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Missing advanced tools and more options to share files. It needs a total renovation and be compatible with all operating systems and mobile devices.
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Updated thoughts on Destiny
by ricardopedia.In Video Games.Leave a Comment on Updated thoughts on Destiny
Today is post #500!!!
Last year you might remember that I did a writing piece for my Late to the Party series on the game Destiny. I played just the base version of the game but I liked it so much that I decided that at some point in the future I would purchase a full version of the game that included all the expansion packs that had come out. Not too long ago I finally made good on that decision, and since then I've put most of my limited gaming time into playing more of Destiny. With all the new content I've experienced it's only fair that I give some updated thoughts on the game.
Before I go any further, I would recommend that anyone who hasn't read my original writing piece on Destiny to do so first before reading the rest of this writing piece. A link to it can be found here. I'm not going to repeat much of what I stated in that writing piece, and in this writing piece I am assuming you either have read that first writing piece or are familiar with Destiny from your own experiences. As an aside, I'll mention that I reread that original writing piece myself prior to starting work on this one, and sure enough I found two more typos and even a factual error in my old work. Nothing makes me fall to my knees shouting at the sky like finding mistakes in writing pieces that I proofread multiple times before publishing.
I wield the power of the sun!
Since the launch of the base version of Destiny in 2014 there have been four major expansion packs, as well as a myriad number of small patches, that have been released for the game. These expansion packs are titled The Dark Below, House of Wolves, The Taken King, and Rise of Iron. I played through the main missions of each expansion pack and a lot of the side missions, and even though I haven't done every last thing available from each expansion pack I did enough that I think I can give an adequate description and opinion on each one. I'll discuss the expansion packs in the order they were released, giving an overview of the story missions and other content that came with them. After that I'll provide some notes on my experiences with multiplayer. As with my time working through the base version of Destiny, the vast majority of my time with the new content was spent playing by myself, so certain aspects of the game, such as Raids and the Trials of Osiris, I am not able to comment on since they require a group of friends to play with.
The Expansion Packs
The Dark Below is easily the weakest of the four expansion packs, and was also the one I didn't enjoy too much, seeing as how it focuses on the Hive, which are my least favorite enemy faction in Destiny. The storyline of The Dark Below centers around trying to stop the return of a Hive prince named Crota whom the Hive worship as a god. The story takes place predominantly on Earth and the Moon. Thankfully this expansion pack wasn't very big, (never thought I'd say something like that) so I could complete most of its content within a few hours, and Destiny's strong gameplay made the slog more bearable. On the plus side, The Dark Below, like other expansion packs, added in two new Strikes for me to play, which I did enjoy.
My stats and loadout at the time
House of Wolves was a major step up from its predecessor and felt much more like a proper expansion pack than The Dark Below. The story missions are about the leader of the House of Wolves who it trying to unite all the other Fallen houses under his rule. The queen of the Reef isn't too thrilled with this possibility, so you're tasked to work with her agents to hunt down this Fallen ruler and thwart his plans. In addition to the story missions, Strikes, and other new features, House of Wolves also gave us the Prison of Elders cooperative arenas, where individuals and squads can take on powerful foes. House of Wolves could have used just a little more content to fill out its offerings, but what was there was fun.
Exploring the dreadnaught
In the third Destiny expansion pack, The Taken King, developer Bungie delivered a massive expansion that was almost a small game unto itself. Connecting directly to the events of The Dark Below, in The Taken King you have to face down Oryx, the father of Crota. Oryx has parked his massive dreadnaught in the middle of Saturn's rings and soon begins subjugating all the other alien races in the solar system, turning them into the Taken. Thus begins a desperate quest to find a way onto Oryx's ship and kill him before his Taken overrun everything. The story presentation in The Taken King is easily the best of the four expansion packs and is what we should have gotten in the base version of Destiny to begin with, in that you're given an interesting tale with proper cutscenes and context for what's going on. Accompanying the story missions are lots of side quests that provide many hours of gameplay, to the point that whenever there were side missions I didn't like I could easily ignore them since there were plenty of others to choose from. Among those side quests are ones that unlock the third subclass for each main character class. I really appreciated this, as the mission where I gained the Stormcaller subclass for my Warlock showed me why I should invest time into leveling it up, which is something I didn't get when I unlocked the Sunsinger while playing the base version of Destiny. On top of all this, The Taken King added Oryx's ship as a whole new location to explore and patrol—something that felt overdue at that point in the game. The last thing I'll mention about The Taken King is that it finally gave me context as to what exactly the Taken were, so now I understand what was going on when I was running into them last year when I was playing the base version of Destiny.
Iron Gjallarhorn!
The fourth and final Destiny expansion pack, Rise of Iron, wasn't quite as good as The Taken King, but was still a strong addition to the game and the second best expansion overall. In it, the Fallen on Earth have gotten their alien hands on SIVA, an experimental technology from long ago that threatened to run amok but was sealed away by the Iron Lords. Saladin, the last of the Iron Lords on Earth, sends you on a journey to first figure out how the Fallen got a hold of SIVA, and then destroy the source of the SIVA before the Fallen can fully utilize it. Like The Taken King, Rise of Iron added a lot of new content to Destiny, and most of it I liked. The story missions were fun, though I think Rise of Iron's story ended just a little too soon. Another new area to explore and patrol on Earth was opened up, a new social space called the Iron Temple provided a new place to meet other players, and all the new side missions kept me occupied for quite awhile. One series of side quests even allowed me to finally acquire the Gjallarhorn—an exotic rocket launcher that I hadn't been able to get up until that point. Actually, I now have two Gjallarhorns, since when I bought the complete edition of Destiny I got a code to unlock the Iron Gjallarhorn, which is the same thing as the regular Gjallarhorn but with a shiny black and chrome paint job.
It's true, I really was my team's MVP one time
I didn't play too much multiplayer when I was working through the base version of Destiny, and I only put a few more hours into multiplayer while I was playing the expansion packs, so I can't say much on it, but I can share a few thoughts. Multiplayer works as well as I remember it from my first experience with Destiny, and even though most of the time I'm just somewhere in the middle of the scoreboard I still have some fun playing it. The mode that I spent the most time in was Supremacy, which is a version of team deathmatch where players who are killed drop crests that the other team has to pick up in order to get points. Your teammates however can deny the other team the point if one of them grabs the allied crest first. Initially I was having a hard time with Supremacy, but then I realized that the most effective way to play it is to stick together with teammates rather than running around by myself, and after that my match scores started to steadily improve. During my time with multiplayer I also got to experience my first Iron Banner event, which is restricted to players who have hit level 40 and wherein the equalizers between players' light levels are turned off. Seeing as how I was going up against a lot of players who had already hit the maximum light level, I got my teeth kicked in many, many times, but I also got some nice new gear.
The last two things I want to note about multiplayer are two of the major changes that have occurred since my first time with Destiny, and unfortunately I'm not a fan of either of them. First, shotguns are not as effective as they used to be, and I don't like this because in my mind shotguns were a great equalizing force in Destiny multiplayer. They were easy to use and anyone could be deadly with them, regardless of skill level. The second major change to multiplayer is that you spawn with ammo for your secondary weapon, but lose it all once you die. The only exceptions to this rule are sidearms. My dislike for this new game mechanic lies purely in the fact that I'm not that good at multiplayer, so tend to die a lot, and with my secondary ammo being wiped with each death it made my secondary weapons, except for sidearms, almost irrelevant. I would like to mess around more with my fusion rifle in multiplayer, but that's not really an option anymore.
Having now played the expansion packs and put in a little more time with multiplayer, my opinion of Destiny is largely the same as when I played the base version of it, which is not a bad thing since I liked it lot during my first experience. Developer Bungie has shown a lot of progress in rectifying the problems that Destiny had in its early days and continues to steadily refine the gaming experience in it. At the time of the publishing of this post I've maxed out all three of my Warlock's subclasses and am at light level 378, (out of 400) and even though I've reached the point in the game where I'm only getting small improvements to my gear I'm still enjoying my time playing strikes and working on some of the side quests that I initially skipped over. That said, I can't keep playing Destiny for much longer. While I've had a great time with Destiny and would even like to start the game all over with one of the other two classes, I really need to wrap up my time with this game and move on to other things. I'll give Destiny one or two more weeks, but then it'll go on the shelf for several months while I work on other things. Maybe around the time of the launch of Destiny 2 I'll bring it back out to refresh myself on Destiny prior to playing the sequel.
The sun sets on Destiny
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Memorandum submitted by Bristol Home Educators' Forum
Our concerns about the conduct and contents of the Badman review may be summarised as follows:
- Home Education-related consultation and possible legislation should be delayed until Children Missing Education guidance and Contactpoint have had time to become established.
- The report goes beyond the published brief and the terms of reference on which Badman consulted.
- The review process was unsatisfactory, and the responses to it were not reflected in the Badman report.
- Proper procedures have not been followed since the review was published.
- The expert views of groups and individuals were ignored or misrepresented in the report.
- The review team was poorly chosen and lacked expertise.
The Badman recommendations
- place the duty for ensuring a suitable education is provided to each child with the State rather than the parent.
- fundamentally shift the relationship between the State and the home, and between the State and the family.
- will not prevent abuse and may themselves put children into abusive situations.
- erect discriminatory barriers to entry for those considering home education.
- are incompatible with some educational philosophies.
- would have a large but unconsidered (and largely negative) impact on children with SEN.
- would measure the attainment of individual children as an indication of the suitability of educational provision rather than measuring the provision. This is inconsistent with the way schools are inspected.
- would provide LAs with the school's judgement of a child's attainment and educational trajectory rather than providing it to the parents, who are the ones responsible for ensuring that a suitable education is provided.
- see home education as an anomaly to be understood and controlled by the State rather than as a valid choice by parents exercising their legal duty to ensure education is provided for their children.
BRISTOL HOME EDUCATORS' FORUM
This document has been developed collaboratively through discussions between Bristol Home Educators, both in person and via the Bristol Home Educators' Forum (http://bheforum.info.index). Bristol has a vibrant home education scene, with regular educational and social events, for which the Home Educators' Forum is a hub.
1. Conduct of the review and contents of the Badman report
1.1 Time since the last HE-related consultations
The latest Children Missing Education guidance was issued only in January 2009, after a consultation process in which many home educators participated. There was scarcely time for LA staff and members of the public to read it, let alone assimilate it and put it into practice, before the Badman report was commissioned. The Elective Home Education guidelines for LAs were issued, after extensive consultation, in 2007. It is not clear how the legal or ethical situation has so shifted since publication of each of these documents that a significant change to primary legislation is necessary.
If/when Contactpoint goes live, the educational setting of every school-aged child in the country will be included in a database field. It would be better to wait to see how this interacts with the CME guidance and the EHE guidelines rather than leaping into unnecessary legislation.
1.2 Terms of reference for the review
Badman's report stepped outside its remit, and outside the terms of reference on which he had publicly consulted, conflating education and welfare issues and recommending significant changes to the law, which are not justified by the evidence he gathered.
1.3 The review process
1.3.1 The Badman review was at first labelled a consultation, but swiftly changed to being a "review", once it was pointed out that the process was breaking the code of practice for consultations. Only online responses were invited, thus disenfranchising any stakeholders without internet access. The review was not publicised to stakeholders. The ensuing consultation has not been publicised either - as a minimum, one would expect LA education departments to be required to inform all known home educators in their area about the consultation and the proposed legislation.
1.3.2 The process of consultation was not open or fair. A 6-question questionnaire for the public compared to a 60-question one for LAs was hardly even handed; many of the questions for LAs betrayed a lack of appreciation for the legal powers and responsibilities of LAs in this area. Self-selecting LAs then completed a further questionnaire.
1.4 The process post-Badman
1.4.1 According to the code of practice, consultations should be held when there is the possibility of their affecting the outcome. Ed Balls has already fully accepted the Badman recommendations.
1.4.2 Ed Balls promises to respond to the Badman review in more detail in September, over half way through the consultation period. It would have been more appropriate for him to respond to the review before opening a consultation on possible legislation arising from it (is the current consultation even asking the right questions?).
1.4.3 New 'monitoring arrangements' appear in the draft legislation before the consultation (supposed to explore whether there should be any new legislation) has closed, let alone been reported on.
1.4.4 The proposed legislation is uncosted, not having been subjected to an impact assessment. Baroness Morgan's confidence that the recommendations have no cost implications (http://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2009-06-29a.6.4 ) is not shared by Home Educators (Home Education Advisory Service press release: http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=45453211491&topic=10685 ). It is not at all clear how the intensive regime of plans and visits (Recommendation 1), and the training required (Recommendations 9 and 22), would be implemented without immense cost.
1.4.5 The DCSF is moving towards implementing the invasive and controlling aspects of the recommendations, while leaving aside as 'difficult and sensitive' (Ed Balls, letter to Graham Badman) those which would make support available for those home educators who wanted it.
1.5 'Consultation' without listening
1.5.1 The report did not take into account the responses of members of the public, as a comparison of the summary responses to the 6-question document (http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/frequency_count_of_responses_to) with Badman's recommendations (and, indeed, the full report) demonstrates.
1.5.2 Badman's selective and unrepresentative quoting of the Church of England submission has been extensively commented on (see, for example, http://daretoknowblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/clarification-from-church-of-england.html)
1.5.3 Experts who were consulted - home educating families and academics - have since raised concerns that their views were ignored or misrepresented. For example, in the Home Educated Children's Survey (http://www.ukhome-educators.co.uk/Survey/childsurvey0609.htm), when asked whether it is acceptable for children to be interviewed alone, one child replied "Absolutely 100% NOT right! I met Graham Badman and told him this. I was there when groups of home educated young people over and over told him this. My parents did what they had to do to help me overcome the damage I suffered in school. I would literally have been terrified of someone asking to speak to me on my own. The report says that the children's views should be respected-that includes mine and my choice is NOT to see anyone from the LA especially not in my home, which for me when I first left school, was the only place I felt safe in. To impose this on home educated children would take away that feeling of safety that the parents have encouraged. Why did Mr Badman not listen to the views of the children and young people he spoke to?". Further misrepresentations are summarised at http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/topic.php?uid=45453211491&topic=10621 - and we are sure that these and others have been brought to your attention by other individuals and groups.
1.6 Constitution of the review team
1.6.1 It would have been better to choose a review author who was incontrovertibly independent rather than a previous Head of Kent Children's Services and current Chair of BECTA, whose interests might be suspected of being vested. The 'panel of experts' should also have included experts in the field of home education, including home educating parents, rather than exclusively a group of people committed to State education, State welfare, and the third-sector child protection industry.
2. The Badman recommendations
2.1 The requirement in Recommendation 1 annually to seek permission from the LA to home educate removes responsibility for providing children with an education 'at school or otherwise' from the parents, instead placing that duty in the hands of LA staff, who will delegate it to parents who they deem suitable (Recommendation 23). This makes home educators vulnerable to LA prejudice about different educational and lifestyle philosophies.
2.2 The requirement in Recommendation 7 to allow LA staffers to enter our homes without probable cause, and to allow those LA staffers to interview our children alone, again without probable cause, fundamentally shifts the relationship between the State and the home, and between the State and the family.
2.3 Under Recommendations 7 and 24, education and welfare are conflated. Educational provision can be ascertained through written correspondence; the explicit purpose of these compulsory visits would be to check for abuse. Proposed annual safe-and-well checks for all home educated children is disproportionate to the perceived problem and will be ineffective.
2.3.1 The danger of false positives is large, particularly in families with unconventional lifestyles (for example, Attachment Parenting, living according to Alfie Kohn's Unconditional Parenting method, or Unschooling and similar philosophies of consensual family living), and in families where children have additional needs of various kinds (families with a selectively mute child, or one on the autistic spectrum, say, may have chosen not to seek diagnosis; to a hostile stranger their behaviour may well appear suspicious).
2.3.2 An abused child is highly unlikely to confide in a complete stranger on a short annual visit. For many abused children, their suffering goes unnoticed at school for years, despite familiar adults seeing them regularly. Before moving towards legislation which treats a minority group as particularly dangerous to children and which infringes their civil liberties in a fundamental way, it would behove the DCSF firstly to produce evidence that home educators are indeed particularly dangerous (Badman concluded that he had not found such evidence), and secondly to produce evidence that their proposed regime of surveillance would uncover such abuse. Someone who has been horribly abusing their child since birth is hardly going to pause to register them as home educated. Someone who deregisters their child from school under suspicious circumstances should be referred to Social Services by the school.
2.3.3 The proposed compulsory visits could themselves be damaging to children - not only those with special needs, but any children who would prefer not to be scrutinised alone by strangers with the power to force them to attend school. It is often easy for those in the child protection industry to forget how much harm they do simply by investigating and invading the lives of innocent families.
2.3.4 These invasive powers will not be applied to the families of schooled children or to pre-schoolers, despite abuse being statistically much more common in these groups.
2.4 The recommendations erect discriminatory barriers to entry for those considering Home Education.
2.4.1 The requirement in Recommendation 1 that parents complete plans and submit to visits within weeks of beginning to home educate will be an intimidating barrier to entry; many families take some time to establish the educational philosophy and style which will suit them.
2.4.2 The well-documented necessity for a 'deschooling' period after removing a child from school is not accommodated.
2.4.3 Recommendation 16 would make it impossible for school staff to suggest the legal alternative to school for those unsuited to the institution. There is an unwarranted assumption here that home education is an inferior last resort.
2.4.4 The proposal in Recommendation 1 that 'schools should retain... pupils on roll for a period of 20 school days' makes it possible for schools to put pressure on families not to proceed with Home Education. It is unclear whether a child deeply unhappy at school would be forced to endure a further 20 days of it, or whether caring parents removing their children from a traumatic situation would be vulnerable to truancy prosecution.
2.5 The review does not appreciate the particular characteristics of autonomous Home Education, or 'informal' learning. Recommendations 1, 2 and 7 are completely incompatible with this perfectly valid educational style.
2.5.1 The requirement in Recommendation 1 to provide detailed plans of what our children will be learning in the next year, plans against which our children's attainment will be measured at the end of the year, is inimical to the well established and effective practice among home educators of child-centred, personalised, responsive, informal learning. Home educators whose patterns are more formal, following curricula and regularly producing 'educational product', are also unhappy at the lack of flexibility and responsiveness permitted by such a requirement.
2.5.2 In case law, the definition of a 'suitable and efficient' education is well established. Badman rejects this (Recommendation 2), proposing instead a 'broad, balanced, relevant and differentiated curriculum'. None of these characteristics are necessarily optimal for an individual child, and may well be incompatible during any given year with the self-directed and optimal path of an autonomously home educated child.
2.5.3 Children learning informally would have their learning restricted (and thus damaged) by being forced to 'exhibit' (Recommendation 7) to LA staffers (who, at present, are almost all ex-teachers or ex-OFSTED inspectors, and thus are heavily invested in school-style learning).
2.6 The impact of the recommendations on families where there are special needs, diagnosed or undiagnosed, should have been properly considered before the recommendations were made and accepted (Recommendations 17-19; Recommendation 7 is entirely unacceptable).
2.7 Annual testing of the children (being forced to 'exhibit'; Recommendation 7) is inconsistent.
In school settings, the provision is inspected rather than the attainment of individual children. Schools do not endure annual inspections, despite being answerable to the taxpayer. Neither are schooled children taken aside by state officials and asked if they wouldn't rather be home educated.
2.8 In Recommendation 1, Badman suggests that 'the school must provide to the appropriate officer of the local authority a record of the child's achievement to date and expected achievement... together with any other school records.' Quite apart from the potential for schools to provide false or misleading information (a common complaint among those beginning to home educate children with SEN), it is the parents, meeting their duty to educate their child, who should be provided with all school records, not the State.
2.9 Recommendation 3 'That all local authorities analyse the reasons why parents or carers chose elective home education' sees home education as an anomaly to be explained. If parents have a duty to provide their children with an education, then our reasons for choosing one of several equally valid routes - state, private, home - are no business of the State! Parental rationale for choosing home education would only be the business of the State if home education were an inferior last resort, to be prevented wherever possible. We are afraid that this unwarranted assumption may underlie the Badman review.
3.1 We propose that the present consultation be halted while the commons select committee considers the matter.
3.2 If the Badman process continues, a fully-costed impact assessment should be made before the consultation process is restarted.
3.3 If the Badman process is abandoned (as we believe it should be), any proposed changes to the law should be in full consultation with Home Educators, via national organisations, local groups, special interest groups and individuals. Home Educators should help to define the direction of any proposed legislation rather than discovering about an already established consultation through word of mouth and having their views completely ignored (as was the case with the fatally-flawed Badman review).
3.4 In the meantime,
3.4.1 The government should concentrate on making sure that LA staff are fully aware of and act in accordance with current welfare and education legislation, both of which are perfectly adequate if properly applied. As regards home education, LAs seem almost universally incapable of following the existing 2007 Elective Home Education guidelines. These are not safe hands in which to put increased powers.
3.4.2 The state should be thinking in terms of making services available to HEers who want them rather than setting themselves up as the approvers of our educational provision.
3.4.3 LA's should concentrate on staffing EHE departments with experts in home education rather than with ex-teachers and ex-OFSTED inspectors.


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Rockstar Robots: Honda's Asimo
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Honda's ASIMO robot is truly a celebrity considering how many world leaders it's greeted over the last few years.
Watch for our robot themed posts during May in honor of Make: Vol 45: Robots and don't forget to subscribe to Make: magazine.
Rockstar Robots make up the cream of the crop in the world of robotics. These are the bots that will turn heads with just their name being uttered. Even those who don't stay on top of who's making what should recognize a famous robot or two when they see it.
For the month of May, to celebrate the latest Make: issue on robotics, we're going to be sharing many robot celebrities so you can know who is who the next time you're at a robot gathering.
If there is one celebrity robot that stands out among the top most recognized, it would have to include Honda's ASIMO humanoid robot. ASIMO (Advanced Step Innovative Mobility) was designed to be a multi-functional mobile assistant for users who lack full mobility.
The 4′ tall robot is capable of recognizing moving objects, gestures, and its surroundings, as well as sounds and faces, which allows it to distinguish between humans and other objects.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel greets ASIMO along with Mamoru Mohri, executive director for the Miraikan museum in Tokyo.
It's ASIMO's status as an ambassador of sorts that give it its celebrity status as many world leaders have met the robot while visiting Tokyo's Mirakan museum (National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation).
The robot has greeted numerous dignitaries including US President Barack Obama, Prince Charles, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, and most recently German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Besides greeting world leaders, ASIMO has also been featured on film in the documentary Living with Robots at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It conducted "The Impossible Dream" with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and has appeared as a guest on Britain's QI quiz show.
ASIMO putting his Conductor skills to good use.
Not many other robots can claim that kind of celebrity status.
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Q: Changing image view background dynamically I have a a set of 10 imageviews in my layout. I have given them sequential id's also as
android:id="@+id/pb1"

android:id="@+id/pb2"

Now I want to change background dynamically.
    int totalPoi = listOfPOI.size();
    int currentPoi = (j/totalPoi)*10;
    for (i=1;i<=currentPoi;i++) {
          imageview.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.progressgreen);
}

Now inside the for loop I want to set the image view background dynamically. i,e if the currentpoi value is 3, background of 3 image views should be changed. What ever the times the for loop iterates that many image view's background should be changed. Hope the question is clear now.
Note : I have only 1 image progressgreen that need to be set to 10 image views

A: Finally I did this in the following way,
I placed all the id's in the array as
int[] imageViews = {R.id.pb1, R.id.pb2,R.id.pb3,R.id.pb4,R.id.pb5,R.id.pb6,R.id.pb7,R.id.pb8,R.id.pb9,R.id.pb10};

Now:
int pindex = 0;

for (pindex; pindex <currentPoi; pindex++) {

    ImageView img = (ImageView) findViewById(imageViews[pindex]) ;
    img.setImageResource(R.drawable.progressgreen);
}

Now, I am able to change the images dynamically.
@goto10. Thanks for your help. I will debug your point to see what went wrong in my side

A: Create an ImageView array:
ImageView views[] = new ImageView[10];
views[0] = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.pb1);
...
views[9] = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.pb10);

Now iterate the loop to set the background of images like this:
for (i=1;i<=currentPoi;i++)
{
    views[i-1].setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.progressgreen);
}

A: you can do this by setting the name of drawables something like:
img_1, img_2, img_3...
for (i=1;i<=currentPoi;i++)
{
ImageView imageview=(ImageView) findViewById(getResources().getIdentifier("imgView_"+i, "id", getPackageName()));
imageview.setImageResource(getResources().getIdentifier("img_"+i, "drawable",  getPackageName()));
}

A: You'll need to give your ImageViews sequential ids, such as "@+id/pb1" and "@+id/pb2", etc.. Then you can get each of them in the loop like this:
for (i=1;i<=currentPoi;i++) {
    // Find the image view based on it's name. We know it's pbx where 'x' is a number
    // so we concatenate "pb" with the value of i in our loop to get the name
    // of the identifier we're looking for. getResources.getIdentifier() is able to use
    // this string value to find the ID of the imageView
    int imageViewId = getResources().getIdentifier("pb" + i, "id", "com.your.package.name");

    // Use the ID retrieved in the previous line to look up the ImageView object
    ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(imageViewId);

    // Set the background for the ImageView
    imageView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.progressgreen);
}

Replace com.your.package.name with your application's package.

A: Try this code.....
Create image Array..
private Integer[] mThumbIds = { R.drawable.bg_img_1, R.drawable.bg_img_2,
        R.drawable.bg_img_3, R.drawable.bg_img_4, R.drawable.bg_img_5 };

And than modify your code
int totalPoi = listOfPOI.size();
int currentPoi = (j/totalPoi)*10;
for (i=1;i<=currentPoi;i++) {
      imageview.setBackgroundResource(mThumbIds[i]);}

A: You could make an array of your ImageViews and then change them in your for loop.
ImageView views[] = new ImageView[10];
views[0] = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView0);
...
views[9] = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView9);

and then change your for loop to:
for (i=1;i<=currentPoi;i++) {
   views[currentPoi].setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.progressgreen);
}

Arrays start at index 0, so make sure there's not an off-by-one error in here.

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Een ode (Oudgrieks:  ooidè, zang), lofdicht of lofzang is een  veelal gezongen verhaal waarin een persoon of zaak geprezen wordt. Het karakter is vaak zeer lovend en hoogdravend, de betrokkene kan geen kwaad doen. Behalve een gedicht kan de ode ook een muziekstuk zijn. Maar niet alle lofzangen zijn gezongen.

Is het onderwerp religieus van aard, dan is het een hymne of dithyrambe. Een prozaïsche lofrede, niet op rijm, is wel een eloge of elogium.

Voorbeelden zijn:
 Ode aan Napoleon (Bilderdijk)
 Gebed aan het socialisme (Henriette Roland Holst)
 Ode aan Den Haag (Gerrit Achterberg)
 Ode an die Freude (Ludwig van Beethoven, tekst: Friedrich von Schiller)

In de retoriek is een panegyricus een lofspraak, net als de laudatio.

Dichtkunst
Zang
Compositie naar soort

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SAN FRANCISCO • Uber chief executive officer Dara Khosrowshahi and Singapore investment company Temasek are among the latest investors in Bowery Farming, a two-year-old start-up that uses robotics to cultivate crops indoors.
The New York-based company has raised US$90 million (S$123 million) from investors led by GV, formerly Google Ventures, said Bowery's co-founder and CEO Irving Fain. The company declined to provide its valuation.
Bowery is part of a new crop of agricultural technology start-ups growing leafy greens in controlled environments near cities.
Last year, Plenty, a San Francisco-based vertical farming company, raised US$200 million from Japanese conglomerate SoftBank Group Corp's Vision Fund.
Bowery grows its veggies in layers of sensor-rich trays that move and react to humidity, carbon dioxide and light.
One sq ft of Bowery's indoor farm is 100 times more productive than an equivalent plot of arable land, Bowery says. Plenty makes similar claims.
Part of the urgency of Bowery's business plan is the prospect of looming global food shortages. The United Nations says food production will need to double in the next three decades to feed the planet's swelling population.
Bowery and its ilk see a business opportunity in building massive indoor farms in and on the outskirts of cities - a costly proposition, but one that could cut down on waste and ensure fresher produce.
"This round is solid validation for the scope of the problem and the opportunity," said Mr Fain.
To date, Bowery has raised US$118 million from investors, including First Round Capital and General Catalyst.
Mr Fain said Uber's Mr Khosrowshahi became an investor because of his interest in futuristic cities. "Uber is a big believer in cities and the importance of sustainable cities," said Mr Fain.
Mr Andy Wheeler, a Bowery board member and partner at GV, echoed Mr Fain's global expansion ambitions.
"The company is poised to have a significant impact on the global produce market," he said.
Bowery is planning to expand its headcount too, Mr Fain said. The company employs 65 people.
Some of these employees could come from Amazon, Mr Fain suggested, though competition for talent will likely be tough as the e-commerce giant ramps up hiring for its new office in New York.


Mees Salomé is from The Netherlands, and manages to deliver extra-ordinary music while only being 21 years old.
Now, Mees delivers a unique, balanced blend of breathtaking melodies and grooves on Reinier Zonneveld's imprint Filth on Acid imprint.
Here, off that EP, we premiere its title track 'Equivalence'. The track opens with a sturdy kick and dirty hi-hat, anticipating the mesmerizing melody. Combined with the long break and subtle arrangement this track makes for a very heavy hitter on the dancefloor.


The Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association is calling for measures to stimulate growth in the sector in this December's budget.
The association made the call in its pre-budget submission to Minister for Finance Brian Cowen.
It claims the SME sector is being ignored in favour of large multinationals and is demanding budgetary measures to improve competitiveness, promote employment and reward enterprise.


Hitting the slopes this winter? If so, make sure to keep your eyes safe all season long. Winter sports are a lot of fun, but if you don't take proper steps, they can be dangerous. You probably know a lot of the safety rules to help keep you safe while on the slopes, but do you know how to protect your eyes?
There are three things you can do to help keep your eyes safe while snowboarding or skiing. One thing you should do is make sure you have quality goggles. They can keep your eyes safe from debris while going down the mountain, and goggles with UV protection can help your eyes stay safe from the sun's rays. You may already know all of this, but don't forget this on a cloudy day. It can be tempting on days where the sun seems to be hiding to skip the UV protection. However, the rays are out, even if you're not really feeling them. Plus, the snow reflects these rays and can heighten your risk of damage. Have you ever heard of snow blindness? It's a real thing. When choosing lenses, you may want to consider amber lenses, as they can assist with depth perception. Keep in mind, polarized lenses are a great option for anyone involved in water or winter sports.
Your next step is making sure you have eye drops in easy reach in case the wind causes eye dryness. You'll find this to be extra helpful if you wear contact lenses, to ensure your eyes retain moisture and your contacts stay in place.
Your third area of protection comes in the form of a helmet. You may be thinking "but lots of people do winter sports without a helmet or I really don't like the way a helmet looks on me." The thing is, helmets can provide extra protection, because let's face it, although skiing and snowboarding are fun, these sports do come with potential risks. By protecting your head, you also protect your vision. A helmet may not stop you from getting a head injury, but it can definitely lessen your risk and reduce the impact, helping you stay safer on the course. And, if you're concerned about how it looks, there are a lot of options. You can choose one that fits you as an individual — a helmet that says something about who you are. Once you've chosen one, wear it with pride because you're taking a smart step in protecting yourself.
Make sure you're staying safe on the slopes. Winter sports are a blast, but you don't want your fun to end in injury. Keep those eyes safe all winter long. And if you don't want to deal with glasses or contacts while you're soaring on the slopes, contact us to learn about LASIK. That way you can have a blast without vision issues getting in the way.


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The British media are lying to you!
May 18, 2019 May 19, 2019 ~ Peter A Bell
Question Time does not bar people from its audience because they have held elected office or are political activists.
There is a selection process to ensure a range of views are heard and last night's QT audience included supporters of different political parties, including the SNP.
BBC spokesperson
The truth. The partial truth. And anything but the truth.
The British establishment long since mastered the art of prevarication, obfuscation, equivocation and falsification. Its broadcasting arm deploys these as casually as you and I blink. and almost as frequently. The BBC's response to those protesting the blatant padding of the Question Time audience stands as an object lesson in how to tell a lie without actually saying anything that is untrue.
It is almost certainly true that the makers of the programme do not deliberately exclude from the audience people who have "held elected office or are political activists". But this is not the substance of the complaint. The purpose of the denial is to create the impression of wild allegations having been made.
Nobody, to the best of my knowledge, has accused the BBC or its agents of barring people on the grounds of their political activism or past political office. The charge is, rather that people seem to have been selected on the basis of their known British Nationalist affiliation. How else to explain the extraordinary number of prominent hard-line Unionists who find their way into the studio?
While the claim that there is no process actively barring people of a certain political persuasion, it is rather noticeable that precious few former or serving SNP politicians are selected.
It is undoubtedly true that there is a "selection process". And that this process serves to "ensure a range of views are heard". Again, the denials and assurances divert from the complaint. Yes, it is possible for pro-Independence views to be heard. But they rarely are. Just as it possible for pro-independence politicians and activists to be selected. But they rarely are.
It is not a matter of absolutes, but of balance. The BBC (or its agents) can disprove accusations of exclusion simply by pointing to a lone SNP Councillor in the audience – regardless of whether that individual has been allowed to speak. They can refute allegations that a range of views are not being aired by referring to a solitary pro-independence comment. The question is, how accurately does the programme as a whole reflect the political reality? And the answer has to be, not well. In fact, not at all.
BBC Question Time is propaganda. What it presents to the viewing audience is, not a reflection of the way things actually are, but a contrived impression of the way the British establishment thinks things should be. The way British Nationalists desperately want things to be. And the way an uber-parochial, curiosity deficient, intellectually indolent London-centric media elite suppose things to be.
This grotesque fairground-mirror portrayal of politics is particularly, painfully evident when Question Time ventures into Scotland precisely because the political reality here departs so markedly from the British standard. A contrast that the people of Scotland have much cause to celebrate, even as they deplore the BBC's evident inability to be honest with them.
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gerry parker says:
Given that it goes out to a UK audience it serves it's purpose which is to convince the English- which is the majority of the U.K. Population – that the SNP and the independence movement as a whole does not have wide support in Scotland. Then when Westminster moves against Holyrood the majority of people in the UK -which is the English population- will be behind them whatever they do to Scotland.
Couldn't agree more, Mr Bell. The ultimate plan is to strip away devolution to the three (or, perhaps, just two – Wales and Scotland) nations to ensure that they are competing on a 'level playing field' with what will soon be autonomous parts of England, finalizing the regionalization of the UK as a whole, and leaving the centre untouched and still in total control of the 'best bits' of governance, the bits that confer power to act. You are also spot on when you identify the UK Government Office in Scotland, or whatever grand title it has been given to mask its real motives and use, as the new colonial office in Scotland. What invasion in 1314, what all the invasions and interference in Scotland's politics in between, right down to the Union of 1707 and beyond, could not do, the post Brexit (or even no Brexit) UK will do: it will regionalize Scotland and Wales, in particular, alongside greater autonomy for the big English regions and cities, and we will be lost forever, as we are swallowed up in what will become an internecine battle for trade, funding, tax concessions, welfare concessions, etc., from the centre, in London. At the end of the day – and I make no apologies for saying so because it is the stark truth – all that matters is that the British (really, English, with devolved nation collaborators) ruling elites will ensure that nothing changes in the UK, and that what will emerge after all their machinations will be a Greater England, the wet dream of every English/British administration since before the Norman Conquest, and accelerated after it. Alert listeners to the television and radio channels will have noticed that we are, more and more, being referred to as a region – the Scotland Region – in order to soften us up for the end. Our only hope is to get rid of the Union. Show it for what it is: a 312-year-old con trick perpetuated against the Scots, and then, the rest, even ordinary English people, by a political elite that is well aware of that what it has done, just as it was well aware of what it did in relation to the burial of the McCrone Report.
Spot on. The essential relation of Scotland to the aristocracy is the system of land management that pertains on the Highland Estates. This ties together the puerile bloodlust of public schoolboys, the brutality of capitalism, the natural entitlement of the gentry, and custodianship of ecology. Of course they are never going to give this up so anything that threatens anything about any element of this lot will be attacked mercilessly and very often stupidly, thereby creating a kind of perpetual banality in political discourse. The only way to clear these people from the land, rewild the barren heather and to return it to a place where ordinary smallholding is possible, will be to clear them out, physically – it was after all a strategy deployed to some effect in another time. Seriously though, we have come to a place where politics is so broken, discourse so fractured and divisive, attitudes so entrenched and moronic that other means must now be considered.
QT is just Jeremy Kyle for the chattering classes.


Living in the 'information age' means we have access to a vast amount of information on so many topics. If we want to know anything about any subject we all head straight for Google and usually find out the answer within seconds. However, there's nothing like a book to really properly explore a topic and I've found two great books about women's cycling that you might find useful.
The first one I actually read in Kindle format on my newly acquired Ipad in January this year but the second one is a fully fledged printed book that I picked up on sale at my local bike shop.
This book by American Selene Yeager is a great beginner's guide to cycling for women. Sadly for me, when I read it, I'd already worked out much of the information myself but it still helped to reinforce. It would have been great to discover this book about three years ago when I was a newbie rider trying to grasp some of the finer points of cycling.
Yeager covers basics like find the right bike, gearing up and how to start training. It's very easy to read and comprehend and deals with issues that are specific to women, although much of the information covered applies equally to men.
One area I found curious in the chapter devoted to training plans was the focus on weight loss. I know that many women are focused (probably a bit too much) on weight loss but for me weight has never been a goal for cycling. It's just a nice side benefit if it happens. However, she does also cover training plans for riding a century. This is an American book so her century is a 100 mile ride which in our terms is 160 km. For me this plan came just a little bit too late. I actually completed a 160 km ride during the time I was reading the book. She also covers training for a 40 km time trial.
Racing is also covered and she encourages anyone who likes a challenge to give it a go. The basics are covered like the different types of races, what you need to know before you race. Both road and off-road racing are included.
The final chapter is about making time to ride and how you can make cycling a priority in your life. This is particularly specific to women who have so many competing activities in their lives.
Selene Yeager also writes a regular blog for Bicycling magazine in the US which you can find here.
I must admit that I haven't read this entire book, just dipped in here and there.
It is a very female focused book which is great. She covers topics that are often quite taboo and certainly rarely discussed like menstrual cycles, cycling while pregnant and issues affecting older women like menopause.
Like Yeager, Gale Bernhardt is an American so the measurements are all in imperial rather than metric so keep a conversion tool or app on hand so you can convert miles in kilometres and inches into centimetres.
Bernhardt uses research to dispel the myth that women have shorter torsos than men. In fact she says that the real issue is that women have shorter arms and hands than men so therefore it is more important to have a shorter stem and easier gear lever reach. Interesting stuff. Her detailed chapter on bike fit applies equally to men and women and is worth a read if this is a problem for you.
The chapters on training were particularly appealing to me. Bernhardt says there are a number of common mistakes that many cyclists make including: riding the same speed all the time; having no goals and no plan; and, having a sloppy nutrition and hydration routine. I'm certainly guilty of at least the first and third of these mistakes and I know I need to re-read the information in the book on these subjects if I'm serious about making any real improvements.
Bernhardt also advocates strength training as an adjunct to your cycling program and covers a number of exercises you can do with just a simple weight set.
The all important step of setting goals, eating correctly and preparing yourself mentally is also covered as well as comfort and safety in the concluding chapter.
I would recommend both books very highly. The first one for beginners who want some great tips to get started and the second one for women who want to take their cycling up a level. Happy reading.
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FYI. Gale Bernhardt told me via Twitter that there's an updated edition of her book – The Female Cyclist.


This past week and a half we have been exploring rocks. My kindergarteners are absolutely loving this unit and many of them told me that they have now started rock collections at home due to their new found love of rocks!
To begin the unit, I set out my rock collection at our "I wonder" table and allowed my students to explore, wonder, and play with the items I set out.
While spending time at the center, my students had so many great ideas and questions about the rocks that our unit came together very quickly.
To help answer some of my students' preliminary questions, I read a few books to help build schema. We started with "Dave's Down-To-Earth Rock Shop" because it combines both math and science concepts in the same book. It also lends itself to an easy follow up activity.
Throughout the book, Dave organizes and sorts his rocks in different ways. He sorts them by color, size, type of rock, and hardness (to name a few). My students loved discussing the different ways that he was sorting and were eager to look closely at rocks and practice sorting them. I divided my students into teams and gave them each a mini rock collection. They then got to work sorting and labeling their rocks.
In groups, my students discussed the best way to sort their rocks and then documented what they noticed. They labeled their rocks using many adjectives.
This group sorted by color and put them in glass bowls so that others could look at their rock collection. They said that they were setting up a display just like Dave did in the book!
Other students looked really closely at their rocks to make sure that they were organizing them into the correct categories!
This started much conversation about rocks and the different types of rocks that we were observing.
From here, I taught a few mini lessons on the layers of the earth and the three different types of rocks that we could find.
During our morning meeting we labeled the earth's layers and learned more about each one. SciShow Kids has some great videos to help with these lessons!
We then created three dimensional earths out of modeling clay to further illustrate this teaching point.
To do this, we started with a sphere of red modeling clay. (We used Model Magic.) Then, we added a layer around our sphere for each layer of the earth. We used red for the core; orange for the mantle, and yellow for the crust.
Finally, we added a blue layer around the entire sphere and placed green continents on it.
When we cut them in half, my students were AMAZED to see the layers of the earth!!
They were SO proud of their creations and I heard from many parents, that their child gave them a lesson on the layers of the earth when they got home from school that day!
The next day, my students were SOOO excited to discover an agate investigation station at our light table.
My students loved carefully observing them and describing them.
We watched a video on geodes to learn more about our agates and geodes and then grew our own geodes in a crockpot!
To grow geodes, we formed white pipe cleaners into circles and then attached them to a metal paper holder.
Before I had gotten to school that day, I added BOILING hot water into my crockpot and added about 2 cups of Borax into the water. I stirred it until the Borax had nearly complete disappeared. With my students, we added another cup and a half of Borax and blue and purple food coloring to the pot. The goal is to saturate your water with Borax so that crystals will grow. We then let the geodes grow overnight.
The next morning when I got to school, I wasn't exactly sure what to expect but luckily it worked! When I lifted the paper holder up, this is what I saw.
I cut off a geode for each student to examine and we spent the morning practicing writing, observing, and drawing our geodes!
The class was a-buzz with such happy kindergarten workers!
They couldn't believe what we grew in the crockpot!
They loved moving the geodes to the light table to look at them through our microscope and get an even closer (illuminated) look at them.
To culminate our unit, I bought each child a "crack open" geode and we had a blast smashing them open and looking at real geodes.
Throughout this unit we were able to discuss many things. We were able to fine tune our understand of living and nonliving things, using adjectives, reading and writing color words, and so basic Earth science skills.
If you are interested in any of these activities, they can be found in my "All About Rocks" packet available on Teachers Pay Teachers. You can find it by clicking here!


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Published on June 10, 2017 by Just Alright Reviews
"So what is it that comes at night? Boredom, apparently."
I usually don't watch trailers anymore because I like to be as surprised as possible when I go to see a movie. Generally I will decide to watch a movie based on the cast list, director attached, or even something as simple as the poster; for It Comes at Night, the poster is what definitely got me to buy a ticket. I was surprised to find out that It Comes at Night is a movie that takes place during a pseudo-apocalypse, where a mysterious illness infects people. How many people? I don't know. What kind of illness? I don't know. But we are told repeatedly that it is bad news, so I guess I'll just have to take their word for it. The film follows Paul (Joel Edgerton), a man who lives in a secluded house in the woods with his family. Their peace is disrupted when a mysterious man comes to visit, begging them for water for his wife and child. Paul and the group decide to take these people into their home and live out this hell on earth together.
So what is it that comes at night? Boredom, apparently. That's right this movie starts up and does literally nothing for ninety minutes, leaving me a lot of time to beat myself up over buying a ticket. The plot of the movie is interesting, especially with my love of apocalypse stories, but the problem is that it never becomes anything. We are told that there is an illness but that is never elaborated upon. We never even see this threat up close, so as far as I'm concerned it was all in the character's head. I mean, how hard would it have been to have a few dead bodies here and there to illustrate that this illness is deadly? The movie never does anything like this, but instead gives us ninety minutes of Joel Edgerton falling over repeatedly. The only real plot in the movie consists of weird puberty dreams had by the main character's teenage son, and that gets annoying because the movie is essentially taunting me saying: "Look at what this movie could have been. Doesn't it look cool?". This is doubly frustrating when these dream sequences are masked and paraded as if they are actually happening, only to be taken away at the sight of the character waking up in a cold sweat. It's obnoxious to say the least. When It Comes at Night ended I couldn't help but wonder what the plot of the movie was. I mean I get there was an illness, but that was never explained so it couldn't be the plot. I get that someone tried to break into their house, but that was resolved so that couldn't be the plot. I get that a family came to live with them, but that happened so fucking late in the film that there is no way that it could be the plot. Everything about It Comes at Night just feels half-cocked. Like there is the start of a really good movie in there, but unfortunately they pulled it out of the oven too soon. And this is made even more annoying when the film blatantly cuts around the more interesting parts in the story. It will lead to believe you are going down one path, only to cut to a different scene where that path has already been traversed by the character and there is once again nothing to see. I understand that people are going to love this movie because it shows how desperate people are in times of need or whatever other bullshit they'll come up with, but the problem is there are so many other movies that tackle that subject better. Sure, maybe if It Comes at Night was made before something like "The Road" I wouldn't be so harsh, but movies like "The Road" already exist and did what It Comes at Night tried to do, but better. I will admit that the end of the movie is phenomenal; not the very end, but the final third. It takes the movie so fucking long to get there, but when it does it makes sure that it delivers everything that it has been promising. This ending is everything I could have wanted out of the movie: It's intense, it's terrifying, it makes me feel ill. It's just unfortunate that it was too little too late. I would feel wrong if I didn't point out that I thought It Comes at Night was a beautiful movie, at least from an audio-visual perspective. The way the film is shot and lit reminded me a lot of The Witch, and the soundtrack was hauntingly beautiful. I also thought that the performances were great, and every single person really conveyed the situation they were in. Unfortunately all of this praise was shadowed by how inconsequential the movie was.
They say that you're never supposed to judge a book by it's cover, but I always assumed that meant that a really good book could have a shitty cover that people overlook all of the time. Unfortunately It Comes at Night taught me that saying can go the other way too. With a beautiful poster I was instantly excited about seeing It Comes at Night, but unfortunately the movie couldn't live up its marketing material. With beautiful performances, a wonderful soundtrack, and brilliantly atmospheric directing it's a shame that It Comes at Night was ruined by it's inconsequential, half-baked story.
I give It Comes at Night a C
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I once read a quote that said, "the atmosphere you permit determines the product you create." I have been looking for a place to live for the last few weeks. As I move through the different homes it is very clear that each environment has a certain feel. Some of the homes feel dark and filled with anxiety and pressure while others are light, open and filled with an incredible peace. Guess which one I am drawn too?
I understand more now than I did that you can create an environment where you live by the behavior that takes place there. Words and actions will change the climate of a home and an office. What kind of space do you live in? Is the atmosphere you are creating allowing you to be the best that you can be? Dedicate your office, your home, even your car to the Lord and ask God to bless all that happens there. You will be surprised by all that God can do in the right atmosphere!


Once again, Hot Topic is selling someone else's art as original work. The mallternative retail chain purchased the supposedly original design from Newbreed Girl, which has its own history of ripping off designs.
Earlier this year, Newbreed Girl took another artist's image and sold it on Hot Topic. And before that, we wrote about Hot Topic selling another artist's tattoo design as their own.


Elliott waves don't merely reflect prices plotted over time. Each wave has its own "personality." Listen to this video by EWI's Wayne Gorman to learn more about the psychology behind the waves and how it affects your investment decisions.
This video was taken from the free Club EWI video series: Learn the Why, What and How of Elliott Wave Analysis. This 3-video series is a great way to get started with the Wave Principle. You can get these videos free with a Club EWI Membership.
Already a Club EWI member? Access the video series Learn the Why, What and How of Elliott Wave Analysis here.


Is Sushi A Health Risk?
This is a simple sauce that can be used to dip your maki sushi or used to make a spicy roll of your choice (spicy tuna roll anyone?). The Sriracha offers a touch of sweetness that counterbalances the spiciness of the sauce. While regular old mayonnaise will do, if you can find the Japanese Kewpie brand of mayonnaise you won't be disappointed with the result.
Mix all ingredients together and blend well. It's ready to serve! Easy, right!?
Gold plated sushi? Are you serious?
The Tokyo Food Page is a large repository of general information about sushi, restaurants, recipes, and Tokyo!
Catalina Offshore Products offers sushi quality seafood over the internet to retail consumers now.


Blessed are the merciful, forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors, do unto others as you would have them do unto you, love your neighbor as yourself, ..., the themes are fairly clear, especially within the church. Part of being in God's image includes the willingness to forgive. This passage comes right after the teaching on how to settle a dispute, so again, it doesn't mean to be a doormat (forgiveness is a two-way process), but it certainly suggests that we need to be in touch with the spirit of forgiveness. We should be thankful that God has forgiven us, acknowledge it, and then go and do the same.


Click to Play is one of those important browser features that many Windows users fail to take advantage of. We have to wonder, how many folks actually know it exists, and how many knows of the benefits?
Enabling the click to play feature on your web browser is very easy to do. We like it because it can conserve battery power and protect users from certain attacks that might be placed within a website's code. It also speeds up loading performance especially when a page is Flash heavy. Flash is more of a hindrance these days than anything else, which is why we are going to share a trick on how to block it from running automatically.
Bear in mind though that some websites are designed with Flash from the ground up, and such will not work if Flash is in "Click to Play" mode.
Click the button that says "Remove all sites" and from here, Flash won't load automatically.
Not 100 percent straightforward with Firefox, but still very much easier than Internet Explorer. Just go to Tools -> Addons -> Plugins, and choose the drop-down box beside Shockwave Flash or any of the other plugins available on the list. Select 'Ask to Activate' and you should be golden from there on.
Enabling the Click to Play feature is almost the same procedure as Chrome since Opera uses the same rendering engine. To enable the feature, we suggest opening the Opera menu section then click on Settings. Look for the Websites tab under Browser, and then enable the Click to Play feature under Plugins.
This feature cannot yet be done from my knowledge, but as soon as Microsoft gets its house in order where this browser is concerned, we'll update this article.
Fire up Chrome's menu button and click on the Settings option. Click on Show Advanced Settings, and then Content Settings under Privacy. Scroll down until you're in view of an option that says "Click to Play" or "Let me choose when you run content." **** There are NO SUCH settings on the current version of Google Chrome !!
Look again, it's there. I just did it in Chrome on my system.
Yes, and in my Chrome it's all couched in terms at "Plugins" headers under Advanced Settings/Privacy/Content Settings…you can choose when flash and a few other media plugins run or outright disable them.


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namespace frontend\forms;

use Yii;
use yii\base\Model;
use common\messages\Common;
use common\models\User;

class FindPasswordResetForm extends Model {

    public $password;
    private $_user;

    public function rules() {
        return [
            ['password', 'trim'],
            ['password', 'required'],
            ['password', 'string', 'min' => 6, 'max' => 20, 'tooLong' => '{attribute}最多为{max}个字符', 'tooShort' => '{attribute}最少为{min}个字符'],
            ['password', 'validateReset'],
        ];
    }

    public function attributeLabels() {
        return [
            'password' => '密码',
        ];
    }

    public function validateReset($attribute) {
        if (!$this->hasErrors()) {
            if (!isset(Yii::$app->session['find_password_user_id'])) {
                $this->addError($attribute, '找回密码的用户ID非法');
            }
            if (!isset(Yii::$app->session['find_password_validate'])) {
                $this->addError($attribute, '找回密码的验证非法');
            }
            $model = $this->getUser();
            if ($model) {
                $model->settingLoginPassword($this->password);
                $result = $model->save(false);
                if ($result) {
                    unset(Yii::$app->session['find_password_user_id'], Yii::$app->session['find_password_validate']);
                } else {
                    $this->addError($attribute, '密码重置失败');
                }
            } else {
                $this->addError($attribute, Yii::t('common', Common::ACCOUNTS_NOT_EXISTS));
            }
        }
    }

    private function getUser() {
        if ($this->_user === null) {
            $this->_user = User::findOne(Yii::$app->session['find_password_user_id']);
        }
        return $this->_user;
    }

}


Research studies conducted in the Humanities Lab are in constant need of participants. If you are interested in taking part in one of our experiments, we invite you to submit your name to our participant list. Please just click the relevant link in the left menu to access our sign-up form.
What will you do during an experiment?
In the lab, we use many different technologies to collect data for analysis. For example, we use eye-trackers to measure eye movements, EEG/ERP to measure brain activity, and articulography to measure how your vocal chords behave when you speak. These technologies are often used in combination with some sort of task: participants may be asked to look at pictures or view films; to read written words, sentences, or blocks of short/long text; to discuss different topics in speech or writing; or to answer questions or provide an opinion on something; etc.
Taking part in studies can be interesting and fun, and it provides a great public service in helping us conduct our research. Experimenters will often hand out some sort of debriefing form which describes the theoretical aims of the study. Thus, in addition to the other benefits, you will also have the opportunity to learn a bit about each specific research question. Finally, you will sometimes receive some small form of reimbursement for your efforts, typically in the form of a lottery ticket or movie ticket.
All studies conducted in our lab follow strict ethical guidelines. For you, as a participant, this means that you will be provided details about the experiment and what it will involve before it begins. For example, you will be told approximately how long the study will take, what equipment will be used, and what tasks you will need to complete. You will also be informed of your right to stop participating in the experiment at any time before or during the study. Prior to participating in an experiment you will either be informed of these details or asked to read and sign a consent form which provides the relevant information, depending on the study. If you want to know more about ethical guidelines for research in Sweden, follow the link to Policy documents (New window).
If you use our online form to sign up for our experiment list, you will first receive a confirmation e-mail verifying that we have successfully received your information. After this, researchers may contact you to participate in specific experiments. It is at this point that you will receive more exact information regarding the studies, such as the technology/methodology (e.g. eye tracking), age requirements (e.g. between 18 and 35), language (e.g. native German speakers), and whether or not it involves any sort of reimbursement.Of course you can stop being on this list at any time. Just contact the administration.
We look forward to seeing you in the lab!


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Ukraine closes sky for direct chartered flights to Russia
16:40, 03 April 2019
The move comes following a bizarre Moscow visit of presidential candidate Yuriy Boyko and Vladimir Putin's crony Viktor Medvedchuk where the two met Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine has imposed a ban on chartered flights between Ukraine and Russia, with the exception of those required by missions of the United Nations, the Red Cross, and the Organization for Security Cooperation of Europe.
"We've analyzed [head of the Opposition Bloc, presidential candidate Yuriy] Boyko's flight to the aggressor state. He took advantage of a loophole in our legislation, got the green light from Russia's FSB, and flew from Kyiv to Moscow for talks with the aggressor state's prime minister. Therefore, we propose a resolution to amend regulations on the use of the Ukrainian airspace," Ukraine's Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said at a government meeting on April 3, as reported by an UNIAN correspondent.
The resolution was submitted for consideration to protect state security by eliminating loopholes for irregular air services between Ukraine and Russia.
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"The draft resolution proposes a ban on chartered flights between Ukraine and the aggressor state, with the exception of flights that are necessary for the missions of the United Nations, the Red Cross and the Organization for Security of European Cooperation," he said.
The minister added that Yuriy Boyko flew to Moscow without breaking the legislation.
"Earlier, the National Security and Defense Council [NSDC] decided to impose restrictive measures on a number of Russian airlines. At the same time, the ban did not apply to irregular flights between Ukraine and Russia, which are carried out by aircraft not registered in Russia," Avakov said.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Volodymyr Groysman urged to support the resolution and condemned Boyko's visit to Moscow where he traveled along with Chairman of the political Council of "Opposition Platform - For Life" Party Viktor Medvedchuk, known for his close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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"We support the draft resolution. Such restrictions will be in place until Russia becomes a civilized state," he said.
"No one has the right to humiliate the country [Ukraine]. Even when it comes to politicians who may have a different ideology. This is our country, our home. We have been attacked. Unfortunately, our neighbors turned out to be our enemies. Moreover, over 13,000 Ukrainians died, while more than 30,000 were wounded. And it's unfair to humiliate the country for the sake of 13% of one's rating," the prime minister said.
"This is my position. We may impose any restrictions, but it is difficult to impose restrictions on having no shame," he added.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller met with Boyko and Medvedchuk in Medvedev's residence outside Moscow on March 22.
The politicians reportedly discussed issues of cooperation in the gas sector. Boyko said he was ready to offer the Russian Federation options for extending the transit gas contract, since the current government of Ukraine "is not proactive" in resolving the issue.
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko condemned the visit of Boyko and Medvedchuk to Moscow. On March 27, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine instructed to clarify the situation regarding the violation of border crossing by Boyko and Medvedchuk.
Tags: #Russia#ban#Cabinet#flights#Medvedchuk


just about impossible to find this high horse power, factory Air Condition Midyear Corvette Conv. Chevrolet just didn't make very many. then find a quality like this, with a "Tank Sticker" you can read! Watch for photos soon. haven't decided if we go ahead and paint the car for a much FRESHER Look? or leave it alone.. Undercarriage is nice. Interior is very good condition. Soft top is white. the Hard top was added by the previous owner. Why not invest in the BEST year, The Best Color Combo, and the most sought after options.


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Rookie Actress Ryu Hye Young Signs with C-JeS Entertainment
by ddangha
Rookie actress Ryu Hye Young has signed with talent management company C-JeS Entertainment, adding onto the agency's impressive roster of top star actors.
On July 30, C-JeS Entertainment announced that Ryu Hye Young has signed a contract with them. They added, "Ryu Hye Young is a rising star who has acted in feature-length movies, short films, and theater productions since debut. We will be supporting her to see that she is able to film more varying roles in the future."
Ryu Hye Young debuted in 2007 with a short film called "A Female High School Student." She then appeared in small but critically acclaimed movies like "Adolescent" and "Forrest."
In 2012, she received the Best Female Actor award at the Multicultural International Short Film Festival for her portrayal in the short film "Graduation Trip."
C-JeS Entertainment currently houses some of the top actors in the country, including Choi Min Sik, Seol Kyung Koo, Lee Jung Jae, JYJ, Lee Bum Soo, Park Sung Woong, Kang Hye Jung, and Song Ji Hyo.
Ryu Hye Young
C-JeS Entertainment


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Tax Codes, Allowances and Thresholds for April 2018
by Claire Meredith March 26, 2018
Personal Tax Allowance
From 6th April 2018, the new annual Personal Allowance for income tax purposes is £ 11,850.
An Employee's tax allowance is divided up according to how often he/she is paid.
Using the 1185L tax code / £11,850 annual allowance as an example:
Monthly paid Employees can earn £988 per month before paying tax.
Weekly paid Employees can earn £228 per week.
Four weekly paid Employees can earn £912 per pay period.
Fortnightly paid Employees can earn £456 per pay period.
Emergency / "Normal" Tax Code
The new emergency / "normal" tax code is 1185L.
Increases to Tax Codes
Most payroll software will automatically update tax codes where P9 coding notices have not been issued for an Employee.
It's always worth checking that the new tax codes from 6th April are correct:
Tax codes with the suffix L should increase by 35 (eg 1150L becomes 1185L)
Tax codes with the suffix M should increase by 38 (eg 1265L becomes 1303L)
Tax codes with the suffix N should increase by 31 (eg 1035L becomes 1066L)
No tax code should be marked with a week 1 / month 1 / X after it for the first payroll run in the new tax year unless requested by HMRC.
For further guidance on uplifting tax codes for the new tax year, please visit the gov.uk website here.
Tax Bands (UK not Scotland)
Basic Rate 20%: £0 – £34,500
Higher Rate 40%: £34,501 – £150,000
Additional Rate 45%: £150,000+
What do the tax bands mean?
For earnings above £988 up to £2,875 per month (or the equivalent threshold depending on the pay frequency), the basic rate of 20% tax is applied.
Earnings above £2,875 (or equivalent) then move in to the higher rate tax band and are taxed at 40%.
Earnings above £12,500 per month (or equivalent) are taxed at 45%.
Tax in Scotland
The personal allowance in Scotland is also £11,850. However, the tax bands for residents in Scotland from April 2018 will be quite different to the rest of the UK. (These also apply to people who have their registered address in Scotland but work in other parts of the UK.)
Please click here for full details.