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Jane's Walk: James Street South

"Cities need old buildings so badly it is probably impossible for vigorous streets and districts to grow without them. ... Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings."

Walk starts at the Queen Victoria statue, Gore Park, at Noon.

Three Tales of a Street

Amid all the observations, anecdotes and asides
Three distinct stories about James Street South:

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	"""This script tells you the nearest time zone in which it's after 5 o'clock PM."""

	import datetime

	def get_beer_timezone():
	now = datetime.datetime.today()
	print("The curent time is %s." % (str(now)[11:-7]))

	From: Merulla, Sam
	Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 12:55 PM
	To: Bishop, Kathy; DL - Council Only
	Cc: DL - SMT Only
	Subject: Re: City of Hamilton Temporary Appointment to the Police Services Board,
	Your Reference: HPB008


	Please include this item under correspondence for tonight's Council meeting. I will
	be requesting a formal retraction and apology for the irresponsible suggestion that

	Snow Advisory Warning Declared

	For Immediate release: February 5th, 2014

	Hamilton, ON – The Hamilton Police Service (HPS) is advising motorists in Hamilton what the expectations and responsibilities are during a snow advisory warning with the appropriate procedures to follow:

	Snow Advisory Warning

	* City of Hamilton Transportation contacts HPS issuing snow warning
	* HPS issues warning to public through media

	#!/usr/bin/env python

	"""Code I used to download all the details for the 2014 Hamilton Fringe Festival plays and convert them into a JSON file."""

	from bs4 import BeautifulSoup as bs
	import json
	import requests
	import xlrd

	base_url = 'http://hamiltonfringe.ca/shows/'

	{
	"created_at":"Tue Nov 11 15:21:30 +0000 2014",
	"id":532191393062854656,
	"id_str":"532191393062854656",
	"text":"Empty parking spaces in city-owned John\/Rebecca lot. We need affordable housing, not cheap parking @greg_tedesco http:\/\/t.co\/91JnJLNlwL",
	"source":"\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/download\/android\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eTwitter for Android\u003c\/a\u003e",
	"truncated":false,
	"in_reply_to_status_id":null,
	"in_reply_to_status_id_str":null,
	"in_reply_to_user_id":null,

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# coding: utf-8

	"""Calculates kinetic energy for a moving object at a given mass and speed"""

	import locale
	locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')

	objects = (
	{'name': 'Bicycle', 'mass': 100,},

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# coding: utf-8

	"""
	This script downloads your Social Bicycles (SoBi) routes data from the SoBi web
	API and saves it as a JSON file. It uses HTTP basic authentication with your SoBi
	username (your email address) and password.

	The function that requests route data executes recursively, incrementing the page
	parameter with each subsequent request, until there are no more results.

	Media Release

	Police Chief Glenn De Caire Retires Effective
	January 17, 2016

	For immediate release: December 18, 2015
	Hamilton, ON

	The members of the Hamilton Police Service continue to perform with excellence and professionalism and I remain extremely proud of the efforts that each member has put forth in delivering community based police services to our diverse communities across Hamilton. Our partnerships in the community are strong and we are working together to enhance community safety, revitalize the city, encourage investment and growth and we, as a community, are doing amazing work together.