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- 'Lawless'
- Starring: Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf
- Directed by: John Hillcoat
- Rated: R
From Mark Bondurant's book "The Wettest County in the World" comes this Prohibition piece about some of that era's most infamous bootleggers, the Bondurant brothers. Set in 1931 in Franklin County, Va., this is a rather true account of the three brothers — Howard (Jason Clarke), Forrest (Tom Hardy) and young Jack (Shia LaBeouf) — and their exploits and adventures peddling some of the tastiest moonshine ever produced.
According to Bondurant, a direct descendant of the brothers who also had a hand in the screenplay along with Nick Cave, the three entrepreneurs operated out of a quasi general store and café, which was really a front for their booming illegal liquor business. Their stills were hidden deep in the dense woods, but the local law enforcement seemed more interested in purchasing the product.
With Jack narrating the story, we get to know the family; Howard is the twitchy one, Forrest is the brains and self appointed leader, and Jack, the baby, who is not given much respect. When he witnesses Floyd Banner (Gary Oldman), a big league bootlegger, machine gun down someone who wrongs him, Jack becomes enamored with his flashy style and sets up his own hugely successful moonshine business, turning the back woods operation into a huge money-making business that affords him fancy suits and expensive cars.
But everything starts to go wrong with the arrival of Charlie Rakes (Guy Pearce), a Chicago deputy marshal sent to shut down the flow of the potent potable. What he really wants is a percentage of the profits, but the Bondurants aren't interested in partners, a decision that starts an all-out war between the feds and the moonshiners.
Filmed in sepia tones with a beautiful feel for the period, you still get the feeling there was so much more to this that never made it to the screen. There is a macho vibe that permeates the movie with emphasis on bone crunching, bloodletting violence, which fortifies the Bondurant legend that nothing could kill them. That "nothing" includes a throat slashing, numerous vicious beatings that are difficult to watch and an epic gun battle during the denouement that leaves everyone with a few bullet holes in them.
What is there, if you can stomach the violence, is pretty good, although the characters seem rather truncated in the prestige cast. Jessica Chastain, the "it" actress of the moment, is given little to do as Maggie, a Chicago chorine who appears one day looking for a job. She slings hash and makes mooneyes at Forrest and, well, there you have it.
The most enjoyable performance is Pearce, who interprets Rakes as a pomaded dandy with a penchant for kid leather gloves in a variety of pastels, crisp pin stripe suits and a crazy nasally high pitched voice that is the equivalent of nails scraping a chalk board. He's such a fop that when he unleashes his sadistic rage, it's shocking.
This movie has everything going for it, particularly its authentic look and tone, but it strangely never coalesces into a solid narrative. It reels from scene to scene like the director, John Hillcoat, sampled too much of the product featured in the story. Originally the movie bore the name of Bondurant's book, but at some point it was changed to the innocuous "Lawless," a fitting title, but one as drab as the movie itself.


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Actually it wasn't completely dark yet, and it wasn't quite night. More like a dusky late afternoon, on the cusp of early evening. Just barely 6 p.m. And though it wasn't exactly stormy, it was certainly as cold and breezy as one would expect in late Autumn in Vermont.
Those were the conditions when Mount Abraham Union High School junior Garth Wilson heard a knock on the door of his Bristol home. He opened it to find a congenial looking stranger standing on the porch.

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It's hard to believe that we started work on this big blue Ford over two years now. When we managed to score the '70 Fairlane 500 off eBay for $8,000 we knew we were already ahead of the game. It's one of the big advantages to buying an offbeat nameplate. While mechanically challenged, the Fairlane had great paint, a laser-straight body, new chrome, a cherry interior, and best of all, zero rust-even under the white vinyl top. For something "popular" like a Mustang or a Camaro, we could have paid twice as much.
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The smell of white – mixtures of many distinct scents end up smelling the same
Meet Laurax, a not-very-bold, not-that-exciting new fragrance. According to a panel of sniffers, it's neither appealing nor revolting. It's "intermediately pleasant". People almost trip over themselves to describe it in non-descript terms—"fragrant", "chemical" and "perfumery".
Laurax isn't going to set the perfume world ablaze in the near future, but its scientific implications are fascinating. This bizarre scent is actually a set of completely different fragrances that all smell roughly the same. It's the odour version of "white".
The colour that we call white is a blend of many different wavelengths of light. Add red and blue light together, and you get magenta. Add other colours and eventually, you converge on white. The same applies to sounds: if you combine tones of different frequencies, you eventually arrive at a perceptual hum called "white noise". There's no fixed formula for making white light or white noise. You don't need to mix a specific set of colours or frequencies. As long as the individual ingredients are different enough, and roughly equal in intensity, whiteness emerges.
Now, Tali Weiss and Kobi Snitz from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, have shown that this concept also applies to smells. Both work in the lab of Noam Sobel, who smell-based research includes creating sniff-steered wheelchairs, and unveiling the chemical signals hidden in tears.
The team's latest discovery is no less fascinating. By mixing groups of 30 differently-scented molecules, they could create complex mixtures that all smelled the same, even if they didn't have a single ingredient in common. The result isn't a specific odour per se, but more like a unified perception. They called it "olfactory white". Or, for the purposes of their experiments, Laurax.
It's not obvious that olfactory white should exist. Think about the smell of coffee, the aroma of tobacco smoke, or the scent of a rose. All of these are complex mixtures of hundreds, if not thousands, of chemicals. And yet, they're all distinctive and easy to recognise. It's easy to think that large mixtures of smells retain their own identities, without merging into white like noises or colours.
Weiss and Snitz proved otherwise. They worked with 86 single-molecule odours that were different from each other in terms of both smell and chemical properties. In technical terms, they hailed from all corners of "perceptual space".
The duo diluted the individual components so they all smelled equally intense, and mixed them into almost 200 groups, each containing between 4 and 43 ingredients. They dabbed the chemicals separately onto absorbent pads so they wouldn't react with each other, but would release vapours that mingled in the air above. Fifty-nine volunteers then sniffed the mixtures in pairs, and rated how similar they were to each other.
Weiss and Snitz found that "the more components there were in each of two mixtures, the more similar the smell of those two mixtures became, even though the mixtures had no components in common". As more and more distinct components are added to two brews, the more similar those brews would smell. And presumably, if you added enough chemicals, everything would eventually smell the same. That's olfactory white.
Weiss and Snitz tested this concept further by creating four fragrances, each made from a different combo of 40 ingredients, and each labelled as "Laurax". They asked a dozen volunteers to familiarise themselves with one of the four blends over three days.
On the fourth day, they had to assign labels to four new mixtures of 1 to 40 components; their choices were "Laurax" and three names concocted by a professional perfurmer. They volunteers were more likely to describe a fragrance as "Laurax" if it had a large number of ingredients, even if those ingredients were very different to the original blend that the volunteers had become acquainted with (below, left). And if they were given 21 blends of entirely new ingredients, they could easily tell that simple mixtures weren't Laurax, but were basically guessing when it came to the complex 30-strong mixtures (below, right). Once blends hit that 30-ingredient mark, they all smelled roughly the same.
The various olfactory whites weren't entirely identical. People could still distinguish between different versions of Laurax, but perhaps that's to be expected. With vision and sound, it's very easy to blend diverse ingredients using wavelengths and frequency, but it's much harder to do the same with the traits of molecules. It's also hard, and very labour-intensive, to balance the intensity of the different molecules.
This is a critical point: Laurax isn't just any large mixture of molecules. It doesn't smell like coffee, or wine, or tobacco. When Weiss and Snitz created blends of 30 chemically similar ingredients, or blends where ingredients were unevenly balanced, the volunteers were less likely to describe them as Laurax.
Does olfactory white actually exist in nature? It seems unlikely. Most natural aromas have ingredients that aren't as diverse in chemistry, or balanced in intensity, as those in Laurax. A rose, for example, may give off hundreds of molecules, but just one of these – phenylethyl alcohol – accounts for 70 percent of the mixture. If you spray this molecule alone, you'll get an unmistakeable (if somewhat poor) smell of rose.
Nonetheless, Weiss and Snitz argue that both white light and white noise are also rather rare in nature, but both concepts have taught us a lot about how our senses work. Perhaps olfactory white will too. The team are now planning to study the brain activity of volunteers as they take a whiff of Laurax, and they've also submitted a patent "for a wide range of potential applications for olfactory white."
And what does Laurax smell like? Not like anything in particular. When the team asked professional perfumer Danyel Gafsou to describe the various Laurax blends, he came up with a wide variety of terms. When they asked volunteers to rate the blends according to 147 different descriptions, they avoided specific ones like "leather" or "coffee", and were most likely to choose generic terms like fragrant, chemical, perfumery, aromatic, floral, soapy, sweet, fruity and medicinal. Compared to many other smells, Laurax falls smack in the middle between pleasant and unpleasant, and between edible and poisonous. It's as intermediate a smell as you can get.
"Finally," Weiss and Snitz write, "the best way to appreciate the qualities of olfactory white is to smell it." To that end, they've listed three different recipes for Laurax, two of which share no components at all. The numbers all relate to identifiers in the PubChem database. You can mix them yourself, and inhale away.
Reference: Weiss, Snitz, Yablonka, Khan, Gafsou, Schneidman & Sobel. 2012. Perceptual convergence of multi-component mixtures in olfaction implies an olfactory white. PNAS http://dx.doi.org/1073/pnas.1208110109
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- Sniff-detector allows paralysed people to write messages, surf the net and drive a wheelchair
- Tears as chemical signals – smell of female tears affects sexual behaviour of men
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Great article. I wouldn't have expected an "olfactory white" because, as you mentioned, most of the smells we identify as a single smell are actually complex chemical combinations (hmm…how to say that with less alliteration).
The correct DOI is 10.1073/pnas.1208110109 . However, it loooks like is is not being resolved correctly. So here is the link to the paper: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/11/15/1208110109
I think an apt analogy from the world of color is: colors created in one system can usually be matched with completely different materials from another system. For example, bring a cloth swatch from your furniture to your local hardware store to get matching paint. The color created with cloth substrate and dyes can be matched with a completely different system of paint base and tints. They key is, both systems have same-enough effect on the incoming light to present your eyes with an essentially identical stimulus. I wonder if the identical stimuli for the two smells happens at the sensor level (nose), or at the brain level, or somewhere in between?
Perhaps the "white " smell is caused by a sensory overload being placed on the human ofactory system as more scents are added. Thus, once overloaded, everything smells similar or the "same." Add too many colors and everything turns black, not white. The scents don't change, but the human ability to distinguish them is overwhelmed. Both the nose and brain are involved as the brain does not perceive "true" reality.
johnny, it looks like you are talking about mixing paint or alike. Which gives an opposite result to mixing light about which Ed is talking. The latter you can see happening on your screen, where white is the result of mixing all three basic colors of light, the only ones your pixels have. If you do the same with the 3 basic colors of paint, you get something completely different: the color you are talking about, mostly a kind of dirty-dark brownish. This is because your screen etcetera spreads light, while stuff like paint is absorbing it.
Thanks Toos, I'll accept your paint vs. light explanation.
However, my main point was that the "white" smell phenomena observed may be the result of sensory overload and the difference between what the nose detects and the brain perceives, as is the case with the human eye, brain and vision. See David H Hubel, Eye, Brain, and Vision [Scientific American Library Series 1988]; and Hubel & Wiesel, Brain and Visual Perception [Oxford University Press 2005].
johnny, I do know some about physics [like this about colors and light]. And appreciated it a lot, reading Ed's post about this same kind of physics about smell. Though I don't know that much about neurology, so I can't – and therefore didn't – tell anything about your point. But sure it could be of interest, especially with sources added as you did. So it's not a denial! Just another field, as is for the discovery of Laurax [for which how the brain works with it, can stay a "black box"].
Quibble: White noise is not a hum, it's a hiss. And it's not rare in Nature, unless you consider wind to be rare.
I doubt that masking works with olfaction as it does with hearing. For instance, tobacco smoke is a very complex smell, including all the major categories of odor. It's often considered to be 'overwhelming'. Yet the best perfumiers were often heavy smokers.


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Ballston Spa, New York -March 4, 2008 -ReQuest, the well established leader in hard disk music servers and server -based whole -house media systems, has announced that its Freedom touchscreen wireless remote control system is now available across its entire product line. Introduced last fall exclusively for the iQ Intelligent Music System, the Freedom remote (which runs on a Nokia N800 "Internet Tablet" handheld controller) is now available to extend full command to ReQuest's N.Series, F.Series, and S.Series Music Servers using ReQuest's simple and intuitive graphical user interface with commands, graphics, and icons.
"Freedom proved hugely popular among iQ -system owners and designers almost immediately," says ReQuest's V.P. of Sales & Marketing, Bill McKiegan. "So it was imperative that we extend the benefit to all ReQuest owners."
ReQuest's Freedom transforms a Nokia N800 handheld tablet -which means roughly 6x3x0.5 inches and is equipped with a full -color, 800x480 -pixel touchscreen into a full -function WiFi controller for all ReQuest music servers. The user simply inserts the Freedom SD card into an N800's SD memory slot, runs the included installer, and is immediately ready to enjoy a portable, full -function touchscreen system commander. The Freedom/N800 delivers full control, communicating via 802.11b/g WiFi over a home network, and then to the ReQuest server using IP.
Running ReQuest's award -winning Serious Play Media Manager, Freedom delivers the complete music server experience including music selection, volume control, and playlist creation. Serious Play makes it easy to select a favorite artist, album, track, or playlist, with Album Art for the entire collection and fingertip highlighting/dragging make programming and selection completely intuitive. And if an exact song title or artist name escapes the user, Serious Play's search engine can track it down instantly. Playlist creation is equally simple: the user simply drags the desired track into position and drops it onto the playlist. Freedom requires zero programming, discovers the network and the ReQuest host automatically, and populates Album Art and complete music metadata without user intervention.
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Avalon Bowery Place was designed to let you indulge in Manhattan living, the way you always dreamt. Set in the famed Bowery, this luxury residence puts you in the center of an all-encompassing lifestyle. Our luxury New York apartments offer studios and one- or two-bedroom designs that showcase the finest blend of sophisticated appointments. These apartments in New York feature fully-equipped gourmet kitchens with stainless steel appliances, washers and dryers, and other fantastic amenities. Residents of our New York apartments have a long list of stellar community facilities at their disposal as well. These include unbeatable features such as garage parking, a landscaped courtyard, a sundeck with gas barbecue grill, and much more.
In addition to all of the wonderful features inside the community, Avalon Bowery Place offers an amazing neighborhood with 4th Street and the East Village to the north, Canal Street and Chinatown to the south, Allen Street and the Lower East Side to the east and Little Italy to the west. The New York City apartments are perfectly positioned to give you the best Big City experience all outside your door. Plenty of amazing landmarks are near this New York City apartment rental as well, including the New Museum, CBGB, Amato Opera and the Bowery Ballroom. If you're hungry, stop at one of the many world-renowned restaurants to sample the enviable amount of delicacies in your new neighborhood. This amazing borough gives you all of the contemporary touches needed while maintaining the history that endears itself to so many. The central location also puts you near the best of the city with the BMT Nassau Street Line right by these New York apartments.
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Now, don't get me wrong, I do love veggies myself (and meat…I am an equal opportunity eater: everything has an equal opportunity to get eaten by me). My name may be ChichaJo (Chicharon meaning pork cracklings), but my little profile picture is a bunch of brussel sprouts (my favorite vegetable). Another favorite veggie (I do have many) is cabbage. I have heard much nasty press about cabbage (about brussel sprouts too for that matter), but I never understood why. Cabbage is good! And it gets on famously with bacon! (Aha.)
So one night, I find myself getting ready to whip up my usual cabbage with bacon sauté (I love heaping the cabbage onto my wok…creating a tall mountain that eventually "wilts", pressing down with my hands…). Rooting through the fridge and freezer I realize…I don't have any bacon (how that happened is a mystery)! Ack! What to do? I valiantly (desperately) explored some more, up to my elbows in frozen meats (and other oddities being housed in the deep freeze). Aha! My hand settles on a ziplock bag of jamon Serrano bits. Paydirt!
Let me explain (although in the planet I sometimes inhabit, a ziplock bag of jamon Serrano bits in the feezer needs no explanation at all). When I make fabada, I use a broth made from ham bone…jamon Serrano bone if I can get it. This makes all the difference in the world. The strong, aged ham flavor this has adds much depth and flavor to your broth. After making the broth, I take the bone and remove all the ham bits and toss them into the fabada. If there is too much bits (you don't want your fabada to be too salty), I keep them in the freezer until the next fabada.
I thought this would make an excellent substitute for the bacon, so I happily got on with my sauté. The sauté itself is relatively simple, not even a recipe. I wouldn't even mention it here except for the amazing effect the jamon bits produced. I sautéed a lot of chopped garlic in some olive oil, then tossed in the jamon Serrano bits. Almost immediately an incredible smell filled my kitchen. The aroma of the jamon was just so great and so heady that you could almost taste it in the air. My knees were actually going weak and I guarantee, every meat-lover in your house (and possibly some of your neighbors if you keep your windows open) will sniff their way into your kitchen.


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Your quality and confidentiality requirements are our priority at Phillips-Medisize. On your behalf, our systems and practices provide traceability and documentation required for compliance to our internal and your external requirements. As your supply-chain partner, you receive service that focuses on continuous improvements and quality assurance as demonstrated by our site and system Quality Certifications.
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Anki Anki is a program which makes remembering things easy. Because it is a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying, or greatly increase the amount you learn.
This guide shows you how to install Anki.
Installation with Japanese Support
Install mecab-ipadicAUR from the AUR.
Install kakasi from the Official repositories.
Install anki from the Official repositories.
Launch anki, and inside anki use "File->Download->Shared Plugin" to download and install the "Japanese Support" plugin, restart.
If you prefer to use Anki version 1, install anki-oldAUR from the AUR.
After creating a new deck, you need to select "Japanese" as the deck model in "deck properties" to have Japanese support. Make sure that the Japanese Support plugin is installed, otherwise you cannot select "Japanese" as the model.
Tips and tricks
Install ttf-kanjistrokeordersAUR from the AUR if you want to display kanji stroke orders in anki. You have to select this font inside anki in your deck properties after installation.
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When it comes to collecting sneakers, finding the right fit is not enough.
Over 1,500 sneakerheads made their way to a church basement in lower Manhattan recently, hoping to either sell, trade or buy pricy collectible sneakers at Sneaker Con, a quarterly sneaker convention. You won't find any old, battered tennis shoes here—the sneakers at this convention were some of the most desirable, hard to find models on the market, costing as high as $3,000. Most were made by just two brands—either Nike or Adidas.
So what makes a sneaker valuable? A rare pair released in a limited quantity boosts value. Size matters , too: those sized Men's 10 and up sell better, because they'll fit more fans. Bright sneakers (especially red) rule with collectors. Also, sneakers attached to famous names (think Michael Jordan or Lebron James) are always in demand.
Most of the sneaker started out selling at a retail price of $100 to $200, and have increased in value since. Click ahead to check out some investment-worthy kicks.
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The Management Department faculty is composed of individuals with diverse interests who are actively engaged in research, and who have established reputations in both teaching and research. The faculty produce many papers, monographs and books each year, and regularly present research papers at national meetings. In addition, they hold offices in national professional associations; serve on editorial boards of leading journals; are consultants to corporations and government agencies; teach both domestically and internationally; have won many teaching and research awards; and have received numerous research grants from major corporations, foundations, and government agencies.
The mission of the Ph.D. program in Management is to produce individuals who shape both the academic profession and the practice of management through their excellence in research, teaching, and service. The program focuses on establishing a solid conceptual and methodological foundation that graduates can build on throughout their careers. The vast majority of the program experiences are designed to develop the students' research abilities, and to prepare them to communicate that research to a variety of audiences.
Graduates of the program are trained to design and execute original, high quality research that will be published in the major scholarly journals and books of the profession. We believe that research published in such outlets will have the greatest impact because of the standards of excellence that they represent. Such research should attempt to advance theory as well as have implications for the practice of management. Expertise in research is developed through students' participation in formal coursework and, more importantly, through their work with and under the direction of faculty on research projects.
Graduates of the program are expected to exhibit the skills needed to successfully teach management courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels. By giving students the opportunity to teach courses in their area of specialization under the direction of a faculty member, the program provides a foundation that allows them to become excellent teachers. Both course development and in-class teaching skills are considered essential.
Graduates of the program are encouraged to make substantive service contributions to the academic profession. However, they are not expected or encouraged to do so until after they graduate. Such contributions may include membership on editorial review boards, holding offices in prominent professional associations, dissertation supervision, serving on departmental and schools committees, among others. These activities are no substitute for excellence in research and teaching, but are critical to maintaining an efficient and collegial community.
Management Department graduates are serving or have recently served on the faculties of such venerable universities as:
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NOTE: Students will progress at varying speeds through the doctoral program depending on course needs and scope of dissertation research.
The Ph.D. with a major in Organizations & Strategy involves the study of organizations, the individuals and groups who participate in them, the role and problems of general managers, and the larger social and economic context in which organizations operate. Students within the Organizations & Strategy specialization will be exposed to literatures drawn from both Organization Science and Strategic Management, and then will concentrate their doctoral studies in one of these two areas.
Organization Science encompasses a wide variety of topics at the individual, group, and organizational levels of analysis. Current faculty research interests include:
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Because of the wide range of rich topics pursued in both the Organization Science and the Strategic Management areas, research in this field frequently builds on contributions from diverse disciplines, including sociology, psychology, communications, industrial organization economics, political science, anthropology, and decision theory. In addition, a wide variety of research designs are used and mastery of both quantitative and qualitative data analysis techniques is essential. The formal training program begins with coursework. However, the program emphasizes early and continued involvement in collaborative research projects with faculty.
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I'm pretty sure I've read some stuff about pygame being mentioned on this forum, but I must know how menus and text is handled for the sake of screen readers. Is there an accessibility library that is commonly used? I know java has this sort of thing built in, but what does python have. I have seen one library,but it seemed to cover mac.
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#2 2017-09-15 18:50:36
You probably want accessible_output2, if you want to develop programs that can explicitly communicate with screen readers and braille devices. . Pygame's ability to display text isn't inherently accessible, in the sense that java.awt.Graphics.drawString isn't inherently accessible.
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#3 2017-09-15 22:53:52 (edited by magurp244 2017-09-15 22:58:13)
Generally libraries like pygame and pyglet are not screen reader accessible without external support libraries such as accessible_output2 as already mentioned, along with other libraries like Tolk or Pyttsx. Wxpython is considerably more accessible because it uses the operating systems native widgets, although that accessibility can be a bit patchy in places such as wx.Notebook being mostly accessible, but wx.AuiNotebook isn't.
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#4 2017-09-16 03:27:32
I'd go for Tolk. It's far more stable.
#5 2017-09-16 15:24:31
Hmm, actually regarding tolk, it does work for python? I don't know a lot about the library, to be honest. Just that it is used for adding accessibility, and that I think Skullgirls uses it for it's accessibility. Does anyone have any good resources for setting it up? Actually, any resources for accessible_output2 would also be nice as well.
#6 2017-09-16 15:32:26
you can find the repository for accessible output at:
#7 2017-09-16 15:56:50
One thing you might want to keep in mind. IF you wish to have cross platform support for your game, only accessible_output2 is cross platform of the options mention. I've talked to the developer of tolk and to some up, he doesn't want to have to completely rewrite tolk to work with multiple platforms. Quentin C has a library for speech as well, but thats windows specific again and while he says he'd like people to try and port it to Mac and other os's, it would need a lot of work too.
just some thoughts. hope this helps.
#8 2017-11-17 16:37:38
Okay, I tried setting up Accessible_Output2, but it seems the dependencies it wants are not installing correctly. I have no idea, I know at least two of the setup.py files threw some sort of syntax error complaining about one of the print statements. Those were the platform_utils and Accessible_Output2 itself. Is Tolk less of a pain in the neck to get working on python?
#9 2017-11-17 17:48:30
Yes, it is. AO2 appears to be -- if your right -- python 2.x only, which is a shame. Tolk is Python 2/3.x compatible.
#10 2017-11-17 17:53:05
Can you provide the exact traceback?
accessible_output2 works just fine on py3
#11 2017-11-17 17:53:53
Great, does anyone know how to install Tolk for python? I've only seen one library that seems to be a networking thing.
#12 2017-11-17 18:03:18
if non-cross platform support doesn't matter in your situation:
Otherwise, I don't really know why your having difficulty with accessible_output2. Do you have pywin32?
#13 2017-11-17 18:07:39
Okay, I have a snippet from the installation messages.
code = compile(script, filename, 'exec')
File "C:\Users\Owner\AppData\Local\Temp\easy_install-gmy3mah_\pypiwin32-219\se
tup.py", line 121
print "Building pywin32", pywin32_version
SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
Also, yes, I did install pywin32. Though, I wonder if the Antivirus messed with it. I doubt it, though, after all, I made sure to have it off at the time I first ran this setup process.
#14 2017-11-17 18:20:01
Looks like your using the python 2 build script.
Run setup3 from:
Looks like the project was moved just a couple days ago from sourceforge. I wonder where the simple installers went?
#15 2017-11-17 18:26:08
Hmm, that seems wierd. I have a 3.6 32 bit installer which matches the python version I am running. It doesn't seem to be version mismatch on the part of pywin.
#16 2017-11-17 18:42:12
Ah, here are the installers I used. No problems here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin3 … uild%20221
#17 2017-11-17 19:05:29
Wait, does the libloader dependency also make use of pywin32? That was the only one that seems to have installed successfully, though, it seems to be recognizing Accessible_output2, it complains more about platform utils more than anything.
My test code
import accessible_output2 as ao2
# List the screen readers that accessible_output2 can work with.
# Note that just because a screen reader is in this list, it does not mean that the user has it installed.
# Create an instance of a class using the SAPI output class.
# Note that it is item 6 on my system, but I'm not sure if it will be the same on yours.
sapi = ao2.get_output_classes()[6]()
# List the methods and other attributes of the output class.
# The dir() function is a Python programmer's best friend.
# Speak the text "Hello, World!" using SAPI:
sapi.speak("Hello, World!")
Now I'm wondering if it has something to do with the more obvious thing about that list might have changed, thus it is using the wrong index.
the error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "HelloWorld.py", line 1, in <module>
import accessible_output2 as ao2
File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\accessible_output2-0.13-py3.6.egg\acces
sible_output2\__init__.py", line 5, in <module>
from platform_utils import paths
File "C:\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\platform_utils-0.4-py3.6.egg\platform_u
tils\paths.py", line 19, in <module>
import winpaths
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'winpaths'
Hmm, if it is pywin32 I wonder... I may have to try a new installation. If that occurs, will I need to try again with the rest of the libraries as well?
#18 2017-11-26 07:20:02
Okay, I've decided to give Tolk a go. The readme mentions a Tolk.pyo file, but I have no idea where to find the thing much less what to do with it once I have it. I'd like to try to avoid hand building all of this if possible. I doubt a simple pip install will help here as I think that's going to get me a networking library. Not useful.
#19 2017-11-26 09:45:14
You don't have to build any files, although you may have to shuffle around a few. You can download the current Tolk binaries from the AppVeyor link [here] which has everything you'll need, specifically tolk.py and its dependancies. In order to use it you'll also need tolk.dll and the individual screen reader dll's to support them for either x64 or x86 architecture, you can find them all in the "src/python/", "bin", and "lib" folders respectively. Once you have all the files in your working directory using it is easy, example:
import Tolk
print Tolk.detect_screen_reader()
print Tolk.has_braille()
print Tolk.has_speech()
print Tolk.is_loaded()
Tolk.output("Saying something!")
Tolk.braille("Sending to braille display!")
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