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If you're looking for a place to learn about Texas, which declared independence from Mexico 177 years ago today, your first stop may be a building right by the Alamo, run by the Daughters of the Republic of Texas.
The DRT Library, recently closed for inventory, is temporarily providing public viewing of some of its historic documents as part of the Alamo exhibit featuring William Barret Travis' "victory or death" letter, through Thursday.
While some are concerned for the future of the 62-year-old research facility, DRT President General Karen Thompson said the Daughters and Texas General Land Office, Alamo custodian, hope to keep the collection at the historic site downtown.
"I think we will work this out to everyone's benefit," she said.
Among the items on display in the library is a letter Alamo defender Daniel Cloud wrote to his brother a few months before the battle.
"We know what awaits us, and are prepared to meet it," wrote Cloud, 24, of Kentucky.
One of the library's two copies of the Texas Declaration of Independence, signed March 2, 1836, at Washington-on-the-Brazos, is part of the Travis letter exhibit inside the Alamo church.
The Land Office has told the Daughters they must keep cutting costs or find ways to increase revenues if the library is to continue to hold DRT items. A Texas attorney general's report in November that criticized the DRT said state money spent on the library "should have been used to support the Alamo."
The facility has been closed since Jan. 14 for an inventory to determine which items belong to the DRT, and which are the state's. But Thompson said the staff is helping researchers who have traveled, unaware of the closure, even though the facility may be closed for at least a few more weeks."We will make accommodations to anybody who has a need," she said.
The DRT is asking its 109 chapters to each donate at least $100 to hire temporary workers to complete the inventory.
The library catalogue has 7,000 pages and lists an estimated 62,000 items, and has reduced its staff from 10 full-time employees in the 1980s to five currently and one part-time staffer, according to DRT meeting minutes.
Lawyers for the Daughters and Land Office have extensively discussed "the future of the library," minutes state.
After the Texas Historical Commission and Texas State Library and Archives Commission endured budget cuts of 50 percent or more in the last legislative session, costs at the Alamo library have come under scrutiny.
Critics have said the library absorbs more than 10 percent of the state's Alamo expenses, while only serving about 1,500 patrons annually.
The latest annual Alamo budget running through May projected library expenses at $347,000. That's less than security ($552,450), maintenance ($541,341), administration ($507,720) and museum/curatorial costs ($447,705), but more than accounting ($314,061), horticulture ($153,456) and conservator services ($58,750).
The library, designed by noted local architects Atlee B. and Robert M. Ayres to mimic the Alamo church, first was housed in Alamo Hall in 1945, then built in 1950, with expansions in the 1970s and late-1980s. As of 2010, it had 17,000 books titles, including works on natural history, science, religion, folklore and fiction. It has about 450 collections of personal and family papers, including those of Samuel Maverick, a signer of the Texas declaration.
Some of the photos, artwork, maps, sheet music and other items are not Alamo-related, and only remotely connected to San Antonio.
Land Office spokesman Mark Loeffler did not speculate on the library's future but said the state is "getting a solid idea of what's there."
"From the Land Office perspective, it's simply a matter of identifying what's there and proving up ownership," he said.
Thompson said the inventory has shown nearly all of the books, letters and other paper materials to be "ironclad DRT" property, while most artifacts, typically known as "the Alamo collection" of some 1,500 items, are state-owned.
The DRT is studying options, including creation of a "friends" group, to privately raise funds for the library.
"More and more people realize the importance of the library being at the Alamo," Thompson said. "It completes the complex. We'll do everything we can to keep it there."
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Revolutionary City after Dark invites you to continue exploring the events that shaped a new nation. After the sun sets, 18th-century entertainments will amuse and amaze your group. You can choose a variety of activities ranging from drama and dance to music and evening walking tours. Put your best foot forward as you learn why dance was "the dearest diversion" of colonial Virginians. Discover the arts and mysteries of the trades, march with the soldiers preparing for war, hear a story and learn a moral or two, or find clues and treasures in the ground.
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candals large and small are a remarkably common, if unwelcome, house guest for second-term presidents. But President Obama may not prove to be the only one hurt by the eruption of controversies around the Benghazi attack, the Internal Revenue Service's targeting of conservative groups, and the Justice Department's seizure of Associated Press phone records.
In modern times, scandals have routinely afflicted presidential second terms, either because of arrogance, inattention, or the sheer weight of probability: The government is a very big institution, and the longer you control it, the greater the odds that someone somewhere does something stupid. The list of recent presidents facing post-reelection travails extends from Dwight Eisenhower (a gift scandal that claimed his chief of staff), Ronald Reagan (Iran-Contra), George W. Bush ("Plame-gate"), Bill Clinton (impeachment over Monica Lewinsky) and, of course, Richard Nixon, who resigned amid Watergate.
Pending future revelations, the impact of Obama's difficulties with Benghazi, the IRS, and AP seems pointed toward the less momentous end of that range. That trajectory looks most assured on Benghazi, where the sharpest questions have centered on whether the administration airbrushed its talking points. That may be disappointing behavior, but it probably won't enrage many Americans beyond those who already dislike Obama.
The IRS investigation is the most volatile. Any targeting of political groups for special tax scrutiny justifiably inflames Americans' suspicions. Obama's defenses are strengthened by the indication in this week's inspector-general report that mid-level IRS managers attempted to broaden the scrutiny beyond conservative organizations to the legitimate issue of whether left and right political groups were misusing their tax-exempt status. But Obama will be hurt—badly—if further investigation finds that administration officials beyond the IRS encouraged politically targeted enforcement.
Examining such questions is a necessary congressional function. But in our polarized era, oversight often becomes a partisan cudgel. And that process, which is already infecting the Benghazi inquiry, could bruise not only Obama but the Republicans driving the investigations as well.
These confrontations' most predictable effect will be to enrage the GOP base, which will strengthen the party factions most dubious about any compromises with Obama. In that way, these storms will likely weaken not only the president but also Republicans who believe the party must reboot to restore its competitiveness for the White House. "The base of the party is going to go ballistic on this, particularly the IRS [issue]," says Tom Davis, the former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee. "It makes it harder for [GOP legislators] to go along with Obama on things in general."
The Clinton impeachment captures the dynamic. After voters returned Clinton and GOP House and Senate majorities in 1996, the two sides reached a sweeping balanced-budget deal in 1997. As historian Steven M. Gillon recounted in his eye-opening 2008 book, The Pact, Clinton and then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich privately envisioned centrist follow-on agreements that included a major Social Security reform plan. But with many conservatives already bridling at the budget deal, the impeachment push made further compromise untenable for either side. Congressional Republicans faced insurmountable pressure from the right not to provide accomplishments that could fortify a president they considered illegitimate, and Clinton could not risk angering liberals he needed to defend him from impeachment by making policy deals with Gingrich. Impeachment destroyed "any possibility of them moving to the center," says Gillon, now at the University of Oklahoma.
A drumbeat of congressional hearings on the IRS and Benghazi, whatever they reveal, could easily reproduce that progression. Like Clinton, Obama may feel constrained about reaching agreements with Republicans (on entitlements for instance) that anger liberals if he needs their support against GOP investigations.
Republicans may feel greater effects. Even before these disclosures, congressional Republicans had dramatically escalated their resistance to Obama's second term. While the House is voting yet again this week to repeal the president's health care law, Senate Republicans have blocked consideration of Obama's nominees for Labor secretary and Environmental Protection Agency administrator. As in Clinton's era, the approaching cycle of investigation, media leak, and hearing-room confrontation over the IRS and Benghazi will deepen a sense of unstinting partisan conflict that will further narrow the space for serious legislative negotiations.
Davis, now director of federal affairs at the Deloitte consulting firm, says one critical difference from the Clinton years is that many GOP leaders still consider deals with Obama on immigration and the debt ceiling to be in the party's self-interest. But to the extent Republicans believe scandal is bloodying Obama (and thus Democrats for 2014 and 2016), party leaders will face greater pressure not to buttress him with any policy agreements. "This makes it far more challenging for someone … who wants to do deals with a president who is just despised by the base," says Gillon.
If these investigations ultimately impede deal-making on issues such as immigration, they will imperil Obama's desire for a legislative legacy and stunt his second term. Yet such a breakdown would also endanger the GOP's need to expand its unsustainably narrow electoral coalition. Republicans could find that stoking the flames of scandal may sear not only Obama's hopes but also their own.
This article appears in the May 18, 2013, edition of National Journal as Playing With Fire.


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State rejects remaining protest of UH Manoa Ching Field resurfacing contractUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
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The second of two protests against the award of a contract for the resurfacing of UH Mānoa's Clarence T.C. Ching Athletic Complex (formerly known as Cooke Field) was dismissed today by the State Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs — clearing the way for the project to begin.
DCCA hearings officer Sheryl Nagata rejected arguments by Ching's Nursery, which was the 4th lowest bidder. She approved the UH's request to dismiss Ching's protest, following a hearing on the matter last Thursday.
The other firm contesting the bid award was CO-HA Builders, Inc. which withdrew its protest last week.
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The contract of $862,381 was awarded by UH on August 13th to the lowest-bidder, RMY Construction, Inc., to install a new synthetic playing surface. Following the award, however, protests were received from the second-lowest bidder, CO-HA Builders, Inc., dba Applied Surface Technology and the fourth-lowest bidder, Ching's Nursery, Inc. dba Service Contracting.
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The dawn of a new age is upon us, an information age, in which an ever-increasing and seemingly endless stream of new information is continuously generated. Information discovery and knowledge advancements occur at such rates that an ever-growing num ber of specialties is appearing, and in many fields it is impossible even for experts to master everything there is to know. Anyone who has ever typed a query into an Internet search engine has been a firsthand witness to this information explosion. Even the most mundane terms will likely return hundreds, if not thousands, of hits. The sciences, especially in the areas of genomics and proteomics, are generating seemingly insurmountable mounds of data.
Yet, one must also consider that this generated data, while not easily accessible to all, is often put to use, resulting in the creation of new ideas to generate even more knowledge or in the creation of more efficient means of data generation. Although the old adage "knowledge is power" holds true, and almost no one will deny that the knowledge gained has been beneficial, the sheer volume of information has created quite a quandary. Finding information that is exactly relevant to your specific needs is often not a simple task. Take a minute to think about how many searches you performed in which all the hits returned were both useful and easily accessible (for example, were among the top matches, were valid links, and so on). More than likely, your search attempts did not run this smoothly, and you needed to either modify your query or buckle down and begin to dig for the resources of interest.
Thus, one of the pressing questions of our time has been how do we deal with all of this data so we can efficiently find the information that is currently of interest to us? The most obvious answer to this question has been to use the power of computers to store these giant catalogs of information (for example, databases) and to facilitate searches through this data. This line of reasoning has led to the birth of various fields of informatics (for example, bioinformatics, health informatics, business informatics, and so on). These fields are geared around the purpose of developing powerful methods for storing and retrieving data as well as analyzing it.
In this book, I will explain one of the most fundamental techniques required to perform this type of data extraction and analysis, the technique of parsing. To do this, I will show how to utilize the Perl programming language, which has a rich history as a powerful text processing language. Furthermore, Perl is already widely used in many fields of informatics, and many robust parsing tools are readily available for Perl programmers in the form of CPAN modules. In addition to examining the actual parsing methods themselves, I will also cover many of these modules.{mospagebreak title=Parsing and Lexing}
Before I begin covering how you can use Perl to accomplish your parsing tasks, it is essential to have a clear understanding of exactly what parsing is and how you can utilize it. Therefore, I will define parsing as the action of splitting up a data set into smaller, more meaningful units and uncovering some form of meaningful structure from the sequence of these units. To understand this point, consider the structure of a tab-delimited data file. In this type of file, data is stored in columns, and a tab separates consecutive columns (see Figure 1-1).
Figure 1-1. A tab-delimited file
Reviewing this file, your eyes most likely focus on the numbers in each column and ignore the whitespace found between the columns. In other words, your eyes perform a parsing task by allowing you to visualize distinct columns of data. Rather than just taking the whole data set as a unit, you are able to break up the data set into columns of numbers that are much more meaningful than a giant string of numbers and tabs. While this example is simplistic, we carry out parsing actions such as this every day. Whenever we see, read, or hear anything, our brains must parse the input in order to make some kind of logical sense out of it. This is why parsing is such a crucial technique for a computer programmer—there will often be a need to parse data sets and other forms of input so that applications can work with the information presented to them.
The following are common types of parsed data:
- Data TypeText files
- CSV files
- RSS files
- Command-line arguments
- E-mail/Web page headers
- HTTP headers
- POP3 headers
- SMTP headers
- IMAP headers
To get a better idea of just how parsing works, you first need to consider that in order to parse data you must classify the data you are examining into units. These units are referred to as tokens, and their identification is called lexing. In Figure 1-1, the units are numbers, and a tab separates each unit; for many lexing tasks, such whitespace identification is adequate. However, for certain sophisticated parsing tasks, this breakdown may not be as straightforward. A recursive approach may also be warranted, since in more nested structures it becomes possible to find units within units. Math equations such as 4*(3+2) provide an ideal example of this. Within the parentheses, 3 and 2 behave as their own distinct units; however, when it comes time to multiply by 4, (3+2) can be considered as a single unit. In fact, it is in dealing with nested structures such as this example that full-scale parsers prove their worth. As you will see later in the "Using Regular Expressions" section, simpler parsing tasks (in other words, those with a known finite structure) often do not require full-scale parsers but can be accomplished with regular expressions and other like techniques.
Note Examples of a well-known lexer and parser are the C-based Lex and Yacc programs that generally come bundled with Unix-based operating systems.
Before moving on to more in-depth discussions of parsers, I will introduce the Perl module Parse::Lex , which you can use to perform lexing tasks such as lexing the math equation listed previously.
Tip Parse::Lex and the other Perl modules used in this book are all available from CPAN ( http:// www.cpan.org ). If you are unfamiliar with working with CPAN modules, you can find information about downloading and installing Perl modules on a diversity of operating systems at http://search.cpan. org/~jhi/perl-5.8.0/pod/perlmodinstall.pod . If you are using an ActiveState Perl distribution, you can also install Perl modules using the Perl Package Manager (PPM). You can obtain information about its use at http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ ActivePerl/faq/ActivePerl-faq2.html .
For more detailed information about CPAN and about creating and using Perl modules, you will find that Writing Perl Modules for CPAN (Apress, 2002) by Sam Tregar is a great reference.
Philipe Verdret authored this module; the most current version as of this book's publication is version 2.15. Parse::Lex is an object-oriented lexing module that allows you to split input into various tokens that you define. Take a look at the basics of how this module works by examining Listing 1-1, which will parse simple math equations, such as 18.2+43/6.8.
Listing 1-1. Using Parse::Lex
use Parse::Lex;
#defines the tokens
BegParen [(]
EndParen [)]
Operator [-+*/^]
Number [-?d+|-?d+.d*]
$lexer=Parse::Lex->new(@token); #Specifies the lexer
$lexer->from(STDIN); #Specifies the input source
while(1){ #1 will be returned unless EOI
if(not $lexer->eoi){
print $token->name . " " . $token->text . " " . "n" ;
else {last TOKEN;}
The first step in using this module is to create definitions of what constitutes an acceptable token. Token arguments for this module usually consist of a token name argument, such as the previous BegParen , followed by a regular expression. Within the module itself, these tokens are stored as instances of the Parse::Token class. After you specify your tokens, you next need to specify how your lexer will operate. You can accom plish this by passing a list of arguments to the lexer via the new method. In Listing 1-1, this list of arguments is contained in the @token array. When creating the argument list, it is important to consider the order in which the token definitions are placed, since an input value will be classified as a token of the type that it is first able to match. Thus, when using this module, it is good practice to list the strictest definitions first and then move on to the more general definitions. Otherwise, the general definitions may match values before the stricter comparisons even get a chance to be made.
Once you have specified the criteria that your lexer will operate on, you next define the source of input into the lexer by using the from method. The default for this property is STDIN , but it could also be a filename, a file handle, or a string of text (in quotes). Next you loop through the values in your input until you reach the eoi (end of input) condition and print the token and corresponding type. If, for example, you entered the command-line argument 43.4*15^2 , the output should look like this:
Number 43.4
Operator *
Number 15
Operator ^
Number 2
In Chapter 3, where you will closely examine the workings of full-fledged parsers, I will employ a variant of this routine to aid in building a math equation parser.
Regular expressions are one of the most useful tools for lexing, but they are not the only method. As mentioned earlier, for some cases you can use whitespace identification, and for others you can bring dictionary lists into play. The choice of lexing method depends on the application. For applications where all tokens are of a similar type, like the tab-delimited text file discussed previously, whitespace pattern matching is probably the best bet. For cases where multiple token types may be employed, regular expressions or dictionary lists are better bets. For most cases, regular expressions are the best since they are the most versatile. Dictionary lists are better suited to more specialized types of lexing, where it is important to identify only select tokens.
One such example where a dictionary list is useful is in regard to the recent bioinformatics trend of mining medical literature for chemical interactions. For instance, many scientists are interested in the following:
<Chemical A> <operates on> <Chemical B>
In other words, they just want to determine how chemical A interacts with chemical B. When considering this, it becomes obvious that the entire textual content of any one scientific paper is not necessary to tokenize and parse. Thus, an informatician coding such a routine might want to use dictionary lists to identify the chemicals as well as to identify terms that describe the interaction. A dictionary list would be a listing of all the possible values for a given element of a sentence. For example, rather than operates on , I could also fill in reacts with , interacts with , or a variety of other terms and have a program check for the occurrence of any of those terms. Later, in the section "Capturing Substrings," I will cover this example in more depth.{mospagebreak title=Using Regular Expressions}
As you saw in the previous Parse::Lex example, regular expressions provide a robust tool for token identification, but their usefulness goes far beyond that. In fact, for many simple parsing tasks, a regular expression alone may be adequate to get the job done. For example, if you want to perform a simple parsing/data extraction task such as parsing out an e-mail address found on a Web page, you can easily accomplish this by using a regular expression. All you need is to create a regular expression that identifies a pattern similar to the following:
[alphanumeric characters]@[alphanumeric characters.com]
Caution The previous expression is a simplification provided to illustrate the types of pattern matching for which you can use regular expressions. A more real-world e-mail matching expression would need to be more complex to account for other factors such as alternate endings (for example, .net , .gov ) as well as the presence of metacharacters in either alphanumeric string. Additionally, a variety of less-common alternative e-mail address formats may also warrant consideration.
The following sections will explain how to create such regular expressions in the format Perl is able to interpret. To make regular expressions and their operation a little less mysterious, however, I will approach this topic by first explaining how Perl's regular expression engine operates. Perl's regular expression engine functions by using a programming paradigm known as a state machine, described in depth next.A State Machine
A simple definition of a state machine is one that will sequentially read in the symbols of an input word. After reading in a symbol, it will decide whether the current state of the machine is one of acceptance or nonacceptance. The machine will then read in the next symbol and make another state decision based upon the previous state and the current symbol. This process will continue until all symbols in the word are considered. Perl's regular expression engine operates as a state machine (sometimes referred to as an automaton) for a given string sequence (that is, the word). In order to match the expression, all of the acceptable states (that is, characters defined in the regular expression) in a given path must be determined to be true. Thus, when you write a regular expression, you are really providing the criteria the differing states of the automaton need to match in order to find a matching string sequence. To clarify this, let's consider the pattern /123/ and the string 123 and manually walk through the procedure the regular expression engine would perform. Such a pattern is representative of the simplest type of case for your state machine. That is, the state machine will operate in a completely linear manner. Figure 1-2 shows a graphical representation of this state machine.
Note It is interesting to note that a recursive descent parser evaluates the regular expressions you author. For more information on recursive descent parsers, see Chapter 5.
Figure 1-2. A state machine designed to match the pattern /123/
In this case, the regular expression engine begins by examining the first character of the string, which is a 1 . In this case, the required first state of the automaton is also a 1 . Therefore, a match is found, and the engine moves on by comparing the second character, which is a 2 , to the second state. Also in this case, a match is found, so the third character is examined and another match is made. When this third match is made, all states in the state machine are satisfied, and the string is deemed a match to the pattern.
In this simple case, the string, as written, provided an exact match to the pattern. Yet, this is hardly typical in the real world, so it is important to also consider how the regular expression will operate when the character in question does not match the criterion of a particular state in the state machine. In this instance, I will use the same pattern ( /123/ ) and hence the same state machine as in the previous example, only this time I will try to find a match within the string 4512123 (see Figure 1-3).
This time the regular expression engine begins by comparing the first character in the string, 4 , with the first state criterion. Since the criterion is a 1 , no match is found. When this mismatch occurs, the regular expression starts over by trying to compare the string contents beginning with the character in the second position (see Figure 1-4).
As in the first case, no match is found between criterion for the first state and the character in question ( 5 ), so the engine moves on to make a comparison beginning with the third character in the string (see Figure 1-5).
Figure 1-3. The initial attempt at comparing the string 4512123 to the pattern /123/
Figure 1-4. The second attempt at comparing the string 4512123 to the pattern /123/
Figure 1-5. The third attempt at comparing the string 4512123 to the pattern /123/
In this case, since the third character is a 1 , the criterion for the first state is satisfied, and thus the engine is able to move on to the second state. The criterion for the second state is also satisfied, so therefore the engine will next move on to the third state. The 1 in the string, however, does not match the criterion for state 3, so the engine then tries to match the fourth character of the string, 2 , to the first state (see Figure 1-6).
Figure 1-6. The fourth attempt at comparing the string 4512123 to the pattern /123/
As in previous cases, the first criterion is not satisfied by the 2 , and consequently the regular expression engine will begin to examine the string beginning with the fifth character. The fifth character satisfies the criterion for the first state, and therefore the engine proceeds on to the second state. In this case, a match for the criterion is also present, and the engine moves on to the third state. The final character in the string matches the third state criterion, and hence a match to the pattern is made (see Figure 1-7).
Figure 1-7. A match is made to the pattern /123/.
The previous two examples deal with a linear state machine. However, you are not limited to this type of regular expression setup. It is possible to establish alternate paths within the regular expression engine. You can set up these alternate paths by using the alternation ("or") operator ( | ) and/or parentheses, which define subpatterns. I will cover more about the specific meanings of regular expression syntaxes in the upcoming sections "Pattern Matching," "Quantifiers," and "Predefined Subpatterns." For now, consider the expression /123|1b(c|C)/ , which specifies that the matching pattern can be 123 , 1bc , or 1bC (see Figure 1-8).
Figure 1-8. The state machine defined by the pattern /123|1b(c|C)/
Note Parentheses not only define subpatterns but can also capture substrings, which I will discuss in the upcoming "Capturing Substrings" section.
As you can see, this state machine can follow multiple paths to reach the goal of a complete match. It can choose to take the top path of 123, or can choose to take one of the bottom paths of 1bc or 1bC . To get an idea of how this works, consider the string 1bc and see how the state machine would determine this to be a match. It would first find that the 1 matches the first state condition, so it would then proceed to match the next character ( b ) to the second state condition of the top path ( 2 ). Since this is not a match, the regular expression engine will backtrack to the location of the true state located before the "or" condition. The engine will backtrack further, in this case to the starting point, only if all the available paths are unable to provide a correct match. From this point, the regular expression engine will proceed down an alternate path, in this case the bottom one. As the engine traverses down this path, the character b is a match for the second state of the bottom path. At this point, you have reached a second "or" condition, so the engine will check for matches along the top path first. In this case, the engine is able to match the character c with the required state c , so no further backtracking is required, and the string is considered a perfect match.
When specifying regular expression patterns, it is also beneficial to be aware of the notations [] and [^] , since these allow you to specify ranges of characters that will serve as an acceptable match or an unacceptable one. For instance, if you had a pattern containing [ABCDEF] or [A-F] , then A , B , C , D , E , and F would all be acceptable matches. However, a or G would not be, since both are not included in the acceptable range.
Tip Perl's regular expression patterns are case-sensitive by default. So, A is different from a unless a modifier is used to declare the expression case-insensitive. See the "Modifiers" section for more details.
If you want to specify characters that would be unacceptable, you can use the [^] syntax. For example, if you want the expression to be true for any character but A , B , C , D , E , and F , you can use one of the following expressions: [^ABCDEF] or [^A-F] .{mospagebreak title=Pattern Matching}
Now that you know how the regular expression engine functions, let's look at how you can invoke this engine to perform pattern matches within Perl code. To perform pattern matches, you need to first acquaint yourself with the binding operators, =~ and !~. The string you seek to bind (match) goes on the left, and the operator that it is going to be bound to goes on the right. You can employ three types of operators on the right side of this statement. The first is the pattern match operator, m// , or simply // (the m is implied and can be left out), which will test to see if the string value matches the supplied expression, such as 123 matching /123/ , as shown in Listing 1-2. The remaining two are s/// and tr/// , which will allow for substitution and transliteration, respectively. For now, I will focus solely on matching and discuss the other two alternatives later. When using =~ , a value will be returned from this operation that indicates whether the regular expression operator was able to successfully match the string. The !~ functions in an identical manner, but it checks to see if the string is unable to match the specified operator. Therefore, if a =~ operation returns that a match was successful, the corresponding !~ operation will not return a successful result, and vice versa. Let's examine this a little closer by considering the simple Perl script in Listing 1-2.
Listing 1-2. Performing Some Basic Pattern Matching
print "123=123n";
print "ABC does not match /123/n";
print "This is 123 or ABCn";
else{print "This is neither 123 nor ABC";}
The script begins by declaring three different scalar variables; the first two hold string values that will be matched against various regular expressions, and the third serves as storage for a regular expression pattern. Next you use a series of conditional statements to evaluate the strings against a series of regular expressions. In the first conditional, the value stored in $string1 matches the pattern stored in $pattern1 , so the print statement is able to successfully execute. In the next conditional, $string2 does not match the supplied pattern, but the operation was conducted using the !~ operator, which tests for mismatches, and thus this print statement can also execute. The third conditional does not return a match, since the string 234 does not match either alternative in the regular expression. Accordingly, in this case the print statement of the else condition will instead execute. A quick look at the output of this script confirms that the observed behavior is in agreement with what was anticipated:
123=12 3
ABC does not match /123/
This is neither 123 nor ABC
Operations similar to these serve as the basis of pattern matching in Perl. However, the basic types of patterns you have learned to create so far have only limited usefulness. To gain more robust pattern matching capabilities, you will now build on these basic concepts by further exploring the richness of the Perl regular expression syntax.
Please check back next week for the continuation of this article.


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Chocolate Event Details Set
SFMV Members and Friends are invited to the Mansion View Inn, 2035 Collingwood, at 7 PM on Tuesday March 3rd to meet Enrique Cerda, a member of the Kallari Association in Ecuador, whose Kallari Chocolate bars were recently launched at Whole Foods stores in the U.S. Cerda will be traveling with a translator, Rebecca Roebber, an intern from the University of Oregon
The Kallari Association is a cooperative of over 850 Quichua families in Napo Province in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Recognizing that most of the profit is to be made from sales of chocolate bars, not the cacao beans, the Quichua people created a cooperative where they would have more control over revenues. The Kallari Association, with its self-reliant governance and innovative economic model, is nothing short of revolutionary in the global chocolate industry. Cacao production provides the Quichua people with a viable income so they have the economic resources to resist logging their forests or succumb to the short-term riches offered by petroleum extraction. A full 100 percent of profits from sales of the chocolate bars are returned to the Kallari Association.
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- Southern Gal in Midwestern Corn said...
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Award-winning author and broadcaster Carol Off reveals the fascinating – and often horrifying – stories behind our desire for all things chocolate.
Whether it's part of a Hallowe'en haul, the contents of a heart-shaped box or just a candy bar stashed in a desk drawer, chocolate is synonymous with pleasures both simple and indulgent. But behind the sweet image is a long history of exploitation. In the eighteenth century the European aristocracy went wild for the Aztec delicacy. In later years, colonial territories were ravaged and slaves imported in droves as native populations died out under the strain of feeding the world's appetite for chocolate.
Carol Off traces the origins of the cocoa craze and follows chocolate's evolution under such overseers as Hershey, Cadbury and Mars. In Côte d'Ivoire, the West African nation that produces nearly half of the world's cocoa beans, she follows a dark and dangerous seam of greed. Against a backdrop of civil war and corruption, desperately poor farmers engage in appalling practices such as the indentured servitude of young boys – children who don't even know what chocolate tastes like.
Off shows that, with the complicity of Western governments and corporations, unethical practices continue to thrive. Bitter Chocolate is a social history, a passionate investigative account and an eye-opening exposé of the workings of a multi-billion dollar industry that has institutionalized misery as it served our pleasures.
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LAUREL HILL � The City Council on Tuesday voted in favor of pursuing a state grant that could give the city up to $600,000 for road repairs.
LAUREL HILL � The City Council on Tuesday voted in favor of pursuing a state grant that could give the city up to $600,000 for road repairs.
Although the council will create an ordinance that could dissolve the city with a March 2014 referendum, city leaders took steps to ensure other opportunities to repair roads � other than relying on the county, if the city becomes unincorporated � are used.
The grant the council is seeking is the Small Cities Community Development Block Grant. This will be the third straight year the council has applied for the grant.
Last year's attempt fell just one permit short, when the city lost its consideration.
"Last time we needed a storm water permit," Mayor Joan Smith said. "By not having it, we lost 100 points (in the process).
The engineer and grant writer, who worked on the grant application failed to include the permit with the necessary paperwork, Smith said.
The council learned about the city's removal of consideration last month, Council Chair Larry Hendren said.
"We got things going the right way and it would be foolish in my opinion to turn that down," Councilman Clifton Hall said, before motioning for the council to proceed in applying for the grant. The remaining council members agreed and voted in favor.
A checklist during this attempt will help ensure everything required is submitted for consideration, Smith said. The application process will begin this July.
Many council members agreed the grant would provide a timelier solution than asking Okaloosa County for assistance.
"$600,000 is a lot more than the county gets every year (for road repairs)," Hendren said.
"We are going forward with the dissolution process, we're just not rushing into it," Hendren said after the meeting.
In a December town hall, both Hendren and Co-chair Robby Adams publicly stated they are in favor of dissolving the city.
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Sunday, December 12, 2010
Call for Papers: Neil Gaiman Collection Planned
Kitsune Books in May (2010). From the success of The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who, our publisher has asked us to continue "The Mythologicial Dimensions..." series and we are happy to announce the Call for Papers for the second volume being planned:
The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman is an author of science fiction and fantasy short stories and novels, comic books and graphic novels, theatre and film. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book. Gaiman's writing has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker, as well as the 2009 Newbery Medal and 2010 Carnegie Medal in Literature. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work.
the CBS interview heard from Gaiman that when he was growing up he wished to have written The Lord of the Rings. Gaiman is very much a fan of Tolkien and of fairy stories. Fans of Doctor Who know by now Gaiman has written a story for the Doctor, set to be a part of the 2011 Series 32/6 of the Matt Smith Era.
Click here to Read Gaiman's Blog about the experience of the read through of his Doctor Who story, which will be the 3rd episode of the next series.
What follows is the Call for Papers for The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman
CALL FOR PAPERS: The Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman
Submissions are sought for the forthcoming second volume of the critical essay series: The Mythological Dimensions to be published by Kitsune Books in 2012. This second volume will be on the subject of the Mythological Dimensions of Neil Gaiman with a mind toward the incredible opportunity for multidisciplinary discourse on his work.
The works of Neil Gaiman are as diverse as clouds in the sky. To say that Gaiman is just an author would be doing both him and his work a disservice. Although he is best known for his books, his expertise is in the realm of myth, rather than any one medium. Gaiman's name has also been attached to film scripts, comic books, and graphic novels, even a much anticipated episode of Doctor Who. He's influenced songwriters and artists of all stripes. He's been at the forefront of the graphic novel movement and has fought for the rights of comic book artists, being a board member of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.
The goal of this volume is to explore the worlds tapped into by Gaiman. While authors like Lewis, Le Guin, and Tolkien spent time creating a secondary world separate from our own, Gaiman amends our world. It can be said that Coraline's space beyond the door, the Sandman's realm of Dream, the land beyond the Wall, even the Gap between the subway stations are all Gaiman's 'secondary world' creations—and they are—but they are also extensions of our own primary world.
Prior to submitting for this volume, each potential contributor should be familiar with the overall style and format of The Mythological Dimensions primary volume, The Mythological Dimensions of Doctor Who. The motto of this series is "written by fans for fans" and we will hold strict adherence to this rule. All essays will be expected to adhere to scholarly standards of analysis but at the same time be accessible to the interested fan who is not an academic by trade. Therefore successful abstracts will be judged as much on content as writing style.
Each contribution must demonstrate knowledge of Gaiman as an artist. We are looking predominantly for contributions that examine: how Gaiman transcends stereotypes, ideas, and symbols within his work; how Gaiman's characters eradicate boundaries, or create new ones; how Gaiman views old myths through a fresh lens.
Essays can relate to, but should not be limited by, the following suggestion topics in relation to the mythical:
1. In "An Introduction" to his collection Smoke & Mirrors, Gaiman discusses the nature of story being like "mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn't work. Like mirrors, stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from the things in the darkness."
2. The relationship of Gaiman and his characters to modern culture. Have Gaiman's characters molded modern culture in any way? Are his characters a mirror of our culture—"A distorting mirror, to be sure, and a concealing mirror, set at forty-five degrees to reality…."
3. Gaiman readily admits that he wished he had written The Lord of the Rings. Throughout Gaiman's work there are side-jokes and wonderful references to Tolkien's work. Purposefully examine Tolkien and Gaiman, going beyond a mere comparison/contrast. Examine how intrinsic Tolkien's work was/is to Gaiman. Could Gaiman have written a word without Middle-earth backing him up?
4. The influence of "real world myth" into Gaiman's explored realms. Again, such an examination should endeavor to go beyond simply noting that Northern myths (like Sigfrid or Beowulf) inspired certain of Gaiman's tales. More than a simple source study.
5. In "The Mapmaker," Gaiman links the tale told to the map drawn. "One describes a tale best by telling the tale…The way one describes a story, to oneself or to the world, is by telling the story. It is a balancing act and it is a dream. The more accurate the map, the more it resembles the territory. The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless. The tale is the map which is the territory. You must remember this." Examine Gaiman's concepts of dreamland territories, mythological or mythopoeic maps, and worlds that exist beyond the edges of the drawn map, the known world, the experienced territory.
6. Gaiman's penchant for 'rewriting' myth; how does this re-envisioning of mythic tales from Beowulf to Anansi to Oðinn to Snow White affect modern approaches to these myths? Critics of his vision of Beowulf cringe at the idea of Angelina Jolie as Grendel's mother, but was Gaiman too far off when looking at the original tale? How does Gaiman preserve the integrity of a myth while refracting it in his "distorting mirror?" Is the integrity preserved at all?
We will give precedence to pieces which demonstrate a range of Gaiman's work, or take a character, particular story, or single facet of Gaiman and explore it in regards to the work of another author/artist. The Editors would discourage a singular case study of any of Gaiman's characters, and would like to dissuade any submissions from concentrating on any individual work of Gaiman's to exclusion. We would also like to note that this collection will explore a large swath of Gaiman's work and in order to accomplish the collection's goals, we cannot accept multiple submissions on topics; so we encourage you to send your abstracts in a timely fashion.
All submitted abstracts and papers are to be sent to email@example.com
Abstracts of 500-750 words should be submitted, along with complete contact information for and a biographical paragraph about the submitter, by email to the editors by February 15th, 2011.
If accepted, articles should be completed as Word documents with MLA formatting.
Complete submissions should be sent electronically to the editors by July 1st, 2011 to email@example.com
All deadlines are firm.
Dr. Kristine Larsen, Central Connecticut State University
Jessica Burke, College of Staten Island
Anthony S Burdge, Northeast Tolkien Society Co-Chair/Independent Scholar
14 comments:
- Maggie said...
Okay, so this may just be the coolest thing I've ever heard. If anyone deserves more companion works it's our own Mr. Gaiman. Expect my abstract forthwith!
P.S. What is the policy here on multiple submissions, at least here in the abstract stage? I'm sure several of us have many. many good ideas, considering how layered Neil's work is. It would be a shame if we missed a gem paper because someone set forward their glass idea.
- December 12, 2010 at 9:34 PM
- Chairs: Anthony & Jessica said...
Send in separate abstract submissions. We agree that Neil's work is layered-- that's an understatement. Trust that if we get an absolute gem, we won't let it fall by the wayside. We won't be making any firm decisions until after the 2/15/11 duedate. So, as long as your ideas are to us by then, you'll get equal consideration. ~Jessie
- December 12, 2010 at 9:41 PM
- TURTLE!!! said...
What would the approximate length of the finished paper?
- December 12, 2010 at 10:19 PM
- Chairs: Anthony & Jessica said...
We have yet to fully determine the overall length of each paper/chapter-it depends on the quality of the abstracts, but a good target to aim for is 10,000 words,--however shorter well argued papers would also be welcome-~Anthony
- December 13, 2010 at 12:25 AM
- CJ said...
What is your policy on author eligibility? Is there an education level cutoff or will abstracts be considered no matter an author's qualifications?
- December 13, 2010 at 9:42 PM
- Chairs: Anthony & Jessica said...
We have worked in the past with authors who have minimal or major writing and publishing experience.
We have not a huge guideline for author elibility, there is no education level cutoff, but would prefer authors to have some experience.
However, if this is your first time publishing an essay, if we accept your abstract to be a part of the collection, and the piece is well constructed and well argued, and passes approval by all three editors and the publisher--then the author's qualifications of writing the proposed piece shouldnt be a problem
- December 14, 2010 at 12:28 PM
- LaShawn said...
Do you except collaborative submissions? A friend and I would like to work on it together.
- December 15, 2010 at 11:24 PM
- Chairs: Anthony & Jessica said...
LaShawn, by all means collaboration is more than fine, my wife Jessica and I have worked on chapters and contributions together previously, --
When you submit the abstract, we would just need a bio from the both of you rather than just one author.
- December 16, 2010 at 8:49 AM
- OrigamiGirl said...
This sounds fantastic and exactly what I would have referenced for my disseration had it existed.
As it is I have a completed dissertation on the subject of The Sandman and its representation of 'the three' and a whole bunch of other stuff that would be included in an abstract.
It has not yet been published and received excellent marks. Would it be acceptable to offer my disseration with perhaps some editing for this book?
Thank you,
- December 19, 2010 at 10:15 AM
- Chairs: Anthony & Jessica said...
Greetings Ruth,
Yes indeed it is ok to submit your dissertation for consideration for the collection. Please send us a full abstract, & bio, cv if applicable.
We are not making any firm decisions until after the 2/15/11 deadline
- December 20, 2010 at 8:30 PM
- RC said...
when it says February 15th, does it mean midnight of february 14th or midnight of february 15th?
- February 14, 2011 at 2:26 PM
- Chairs: Anthony & Jessica said...
Greetings, the Call for papers deadline is by the morning of the 15th. Anything post noon will not be accepted, after 15th midnight will technically be 16th. So get it in now if you haven't already/
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Washington, DC—Today, IMLS Director Susan Hildreth released the agency's new strategic plan for FY 2012 – FY 2016. The plan envisions a democratic society where communities and individuals thrive with broad public access to knowledge, cultural heritage and lifelong learning. The new plan identifies the mission of IMLS to inspire libraries and museums to advance innovation, learning, and cultural and civic engagement by providing leadership through research, policy development and grant-making.
The planning process, launched in June 2011, with the National Museum and Library Services Board, engaged a wide range of stakeholders including more than 1,400 participants in an online forum. It provides a roadmap to implement the Museum and Library Services Act which recognizes that U.S. libraries and museums are powerful national assets with capacity that must be developed and fully used to enhance economic development and lifelong learning.
"Rapidly changing economic, demographic and technological conditions are creating demand for new library and museum services, noted Ms. Hildreth. " This plan will help IMLS carry out its important federal mandate to help America create 21st century institutions that provide the essential educational and cultural opportunities we need for a competitive future."
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Since today is America Recycles Day, we thought it was the perfect time to give an update on our Grand Opening Bike Tube Blow-outs. During the Grand Openings of our new and remodeled stores this year, we partnered with Liberty Tire Recycling, the largest scrap tire recycler in the country, on a recycling program for used or blown-out inner tubes. During the Grand Opening weekends, anyone could bring their used or blown-out inner tubes to the store and receive up to three $5 money cards for the tubes they recycled.
Liberty Tire Recycling, the nation's largest collector of used and scrap tires, will turn the bike tubes into mulch for playgrounds, athletic fields, railroad ties and highway asphalt, among other uses. The company collects and recycles nearly one-third of all of America's annual scrap tire material and has cleaned up more than 150 dump sites littered with nearly 40 million scrap tires—more than any other organization.
So how did we do? It turns out you had a lot of used or blown-out tubes that you wanted to keep out of the landfill! We collected a total of 2 tons of tubes during our Grand Opening celebrations. If you're having trouble picturing how much 2 tons is, just take a look at this 2-ton hippo that escaped from a private zoo in Montenegro!
Thanks to everyone for helping out with our Bike Tube Blow-outs–it just goes to show that when we all work together we can really make a difference. And keep an eye on performancebike.com next year, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook, for news about more exciting bicycle-related recycling projects.


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Starting Monday, Chicago Card users can not load money onto their card while disposable card users cannot buy these cards at rail stations.
This deadline, the first in the transition to the CTA's new fare payment system Ventra, does not affect Chicago Card Plus users, who can still autoload their card with value until Nov. 15.
Here are some tips to navigate you through the transition Monday.
>> Expect longer lines at rail stations. The CTA has replaced the Chicago Card and unlimited pass vending machines with Ventra machines, which may prompt confusion. The CTA said they will have extra customer service agents at stations to help riders with the transitions.
>> Anticipate longer call waits on the Ventra hotline. Riders have reported frequent disconnections by Ventra and long hold times, sometimes more than half an hour, to the Ventra customer service number, 877-669-8368. The CTA said it is adding extra people to handle calls after Monday.
>> Evaluate your options before you go. If you missed the deadline to add money to your Chicago Card and you don't have enough money left on your card to ride, you should still be able to get a disposable card at a local retailer. Cash is still accepted on buses, and riders can tap their contactless bank cards on Ventra readers to ride.
>> Wait patiently. The CTA said it recently finished mailing out the last of the Ventra cards to users who verified their complete contact information. Cards are supposed to arrive seven to 10 business days after mailing.
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On these pages you will find activities for middle or high school geometry. Bookmark this page and check back often. I hope to add at least one activity per month.
Geometry Online
History of Geometry A Brief Synopsis of Geometry throughout history. Describes the contributions of Egyptians, Babylonians, and Greeks. Includes links to biographies of major contributors to geometry.
Hidden Irrationals (English Version)
(Spanish Version)
What's the rule? Students will find line segments that they can and cannot draw of various irrational lengths, and then find the rule that allows them to draw or not draw. The page should be printed and the segments shaded in.
Hidden Polygons
Students learn to identify various polygons by locating them on triangular gridpaper. The page can be printed and the figures shaded in. Links to other polygon sites are included. Isosceles Triangle Puzzler Students use the Isosceles Triangle Theorem to analyze a problem with similar triangles. Answers can be submitted online. Impossible Triangles Students use several different rules to determine triangle "impossibilities". Answers can be checked online. Circles around Pythagoras Here's a nice problem with a surprising result - the best kind! SAT-Type Quiz Students gain familiarity with SAT-type questions. The paper is graded online. The Golden Ratio This lesson introduces the golden ratio with a measuring activity. Students will also build a rectangle that approaches the golden ratio.
Experiment with Volume This lesson uses a demonstration to introduce volume of cylinders.
School-Bus Geometry This lesson introduces an unusual measurement of distance using a school bus. See a world where circles are squares?!?
Glossary A glossary of the geometric terms used in this short course. Please email me with any word that I've not defined that you feel is needed. Geometry TEKS The Texas Essential Skills and Knowledge - What the Texas Education Agency specifies students should know and be able to do from this course. NCTM Principles and Standards The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics' view of how school geometry should look.
Email any comments to firstname.lastname@example.com
Copyright 1997-2008 Cynthia Lanius
URL http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Geom/index.html
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Early on a sunlit mid-September morning, on the banks of The Grand Union Canal in London, 25 designers, writers and academics from London Design Festival's Greengaged hub, took residence on the Beauchamp 'Electric Barge' to take a trip to Powerday waste recycling plant in west London. Docked at Little Venice in Paddington, the Beauchamp is a silently-running and environmentally-sound answer to canal travel. Inhabitat writer Kate Andrews was on the trip and shares her insights from the experience.
After skipper Ian ironically removed the plastic bags tied up around the boat's rudder, Anne Chick, Director if Kingston University's Sustainable Design Research Centre, Sophie Thomas, co-founder of communication design agency thomas.matthews and Sarah Johnson founder of [re]design, led the day's events and introduced the day's speaker, Rob Holdway, Founder of Giraffe Innovation and Presenter of Channel 4's "Dumped" television series.
Designers And Waste
Rob took the opportunity to introduce his work, share his knowledge of the environmental crisis and emphasize the important role that designers have to influence change in our overly wasteful society. Rob described his 'Dumped' experiment which, earlier this year, took 11 unsuspecting eco-volunteers to an East Croydon landfill and challenged them to survive off other people's waste. However, it is clear "a trip to the Amazon isn't necessary to see the real effects of Climate Change," Rob expressed.
The need to design with waste in mind was paramount to Rob's discussion. Designers can be very good at producing waste, but bad at using it, he explained. Rob expressed his thoughts on the role that education has to teach designers to put their work in the context of our contemporary society. He emphasized the responsibility of individual designers to be more aware of what clients and their briefs are asking of us. In a consumer culture, the ephemeral quality of design needs to be transformed and celebrated, by designing consumer products from biodegradable materials, he expressed.
Explaining that 80% of UK waste derives from businesses, Rob noted that focusing on merely household waste is not nearly enough. The UK is the 3rd worst country in Europe at recycling and he questioned why there are 55 different collection methods in the country.
In the second part of the trip, our group arrived at Powerday waste recycling center. The 10-acre site, which opened in May 2007, took 12 years of planning and £12m of investment. Located at Old Oak Sidings in London, the facility sits near a transport hub of road, rail and canal links, making it the only site in London with such extensive access in and out of the plant. As well as a state-of-the-art recycling facility, the site also includes a waste transfer station, an aggregate and sand handling facility, a plant-hire depot and a training center.
Capable of recycling 1.6 million tons of construction waste a year, Powerday is currently recycling 95% of all of the waste it receives. They recover and recycle 70% of the waste into new uses; 25% is used in landfills for restoration and only 5% goes straight to a landfill. John explained that the 5% currently going to landfills is recyclable, however Powerday has yet to find a suitable market for resale- and that Powerday ultimately aims to recover 100% of the waste it receives.
An Interesting Point of View
What is the role of designers in this, you wonder? Designers are crucial to the reduction and disposal of waste materials, they explained. The Powerday plant therefore welcomes students and professionals to book a tour, and event organizers, such as Greengaged, encourage all designers to take at least one trip to such a place. It was such an insightful trip for all who attended. Did you know, that there is only a mere 3 years left of landfill space in London!?
On the barge trip back to Paddington, Greengaged organizer Sophie Thomas, Co-Founder of UK sustainable communication design agency thomas.matthews and non-profit enterprise Three Trees Don't Make A Forest, took the opportunity to speak to some of the attendees. "It was interesting to see the other side to recycling, which you just don't get to see very often," said one Royal College of Art student.
"This was a once in a lifetime opportunity, to take a barge trip to a recycling plant, and to be a part of a collective that is very determined to go green," said a second. "With traditional design festivals there tends to just be a lot of design 'on show', which is interesting, however, it is important to have a different view on what is really meant by sustainable design," said an Irish graduate designer.
Environmental design writer Petz Scholtus, from Barcelona, was on the trip and has published her thoughts on Treehugger.com. There are also photographs of the canal boat trip and the visit to Powerday on Flickr.
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the quantities provided for in its Storage Service Agreements with Customers for Firm Storage Services,
then capacity, withdrawals and/or injections will be allocated according to the priority of service as
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In Broadway Market
Some years ago, not long after we saw the looting and burning of Baghdad together, I went with my Iraqi friend Ghaith for lunch in Broadway Market, in Hackney, one of the many parts of London where gentrification of a previously run-down area has been going on for years. The street was, and is, lined with cute shops, bars and restaurants for attractive, trendy, second-generation creative and media types. It has become one of the poles towards which the compass needles of estate agents and fashion-conscious yuppie couples quiver. There is no point in looking to buy a house nearby unless you have at least half a million pounds at your disposal. When Broadway Market actually becomes a market on Saturdays it is as if the council-owned tower blocks and estates behind, around and in between the gentrified patches, where less well-off and poor people live, belong to some other dimension.
As Ghaith and I walked down the street a disturbance began. A group of about thirty young black kids were moving together, looking anxious and excited. Some had makeshift weapons in their hands, poles and lengths of broken-off wood. After a moment, between a gap in the shops that looked through to the base of a tower block, we saw the reason for their anxiety – two tiny figures on bikes, dressed in black, hooded and masked. As we watched, one of the figures reached into the pocket of his hoodie and lifted – just enough to show – a hand gun, spreading panic among the larger group.
The trouble subsided as quickly as it began and the participants dispersed before the police arrived. Throughout the episode, a young, casually dressed, thoughtful-looking white couple sat at a table outside a wine bar, watching and sipping white wine. The neck of the bottle leaned, misted with condensation, from the rim of an ice bucket on the table. The couple didn't look concerned that the gang confrontation or turf battle, whatever it was, would affect them; the feuding kids didn't seem to see them, either.
This is the reality of multicultural London. It is not a melting pot. It is a set of groups that are rigidly self-separated by race, language, religion, class, money, education and age group, who have not only come to an unspoken agreement that they will not mix, but have become complacent that this agreement will not and need not be challenged. As Slavoj Žižek has written in his book Violence,
Today's liberal tolerance towards others, the respect of otherness and openness towards it, is counterpointed by an obsessive fear of harassment. In short, the Other is just fine, but only insofar as his presence is not intrusive, insofar as this Other is not really other… My duty to be tolerant towards the Other effectively means that I should not get too close to him, intrude on his space. In other words, I should respect his tolerance of my over-proximity. What increasingly emerges as the central human right in late-capitalist society… is a right to remain at a safe distance from others.
Bring on your exceptions. Bring them on by the thousand, by the ten thousand. But the truth holds: this is not the mixing city its liberal inhabitants would like to think it is. Loving the cultural diversity of London as a spectator-inhabitant is not the same as mingling with it. The yuppies don't go to the white working-class pubs, and the white working class don't go to the yuppie pubs. The Muslims don't go to the pub at all and the post-Christians don't go to the mosque or the church. The young don't mix with the old. You don't marry outside your income and education group. Parents segregate their school-age children by class and race.
I live in Mile End, about halfway between the site of the Olympics and the closest proper looting spree that I heard of, in Bethnal Green. It was quiet here last night (I haven't heard of any trouble in Broadway Market, either). On the face of it my area's mixed, ethnically and socially. They've just built a new Hindu temple on Rhondda Grove. The students at the girls' school across the road are almost entirely Muslim. The church along the way which would, I assume, be derelict otherwise, has been taken over by a black congregation. Middle-class white atheists like me sail around on our bikes to buy our coffee beans in Broadway Market or Victoria Park Village; there are Georgian houses round the corner that a million pounds wouldn't buy you, and there's the eastern stretch of Roman Road, with pound stores and pawn shops and elderly geezers who never made it out to Essex and a market that makes Albert Square look posh. But this isn't mixing. It's the ingredients for something – nobody knows what – laid out side by side and not being mixed, not touching.
Jan Morris offered a partial defence of the British Empire as an unarticulated effort by Britain to engage with the world – a mutual introduction by conquest. Looting a shop and then burning it down, ignoring the people living in the flats above, can't be excused or accounted for as a way for a particular group to say to London, 'Hi,' and yet that is one of its effects. 'We are here; we exist; we have actual weight; we can break the deal and cross into another zone than ours.' The response of the rest of London to this kind of introduction will be harsh and sceptical, and when it is over, the question will remain unanswered: how, and by what agency, to bring the diverse groups of a city divided by age, class, education, money, race and religion closer together when they are so conscious of their own differences that, left to themselves, they prefer to watch each other from a distance?


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Looking for a quick and easy, last minute craft for celebrating Cinco de Mayo? How about these cute, colorful and easy-to-make maracas? And best of all, you don't have to buy anything special to make them.
What you Need:
- Paper
- Masking tape
- Small dry beans
- Markers
- Paint & Brush
- Straws or Craft sticks
- Small Empty bottle (vitamin size works well)
What to Do:
- Center a piece of 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper over the top of your empty bottle. Fold over the short sides and then fold over the long sides of the paper, hiding open spaces. Hold paper in place and start wrapping with masking tape. Do not tape around the neck of the bottle or you won't be able to remove it. After you have taped all areas around the bottle, now tape strips across the top, extending down the sides. You will need about 4 strips or more. The more masking tape used, the sturdier the maraca.
- Now slide the bottle out by grasping the cap/neck of the bottle. Try not to smush your maraca.
- Fill the maraca with about 30 dry beans.
- Insert a straw or craft stick into the area where the bottle was, but leave it stick out like a handle.
- Carefully squeeze the bottom of the paper to the handle and then tape securely in place.
- Paint the maraca and let dry.
- Decorate with markers and "shake, shake, shake" your maraca!
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Daniel Mulford Valentine Diary
Author: Valentine, Daniel Mulford, 1830-1907
Date: January 01, 1859-December 31, 1859
Daniel Mulford Valentine, a 28-year-old lawyer and surveyor, moved to Leavenworth, Kansas Territory, from Fontanelle, Iowa, in mid 1859. Although many of Valentine's daily entries simply record the weather and/or the fact that he spent the day "loafing" or "reading," the diary also details the daily routines of a frontier lawyer and includes a few extraordinary observations on the political happenings of the day. Valentine recorded information about Kansas elections and local politics, and he offered assessments of many of the territory's leaders. Of most interest, however, are of his impressions of Abraham Lincoln, the Illinois lawyer and politician, who visited Leavenworth in early December 1859 to deliver the last two speeches of his brief Kansas tour. In later years, Daniel M. Valentine became a well-known Kansas jurist, ultimately serving for twenty-fours years on the Kansas Supreme Court.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Miscellaneous--Valentine, Daniel Mulford
Item Number: 103090 Number of images: 384
Keywords: Diaries; Elections; Iowa; Lawyers; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865; Political parties; Valentine, Daniel Mulford
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A string of dingle berries left on a single strand of ass hair after wiping, much like popcorn on a string at christmas time.
Grandpa had a bad case of Ass Garland that fell on the floor and grandma picked it up and tried to clasp it around her wrist like a bracelet.
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