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My RP story -> "Found outside an airvent of gnomeregan just after High Tinker Mekkatorque ordered the release of the city's radioactive waste tanks, His parents where turned into lepers due to only having enough time to save there son. After he was found he was taken to the Ironforge mystic by Juli Stormkettle and raised in the ways of magic. Knowing of previous mistakes of the gnomish people. Nopio hopes to one day find away to find his parents and revive them from the radiation sickness they where dosed with and reclaim gnomeregan for the glory of the gnomish race." |
Gaming Preferences - I generally prefer instancing to questing and PVP but I enjoy majority of ingame activites. |
Yes! You are welcome, I care not what others think. Just whisper Árín, Lonad, Nahandra or Fenor in game! You'll probably have to have a little interview with our leader as well, Árín that is (Usually online on Aryn) |
Anyway, this guy is a good IG-friend of mine, and his gnomish chattering is probably the most funny things I've ever seen typed. Besides, we really need a gnome mage that can make our life more interesting in the keep with random robots, explosions and such. Grab him now, BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE! |
I sat in the middle of my advanced placement English class in 11th grade. We were learning about sentence diagramming, and as much as I loved writing and reading, I could not figure that shit out. |
The teacher called on my best friend and me to come to the front of the class and do some samples on the whiteboard. My best friend happened to be male and extremely intelligent. |
The teacher stood before a class full of our peers and announced, “Brad, you can do this sentence over here to show the class the proper way to do sentence diagramming. And Sam, you can write yours over here to show the class the wrong way to do it.” The teacher chuckled, and we all followed her lead and laughed about it too. Brad laid a comforting hand on my shoulder and quietly said, “I know you can do it right too.” He felt the pain that I was feeling in that moment. |
“I feel so stupid,” I whispered. We did our sentences. And, surprise, I did mine wrong. I could barely make myself write anything at all because I had an audience waiting for me to fail and a teacher finding humor in my lacking. |
How do we, as parents, counter this deeply ingrained message that our girls and young women are supposed to look a certain way to be accepted, that they are responsible for someone else’s actions and thoughts, and that they must fit inside specific boxes to be considered valuable? |
The answer is anything but simple or easy. We can’t just say, “Ignore them, sweetie.” An impressionable youth is learning everything about the world and how they fit into it. When we tell them to ignore it, we aren’t giving them any tools. Ignoring it can work in the moment, if “work” means not calling out problematic behavior to maintain the status quo (and often to maintain personal safety and minimize harm). But it doesn’t just go away as the child lays in bed thinking over the words and implied meanings that were hurled at them throughout the day, as they consider whether there could be any truth to it all. |
And when they look around and see no one standing up and speaking against actions and words like these, especially when they don’t have the power to speak up themselves, they are resigned to believe that the message is true. They think they should just keep their head down and pretend it doesn’t exist. Or worse, that they should keep their head down because they have no power to change it. |
The good news is we can give our children tools to empower them when they are bombarded with harmful and oppressive messages. |
Starting from birth, we need to let our children be assertive. We need to stop telling our girls to “be nice” while laughing with strangers when our boys are “just being boys.” When it is safe to do so and isn’t furthering harm done to us, we need to stand up and speak up when someone says or does something problematic. Often, people don’t realize their misstep until they are informed. And if they do know about their misstep, we are at least setting an example for our children that we don’t have to stand for it too. |
We can give our kids words by reading stories that empower marginalized characters or sharing our life experiences. Through storytelling, we teach our children about the experiences of people that might live differently than we do, which can result in our children developing empathy for people from all walks of life. |
Parents need to be the voice for their children when their own voices are rendered silent. When my teacher made an example of me, she took my power away and harmed all the girls in the class. When our children share these experiences with us, we need to be the person who marches up to the school and demands change. |
Healing our child’s heart starts with validating their experiences. When our kids come home saying they feel upset or troubled by a situation they encountered at school, whether it was with another child or with an authority or maybe even an internal message they felt due to society in general, we need to validate those feelings. |
A child might say, “I’m ugly. I’m never going to get a date to prom.” We shouldn’t immediately step in to counter those words. Of course, we should lift them up — but without dismissing how they feel. We could start off with something that allows them to express the deeper issue: “Are you worried you don’t have a date right now?” It hurts to feel like you aren’t good enough, and allowing them that space to talk through their hurt will allow them to process and heal from that rather than immediately jumping in with “You’re beautiful! Of course, you’ll find a date.” The teen might feel unheard and like we don’t “get” them because we aren’t showing that we hear them. |
Are we inadvertently affirming these harmful messages in the way that we speak about ourselves and about others? Do we shave our armpits to fit in or because we like how it feels? Do we victim-blame assault survivors? Do we talk down to ourselves, audibly, about our weight and our shape? The saying should go, “do what I do” rather than “do what I say, not as I do,” because doing what we do is the most powerful way that children learn about themselves and the world around them. |
Transforming the status quo often feels impossible when our society is entrenched in patriarchy and misogyny. We need to teach our children that no matter how hopeless the fight feels, there is always a way forward. We can surround them with examples of how to take care of their hearts and minds so they know how to seek healthy comfort when everything gets too heavy. We can show them how to speak up. And we can love them unconditionally, providing a safe home base when getting shoved backward is too much. |
If the world is going to end next year we will live like there is no tomorrow. We will spend like anything - try to fulfill our wildest dreams. We will travel the world, splurge in the best hotels and restaurants, buy our dream Louis Vuitton leather accessories and what not. |
I am probably giving examples of Rich world, but the case stands true for everyone. A poor farmer in Bangladesh probably dreams of a vacation in Goa or a Financial Analyst in Mumbai wants to see Wall Street. You get the point right? |
2015 is coming to close and just about time celebrate the start of new year just every country fires off fireworks at years wallpaper.<eot>press | jack-feels-big |
Press Kit - NZ & Global Media |
Sign Language Video for Kiwi Feelings Book Proves Popular with Deaf Students |
The video, released on TuriTV is of Deaf tutor Matthew Flynn telling the story of Jack Feels Big in New Zealand Sign Language (NZSL), along with the text and illustrations of the book. Karen Pasco of Kotuku Cottage at Wharenui School said the children were very excited, and remembered when the author, Adam Millen, visited in October 2016. |
The Resource departments of van Asch and Kelston Deaf Education Centres worked closely to create an engaging translation for students and their families. As the project was lead and produced by Deaf people from around the country, regular Skype meetings were held to review and discuss draft translations. The at-distance collaboration for NZSL users has been made possible by the use of video conferencing technology. |
The project is an example of Deaf adults working to encourage and support young Deaf people to explore social emotional concepts in a visual language. Many students and families that will access the translation are also learning NZSL, so the translators needed to take care not only to make the story engaging in NZSL but also that the signs are clear and suitably paced for a learning audience. |
Jack Feels Big was written by Mr Millen to help kids learn the names for their feelings. It uses five illustrated stories to help kids learn the words overwhelmed, persistent, frustrated, brave and lonely. Resource Centre Manager Andrew Townshend said "Jack Feels Big was published at a time when social emotional wellbeing of Deaf students was a major focus and priority for both Deaf Education Centres in New Zealand." |
When Mr Millen wrote the book and it's sequel Sophie Feels Like Me, he included the NZSL and te reo Māori for each of the feeling words, at the start of each story. Townshend said "As the story integrates NZSL (New Zealand Sign language) throughout, it was a natural next step to create a full NZSL video translation of the story". |
Mr Millen visited Deaf students in Auckland during his North Island book tour in March 2017. |
Both books are available online at www.jackfeelsbig.nz. |
In 2017 Adam Millen left his day job as an engineer to visit schools and ECE centres to read his first book (Jack Feels Big) to kids. His goal was to help kids learn the names for their feelings through illustrated stories. |
Jack Feels Big has stories for "frustrated", "persistent", "overwhelmed", "brave" and "lonely". The second book, Sophie Feels Like Me covers "embarrassed", "humility", "grief", "empathy" and "rejection". |
"I think it's incredibly important to teach kids the names for their feelings, and that these books are really effective as a tools for achieving that" says Adam. |
The title page for each story includes the te reo Māori and New Zealand Sign Language for the feeling. The story then starts with Jack's latest costume. A situation is quickly developed where the particular feeling is felt and clearly identified. The situation is resolved and at the end of each story is a reflection page, encouraging parents to take time to talk with their children about their experience with the feeling. |
Author Adam Millen is an engineer who is keen on seeing crazy ideas become reality. Taking the first book in this series, Jack Feels Big volume 1, from crazy idea to reality was a huge learning experience, a heap of work and incredibly rewarding. Adam enjoys exploring the outdoors and reading the internet. |
llustrator Matt Haworth trained at Animation College NZ and has five years of experience as a freelance illustrator. He teaches illustration classes with McLeay Workshops, sells his art books and fanart at conventions like CHROMACON. He's a black belt in Taekwondo and enjoys B-Grade horror movies.<eot>android - Apply backgroundTint to background drawable for API 19 - Stack Overflow |
The backgroundTint is correctly applied on API 23, but not on API 19. How can I get the drawable tinted for API 19 and below? |
android:id="@+id/AbResetBtn" |
android:background="@android:drawable/stat_notify_sync" |
android:backgroundTint="@color/button_material_light" /> |
Of course my Activity extends AppCompatActivity. |
android drawable backwards-compatibility tint |
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This worked for me on API19 device, support lib v7 |
android:id="@id/btn" |
<style name="Button" parent="Base.TextAppearance.AppCompat.Button" > |
<item name="backgroundTint">@color/fab_bg</item> |
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This is a more elegant solution than the accepted answer - it avoids the need for setting colours programmatically, doesn't need to reference AppCompatButton directly, and keeps all required layout code in the styles and other XML files. Neat and tidy. – BasicPleasureModel Jun 5 '17 at 15:49 |
You are right. I have tried this more recent solution and it works, too. – ema3272 Sep 3 '17 at 14:04 |
I know its little bit old question but you don't need to create a style element even. |
Just use AppCompatButton from the support library with app: namespace. |
<android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton android:layout_width="40dp" |
app:backgroundTint="@color/button_material_light" /> |
This should be the accepted answer on 2019. Simpler and effective. – xarlymg89 Aug 19 '19 at 14:23 |
You need to use android support library 22.1+ to use AppCompatButton http://android-developers.blogspot.se/2015/04/android-support-library-221.html |
But unfortunately you will not be able to do this in the xml. |
In the onCreate of your activity, to the following: |
More info here: Lollipop's backgroundTint has no effect on a Button |
Tip: maybe you will be able to do everything in the xml using app:backgroundTint="@color/button_material_light", but I didn't tested. |
Check @ema3272 second comment for the full solution |
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I use Support Library 23.1.1. In fact this button is included in a view that is inflated in a Fragment (it is a "help" screen). I already tried the above code in the "onCreateView" in the Fragment class. However, I get a compile error that says "unexpected cast to AppCompatButton: layout tag was Button". By the way, the issue is already present when previewing the "help" screen in Android Studio. And the XML tip above does not work either. – ema3272 Dec 5 '15 at 20:11 |
@ema3272 change to AppCompatButton in your xml too – jonathanrz Dec 6 '15 at 12:34 |
OK. This solved the issue. However, converting from Button to AppCompatButton is not enough, you have to use android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton in XML and the above code to get the correct result. The official documentation at developer.android.com/intl/pt-br/reference/android/support/v7/… says "This (class) will automatically be used when you use Button in your layouts. You should only need to manually use this class when writing custom views", which is not correct. – ema3272 Dec 6 '15 at 16:36 |
You have to update a "Button" to a "androidx.appcompat.widget.AppCompatButton" and "android:backgroundTint" to "app:androidTint" |
android:background="@drawable/empty_list_state_button" |
android:text="@string/button_title" |
app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@id/distance" |
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Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged android drawable backwards-compatibility tint or ask your own question.<eot>Cheap Hotels in Boston (Massachusetts) - Hyatt Place Boston / Medford Hotel Hotel blog shown in 225086 blogs |
Travel Forum ✈ Travel Forums ✈ North America ✈ USA ✈ Hotels in USA ✈ Hyatt Place Boston / Medford Hotel |
Hyatt Place Boston / Medford Hotel Find Cheap Hotels in Boston (Massachusetts) review and some comments |
116 Riverside Avenue Medford Boston (Massachusetts) 02155 MA USA |
Contact: 1 781 3958500 |
Hyatt Place Hotel in Medford is positioned less than six miles from Logan International Airport. Aside from visiting museums, vacationers can also tee off at Oakley Country Club or browse the stores at Faneuil Hall Marketplace. |
The hotel offers stylish rooms with cosmopolitan interiors. All rooms have 42-inch flat-screen HDTV, mini refrigerator, coffee-/tea-making facilities, air conditioning, bathroom and a cosy corner with sofa-sleeper. |
Guests at Hyatt Place Boston Hotel wake up to a delicious continental breakfast buffet at the 24-hour Guest Kitchen on site. Visitors can also enjoy pastry treats, made-to-order meals at Bakery Cafe.<eot>Black Cat Pedals Announces the Wee Buzz | Guitar Player |
The Black Cat Wee Buzz is a slimmed down, more affordable version of their Bee Buzz. Both pedals are based on the original Roland Bee Baa. While the Bee Buzz is still very popular, Black Cat wanted to create a pedal for players who just want a little fuzz without all the fancy features... a Wee Buzz! |
The Black Cat Wee Buzz employs the same circuitry as its big brother Buzz, but comes in a smaller, more "pedalboard-friendly" size with just the basic features. But the biggest difference between the Wee and the Bee is the absence of the Boost mode. |
While the Boost is an important feature of the Bee Buzz for many players, for some it's not essential. So the Wee is a Bee minus the Boost. That means the Wee Buzz is 100% Pure Fuzz! It doesn't even have a control to dial in the fuzz because it's hardwired to be totally maxed out all the time. The folks at Black Cat then took it a step further by using a higher gain transistor in the first gain stage of the Wee Buzz, giving it a bit more of an edge than the big Bee. |
* Based on original Roland Bee Baa design |
* Slightly more gain than the Black Cat Bee Buzz |
* 3PDT true-bypass switches and Switchcraft jacks |
The new Black Cat Wee Buzz retails for $175. Check out www.blackcatpedals.com for further information about the company.<eot>Open Dome Event - Observing General Relativity – Light Bending, War and Peace | Nottingham Trent University |
Open Dome Event - Observing General Relativity – Light Bending, War and Peace |
Beginning of last century general relativity was a nice theory that still required confirming observations. In November a hundred years ago the world saw prove of Einsteins theory. Hear more in Dr Robin Turner's (NTU) talk Light bending and war and peace. |
From: Thursday 21 November 2019, 8 pm |
To: Thursday 21 November 2019, 10 pm |
Booking deadline: Thursday 21 November 2019, 3.00 pm |
In November one hundred years ago results were announced confirming Einstein's theory of General Relativity. These findings stemmed from previous solar eclipse expeditions that year from around the world. Making the measurements, however, had proved to be far from straightforward and the expeditions had nearly never taken place due to the first world war. |
Dr Robin Turner (NTU) will consider in his talk Light bending and war and peace the science and its wider significance in the context of the political background. A fascinating overview how science, society and politics go hand in hand. |
The event will start at 8pm with Dr Robin Turner's (NTU) talk Light bending and war and peace. Refreshments will be offered from 7.45 pm in the CELS foyer. Afterwards, visitors will get a tour of the NTU observatory and the chance to see interesting objects in the Autumn sky using the observatory's telescopes, small telescopes and binoculars, if the weather allows it.<eot>Webbing - Looped vs Water Knot |
It seems everyone prefers the tying a water knot in ther webbing rather than buying a piece already looped (sewn), why is it? |
Originally Posted by DBake5 |
Webbing is pretty strong. if you tie a waterknot, all the strength is maintained, especially if you tie the knot well and put in safety at the end. If it's sewn, that will work, however the strength of the webbing loop is reduced to that of the thread. |
I keep a 25 foot length of webbing in my bunker pants pocket, tied with a waterknot, and daisychained for easy deployment and to prevent tangling. |
Thanks of reply, do you see any need for a length of webbing more than 25 feet? |
Have never had the need for more than 25 feet, back when we used to tie our own swiss seats 25 foot section was plenty long. Like heavyrescuetech said, the knot maintains the strength. |
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