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October 11, 2017 Screens » Film
Blade Runner 2049 and The Ups and Downs of Trying to Follow a Classic
By Scott Renshaw
What should a sequel be? It's a simple enough question, yet after more than 100 years of cinema — and 40 years of the blockbuster franchise era — it doesn't feel like we're any closer to a reliable answer. Maybe audiences want an exact replica of the original, something that reminds them of a great movie experience. Maybe they want a replica- plus — the original movie, but bigger. Maybe they want to take characters we know in a completely new direction, like Aliens did with Alien. Or maybe they just want a movie that's, you know, good. Blade Runner 2049 proves to be a particularly weird answer to that question. On the one hand, director Dennis Villeneuve's follow-up works overtime to connect itself to the 1982 Ridley Scott original, both visually and in its story elements. On the other hand, it expands that world's philosophy and aesthetics in fascinating ways. It somehow feels both utterly distinct and too beholden to its predecessor, in ways that prove both engrossing and deeply frustrating.
On its most basic — and studio-mandated-no-spoilers-allowed — level, 2049 is set 30 years after the original, and follows K (Ryan Gosling), a blade runner just like Harrison Ford's Rick Deckard, assigned to track down human-resembling replicants who have fled from their servitude and gone into hiding. One such mission leads to a strange discovery that threatens the precarious line between humans and their synthetic labor force, sending K in search of — among other things — Deckard himself.
While 2049 certainly doesn't avoid the rain-drenched, neon-advertisement-lit Los Angeles that made Blade Runner so iconic, it also doesn't dwell in that world for long stretches. Villeneuve maximizes the gifts of cinematographer Roger Deakins in the creation of multiple other settings: carcasses of industrial buildings that have become child-labor "orphanages"; a sun-blasted, abandoned Las Vegas haunted by fallen statues; the office of new replicant-manufacturing tycoon Niander Wallace (Jared Leto, predictably Jared Leto-ing the hell out of the role), set like an island in the middle of a pool. If there's one thing Villeneuve (Sicario, Arrival) has proven himself more than capable of as a director, it's making a movie that's worth looking at.
It's also, surprisingly, more than a little worth thinking about. Blade Runner 2049 doubles down on the original's ideas about what constitutes consciousness and an entity with a "soul," as various characters contemplate the nature of their own existence as artificial beings. Though it may not be a radically new concept — explored in everything from Isaac Asimov to Star Trek — the screenplay by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green offers multiple levels of such beings, each of which struggles with the ways in which it is perhaps inadequate or not human enough. There may be missed opportunities to tease out more of the allegory for societal roles of racial and other minorities, but it's still solid philosophical material.
Yet by diving more deeply and more literally into those questions, 2049 also becomes considerably more lugubrious. The enigmatic and elliptical nature of Blade Runner has become as much a part of the movie's legacy as its look, but Scott kept the story's pace relatively fleet. Villeneuve serves up 163 minutes of ever-deepening conspiracy, which doesn't serve a performance by Gosling that's designed to be mostly quiet and stolid. This is a movie that becomes far more interesting to think about on the way home than it is to actually sit through.
Most complex of all is this movie's relationship with its predecessor, which goes beyond the presence of Ford as a graying, paranoid and soul-weary Deckard. References to the original are frequent, as though everyone involved were somehow afraid that a different bunch of primary cast members might lead us to forget why we're all here. The trailblazing uniqueness of Blade Runner's style cemented its place in the cinematic canon, and this next chapter is stuck between trying to carve out its own place and recognizing that it doesn't exist — and certainly doesn't demand so much attention — without the original's existence. As many different ways as there are to make a sequel — and Blade Runner 2049 is very good at some of them — it helps to pick one and go with it, rather than try to be every kind of sequel at the same time.
Tags: Film, Blade Runner 2049, Ryan Gosling, Harrison Ford, Dennis Villeneuve, Ridley Scott, Rick Deckard, Jared Leto
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Celebrating 'International Women's Day' with eyes to the future
by JD Booth in Members, News
Thursday, March 8 is International Women's Day and for members of the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce, it's one day worthy of celebration, and not just because of the many, many women who make their companies strong (some as owners, others as key members of the management team).
It's also a time when we can look to a future where gender equality and a commitment to parity in the workplace.
This year's theme—#PressForProgress—has much to do with an overwhelming commitment to accelerate progress, something that is especially important given a World Economic Forum 2017 Global Gender Gap Report that suggests gender parity may be more than 200 years away.
Many of us at the Chamber believe that is simply unacceptable, which is one reason we're joining in the push, doing what we can to lend our support to the global momentum that is striving for gender parity.
Of course, this won't happen overnight. But, with individual decisions and the continuing commitment, by women and by men, to support the push for positive gains, day by day, change can be real.
It's more than hope. It's a commitment to make a difference.
So don't be complacent. Push forward.
And think of ways YOU can demonstrate a commitment to gender inclusivity.
International Women's Day is bigger than any one organization, community, or even country.
It's an event that belongs to all of us. Be tenacious in your commitment to accelerating gender parity.
And Press for Progress.
Learning how to craft an 'elevator pitch' will make you a better networker
A well-crafted elevator pitch is THE most valuable piece of marketing your business can offer." This is what Terry O'Reilly, marketing guru had to say when he recently spoke to a sold-out crowd in Sarnia.
Karen Minty has helped dozens of people craft their elevator pitch through her three-hour workshop that she is once again offering on March 7 from 9 a.m.-noon.
So what exactly is an elevator pitch? It can be your reply in a job interview when asked to describe yourself. It can be your introduction at networking events that gets the conversation started.
So what exactly is an elevator pitch? It's a mini-speech, a way to tell your story in approximately 30-60 seconds (about the length of an elevator ride) that explains who you are, what you're about and what you have to offer. While it's most commonly used in a sales setting, its value extends much further. It can be an introduction when someone asks, "what do you do?" It can be your reply in a job interview when asked to describe yourself. It can be your introduction at networking events that gets the conversation started.
But honestly, the real value comes from the process. To borrow a term from Terry O'Reilly, it is "forced clarity." In order to be so concise and succinct, you must dig deep, straight to your core value and decide what makes you unique. Then be able to articulate it in a few sentences in a way that grabs someone's attention, resonates with them, and compels them to take an interest and ask more questions. This can result in increased sales, making better connections with the right people or landing that job. (It even works in dating!)
The elevator pitch workshop is a hands-on, step by step process of writing an elevator pitch. Karen Minty is often described by her workshop participants as a wordsmith who can chisel away the excess and wordsmith the content to creatively grabs people's attention. While the process is the same for everyone, the end result is a unique, authentic pitch that accurately reflects who you are. By the end of the workshop, you will walk out with a polished ready-to-go 30-second pitch that can be adapted to any context or situation. A well-crafted elevator pitch is worth its weight in gold. Do you have one?
The next Elevator Pitch workshop takes place on Wednesday, March 7 from 9 a.m.-noon at the Chamber of Commerce board room, 556 N Christina Street. The cost is $45 + HST. To register, email karen@fortyhours.com.
Chamber AGM ushers in new board, with guest speakers setting tone for great year
Wednesday evening was a busy one as the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce held its Annual General Meeting, with six new members confirmed by election to the board of directors and incoming Chair Charles Fisher taking the reins of a revitalized organization.
Along with the customary reports from CEO Shirley de Silva and outgoing Chair Michael John Kooy (who presented his by video), the Chamber had two special guest speakers, Dr. Katherine Albion, executive director of the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, and James Temple, chief corporate responsibility officer at PwC Canada.
It was a great evening, with networking taking place before the formalities began shortly after 7 p.m. and Justice Deborah Austin swearing in the executive, which included Chair Charles Fisher (Mainstreet Credit Union), First Vice Chair Ryan Bell (George, Murray, Shipley, Bell LLP), Second Vice Chair Mary Jean O'Donnell (MJ Waste Solutions), and Third Vice Chair Mike Service (Certified Windows & Doors).
Kathleen Mundy (Little Caesars) is the Chamber's Hon. Secretary/Treasurer and Michael John Kooy takes on the role of Past Chair on the board.
Directors this year also include Jon McEachran, entrepreneur; Kurtis Gray, Lambton College; Karen Fischer, RK Fischer & Associates; Tammy Maure, London Road Pharmacy (Pharmasave), Judy McKeegan, JDW International; Jean Xu, Imperial; Andrew Merrick, Rose Paving; and Laura Hanlon, MPW Chartered Professional Accountants.
Ex-officio members are: Shirley de Silva, Chamber CEO and president; Karen Sanders, Lambton Federation of Agriculture; Joyce Doyle, Blue Water Chamber of Commerce (Port Huron); and Stephen Thompson, Sarnia Lambton Economic Partnership.
Charles Fisher issued an impassioned vision of what's ahead for the Chamber this year:
Federal budget vulnerable to strong economy for its success
by JD Booth in Advocacy, Members, News
This week's introduction of the federal government's budget is one that counts on a strong economy to fund its programs, adding almost $80 billion over the next five years to the total public debt.
That could be a major problem if the government's assumptions fail to materialize, says the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in its analysis of the budget document.
Concerns that an increase in interest rates, an economic slowdown, or trade negotiations (or all of the above) could disrupt the government's plans.
Still, where the budget is largely absent initiatives designed to help businesses as a whole, there are some positive new measures to help women entrepreneurs and small businesses who want to innovate.
Highlights of the budget include:
—Private corporations will still be able to maintain passive investments, but only up to $50,000 per year. The way in which they are taxed after $50,000 is simplified.
—A new Apprenticeship Grant for women and Pre-Apprenticeship Program to encourage under-represented groups to explore careers in the skilled trades.
—$100 million to develop the next generation of rural broadband, particularly the use of low Earth orbit satellites
—$573 million to implement a Digital Infrastructure Strategy
—$140 million for collaborative projects between business and colleges
—$105 million for regional development agencies to promote women-led businesses
—$1.2 billion to establish a new EI Parental Sharing Benefit
—Creation of an Advisory Council to develop plans for a National Pharmacare Program
—$8 million to modernize VIA Rail passenger service to continue assessing VIA's high-frequency rail proposal
Chamber takes part in 'Advocacy Day' at Queen's Park
Monica Shepley, left, the Chamber's manager of Advocacy and Policy Development; and Shirley de Silva, Chamber CEO (right); met with Charles Ballard, Ontario's Minister of Environment and Climate Change earlier this week as part of Advocacy Day at Queen's Park.
Putting forward clear and distinct messages for what policies work for business (and what don't) is part of the ongoing role that the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce, along with members of the province-wide Chamber Network, take seriously.
The latest step in that strategy took place on Monday, Feb. 26, as Chamber representatives took part in Advocacy Day, an annual event organized by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
In a full day initiative involving a wide range of government ministries, Chambers from across the province met with representatives in a "team" format that served to bring the Chamber's "Vote Prosperity" messages to Queen's Park.
Before meeting with government representatives, Chamber officials were briefed on winning strategies for their advocacy efforts by expert advisors brought in by the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.
A series of meetings then took place throughout the afternoon.
Shirley de Silva, president and CEO of the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce, and Monica Shepley, the Chamber's manager of Advocacy and Policy Development, were part of a group that connected with representatives from the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change and the Ministry of Education.
This was a very worthwhile example of how Chambers from across the province continue to leverage their strengths in advocating on issues of critical importance to the Ontario business community. Bringing the message to decision makers at Queen's Park and doing so in a way that demonstrates unity of purpose has proven to be effective in the long run.
March Business After 5: Can Spring be too far behind?
You can feel it in the air—Spring is right around the corner.
While the threat of a late Winter may not be totally behind us, one thing is for certain: the Chamber's March Business After 5 is sure to warm some hearts and help us usher in Spring, if only for one night.
We're talking about Wednesday, March 21, and the place to be will be Smoke & Spice, located at 1399 Exmouth St, Sarnia, for an event hosted by Sun Life.
Be sure to limber up your networking muscles and get ready to make new connections, renew relationships that may have been hibernating the past few months, and bring on a sense of promise that only a gathering like Business After 5 can generate.
These are some of the greatest opportunities to create momentum that could last a lifetime, so don't miss it.
We'll see you there, at Smoke & Spice on Wednesday, March 21. The fun starts at 5 p.m. and runs through 7 p.m. Admission for Chamber members is complimentary. All others $10.
Don't you dare miss it!
Demand for upcoming coffee table book continues to grow
A limited number of sponsorships remain for an upcoming coffee table book designed to highlight our area in a visually dramatic fashion.
The book, titled "Sarnia Lambton Simply Sensational," is being produced by Richard Bain, a renowned Canadian landscape photographer, in partnership with the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce. The foreword to "Simply Sensational" is being authored by now-retired astronaut Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to command a mission at the International Space Station and who was born and raised in the area.
We expect demand for the book to exceed supply, with Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley and Lambton County Warden Bill Weber having offered their enthusiastic support for the project, which will be completed in the second half of 2018.
Richard Bain's work has included a number of similar projects, completed successfully in partnership with several regional groups, including Chambers in Stratford, Niagara, London, Guelph, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Without exception, those with whom he has worked have seen positive results from those projects.
Sponsors—which may include businesses, organizations seeking visibility in the area, and local municipalities—will have several copies of Simply Sensational which can be distributed to clients, employees and others. Additional copies will be made available through Ontario bookstores or directly from the Chamber.
If your organization would like to ensure your spot on the list of sponsors, contact Shirley de Silva, president and CEO of the Chamber, directly at (519) 336-2400, ext. 1, or by email: sdesilva@slchamber.ca.
AGM is 'right around the corner'—please REGISTER
It's almost time—for the Sarnia Lambton Chamber of Commerce Annual General Meeting.
In addition to the swearing in of our Board, we have two special guest speakers at this year's event, which takes place Wednesday, February 28, 2018, in the Gateway Room of the St. Clair Corporate Centre, 265 Front St N., Sarnia.
Networking will begin at 6:30 p.m. and the call to order and formalities, including various reports, begins at 7 p.m.
Attendees are asked to REGISTER NOW for the event, a courtesy that will help Chamber staff plan for seating and refreshments.
The two special guest speakers at this year's AGM are Dr. Katherine Albion, the newly appointed executive director of the Western Sarnia-Lambton Research Park, and James Temple, chief corporate responsibility officer at PwC Canada.
It will be a great time to find out all that's happening at the Chamber and the exciting times ahead. We hope to see you there!
Click on the following links to see a copy of the agenda and also the minutes from the 2017 AGM
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer will attend February's Business After 5
The Hon. Andrew Scheer, leader of the federal Conservative Party of Canada, will be a special guest at the Chamber's Business After 5 event that takes place Wednesday, February 21, 2018.
Scheer, who was elected as leader last May, is Leader of the Official Opposition. He is a former Speaker of the House of Commons (he was the youngest to ever be elected to that position, serving from June 2, 2011 – December 3, 2015). He has served as a Member of Parliament for Regina-Qu'Appelle since 2004.
The Chamber's Business After 5 event takes place at the Sarnia Riding Club and runs from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Admittance is complimentary for Chamber members. Others can attend for a $10 fee.
Ontario Chamber encourages election candidates to 'Vote Prosperity'
The Ontario Chamber of Commerce has released its 2018 election platform, making 18 recommendations intended to bolster the province's long-term economic outlook.
"The upcoming provincial election provides our business community with an opportunity to ensure that our businesses are being heard by our future elected officials," said de Silva. "Vote Prosperity provides political parties with tangible solutions to address the challenges businesses are currently facing and to ensure that Ontario is building a prosperous economy that supports local business in our community and across the province."
Over the next 12 weeks, the Ontario Chamber will be advocating around four fundamental pillars to support a strong economy in Ontario: strengthening business competitiveness, fostering job creation, building healthy communities and improving government accountability.
"We are calling on all political leaders to read Vote Prosperity and consider our recommendations as we aim to make Ontario the best place to start and grow a business," said Rocco Rossi, president and CEO, Ontario Chamber of Commerce. "It's simple: when you choose prosperity, Ontario wins."
The OCC released Vote Prosperity in October 2017, ahead of the development of platforms for most of the major political parties'. Some of the recommendations from Vote Prosperity include:
Allow Ontario businesses to purchase surplus electricity at rates equal to or better than the exported price to other jurisdictions;
Allocate resources to focus support on high growth firms and those with high growth potential, by delaying taxation on corporate income growth to overcome Ontario's scale-up challenge;
Focus on strategic growth policies by ensuring that land use planning and development regulations are aligned, to increase density and create more housing stock;
Create a meaningful plan to tackle the debt and move towards balanced or surplus budgets.
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Den 2 februari 1931 gifte sig Cecilia med Georg Donatus av Hessen (1906-1937).

 Prins Ludwig av Hessen (1931-1937), dog i flygolycka.
 Prins Alexander av Hessen (1933-1937), dog i flygolycka.
 Prinsessan Johanna av Hessen (1936-1939), dog i hjärnhinneinflammation.
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I oktober 1937 dog Georg Donatus far, storhertig Ernst Ludwig. Några veckor efter begravningen skulle Ernst Ludvigs yngre son prins Ludvig gifta sig med Margaret Geddes. Den 16 november 1937 flög Georg Donatus, Cecilia, deras två unga söner, Georgs mor storhertiginnan Eleonore, barnsköterskan, en vän till familjen, en pilot och två besättningsmän från Darmstadt till Storbritannien, där prins Ludvig skulle gifta sig. Flygplanet träffade en fabriksskorsten nära Oostende och havererade. Alla som var ombord dödades. Cecilia var gravid med sitt fjärde barn. Fostret hittades i flygplansvraket vilket tyder på att hon fått värkar vid flygolyckan.

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    private int type;

    private List<String> urls;
    private List<String> hashtags;
    private List<String> names;

    public static final Parcelable.Creator<StatusModel> CREATOR = new Parcelable.Creator<StatusModel>() {

        @Override
        public StatusModel createFromParcel(final Parcel source) {
            return new StatusModel(source);
        }

        @Override
        public StatusModel[] newArray(final int size) {
            return new StatusModel[size];
        }
    };

    public StatusModel() {
    }

    public StatusModel(final Parcel in) {
        this.id = in.readString();
        this.account = in.readString();
        this.time = new Date(in.readLong());
        this.type = in.readInt();

        this.text = in.readString();
        this.simpleText = in.readString();
        this.source = in.readString();

        this.inReplyToStatusId = in.readString();
        this.inReplyToUserId = in.readString();
        this.inReplyToScreenName = in.readString();

        this.photoImageUrl = in.readString();
        this.photoLargeUrl = in.readString();
        this.photoThumbUrl = in.readString();

        this.userId = in.readString();
        this.userScreenName = in.readString();
        this.userProfileImageUrl = in.readString();

        this.truncated = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;
        this.favorited = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;
        this.self = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;

        this.read = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;
        this.thread = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;
        this.photo = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;

        this.special = in.readInt() == 0 ? false : true;
    }

    @Override
    public int describeContents() {
        return 0;
    }

    @Override
    public StatusModel get(final String key) {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * @return the account
     */
    public final String getAccount() {
        return this.account;
    }

    /**
     * @return the hashtags
     */
    public final List<String> getHashtags() {
        return this.hashtags;
    }

    /**
     * @return the id
     */
    public final String getId() {
        return this.id;
    }

    /**
     * @return the inReplyToScreenName
     */
    public final String getInReplyToScreenName() {
        return this.inReplyToScreenName;
    }

    /**
     * @return the inReplyToStatusId
     */
    public final String getInReplyToStatusId() {
        return this.inReplyToStatusId;
    }

    /**
     * @return the inReplyToUserId
     */
    public final String getInReplyToUserId() {
        return this.inReplyToUserId;
    }

    /**
     * @return the location
     */
    public final String getLocation() {
        return this.location;
    }

    /**
     * @return the names
     */
    public final List<String> getNames() {
        return this.names;
    }

    /**
     * @return the owner
     */
    public final String getOwner() {
        return this.owner;
    }

    /**
     * @return the photoImageUrl
     */
    public final String getPhotoImageUrl() {
        return this.photoImageUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @return the photoLargeUrl
     */
    public final String getPhotoLargeUrl() {
        return this.photoLargeUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @return the photoThumbUrl
     */
    public final String getPhotoThumbUrl() {
        return this.photoThumbUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @return the simpleText
     */
    public final String getSimpleText() {
        return this.simpleText;
    }

    /**
     * @return the source
     */
    public final String getSource() {
        return this.source;
    }

    /**
     * @return the text
     */
    public final String getText() {
        return this.text;
    }

    /**
     * @return the time
     */
    public final Date getTime() {
        return this.time;
    }

    /**
     * @return the type
     */
    public final int getType() {
        return this.type;
    }

    /**
     * @return the urls
     */
    public final List<String> getUrls() {
        return this.urls;
    }

    /**
     * @return the userId
     */
    public final String getUserId() {
        return this.userId;
    }

    /**
     * @return the userProfileImageUrl
     */
    public final String getUserProfileImageUrl() {
        return this.userProfileImageUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @return the userScreenName
     */
    public final String getUserScreenName() {
        return this.userScreenName;
    }

    /**
     * @return the favorited
     */
    public final boolean isFavorited() {
        return this.favorited;
    }

    /**
     * @return the photo
     */
    public final boolean isPhoto() {
        return this.photo;
    }

    /**
     * @return the read
     */
    public final boolean isRead() {
        return this.read;
    }

    /**
     * @return the self
     */
    public final boolean isSelf() {
        return this.self;
    }

    /**
     * @return the special
     */
    public final boolean isSpecial() {
        return this.special;
    }

    /**
     * @return the thread
     */
    public final boolean isThread() {
        return this.thread;
    }

    /**
     * @return the truncated
     */
    public final boolean isTruncated() {
        return this.truncated;
    }

    @Override
    public void put() {
        // TODO Auto-generated method stub

    }

    public StatusModel readFromParcel(final Parcel source) {
        return new StatusModel(source);
    }

    /**
     * @param account
     *            the account to set
     */
    public final void setAccount(final String account) {
        this.account = account;
    }

    /**
     * @param favorited
     *            the favorited to set
     */
    public final void setFavorited(final boolean favorited) {
        this.favorited = favorited;
    }

    /**
     * @param hashtags
     *            the hashtags to set
     */
    public final void setHashtags(final List<String> hashtags) {
        this.hashtags = hashtags;
    }

    /**
     * @param id
     *            the id to set
     */
    public final void setId(final String id) {
        this.id = id;
    }

    /**
     * @param inReplyToScreenName
     *            the inReplyToScreenName to set
     */
    public final void setInReplyToScreenName(final String inReplyToScreenName) {
        this.inReplyToScreenName = inReplyToScreenName;
    }

    /**
     * @param inReplyToStatusId
     *            the inReplyToStatusId to set
     */
    public final void setInReplyToStatusId(final String inReplyToStatusId) {
        this.inReplyToStatusId = inReplyToStatusId;
    }

    /**
     * @param inReplyToUserId
     *            the inReplyToUserId to set
     */
    public final void setInReplyToUserId(final String inReplyToUserId) {
        this.inReplyToUserId = inReplyToUserId;
    }

    /**
     * @param location
     *            the location to set
     */
    public final void setLocation(final String location) {
        this.location = location;
    }

    /**
     * @param names
     *            the names to set
     */
    public final void setNames(final List<String> names) {
        this.names = names;
    }

    /**
     * @param owner
     *            the owner to set
     */
    public final void setOwner(final String owner) {
        this.owner = owner;
    }

    /**
     * @param photo
     *            the photo to set
     */
    public final void setPhoto(final boolean photo) {
        this.photo = photo;
    }

    /**
     * @param photoImageUrl
     *            the photoImageUrl to set
     */
    public final void setPhotoImageUrl(final String photoImageUrl) {
        this.photoImageUrl = photoImageUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @param photoLargeUrl
     *            the photoLargeUrl to set
     */
    public final void setPhotoLargeUrl(final String photoLargeUrl) {
        this.photoLargeUrl = photoLargeUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @param photoThumbUrl
     *            the photoThumbUrl to set
     */
    public final void setPhotoThumbUrl(final String photoThumbUrl) {
        this.photoThumbUrl = photoThumbUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @param read
     *            the read to set
     */
    public final void setRead(final boolean read) {
        this.read = read;
    }

    /**
     * @param self
     *            the self to set
     */
    public final void setSelf(final boolean self) {
        this.self = self;
    }

    /**
     * @param simpleText
     *            the simpleText to set
     */
    public final void setSimpleText(final String simpleText) {
        this.simpleText = simpleText;
    }

    /**
     * @param source
     *            the source to set
     */
    public final void setSource(final String source) {
        this.source = source;
    }

    /**
     * @param special
     *            the special to set
     */
    public final void setSpecial(final boolean special) {
        this.special = special;
    }

    /**
     * @param text
     *            the text to set
     */
    public final void setText(final String text) {
        this.text = text;
    }

    /**
     * @param thread
     *            the thread to set
     */
    public final void setThread(final boolean thread) {
        this.thread = thread;
    }

    /**
     * @param time
     *            the time to set
     */
    public final void setTime(final Date time) {
        this.time = time;
    }

    /**
     * @param truncated
     *            the truncated to set
     */
    public final void setTruncated(final boolean truncated) {
        this.truncated = truncated;
    }

    /**
     * @param type
     *            the type to set
     */
    public final void setType(final int type) {
        this.type = type;
    }

    /**
     * @param urls
     *            the urls to set
     */
    public final void setUrls(final List<String> urls) {
        this.urls = urls;
    }

    /**
     * @param userId
     *            the userId to set
     */
    public final void setUserId(final String userId) {
        this.userId = userId;
    }

    /**
     * @param userProfileImageUrl
     *            the userProfileImageUrl to set
     */
    public final void setUserProfileImageUrl(final String userProfileImageUrl) {
        this.userProfileImageUrl = userProfileImageUrl;
    }

    /**
     * @param userScreenName
     *            the userScreenName to set
     */
    public final void setUserScreenName(final String userScreenName) {
        this.userScreenName = userScreenName;
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        // return toContentValues().toString();
        return "[Status] " + BasicColumns.ID + "=" + this.id + " "
                + StatusInfo.TEXT + "=" + this.text + " "
                + BasicColumns.CREATED_AT + "+" + this.time + " "
                // +StatusInfo.SOURCE+"="+this.source+" "
                // +StatusInfo.TRUNCATED+"="+this.truncated+" "
                // +StatusInfo.IN_REPLY_TO_STATUS_ID+"="+this.inReplyToStatusId+" "
                // +StatusInfo.IN_REPLY_TO_USER_ID+"="+this.inReplyToUserId+" "
                // +StatusInfo.FAVORITED+"="+this.favorited+" "
                // +StatusInfo.IN_REPLY_TO_SCREEN_NAME+"="+this.inReplyToScreenName+" "
                // +StatusInfo.PHOTO_IMAGE_URL+"="+this.photoImageUrl+" "
                // +StatusInfo.PHOTO_LARGE_URL+"="+this.photoLargeUrl+" "
                // +StatusInfo.PHOTO_THUMB_URL+"="+this.photoThumbUrl+" "
                + StatusInfo.USER_ID + "=" + this.userId + " ";
        // +StatusInfo.USER_SCREEN_NAME+"="+this.userScreenName+" "
        // +StatusInfo.READ+"="+this.read+" "
        // +StatusInfo.TYPE+"="+this.type+" ";
    }

    @Override
    public ContentValues values() {
        final ContentValues cv = new ContentValues();

        cv.put(BasicColumns.ID, this.id);
        cv.put(BasicColumns.OWNER_ID, this.account);
        cv.put(BasicColumns.CREATED_AT, this.time.getTime());

        cv.put(StatusInfo.TEXT, this.text);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.SOURCE, this.source);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.SIMPLE_TEXT, this.simpleText);

        cv.put(StatusInfo.IN_REPLY_TO_STATUS_ID, this.inReplyToStatusId);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.IN_REPLY_TO_USER_ID, this.inReplyToUserId);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.IN_REPLY_TO_SCREEN_NAME, this.inReplyToScreenName);

        cv.put(StatusInfo.PHOTO_IMAGE_URL, this.photoImageUrl);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.PHOTO_THUMB_URL, this.photoThumbUrl);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.PHOTO_LARGE_URL, this.photoLargeUrl);

        cv.put(StatusInfo.USER_ID, this.userId);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.USER_SCREEN_NAME, this.userScreenName);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.USER_PROFILE_IMAGE_URL, this.userProfileImageUrl);

        cv.put(StatusInfo.TRUNCATED, this.truncated);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.FAVORITED, this.favorited);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.IS_SELF, this.self);

        cv.put(StatusInfo.IS_READ, this.read);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.IS_THREAD, this.thread);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.HAS_PHOTO, this.photo);
        cv.put(StatusInfo.SPECIAL, this.special);

        cv.put(BasicColumns.TYPE, this.type);

        return cv;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeToParcel(final Parcel dest, final int flags) {
        dest.writeString(this.id);
        dest.writeString(this.account);
        dest.writeLong(this.time.getTime());
        dest.writeInt(this.type);

        dest.writeString(this.text);
        dest.writeString(this.simpleText);
        dest.writeString(this.source);

        dest.writeString(this.inReplyToStatusId);
        dest.writeString(this.inReplyToUserId);
        dest.writeString(this.inReplyToScreenName);

        dest.writeString(this.photoImageUrl);
        dest.writeString(this.photoLargeUrl);
        dest.writeString(this.photoThumbUrl);

        dest.writeString(this.userId);
        dest.writeString(this.userScreenName);
        dest.writeString(this.userProfileImageUrl);

        dest.writeInt(this.truncated ? 1 : 0);
        dest.writeInt(this.favorited ? 1 : 0);
        dest.writeInt(this.self ? 1 : 0);

        dest.writeInt(this.read ? 1 : 0);
        dest.writeInt(this.thread ? 1 : 0);
        dest.writeInt(this.photo ? 1 : 0);

        dest.writeInt(this.special ? 1 : 0);

    }

}

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Securitas has entered into a loan agreement for 4 + 1 years to refinance a large portion of the current facility.
STOCKHOLM, Jan. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Securitas has entered into a four-year loan agreement of MEUR 1 100 with nine of its banks, with the option for the parties to add an additional year.
The proceeds will be used to refinance a large portion of the MUSD 2,315 bridge building associated with the acquisition of STANLEY Security which closed on July 22, 2022.
"By entering into the long-term loan agreement we are securing a large portion of the wooden building that remains after the transaction of STANLEY with long-term debt at reasonable times. .The refinancing of the rest of the wooden building is going according to plan", he said Andreas LindbackCFO of Defense.
The banks participating in the loan are Danske Bank and SEB as Bookrunners and Mandated Lead Arrangers, along with Bank of America, BBVA, Crédit Industriel et Commercial (CIC), Commerzbank, ING, KBC and UniCredit Bank Austria to be Mandated Lead Arrangers.
Investors: Micaela Sjökvist, Vice President, Investor Relations; +46 76 116 7443, micaela.sjokvist@securitas.com
This is information that Securitas AB must make public in accordance with the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person described above, at 20.00 (CET) at January 18, 2023.
Securitas is a world-leading security and defense partner that helps make your world a safer place. Nearly ninety years of deep experience means we see what others miss. By leveraging technology in partnership with our customers, with an innovative, holistic approach, we are transforming the security industry. With 350 000 employees in 47 markets, we see a different world and create value stability for our customers by protecting what matters most – their people and assets.
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Crepuscular and nocturnal. During mild or overcast days, they can be active during the day. They may remain inactive under surface debris or in burrows during the hottest and coldest months of the year.
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Q: Need to maintain hostnames which are not unique for the first 15 characters Due to our internal software, I would like to be able to keep a number of virtual machines which have the first fifteen characters identical, and using the subsequent characters to maintain a unique hostname for each VM.  This, of course, means that there will conflicts in NETBIOS.  I am not interested in this, because I intend that we will ignore NETBIOS wherever possible, and use TCP/IP networking.
The message you get when you use a host name of greater than 15 characters seems to imply that this is a valid configuration, but will have problems for older machines (which is WfW / Windows 9x).  But, of course, I am getting a few errors that I just want to ignore.  I would like to ignore the message box that appears before logon, saying "Duplicate name exists.". This is preventing me from being able to automate the VMs.
As a "nice to have", I would also like to be able to use standard Windows networking e.g. \\SERVERNAME\SHARE, without having to use the server's IP address.

A:
I would also like to be able to use standard Windows networking e.g. \\SERVERNAME\SHARE

This uses NetBIOS. You'd have to use \\Servername.domain.tld\share instead.
On top of that, I think that it would break a lot of applications that don't use FQDN in their queries to other machines. Unless you have a legitimate compelling reason to have the first 15 characters be the same, and it's not just for convenience, I would avoid it at all costs. There's too much legacy code around to ignore it.

A: You should find life easier if you explicitly turn off NetBIOS over TCP/IP.  You can do this from the WINS tab of Advanced TCP/IP Settings, or via your DHCP server.

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In this fourth installment of the popular Mexican animated series, Leo San Juan and his friends must discover the secret of El Chupacabra, a legendary monster, if they want to survive.
This film is in Spanish with English subtitles. You should come before 6:15 p.m. to get your spot for the movie. Please bring your own picnic blanket or chair. Food is OK, but no alcohol or smoking is permitted.


UPDATE 8:10 pm: WDIO is reporting that missing person Helen Goods was found deceased. The Duluth Police locates Goods outside at 6:45 pm in the area of the 800 block of West Skyline. She was reported missing early Friday morning. Goods suffered from dimentia. The incident remains under investigation.
The Duluth Police Deoartment is seeking help finding a missing person. On Friday, March 15th at 12:36 AM, officers responded to the report of a missing person by the name of Helen Marie Goods.
Helen was born 06/28/1941, left her residence in the 600 block of North 8th Ave West and has not returned. Helen Goods is a 78 year old black female, 5'4", 170lbs, wearing jeans, a striped black and blue shirt and a black winter coat with fur around the hood and has dementia (photo above).


IMDb Rating: 7.2/10 Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery Director: Drew Goddard Release Date: 12 October 2018 Star Cast: Jeff Bridges, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson Movie Story: Circa 1969, several strangers, most with a secret to bury, meet by chance at Lake Tahoe?s El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one night, everyone will show their true colors ? before everything goes to hell.


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World Series of Poker Celebrates Second-Largest Main Event
Jerome García July 11, 2022 3 min read
Image Source: Shutterstock.com
The WSOP took place at the Rio in Las Vegas for 17 years in a row. But this year, the 53rd edition of the prestigious tournament started on May 31 at a new location, Bally's and Paris Las Vegas. The tournament is planned to run through July 19, 2022. Judging by details released by the WSOP, the poker tournament this year is in for a rebound, after surpassing the pre-COVID number of entries for its Main Event.
WSOP's Main Event Attracts 8,663 Players
Back in pre-pandemic 2019, the WSOP Main Event attracted 8,569 visitors. Now, the $10,000 Main Event attracted 8,663 entries, solidifying its place as the second-most popular Main Event in WSOP's history. With that in mind, the record for most entries remains the one set back in 2006. Back then, 8,773 players decided to enter the Main Event.
Considering the number of entries and the $10,000 buy-in, a prize pool of more than $80.7 million is up for grabs. Poker players that take 10th and 11th place will go home with a $675,000 prize, while the player that takes 9th place will go home with a prize just shy of a million, $850,675. On the other hand, players that rank 6th to 8th place will go home with a prize of more than $1 million.
A $2,250,000 prize awaits the 5th player, while the player that takes 4th place will go home with $3 million. The player that takes 3rd place in WSOP's Main Event will go home with $4 million, while $6 million await the player that ranks second. Not unexpectedly, the player that takes first place in the tournament will go home with the grand prize of $10 million.
There will be plenty of prizes that will benefit not only the top players. In fact, participants that rank 12th through 80th place will all go home with a six-digit prize. On the other hand, entrants that rank 81st through 1300th place will go home with a five-figure prize.
Getting a Second Chance
Luke Vrabel is a professional poker player from West Hartford, Connecticut. He has been playing poker for more than a decade but back in 2017, he was banned from the WSOP. The ban was the result of an incident during the "Colossus" event at the Rio Convention Center.
Now, according to a recent report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Vrabel's ban was lifted and the poker pro was allowed to enter this year's Main Event. The WSOP vice president, Jack Effel, contacted Vrabel and notified him that his ban was lifted. Consequently, the poker player entered the $10,000 buy-in Main Event.
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<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../scineplex.css">
<title></title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="../Active.css" type="text/css" />
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<link rev="made" href="mailto:" />

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

About this Document

Background

What Does PPI Stand For?

Why Parse Perl?

How good is Good Enough(TM)

Internationalisation

Round Trip Safe

IMPLEMENTATION

General Layout

The Tokenizer

The Lexer

The Perl Document Object Model

The PDOM Class Tree

The Document, Statement and Structure

The PDOM at Work

Overview of the Primary Classes

INSTALLING

EXTENDING

TO DO

SUPPORT

AUTHOR

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

COPYRIGHT

NAME

PPI - Parse, Analyze and Manipulate Perl (without perl)

SYNOPSIS

  use PPI;

  # Create a new empty document
  my $Document = PPI::Document->new;

  # Create a document from source
  $Document = PPI::Document->new(\'print "Hello World!\n"');

  # Load a Document from a file
  $Document = PPI::Document->new('Module.pm');

  # Does it contain any POD?
  if ( $Document->find_any('PPI::Token::Pod') ) {
      print "Module contains POD\n";
  }

  # Get the name of the main package
  $pkg = $Document->find_first('PPI::Statement::Package')->namespace;

  # Remove all that nasty documentation
  $Document->prune('PPI::Token::Pod');
  $Document->prune('PPI::Token::Comment');

  # Save the file
  $Document->save('Module.pm.stripped');

DESCRIPTION

About this Document

This is the PPI manual. It describes its reason for existing, its general structure, its use, an overview of the API, and provides a few implementation samples.

Background

The ability to read, and manipulate Perl (the language) programmatically other than with perl (the application) was one that caused difficulty for a long time.

The cause of this problem was Perl's complex and dynamic grammar. Although there is typically not a huge diversity in the grammar of most Perl code, certain issues cause large problems when it comes to parsing.

Indeed, quite early in Perl's history Tom Christenson introduced the Perl community to the quote "Nothing but perl can parse Perl", or as it is more often stated now as a truism:

"Only perl can parse Perl"

One example of the sorts of things the prevent Perl being easily parsed are function signatures, as demonstrated by the following.

  @result = (dothis $foo, $bar);

  # Which of the following is it equivalent to?
  @result = (dothis($foo), $bar);
  @result = dothis($foo, $bar);

The first line above can be interpreted in two different ways, depending on whether the &dothis function is expecting one argument, or two, or several.

A "code parser" (something that parses for the purpose of execution) such as perl needs information that is not found in the immediate vicinity of the statement being parsed.

The information might not just be elsewhere in the file, it might not even be in the same file at all. It might also not be able to determine this information without the prior execution of a BEGIN {}
 block, or the loading and execution of one or more external modules. Or worse the &dothis function may not even have been written yet.

When parsing Perl as code, you must also execute it

Even perl itself never really fully understands the structure of the source code after and indeed as it processes it, and in that sense doesn't "parse" Perl source into anything remotely like a structured document. This makes it of no real use for any task that needs to treat the source code as a document, and do so reliably and robustly.

For more information on why it is impossible to parse perl, see Randal Schwartz's seminal response to the question of "Why can't you parse Perl".

http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=44722

The purpose of PPI is not to parse Perl Code, but to parse Perl Documents. By treating the problem this way, we are able to parse a single file containing Perl source code "isolated" from any other resources, such as libraries upon which the code may depend, and without needing to run an instance of perl alongside or inside the parser.

Historically, using an embedded perl parser was widely considered to be the most likely avenue for finding a solution to Parse::Perl. It was investigated from time to time and attempts have generally failed or suffered from sufficiently bad corner cases that they were abandoned.

What Does PPI Stand For?

PPI is an acronym for the longer original module name Parse::Perl::Isolated. And in the spirit or the silly acronym games played by certain unnamed Open Source projects you may have hurd of, it also a reverse backronym of "I Parse Perl".

Of course, I could just be lying and have just made that second bit up 10 minutes before the release of PPI 1.000. Besides, all the cool Perl packages have TLAs (Three Letter Acronyms). It's a rule or something.

Why don't you just think of it as the Perl Parsing Interface for simplicity.

The original name was shortened to prevent the author (and you the users) from contracting RSI by having to type crazy things like Parse::Perl::Isolated::Token::QuoteLike::Backtick 100 times a day.

In acknowledgment that someone may some day come up with a valid solution for the grammar problem it was decided at the commencement of the project to leave the Parse::Perl namespace free for any such effort.

Since that time I've been able to prove to my own satisfaction that it is truly impossible to accurately parse Perl as both code and document at once. For the academics, parsing Perl suffers from the "Halting Problem".

With this in mind Parse::Perl has now been co-opted as the title for the SourceForge project that publishes PPI and a large collection of other applications and modules related to the (document) parsing of Perl source code.

You can find this project at http://sf.net/projects/parseperl, however we no longer use the SourceForge CVS server. Instead, the current development version of PPI is available via SVN at http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/PPI/.

Why Parse Perl?

Once you can accept that we will never be able to parse Perl well enough to meet the standards of things that treat Perl as code, it is worth re-examining why we want to "parse" Perl at all.

What are the things that people might want a "Perl parser" for.

Documentation

Analyzing the contents of a Perl document to automatically generate documentation, in parallel to, or as a replacement for, POD documentation.

Allow an indexer to to locate and process all the comments and documentation from code for "full text search" applications.

Structural and Quality Analysis

Determine quality or other metrics across a body of code, and identify situations relating to particular phrases, techniques or locations.

Index functions, variables and packages within Perl code, and doing search and graph (in the node/edge sense) analysis of large code bases.

Refactoring

Make structural, syntax, or other changes to code in an automated manner, either independently or in assistance to an editor. This sort of task list includes backporting, forward porting, partial evaluation, "improving" code, or whatever. All the sort of things you'd want from a Perl::Editor.

Layout

Change the layout of code without changing its meaning. This includes techniques such as tidying (like perltidy), obfuscation, compressing and "squishing", or to implement formatting preferences or policies.

Presentation

This includes methods of improving the presentation of code, without changing the content of the code. Modify, improve, syntax colour etc the presentation of a Perl document. Generating "IntelliText"-like functions.

If we treat this as a baseline for the sort of things we are going to have to build on top of Perl, then it becomes possible to identify a standard for how good a Perl parser needs to be.

How good is Good Enough(TM)

PPI seeks to be good enough to achieve all of the above tasks, or to provide a sufficiently good API on which to allow others to implement modules in these and related areas.

However, there are going to be limits to this process. Because PPI cannot adapt to changing grammars, any code written using source filters should not be assumed to be parsable.

At one extreme, this includes anything munged by Acme::Bleach, as well as (arguably) more common cases like Switch. We do not pretend to be able to always parse code using these modules, although as long as it still follows a format that looks like Perl syntax, it may be possible to extend the lexer to handle them.

The ability to extend PPI to handle lexical additions to the language is on the drawing board to be done some time post-1.0

The goal for success was originally to be able to successfully parse 99% of all Perl documents contained in CPAN. This means the entire file in each case.

PPI has succeeded in this goal far beyond the expectations of even the author. At time of writing there are only 28 non-Acme Perl modules in CPAN that PPI is incapable of parsing. Most of these are so badly broken they do not compile as Perl code anyway.

So unless you are actively going out of your way to break PPI, you should expect that it will handle your code just fine.

Internationalisation

PPI provides partial support for internationalisation and localisation.

Specifically, it allows the use characters from the Latin-1 character set to be used in quotes, comments, and POD. Primarily, this covers languages from Europe and South America.

PPI does not currently provide support for Unicode, although there is an initial implementation available in a development branch from CVS.

If you need Unicode support, and would like to help stress test the Unicode support so we can move it to the main branch and enable it in the main release should contact the author. (contact details below)

Round Trip Safe

When PPI parses a file it builds everything into the model, including whitespace. This is needed in order to make the Document fully "Round Trip" safe.

The general concept behind a "Round Trip" parser is that it knows what it is parsing is somewhat uncertain, and so expects to get things wrong from time to time. In the cases where it parses code wrongly the tree will serialize back out to the same string of code that was read in, repairing the parser's mistake as it heads back out to the file.

The end result is that if you parse in a file and serialize it back out without changing the tree, you are guaranteed to get the same file you started with. PPI does this correctly and reliably for 100% of all known cases.

What goes in, will come out. Every time.

The one minor exception at this time is that if the newlines for your file are wrong (meaning not matching the platform newline format), PPI will localise them for you. (It isn't to be convenient, supporting arbitrary newlines would make some of the code more complicated)

Better control of the newline type is on the wish list though, and anyone wanting to help out is encouraged to contact the author.

IMPLEMENTATION

General Layout

PPI is built upon two primary "parsing" components, PPI::Tokenizer and PPI::Lexer, and a large tree of about 50 classes which implement the various the Perl Document Object Model (PDOM).

The PDOM is conceptually similar in style and intent to the regular DOM or other code Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), but contains some differences to handle perl-specific cases, and to assist in treating the code as a document. Please note that it is not an implementation of the official Document Object Model specification, only somewhat similar to it.

On top of the Tokenizer, Lexer and the classes of the PDOM, sit a number of classes intended to make life a little easier when dealing with PDOM trees.

Both the major parsing components were hand-coded from scratch with only plain Perl code and a few small utility modules. There are no grammar or patterns mini-languages, no YACC or LEX style tools and only a small number of regular expressions.

This is primarily because of the sheer volume of accumulated cruft that exists in Perl. Not even perl itself is capable of parsing Perl documents (remember, it just parses and executes it as code).

As a result, PPI needed to be cruftier than perl itself. Feel free to shudder at this point, and hope you never have to understand the Tokenizer codebase. Speaking of which...

The Tokenizer

The Tokenizer takes source code and converts it into a series of tokens. It does this using a slow but thorough character by character manual process, rather than using a pattern system or complex regexes.

Or at least it does so conceptually. If you were to actually trace the code you would find it's not truly character by character due to a number of regexps and optimisations throughout the code. This lets the Tokenizer "skip ahead" when it can find shortcuts, so it tends to jump around a line a bit wildly at times.

In practice, the number of times the Tokenizer will actually move the character cursor itself is only about 5% - 10% higher than the number of tokens contained in the file. This makes it about as optimal as it can be made without implementing it in something other than Perl.

In 2001 when PPI was started, this structure made PPI quite slow, and not really suitable for interactive tasks. This situation has improved greatly with multi-gigahertz processors, but can still be painful when working with very large files.

The target parsing rate for PPI is about 5000 lines per gigacycle. It is currently believed to be at about 1500, and main avenue for making it to the target speed has now become PPI::XS, a drop-in XS accelerator for PPI.

Since PPI::XS has only just gotten off the ground and is currently only at proof-of-concept stage, this may take a little while. Anyone interested in helping out with PPI::XS is highly encouraged to contact the author. In fact, the design of PPI::XS means it's possible to port one function at a time safely and reliably. So every little bit will help.

The Lexer

The Lexer takes a token stream, and converts it to a lexical tree. Because we are parsing Perl documents this includes whitespace, comments, and all number of weird things that have no relevance when code is actually executed.

An instantiated PPI::Lexer consumes PPI::Tokenizer objects and produces PPI::Document objects. However you should probably never be working with the Lexer directly. You should just be able to create PPI::Document objects and work with them directly.

The Perl Document Object Model

The PDOM is a structured collection of data classes that together provide a correct and scalable model for documents that follow the standard Perl syntax.

The PDOM Class Tree

The following lists all of the 67 current PDOM classes, listing with indentation based on inheritance.

   PPI::Element
      PPI::Node
         PPI::Document
            PPI::Document::Fragment
         PPI::Statement
            PPI::Statement::Package
            PPI::Statement::Include
            PPI::Statement::Sub
               PPI::Statement::Scheduled
            PPI::Statement::Compound
            PPI::Statement::Break
            PPI::Statement::Given
            PPI::Statement::When
            PPI::Statement::Data
            PPI::Statement::End
            PPI::Statement::Expression
               PPI::Statement::Variable
            PPI::Statement::Null
            PPI::Statement::UnmatchedBrace
            PPI::Statement::Unknown
         PPI::Structure
            PPI::Structure::Block
            PPI::Structure::Subscript
            PPI::Structure::Constructor
            PPI::Structure::Condition
            PPI::Structure::List
            PPI::Structure::For
            PPI::Structure::Given
            PPI::Structure::When
            PPI::Structure::Unknown
      PPI::Token
         PPI::Token::Whitespace
         PPI::Token::Comment
         PPI::Token::Pod
         PPI::Token::Number
            PPI::Token::Number::Binary
            PPI::Token::Number::Octal
            PPI::Token::Number::Hex
            PPI::Token::Number::Float
               PPI::Token::Number::Exp
            PPI::Token::Number::Version
         PPI::Token::Word
         PPI::Token::DashedWord
         PPI::Token::Symbol
            PPI::Token::Magic
         PPI::Token::ArrayIndex
         PPI::Token::Operator
         PPI::Token::Quote
            PPI::Token::Quote::Single
            PPI::Token::Quote::Double
            PPI::Token::Quote::Literal
            PPI::Token::Quote::Interpolate
         PPI::Token::QuoteLike
            PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Backtick
            PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Command
            PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Regexp
            PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Words
            PPI::Token::QuoteLike::Readline
         PPI::Token::Regexp
            PPI::Token::Regexp::Match
            PPI::Token::Regexp::Substitute
            PPI::Token::Regexp::Transliterate
         PPI::Token::HereDoc
         PPI::Token::Cast
         PPI::Token::Structure
         PPI::Token::Label
         PPI::Token::Separator
         PPI::Token::Data
         PPI::Token::End
         PPI::Token::Prototype
         PPI::Token::Attribute
         PPI::Token::Unknown

To summarize the above layout, all PDOM objects inherit from the PPI::Element class.

Under this are PPI::Token, strings of content with a known type, and PPI::Node, syntactically significant containers that hold other Elements.

The three most important of these are the PPI::Document, the PPI::Statement and the PPI::Structure classes.

The Document, Statement and Structure

At the top of all complete PDOM trees is a PPI::Document object. It represents a complete file of Perl source code as you might find it on disk.

There are some specialised types of document, such as PPI::Document::File and PPI::Document::Normalized but for the purposes of the PDOM they are all just considered to be the same thing.

Each Document will contain a number of Statements, Structures and Tokens.

A PPI::Statement is any series of Tokens and Structures that are treated as a single contiguous statement by perl itself. You should note that a Statement is as close as PPI can get to "parsing" the code in the sense that perl-itself parses Perl code when it is building the op-tree.

Because of the isolation and Perl's syntax, it is provably impossible for PPI to accurately determine precedence of operators or which tokens are implicit arguments to a sub call.

So rather than lead you on with a bad guess that has a strong chance of being wrong, PPI does not attempt to determine precedence or sub parameters at all.

At a fundamental level, it only knows that this series of elements represents a single Statement as perl sees it, but it can do so with enough certainty that it can be trusted.

However, for specific Statement types the PDOM is able to derive additional useful information about their meaning. For the best, most useful, and most heavily used example, see PPI::Statement::Include.

A PPI::Structure is any series of tokens contained within matching braces. This includes code blocks, conditions, function argument braces, anonymous array and hash constructors, lists, scoping braces and all other syntactic structures represented by a matching pair of braces, including (although it may not seem obvious at first) <READLINE> braces.

Each Structure contains none, one, or many Tokens and Structures (the rules for which vary for the different Structure subclasses)

Under the PDOM structure rules, a Statement can never directly contain another child Statement, a Structure can never directly contain another child Structure, and a Document can never contain another Document anywhere in the tree.

Aside from these three rules, the PDOM tree is extremely flexible.

The PDOM at Work

To demonstrate the PDOM in use lets start with an example showing how the tree might look for the following chunk of simple Perl code.

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  print( "Hello World!" );

  exit();

Translated into a PDOM tree it would have the following structure (as shown via the included PPI::Dumper).

  PPI::Document
    PPI::Token::Comment                '#!/usr/bin/perl\n'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace             '\n'
    PPI::Statement::Expression
      PPI::Token::Bareword             'print'
      PPI::Structure::List             ( ... )
        PPI::Token::Whitespace         ' '
        PPI::Statement::Expression
          PPI::Token::Quote::Double    '"Hello World!"'
        PPI::Token::Whitespace         ' '
      PPI::Token::Structure            ';'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace             '\n'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace             '\n'
    PPI::Statement::Expression
      PPI::Token::Bareword             'exit'
      PPI::Structure::List             ( ... )
      PPI::Token::Structure            ';'
    PPI::Token::Whitespace             '\n'

Please note that in this this example, strings are only listed for the actual PPI::Token that contains that string. Structures are listed with the type of brace characters it represents noted.

The PPI::Dumper module can be used to generate similar trees yourself.

We can make that PDOM dump a little easier to read if we strip out all the whitespace. Here it is again, sans the distracting whitespace tokens.

  PPI::Document
    PPI::Token::Comment                '#!/usr/bin/perl\n'
    PPI::Statement::Expression
      PPI::Token::Bareword             'print'
      PPI::Structure::List             ( ... )
        PPI::Statement::Expression
          PPI::Token::Quote::Double    '"Hello World!"'
      PPI::Token::Structure            ';'
    PPI::Statement::Expression
      PPI::Token::Bareword             'exit'
      PPI::Structure::List             ( ... )
      PPI::Token::Structure            ';'

As you can see, the tree can get fairly deep at time, especially when every isolated token in a bracket becomes its own statement. This is needed to allow anything inside the tree the ability to grow. It also makes the search and analysis algorithms much more flexible.

Because of the depth and complexity of PDOM trees, a vast number of very easy to use methods have been added wherever possible to help people working with PDOM trees do normal tasks relatively quickly and efficiently.

Overview of the Primary Classes

The main PPI classes, and links to their own documentation, are listed here in alphabetical order.

PPI::Document

The Document object, the root of the PDOM.

PPI::Document::Fragment

A cohesive fragment of a larger Document. Although not of any real current use, it is needed for use in certain internal tree manipulation algorithms.

For example, doing things like cut/copy/paste etc. Very similar to a PPI::Document, but has some additional methods and does not represent a lexical scope boundary.

A document fragment is also non-serializable, and so cannot be written out to a file.

PPI::Dumper

A simple class for dumping readable debugging versions of PDOM structures, such as in the demonstration above.

PPI::Element

The Element class is the abstract base class for all objects within the PDOM

PPI::Find

Implements an instantiable object form of a PDOM tree search.

PPI::Lexer

The PPI Lexer. Converts Token streams into PDOM trees.

PPI::Node

The Node object, the abstract base class for all PDOM objects that can contain other Elements, such as the Document, Statement and Structure objects.

PPI::Statement

The base class for all Perl statements. Generic "evaluate for side-effects" statements are of this actual type. Other more interesting statement types belong to one of its children.

See it's own documentation for a longer description and list of all of the different statement types and sub-classes.

PPI::Structure

The abstract base class for all structures. A Structure is a language construct consisting of matching braces containing a set of other elements.

See the PPI::Structure documentation for a description and list of all of the different structure types and sub-classes.

PPI::Token

A token is the basic unit of content. At its most basic, a Token is just a string tagged with metadata (its class, and some additional flags in some cases).

PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine

The PPI::Token::Quote and PPI::Token::QuoteLike classes provide abstract base classes for the many and varied types of quote and quote-like things in Perl. However, much of the actual quote login is implemented in a separate quote engine, based at PPI::Token::_QuoteEngine.

Classes that inherit from PPI::Token::Quote, PPI::Token::QuoteLike and PPI::Token::Regexp are generally parsed only by the Quote Engine.

PPI::Tokenizer

The PPI Tokenizer. One Tokenizer consumes a chunk of text and provides access to a stream of PPI::Token objects.

The Tokenizer is very very complicated, to the point where even the author treads carefully when working with it.

Most of the complication is the result of optimizations which have tripled the tokenization speed, at the expense of maintainability. We cope with the spaghetti by heavily commenting everything.

PPI::Transform

The Perl Document Transformation API. Provides a standard interface and abstract base class for objects and classes that manipulate Documents.

INSTALLING

The core PPI distribution is pure Perl and has been kept as tight as possible and with as few dependencies as possible.

It should download and install normally on any platform from within the CPAN and CPANPLUS applications, or directly using the distribution tarball. If installing by hand, you may need to install a few small utility modules first. The exact ones will depend on your version of perl.

There are no special install instructions for PPI, and the normal Perl Makefile.PL, make, make test, make install instructions apply.

EXTENDING

The PPI namespace itself is reserved for the sole use of the modules under the umbrella of the Parse::Perl SourceForge project.

http://sf.net/projects/parseperl

You are recommended to use the PPIx:: namespace for PPI-specific modifications or prototypes thereof, or Perl:: for modules which provide a general Perl language-related functions.

If what you wish to implement looks like it fits into PPIx:: namespace, you should consider contacting the Parse::Perl mailing list (detailed on the SourceForge site) first, as what you want may already be in progress, or you may wish to consider joining the team and doing it within the Parse::Perl project itself.

TO DO

- Many more analysis and utility methods for PDOM classes

- Creation of a PPI::Tutorial document

- Add many more key functions to PPI::XS

- We can always write more and better unit tests

- Complete the full implementation of ->literal (1.200)

- Full understanding of scoping (due 1.300)

SUPPORT

This module is stored in an Open Repository at the following address.

http://svn.ali.as/cpan/trunk/PPI

Write access to the repository is made available automatically to any published CPAN author, and to most other volunteers on request.

If you are able to submit your bug report in the form of new (failing) unit tests, or can apply your fix directly instead of submitting a patch, you are strongly encouraged to do so, as the author currently maintains over 100 modules and it can take some time to deal with non-"Critical" bug reports or patches.

This will also guarentee that your issue will be addressed in the next release of the module.

For large changes though, please consider creating a branch so that they can be properly reviewed and trialed before being applied to the trunk.

If you cannot provide a direct test or fix, or don't have time to do so, then regular bug reports are still accepted and appreciated via the CPAN bug tracker.

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=PPI

For other issues or questions, contact the Parse::Perl project mailing list.

For commercial or media-related enquiries, or to have your SVN commit bit enabled, contact the author.

AUTHOR

Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A huge thank you to Phase N Australia (http://phase-n.com/) for permitting the original open sourcing and release of this distribution from what was originally several thousand hours of commercial work.

Another big thank you to The Perl Foundation (http://www.perlfoundation.org/) for funding for the final big refactoring and completion run.

Also, to the various co-maintainers that have contributed both large and small with tests and patches and especially to those rare few who have deep-dived into the guts to (gasp) add a feature.

  - Dan Brook       : PPIx::XPath, Acme::PerlML
  - Audrey Tang     : "Line Noise" Testing
  - Arjen Laarhoven : Three-element ->location support
  - Elliot Shank    : Perl 5.10 support, five-element ->location

And finally, thanks to those brave ( and foolish :) ) souls willing to dive in and use, test drive and provide feedback on PPI before version 1.000, in some cases before it made it to beta quality, and still did extremely distasteful things (like eating 50 meg of RAM a second).

I owe you all a beer. Corner me somewhere and collect at your convenience. If I missed someone who wasn't in my email history, thank you too :)

  # In approximate order of appearance
  - Claes Jacobsson
  - Michael Schwern
  - Jeff T. Parsons
  - CPAN Author "CHOCOLATEBOY"
  - Robert Rotherberg
  - CPAN Author "PODMASTER"
  - Richard Soderberg
  - Nadim ibn Hamouda el Khemir
  - Graciliano M. P.
  - Leon Brocard
  - Jody Belka
  - Curtis Ovid
  - Yuval Kogman
  - Michael Schilli
  - Slaven Rezic
  - Lars Thegler
  - Tony Stubblebine
  - Tatsuhiko Miyagawa
  - CPAN Author "CHROMATIC"
  - Matisse Enzer
  - Roy Fulbright
  - Dan Brook
  - Johnny Lee
  - Johan Lindstrom

And to single one person out, thanks go to Randal Schwartz who spent a great number of hours in IRC over a critical 6 month period explaining why Perl is impossibly unparsable and constantly shoving evil and ugly corner cases in my face. He remained a tireless devil's advocate, and without his support this project genuinely could never have been completed.

So for my schooling in the Deep Magiks, you have my deepest gratitude Randal.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2001 - 2011 Adam Kennedy.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.


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Containing an outstanding selection of 43 drawings by the world-famous firm of Swedish illustrators Tre Tryckare AB (Three Printers, Inc.), this book depicts a fantastic array of classic locomotives. There are the English Rocket (1829) and Evening Star (1960); the American Pennsylvania (1863), Matt H. Shay, and Zephyr (1934); and numerous other locomotives of great historical interest from these and other countries.
Coverage extends from Richard Trevithick's experimental locomotive of 1805 to a 2,500-hp, diesel-electric locomotive built in America in 1963. A caption is supplied for every illustration.


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If you think Donald Trump is loud, under his presidency, the sound of oil and gas drilling could be deafening
By Lisa Sorg
In Environment, News, Trump Administration
"C'mon, feel the noise," said no whale ever. (Photo: Creative Commons)
Against a natural sonic backdrop of gentle waves, distant earthquakes and mating calls, the ocean has become a cacophonous place. For the dolphins and whales, turtles and fish, the artificial hum of ships, the moans of sonars and burst of seismic booms, well, the persistent racket is getting on their last good nerve.
But the sea could become even noisier under President-to-be Donald Trump. Pro-drilling, pro-fossil fuels, Trump could open the Atlantic to oil and gas exploration, activities that not only can damage the environment but also harm aquatic life.
NOAA released an Ocean Noise Strategy Roadmap to address the effects of noise on protected marine species. The impacts of noise on them are in some ways, similar to the impacts on people. Think about how you feel when you're subjected to sirens, jackhammers, low-flying planes, car alarms, barking dogs, the neighbor mowing at 8 a.m. on a Saturday.
Underwater, mammals can go deaf, fish can change the direction of their schools, mating falls off. The species release stress hormones and their immune systems suffer. They can't communicate with their families.
There is a patchwork of regulations to try to diminish the effects of underwater noise, but Trump's opposition to restricting business, especially as it relates to oil and gas exploration, could foil even those basic efforts.
Elizabeth Ouzts at Southeast Energy News recently reported that the specter of a Trump presidency has compelled coastal advocates and businesses to urge President Obama to bar future oil and gas drilling in the Atlantic.
Although the Obama administration had proposed allowing the sale of leases along the coast from Virginia to the Georgia, including North Carolina, opposition forced it to change course. Now there will be no leases in the Atlantic for another six years.
But there is no permanent drilling ban, and seismic testing can continue. That means Trump could undo Obama's minor progress on this front, while ocean noise can proceed unabated.