Hello! This is Drashti a Computer Science graduate student actively seeking to full-time opportunities in web development domain.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY
o 2+ years of experience as Front-End Web Developer creating highly scalable web Applications including requirement analysis, design implementation, testing with emphasis on Object Oriented JavaScript and Client Server technologies.
o Expertise in developing end to end applications using MEAN stack - MongoDB, ExpressJS, Angular 5.0/4.0/2.0/1.x, NodeJS along with Javascript and JQuery.
o Solid understanding of using Angular 2.0 Components, Directives, Pipes, Reactive/ Template Driven Forms, Router to implement various functionalities, along with Guards to protect routes.
o Experience and understanding of component interaction using Observables, rxjs Subjects, input/output decorators and Services.
o In-depth understanding of using D3.js and Fusion Chart in Angular 2 to create Dynamic Data Visualization.
o Knowledge of javaScript based charting library like Highcharts to enhance web applications.
o Good understanding of user authentication using JWT (JSON web tokens) for performing Server-side validations.
o Experience with server-side scripting language Node.js. Used several npm packages such as express, mongoose, passport JS, body-parser etc along with it.
o Excellent understanding of databases involved in application development using Relational Database like MySQL, and NoSQL database such as MongoDB.
o Possess extensive knowledge on OOPS concepts hands on experience with objectoriented JavaScript and Typescript.
o Used test tool Jasmine, test runner Karma and task runners Webpack, Gulp and grunt. Along with experience in working in TDD (Test Driven Development) environment.
o Involved in all phases of SDLC using SRUM/Agile Environment.
o Used various tools such as JIRA as bug tracking tool, Git as Version Control System (VCS).
o Knowledge of various IDEs like Visual Studio Code, cloud 9, Eclipse, JS fiddle, Sublime text.
o Experience in working with REST API testing tool like, Postman.
o Quick Learner, ability to work independently and adapt to the emerging new technologies and paradigms.
o Vocational job training on “Computer Networking” while perusing undergraduate degree.
o Established small “LAN network”.
o Case study on “Computer networking” structure of Refinery.
o Involved in Analysis, Development, Implementation and testing stages of Software development life cycle (SDLC).
o Developed all the UI pages using HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JSON, JavaScript, jQuery.
o Produced content pages with CSS3 layout, style markup presentations, and jQuery methods and properties.
o Built Responsive Web Pages via CSS3 Media Queries, deployed Bootstrap to apply responsive utilities and appropriate positioning of elements to the application.
o Worked on different modules including the error validation of forms and links, realized via
jQuery and JavaScript.
o Extensively worked with making APIs calls to fetch the data from the back - end as JSON
response and parse it on the UI for manipulation.
o Worked on Cross-Browser compatibility and fixed the bugs for several browsers.
o Used AJAX to facilitate dynamic and asynchronous manipulation.
o Performed DOM manipulation using DOM and DOM functions.
Projects
1)
Project Title: Mortgage Loan Platform
Project Description:
o CLIENT:Bank of Baroda (BOB) is one of largest bank in Gujarat, India. It provides comprehensive financial products and services to corporate individual customers.
o Our project BOB "Mortgage loan platform" provides a series of services including mortgage price estimate module, online mortgage qualification check module, mortgage loan rate inquire module.
oIt enhances the existing web application of mortgage loan platform along with some additional features and improves the loan process such as supplying loan qualification self-checked function; reducing waiting time to receive result from mortgage loan online application.
Environment:
HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, JavaScript, Bootstrap, AJAX, JSON
2)
Project Title: Online Order Management Platform
Project Description:
o CLIENT:Anand Milk Union Limited or Amul is an Indian dairy cooperative, based at Anand in the state of Gujarat.
It is one of the largest producers of milk and other milk products.
o This online order management platform provides different options such as order delivering, handle returned order status and products stocking.
o Customers can cancel orders, check order process status and check entire order details
Environment:
HTML4, CSS3, jQuery, AJAX, JSON, Bootstrap, SQL Server 2008.
o Involved in Agile/SCRUM based approach to develop web-based application.
o Involved in creating Single Page Application using AngularJS in Front-end and NodeJS in backend.
o Implemented Two-way data binding for efficiently managing view data and model data.
o Created various controllers and dynamically loaded them as per the view in the application.
o Used RequireJS to optimize the performance of the AngularJS application.
o To efficiently manage data among controllers, created various services in AngularJS.
o Extensively used $http services to consume backend REST APIs by handling promises in the front-end.
o Used $location and $routeParams services to handle routes as per the requirement.
o Designed and implemented UI layout using HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Bootstrap and used Task runner to automate the compilation from SASS to CSS.
o Used $emit, $broadcast and $on for different controllers to be notified for various events.
o Implemented routing using $routeProvider to perform navigation in the app at the configuration level.
o Implemented form validations using various form events like, ng-pristine, ng-touched, ng-dirty and used ngClass to give desired styling to invalid fields.
o Created various REST APIs in NodeJS and ExpressJS as middleware. Performed Database operations using mongoose as ODM for the MongoDB database.
o Used Robo mongo now Robo 3T which is a shell-centric and cross-platform MongoDB management tool.
o Built test cases using Jasmine, Karma as a Test Runner in a Test-Driven Development environment.
o Used JIRA as a bug tracking tool, Git as a version control system.
Project
Project Title: Enhancement of the Orders Page and Product Display Page Layout.
Project Description:
Our client "Spoiltchic" wanted to enhance two things: 1) The end-user’s profile by adding features to manage orders placed by users and 2) To change grid layout of products display page. Hence both the pages where re-engineered. The item/products list was displayed in a new grid format where each grid item had a bigger picture and related info of a particular item. And orders page displayed orders details in more manageable way. Different payment gateways for users to pay with more options where integrated and order tracking details were shown properly by displaying timeline. And also, infinite scrolling for all the orders was implemented.
Environment:
HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Bootstrap, jQuery, REST APIs, Angular, MongoDB, NodeJS, ExpressJS,
Jasmine, Karma.
o Off page SEO including Social media marketing, article marketing, email marketing, blog/forum posting, wen content/ article writing, administrative /secretarial work, email
management, calendar management & presentations.
o Created prototypes in HTML5, Photoshop, JavaScript and CSS3 for different UI pages for different clients.
o Developed few web page components with different styling using semantic-UI,bootswatch, bootstrap and css3 as per client requirement.
o Used High charts and D3.js for creating Graphs and charts according to JSON/ Raw data provided by clients.
Skills:
o HTML5, Photoshop, JavaScript, CSS3, semantic-UI, Bootswatch, bootstrap, High charts, SEO.
Current GPA: 3.91
GPA: 7.52
Percentage : 60%


java.util.Date
System.currentTimeInMillis()
is not accurate and can return same value for multiple sequential calls.java.util.Date
vs. java.sql.Date
- SQL flavor is only a DATE with no time.java.sql.Timestamp
- SQL flavor replicating java.util.Date
but additionally storing nanoseconds.java.util.Calendar
SimpleDateFormat
and Calendar
do not interoperate well.Calendar
(therefore all it's problems).Instant
stores a numeric timestamp from Java epoch, + nanoseconds.LocalDate
stores a date without a time portion (calendar date).LocalTime
stores a time without a date portion (wall clock).LocalDateTime
stores a date and time (LocalDate + Local Time).ZonedDateTime
stores a date and time with a time-zone.OffsetTime
stores a time and offset from UTC without a date.OffsetDateTime
stores a date with time and offset from UTC.Duration
models time in nanoseconds for time intervals. (e.g. 5 mins)Period
models amount of time in years, months and/or days. (e.g. 2 Days)Month
stores a month on its own. (e.g. MARCH)MonthDay
stores a month and day without a year or time (e.g. date of birth)Year
stores a year on its own. (e.g. 2015)YearMonth
stores a year and month without a day or time. (e.g. credit card expiry)DayOfWeek
stores a day-of-week on its own. (e.g. WEDNESDAY)Chronology
is a factory to create or fetch pre-built calendar systems.
Default is IsoChronology
(e.g. ThaiBuddhistChronology
).ChronoLocalDate
stores a date without a time in an arbitrary chronology.ChronoLocalDateTime
stores a date and time in an arbitrary chronology.ChronoZonedDateTime
stores a date, time and timezone in an arbitrary chronology.ChronoPeriod
models a span on days/time for use in an arbitrary chronology.Era
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1999-01-12T12:00:00.747Z | ||||||||
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localTime.minusSeconds(...)
localDateTime.toLocalDate(...)
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Operating your computer through commands in a terminal interface.
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Just a few examples of what can be done with the Google Maps API. Follow along the commits in the repository to see how the various components can be implemented.
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Rasooul Modarresi
Civil Engineer | Air Force officer | Web Developer | Medical Student
Hi mmmmmmm I'm a 24 yrs boy. Who likes to be succesful guy. I had a messy life but suddenly I start to do everything make me happy.
Want to more about Me? in 2015 I find the W3schools.com so I wrote some code lines it was so funny and I continue to learning codes.
My skills:
if I have to choose between Front-end and Back-end , absloutly I'll choose the Front-End. because it's like painting and I Love Painting.
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if you have any question (even about your dog!)you can contact me here:
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Create a new HTML file in the html directory, i.e. yourname.html
We will create a link to the page in index.html: "Alexa's Page"
Add head and body elements to the page (copy head from main page, change title)
You can put javaScript directly in your page, but best practice tends to be to put it in a separate file
So, create a file with a .js extension and save it in the 'scripts' directory
Put a link to your .js file just before the body closing tag (see source for this page for syntax)
You can test if your .js file is loading by adding an alert line to it, i.e. alert("some text"). If the .js is loaded/working the alert will fire when the page loads
Add html to the .html page and javaScript to the .js page, add, commit and push to GitHub for testing your code
If desired you can also add a css style page to the styles directory, this file should have a .css extension
Using JavaScript:
JavaScript is a scripting language originally designed for adding coding elements to web pages
It is mostly used in conjunction with html and css, though its use has expanded rapidly into other areas
All modern browsers have a built-in JavaScript engine, so no local instalation is required, just a web server to show your pages
JavaScript syntax is similar to but not identical with Java: Java Syntax Wiki
Lines of code are terminated by semicolons (actually sometimes optional, but recommended for clarity), braces/curly brackets deliniate blocks of code
Variables are not typed, can be declared with keyword var, initial assignment of value is not requried, scoping is similar to Java
Typically code is event driven, i.e. responds to mouse clicks/key strokes, i.e. myButton.onclick = function() { 'do something' }
In order to interact with html elements, jS vars must be linked to the desired element(s)
One way to do that is with a querySelector function, which you can see on the main.js page
This can get cumbersome, especially in complex pages with many dynamic elements. The jQuery library was developed to simplify this process (see below).
Linking js variables to html objects using jQuery:
jQuery statement begin with a $ followed by the html element in parens:
For example: $("#myButton")
The preceeding '#' indicates an id supplied in the html code
The identifier is followed by a period ('dot operator') and a function name and parameters:
For example: $("#myButton").html('new button label')
That's all you need to link the elements, though of course there are many ways to specify html objects
and many kinds and forms of functions that can be linked to.


This example demonstrates the implementation of AdaptiveVariants that create DocumentFragments on-the-fly in their template getters.
AdaptiveVariant
DocumentFragment
template


Local Restaurant Owner Charged with Soliciting Murder
by Edhat StaffBy edhat staff
The owner of Vegan GreenGo has been charged with soliciting the murder of his ex-girlfriend, a judge, and two Sheriff's employees, reports the Santa Barbara News-Press.
Tyler David Beerman, 33 of Santa Barbara, was charged in April with 10 felony counts, including three counts of solicitation of murder, inducing false testimony by threat, and dissuading a witness. His girlfriend, Gissel Castano Diaz, is also charged with one count of solicitation of murder, dissuading a witness and destroying or concealing evidence.
Tyler David Beerman (courtesy Santa Barbara Sheriff's Office)
Beerman and Diaz were charged in December 2018 with stalking Beerman's ex-girlfriend. Beerman was also caught on surveillance cameras at the house of a Sheriff’s Lieutenant involved in the stalking case.
It's also alleged that while in jail Beerman agreed to pay another inmate $20,000 to kill his ex-girlfriend, specifically by placing explosives in her car so it would explode while she was inside. He also allegedly agreed to pay $40,000 to “hit” a Sheriff's Lieutenant as well as a detective because he thought the detective was in a relationship with his ex-girlfriend, according to the News-Press.
The inmate was arrested shortly after being released from prison and confessed to law enforcement who planted a recording device that taped conversations with Beerman, corroborating the story. The inmate and an undercover detective then met with Diaz who confirmed the victim's vehicle and agreed to pay $4,000 upfront, reports News-Press.
Several weeks later a second inmate claimed Beerman wanted to kill Judge Von Deroian who previously presided over Beerman's case.
Beerman and Diaz will appear for hearing on January 15, 2020. Beerman is currently being held without bail while Diaz is currently out on bail.
The vegan Mexican restaurant located at 3613 State Street opened in 2018 and has been visited by several celebrities embracing the Vegan lifestyle. It's unknown if the business is still operational.


Here we gonna be helping you out to find out the weather condition of any particular city in the world
This weather app is one of best free weather apps with full features: Local weather, weather map (windyty weather map service) and weather widgets.
Forecastle: Forecast now, hourly forecast and daily forecast app.
Weather map, weather radar map: Local weather radar app free with a lot of radar scope: Rain/snow, temperature, pressure, windy, clouds, humidity, waves, and storm radar.
Its so easy to receive the weather conditions in your current location.
Weather forecast app provides detailed local forecast & weather forecast world wide, the app provides the current temperature in Celsius,sunrise and sunset time according to city time zone.
The weather app also provides atmospheric pressure, weather conditions, visibility distance, relative humidity, precipitation in different unites, dew point, wind speed and direction, in addition to ten days in future and hourly weather forecast.
Realtime temperature, humidity, pressure and wind direction are all in the weather app based.
So what are you waiting for !
API USED :http://api.apixu.com/v1/current.json?key=a65b9295ecc24ae7ba8104243192703&q=Delhi


MIGHTY APHRODITE A film review by Steve Rhodes Copyright 1995 Steve Rhodes
RATING (0 TO ****): ** 1/2
MIGHTY APHRODITE is an innovative, funny, but slow Woody Allen comedy that Woody wrote, directed, and stars in. In the movie, Lenny Weinrib (Woody Allen) is a sportswriter married to an up and coming art gallery manager and would be owner, Amanda Sloane (Helena Bonham-Carter). Amanda is an attractive young wife, and Lenny is an older, frail husband with thinning hair, pale skin and millions of lines in his face. From the very beginning there is no chemistry between the two leads, but the audience is supposed to assume that there once was. Amanda is obsessed with getting her own gallery whereas Lenny is content hanging out with his sports pals talking about boxing and basketball.
When Amanda announces that she wants a baby but through adoption since she does not want to undergo the inconvenience of pregnancy, Lenny is upset. He says, "Adopt. What. I don't want to adopt. Not with my genes. I have award winning genes." Given how old and unhealthy Woody appears in this movie, these lines bear a special poignancy.
Soon they adopt a baby (Max), and by age 5 he is clearly brilliant. Max and his father converse a lot. In one of these interchanges, Max asks, "Who is the boss between you and mommy?" Lenny taking offense, replies, "Who is the boss? You have to ask that? I'm the boss. Mommy is only the decision maker."
Max's intellectual capacity sends Lenny off in a quest to find Max's real mother since Max's father is dead. Lenny wants to know Max's true lineage. Not surprisingly, the mother (Mira Sorvino from BARCELONA and BLUE IN THE FACE) turns out to be less that Lenny had hoped. He finds Max's mom is a porn star turned hooker who has many names, some unprintable, but as a prostitute, she is now known as Linda Ash.
Lenny decides to take care of Linda and even attempts to arrange a relationship with her and one of his young fighter friends, Kevin (Michael Rapaport). Lenny believes that given their good looks combined with an equal lack of intelligence they are made for each other. Linda in her crazy high pitched voice says at one point, "I'm not religious either. Both of my folks were Episcopalians."  Together their IQs would not add up to more two digits.
The innovative part of MIGHTY APHRODITE is a Greek chorus that appears frequently to give Lenny advice. The Greek chorus (Dick Hyman Chorus) is lead by F. Murray Abraham and has Danielle Ferland as Cassandra. The chorus is dressed in traditional robes and masks (by Jeffrey Kurland) and is shown in an ancient Greek amphitheater. Sometimes they start off with parts of what appears to be an Euripides play, but soon they are speaking vintage Woody with words like "unthunk" and bursting into song (including "When you're smiling") and dance. For me, the chorus is one of the highlights of the show. It is a fresh approach that is a lot of fun. One of my favorite characters in the movie is Cassandra and her best piece of dialog is "I see disaster. I see catastrophe. Worse, I see lawyers!" Another time, the chorus calls on the great god Zeus to get advice, but gets his answering machine instead.
The problem with MIGHTY APHRODITE is that it is like a first grader learning to read. He pronounces each individual letter slowly yet is unable to form them into a word. Here the dialog is great in pockets, but there are no characters to care about to keep the audience's interest in between humor. There are four or more putative love stories in the movie, but none of them are believable. These problems are mainly with Woody's direction and script, but the actors own some of the blame.
 He is an actor from MONEY FOR NOTHING and other films where he has yet to demonstrate he has the chosen the right career path for himself. Maybe he can box? Sorvino gave a fairly good performance as an airhead, but Nicole Kidman in TO DIE FOR shows how this role can be done much better. The biggest disappointment for me was Helena Bonham-Carter (from many movies, but my favorite is LADY JANE). Her love interest in fellow art gallery owner Jerry Bender (Peter Weller) could have been much better developed and could have provided some real tension and actual romance in the movie. Instead, most of the show is played only for the cheap laughs. A real opportunity missed. Finally, Woody is Woody, but a tired and sad looking Woody.
The sets by Santo Loquasto are pretty outlandish. The hooker's apartment is decorated as a garden of pornographic kitsch. The cinematography (Carlo DiPalma) is straightforward with the exception of one wonderful scene at night of Lenny and Amanda in a New York City taxicab. Lenny is unhappy with his marriage, and he looks at an attractive and happy couple nearby with melancholy and wistful eyes. These brief images form the best scene in the show.
MIGHTY APHRODITE only runs 1:30, but if the editor (Susan Morris) had done a little tighter editing, perhaps she could have prevented the show from dragging so often. The movie is rated PG-13 for extremely explicit references to all kinds of bizarre sexual behavior. There is no nudity or violence. The movie would be probably okay for mature teenagers, but the dialog is laced with pornographic movie quality rhetoric. For a great Greek chorus and for a lot of good laughs, I give MIGHTY APHRODITE a mild thumbs up, but I was disappointed by it. It had the potential for so much more. It gets ** 1/2 in my book.
**** = One of the top few films of this or any year. A must see film. *** = Excellent show. Look for it. ** = Average movie. Kind of enjoyable. * = Poor show.  Totally unbearable.
REVIEW WRITTEN ON: November 10, 1995
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; ---------------------------------------------- Const tex_color = 1 ; Color texture Const tex_alpha = 2 ; Alpha texture (Include alpha channel data) Const tex_mask = 4 ; Masked texture (black is transparent) Const tex_mipmap = 8 ; Create texture mipmaps Const tex_clampu = 16 ; Restrict U texture coords from "bleeding over" Const tex_clampv = 32 ; Restrict V texture coords from "bleeding over" Const tex_envshpere = 64 ; Load texture as a spherical environment map Const tex_vram = 256 ; Force texture graphics to vram Const tex_highcolor = 512 ; Forces texture graphics to be 32-bits per pixel Graphics3D 640,480 ; Removes any texture filters that might apply. ClearTextureFilters ; Add an alpha texture to the list of ; texture filters to apply to files ; that have "_alpha" in their filenames. TextureFilter "_alpha",tex_color + tex_alpha + tex_mipmap ; Set appropriate texture flags for loading ; suitable skybox textures from files named ; something with "_skybox". TextureFilter "_skybox", tex_color + tex_mipmap + tex_clampu + tex_clampv ; Set the flags for loading a spherical refletction ; map to apply to all "_refmap" files. TextureFilter "_refmap", tex_color + tex_mipmap + tex_envshpere ; Setup a texture filter to allow faster ; (and easier) pixel manipulation on all ; loaded "_fastblit" files. TextureFilter "_fastblit", tex_color + tex_vram + tex_highcolor ; This is where you would normally load your special ; textures. ; The next bit resets the texture filters to their ; standard settings. ClearTextureFilters TextureFilter "", tex_color + tex_mipmap End |


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Those familiar with other startup competitions will recognize GrassRoots format:
Friday:
We'll open the event with drinks, networking, and dinner on Friday night, before getting down to business. We'll go over what to expect from the weekend, what resources you'll have at your disposal, and what we're looking for in judging criteria during the presentations on Sunday. After that, it's time for the pitch process: everyone who wants to present an idea gets 60 seconds to say who they are, what problem they want to solve, what their propose solution is, and who they need to help build a Minimum Viable Product. Once everyone who wants to has pitched an idea, participants will vote on their favorite ideas, and then form teams around them. Friday night will end with the newly-formed teams going off to brainstorm and get on the same page before heading home for the night.
Saturday:
After a quick breakfast and morning announcements, teams will get to work validating their idea, building their MVP, and readying their presentation for Sunday. Experienced mentors will be on hand Saturday to help teams after lunch. During dinner we'll have a fun ice-breaking, tension-relieving activity to get attendees a bit of a break, and then after a few more hours to work the venue will close for the night.
Sunday:
We'll begin Sunday with another quick breakfast and morning announcements, followed by a check-in from representatives of each team to seek help if needed. After lunch, we’ll again have reps from each team do a "tech check", to ensure all technical issues regarding presentations are resolved prior to beginning presentations. Presentations will be before dinner: each team will have 5 minutes to present, and 3 minutes to answer questions from event judges. We'll present awards and prizes after dinner, and then wrap things up with an after-party at a venue to be determined!
While we expect some teams to continue to work on their startup after GrassRoots, the point of this weekend is to get passionate people together and help them grow their professional skills, network, and learn more about an exciting and high-growth industry!


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Elasticsearch Token Service tokensedit
If you want the client to authenticate with an Elasticsearch access token, set the relevant HTTP request header.
If the client makes requests on behalf of a single user only, you can set the necessary Authorization
header as a default header as shown
in the following example:
RestClientBuilder builder = RestClient.builder( new HttpHost("localhost", 9200, "http")); Header[] defaultHeaders = new Header[]{new BasicHeader("Authorization", "Bearer u6iuAxZ0RG1Kcm5jVFI4eU4tZU9aVFEwT2F3")}; builder.setDefaultHeaders(defaultHeaders);
Elasticsearch API keysedit
If you want the client to authenticate with an Elasticsearch API key, set the relevant HTTP request header.
If the client makes requests on behalf of a single user only, you can set the necessary Authorization
header as a default header as shown
in the following example:
String apiKeyId = "uqlEyn8B_gQ_jlvwDIvM"; String apiKeySecret = "HxHWk2m4RN-V_qg9cDpuX"; String apiKeyAuth = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString( (apiKeyId + ":" + apiKeySecret) .getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)); RestClientBuilder builder = RestClient.builder( new HttpHost("localhost", 9200, "http")); Header[] defaultHeaders = new Header[]{new BasicHeader("Authorization", "ApiKey " + apiKeyAuth)}; builder.setDefaultHeaders(defaultHeaders);


Prefer [[ ]] over [ ] for tests in Bash/Ksh.
This is an [[optional]] suggestion. It must be explicitly enabled with a [[directive]] enable=require-double-brackets
in a # shellcheck
comment or .shellcheckrc
[ -e /etc/issue ]
[[ -e /etc/issue ]]
ShellCheck has been explicitly asked to warn about uses of [ .. ]
in favor of the extended Bash/Ksh test [[ .. ]]
.
[[ .. ]]
suppresses word splitting and globbing, supports a wider variety of tests, and is generally safer and better defined than [ .. ]
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hackBCA IV:
Lighting the Torch
hackBCA IV is the fourth annual hackathon hosted at the Bergen County Academies. hackBCA is open to all high school students who are interested in exploring computer science. Prior programming experience is not needed: we're here for anyone who wants to learn, meet new people, and create something awesome.


Interact with Google's Cloud Natural Language API <https://cloud.google.com/natural-language/> (v1) via R. The API has four main features, all of which are available through this R package: syntax analysis and part-of-speech tagging, entity analysis, sentiment analysis, and language identification.
| Version: | 0.2.0 |
| Imports: | dplyr, httr, jsonlite, purrr, readr, rlang |
| Suggests: | testthat |
| Published: | 2018-07-13 |
| Author: | Brian Weinstien [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Brian Weinstien <bweinstein02 at gmail.com> |
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| Highlights: | We're looking for mentors and projects for Google Summer of Code: please get in touch if you have questions or suggestions. |
| Research Bazaar was again a highlight on Twitter this week, and Damien Irving summarised plans for Software Carpentry in Australia and New Zealand. | |
| Conversations: | An interesting conversation about "Library Carpentry" started by James Baker took place on Twitter. |
| New resources: | A new Browsercast tutorial "Creating a workshop website" was published. Please let us know if you have any comments. |
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| git-novice | 1 | 1 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
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| python-novice-inflammation | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | ||
| r-novice-inflammation | 19 | 1 | 5 | |||
| matlab-novice-inflammation | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1 | |
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| amy | 9 | 5 | 36 | 6 | 6 | |
| site | 5 | 3 | 39 | 16 | 14 | 4 |
| Total | 21 | 12 | 151 | 36 | 37 | 16 |


Multiple contributions to Solidity, the smart contract programming language used to interact with the Ethereum blockchain. Solidity is Written in C++ and used by thousands of smart contract developers. Contributed Pull Request that made data locations for function parameters required. This was a breaking change for version 0.5. Added new tests and modified older tests to comply with new feature. Gained experience with a production level, large-scale C++ codebase, and extensive experience with Git and Github.
Check it outCreated with a team of 4 at TAMUHack 2019. Mobile application to allow for a quick turnover in flight preparations for airline staff from landing to takeoff. I developed the back-end in Ruby on Rails and successfully deployed the application to Google Cloud using Google App Engine, along with designing the MySQL database and setting it up on Google Cloud SQL.
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Enemy of the State
Rating: 80 % Starring: Will Smith Gene Hackman Jon Voight Director: Tony Scott We in Cape Town have had our own experience of the type of surveillance as portrayed in Enemy of the State. Six alleged Pagad G-Force members were recently arrested following the monitoring of their movements by the Business Against Crime surveillance cameras. Big Brother is definitely alive and watching our every movement here in sunny South Africa.
In the director Tony Scott's movie Enemy of the State, the central question is how much invasion of privacy the state can be allowed to do. Is it right for the state to monitor every nook and cranny of its citizen's lives in the pursuit of protecting the country against those who seek to harm her. The movie kicks off when a prominent government official is assassinated because he is preparing to oppose Jon Voight character, who is seeking more leeway into prying in the daily lives of the ordinary citizens of the United States. Will Smith, portrays a lawyer who also uses illegally obtained surveillance footage to leverage himself and his clients into a position of strength against some shady Mafia figures.
When through a chain of events Will Smith comes in possession of the evidence of the government officials murder, his life is thrown into turmoil as the corrupt NSA agency head uses all the means of the modern spy apparatus to regain the evidence from him.
What really makes Enemy of the State such an engrossing movie is not the slick editing and well staged action scenes which makes the Jerry Bruckheimer production move at a cracking pace. The real success of the movie is to show how computer geeks locked away in dark rooms surrounded by the most expensive digital toys their governments can buy, can systematically destroy the illusion of ordinary day to day life that we take for granted.
The irony of Enemy of the State is that for Will Smith's character to retrieve himself out of the predicament he is in, he has to fight fire with fire. With the help of Gene Hackman's character he gains the necessary know how to defeat the enemy. The message one can get from this, is heaven help the poor souls who become the target of the government's focus to destroy them.
I really enjoyed Enemy of the State. If only half of the things shown in the movie are true, you better hope you don't stay in a country with a government too keen in using the latest hi tech gadgets against their citizens.
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`Double Jeopardy' – The Fugitive that Never Should've Been by Homer Yen (c) 1999
I think that at some point, Tommy Lee Jones, who I think is a very talented actor, must be able to find some work that doesn't involve him reprising his role from `The Fugitive'. In that memorable film, (to which this one will undoubtedly remind you of) he plays a smart lawman with the tracking ability of a bloodhound. In a recent film, `US Marshalls,' he did the same thing. And in this film, well, you kind of get the point.
Libby Parsons (Ashley Judd who oozes with potential but always winds up in mediocre movies) wakes up one night on her yacht to find that her husband, Nick (Bruce Greenwood) is missing.  Just as she picks it up, a coast guard cutter arrives thinking that she has sliced and diced her husband to death. Despite the fact that the body is never found, the prosecution convinces the jury (through nothing but circumstantial evidence) to convict her of the crime. During her incarceration, she discovers that Nick is alive. He has somehow framed Libby for his murder, though the reasons are a bit unclear to me. Now she only wants to get out of jail to track him down. Six years pass by and she learns one very important thing – the principle of double jeopardy. It states that once the State convicts you of a crime, it can not retry you for the same crime.
Armed with this knowledge, but with very little else, she manages to get paroled. Her parole officer is the gruff and man-of-little patience Travis Lehman (Jones). Though he will throw any one who breaks curfew back into jail without hesitation, Libby escapes the first chance she gets. Lehman now goes after her (allowing those that he oversaw to break curfew all they want), and the chase is on. Can Libby clear her name before Lehman tracks her down? I wouldn't think so. She's just not well equipped to do so. She's not a killer, so it's hard to believe that she would actually cold-heartedly pull the trigger when she finally does find Nick (which the movie trailers tell us that she does). And though she makes phone calls, surfs the internet and makes inquiries here and there, she doesn't really seem to have a plan of attack. As a result, the film just proceeds along like some Kansas interstate highway. There are no turns or twists or anything that would play on the irony of her situation. There are some scenes that heighten Libby's fragile predicament such as when she plunges over the side of a ferry or when she is entombed next to a decaying corpse. But this just tries to pump some juice into a film that just doesn't have enough electricity to keep going.
`Double Jeopardy' just lacked any significant amount of style and intrigue. The film doesn't exhibit the kind of energy that these kinds of chase movies need nor did it create any kind of chemistry between the hunter and the hunted. If you ever look through the newspaper ads for movies currently playing, you'll always notice quotes from various sources when there is something good to say. The funny thing is that when you look at the ad for `Double Jeopardy,' you'll see a quote from, of all places, NYLON magazine. Anybody ever heard of them? When you start pulling quotes from those kinds of places, it should be a sign that this is one to avoid.
Grade: C
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Source code for ampal.nucleic_acid
"""Contains AMPAL objects representing nucleic acids."""
from ampal.base_ampal import Polymer, Monomer
[docs]class Polynucleotide(Polymer):
"""`Polymer` type object that represents a `Polynucleotide`.
Parameters
----------
monomers : Nucleotide or [Nucleotide], optional
`Nucleotide` or list containing `Nucleotide` objects to form the
`Polynucleotide`.
polymer_id : str, optional
An ID that the user can use to identify the `Polynucleotide`. This is
used when generating a pdb file using `Polynucleotide().pdb`.
parent : ampal.Assembly, optional
Reference to `Assembly` containing the `Polynucleotide`.
sl : int, optional
The default smoothing level used when calculating the
backbone primitive.
Attributes
----------
id : str
`Polynucleotide` ID
parent : ampal.Assembly or None
Reference to `Assembly` containing the `Polynucleotide`
molecule_type : str
A description of the type of `Polymer` i.e. Protein, DNA etc.
ligands : ampal.LigandGroup
A `LigandGroup` containing all the `Ligands` associated with this
`Polynucleotide` chain.
tags : dict
A dictionary containing information about this AMPAL object.
The tags dictionary is used by AMPAL to cache information
about this object, but is also intended to be used by users
to store any relevant information they have.
sl : int
The default smoothing level used when calculating the
backbone primitive.
Raises
------
TypeError
`Polymer` type objects can only be initialised empty or using
a `Monomer`.
"""
def __init__(self, monomers=None, polymer_id=" ", parent=None, sl=2):
super().__init__(
monomers=monomers,
polymer_id=polymer_id,
molecule_type="nucleic_acid",
parent=parent,
sl=sl,
)
@property
def sequence(self):
"""Returns the sequence of the `Polynucleotide` as a string.
Returns
-------
sequence : str
String of the monomer sequence of the `Polynucleotide`.
"""
seq = [x.mol_code for x in self._monomers]
return " ".join(seq)
[docs]class Nucleotide(Monomer):
"""Represents a nucleotide base.
Parameters
----------
atoms : OrderedDict, optional
OrderedDict containing Atoms for the `Nucleotide`. OrderedDict
is used to maintain the order items were added to the
dictionary.
mol_code : str, optional
One or three letter code that represents the `Nucleotide`.
monomer_id : str, optional
String used to identify the `Nucleotide`.
insertion_code : str, optional
Insertion code of `Nucleotide`, used if reading from pdb.
is_hetero : bool, optional
True if is a hetero atom in pdb. Helps with PDB formatting.
parent : ampal.Polynucleotide, optional
Reference to `Polynucleotide` containing the `Nucleotide`.
Attributes
----------
mol_code : str
PDB molecule code that represents the `Nucleotide`.
insertion_code : str
Insertion code of `Nucleotide`, used if reading from pdb.
is_hetero : bool
True if is a hetero atom in pdb. Helps with PDB formatting.
states : dict
Contains an `OrderedDicts` containing atom information for each
state available for the `Nucleotide`.
id : str
String used to identify the `Nucleotide`.
reference_atom : str
The key that corresponds to the reference `Atom`. This is used
by various functions, for example backbone primitives are
calculated using the `Atom` defined using this key.
parent : Polynucleotide or None
A reference to the `Polynucleotide` containing this `Nucleotide`.
tags : dict
A dictionary containing information about this AMPAL object.
The tags dictionary is used by AMPAL to cache information
about this object, but is also intended to be used by users
to store any relevant information they have.
Raises
------
ValueError
Raised if `mol_code` is not length 1 or 3.
"""
def __init__(
self,
atoms=None,
mol_code="UNK",
monomer_id=" ",
insertion_code=" ",
is_hetero=False,
parent=None,
):
super().__init__(atoms, monomer_id, parent=parent)
self.mol_code = mol_code
self.mol_letter = mol_code[-1]
self.insertion_code = insertion_code
self.is_hetero = is_hetero
self.reference_atom = "P"
__author__ = "Christopher W. Wood"


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TEN THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU by DeWyNGaLe Rating: C+
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Lately, Shakespeare has been the subject of many movies, including the winner of the Academy Award for the Best Picture of 1998, Shakespeare In Love. Throughout 1999, moviegoers will also be able to experience William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dreams and Hamlet. Ten Things I Hate About You is the adaption of the Shakespeare piece, "The Taming of The Shrew." The plot of Ten Things I Hate About You revolves around the Stratford sisters, two students who attend Padua High that despise each other. First, there is Bianca Stratford, played by Larisa Oleynik, a popular, self centered person who doesn't care about others. Then, there is Bianca's sister named Kat, played by Julia Stiles. Kat is very disrespected at her school. According to Bianca, at one time Kat was popular, but because sick of the popularity. Now, Kat is very anti-social, mainly because she doesn't want to go with what everyone wants her to do.
At Padua High, there is a new face around school. His name is Cameron, played by 3rd Rock From the Sun and Halloween H20's Joseph Gordon-Levitt. His eye is immediately caught by Bianca Stratford, and now he is desperate to win her love. Cameron is immediately facing a problem. Joey, played by Andrew Keegan, is a very popular jock at Padua High. He also likes Bianca, so Cameron must get to her first. Now, Joey and Cameron are facing another problem. Bianca is not allowed to date because of the rule made by her father, played by Larry Miller. With the prom coming up, Bianca desperately wants to be able to date. Her father makes up a new rule. If Kat dates, Bianca can date. The rule sounds extremely unfair to Bianca, considering Kat doesn't even want to date. Cameron and Joey must find someone to take out Kat, so Bianca can date. Patrick, played by Heath Ledger, seems to be the right one to take out Kat. He is bribed to take Kat out, and then the film goes into very predicable sequences which I feel like I have watched over and over again.
TEN THINGS I LIKED ABOUT THIS MOVIE 1. Julia Stiles's wonderful acting performance. Julia was very realistic and believable as a teen. She has a bright future. 2. Larisa Oleynik's performance as Bianca. She was also very realistic as a teenager. Her character is much like many kids at my own school. 3. The way that it got its ideas from Shakespeare. 4. There are a number of funny sequences. 5. The soundtrack is fast and fun. It adds to the feel of the movie. 6. Heath Ledger's character was a pretty likable, fun character. 7. The way Bianca realized that she is selfish and she should be different than that. 8. The way the parent doesn't like their children be wild and uncontrolled like many movie parents do. 9. Larry Miller's performance as her father was an amusing role. 10. The title.
TEN THINGS I HATED ABOUT THIS MOVIE 1. The character of Joey, along with the performance by Andrew Keegan. 2. The character of Cameron, along with the performance by Joseph Gordon-Levitt 3. The way it is predictable. 4. The way it tries to mix little kid comedy with teenager comedy. 5. The way it is so much like other teen comedies. 6. The character of Michael. 7. Julia Stiles's character wasn't seen more. She was a great character. 8. It is very similarly to She's All That. 9. The way it leaves so many untied knots. 10. The ending.
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Tamworth company fined thousands for dumping waste
A Tamworth paint stripping company, Enviro-Strip GB Ltd has had to pay thousands of pounds in costs and fines after it dumped illegal amounts of chemicals into sewers.
by Helen MachinA TAMWORTH paint stripping company has had to pay thousands of pounds in costs and fines after it dumped illegal amounts of chemicals into sewers.
At Birmingham Magistrates Court, Enviro-Strip GB Ltd, based in Wilnecote, Tamworth, pleaded guilty to charges of breaching limits for various substances, most notably phosphorous and zinc.
The judge fined the company £2,400, with another £5,242 in costs, for its actions.
The chemicals dumped into the sewers eventually ended up at Severn Trent’s sewage treatment works, where the company had to deal with the issue.
James Jesic, Managing Director of Production for Severn Trent, said: “While we’re happy with the outcome, it was extremely concerning that Enviro-Strip GB Ltd made these illegal discharges, time and again.
“It’s absolutely vital that we take this sort of legal action to protect both our treatment works and also the environment, as well as recovering costs that, otherwise, our customers would have to bear.”
Phosphorus samples taken by Severn Trent in April 2018 were found to be more than 70 times the agreed limit for the firm.
Zinc samples also taken in April 2018 recorded levels more than eight times the limit.
Severn Trent said that whilst a company was permitted to discharge a certain amount of waste into its sewer network, there were agreed limits.
It said that higher than allowed levels of chemical discharges could lead to the sewage treatment works having to shut down, which would not be good for customers.
There is also a knock-on effect that sludge produced at the works cannot be used for agricultural purposes and has to go to landfill, having a detrimental effect on the environment.


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In Canada, I've got a Master of Science in Computer Science from Northeastern University. I also tooked the BCIT's Applied Web and Applied Software Development programs. and the CodeCore College's Developer Bootcamp. During these programs, I was able to consolidate my skills inside the Full-Stack Application Development field, enhancing my abilities in subjects like Java, Node, Javascript, React.js, React Native, Angular, Cordova, Android, PHP, Ruby on Rails, JQuery, AJAX, JSON, HTML5 & CSS, OOP, RESTful APIs, AR, VR, IoT, Relational and Non-Relational databases, and etc.
I consider myself (maybe, I should say: I had better be) a continuous learner, always committed to improve and extend my experience and skills in different fields of knowledge, passionate about applying the improvements in technology to day-to-day life, and to automate and optimize business processes.


Terminate debugging in CodeBench. This ends the debug session, but leaves the emulation job and vmajic debug server still running, so you can relaunch the debugger for a new session.
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Day's Student Teaching Blog
<EMAIL_ADDRESS>The team delivering my application will be a webapplication!
Description of Application Through the Lens of the User
The application Day’s Student-Teaching Blog will consist of various things.
When the website is first open, the user will see a brief background of myself.
When you scroll down, student-teachers can rate how they're feeling for their student-teaching.
Depending how they feel, they will recieve a postive message.
When you scroll further, there will be additional quotes to motivate student-teachers during their
student-teaching.
At the very bottom of the page, I will provide advice on what to do and not to do during their student-teaching.
Overall, Day’s
Student-Teaching Blog is a community of student-teachers that I will be encouraging.
Prioritized List of Desired Features in the Time Allowed
Big headers with an image and solid colors
GIFs
Links
Images
Emojis
Personal email address
User being able to rate how they feel about their student-teaching
Solid backgrounds for the different tabs
Solid backgrounds for the text
Non-proiritized List of Features if There was More Time
Tabs within the website
A tab where other student teachers can provide advice
A tab containing personal resources created by
me to help the student-teacher to stay organized
A tab of appropriate teacher outfits
Adding a moving background
Have student-teachers create their free personal accounts
The Languages and Platforms that will be Utilized
The languages and platforms that I will be utlizing will be html, css, JavaScript, GitHub, and Azure.
The Technical Features being Implemented that I Have Learned in Class
The technical features I will be using for my html that I learned in class are !DOCTYPE html,
html lang="en-US", meta charset="UTF-8", link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css", head, body,
h, p, img, a href, button onclick, attaching links, and JavaScript (console.log, document.getElementId, etc.).
The technique features I will be using for my css is background-color, text-align, color,
font-size, font-family, display, margin-left, and margin-right.
The Technical Features being Implemented that Go Beyond of What I Learned in Class
The technical features being implemented will be placing emojis like 😀 or 🌻, implementing GIFs, big headers with an image and solid colors for both my css and html.


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Andy, Corey, Kurt and Jeremy evaluate Mike Quade's managing in the first two weeks of the 2011 season. We also take a look at how Casey Coleman and James Russell are doing, filling in for Andrew Cashner and Randy Wells. We take a look at a few Cubs players that are struggling early in the season and look at the "man" on the other end of the spectrum, Starlin Castro. Kurt introduces a new regular segment, we choose a winner of our Facebook Photo Caption Contest and award the first Asshat of the Week in 2011.


Trump Called Out for Taking Credit for Opening Apple Plant Operating Since '13
by VladTVJon Cooper, the chairman of the Democratic Coalition, called out Donald Trump on Twitter for claiming that he opened a new Apple plant in Texas this week.
This comes after reports that Trump toured an Apple manufacturing plant in Austin alongside Apple CEO Tim Cook, where he took credit for opening the plant while speaking to the media. Trump also tweeted, "Today I opened a major Apple Manufacturing plant in Texas that will bring high paying jobs back to America. Today Nancy Pelosi closed Congress because she doesn’t care about American Workers!"
However, as Cooper pointed out, the plant has been open since 2013. He responded to Trump by writing, "Apple actually opened that plant in 2013 during the Obama administration, you lying dipsh*t."


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As an international student who firstly arrived at the USA, the first big challenge occured to me was not adapting to different weather, language or culture, but was the fact that there was no furniture in my apartment.
Buying a set of brand new furniture is not cost-effective particularly for people like me who regard the place as a temporary residency (i.e. short-term study/work), hence used-furniture becomes an ideal alternative. However, buying fine-quality furniture for an apartment effectively is more difficult than I expected.
The intention of designing EasyFurniture is to connect local used-furniture sellers and buyers in a more effcient way.
My initial intention is to optimize the processes of used-furniture selling and buying. After investigating a number of used-furniture trading platforms both online and offline, I concluded four models of operation.
Concluded from the preliminary research and personal experiences, the preliminary idea of the design was formed. The graph below represents the features that could be learnt from competitors (parity), and also indentify space for improvements (differentiation).
I built three personas and one anti persona (the final one) to specify who would be target audiences of the design and who would be not. In short, my design aims at people who hope to buy relatively cheap uesd-furniture with less concern on qualities.
To narrow down the scope, I decided to focus on the seller interface since it will be interesting consider a primary reason causing difficulty in second-hand furniture trading lies on them. Most of the current design does not encourage them to enter adequate information for selling local products.
In the first round of prototype, I selected five main features that would be incorporated into the design and used paper, pen, post-it and plastic sheet to quick prototype the interactions. Three students were invited to participate in the usibility testing and feedbacks were offered for modification and improvements.
While there are multiple options for one simple design, I use a design technique Questions, Options and Criteria(QOC) to reason my design.
After reflecting on the user feedback alongside with self-critisizing through QOC analysis, the wireframes of main features were produced.
The hi-fi prototype consists of all the interfaces that would occur through a journey of a seller. I used Sketch to produce screens and then used InVision to add interactions. See selected screens below.


- random(int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.AIPlayer
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Utility function to return a random number between 0 and max.
- randomInt(List<Integer>) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.CaptureData.FightAction.Fail
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- randomResourceVal() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.util.PlotManager
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Function to return a random number in range
- randomType() - Static method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.CaptureData
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- readChar() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.TypeAnimation
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Read in next character and move the cursor next to it.
- readFloat() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.TypeAnimation
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Read in a float.
- readInt() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.TypeAnimation
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Read in the next integer in dec format.
- rect - Static variable in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.AnimationTimeout
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- refreshCurrentlySelectedRoboticon() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Sets the appearance of the current roboticon on the market screen.
- refreshRoboticonShop() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Refreshes the interface of the Roboticon shop whenever it's interacted with
Also toggles the player's ability to make their desired purchase, depending on whether or not they hold
sufficient resources
- regionHeight - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.Overlay
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Height of the overlay region
- regionWidth - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.Overlay
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Width of the overlay region
- removeBorder() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.util.TTFont
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Removes the borders around the internal BitmapFont's characters
Internal FreeTypeFontGenerator re-generates the encapsulate BitmapFont following the border removal
- removeLandPlot(LandPlot) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.Player
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Remove the LandPlot from the user.
- removeOverlay() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.GameScreen
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- removeOwner() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.LandPlot
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Removes the owner of the tile
- removeShadow() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.util.TTFont
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Removes the shadows beneath the internal BitmapFont's characters
Internal FreeTypeFontGenerator re-generates the encapsulate BitmapFont following the shadow removal
- render(float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.EndGameScreen
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- render(float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.GameScreen
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- render(float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.MainMenuScreen
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- render(float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.PlayerSelectScreen
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- renderAnimation(float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.AbstractAnimationScreen
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Request to render animation.
- renderCaptureAnimation(Batch) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.WildChancellorAppear
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Render frames during master ball event.
- renderer - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.GameScreen
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- renderStrBuilder - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.TypeAnimation
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- reposition(float, float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.Overlay
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- reset(boolean) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.WhiteStrip
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Reset strip to a random position and speed
- reset(int, int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.RoboticonQuest
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Resets the statistics of all the game's entities
- resize(int, int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.EndGameScreen
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- resize(int, int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.GameScreen
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Resize the viewport as the render window's size change.
- resize(int, int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.MainMenuScreen
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- resize(float, float) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.Overlay
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Re-sizes the overlay to cover the specified parameters
- resize(int, int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.PlayerSelectScreen
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- ResourceDelta - Class in io.github.teamfractal.entity
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- ResourceDelta() - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.entity.ResourceDelta
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- ResourceDelta(int, int, int, int) - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.entity.ResourceDelta
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- resourceMarket - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.RoboticonQuest
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- ResourceMarketActors - Class in io.github.teamfractal.actors
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Created by Joseph on 17/02/2017.
- ResourceMarketActors(RoboticonQuest) - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.actors.ResourceMarketActors
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Constructor class that connects the resource market to the internal engine and builds its visual interface
- ResourceMarketScreen - Class in io.github.teamfractal.screens
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Created by Joseph on 17/02/2017.
- ResourceMarketScreen(RoboticonQuest) - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.screens.ResourceMarketScreen
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Constructs the market's interface in the space of an overlay using the actors defined and instantiated in the
ResourceMarketActors class
- resourceType - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.MarketAdjustableActor
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Determines the type of resource that the widget will handle transactions for
- ResourceType - Enum in io.github.teamfractal.entity.enums
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The possible Resource Type in the game.
- ResourceType() - Constructor for enum io.github.teamfractal.entity.enums.ResourceType
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- resourceTypeToIndex(ResourceType) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.LandPlot
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- resStr(int, String) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.AnimationAddResources
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Generate the animation text.
- resume() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.EndGameScreen
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- resume() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.GameScreen
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- resume() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.MainMenuScreen
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- resume() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.PlayerSelectScreen
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- revert() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.PlotEffect
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Reverts the changes made by the effect to the last plot that it was assigned to
- revertAll() - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.PlotEffect
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Reverts all affected tiles back to their original states
- rnd - Static variable in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.WhiteStrip
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- rnd - Static variable in class io.github.teamfractal.animation.chancellor.WildChancellorAppear
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- rnd - Static variable in class io.github.teamfractal.RoboticonQuest
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- rnd - Static variable in class io.github.teamfractal.screens.ResourceMarketScreen
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- roboticon - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.CaptureData.FightAction.Fail.Cost
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- roboticon - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.Market
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- roboticon - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.ResourceDelta
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- Roboticon - Class in io.github.teamfractal.entity
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- Roboticon(int) - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.entity.Roboticon
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- roboticon - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.RoboticonTest
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- roboticonAddButton - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Button that increments roboticonPurchaseAmount
- roboticonImage - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Image object that serves to draw a visual representation of the roboticonTexture object
- roboticonList - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.Player
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- roboticonMarket - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.RoboticonQuest
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- RoboticonMarketActors - Class in io.github.teamfractal.actors
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Created by Joseph on 08/02/2017.
- RoboticonMarketActors(RoboticonQuest) - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Constructor class that connects the roboticon market to the internal engine and builds its visual interface
- RoboticonMarketScreen - Class in io.github.teamfractal.screens
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Created by Joseph on 15/02/2017.
- RoboticonMarketScreen(RoboticonQuest) - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.screens.RoboticonMarketScreen
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Constructs the roboticon market's interface in the space of an overlay using the actors defined and instantiated
in the RoboticonMarketActors class
- roboticonOverlay - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.util.PlotManager
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- roboticonPurchaseAmount - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Variable holding the amount of roboticons that the user would like to purchase
- roboticonPurchaseAmountLabel - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Label representing the amount of roboticons that the user would like to purchase
- roboticonPurchaseButton - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Button that, upon being clicked, attempts to process a transaction of roboticons for the current player
- RoboticonQuest - Class in io.github.teamfractal
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This is the main game start up class.
- RoboticonQuest() - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.RoboticonQuest
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- RoboticonQuestTest - Class in io.github.teamfractal
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This class has been emptied and is now tested manually in the "Manual Testing"
document.
- RoboticonQuestTest() - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.RoboticonQuestTest
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- roboticons - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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An array containing the unplaced roboticons held by the current player
- roboticonSubButton - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Button that decrements roboticonPurchaseAmount
- RoboticonTest - Class in io.github.teamfractal.entity
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- RoboticonTest() - Constructor for class io.github.teamfractal.entity.RoboticonTest
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- roboticonTexture - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.RoboticonMarketActors
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Texture corresponding to the selected roboticon
- roboticonTile - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.LandPlot
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- RoboticonType - Enum in io.github.teamfractal.entity.enums
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- RoboticonType() - Constructor for enum io.github.teamfractal.entity.enums.RoboticonType
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- rowWithHeight(int) - Method in class io.github.teamfractal.actors.ResourceMarketActors
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Add an empty row to current table.
- runnable - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.PlayerEffect
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Object containing a method that the effect can automatically trigger if and when it is run
- runnable - Variable in class io.github.teamfractal.entity.PlotEffect
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Object containing a method that the effect can automatically trigger if and when it is run


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THREE WHO ARE BEATING THE POVERTY CLOCK
Winning the fight against poverty with help from friends
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) invited these three
people, whose lives have changed (and who in turn are changing the lives
of others), to share their experiences at an event held at UN Headquarters
in New York to inaugurate the International Year for the Eradication of
Poverty.
Following are their brief biographies and descriptions of the projects
in which they are involved. Betty Bangira is a Zimbabwean mother of four
whose life was changed when her community joined with five others to create
an irrigation project in one of the country's desertified provinces. She
has been elected spokesperson of her cooperative for her commitment to
self-help against poverty.
Luis Ticona Mamani is an indigenous Aymara of the Bolivian highlands
who is now the Director of an association of alpaca herdsmen. The association
has improved both the quality and exports of alpaca fibre and has tripled
incomes of some 4,000 families in Bolivia's barren altiplano.
Lenore Cola is a mother of three, a resident of the Harlem section of
New York, USA. Ms. Cola, whose family was homeless for four years, became
involved in 1989 in a street library programme for children and their parents
organized by International Movement ATD Fourth World, and has since become
a leader in the programme and in her community.
Betty Bangira
Betty Bangira is married with four children and lives in the Mhondoro
Communal Area in Bangira Village about 80 kilometres south of Harare in
Mashonaland West Province, Zimbabwe. Her husband, who suffers from a kidney
ailment, has been unemployed for more than five years. Ms. Bangira is 27
years old and has two years of secondary school education. She lives in
a hut and works one half of a hectare of vegetables. The nearest borehole
for safe drinking water is five kilometres away. Her livestock consists
of two chickens. Ms. Bangira is a member of the Kushinga Cooperative.
As in many Communal Areas in Zimbabwe, the Mhondoro Communal Area suffers
from encroaching desertification. A group of people from six villages approached
the United Nations Development Programme's "Africa 2000" programme
in 1993 for help in irrigating the low-quality, dry land of the area. A
dam was built by 1995 which provided necessary irrigation. Ms. Bangira
joined the cooperative in 1995. Although it was a bad drought year, she
was able to grow and harvest vegetables, and with the proceeds buy mealie
meal, two pots and a sugar bowl. Next harvest she wants to buy a pan. Her
colleagues selected her to be their ambassador of goodwill for her thrift,
her work with others and her commitment to self-help against poverty.
Mhondoro Communal Area Irrigation Project,
Zimbabwe
This project combines poverty alleviation, natural resource management,
food production and biodiversity.
Background
The Mhondoro Communal Area of Zimbabwe suffers from encroaching desertification
resulting from widespread soil erosion due in turn to deforestation, uncontrolled
cultivation and overgrazing. Land degradation and gullies are common. Rivers
in the area are silted, and the occurrence of drought, even on a small
scale, results in severe livestock losses and food shortages.
The project
Six villages in the Mashonaland West Province of Zimbabwe organized
themselves into the Kushinga Cooperative in October 1993 and approached
the Africa 2000 Network of the United Nations Development Programme. Africa
2000 supports income-generating and environmentally sound small projects
in rural Africa, designed and put in place by the people who benefit from
them. Grants are typically less than US$5,000. Half of the national coordinators
are women. The Kushinga Cooperative wanted funding of a water catchment
basin for irrigation. The objectives: improved range lands for increased
productivity of livestock; better management of arable lands to reduce
soil erosion and enhance crop yields; increased water supply to permit
introduction of additional plant species in the environment; increased
tree planting, and a community more responsible for its own development
and environmental management.
A small dam was constructed between May of 1994 and June of 1995 with
the assistance of agricultural engineering and environmental technical
services of the government. The capacity of the dam is 30,400 cubic metres,
or 6.7 million gallons. The community contribution in labor, tree planting
and reclamation of gullies is estimated at $4,120. The resulting projects
include a grazing scheme and nutrition garden, managed by the Cooperative.
The outside funding for the project, $50,000, was committed by UNDP/Africa
2000 and the Small Grants programme of the Global Environment Facility
(GEF). GEF is a joint funding and technical assistance organization for
environmentally sustainable development managed by UNDP, the World Bank
and the United Nations Environment Programme.
Luis Ticona Mamani
Luis Ticona was born into an indigenous Aymara family and community
on the altiplano of Bolivia in 1946. He has devoted all his working life
to improving the economic condition of the impoverished rural families
of the Bolivian highlands.
Mr. Ticona was trained in community development, cooperative enterprise
management and accounting. He began his career in 1969 with the National
Community Development Service, where he worked for five years in remote
rural areas. His successes there led to his appointment as national coordinator
of programs for rural youth.
In 1979, moved by the plight of impoverished alpaca producers of the
altiplano, Mr. Ticona and several of his community development colleagues
developed a project to improve the economic situation of the families whose
only source of income is the raising of the alpaca (a "camelid,"
related to the llama) and the sale of the alpaca wool fibre. Mr. Ticona's
work led to the establishment of the Integrated Association of Camelid
Producers of the High Andes. Mr. Ticona has been the manager of the association
nearly continuously since its founding, testimony to the high regard in
which he is held by the more than 1,000 member families who have benefited
from his stewardship of the association and its assets. He was recently
elected president of the new National Network of Camelid Producers and
was appointed to the National Livestock Policy Committee of the Bolivian
Secretariat of Agriculture.
Bolivia Alpaca Fibre Production and
Processing Project
The Bolivia Alpaca Project, begun in 1992, was designed to alleviate
the extreme poverty of approximately 4,000 alpaca producing families of
the Bolivian Altiplano. Because of harsh conditions and high altitude these
families depend on their alpacas (members of the same "camelid"
family as llamas) as their only source of income. Prior to the project,
family income averaged US$300 a year. Now it averages $900 a year. Before
the project, poor quality alpaca wool fibre was bought by middlemen from
neighbouring countries and smuggled out of Bolivia. Today, thanks to a
$1.3 million processing plant opened in November of 1994 and 80 per cent
owned by small alpaca producers, quality alpaca fibre is exported to Italian
and other European spinning plants, as well as being used in the domestic
knitted apparel industry.
Other results of the project:
- Loans to 441 producer families with an on-time repayment rate of 98
per cent over the past four years.
- The establishment of preventive and curative animal health programmes
which have resulted in a 30 per cent reduction in adult alpaca mortality
and 35 per cent reduction in infant alpaca deaths. The introduction of
more than 7,000 high-quality breeding animals to improve the yields of
500 herds.
- The development of 7,200 hectares of improved pastures and the irrigation
and reclamation of 3,100 hectares of desertified land.
These results were attained through a field technical assistance programme
carried out with the Association of Camelid Producers of the High Andes
through hands-on extension services on farms, and a revolving loan fund.
Technical assistance was provided in animal health, pasture improvement,
genetic improvement, herd management and the introduction of modern shearing
and fibre handling processes.
The processing plant is now producing 100 tons of alpaca wool a year,
valued at $1.3 million annually on the European market. Firm orders from
European textile companies have meant that producers are selling the fibre
at $5 a kilogram to the plant, compared to $1.60 when sold to intermediaries
in earlier years. The plant in turn adds value of $8 to $10 per kilogram,
resulting in an export price of $13 to $15 a kilogram, some nine times
the earlier top price received. Because the small producers hold 80 per
cent stock ownership of the plant, either directly or through the association,
the income from the plant can help make the entire industry self-sustaining.
Proceeds from the plant will fund the veterinary and technical assistance
activities begun under the project.
Funding for the project came from the producers association ($240,000),
the United Nations Capital Development Fund ($3,135,623) the United Nations
Development Programme ($683,288) and the organization Appropriate Technology
International, or ATI ($442,625). ATI was the implementing organization
in the project.
Lenore Cola
Ms. Lenore Cola was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1952. She was
raised in New York City. She is currently living in Harlem with her three
children.
Ms. Cola is a high-school graduate. She completed a year of nursing
school, but was unable to finish the programme in which she was enroled.
She worked as a nursing assistant for seven years in Louisiana, then
moved back to New York City. Unable to find a job, she became homeless.
She and her family lived in different shelters for four years.
Ms. Cola became involved with the Fourth World Movement in 1989, while
she was living in one of the shelters in Harlem. She and her children participated
actively in the street library program run by Fourth World Movement volunteers
in the area.
After having been rehoused, Ms. Cola became involved with the Fourth
World Family Network. This training program brings together parents from
poor and non poor backgrounds. One of its objectives is to encourage parents
to support and prolong the activities of the street libraries. Another
objective is to make known the lives, hopes and experiences of poor families.
Parents thus learn together how to represent their own community. Members
of the network have met with local officials and have participated in national
and international meetings. Ms. Cola, in particular, has also helped new
families become involved in this programme. In addition, she is active
in her community, including within her children's school.
In October 1994, Ms. Cola was a delegate to the Second International
Fourth World Family Congress, which took place in New York and in Washington,
DC. Within the context of the congress, she participated in a seminar entitled,
"Extreme Poverty and the Denial of Human Rights," organized by
the United Nations Center for Human Rights. There, she actively took part
in discussions with United Nations officials, scholars and other delegates
to the congress from around the world.
The Street Library Programme
In a report to the French Economic and Social Council about extreme
poverty and the insecurities to which it exposes people, the founder of
the International Movement ATD Fourth World, Father Joseph Wresinski, wrote:
"Many of the difficulties children encounter in school are rooted
in their social, economic and, above all, cultural deprivation. One of
the highest prorities in the fight against poverty is to improve access
to basic education and skills training for the most disadvantaged children."
The street library programme that is carried out with impoverished families
in different parts of the world, developed as a way to foster an interest
in learning through books, art and computers.
The local programme presently reaches about 120 children between the
ages of 5 and 12, and their parents, in East New York, Brooklyn. In the
past, it has been present in central Harlem, Coney Island, the South Bronx
and in several shelters for homeless families. Volunteers of the International
Movement ATD Fourth World and friends of the organization go to each site
once a week after school with a bookcase on wheels and other material.
Children come to read, to listen to stories and to participate in other
activities that encourage them to learn. One long-term project last year
involved constructing with the children a rollercoaster for marbles, inspired
by a sculpture in the Port Authority. The workshop included designing the
model on computer, and building it with a variety of tools and materials.
While keeping the focus on books, the programme introduces arts, crafts
and computers. By discovering the joy of reading and learning in general,
the children gain confidence in themselves.
The street library programme takes place where the children live, so
their parents can play a role as active partners. These parents are confronted
daily with the struggle to bring up their families in very difficult conditions.
Because volunteers of ATD Fourth World want to learn from the parents what
they already do to encourage their children to move ahead, they visit the
parents and ask them to help plan and evaluate the activities of the street
library. The project brings parents together and supports them in their
desire to contribute to the improvement of their neighbourhoods. For example,
some parents have been especially helpful in trying to get other, more
excluded families to participate in the activities. One mother stated,
"The volunteers help us organize. We try to get more parents and more
kids involved. But it is kind of hard, because some parents don't want
to come. They feel ashamed. They are afraid that somebody might look down
on them. But in the street libraries it's not like that."
The International Movement ATD Fourth World tries to extend this partnership
to include local government agencies and other members of the private sector
that share the same concerns. For example, the street library programme
has played a role in the city's struggle against the presence of drugs
in its neighborhoods. The State of New York recognized this impact by presenting
the organization with a grant from the Office of Alchoholism and Substance
Abuse Services.
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