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Utah is a place for all seasons, except summer. From June through August, Utah's famous canyon country is hot and crowded, but visit in the autumn, winter or spring and you'll find pockets of desert solitude among the sunny yellow cottonwoods, snow-covered red rocks and colourful spring wildflowers.
Zion national park
In a state that has more parks than it does major cities, Zion stands above the rest as Utah's first national park and its most visited. The valley floor can get crowded with people, but private cars are restricted in favour of free shuttles, which helps quiet the chaos.
Only a fraction of the park can be seen from the road. This is a place for explorers: more than 100 miles of trails lead from the valley into the narrow river canyons to the north and up the towering red and tan walls of Navajo sandstone to the east and west. A paradise for canyoneers and rock climbers, Zion boasts rock formations spanning more than 150 million years of geologic history.
The park has three developed campgrounds and offers backcountry camping permits to backpackers. Or you can stay at the Zion Lodge (reservations recommended) or in nearby Springdale and around St George.
Top tip The hike up Angels Landing is not for the faint of heart, but it's worth every vertiginous step. The trail follows a set of chains up a narrow ridge of sandstone to a spectacular summit that looks straight down through the heart of Zion. This route is best attempted in the spring or fall, when it's likely to be free of summer hoards, or winter snow and ice.
Canyonlands national park
The south-west desert is known for out-of-this-world landscapes – some places look like the moon, others like Mars – but Utah's Canyonlands is an otherworldly place like no other. Here countless canyons, buttes and mesas are carved into a topography so intricate that you find yourself wandering through places with names such as the Maze, the Needles and Island in the Sky.
Canyonlands is Utah's largest park. You could spend a lifetime exploring the land between the Colorado and the Green rivers and still not reach all the way into the park's red depths. Tour companies based in Moab offer Jeep tours, hiking, rafting, kayaking, rock climbing, canyoneering, mountain biking, BASE jumping, skydiving, hang gliding, extreme rope swings ... you name it, Canyonlands has it.
No matter what kind of adventure you tackle, be sure to stay overnight and catch sunset, the stars and sunrise over the vast maze of red rocks. The park has two developed campgrounds and free dispersed camping can be found nearby. For hotels and hostels, stay in Moab or Blanding.
Top tip Visit a geologic mystery at Upheaval Dome. This massive, almost perfectly round rock formation is either an impact crater from a meteor or an uplifted, eroded salt dome. Either way, it's a fantastic place for a hike in the Island in the Sky district of Canyonlands.
Capitol Reef national park
Capitol Reef is a narrow park, less than 20 miles wide, but over 100 miles long, which protects the Waterpocket Fold, an awesome S-shaped warp in the Earth's crust that was created over 65 million years ago by the same forces that built the Rocky Mountains. It's the longest exposed "monocline" in the world, but you don't have to be a geologist to appreciate Capitol Reef's amazing rocks.
The park is named after its series of domes and cliffs, eroded into white Navajo sandstone, which somewhat resemble the US Capitol building in Washington DC. The reef part of the name is a throwback to pioneer days, when settlers were forced to detour all the way around the Waterpocket Fold, which remains all but impassible even today.
A few four-wheel drive roads run into the park, but this place is best seen on foot. Start at the visitor centre (open year-round) and head either north to Cathedral Valley or south into the Waterpocket Fold area. The park has a campground and rooms can be found in nearby Torrey and along highway 12, towards Boulder.
Top tip The Upper Muley Twist Canyon cuts lengthwise along the tilted spine of the Waterpocket Fold, making for a rugged but stunning 15-mile overnight loop hike. Free backcountry camping permits are available in the visitor centre.
Dead Horse Point state park
Most people flock to the Moab area to visit Arches national park, but this morbidly named gem of a state park is much quieter and possibly even more scenic. Located south and west of Arches, Dead Horse Point is a narrow 2,000-ft high promontory that overlooks the northern reaches of Canyonlands national park.
Back in the 19th century, cowboys used the point as a natural corral, where they could herd mustangs out to the tip and build a fence across the bottleneck of the point. Then they could pick and choose the best horses from the bunch and let the others go. As the story goes, on one occasion the cowboys forgot to open the gate and the remaining horses all died of thirst out on the point, within view of the Colorado river below but trapped by precipitous cliffs.
Tents and motorhomes are allowed at the Dead Horse Point campground and dispersed sites can be found outside the park. Hotel rooms and hostel beds can be found 30 miles away in Moab.
Top tip You can drive all the way out to the edge of Dead Horse Point, but why drive when the walk is among the most spectacular in the south-west? The three-mile Rim Trail starts at the visitor centre and skirts the edge of the point, overlooking the meandering Colorado river, Canyonlands, La Sal mountains and, on a clear day, most of south-east Utah.
Kodachrome Basin state park
With a name like Kodachrome, you know this is a place that begs to be photographed. Named by the members of a National Geographic expedition in 1949, Kodachrome Basin looks a bit what Yellowstone national park might look like if all its thermal water features dried up. Here, ancient hot springs and geysers have solidified into an array of beautiful and bizarre rock features called sand pipes.
Located just east of the more famous (and often overcrowded) Bryce Canyon, Kodachrome offers a quieter alternative. Due to its remote location and low light pollution, the night sky here is known for being one of the best in the west and the area's high elevation often means cooler temperatures here than elsewhere in Utah, making this park a good choice for summer trips.
Top tip Just down the road from Kodachrome Basin is the Grosvenor Arch, an unusual double arch high up on a colourful canyon wall that serves as a symbolic gateway to Grand Staircase Escalante national monument (see below).
Natural Bridges national monument
In geologic terms, the difference between an arch and a natural bridge is water. The former is carved by wind and ice, while the latter is sculpted by a waterway. Three of the most spectacular examples of natural bridges can be found in south-east Utah, just west of Blanding at Natural Bridges national monument.
Here, three majestic bridges, named Kachina, Owachomo and Sipapu, span the White and Anderson canyons. Sipapu, a Hopi name that celebrates the traditional portal through which the First People emerged into the present world, is the largest of the three and one of the longest natural bridges in the world. Evidence for at least two collapsed bridges are found within the park.
All three spans can be viewed from overlooks, with trails leading down to each bridge. The trail to Owachomo is an easy half-mile round trip, while the climb down to Sipapu is considerably steeper and negotiates stairs and three ladders. Camping is available inside the park.
Top tip All three bridges can be linked by a 8½-mile loop that runs through the bottom of the White and Armstrong canyons, making for a nice all-day trek.
Edge of the Cedars state park
Utah has a long, colourful history of human habitation, as evidenced by ruins, petroglyphs and relics left behind by the Ancestral Puebloan, Hopi, Ute and Navajo people. Edge of the Cedars state park in Blanding has a museum featuring the an impressive archaeological repository, plus the ruins of a Puebloan village.
The name Edge of the Cedars come from the park's location between the densely forested Manti-La Sal national forest and the treeless desert to the east, a prime habitat for early human settlement. The Bears Ears area, situated around two rounded humps of rock shaped like a bear's ears, inspires many mysteries and local legends.
Blanding is also home to the Blanding Dinosaur Museum, which features rotating exhibits on Utah's rich Mesozoic history, including fossilised eggs and baby dinosaurs. As the largest town in south-east Utah, Blanding makes for a good base for exploring the region.
Top tip Be sure to check the Edge of the Cedars museum website for lectures, festivals and other events.
Goblin Valley state park
In a state rife with geologic oddities, Goblin Valley state park, near Hanksville, sets a high bar for bizarre rock formations. Here thousands of mushroom-shaped hoodoos sit clustered in a secluded valley on the edge of the spectacular San Rafael Swell. The strangely shaped rocks are eroded out of entrada sandstone, a reddish rock that dates to the time of the dinosaurs and underlies much of south-east Utah.
Goblin Valley boasts a campground with hot showers, a rarity in this dry desert state. Campsites tend to fill up fast on weekends, so reservations are recommended. Campground full? Stay outside the park at one of many free campsites, along the swell.
Top tip Three marked hiking trails wind through Goblin Valley, but this is a place for wandering. Keep your bearings – the visitor centre is easy to spot from any vantage – and let yourself get lost between the hoodoos.
Goosenecks state park and Valley of the Gods
South-east Utah is canyon country, with the Green, Colorado and San Juan rivers cutting sinuous and spectacular routes down through red, white and orange bedrock. Goosenecks state park, near Mexican Hat, boasts one of the best overlooks showcasing the power of rivers over rock. Here the entrenched curves of the San Juan river nearly double back on themselves, exposing millions of layers of geologic history.
To the east lies the Valley of the Gods, a pocket of spectacular scenery featuring mesas and buttes reminiscent of the more famous Monument Valley, to the south. A 17-mile road, bumpy but passable to most vehicles when dry, loops through the area, between highways 261 and 163.
As far as state parks go, Goosenecks is pretty primitive, but the scenery makes up for the lack of amenities, including no running water. More developed accommodation can be found in the nearby towns of Bluff and Blanding.
Top tip: Seeking solitude? Park at the main overlook at Goosenecks and hike south and west along the old, increasingly rutted road for about a mile out to the tip of the mesa.
Flaming Gorge national recreation area
In the sweltering summer months, head to the Flaming Gorge, north of Vernal, on the Wyoming border. Here the Flaming Gorge dam holds back the Green river, creating a massive cool, blue reservoir surrounded by towering red walls. Fishing, boating, swimming and water sports are popular year-round, and five marinas rent kayaks, canoes and rafts.
The Flaming Gorge is also know for its endless backpacking options. Treks ranging from easy overnights to multi-week adventures can be found in the nearby Uinta mountains, Ashley and Wasatch-Cache national forests, including 13,528-ft Kings Peak, the highest mountain in Utah.
Camping opportunities abound, ranging from all-inclusive RV resorts to rustic cabins and remote tent sites. Hotel rooms and other accommodations can be found in Vernal, home to the Utah Field House of Natural History and close to Dinosaur National Monument, another gem for dinosaur-lovers.
Top tip The waters of the Flaming Gorge reservoir are famous for growing massive trophy trout, some as big as 13kg! Tie a fly on yourself or book a local guide.
Mary Caperton Morton is a freelance writer and photographer who makes her home on the back roads of North America, living and working out of a tiny solar-powered camper
• This article was amended on 26 February 2020 to remove a photo which was captioned as being of Goosenecks state park, but was actually of Horseshoe Bend in Arizona.


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== ToDo ==
Revision as of 17:57, 18 November 2011
OpenStack consists of a number services for running IaaS clouds. They are the Object Store (Swift), Compute (Nova) and Image (Glance) services.
OpenStack is to be promoted as a Fedora 16 Feature.
This page tracks Fedora Cloud SIG's effort to include OpenStack packages in Fedora.
Getting Started
See Getting started with OpenStack Nova for details on how to try out the OpenStack packages on Fedora 16.
- openstack-swift (bugs)
- openstack-glance (bugs)
- openstack-nova (bugs)
- python-novaclient (bugs)
- openstack-keystone (bugs)
Package Reviews
- openstack-swift (done)
- openstack-nova (done)
- openstack-glance (done)
- python-novaclient (done)
- openstack-keystone (done)
- openstack-quantum (done)
Prepare for F16 test day:
- SELinux policy for Nova
- Investigate existing test suites
- Experiment with Keystone configuration
- Downloadable Fedora images
- Try using cloud-init with OpenStack
Notable bugs:
- Figure out how to handle DB migrations in package updates
- Cannot terminate instance after compute node reboot
- Get correct version of python-xattr included in Fedora for glance image caching
- See also the "bugs" links with each of the packages above
- Dashboard
- Quantum
- VNC console/ajaxterm
- See also the "to package" list below
Integration with Aeolus:
- Deltacloud driver for OpenStack 1.1 API
- Image factory support for uploading to OpenStack
Misc project ideas:
- Fedora package builds of trunk in upstream's CI system
- Image building service based on Oz
- Use libguestfs for file injection
- Use Qpid instead of RabbitMQ
Rather than recommending users to download pre-built Ubuntu images in Getting_started_with_OpenStack Nova, we should have a set of official Fedora images like Cloud_SIG/EC2_Images. These should be built using similar process to the EC2 images.
For now, we can suggest users build Fedora images using Oz.
To Package
- python-nova-adminclient - a Python library for Nova's admin API
- tempo - a cron service; will be required by Nova in the Essex release
- noVNC - a HTML5 VNC client
- openstack-dashboard - self service web UI for OpenStack
- openstack-melange - network information service (will be part of openstack-nova?)
- openstack-quantum - network connectivity service
- openstack-reddwarf - database as a service (will be part of openstack-nova?
- openstack-burrow - message queue
- crowbar - OpenStack deployment service and chef wrapper
- Upstream bugs tagged with diablo-backport are good candidates for cherry-picking
- It may be be useful to compare OpenStack's packaging on other distributions. See the OpenStack Packaging wiki
- It may also be good to join Ubuntu's OpenStack packaging mailing list
- Ubuntu's Cloud Images
OpenStack in EPEL
All of the packages require python-sphinx. These all need at least this adjustment for EL6:
-BuildRequires: python-sphinx +%{?fedora:BuildRequires: python-sphinx >= 1.0} +%{?el6:BuildRequires: python-sphinx10}
and to use sphinx-1.0-build instead of sphinx-build.
Packages in EPEL
- openstack-swift, 1.0.2, need to update to 1.4.3 (1.4.0 in F16)
- python-distutils-extra, needed by openstack-nova
- bpython, needed by openstack-nova
- python-migrate, spec fixed to Require: python-tempita (#748784)
- fixed package built and a testing request is sent. Upvote if you can: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-migrate-0.6-5.el6
Packages needing to be added to EPEL
- openstack-glance, pushed to epel-testing 20111024 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2011-4766
- python-novaclient, pushed to epel-testing 20111104 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-novaclient-2.6.1-0.5.89bzr.el6
- needs python-prettytable, pushed to epel-testing 20111024 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-prettytable-0.5-2.el6
- openstack-nova #749385 fixed in git, #748490 issue with last build https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/openstack-nova-2011.3-8.el6
- needs adjusting to use libguestfs rather than nbd to inject files to images. #734727
- needs updated python-greenlet, pushed to epel-testing 20111031 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-greenlet-0.3.1-6.el6
- needs updated python-eventlet, pushed to epel-testing 20111031 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-eventlet-0.9.16-2.el6
- openstack-keystone, Needs koji build for el6 and bodhi push
- need python-passlib, pushed to epel-testing 20111111 https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-passlib-1.5.3-1.el6
- python-sqlalchemy0.7
- getting openstack to monkey patch RHEL's python-sqlalchemy-0.5 is too invasive
- updating python-sqlalchemy in RHEL will not be possible until RHEL 6.3
- So in the meantime this package will be added to epel
- Package for review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755065
- python-webob1.0
- This package will be added to epel for the same reaons as python-sqlalchemy above
- Steve Traylen has sent a package for review https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=754848
OpenStack in Fedora 15
Packages in Fedora 15
- openstack-swift
Packages needing to be added to Fedora 15
- openstack-glance
- python-novaclient
- openstack-nova
- python-eventlet
- python-prettytable
- corrected libvirt
- from [1] - fix for wrong console permissions

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Burglar eats food, uses bed while couple on vacation
Jewelry, car key stolen
A Seminole County couple came home to a bizarre situation after leaving for a week away. The husband and wife discovered that they had been robbed, and the burglar used the bed in their home and ate their food.
"The blinds were out of sorts in the front window," said Mrs. May, who didn't want to be identified.
May said she is a neat and tidy person, and the blinds were the first clue that something was amiss.
"He and I both said, 'Oh my God!' And this whole pane of glass … was busted out," she said, as she described coming home with her husband.
The burglar stole a watch, a ring, a bracelet and a bottle of Jack Daniel's, but that was a small worry compared to what else she saw.
There were food containers in the sink that were taken out of their freezer, and the bed in their guest room was messed up.
"It was very bizarre. That's why I said it's so creepy to think that someone would come into your home and take the time to eat something and then lay down in your bed," she said.
They replaced broken window glass and put up iron burglar bars.
The thief also took off with the keys and the clicker to their Cadillac sitting in the driveway.
They didn't steal the car then, but May and her husband disabled the car so it won't work with the key.
They're working on getting the ignition and the locks changed.


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- Synopsis
- Description
- Constructor
- Accessors
- Mutators
- Trace accessors
- Named arguments
- Recognizer events
- Parse exhaustion
- Ruby Slippers parsing
- Copyright and License
Marpa::R2::NAIF::Recognizer - NAIF recognizers
my $recce = Marpa::R2::Recognizer->new( { grammar => $grammar } );
$recce->read( 'Number', 42 );
$recce->read( 'Number', 1 );
$recce->read( 'Number', 7 );
This document describes recognizers for Marpa's named argument interface (NAIF). If you are a beginner, or are not sure which interface you are interested in, or do not know what the NAIF interfaces is, you probably are looking for the document on recognizers for the SLIF interface.
To create a recognizer object, use the
new method.
To read input, use the
read method.
To evaluate a parse tree, based on the input, use the
value method.
Token streams
By default, Marpa uses the token-stream model of input. The token-stream model is standard -- so standard the most documents about parsing do not bother to describe it. In the token-stream model, each read adds a token at the current location, then advances the current location by one. The location before any input is numbered 0 and if N tokens are parsed, they fill the locations from 1 to N.
This document will describe only the token-stream model of input. Marpa allows other models of the input, but their use requires special method calls, which are described in the document on alternative input models.
my $recce = Marpa::R2::Recognizer->new( { grammar => $grammar } );
new method creates a recognizer object. The
new method either returns a new recognizer object or throws an exception.
The arguments to the
new method are references to hashes of named arguments. In each key/value pair of these hashes, the key is the argument name, and the hash value is the value of the argument. The named arguments are described below.
my $is_symbol_a_terminal = $recce->check_terminal('Document');
Returns a Perl true when its argument is the name of a terminal symbol. Otherwise, returns a Perl false. Not often needed.
my @expected_symbols =
map { $_->[1]; }
grep { $_->[0] eq 'SYMBOL_EXPECTED' } @{ $recce->events() };
Returns a reference to an array of the events from the last "read()" method call. Each element of the array is a subarray or 1 or 2 elements. The first element of the subarray is the name of an event type, as described in "Recognizer events". The second element is the event value of the event, where that is applicable. For more detail, see "Recognizer events".
$recce->exhausted() and die 'Recognizer exhausted';
exhausted method returns a Perl true if parsing in a recognizer is exhausted, and a Perl false otherwise. Parsing is exhausted when the recognizer will not accept any further input. By default, a recognizer event occurs if parsing is exhausted. An attempt to read input into an exhausted parser causes an exception to be thrown. The recognizer event and the exception are all that many applications require, but this method allows the recognizer's exhaustion status to be discovered directly.
my $latest_earley_set = $recce->latest_earley_set();
Return the location of the latest (in other words, the most recent) Earley set. In the places where it is most often needed, the latest Earley set is the default, and there is usually no need to request the explicit value of the latest Earley set.
Given the location (Earley set ID) as its argument, returns an array that describes the parse progress at that location. Details on progress reports can be found in their own document.
my $terminals_expected = $recce->terminals_expected();
Returns a reference to a list of strings, where the strings are the names of the terminals acceptable at the current location. In the default input model, the presence of a terminal in this list means that terminal will be acceptable in the next
read method call. This is highly useful for Ruby Slippers parsing.
$recce->expected_symbol_event_set( 'endmark', 1 );
Marpa can generate a recognizer event when a symbol is expected at the current earleme. This method takes a symbol name as its first argument, and turns the expected-symbol event for that symbol on or off, according to whether its second argument is 1 or 0. Always succeeds or throws an exception.
Events can occur at location 0 -- when the recognizer is first created. However, the event setting of
expected_symbol_event_set() cannot have an effect until after the first token is read -- after location 0. In cases where this is an issue, the "event_if_expected" named argument of the "new()" method can be used to set an expected-symbol event.
$recce->read( 'Number', 42 );
$recce->read( 'Number', 1 );
$recce->read( 'Number', 7 );
read method reads one token at the current parse location. It then advances the current location by 1.
read takes two arguments: a token name and a token value. The token name is required. It must be the name of a valid terminal symbol. The token value is optional. It defaults to a Perl
undef. For details about terminal symbols, see "Terminal symbols" in Marpa::R2::NAIF::Grammar.
The parser may accept or reject the token. If the parser accepted the token, the
read method returns the number of recognizer events that occurred during the
read. For more about events, see "Recognizer events".
Marpa may reject a token because it is not one of those acceptable at the current location. When this happens,
read returns a Perl
undef. A rejected token need not end parsing -- it is perfectly possible to retry the
read call with another token. This is, in fact, an important technique in Ruby Slippers parsing. For details, see the section on Ruby Slippers parsing.
For other failures, including an attempt to
read a token into an exhausted parser, Marpa throws an exception.
$recce->set( { max_parses => 10, } );
set method's arguments are references to hashes of named arguments. The
set method can be used to set or change named arguments after the recognizer has been created. Details of the named arguments are below.
my $value_ref = $recce->value;
my $value = $value_ref ? ${$value_ref} : 'No Parse';
Because Marpa parses ambiguous grammars, every parse is a series of zero or more parse trees. There are zero parse trees if there was no valid parse of the input according to the grammar.
value method call evaluates the next parse tree in the parse series, and returns a reference to the parse result for that parse tree. If there are no more parse trees, the
value method returns
$recce->set( { end => $loc, max_parses => 999, } );
reset_evaluation() method ends a parse series, and starts another. It can be used to "restart" the parse series. Restarting the parse series with the
reset_evaluation() method allows the application to specify new values for the
end and
ranking_method named arguments. Once a parse series is underway, these values cannot be changed.
The most common use for
reset_evaluation() method is to parse a single input stream at different end points. This can also be done by creating a new recognizer and re-reading the input from the beginning, but it is much more efficient to evaluate a single recognizer run several times, using different parse end locations. After the parse is restarted using the
reset_evaluation() method, the recognizer's
set() method and its
end named argument can be used to change the parse end location.
Trace accessors
print $recce->show_progress()
or die "print failed: $ERRNO";
Returns a string describing the progress of the parse. With no arguments, the string contains reports for the current location. With a single integer argument N, the string contains reports for location N. With two numeric arguments, N and M, the arguments are interpreted as a range of locations and the returned string contains reports for all locations in the range. ("Location" as referred to in this section, and elsewhere in this document, is what is also called the Earley set ID.)
If an argument is negative, -N, it indicates the Nth location counting backward from the furthest location of the parse. For example, if 42 was the furthest location, -1 would be location 42 and -2 would be location 41. For example, the method call
$recce->show_progress(-3, -1) returns reports for the last three locations of the parse. The method call
$recce->show_progress(0, -1) will print progress reports for the entire parse.
show_progress is Marpa's most powerful tool for debugging application grammars. It can also be used to track the progress of a parse or to investigate how a parse works. A much fuller description, with an example, is in the document on debugging Marpa grammars.
Named arguments
The recognizer's named arguments are accepted by its
new and
set methods.
The value of
closures named argument must be a reference to a hash. In each key/value pair of this hash, the key must be an action name. The hash value must be a CODE ref. The
closures named argument is not allowed once evaluation has begun.
When an action name is a key in the
closures named argument, the usual action resolution mechanism of the semantics is bypassed. One common use of the
closures named argument is to allow anonymous subroutines to be semantic actions. For more details, see the document on semantics.
end named argument specifies the parse end location. The default is for the parse to end where the input did, so that the parse returned is of the entire input. The
end named argument is not allowed once evaluation has begun. "Location" as referred to here and elsewhere in this document is what is also called an Earley set ID.
The value of the
event_if_expected named argument must be a reference to an array of symbol names. Expected-symbol events will be turned on for those symbol names. Expected-symbol events may be turned off (or back on) using the "expected_symbol_event_set()" method. The advantage of the
event_if_expected named argument is that it takes effect as soon as the recognizer is created, while events set using the "expected_symbol_event_set()" method cannot occur until after the first token is read.
new method is required to have a
grammar named argument. Its value must be a precomputed Marpa grammar object. The
grammar named argument is not allowed anywhere else.
If non-zero, causes a fatal error when that number of parse results is exceeded.
max_parses is useful to limit CPU usage and output length when testing and debugging. Stable and production applications may prefer to count the number of parses, and take a less Draconian response when the count is exceeded.
The value must be an integer. If it is zero, there will be no limit on the number of parse results returned. The default is for there to be no limit.
The value must be a string: one of "
none", "
rule", or "
high_rule_only". When the value is "
none", Marpa returns the parse results in arbitrary order. This is the default. The
ranking_method named argument is not allowed once evaluation has begun.
The "
rule" and "
high_rule_only" ranking methods allows the user to control the order in which parse results are returned by the
value method, and to exclude some parse results from the parse series. For details, see the document on parse order.
too_many_earley_items argument is optional. If specified, it sets the Earley item warning threshold. If an Earley set becomes larger than the Earley item warning threshold, a recognizer event is generated, and a warning is printed to the trace file handle.
Marpa parses from any BNF, and can handle grammars and inputs which produce large Earley sets. But parsing that involves large Earley sets can be slow. Large Earley sets are something most applications can, and will wish to, avoid.
By default, Marpa calculates an Earley item warning threshold based on the size of the grammar. The default threshold will never be less than 100. If the Earley item warning threshold is set to 0, no recognizer event is generated, and warnings about large Earley sets are turned off.
trace_actions named argument is a boolean. If the boolean value is true, Marpa prints tracing information as it resolves action names to Perl closures. A boolean value of false turns tracing off, which is the default. Traces are written to the trace file handle.
The value is a file handle. Traces and warning messages go to the trace file handle. By default the trace file handle is inherited from the grammar used to create the recognizer.
Very handy in debugging, and often useful even when the problem is not in the lexing. The value is a trace level. When the trace level is 0, tracing of terminals is off. This is the default.
At a trace level of 1 or higher, Marpa produces a trace message for each terminal as it is accepted or rejected by the recognizer. At a trace level of 2 or higher, the trace messages include, for every location, a list of the terminals expected. In practical grammars, output from trace level 2 can be voluminous.
trace_values named argument is a numeric trace level. If the numeric trace level is 1, Marpa prints tracing information as values are computed in the evaluation stack. A trace level of 0 turns value tracing off, which is the default. Traces are written to the trace file handle.
The value is a boolean. Warnings are written to the trace file handle. By default, the recognizer's warnings are on. Usually, an application will want to leave them on.
Recognizer events
The recognizer's
read() method can generate events. To access events, use the recognizer's "events()" method.
EARLEY_ITEM_THRESHOLD and The
EXHAUSTED events are enabled by default. Events optionally have an "event value", as specified in the description of each event. The following events are possible.
The Earley item threshold was exceeded. For more about the Earley item warning threshold, see "too_many_earley_items". No event value is defined for this event. This event is enabled by default.
"Exhaustion" means that the next
read call must fail, because there is no token that will be acceptable to it. More details on "exhaustion" are in a section below. No event value is defined for this event. This event is enabled by default.
A "symbol expected" event means that a symbol is expected at that point. The event value of this event is the symbol whose expectation caused the event. This event is disabled by default. For details, see "expected_symbol_event_set()".
Parse exhaustion
A parse is exhausted when it will accept no more input. An exhausted parse is not necessarily a failed parse. Grammars are often written so that once they "find what they are looking for", no further input is acceptable. Grammars of that kind become exhausted when they succeed.
By default, a recognizer event occurs whenever the parse is exhausted. An application can also check for exhaustion explicitly, using the recognizer's
exhausted method.
Ruby Slippers parsing
$recce = Marpa::R2::Recognizer->new( { grammar => $grammar } );
my @tokens = (
[ 'Number', 42 ],
['Multiply'], [ 'Number', 1 ],
['Add'], [ 'Number', 7 ],
TOKEN: for ( my $token_ix = 0; $token_ix <= $#tokens; $token_ix++ ) {
defined $recce->read( @{ $tokens[$token_ix] } )
or fix_things( $recce, $token_ix, \@tokens )
or die q{Don't know how to fix things};
Marpa is able to tell the application which symbols are acceptable as tokens at the next location in the parse. The
terminals_expected method returns the list of tokens that will be accepted by the next
read. The application can use this information to change the input "on the fly" so that it is acceptable to the parser.
An application can also take a "try it and see" approach. If an application is not sure whether a token is acceptable or not, the application can try to read the dubious token using the
read method. If the token is rejected, the
read method call will return a Perl
undef. At that point, the application can retry the
read with a different token.
An example
Marpa's HTML parser, Marpa::HTML, is an example of how Ruby Slippers parsing can help with a non-trivial, real-life application. When a token is rejected in Marpa::HTML, it changes the input to match the parser's expectations by
Modifying existing tokens, and
Creating new tokens.
The second technique, the creation of new "virtual" tokens, is used by Marpa::HTML to deal with omitted start and end tags. The actual HTML grammar that Marpa::HTML uses takes an oversimplified view of the HTML -- it assumes, even when the HTML standards do not require it, that start and end tags are always present. For most HTML files of interest, this assumption will be contrary to fact.
Ruby Slippers parsing is used to make the grammar's over-simplistic view of the world come true for it. Whenever a token is rejected, Marpa::HTML looks at the expected tokens list. If it sees that a start or end tag is expected, Marpa::HTML creates a token for it -- a completely new "virtual" token that gives the parser exactly what it expects. Marpa::HTML then resumes input at the point in the original input stream where it left off.
Copyright and License
Copyright 2018 Jeffrey Kegler
This file is part of Marpa::R2. Marpa::R2 is free software: you can
redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser
General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
Marpa::R2 is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser
General Public License along with Marpa::R2. If not, see


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"The Middle East is a place of struggling and thriving economies, where new classes and business elites are elbowing their way higher in the power structures of many countries, changing religious, social and political life along the way," writes Vali Nasr, former senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. It is time to look past Islamic "fundamentalism's hard-hitting rhetoric and the venom spewed by extremists" because change is coming to the Middle East through an upwardly mobile middle class of entrepreneurs, investors, professionals and consumers, he asserts in his new book, Forces of Fortune: The Rise of the New Muslim Middle Class and What It Will Mean for Our World. Nasr reveals that it is this rising business class, and the thriving world of Islamic finance (banking and financial services compatible with sharia regulations) that are the emerging centers of power in the Middle East; they are instrumental to tipping the scales of power away from Islamic extremism, he argues.
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Currently senior adviser to Richard C. Holbrooke, special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Nasr explains that the blending of Islamic values and economic vitality is an "important development in the Muslim world that should shape [the United States'] approach to building better relations with the region." He demonstrates that these devoutly Islamic, yet highly modern Muslims, of the "critical middle" (particularly in Iran, Pakistan, and Turkey) constitute the middle class the region has desperately needed. They are building a whole new "Muslim world economy"―as demonstrated in the rapid growth of capitalist Dubai. Their distinctive blend of Islam and capitalism is crucial to bringing lasting reform to the region, says Nasr.
If the global values of "peace, security, democracy, freedom and human rights, moderation, and religious tolerance," have not yet taken hold in Muslim lands, concludes Nasr, it is not because of the "fundamental nature of Islam," but because the "commercial class that must spearhead the process of propagating [those values] is still too small." Helping this "critical middle" grow and come to "dominate their societies is the best way of making sure those global values will take deep root as Muslim values, paving the way to democracy."
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I'm Dawn McLaren and I'm a finds specialist at AOC Archaeology Group based at Loanhead, Scotland. On a day-to-day basis I'm principally involved in the post-excavation analysis of artefacts recovered as the result of developer-led excavations ranging from early prehistoric through to post-medieval in date. To give you an idea of the range of finds that I deal with, in the last couple of weeks I've been looking at coarse stone tools and querns from an Iron Age settlement, some pottery from a Bronze Age burial and post-medieval metal finds from an urban site in Edinburgh. It definitely keeps me on my toes!
Today I've been examining some later prehistoric ironworking waste from a multi-phase site at Beechwood, Inverness and I'm really excited about what it is telling us about metalworking on the site. The site, which was excavated by my colleague Rob Engl and others, revealed several Bronze Age/Iron Age timber roundhouses, palisades and enclosures together with evidence of Neolithic settlement.
Starting from the beginning, what is ironworking waste? Basically, it is the non-iron component of ore that is separated out from the iron during smelting and smithing but there is inevitably other associated debris such as bits of ceramic hearth lining and vitrified stone which don't necessarily need to be connected to metalworking. I'm terribly over simplifying, of course, but I hope this gives you an idea. Visually, this material doesn't look like much, I admit! It often looks like rusty or glassy shapeless ugly lumps. But I've been trying for years to convince people that it's really interesting and can tell us a lot about metalworking technology.
My first step is always to visually examine (macro and microscopically) the individual pieces looking at the colour, texture, shape and how melted and fused the material is. Another important part of the initial identification is to determine whether the material is magnetic. All of this information helps me to split the assemblage into broad categories: what is ironworking waste and what has been formed as the result of another pyrotechnic process, what is diagnostic of iron smelting and what might be bloom- or blacksmithing debris. Once I've identified the individual pieces, I record all the details (e.g. weight, quantity of pieces and measurements) into a spreadsheet so that I can feed in the contextual data later.
I'm pleased to say that the assemblage from Beechwood has a bit of everything! It's not a large assemblage but so far I've identified several smithing hearth bottoms and fragments of smelting waste so that I can say that both processes were taking place on or around the site.
Now that my catalogue of the slag is complete I've started to look at where the pieces were recovered from. The excavations at Beechwood covered a very large area and I can see from my initial examination that the ironworking debris is focused in two quite disparate parts of the site. One area, which we'll call A, includes a possible metalworking hearth or furnace associated with smelting slags and the other area, B, which is quite a distance away and must represent a separate focus of activity, has small residual amounts of both smelting and smithing debris. We've already had some of the pits and postholes from these areas radiocarbon dated and those associated with the ironworking waste have provided wonderful Iron Age dates.
Looks like my task for tomorrow is to see how the Beechwood evidence fits in to other Iron Age metalworking sites in the area!
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Published in January 1958, the Southeastern United States map appeared in National Geographic with three articles on Florida. Insets of the Tampa Bay, West Palm Beach and Miami regions add particular detail. Subtle mountain relief accents the Appalachians and Allegheny Mountains.
Coverage Area: Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Bahama Islands, southern Illinois, southern Indiana, southern Ohio


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BAD HAIKU - Horrible poetry for the digital age
23 Years
351 Days
68553 Haikus
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slow down and observe
the moment and the whole zen
thing soon makes some sense
Haiku #57700
, by vhs
November 27, 2017 10:05 am ET
rush rush rush, hurry
hurry hurry, get things done
then next day you die
Haiku #57699
, by vhs
November 27, 2017 9:38 am ET
drug are bad mmkay?
you know south park, midwest, cut
outs, cartman, now stay
away from my cheesy poofs
Haiku #57698
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 8:23 am ET
You know how helium makes your voice sound like the chipmunks, well nitrous makes your voice slightly deep like Satan has taken over your body... another fun reason to try it.
Haiku #57697
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 1:53 am ET
I think I have it!
I'll start doing whip-cream gas.
Nitrous oxide laugh.
Just say N2O.
Like being at the dentist,
No drilling needed.
Haiku #57696
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 1:52 am ET
But I could get killed.
Police kill drug users here.
So what should I do?
Haiku #57695
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 1:49 am ET
I need some hard drugs.
My wife said she would leave me
if I start with drugs.
Haiku #57694
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 1:48 am ET
Not a bad idea!
But what will I serve for drinks?
Pina Colada?
Haiku #57693
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 1:46 am ET
Remove seat from bike
Replace with it with a bar stool
Hipster super cool
Haiku #57692
, by Anonymous Poet
November 27, 2017 12:53 am ET
I'll ride my bike all
day long to the point of
exhaustion or death.
But I hate that feeling of the pointy bike seat feeling like its going up your ass like you've fallen drunkenly asleep at a frat party and some drunk "Eata Pumpkin Pie" has had too much X and discovered that he has homosexual tendencies after his "girlfriend" went home with some football player and can you blame her. Fucking bike seats.
Haiku #57691
, by Anonymous Poet
November 26, 2017 8:27 pm ET
Erectify Cheer.
Bono boner bonbon hump.
Help me, Lord Satan!
Haiku #57690
, by Anonymous Poet
November 26, 2017 8:21 pm ET
In the depths of mind,
one cannot truly see life
from faults of the past
Haiku #57689
, by Liv of Puerto Rico
November 26, 2017 5:39 pm ET
once vibrant storefronts
give way to for sale or rent
signs and tattered paint
Haiku #57688
, by vhs
November 26, 2017 1:20 pm ET
"The sphinx's sphincter
made quite an uncommon toot,"
said Tutankhamun.
Haiku #57687
, by Anonymous Poet
November 26, 2017 5:04 am ET
Penile implant.
Nile crocodile Lyle.
Ate Neffer-titty.
It is not normal.
Uncommon Tutankhamun.
He smoked too much hash.
Haiku #57686
, by Anonymous Poet
November 25, 2017 9:50 pm ET
people make choices
and we may not agree but
we will miss y'all
Haiku #57685
, by vhs
November 25, 2017 10:49 am ET
hmm i understand
words better if you don't mind
guys will be guys though
Haiku #57684
, by vhs
November 24, 2017 12:16 pm ET
The meaning of life
One's life can have a meaning
I don't know how to quantify that
Haiku #57683
, by dvd of took high school algebra 3 times and didn't pass until grumpy mr wright was my algebra teacher
November 24, 2017 1:25 am ET
The meaning of life
Is it a variable
In the equation ?
Haiku #57682
, by You boys suck at math of Arabs invented your numbers
November 24, 2017 12:04 am ET
if it were a bad
haiku on thanksgiving it
would be a turkey
so stuff it as you will
and cover it with gravy
Haiku #57681
, by vhs
November 23, 2017 3:56 pm ET
happy thanksgiving
forty two is the answer
what is the question?
Haiku #57680
, by vhs
November 22, 2017 6:26 pm ET
Happy Thanksgiving.
Eat lots of sweet potato,
turkey and gravy.
Haiku #57679
, by Darth Figpucker
November 22, 2017 1:19 am ET
difference is that
I'd end up marrying one
of the green girls there
don't tell De, he thinks
if the girl is green she gone
past experation
Haiku #57678
, by vhs
November 21, 2017 6:08 pm ET
None of the theorems contain an equality. In language they call that an incomplete sentence.
It is believed that as the dimensionality of the Madelung constant is increased that it diverges or approaches infinity. No one has proved this, to my knowledge. It's not as sexy as twin primes or Reimann or why did the chicken cross an arbitrary plane of existence and uniqueness when it could have just as easily stayed home in the roost keeping its eggs warm.
Chickens should be called roosters -- they stay in the roost. Roosters should be called COCKS.
Been a while since I've seen a good cock fight. Sabong. NYSE old days.
Drunk enough, I just might try balot eggs afterwards. Assuming I still have 50 pesos left.
Haiku #57677
, by Darth Figpucker
November 21, 2017 2:44 am ET
If vhs was captain of the Enterprise
Instead of James T Kirk
I don't think much would change
Scotty would be as stressed as ever
But most importantly
I know vhs would be seeking out alien Females with the same zeal
All he needs is warp drive capability
Haiku #57676
, by dvd
November 20, 2017 11:07 pm ET
(# of herps) / (# of derps) + (# of cigarettes smoked per hour) - (# of tins of bacon flavored chewing tobacco consumed) ^ (angular momentum of chicken tender upon consumption)
Haiku #57675
, by dvd
November 20, 2017 10:51 pm ET
(# of burgers) / (# of Sue B impersonations per minute) + (# of degrees cap is askew) - (liberal to conservative ratio) ^ (# of kittens currently in lap)
Haiku #57674
, by dvd
November 20, 2017 10:41 pm ET
the old folks try to
set limits on the younger
knowing too well their
time is coming
Haiku #57673
, by vhs
November 20, 2017 8:47 pm ET
Marilyn Manson?
I didn't know she was ill.
Tainted Love loved taint.
Haiku #57672
, by Anonymous Poet
November 20, 2017 8:13 am ET
mugabe, manson
keep it in the family
is their common theme
Haiku #57671
, by ash
November 20, 2017 7:41 am ET
The witches are false.
They refuse to eat children.
Oh, but they'll drink beer!
Haiku #57670
, by Anonymous Poet
November 20, 2017 3:05 am ET
Rather than the death penalty, murderers should be kept on public display, much like at a zoo, where we could pay to speak to them and be entertained. The money made would easily pay for the prison as well as victim compensations. Sadly, we live in a "civilized" society, not a sane one.
Haiku #57669
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 11:09 pm ET
So Manson's near death.
Strangely I do not feel sad.
He brought much laughter.
Haiku #57668
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 11:06 pm ET
I'd like some absinthe.
The real McCoy with wormwood.
For breakfast and lunch.
Haiku #57667
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 11:04 pm ET
Enlightenment calls.
Well, I feel lighter, for sure.
Perhaps it's the prunes.
Haiku #57666
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 11:02 pm ET
Asian grocery.
Aleister Crowley's ice box.
Grandma's thawed freezer.
Haiku #57665
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 11:00 pm ET
Again the word Calle
is part of the captcha code
and I don't like it.
Haiku #57664
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 10:55 pm ET
Sexual assault.
Jim Henson and The Muppets.
Haiku #57663
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 10:53 pm ET
The Department of
Interspecies Relations
and Gene Enhancements.
Haiku #57662
, by Anonymous Poet
November 19, 2017 10:51 pm ET
well Doctor Shark (I)
(like that better than "DF)
Apple Core is all
Haiku #57661
, by vhs
November 18, 2017 11:53 am ET
The Doctor is IN.
I would prescribe nelusko.
Or tiramisu.
And cappuccino.
Perhaps then a titty bar.
And imported beer.
Caffeine and sugar.
Then a hard-on and spirits.
What is there to lose.
If you never sin,
then Jesus died for nothing.
Trust Doc Figpucker.
But seriously,
get out and enjoy yourself.
Don't be a pussy.
Haiku #57660
, by df
November 18, 2017 3:27 am ET
blood thickening chill
perhaps the cure is a pill
Or, potato chips
Haiku #57659
, by Anonymous Poet
November 18, 2017 3:04 am ET
alternatives, worse
to live these days, is a curse
still, people have hope
Haiku #57658
, by Adorable Kittens
November 18, 2017 1:15 am ET
this is one of those
days which makes me question if
living is worth it
Haiku #57657
, by vhs
November 17, 2017 7:04 pm ET
It's an orgasm
from eating nelusko cake.
(Mocha praline cake.)
Marie Antoinette
said let them eat Nelusko.
So that's what I did.
But it made a mess.
Next time I'll put some napkins
in my underwear.
Haiku #57656
, by df
November 17, 2017 3:31 am ET
Go ahead, tell us.
What does your fancy word mean?
Do we want to know?
Haiku #57655
, by Adorable Kittens
November 16, 2017 11:01 pm ET
That's the new word for the day.
I just made it up.
Haiku #57654
, by df
November 16, 2017 8:45 pm ET
so, maybe at last
peace has come to zimbabwe
after some delay
Haiku #57653
, by ash
November 16, 2017 7:29 pm ET
well if i mention
processed foods to you it will
stoke your left leaning
boomer tree hugging
silliness we have all come
to know you for now
even if we ourselves
agree with much of the ethos
less spam, more fish
Haiku #57652
, by vhs
November 16, 2017 6:04 pm ET
I'm going out now.
Umbrella, hopping puddles.
I love my black drug.
Maybe I'll have cake.
And I just might eat it too.
Because, hey, I can.
Haiku #57651
, by Darth Figpucker is now in search of caffeine in almost any form.
November 16, 2017 3:07 am ET
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text: Business Grants Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation – SSE & SSI January 21, 2016 0 259 Facebook Twitter Pinterest WhatsApp Funding Opportunity Number: 16-532 Opportunity Category: Discretionary Funding Instrument Type: Grant Category of Funding Activity: Science and Technology and other Research and Development CFDA Number: 47.04147.04947.05047.07047.07447.07547.076 Eligible Applicants Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification) Agency Name: NSF Closing Date: Apr 26, 2016 Award Ceiling: Expected Number of Awards: Creation Date: Jan 20, 2016 Funding Opportunity Description: Software is an integral enabler of computation, experiment and theory and a primary modality for realizing the Cyberinfrastructure Framework for 21st Century Science and Engineering (CIF21) vision, as described in http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2010/nsf10015/nsf10015.jsp. Scientific discovery and innovation are advancing along fundamentally new pathways opened by development of increasingly sophisticated software. Software is also directly responsible for increased scientific productivity and significant enhancement of researchers' capabilities. In order to nurture, accelerate and sustain this critical mode of scientific progress, NSF has established the Software Infrastructure for Sustained Innovation (SI2) program, with the overarching goal of transforming innovations in research and education into sustained software resources that are an integral part of the cyberinfrastructure. SI2 has been a long-term investment focused on catalyzing new thinking, paradigms, and practices in developing and using software to understand natural, human, and engineered systems. The intent of SI2 has been to foster a pervasive cyberinfrastructure to help researchers address problems of unprecedented scale, complexity, resolution, and accuracy by integrating computation, data, networking, observations and experiments in novel ways. NSF expects that its SI2 investment will result in trustworthy, robust, reliable, usable and sustainable software infrastructure that is critical to achieving the CIF21 vision and will transform science and engineering while contributing to the education of next-generation researchers and creators of future cyberinfrastructure. Indeed, education at all levels will play an important role in integrating such a dynamic cyberinfrastructure into the fabric of how science and engineering is performed. The goal of the SI2 program is to create a software ecosystem that includes all levels of the software stack and scales from individual or small groups of software innovators to large hubs of software excellence. The program addresses all aspects of cyberinfrastructure, from embedded sensor systems and instruments, to desktops and high-end data and computing systems, to major instruments and facilities. Thus, SI2 will continue to nurture the interdisciplinary processes required to support the entire software lifecycle, and will successfully integrate software development and support with innovation and research. Furthermore, it will result in the development of sustainable software communities that transcend scientific and geographical boundaries. SI2 envisions vibrant partnerships among academia, government laboratories and industry, including international entities, for the development and stewardship of a sustainable software infrastructure that can enhance productivity and accelerate innovation in science and engineering. Furthermore, SI2 recognizes that integrated education activities will play a key role in sustaining the cyberinfrastructure over time and in developing a workforce capable of fully realizing its potential to transform science and engineering. The SI2 program includes three classes of awards: Scientific Software Elements (SSE): SSE awards target small groups that will create and deploy robust software elements for which there is a demonstrated; these software elements will in turn advance one or more significant areas of science and engineering. Scientific Software Integration (SSI): SSI awards target larger, interdisciplinary teams organized around the development and application of common software infrastructure aimed at solving common research problems faced by NSF researchers in one or more areas of science and engineering. SSI awards will result in a sustainable community software framework serving a diverse community or communities. Scientific Software Innovation Institutes (S2I2): S2I2 awards will focus on the establishment of long-term hubs of excellence in software infrastructure and technologies,which will serve a research community of substantial size and disciplinary breadth. Note: This solicitation includes only SSE and SSI classes of awards. ForS2I2 proposals in FY2016 please refer to solicitation NSF 15-553 (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15553/nsf15553.htm). At present, there is no solicitation that addressesS2I2 proposals for 2017 and beyond. Please refer to (i) A Vision and Strategy for Software for Science, Engineering, and Education (http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12113/nsf12113.htm) and (ii) Implementation of NSF Software Vision (http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=504817) for further information about NSF's vision for software as part of cyberinfrastructure and the programs that support this vision. Proposers are also encouraged to consider positioning their work in the wider context of NSF priority areas and national and international initiatives where advanced cyberinfrastructure is relevant, such as, but not limited to, Understanding the Brain (http://www.nsf.gov/brain) and the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) (https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/29/executive-order-creating-national-strategic-computing-initiative). Prospective Principal Investigators (PIs) should be aware that SI2 is a multi-directorate activity and that they are encouraged to submit proposals for software with broad, interdisciplinary interest. PIs are encouraged to refer to core program descriptions, Dear Colleague Letters, and recently posted initiatives on directorate and divisional home pages to gain insight about the priorities for the relevant areas of science to which their proposals may be responsive. As not all divisions are participating at the same level and divisional priorities differ, it is strongly recommended that prospective PIs contact Cognizant Program Officers in the division(s) that typically support the scientists and engineers who would make use of the proposed work, to ascertain whether the scientific focus and budget of the proposed work are appropriate for this solicitation. Please note that some NSF units have additional specific information about their participation in this program: Within the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) The Division of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (ACI) manages the SI2 program, and is especially interested in proposals as follows: Proposals that develop multidisciplinary and omni-disciplinary software cyberinfrastructure, and proposals that meaningfully integrate, leverage or build on other ongoing ACI-supported programs such as the eXtreme Digital (XD) program, Campus Cyberinfrastructure – Data, Networking, and Innovation (CC*DNI), Cyber-security Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI), and Data Infrastructure Building Blocks (DIBBs) programs. Proposals that, in addition to the software cyberinfrastructure development and ecosystem building activities that should make up the core of the work, integrate innovation and research on the effectiveness, usability, and adoption of the software, and its adaptability to new technologies, and to changing requirements. Proposals that consider security, trustworthiness and reproducibility as important requirements to be met by their software. With respect to security, software developers are encouraged to demonstrate utilization of vulnerability analysis scanning tools throughout the development process (such as Coverity and SWAMP). Proposals with objectives (including education and workforce-development objectives) that align with and contribute to the NSCI. CISE's other divisions (Computing and Communication Foundations, Computer and Network Systems, and Information and Intelligent Systems) are interested in supporting SSE and SSI proposals that advance software infrastructure to sustain progress in CISE research areas, and that advance and adapt software engineering research to impact the software sustainability needs of other scientific disciplines. The Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) is primarily interested in SSI proposals that impact both BIO-supported researchers and those supported by other directorates. PIs wishing to submit SSE projects that focus on biological sciences should consider submitting to Advances in Biological Informatics (ABI: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15582/nsf15582.htm). The Directorate for Engineering (ENG) is primarily interested in proposals that focus on innovative computational tools that enable advances and scientific discovery in the research areas of its Divisions of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET); Civil, Mechanical and Manufacturing Innovation (CMMI); and Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS). SSE proposals that are planned to become part of larger SSI-type integrated software systems, leading to increased community involvement, will be given priority in SSE funding decisions. The Directorate for Geosciences (GEO) is interested in software development projects that serve the academic geosciences (atmosphere and geospace, ocean, earth and polar sciences) community. Projects must demonstrate strong connections with geosciences end users and their research needs. Understanding of, and integration with, GEO and/or NSF investments in cyberinfrastructure, participation in EarthCube and interaction between geoscientists and cyber/computer scientists will be considered in prioritizing funding of SSI and SSE projects. PIs should contact and consult with both the SI2 GEO Program Officer as well as Program Officers in the relevant geosciences domains. Within the Directorate for Mathematics and Physical Sciences (MPS): The Division of Materials Research (DMR) encourages proposals that focus on innovative software tools that enable advances in the division's research areas and at the interfaces of materials research and other research domains. The division is particularly interested in projects that develop software tools to enable and support research under the Materials Genome Initiative (MGI), such as through Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF: http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=505073), and under Sustainable Chemistry, Engineering, and Materials (SusChEM: http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2015/nsf15085/nsf15085.jsp). The Chemistry Division (CHE) encourages proposals that focus on innovative software tools that enable advances in the division's research areas and at the interface of chemistry and other research domains. The division welcomes proposals that enable scientific advances in NSF priority areas. The Physics Division (PHY) will consider proposals that focus on innovative computational tools that enable advances in the division's research areas. The Division of Astronomical Sciences (AST) will consider proposals to support the development of sustainable software that will enable broad community progress on key questions in astronomy and astrophysics. The Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) welcomes proposals building computational tools that have broad application in mathematical sciences and related areas. MPS also supports education and community development in cyberinfrastructure, for example, through proposals that include visitor support (particularly for graduate students and postdoctoral researchers), postdoctoral opportunities, or short training courses that increase interactions of domain scientists and software and/or cyberinfrastructure specialists. The Directorate for Social, Behavioral & Economic Sciences (SBE) is interested in proposals that focus on innovative software infrastructure that supports the directorate's research priorities, such as those outlined in SBE 2020 (http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/sbe_2020/). In particular, SBE is interested in proposals that will further the goals of SBE and at least one of the other directorates participating in this solicitation. The Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR) is interested in proposals that focus on innovative software infrastructure that supports the directorate's research areas, namely STEM learning and learning environments, STEM workforce development, and broadening participation in STEM. For example, EHR is interested in research studies on how software tools foster science and engineering learning. Source:: http://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=281071


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Mom's Taxi: VW Toureg Hybrid offers comfort, fuel efficiency (review)
As parents, we spend a lot of time in the car shuttling the kids to school and doctor's appointments, to sports practice and ballet lessons. In between there's the drive to work and trips to the grocery store and dry cleaner. Most of us go about our daily drives without much thought to our own personal comfort. But, if it were a perfect world where there were no such thing as family budgets or bottom lines, wouldn't driving around in "executive-level" luxury be awfully nice?
Think about it: Some people will go all out to purchase a top-quality mattress and high-thread count cotton sheets to maximize their sleeping experience, because so much time is spent in slumber. Why not go all out on the family car? I realize there's a big difference between the price of sheets and a luxury car, but you get the point.
These were the thoughts I had while driving around in the 2013 Volkwagen Toureg Hybrid. This five-passenger luxury sport utility vehicle is just loaded with tons of passenger comfort features, all while offering a premium driving experience for the lucky person behind the wheel. Our test car had a base price of $62,575 with many of those creature comforts packed in as standard features.
The 2013 Toureg offers buyers a choice of engines: either the world's first supercharged hybrid engine, or a TDI Clean Diesel engine. Our test car featured the 3.0-liter hybrid engine that offered a gutsy 380 horsepower and 428 lbs.-ft. of torque. That's like having a V-8 engine under the hood. But, in fact, what you get is a car with the fuel efficiency of a V-6 and, at speeds up to 30 miles per hour, zero emissions of an electric car. Nice to think of, especially since most of our family driving is around town and usually under 30 miles an hour.
The Toureg was redesigned and re-engineered for the 2011 models, and there are just a few tweaks on board for 2013. They include increased horsepower for the TDI engines, LED tail lights on the Hybrid, 18-inch Karakum wheels and the addition of decorative wood trim.
The Touareg's redesign included adding more inches to the sides and a little less height. With this longer wheelbase there is a little more room inside the cabin for you and your passengers. That translates to a generous amount of head and leg room throughout, as well as a large cargo area to swallow up luggage, golf clubs and plenty of groceries for the hungry hoard.
Other design elements include L-shaped tail lights, a blacked out lower bumper with inset chrome exhaust tips and a chrome plate atop the bumper, which is a nice-looking touch. In the front, fender flares incorporate fog lamps.
The interior of the Touareg Hybrid is all about luxury. Leather seats and walnut wood trim accents set the tone. With an extra 2.7 inches of legroom, your passengers can really stretch out. The rear seats fold in a 40/20/40 split, to offer an array of load-carrying options, and the seat bench itself is flat which is more comfortable for the rear middle passenger.
Designers added refinements to insulation to reduce cabin noise over previous models, and it is definitely noticeable at freeway speed. It is whisper quiet in here.
Some models are equipped with a panoramic sunroof, which is 350 percent larger than previous models. It is standard in the "Lux," "Executive" and "Hybrid" models, and really lets a lot of outside light into the car.
There are many standard active and passive safety features on board the 2013 Touareg. Six air bags, thorax air bags for driver and front passenger, side curtain protection for the front and second row, are all standard. Improved head rests help reduce the risk of whiplash injuries. All models also have Anti-slip Regulation, anti-lock brakes, auto hold and hill hold assist and Volkswagen's version of Electronic Stabilization Control (ESC).
Overall, the Toureg is a delight to drive and creature comforts abound. The supercharged hybrid engine offers the best of all worlds: speed and fuel efficiency. The vehicle handles well and is packed with safety features to protect the family. It's a great way to travel if you're all about comfort and not so concerned about cash.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — Labor Secretary nominee Thomas Perez is expected to face tough questions at his confirmation hearing about his tenure as head of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division.
The hearing Thursday will be the first time Perez publicly addresses GOP critics who say he made some questionable decisions as the nation's top civil rights enforcer.
Republican lawmakers have criticized Perez's decision not to intervene in a whistle-blower case that could have netted taxpayers up to $200 million. They've also raised questions about his decision to dismiss some defendants in a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party.
Democrats say Perez's critics are politically motivated. Civil rights groups, labor unions and Hispanic organizations have heaped praise on Perez, calling him a strong leader and forceful advocate for labor rights.
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