In English
Code
 ...
 Password: <input name="pword1" id="pword1" type="password" class="nbpr-new-password lowercase uppercase special-char digit max-consecutive nospaces" data-minchars="8" data-maxchars="10" data-match="pword2" data-password-requirements-container="passwordRequirementsEn" aria-describedby="theH1" data-max-consecutive="4" autocomplete="off">

 Confirm Password: <input name="pword2" id="pword2" type="password" class="nbpr-confirm-password" data-match="pword1">

En Français
Code

 ...
 Mot de passe : <input name="pword3" id="pword3" type="password" class="notPassword maxchars minchars nbpr-new-password lowercase uppercase special-char digit pasMotdepasse max-consecutive" minlength="4" data-minchars="6" data-max-consecutive="6" data-match="pword4" data-maxchars="20" maxlength="21" data-password-requirements-container="passwordRequirementsFr">

 Confirmez le mot de passe : <input name="pword4" id="pword4" type="password" class="nbpr-confirm-password" data-match="pword3">

Notes
The important parts of this widget are:
- Only the first password field references the list of requirements using
aria-describedby
- “Met” and “Unmet” only change when the criteria becomes met, or unmet.
- Each list item is like:

.aria-live=”polite”
makes a screen reader read out the contents when there’s a change, andaria-atomic=”true”
makes the screen reader read out the whole line, not just “met” or “unmet”. Note that each list item needs to be its own live region. If the whole widget is a live region, then the whole list gets read out whenever there’s a change. You don’t want that.
Screen Reader results
In the above, I have the widget demo'd in French and English. In English, the list of requirements comes after the password inputs. In French it comes before. In English, the status of the requirements are exposed to screen readers after the requirement (Ex: "At least 1 uppercase letter. Met"). In French, they come before (Ex: "Remplie : Au moins 1 lettre majuscule"). In both languages, the status is a
nested inside the
that has the requirement. In English, the

is referenced by the first password input with aria-describedby
to demonstrate that you can still use aria-describedby
and this widget won't override your values - only add to them.
The following tests will be done and results listed below:
- Top to Bottom
- Read through the page top to bottom (Insert+Down in NVDA, JAWS, and Narrator. Control+option+Right in VoiceOver OS X, swipe-right in VoiceOver iOS.) to check if the list of requirements is read as a list, if each requirement is listed with its status.
- Bit by Bit
- Read through the page line by line, item by item. (Down in NVDA and JAWS. Insert+Right in Narrator. Control+option+right arrow key in VoiceOver OS X, swipe-right in VoiceOver iOS.) This shouldn't give different results than Top to Bottom. If it never does, I'll just stop tracking, and erase this. Else, differences will be noted.
- Focusing
- When the first password field takes focus, are all elements referenced by
aria-describdedby
read out, including the

in the English widget, the phrase "All passwords must contain", and each criteria along with their status? - Typying
- As you type, when requirements are met or unmet is the change announced? Does the announcement include both the requirement and its new status?
- Re-typing
- If you type a few characters, then Shift+Home or Shift+Back to select the whole password, then delete and start again, all requiremtns should be set to their initial state, then they should change as they're met/unmet as you type more characters. I'll type "P-a-s-s" to change the status for Uppercase, Lowercase, and no two letters consecutively.. Then Select-all -> Delete -> retype the same thing.
Each will have notes about support and behavior. Here's what they mean:
- Full support
- Everything works as it should, including
lang
attributes. A screen reader user shouldn't experience any barriers beyond the inherent complixity of the process. - Mostly supported
- Most things will work as they should, but there may be something that's not right which could be part of how the screen reader and/or operating system work, such as not respecting the
lang
attributes. My results could be because I don't have French properly downloaded or installed on my OS or SR. But this is mostly an edge case. - Partial support
- Some aspects work. Some don't. A screen reader user may be able to find workarounds, for example if not all password requirements are read in a top-down reading, but they are when the input takes focus.
- No support
- Not a thing in that test works. A screen reader user will face a signifiant barrier. The thing just doesn't work.
- Odd behavior
- This is for things that made me go "hmmmmm". Like if the screen reader only reads part of a list item; or reads it twice or thrice.
- N/A
- Not Applicable. Due to a limitation in the system (or my skills), this test couldn't be performed.
Windows:
NVDA 2022.1
- Firefox 101
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Edge 103
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Chrome 102
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Internet Explorer 11
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Focusing
- When focus lands in the
<input>
, the list of requirements, along with their status, is read out as it should be. But that's all that's read out. The

and "Your password must contain" are not read out. Partial support. - Typying
- As I type, when the status of a requirement changes, the requirement is read out along with the status of what it was, not what it is. Ex: when I type "P" I hear "At least 1 uppercase letter unmet". Partial support.
- Re-typing
- When I select the text and delete it, I hear the requirements that have changed all read out along with their old status. Ex: "At least 1 uppercase letter met, At least 1 lowercase letter met", etc. Then as I retype the password, I hear everything as I did when I first typed the password. Partial support.
JAWS 2021
- Firefox 101
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Edge 103
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Chrome 102
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Except the French is read out with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Internet Explorer 11
-
- Top to Bottom
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Bit by Bit
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Focusing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Typying
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
- Re-typing
- Everything is read out as it should be. Full support.
Narrator
- Firefox 101
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads everything fine until it gets to the list. At first it reads out it all as it should. Then when it gets to the bottom and reads the last list item, it goes back up and re-reads "Your password must contain". Then it reads the list again properly. Then when it's done reading the last list item, it goes back and re-reads the list starting with the first list item. Then at the second list item, after it reads out the requirement, it goes back and re-reads the second half of the requirement and the status Ex: "Passwords must match unmet. At least 8 characters met. A maximum of 10 characters. Of 10 characters met. At least 1 lowercase letter unmet. 1 lowercase letter unmet." It seems that whenever Narrator meets a new block of content, it wants to read it all out. Also,
lang
attributes are not respected when it gets to the French. - Bit by Bit
- Maybe I just don't know Narrator well enough yet, but when I Insert+Right and I come to an
<input>
, my focus gets placed there, and Insert+Right doesn't take me out, like I'm in some kind of Forms Mode. All I hear is "No next item". I'm going to consider this to be total failure no support. - Focusing
- When the password input takes focus, after about a 2 second pause only the very first thing in the
aria-describedby
(ie: the

) is read. In French, none of thearid-describedby
content is read. But thelang
attributes are not respected. No support. - Typying
- As I type, with each character, all I hear is "hidden". No changes are being read by Narrator. No support.
- Re-typing
- With no changes being read out as I type, this doesn't work either. No support.
- Edge 103
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads everything the way it should. respecting
lang
attributes. - Bit by Bit
- When it gets to the

, it does not read it out immediately. You have to press Insert+Right again. Then the
gets read. When it gets to the list, first it reads out "1 of 10 level 1". Then when you press Insert+Right again it reads out the requirement. ("At least 8 characters"). Then you have to press Insert+Right to hear the status. When it gets to the French, it reads the text out in French. - Focusing
- When the password input takes focus, everything is read out as it should (after about a 2 second pause). But then the

is read out again at the end. In French,lang
attributes are respected. - Typying
- When I start typing, the Narrator visual focus indicator goes to the next thing (the "Confirm Password"

) and Narrator reads out "End of line selected". In fact, it reads out "End ofline selected" after every character I type. Then it reads out the "At least 1 uppcase letter met" as it should. - Re-typing
- When I select all the typed-text and press delete, Narrator reads out all changed requirements with heir new status. And as I retype, all changes are read out as they should be.
- Chrome 102
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads everything the way it should until it gets to the list items. When it reads each list item it starts with its position, but then reads out "Heading level 1". Then it reads out the requirement and its status. Ex: "1 of 10 level 1, heading level 1, At least 8 characters unmet". And it does not respect
lang
attributes. - Bit by Bit
- It skips over "In English" and goes right from "Main landmark" to "New Password". When it gets to the list, first it reads out "1 of 10 level 1 heading level 1". Then when you press Insert+Right again it reads out the requirement. ("At least 8 characters"). Then you have to press Insert+Right to hear the status. When it gets to the French, again it skips En Français and goes right to "Votre mod de passe doit contenir" it reads the text out in a strong English accent.
- Focusing
- When the password input takes focus, after about a 2 second pause only the very first thing in the
aria-describedby
(ie: the

) is read. In French, none of thearid-describedby
content is read. And thelang
attributes are not respected. No support. - Typying
- As I type, with each character, all I hear is "hidden". No changes are being read by Narrator. No support.
- Re-typing
- With no changes being read out as I type, this doesn't work either. No support.
- Internet Explorer 11
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads everything the way it should. Since IE can't handle more than one set of requirements on one page, I can't test the French section.
- Bit by Bit
- It's goes well until it gets to the list. For each list item, it reads the requirement, the status, and the position. Ex: "At least 8 characters unmet. 1 of 10". But then when I press Insert+Right, it reads out the requirement and status, then it reads out the requirement again. Ex: "At least 8 characters unmet At least 8 characters". Then I press Insert+Right again, and it reads out the status. When I press Insert+Right again, it goes to the next requirement line.
- Focusing
- When the password input takes focus, after about a 2 second pause only the list of requirements is read, but it does read each requirement along with its status. The

and "Your password must contain" are both ignored. Partial support. - Typying
- As I type, with each character, after I hear "hidden", the changed requirements are read out with their new status. Full support with odd behavior.
- Re-typing
- When I select the text and delete, all changed requirements, along with their new status, get read out twice. Then when I retype the password, as things change, those changes are read out as they should be. Full support with odd behavior.
iOS with VoiceOver
iOS v14
- Sarafi, Firefox, and Chrome
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads top to bottom reading everything as it should, respecting all
lang
atributes. Full support - Bit by Bit
- It reads everything as it should. But, it does consider the requirement a separate thing than its status. So you have to swipe-right after you hear "At least 8 characters" to hear "Unmet". All
lang
atributes are respected. Full support. - Focusing
- When VoiceOver focuses the input, everything referenced by
aria-describedby
is read out as it should be. Alllang
atributes are respected. But when you enter the input to start typing, it's not. I think this is just how VoiceOver on iOS just works, but I find it odd. Mostly supported with odd behavior. - Typying
- As you type, changes are announced. But in French, the changes are read in a strong English accent. Mostly supported
- Re-typing
- If there's a way to do this without an external keyboard (which I don't have) then I haven't found it. N/A
Mac OS X with VoiceOver
Mac OS X 10.15.7 (Catalina)
- Safari 15.5
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads properly until I get to the list and read "List 10 items", then it just stops reading. So if I hit Control+Option+A again, it reads out the last part of the first item, then jumps down to the first thing outside the list. Ex: "Unmet Submit button". Note that when you do get to the list, if you wait for a second or two VoiceOver reads out instructions about navigating the list. Okay, things have just gotten funny. In playing with this, now VoiceOver keeps reading the list when it gets to it. It doesn't stop. I have no idea what's going on. Mostly supported with odd behavior.
- Bit by Bit
- Most is fine, but each list item is treated as two parts: the requirement, and the status. When you Control+Option+right to the first requirement, it reads out the requirement and position (ex: "At least 8 characters 1 of 10") then you need to Control+Option+Right to hear "Unmet". Then when you get to the French part, it reads out all French text in a French accent. Full support
- Focusing
- The name, role, and value are all read. Then it reads all descriptions including each requirement and its status as it should. In French, everything is read with a strong English accent. Full support.
- Typying
- As I type, changed requirements are read out along with their new status. Full support.
- Re-typing
- When I select everything and delete it, it seems like it's trying to read all changes out, but only says one. ("At least 1 uppercase letter unmet.") Then as I start typing again, the requirements are read out as their status changes, but the status itself is only read out if it was not announced in the deletion process. When I retype "P" I hear "At least one uppercase letter met". But then when I type "a" I hear "At least one lowercase letter". When I type "s-s" I hear "No two characters the same consecutively". But if I type a "!" I hear "At least one special character met". Then if press Backspace as statii changes, their requirement along with their new status is read out. Mostly supported with odd behavior.
- Firefox 102
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads properly until I get to the list and then it only reads the last thing (ie: a

in the list. Ex: "Your password must contain list 10 items unmet met unmet unmet" then for the French: Votre mot do passe doit contenir list 10 items "Ne contient pas 'Password', Un maximum de 20 caractères", etc. Also, it reads the French part with a really strong English accent. Partial support with odd behavior. - Bit by Bit
- Everything is fine. When you get to the list elements, it reads each requirment with its status and position in the list. Ex: "At least 8 characters unmet 1 of 10." Same with the French. Note that it still reads all French in a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Focusing
- The name, role, and value are all read. Then it reads all descriptions including each requirement and its status as it should. In French, everything is read with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- As I type, changed requirements are read out along with their new status. Full support.
- Re-typing
- When I select everything and delete it, it seems like it's trying to read all changes out, but only says one. ("At least 1 uppercase letter unmet.") Then as I start typing again, the requirements are read out as their status changes, but the status itself is only read out if it was not announced in the deletion process. When I retype "P" I hear "At least one uppercase letter met". But then when I type "a" I hear "At least one lowercase letter". When I type "s-s" I hear "No two characters the same consecutively". But if I type a "!" I hear "At least one special character met". Then if press Backspace as statii changes, their requirement along with their new status is read out. Mostly supported with odd behavior.
- Chrome 103
-
- Top to Bottom
- It reads properly all the way down. However, most French is read out in a strong English accent, with the exceptions of En Français, "Submit", and "Code", which it reads as French. It's as though anything added after page-load has its
lang
attribute ignored. Note that Chrome is the only one that reads out everything referenced byaria-describedby
in a Top-to-Bottom scan. The others only read that out when the input takes focus. Mostly supported with odd behavior. - Bit by Bit
- Everything is fine. When you get to the list elements, it reads each requirment with its status and position in the list. Ex: "At least 8 characters unmet 1 of 10." Same with the French. It still reads the French in a French accent as it's reading an item. When it reads something referenced by
aria-describedby
it reads those parts out in a strong English accent. Mostly supported. - Focusing
- The name, role, and value are all read. Then it reads all descriptions including each requirement and its status as it should. In French, everything is read with a strong English accent. Mostly supported.
- Typying
- As I type, changed requirements are read out along with their new status. Full support.
- Re-typing
- When I select everything and delete it, it seems like it's trying to read all changes out, but only says one. ("At least 1 uppercase letter unmet.") Then as I start typing again, the requirements are read out as their status changes, but the status itself is only read out if it was not announced in the deletion process. When I retype "P" I hear "At least one uppercase letter met". But then when I type "a" I hear "At least one lowercase letter". When I type "s-s" I hear "No two characters the same consecutively". But if I type a "!" I hear "At least one special character met". Then if press Backspace as statii changes, their requirement along with their new status is read out. Partial support with odd behavior.
Conclusion
This works as expected in most browser, OS, and screen reader combos, except Narrator, which seems to have issues with aria-describedby
, with one exception: If the Narrator setting "Hear advanced detail, like help text, on buttons and other controls" is turned on, then the aria-describedby
part is consistently read in Edge only. Also, Internet Explorer has reached end of life, so don't worry about it.
This is pretty robust in Windows, except with Narrator with any non-Edge browser. This works in iOS 14. And there are a couple of issues with VoiceOver in Catalina. As usual, Safari works best overall with VoiceOver.
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This is a W3C Note produced as a deliverable of the XML Fragment WG (members only) according to its charter and the current XML Activity process. A list of current W3C working drafts and notes can be found at http://www.w3.org/TR .
This document is a work in progress representing the current consensus of the W3C XML Fragment Working Group. This version of the XML Fragment Interchange Requirements document has been approved by the XML Fragment working group and the XML Plenary to be posted for review by W3C members and other interested parties. Publication as a Note does not imply endorsement by the W3C membership. Comments should be sent to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>which is an automatically and publicly archived email list.
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The XML standard supports logical documents composed of possibly several entities. It may be desirable to view or edit one or more of the entities or parts of entities while having no interest, need, or ability to view or edit the entire document. The problem, then, is how to provide to a recipient of such a fragment the appropriate information about the context that fragment had in the larger document that is not available to the recipient. The XML Fragment WG is chartered with defining a way to send fragments of an XML document--regardless of whether the fragments are predetermined entities or not--without having to send all of the containing document up to the part in question. This document specifies the design principles and requirements for this activity.
The XML standard supports logical documents composed of possibly several entities. It may be desirable to view or edit one or more of the entities or parts of entities while having no interest, need, or ability to view or edit the entire document. The problem, then, is how to provide to a recipient of such a fragment the appropriate information about the context that fragment had in the larger document that is not available to the recipient.
The XML Fragment WG is chartered to work on a mechanism to address these issues. The SGML Open Technical Resolution 9601:1996 on Fragment Interchange provides a basis for this work. This document specifies the design principles and requirements for this activity.
In the case of many XML documents, it is suboptimal to have to receive and parse the entire document when only a fragment of it is desired. If the user asked to look at chapter 20, one shouldn't need to parse 19 whole chapters before getting to the part of interest. The goal of this activity is to define a way senders can send small parts of an XML document without having to send everything up to the part needed. This can be done regardless of whether the parts are entities or not, and the parts can either be viewed immediately or accumulated for later use, assembly, or other processing.
The challenge is that an isolated element from an XML document may not contain quite enough information to be parsed correctly. The goal of this activity is to enable senders to provide the remaining information required so that systems can interchange any XML elements they choose, from books or chapters all the way down to paragraphs, tables, footnotes, book titles, and so on, without having to manage each as a separate entity or having to risk incorrect parsing due to loss of context.
In the design of any language, trade-offs in the solution space are necessary. To aid in making these trade-offs the follow design principles will be used (the order of these principles is not necessarily significant):
Issues involved with the possible "return" of any fragment to its original context and the determination of the possible validity of the "returned" fragment in its original context are beyond the scope of this activity.
This activity will enable interchanging portions of XML documents while retaining the ability to parse them correctly (that is, as they would be parsed in their originating document context), and, as far as practical, to be formatted, edited, and otherwise processed in useful ways.
Conceptually, a sender examines a fragment to be sent and, using the notation to be defined by this activity, constructs a fragment context specification. The object representing the fragment removed from its source document is called the fragment body. The sender sends the fragment context specification and the fragment body to the recipient. The storage object in which the fragment body is transmitted is call the fragment entity. (In some packaging schemes, the fragment context specification may also be embedded in the fragment entity.) The recipient processes the fragment context specification to determine the proper parser state for the context at the beginning of the fragment and uses that information to enable the XML parser to parse the fragment body.
The point of the fragment context information is to provide information that is not available in the fragment body itself but that would be available from the complete XML document. Specifically, any information not available from the XML document as a whole (plus knowledge of the location of the fragment body within the document) is out of scope for inclusion in the fragment context information. Such information may well be useful and important metadata in a variety of applications, but there are (or need to be) other mechnisms for handling this information.
Specifically a successful XML Fragment WG Recommendation will enable the following scenarios:
To accomplish these ends, this activity will define:
The user has an XML document that represents a customer's set of purchases as a bookstore, and the part of that document that represents the purchase of a particular book needs to be represented as a fragment.
The user makes a well-balanced selection in the original document and wants to make the contents of that selection a fragment.
A user has an XML document composed of several entities, and she wants to be able to edit each entity standalone as well as having them referencable from the parent document (i.e., each entity has to be both a valid XML entity and a legal fragment at the same time).
The user has very large XML documents, possibly a gigabyte or more in size, and wishes to be able to view portions of the document without parsing the whole document. In order to do this the user creates an "index" for each document portion (fragment) that they wish to so address. The "index" consists of a fragment context specification in combination with a packaging mechanism designed for quick access to the fragment body.


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Week 9 Cultural Blog
I am taking an online Node.js and MongoDB's course from MongoDB. However, it seems expect you to have fundamental understanding of Node.js. Thus, some of the assignments were difficult to me, because I don't understand how Node.js and MongoDB connects to each other.
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Cultral Blog
So, whenever I have an interview, one of the interview questions is "What if one of your teamates doesn't do his/her work?" I guess, this is one of the reasons raises a conflict. My answer to the question is, if this is a team project, I will do his/her work. I don't mind to do double work, because I can learn more and develop more experience.
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How Does Internet Work?
Technical Blog
Well, as an upcoming Full Stack Developer, understanding how Internet works is very important.
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What Values Matter?
Cultural Blog
The value that I want to talk about is Freedom. In my ten years of education in China, the only definition that I know about freedom is that if you are not a prisoner, you have freedom. However, I was blinded by the firewall for more than ten years.
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JavaScript VS. Ruby
Technical Blog
In JavaScript,
1) We need to declare variables;
2) We need to put semicolon at the end for each statement;
3) JavaScript processes code in block.
4) JavaScript builds constructors by creating Objects.
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Stereotype Threat
Cultural Blog
The stereotype threat I am facing is that girls are not good at math. I was excellent in math before I entered into university. However, I had hard time to understand Calculus. It took me two years to have some idea what Calculus is about.
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Object Oriented Programing vs. Functional Programing
Technical Blog
According to Smashing Magazine's article, Don't be Scared of Functional Programing , which tells readers that the major difference between Functional Programing and OOP is that Functional Programing is Immutable, and Stateless.
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Ruby Class
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Class is one of the important features in Object Oriented Language.It will be very confused for people who are first time to learn programing. Since I came across from JavaScript, which language does not come with "Class", yet it shares similar concept.
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Pair Programing
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Before I joined DevBootcamp, I self-taught JavaScript, whenever I encounter difficulties, I really would like to get help from some experts. Thus, I went to Reddit for help, and a lot of nice people are willing to sharing their knowlegde with me.
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Ruby Enumerable Methods
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map { |item| block } → new_ary
map → Enumerator
Invokes the given block once for each element of self.
Creates a new array containing the values returned by the block.
See also Enumerable
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Tech Issues
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Recently, I watched Douglas Crockford's talk regards to JavaScript's EMCAScript 7. It was the first time that I listened to a programmer's speech. It was brainstorming. I learned from him that how should I learn a programing language. On the other hand, he mentioned how important to name variables meaningfully. For both your own and your colleagues' benefits.
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Growth Mind Set
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One of the reasons that I pursue Web Development as my career is that I love building websites. Yet, as technology keeps accelerately growing, we demand web applications, too. It's why I join DBC.
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CSS Design
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I made a cheetsheet for CSS by Meteor.js.
http://dbc-cheatsheet.meteor.com/
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Git Blog
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Git, version control, can help you work efficiently on Software development projects. Because we are limited by navigating via mice, yet writing command lines is infinite. I remember that I read an article previously, where states that writing command lines can open hundreds of folders within several minutes, while mice cannot accomplish such tasks. It's the power of command line.
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Chefs Kitchen Blog
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I am so excited about this program, because I am looking forward to see the brand new chapter in my life. During the first week, I have more chances to work on projects with use of GitHub and Google+, which I barely use when I work as individual. I pretty enjoy it. I love to see other classmates comments and opinions on Google+ community, and I am looking forward to pair coding with them.
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Review: LITTLE VOICE
Starring: Michael Caine, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbent, Ewan McGregor With Jane Horrocks as Little Voice
Directed by: Mark Herman
Review by: Joy Wyse, the SILVER Screen Critic
Jane Horrocks, who stars as L.V. or `Little Voice', is unknown to most filmgoers but this movie wouldn't have been the same without her. It was written specifically for her and her ability to duplicate the incredible voices of various singing legends.
L.V. lives with her mother, Mari Hoff, played by Brenda Blethyn, in rooms over their former record store. Music had been her father's love and when he died, the store, his records and memories were all that remained. The mother longs for romance and excitement. She's not ready to be a weeping widow. She is attracted to a man, Ray Say, who is a talent agent of sorts, portrayed by Michael Caine. He puts up a flashy front while hoping to find that one performer who will establish him and make him rich.
A telephone installer named George [Philip Jackson] and his assistant, Billy [Ewan McGregor] meet the mother and daughter while connecting a new phone line. The lecherous and married George is hoping for a quick interlude with Mari but Billy is attracted to the taciturn L.V. He is the silent type who raises homing pigeons on the rooftop and who lacks the wherewithal to pursue L.V.

It isn't easy convincing L.V. to agree to sing in front of a live audience. The circumstances of the appearance and what follow are what make this a truly memorable film. There are numerous classic songs that the older generation will appreciate. They include: The Man That Got Away, Hey, Big Spender, Lover Boy, Get Happy, and many others.
The three leads all give Oscar winning performances. Hopefully, they'll be nominated. Brenda Blethyn is just tawdry enough as a love-hungry but vulnerable older woman. Michael Caine totally conveys the depths of this likeable/unlikable usurious man. Jane Horrocks is in a class by herself.
Mr. Boo [Jim Broadbent], the club owner where L.V. performs is another little person clinging to his pseudo-importance. Annette Badland as Sadie, the Hoff's neighbor across the street, delivers a small but classic role.
I give this a solid A.
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Silvia Puglisi, David Rebollo-Monedero and Jordi Forné
Department of Telematics Engineering
Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
Med Hoc Net 2016
When users surf the web a network of personalisation services tracks their preferences by following their browsing habits.
These services combine information from different sources:
Online profiling often means collecting enough features to distinguish an individual among a group of candidates.
Knowing certain facts about an individual allows the add network (or an attacker) to verify assumptions and make predictions.
We model the user’s activity as series of events belonging to a certain identity.
Each event is a document containing different information.
Each document can be seen as a hypermedia document i.e. an object possibly containing graphics, audio, video, plain text and hyperlinks.
We call the hyperlinks selectors and we use these to build the connections between documents.
We aggregate keywords each time the user creates a new event by visiting a different url.
These keywords constitute the user profile of interests.
With this model we assume that a particular category is weighted according to the number of times this has been counted in the user profile.
We define the profile of a user um as the Probability Mass Function:
A histogram of relative frequencies of tags across the set of tag categories T.
The profile of an ad is defined as the PMF:
Where q_{n,l} is the percentage of tags belonging to the category l which have been assigned to this specific advertising item.
When a user visits a web page, the browser sends an http request to the server to request a representation of the resource described through the url.
The html document contains a number of links to other resources, such as JavaScript code, CSS, videos, audios or images. Some of these can be stored on the same domain as the requested page, some may be requested to a third party service.
Trackers on web pages make third-party http requests to advertising services. These return ads content tailored to the user web history or expressed preferences.
Advertising services work in a feedback loop. Services record users' profiles and adapt the returned advertising.
We consider the third party advertising network to operate like a recommendation system suggesting products or services based on the users' preferences.
We assume that the ad server suggest advertising based on a measure of similarity.
We use the 1 − norm and the 2 - norm between the user and the advertisting profile as a measurement of how the advertising network is tracking the user profile:
“https://blog.twitter.com/2014/introducing-the-website-tag-for-remarketing”
Where N(i) are the neighbours of node i and k_j is the degree of node j which belongs to N(i). If a certain tracker domain is connected to the majority of the page visited by a certain user, this means that they have been able to collect the user’s preferences and reading activities across a number of websites. The more a tracker domain is connected, the more the user might consider this a risk for their privacy.
Web tracking happens very quickly in a few subsequent visits to websites in a large advertising network.
By exploiting links between pages and trackers we are able to capture both connections between entities as weel as individual events, features and metrics.
We would like to introduce a full set of metrics to measure the distance between the advertising and the user's profile:
We are interested in measuring how social networks sharing buttons and/or commenting services, included on websites, are able to track users even when these have not signed in with their account.
We are interested to measure how Privacy Enhancing Techniques affect advertising networks.
"I do not want to live in a world where everything I do and say is recorded. That is not something I am willing to support or live under."
Edward Snowden


Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Makes 24 biscuits
Dietary
These spicy chewy biscuits are easy to make and keep well for several days in an airtight container.
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4. Line two baking trays with non-stick parchment. Melt the butter and the golden syrup in a pan over a low heat. Set aside to cool slightly.
Combine the sugar, flour, baking powder, salt and spices and mix well to combine. Stir in the rolled oats and mix thoroughly. Pour in the melted butter and syrup and stir until well combined. Then stir in the beaten eggs and the stem ginger.
Spoon in even, heaped teaspoons onto the lined baking trays, leaving room for them to spread. Bake in the oven for 8-10 minutes. Remove the biscuits from the oven and set aside to cool completely.
Melt the chocolate in a bowl suspended over a pan of barely simmering water (do not let the bottom of the bowl touch the water). Dip the biscuits in the melted chocolate and place on a cooling rack until the chocolate has set.


monomic
A library by Jesse Kriss for the programming environment processing. Last update, 01/03/2009.
Monomic is a Processing library for the monome 40h.
The 40h is a usb serial device, but it also comes with an OSC driver. Monomic builds on Processing's Serial library and Andreas Sojamo's oscP5 library, and, as a result, can use either protocol.
Monomic provides straightforward functions for receiving 40h button events and turning the leds on and off, as well as advanced functions like setting led intensity and going in and out of low power mode.
If you have any problems, please report them here.
Download
Download monomic version 004 in zip format.
Installation
Unzip and put the extracted monomic folder into the libraries folder of your processing sketches. Reference and examples are included in the monomic folder.
Keywords monome, physical controller
Reference Have a look at the javadoc reference here. a copy of the reference is included in the .zip as well.
Source The source code of monomic is available at github, and its repository can be browsed here.
License MIT
Examples
Find a list of examples in the current distribution of monomic, or have a look at them by following the links below.
Tested
Platform Mac
Processing ?
Dependencies oscP5


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The Ghealdanin sky was cloudless, the forested hills hammered by a fierce morning sun. Even short of midday, the land sweltered. Pines and leatherleaf were yellowing in the drought, and others Perrin suspected also were evergreens. Not a whisper of air stirred. Sweat dripped down his face, ran into his short beard. His curly hair was matting on his head. He thought he heard thunder somewhere to the west, but he had almost stopped believing it would ever rain again. You hammered the iron that lay on your anvil instead of daydreaming about working silver.
From the vantage of his sparsely treed ridge, he studied the walled town of Bethal through a brass-bound looking glass. Even his eyes could use help over this distance. It was a good-sized town of slate-roofed buildings, with half a dozen tall stone structures that might have been minor nobles’ palaces or the homes of well-to-do merchants. He could not make out the scarlet banner hanging limply atop the tallest tower of the largest palace, the only flag in sight, but he knew who it belonged to. Alliandre Maritha Kigarin, Queen of Ghealdan, far from her capital in Jehannah.
The town gates stood open, with a good twenty guards at each, yet no one came out, and the roads he could see were empty except for a lone rider galloping hard toward Bethal from the north. The soldiers were on edge, some shifting pikes or bows at sight of the horseman as though he waved a blood-dripping sword. More soldiers on watch crowded the wall towers or marched the walls between. Plenty of nocked arrows up there, too, and raised crossbows. Plenty of fear.
A storm had swept over this part of Ghealdan. It still did. The Prophet’s bands created chaos, bandits took advantage, and Whitecloaks raiding across the border from Amadicia might easily strike this far. A few scattered columns of smoke farther south probably marked burning farms, Whitecloak work or the Prophet’s. Bandits seldom bothered with burning, and the other two left little for them in any case. Adding to the jumble, rumor in every village he had passed the last few days said that Amador had fallen, to the Prophet or Taraboners or Aes Sedai, depending on who told the tale. Some claimed Pedron Niall himself was dead in the fighting to defend the city. All in all, reason enough for a queen to be concerned for her own safety. Or the soldiers could be down there because of him. Despite his best efforts, his passage south had hardly gone unnoticed.
He scratched his beard, considering. A pity the wolves in the surrounding hills could not tell him anything, but they seldom paid heed to men’s doings except to stay clear of them. And since Dumai’s Wells he had not felt right in asking any more of them than he absolutely had to. It might be best after all if he rode in alone, with just a few of the Two Rivers men.
He often thought Faile could read his mind, usually when he least wanted her to, and she proved it now, heeling her night-black mare Swallow close to his dun. Her narrow-skirted riding dress was nearly as dark as the mare, yet she seemed to be taking the heat better than he. She smelled faintly of herbal soap and clean perspiration, of herself. Of determination. Her tilted eyes were very determined, and with her bold nose, she was very much her namesake falcon.
“I would not like to see holes in that fine blue coat, husband,” she said softly, for his ears alone, “and those fellows look as if they might just shoot at a group of strange men before asking who they are. Besides, how will you reach Alliandre without announcing your name to the world? This must be done quietly, remember.” She did not say that she should be the one to go, that the gate guards would take a woman alone for a refugee from the troubles, that she could reach the Queen using her mother’s name without exciting too much comment, but she did not need to. He had had all that and more from her every night since entering Ghealdan. He was here in part because of Alliandre’s cautious letter to Rand, offering . . . Support? Allegiance? Her desire for secrecy had been paramount, in any case.
 She also smelled determined, through a cloud of rose perfume. To him, it seemed a cloud. For a wonder, her green riding dress showed no more flesh than it had to.
Berelain’s two companions stayed back, though Annoura, her Aes Sedai advisor, studied him with an unreadable expression from beneath her cap of thin shoulder-long beaded braids. Not him and the two women at his sides; him in particular. No sweat there. He wished he were close enough to smell the beak-nosed Gray sister; unlike the other Aes Sedai, she had made no promises to anyone. For whatever those promises were worth. Lord Gallenne, commander of Berelain’s Winged Guards, was seemingly busy examining Bethal through a looking glass raised to his one eye, and fiddling with his reins in a way Perrin had come to know meant that he was deep in calculations. Probably how to take Bethal by force; Gallenne always saw the worst possibility first.
“I still think I should be the one to approach Alliandre,” Berelain said. This, too, Perrin had heard every day. “It is why I came, after all.” That was one of the reasons. “Annoura will be granted an audience at once, and take me in with none the wiser save Alliandre.” A second wonder. There had not been a hint of flirtation in her voice. She seemed to be paying as much attention to smoothing her red leather gloves as to him.
Which one? The trouble was, he did not want to choose either.
Seonid, the second Aes Sedai who had come to the ridgeline, stood beside her bay gelding a little way off, near a tall drought-withered blackwood, looking not at Bethal but the sky. The two pale-eyed Wise Ones with her made a sharp contrast, faces sun-dark to her pale complexion, fair-haired to her dark, tall to her short, not to mention their dark skirts and white blouses contrasting to her fine blue wool. Necklaces and bracelets of gold and silver and ivory draped Edarra and Nevarin, while Seonid wore only her Great Serpent ring. They were young to her ageless. The Wise Ones matched the Green sister for self-possession, though, and they were studying the sky, too.
“Do you see something?” Perrin asked, putting off the decision.
“We see the sky, Perrin Aybara,” Edarra said calmly, her jewelry making a soft clatter as she adjusted the dark shawl looped over her elbows. The heat seemed to touch the Aiel as little as it did the Aes Sedai. “If we saw more, we would tell you.” He hoped they would. He thought they would. At least, if it was something they believed Grady and Neald might see, too. The two Asha’man would not keep it secret. He wished they were there instead of back in the camp.
More than half a week ago, now, a lace of the One Power streaking high across the sky had created quite a stir among the Aes Sedai and Wise Ones. And with Grady and Neald. Which fact had made a bigger stir still, as close to panic as any Aes Sedai was likely to come. Asha’man, Aes Sedai and Wise Ones all claimed they could still feel the Power faintly in the air long after that bar of lace vanished, but nobody knew what it meant. Neald said it made him think of wind, though he could not tell why. No one would voice more of an opinion than that, yet if both the male and female halves of the Power were visible, it had to be the Forsaken at work, and on a huge scale. Wondering what they were up to had kept Perrin awake late most nights since.
In spite of himself, he glanced to the sky. And saw nothing, of course, except a pair of pigeons. Abruptly a hawk plummeted into his sight, and one of the pigeons was gone in a spray of feathers. The other winged on frantically toward Bethal.
“Have you reached a decision, Perrin Aybara?” Nevarin asked, a touch sharply. The green-eyed Wise One appeared even younger than Edarra, perhaps no older than he was, and she did not quite have the blue-eyed woman’s serenity. Her shawl slid down her arms as she planted hands on hips, and he half expected her to shake a finger at him. Or a fist. She reminded him of Nynaeve, though they surely looked nothing alike. Nevarin would have made Nynaeve look plump. “What use our advice if you will not listen?” she demanded. “What use?”
Faile and Berelain sat straight in their saddles, both as proud as they could be, both smelling expectant and uncertain at the same time. And irritated at being uncertain; neither liked that one speck. Seonid was too far to send her scent, but compressed lips gave her mood well enough. Edarra’s command not to speak unless spoken to infuriated her. Still, she certainly wanted him to take the Wise Ones’ counsel; she stared at him intently, as though the pressure of her eyes could push him the way they wanted him to go. In truth, he wanted to choose her, yet he hesitated. How far did her oath of fealty to Rand truly hold? Further than he would have believed, by the evidence seen so far, but still, how far could he trust an Aes Sedai? The arrival of Seonid’s two Warders spared him for another few minutes.
They rode up together, though they had gone out separately, keeping their horses well back into the trees along the ridgeline so they would not be seen from the town.  They dismounted smoothly, cloaks shifting colors and vanishing in a queasy-making way, and made their reports to Seonid, deliberately ignoring the Wise Ones. And Perrin.
“It’s worse than back north,” Furen said disgustedly. A few drops of sweat beaded on his forehead, but neither man appeared much affected by the heat. “The local nobles are shut up in their manors or the town, and the Queen’s soldiers keep inside the town walls. They’ve abandoned the countryside to the Prophet’s men. And the bandits, though those seem scarce around here. The Prophet’s people are all over. I think Alliandre will be happy to see you.”
“Rabble,” Teryl snorted, slapping his reins on his palm. “I never saw more than fifteen or twenty in one place, armed with pitchforks and boar spears mainly. Ragged as beggars, they were. Fit for scaring farmers, to be sure, but you’d think the lords would be rooting them out and hanging them in bunches. The Queen will kiss your hand to see a sister.”
Seonid opened her mouth, then glanced up at Edarra, who nodded. If anything, gaining permission to speak tightened the Green’s mouth more. Her tone was mild as butter, though. “There is no more reason to put off your decision, Lord Aybara.” She emphasized that title a bit, knowing exactly how much right he had to it. “Your wife can claim a great House, and Berelain is a ruler, yet Saldaean Houses count little here, and Mayene is the smallest of nations. An Aes Sedai for an emissary will put the weight of the White Tower behind you in Alliandre’s eyes.” Perhaps recalling that Annoura would do for that as well as she, she hurried on. “Besides, I have been in Ghealdan before, and my name is well known. Alliandre will not only receive me immediately, she will listen to what I say.”
“Nevarin and I will go with her,” Edarra said, and Nevarin added, “We will make sure she says nothing she should not.” Seonid ground her teeth audibly, to Perrin’s ears, and busied herself smoothing her divided skirts, eyes carefully down. Annoura made a sound, very nearly a grunt, and turned her head from the sight; she herself stayed away from the Wise Ones, and did not like seeing the other sisters with them.
Perrin wanted to groan. Sending the Green would lift him off a spike, yet the Wise Ones trusted Aes Sedai less than he did and kept Seonid and Masuri on short leashes. There had been tales about Aiel in the villages recently, too. None of those folk had ever seen an Aiel, but rumors about the Aiel following the Dragon Reborn drifted in the air, half of Ghealdan was sure there were Aiel just a day or two away, and each story was stranger and more horrible than the last. Alliandre might be too frightened to let him near her once she saw a pair of Aiel women telling an Aes Sedai when to hop. And Seonid was hopping, however much she ground her teeth! Well, he was not about to risk Faile without more assurance of her greeting than a vaguely worded letter received months ago. That spike dug deeper, right between his shoulder blades, yet he had no choice at all.
“A small party will get through those gates easier than a large,” he said finally, stuffing the looking glass into his saddlebags. It would set fewer tongues wagging, as well. “That means just you and Annoura, Berelain. And maybe Lord Gallenne. Likely they’ll take him for Annoura’s Warder.”
Berelain chortled in delight, leaning to clasp his arm with both hands. She did not leave it at that, of course. Her fingers squeezed caressingly, and she flashed a heated smile of promise, then straightened before he could move, her face suddenly innocent as a babe’s. Expressionless, Faile focused on pulling her gray riding gloves snug. By her scent, she had not noticed Berelain’s smile. She hid her disappointment well.
“I’m sorry, Faile,” he said, “but—”
Outrage flared in the smell of her like thorns. “I am certain you have matters to discuss with the First before she goes, husband,” she said calmly. Her tilted eyes were pure serenity, her scent sand burrs. “Best you see to her now.” Pulling Swallow around, Faile walked the mare over to a plainly fuming Seonid and the tight-faced Wise Ones, but she did not dismount or speak to them. Instead she frowned down at Bethal, a falcon staring from her eyrie.
Perrin realized he was feeling at his nose and pulled his hand down.
Berelain needed no last-minute instructions—the First of Mayene and her Gray advisor were all impatience to be off, all certainty they knew what to say and do—yet Perrin stressed caution anyway, and emphasized that Berelain and only Berelain was to speak with Alliandre. Annoura gave him one of those cool Aes Sedai looks and nodded. Which might have been agreement or might not; he doubted he could get more out of her with a pry-bar. Berelain’s lips curled in amusement, though she agreed with everything he said. Or said she did. He suspected she would say anything to get what she wanted, and those smiles in all the wrong places bothered him. Gallenne had put his looking glass away, but he was still playing with his reins, no doubt calculating how to carve a way out of Bethal for the two women. Perrin wanted to growl.
He watched them ride down to the road with worry. The message Berelain carried was simple. Rand understood Alliandre’s caution, but if she wanted his protection she must be willing to announce support for him openly. That protection would come, soldiers and Asha’man to make it plain to everyone, and even Rand himself if need be, once she agreed to make the announcement. Berelain had no reason to change the message a hair, despite her smiles—he thought they might be another way of flirting—but Annoura . . . Aes Sedai did what they did, and the Light alone knew why half the time. He wished he knew some way to reach Alliandre without using a sister or rousing talk. Or risking Faile.
The three riders reached the gates with Annoura in the lead, and guards quickly raised pikes, lowered bows and crossbows, no doubt as soon as she named herself Aes Sedai.  There was barely a pause before she was leading the way into the town. In fact, the soldiers seemed eager to hurry them through, out of sight of anyone watching from the hills. Some peered at the distant heights, and Perrin did not need to smell them to sense their unease over who might be hidden up there, who might, improbably, have recognized a sister.
Turning north, toward their camp, Perrin led the way along the ridge until they were out of sight from Bethal’s towers, then slanted down to the hard-packed road. Scattered farms lined the road, thatch-roofed houses and long narrow barns, withered pastures and stubbled fields and high-walled stone goatpens, but there was little livestock to be seen and fewer people. Those few watched the riders warily, geese watching foxes, stopping chores where they stood until the horses passed on. Aram kept as close an eye on them in return, sometimes fingering the sword hilt rising above his shoulder, perhaps wishing to find more than farmfolk. Despite his green-striped coat, little Tinker remained in him.
Edarra and Nevarin walked beside Stepper, seemingly out for a stroll yet keeping pace easily despite their bulky skirts. Seonid heeled them on her gelding, Furen and Teryl at her own back. The pale-cheeked Green pretended that she simply wanted to ride a careful two paces behind the Wise Ones, but the men scowled openly. Warders often had a greater care for their Aes Sedai’s dignity than the sister did herself, and Aes Sedai had enough for queens.
Faile kept Swallow on the far side of the Aiel women, riding in silence, apparently studying the drought-scarred landscape. Slim and graceful, she made Perrin feel a little clumsy at the best of times. She was quicksilver, and he loved it in her, usually, but . . . A slight breath of air had begun to stir, enough to keep her scent mingled with the rest. He knew he should be thinking about Alliandre and what her answer would be, or better still, the Prophet and how to find him once Alliandre replied, however she did, but he could not find room in his head.
He had expected Faile to be angry when he chose Berelain, for all that Rand supposedly had sent her for the purpose. Faile knew he did not want to send her into danger, into any risk of danger, a fact she disliked more than she did Berelain. Yet her scent had been soft as a summer morning—until he tried to apologize! Well, apologies usually stoked her anger if she already was angry—except when they melted her temper, anyway—but she had not been angry! Without Berelain, everything ran smooth as silk satin between them. Most of the time. But explanations that he did nothing to encourage the woman—far from it!—earned only a curt “Of course you don’t!” in tones that called him a fool for bringing it up. But she still grew angry—with him!—every time Berelain smiled at him or found an excuse to touch him, no matter how brusquely he put her off, and the Light knew he did that. Short of tying her up, he did not know what more he could do to discourage her. Ginger attempts to find out from Faile what he was doing wrong received a light “Why do you think you’ve done anything?” or a not-so-light “What do you think you’ve done?” or a flat “I do not want to talk about it.” He was doing something wrong, but he could not puzzle out what! He had to, though. Nothing was more important than Faile. Nothing!
“Lord Perrin?”
Aram’s excited voice cut into his brown study. “Don’t call me that,” he muttered, following the direction of the man’s pointing finger, to yet another abandoned farm some distance ahead, where fire had taken the roof from house and barn. Only rough stone walls stood. An abandoned farm, but not deserted. Angry shouts rose up there.
A dozen or more rough-clad fellows carrying spears and pitchforks were trying to force their way over the chest-high stone wall of a goatpen, while a handful of men within tried to keep them out. Several horses ran loose inside, frightened at the noise and dodging about, and there were three women mounted. They were not simply waiting to see how it would all turn out, though; one of the women appeared to be hurling rocks, and even as he looked, another dashed close to the wall to lash out with a long cudgel while the third reared her horse, and a tall fellow toppled back off the wall to get clear of flashing hooves. But there were too many attackers, too much wall to defend.
“I advise you to ride wide,” Seonid said. Edarra and Nevarin turned grim stares on her, but she plowed on, hurry overwhelming her matter-of-fact tone. “Those are surely the Prophet’s men, and killing his people is a bad way to begin. Tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, may die if you fail with him. Is it worth risking that to save a handful?”
Perrin did not intend to kill anyone if he could help it, but he did not intend to look the other way either. He wasted no time in explanations, though. “Can you frighten them?” he asked Edarra. “Just frighten?” He remembered all too well what the Wise Ones had done at Dumai’s Wells. And the Asha’man. Maybe as well Grady and Neald were not there.
“Perhaps,” Edarra replied, studying the crowd around the pen. She half-shook her head, shrugged a fraction. “Perhaps.” That would have to be good enough.
“Aram, Furen, Teryl,” he snapped, “with me!” He dug in his heels, and as Stepper leaped forward, he was relieved to see the Warders following closely. Four men charging made a better show than two. He kept his hands on the reins, away from his axe.
He was not so pleased when Faile galloped Swallow up alongside him. He opened his mouth, and she arched an eyebrow at him. Her black hair was beautiful, streaming in the wind of their rush. She was beautiful. An arched eyebrow; no more. He changed what he had been about to say. “Guard my back,” he told her. Smiling, she produced a dagger from somewhere. With all the blades she carried hidden away, sometimes he wondered how he missed being stabbed just trying to hug her.
As soon as she looked ahead again, he gestured frantically to Aram, trying to keep the motion where she could not see. Aram nodded, but he was leaning forward, sword bared, ready to skewer the first of the Prophet’s folk he reached. Perrin hoped the man understood he was to guard Faile’s back, and the rest of her, if they actually came to grips with those fellows.
None of the ruffians had noticed them yet. Perrin shouted, but they seemed not to hear over their own yelling.  If the Wise Ones were going to do anything, it was past—
A thunderclap nearly over their heads almost deafened Perrin, a mountainous crack that made Stepper stumble before regaining his pace. The attackers certainly noticed that, staggering and looking around wildly, some clapping hands over their ears. The man on the wall overbalanced and fell off outside. He leaped up immediately, though, angrily gesturing to the enclosure, and some of his companions leaped back at it. Others saw Perrin then and pointed, their mouths working, but still no one ran. A few hefted weapons.
Suddenly a horizontal wheel of fire appeared above the goatpen, as wide as a man was tall, flinging off sputtering tufts of flame as it spun with a moan that rose and fell, mournful groan to keening wail and back.
The rough-clad men broke in every direction like scattering quail. For a moment longer the man in a too-big coat waved his arms and shouted at them, then with one last glance at the fiery wheel, he too darted away.
Perrin almost laughed. He would not have to kill anyone. And he would not have to worry about Faile getting a pitchfork through her ribs.
Apparently the people in the pen were as frightened as those outside, one of them at least. The woman who had reared her horse at the attackers slipped open the gate and kicked her mount to an awkward gallop. Up the road, away from Perrin and the others.
“Wait!” Perrin shouted. “We won’t harm you!” Whether she heard or not, she kept whipping her reins. A bundle tied behind her saddle bounced wildly. Those men might be running as hard as they could now, but if she went off by herself, even two or three could do her injury. Lying flat on Stepper’s neck, Perrin dug in his heels, and the dun shot forward like an arrow.
He was a big man, yet Stepper had earned his name for more than prancing feet. Besides, by its lumbering run, the woman’s mount was hardly fit for a saddle. With every stride Stepper closed the gap, nearer, nearer, until Perrin was able to reach out and seize the other horse’s bridle. Up close, her hammer-nosed bay was little better than crowbait, lathered and worn out more than the short run could account for. Slowly he drew both horses to a halt.
“Forgive me if I frightened you, Mistress,” he said. “Truly, I mean you no harm.”
For the second time that day an apology did not get the response he expected. Angry blue eyes glared at him from a face surrounded by long red-gold curls, a face as regal as any queen’s for all that it was plastered with sweat and dust. Her dress was plain wool, travel-stained and as dusty as her cheeks, but her face was furious as well as queenly. “I do not need,” she began in chill tones, trying to jerk her horse free, then cut off as another of the women, white-haired and bony, galloped up on a slab-sided brown mare in worse condition than the bay. They had been riding hard for some time, these folk. The older woman was just as worn and dust-covered as the younger.
She alternated between beaming at Perrin and scowling at the woman whose bridle he still held. “Thank you, my Lord.” Her voice, thin but strong, gave a hitch as she noticed his eyes, but golden-yellow eyes on a man slowed her only an instant. Not a woman fazed by much. She still carried the stout stick she had been using for a weapon. “A most timely rescue. Maighdin, whatever were you thinking? You could have gotten yourself killed! And the rest of us, too! She’s a headstrong girl, my Lord, always leaping before she looks.  We do thank you, my Lord, and Maighdin will, too, when she comes to her senses.”
Maighdin, a good ten years older than Perrin, could only be called a girl in comparison to the older woman, but despite weary grimaces that matched her scent, frustration tinged with anger, she accepted the tirade, only pulling once more in a halfhearted attempt to free her horse, then giving up. Letting her hands rest on her cantle, she frowned at Perrin accusingly, then blinked. The yellow eyes again. Yet despite that strangeness, she still did not smell afraid. The old woman did, but Perrin did not think it was of him.
Another of Maighdin’s companions, an unshaven man mounted on yet another bedraggled horse, this a knob-kneed gray, approached while the old woman was talking, but kept back. He was tall, as tall as Perrin if not nearly so wide, in a travel-worn dark coat with a sword belted over. Like the women, he had a bundle tied on behind his saddle. That tiny breeze swirled to bring Perrin his scent. He was not afraid; he was wary. And if the way he looked at Maighdin was any guide, it was she he was wary of. Maybe this was not so simple as rescuing travelers from a gang of ruffians after all.
“Perhaps you should all come to my camp,” Perrin said, finally releasing the bridle. “You’ll be safe from . . . brigands . . . there.” He half expected Maighdin to make a break for the nearest tree line, but she turned her horse with his, back toward the goatpen. She smelled . . . resigned.
Even so, she said, “I thank you for the offer, but I . . . we . . . must continue our journey. We will go on, Lini,” she added firmly, and the older woman frowned at her so sternly that he wondered whether they were mother and daughter despite her use of the woman’s name. They certainly looked nothing alike. Lini was narrow-faced and parchment-skinned, all sinew, while Maighdin might be beautiful under that dust. If a man liked fair hair.
Perrin glanced over his shoulder at the man trailing after. A hard-looking fellow, in need of a razor. Perhaps he liked fair hair. Perhaps he liked it too much. Men had made trouble for themselves as well as others for that reason before this.
Ahead, Faile was sitting Swallow and peering over the wall of the pen at the people inside. Perhaps one of them had been hurt. Seonid and the Wise Ones were nowhere in sight. Aram had understood, apparently; he was close to Faile, though looking impatiently toward Perrin. The danger was clearly past, though.
Before Perrin was halfway to the goatpen, Teryl appeared with a narrow-eyed, stubble-cheeked man stumbling along beside his roan, the collar of his coat gripped in the Warder’s fist. “I thought we should catch one of them,” Teryl said with a hard grin. “Always best to hear both sides, whatever you thought you saw, my old da always said.” Perrin was surprised; he had thought Teryl could not think beyond the end of his sword.
Even hiked up as it was, the stubble-cheeked fellow’s frayed coat was plainly too big for him. Perrin doubted anyone else had been able to see well enough at the distance, but he recognized that thrusting nose, too. This man had been the last to run, and he was not cowed now, either. His sneer took them all in. “You’re all in deep muck, for this,” he rasped. “We was doing the Prophet’s bidding, we was. The Prophet says if a man bothers a woman as doesn’t want him, he dies. This lot was chasing after her”—he jerked his chin at Maighdin—“and she was running hard. The Prophet’ll have your ears for this!” He spat for emphasis.
“That is ridiculous,” Maighdin announced in a clear voice. “These people are my friends. This man completely misunderstood what he saw.”
Perrin nodded, and if she thought he was agreeing with her, all well and good. But putting what this fellow said alongside what Lini had . . . Not simple at all.
Faile and the others joined them, followed by the rest of Maighdin’s traveling companions, three more men and another woman, all leading worn-down horses with few miles left in them. Not that they had been prime horseflesh in some years, if ever. A finer collection of buck knees, bow hocks, spavins, and swaybacks, Perrin could not recall. As always, his gaze went first to Faile—his nostrils strained for her scent—but Seonid snagged his eyes.  There was something, a bit of red-and-blue . . . Perrin blinked. Unless he was seeing things, she had a wadded-up scarf stuffed into her mouth! Apparently when Wise Ones told an apprentice to be quiet, even an Aes Sedai apprentice, they meant it.
He was not the only one with sharp eyes; Maighdin’s mouth fell open when she saw Seonid, and she gave him a long, considering look as if he were responsible for the scarf. So she knew an Aes Sedai on sight, did she? Uncommon, for the country woman she appeared. She did not sound one, though.
Furen, riding behind Seonid, wore a thunderhead for a face, but it was Teryl who made everything even less simple by tossing something to the ground. “I found this behind him,” he said, “where he might have dropped it, running.”
At first, Perrin did not know what he was looking at, a long loop of rawhide thickly strung with what appeared to be tags of shriveled leather. Then he did know, and his teeth bared in a snarl. “The Prophet would have our ears, you said.”
The stubble-cheeked man stopped gaping at Seonid and licked his lips. “That . . . that’s Hari’s work!” he protested. “Hari’s a mean one. He likes to keep count, take trophies, and he . . . uh . . . ” Shrugging in his captive coat, he sank in on himself like a cornered dog. “You can’t tie that to me! The Prophet’ll hang you if you touch me! He’s hanged nobles before, fine lords and ladies. I walk in the Light of the blessed Lord Dragon!”
Perrin walked Stepper to the man, careful to keep the dun’s hooves clear of the . . . thing . . . on the ground.  Sour sweat warred with fear, panic, a tinge of anger. A pity he could not sniff out guilt. “Might have dropped” was not “had dropped.” Close-set eyes widened, and the man pressed back against Teryl’s gelding. Yellow eyes had their uses.
“If I could tie that to you, you’d hang from the nearest tree,” he growled. The fellow blinked, began to brighten as he understood what that meant, but Perrin gave him no time to regain his bluster. “I’m Perrin Aybara, and your precious Lord Dragon sent me here. You spread the word. He sent me, and if I find a man with . . . trophies . . . he hangs! If I find a man burning a farm, he hangs! If one of you looks at me cross-eyed, he hangs! And you can tell Masema I said so, too!” Disgusted, Perrin straightened. “Let him go, Teryl. If he isn’t out of my sight in two shakes . . . !”
Teryl’s hand opened, and the fellow dashed off at a dead run for the nearest trees, never so much as glancing back. Part of Perrin’s disgust was for himself. Threatening! If one of them looked at him cross-eyed? But if the nameless man had not cut off ears himself, he had watched it and done nothing.
Faile was smiling, pride shining through the sweat on her face. Her look washed away some of Perrin’s revulsion. He would walk barefoot through fire for that look.
Not everyone approved, of course. Seonid’s eyes were squeezed shut, and her gloved fists quivered on her reins as though she desperately wanted to yank that scarf from her mouth and tell him what she thought. He could guess anyway. Edarra and Nevarin had gathered their shawls around them and were eyeing him darkly. Oh, yes; he could guess.
“I thought it was to be all secrecy,” Teryl said casually, watching the stubble-cheeked man run. “I thought Masema wasn’t to know you were here till you spoke in his pink ear.”
That had been the plan. Rand had suggested it as a precaution, Seonid and Masuri had insisted on it every chance they got. After all, Prophet of the Lord Dragon or no, Masema might not want to come face-to-face with someone Rand sent, considering the things he was said to have allowed. Those ears were not the worst, if the tenth part of rumor was to be believed. Edarra and the other Wise Ones saw Masema as a possible enemy, to be ambushed before he could set his own trap.
“I’m supposed to stop . . . that,” Perrin said, gesturing angrily to the rawhide string on the ground. He had heard the rumors, and done nothing. Now he had seen. “I might as well start now.” And if Masema decided he was an enemy? How many thousands followed the Prophet, out of belief or fear? It did not matter. “It stops, Teryl. It stops!”
The Murandian nodded slowly, eyeing Perrin as though seeing him for the first time.
“My Lord Perrin?” Maighdin said. He had forgotten all about her and her friends. The others had gathered with her a little way off, most still afoot. There were three men aside from the fellow who had followed Maighdin, and two of those were hiding behind their horses. Lini appeared the wariest of all, eyes focused on him worriedly; she had her horse close to Maighdin’s and seemed ready to seize the bridle herself. Not to stop the younger woman bolting, but to bolt herself and take Maighdin with her. Maighdin herself appeared completely at ease, but she also studied Perrin. Little wonder, after all that talk of the Prophet and the Dragon Reborn, on top of his eyes. Not to mention an Aes Sedai gagged. He expected her to say that they wanted to go now, immediately, but what she said instead was “We will accept your kind offer. A day or two resting in your camp might be just the thing.”
“As you say, Mistress Maighdin,” he said slowly. Masking his surprise was difficult. Especially since he had just recognized the two men trying to keep their horses between them and him. Ta’veren work, to bring them here? A strange twist in any case. “It might be just the thing at that.”


- edit - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.string
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- edit_game - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.string
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- edit_profile - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.string
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- editCity(String) - Static method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Managers.UserManager
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Changes the city of the singleton User
- editconsoleSpinner - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editdescriptionBox - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editDescriptionText() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editEmail(String) - Static method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Managers.UserManager
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Changes the email of the singleton User
- editGameText - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editGameTitle - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editItem(String, String, boolean, Integer, Integer, String, int) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Managers.InventoryManager
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This edits the item
- editItem(String, String, boolean, Integer, Integer, String, int) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Models.Inventory
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Creates a new Item based on inputs and replaces the Item at the given position
- EditItemActivity - Class in cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities
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Lets you edit an item in user inventory
- EditItemActivity() - Constructor for class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editItemMenuId - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editItemSaveButton - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editItemTest(myInventoryActivity) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.UI_TestCases.BasicInventoryTest
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- editPhoneNumber(String) - Static method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Managers.UserManager
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Changes the phone number of the singleton User
- editPlatformSpinner() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editprivatepublicSpinner - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editProfile - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- EditProfileActivity - Class in cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities
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Lets you edit personal information about yourself
- EditProfileActivity() - Constructor for class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditProfileActivity
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- editProfileButton(View) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditProfileActivity
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Called when the user clicks on Edit Profile button
- editProfileButtonClicked(View) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.MyProfileActivity
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Called when the user clicks on Edit Profile button
- editQualitySpinner() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editqualitySpinner - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editReleaseDate - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- editReleaseText() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editSaveButton() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editSharedSpinner() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editUserName(String) - Static method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Managers.UserManager
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Changes the name of the singleton User
- editUsernameText() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.EditItemActivity
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- editUserProfileTest(selectTaskActivity) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.UI_TestCases.BasicUserTest
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- eitherPublicOrPrivateSpinner() - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Activities.AddItemActivity
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- ElasticSearchResponse<T> - Class in cmput301t4.gameswap.serverTools
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Taken from https://github.com/rayzhangcl/ESDemo/tree/master/ESDemo on November 20, 2015
- ElasticSearchResponse() - Constructor for class cmput301t4.gameswap.serverTools.ElasticSearchResponse
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- ElasticSearchSearchResponse<T> - Class in cmput301t4.gameswap.serverTools
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Taken from https://github.com/rayzhangcl/ESDemo/tree/master/ESDemo on November 20, 2015
- ElasticSearchSearchResponse() - Constructor for class cmput301t4.gameswap.serverTools.ElasticSearchSearchResponse
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- email - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- email - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.string
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- email_user - Static variable in class cmput301t4.gameswap.R.id
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- equals(Object) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Models.Item
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.equals Override
- equals(Object) - Method in class cmput301t4.gameswap.Models.Trade
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Sets the values the user wants in the trade
.equals Override


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This is a basic demo of Ice Sickle's extension system! You can use this package as a starting point for developing your own. All this one did was display this lousy window. We know you can build something way better!


Hearing problems can affect the ability to learn spoken language and in adults it can create difficulties with social interaction and at work.In some people, particularly older people, hearing loss can result in loneliness.Hearing loss can be temporary or permanent.
The deaf rely almost exclusively on visual stimuli, like lip reading or sign language, to communicate with others. Even dimly lit rooms can pose massive problems for the hard of hearing.
Not many deaf people can lip read,but also talking about anyone while they're right there is a pretty offensive thing to do. This can make already difficult social interactions much more so, leading to feelings of alienation and anxiety on the part of a deaf person.
When someone realizes they’re interacting with a hearing impaired person, they often switch to a slower form of speech. While it’s done with the best intentions, it can actually hinder lip reading. Over time, the hearing impaired have learned to understand words when people speak naturally, so slowing it down intentionally can result in miscommunication.
This video explains about the daily challenages a hearing impaired student faces and how she feels about it
Aside from the challenages mentioned above, hearing impaired usually rely on visual clues in their daily lifes. Hence we reccommend the following solutions:)
Press the doorbell!
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THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE (DreamWorks) Starring: Will Smith, Matt Damon, Charlize Theron, J. Michael Moncrief, Bruce McGill, Joel Gretsch. Screenplay: Jeremy Leven, based on the novel by Steven Pressfield. Producers: Jake Eberts, Michael Nozik and Robert Redford. Director: Robert Redford. MPAA Rating: PG-13 (adult themes, wartime violence) Running Time: 125 minutes. Reviewed by Scott Renshaw.
Philosophy generally makes for godawful cinema. Steven Pressfield's novel THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE seemed like a terribly unlikely candidate for a film translation, because it wasn't really a novel. It was a primer in Hindu spiritual thought (Bagger Vance, Baghavad ... get it?) combined with a mash note to the game of golf, wrapped loosely around a period narrative. There was no way Pressfield's book could be turned into an engaging film. Then again, that's what people said about Norman Maclean's A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT, and somehow director Robert Redford managed to turn that book into a pretty solid film. But how would a text comprised primarily of mystical lessons and play-by-play from the links be rendered on screen?
Redford's adaptation of THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE radically re-imagines Pressfield's novel to make it a more palatable screen story. In so doing, he rips out its soul and leaves a fairly bland sports drama in its place. The bulk of the film takes place in Savannah, Georgia in 1931, where a once-in-a-lifetime event is about to take place. Cash-strapped heiress Adele Invergordon (Charlize Theron), desperate to generate interest in her late father's golf resort while the Depression rages, arranges for an exhibition match between the era's two golf giants: Bobby Jones (Joel Gretsch) and Walter Hagen (Bruce McGill). There's also interest in adding a local boy to the field, and everyone knows that World War I hero and former amateur champion Rannulph Junuh (Matt Damon) should be the one. But Junuh, psychologically scarred by the war, has no interest in playing until a mysterious fellow named Bagger Vance (Will Smith) shows up and offers to be Junuh's caddy.
It's easy to see the logic behind most of screenwriter Jeremy Leven's decisions in adapting BAGGER VANCE. He creates a romantic sub-plot by casting Adele and Junuh as former lovers separated by circumstance; he excises most of Baggers' lengthy speeches; he even tries to build up the character of the young boy (J. Michael Moncrief) who will become the story's flashback narrator (an uncredited Jack Lemmon) by exploring his family's losses due to the Depression. The story is streamlined into a tale of redemption and lost love regained, and the climax is rendered as a nigh-mythical clash of titans. It's all quite clean and efficient, with all the prosaic descriptions of transcendentally significant dogleg lefts and most of the revelatory visions left on the page.
In fact, it's so clean and efficient that it hardly registers as a drama at all. While Pressfield's novel wasn't terribly concerned with making his characters genuinely complex, it didn't really matter contextually. Leven and Redford don't add much to that complexity, and here it matters a lot. Redford is too concerned with making the atmosphere mystical to give Junuh's pain an earthly urgency, and Matt Damon's performance suffers as a result. Charlize Theron gets to weep a bit, but Adele has "romantic interest" written all over her from the outset. Will Smith does fine, relaxed work as Bagger, but his importance as a spiritual teacher is diminished with his teachings reduced to fortune cookie-sized aphorisms. BAGGER VANCE was not going to work on the screen with twenty minute sermons on the Authentic Swing; it makes perfect sense to shift the focus to the characters. It makes no sense to shift the focus, then still leave the characters underdeveloped.
As usual, Redford directs a technically accomplished piece of work, beautifully photographed by Michael Ballhaus and smoothly edited. There's simply no weight to any of it, despite the intrusively heavy score by Rachel Portman. Instead of a meditation on a personal journey to enlightenment told through the unique nature of the game of golf, the film becomes a period piece with a few appealing performances. What remains is a film about whether or not Junuh will win the big golf match and/or win the girl. And while it's competently rendered, it's not exactly the matter of cosmic import the film builds it up to be. You can't blame a filmmaker for radically altering a text as inherently uncinematic as THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE. Redford, however, alters it to the point that you wonder why he bothered to make it at all. He understood that philosophy generally makes for godawful cinema. He didn't understand that without the philosophy, or rich characterizations to replace it, THE LEGEND OF BAGGER VANCE just barely breaks par.
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compile
, which is implemented
by the javac plugin. When using the javac plugin, it automatically binds itself compile
. Maven on the
other hand requires the user to specify what phase a goal is bound to manually.
war
path that specifies the libraries bundled into
the web application's lib directory.
<dependency group="apache.ant" version="1.7.1" paths="runtime"/>And the following will not include transitive dependencies (in this case ant's launcher.jar):
<dependency group="apache.ant" version="1.7.1" paths="runtime+"/>In constrast, Maven cannot disable transitive dependencies - you have to manually exclude each one.
<dependency group="apache.ant" name="commons-net" version="1.7.1" paths="ant-types"/> <plugin group="quokka.plugin.fop" version="?" templates="transform"/> <plugin group="quokka.plugin.script" version="?"> <target name="myscript" template="javascript"> <property name="script"><![CDATA[ // Example of built-in tasks (echo) for (i=1; i<=10; i++) { echo = project.createTask("echo"); echo.setMessage(i*i); echo.perform(); } // Example of optional Ant task (ftp) - dependencies are added to ant-types ftp = project.createTask("ftp") ftp.setUserid("ftp.crap.com") // Example of using a a quokka plugin (fop) - the plugin and template must be declared props = new java.util.Properties() props.put("in","src/fop/fo.xml") props.put("out","${q.project.targetDir}/fop/fo.pdf") quokka.execute("quokka.plugin.fop", "transform", props) ]]></property> </target> </plugin>
Note: The items below refer to design aspects that will impact robustness and agility over time. Maven as a product will be more robust than the initial quokka release.
Hopefully, this process will make the Quokka repository much better than the Maven repository. The checks above would have caught a lot of the current problems in the Maven repository.