combination possible which made it very difficult for us to pick a favorite. In fact we could not settle on just one cake flavor or frosting because everything was so incredible; so each tier will be a different flavor cake with different frosting. Anyway, while we were there I tasted Lara's maple buttercream and I seriously wanted to just shovel it into my mouth with a spoon as fast as I could. I knew I needed to let Zack have a taste so he would agree we should have it with our cake, but it was hard to even give up a tiny taste....that is how good it was. Needless to say, we will be having maple buttercream on one of our tiers. Ever since that day I have been craving maple; hence these cookies and my last post in which I made Maple Pecan Frosting. These cookies were delicious, easy to make, and quite cute. I highly recommend them.
Into a medium bowl, sift flours and salt. Whisk in 1/2 cup chopped pecans, set aside. In the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, cream butter and granulated sugar on medium-high speed until smooth and light, about one minute. Add the maple syrup, egg yolk, and extract; beat on medium speed until well combined. On low speed, gradually add flour mixture, beating until just combined. Dough should be smooth and pliable. Flatten into a disk. Wrap in plastic; chill until firm, 1 1/2 hours or overnight.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out dough to 1/4 inch thick. Cut out rounds using a two-inch cookie cutter; place one inch apart on prepared baking sheet. Brush tops with beaten egg; top centers with pecan half. Sprinkle the entire surface with turbinado sugar. Bake cookies, rotating baking sheet halfway through, until golden around the edges, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool. Store in airtight containers at room temperature up to four days. Makes approximately two dozen cookies.
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Lexus RC F in Gumball 3000 Stockholm to Las Vegas 2015
We are days away from the flag dropping for the 17th annual Gumball 3000. This year's 2015 rally is the most decorated, exciting and anticipated Gumball thus far. The rally will go across two continents and five countries, plus include a field of 120 supercars as well as drivers which include celebrity stars Lewis Hamilton, Deadmau5, Afrojack, David Hasselhoff and more. The rally kicks off Sunday, May 23rd in Stockholm, Sweden where editor-in-chief Sam Du will providing live coverage following AnastasiaDate.com and AsianDate.com. Team members include four actual users of the dating websites who've been selected to drive a pair of '69 Camaros for the entire rally covering approximately 3,000 miles.
Super Street to drive Gumball 3000
After 120 rally cars make their away across the Atlantic Ocean to Reno, Nevada, editor-in-chief Sam Du will rendezvous with the rest of the Super Street staff which include Sean Russell. The team will then drive a '15 Lexus RC F to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. The RC F has been modified with Falken, Turn 14, GReddy, Brembo, Evasive Motorsports, Yokohama Advan, Nitrous Express and TEIN parts. Super Street had the pleasure of competing in the '14 rally in a 700hp 2JZ-powered Lexus IS. This year, the brand is very excited to drive the new RC F and bring you live coverage along the way. Please follow us on Instagram and Facebook for more updates.
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It can be hard to adjust your daily routines to fit into the schedule of your trip. Whether that be traveling for business or leisure. A good night's sleep can make the difference between fully enjoying your time, or wishing you could just pull the blankets over your head and fall asleep in the middle of your business meeting.
First, when arriving at your destination, especially if you have changed time zones, don't take a nap. It may be tempting, from the jet lag and lack of sleep in preparing for the trip, but fight those urges. Instead, plan your first day out before arriving. This way when you arrive you are vested in accomplishing those new activities. Keep yourself awake and active until your normal bedtime, or as close to your normal schedule as possible. This will help you adjust sooner rather than later.
Second, travel with your own pillow (blanket too if you can pack it). This will help you feel more "at home" when sleeping on a foreign mattress. Having that familiar pillow (and blanket from your bedroom) that fits you oh-so-perfectly, can be the game changer. Not only does it bring the comfort of home, but it also allows you to sleep better and achieve that good night sleep while on the road.
Finally, while enjoying the sites of your vacation or business banter after the meetings are done, stick to your eating schedule and habits. It's easy to tell yourself "I'm on vacation" and eat that deep fried double stuffed Oreo. The problem with throwing too many extras into your meals, especially those deserts, they will top themselves with feelings lethargy, a lag of energy. I am not saying don't enjoy the local foods, just don't indulge in more meals, more deserts, and deep fried foods than your body is used too. This will help you sleep soundly through the night and avoid indigestion, which could disturb you while you sleep.
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Maintaining any part of the property – including the common parts- that provide support and shelter.
Paying their share of any common maintenance where proper procedures have been followed.
Paying their share of repair costs, even if they sell their house, as long as the decision has been made.
Making good any damage to neighbours' flats where access has been required to allow repairs.
Carrying building insurance to full re-instatement value.
Arrange essential repairs and recover the costs from other owners.
Refuse to pay for non-essential repairs you have not been informed of.
Appeal repair decisions you did not agree to at the Sheriff Court within 28 days of being informed of decisions.
Get access to a neighbour's house to carry out essential repairs.
Ask other owners for proof of insurance.
to run a maintenance account.
Help manage the tenement better to the increased satisfaction of you all.
Help reduce misunderstandings between neighbours.
Find it easier to get common repairs done.
Find it easier to persuade other owners to save for repairs using a maintenance account.
If you hope to get a grant from the Council for common tenement repairs, you will need to have an owners association in place.
Work with two or three willing neighbours to pick a date for a meeting.
Invite all your neighbours – give plenty of notice.
Agree your priorities for action.
Ask the Council for their guidance on owners associations and adapt the model rules to suit your own needs.
Spread the tasks around so you don't get overly dependent on one person.
You don't need all the owners to agree to get going.
A common interest in maintaining the property binds together owners in different personal and financial situations.
Benefit as much as other owners from a property in good repair.
Can have rents arrested if they default on common repairs.
Can be located through the Council's Register of Landlords.
Title Deeds often say that commercial owners must pay a higher share of repair costs. Sometime, to get repairs going, you can agree on a repair-by-repair basis to share costs more equally. But if one owner sells, you can't force the new owner to abide by this agreement.
If a flat is owned by more than one owner, any one of the owners can be made to pay for repairs. That owner in turn will need to get other joint owners to reimburse them.
registered (and therefore legally responsible) owner is. A fee applies of £16 (possibly more if special services are required).


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