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**Design:** Convention, **Status:** [Accepted](README.md)

## Favor Static Factory Methods Over Constructors

This page describes the structures and conventions used to initialize a class.

### Static Factory Methods vs. Constructors
Static factory methods are preferable than constructors for the following reasons:
- Static factory methods provide meaningful names compared with constructors, which improves the readability of the codes by describing the objects being returned.
```java
// With static factory method, giving a hint that a foobar provider with default settings is being created.
FoobarProvider defaultProvider = FoobarProvider.defaultFoobarProvider();

// With constructor
FoobarProvider defaultProvider = new FoobarProvider();
```
- They are useful when work with immutable classes as we can reuse the same object instead of creating new object every time when it is invoked.
- Static factory methods can return any subtype of that class and this gives us flexibility to write a separate factory class to return different subclasses if needed.

There are a few disadvantages of static factory methods:
- It might not be straightforward for the users to use static factory method to create new instances compared with constructors, but this can be improved by providing a set of common method names such as `create()` and smart IDEs such as IntelliJ and Eclipse can also give hints and help auto-completing.
- Classes without public or protected constructors cannot be subclassed, but this could encourage us to use composition instead of inheritance.

In general, we should favor static factory methods over constructors.

### Example
```java
public class DefaultCredentialsProvider implements AwsCredentialsProvider, SdkAutoCloseable {

    private static final DefaultCredentialsProvider DEFAULT_CREDENTIALS_PROVIDER = new DefaultCredentialsProvider(builder());

    private DefaultCredentialsProvider(Builder builder) {
        this.providerChain = createChain(builder);
    }

    public static DefaultCredentialsProvider create() {
        return DEFAULT_CREDENTIALS_PROVIDER;
    }

    public static Builder builder() {
        return new Builder();
    }

    public static final class Builder {
      // ...
    }
    // ...
}

// There are two ways to create new instance
DefaultCredentialsProvider defaultCredentialsProvider1 = DefaultCredentialsProvider.create();
DefaultCredentialsProvider defaultCredentialsProvider2 = DefaultCredentialsProvider.builder().build;
```
### Naming Conventions
The naming conventions for the static factory methods:
- `create()`, `create(params)` when creating a new instance
eg: `DynamoDBClient.create()`
- `defaultXXX()` when returning an instance with default settings.
eg: `BackoffStrategy.defaultStrategy()`

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Dippy attains uncanny resemblance to Laxmi Aggarwal
After a year's break from movies, as her last release was 'Padmaavat' in 2018 and kickstarting a blissfully married life with Ranveer Singh, Deepika Padukone is back with a heart-wrenching story. Just a few days ago Deepika unleashed her first look from her next titled 'Chhapaak', now the actress was clicked on the sets as she began shooting for the flick in full swing.
The actress was seen sporting yellow kurta, handbag and unbuckled hair. Dippy is currently shooting in New Delhi, on the streets of Janpath. With apt prosthetics, the actress has achieved uncanny resemblance to Laxmi Aggarwal. Laxmi Aggarwal is one brave survivor of acid attack that took place in 2005 when she was 15.
On seeing Dippy's first look from the movie, Laxmi said, "I was happy to see Deepika's first look from the film. I was feeling good that a celebrity has come in that look.'' She further added, "A lot of make-up artistes changed a natural face to acid distorted face. And I felt, see, they are finding beauty in an acid-burnt face."
Dippy's onscreen character is named Malti. It also co-stars Vikrant Massey in a prominent role and is set to release on January 10, 2020.
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18'7489''
By turning off the transmitter of the main radio station in duration of 18'7489" (4,33x4,33) we open up a gap in the broadcasting space that is filled with other closest frequencies of other radio programs that are in the vicinity of the listener's radio receiver.
Each listener has a totally different "performance", according to its location and signal strength of nearby radio stations within the similar frequency range.
Originally, the piece was commissioned in 2011 by the 3rd program of Croatian National Radio. The work was never realised as a composition because of the technical/logistical difficulties. Since it is a conceptual piece, I decided to show it in the form of a documentation, as visuals and text.
4.33 x 4.33, or the length multiplied by width, is 18.7489. It is an arbitrary and symbolic duration of work which insinuates additional dimension added to Cage's 4'33".
By turning the radio frequency of the radio program OFF for 18 minutes and 7.489 seconds, you get a gap in the space that is filled with other closest frequencies of other radio programs that are in the vicinity of the listener's radio receiver. Each listener has a totally different "performance", according to its location and signal strength of nearby radio stations within the similar frequency range. The word "broadcast" originates from the early radio engineers and literally means "broad casting", sowing seeds in large areas. As long as an idea is carried the program is being emitted.
In 1948. at Vassar university, State of New York, John Cage presented his work Silent player, a composition of a continuous silence, which was supposed to be broadcast on the radio.
The work was never written, it was conceived to have an average length of a radio performance, between 3 and 4,5 Minutes. Silent player, predated 4'33" for four years and served Cage as a basis for the duration and the basic idea, but unlike 4'33", which is performed live, Silent player was supposed to be recorded, with the structure that is completely different from 4'33". The fact that Silent player was never done is explainable by Cage's heightened interest for the live performances and happenings in the 50's, and not just reproduction played through the speakers. At the same time, Cage started to be more interested in the spatiality of sound, rather than linearity of time. Cage was not the first composer who composed a work that consists solely of silence.
His predecessors are:
Alphonse Allais in 1897 composed "Funeral March for the Obsequies of a Deaf Man", a musical work consisting entirely of rests.
Erwin Schulhoff in 1919 composed "Harmony futurum", for piano, consisting solely of breaks.
Harold Acton in 1928 published a book titled Cornelium, in which a musician plays songs composed almost entirely of silence.
Yves Klein in 1949 composed "The Monotone-Silence Symphony", orchestral work that lasts forty minutes and consists of two parts of twenty minutes of silence.
— 18'7489"
When we reduce the linear time duration of 4'33" to the numerical value we get 4,33 and by adding to it an additional dimension, the width, we obtain a value of surface of the silence and by it we enter in a new dimension of silence.
4.33 x 4.33, or the length multiplied by width, is 18.7489. It is arbitrary and symbolic duration of work which insinuates additional dimension added to Cage's 4'33".
At the same time, the dimension of the surface distribution of the work itself has been added to 4'33". It is the dimension of expansion of radio waves that spread linearly and the dimension of entering the structure of 4'33", by eliminating the media of distribution. It is the lack of media that is the complete silence. As long as there is a medium of distribution, a complete silence is impossible due to the noise of the carrier (medium). As long as there is silence, it can be heard, only when the medium disappears then it can no longer be heard. As long as I am listening to the silence, it means that I hear something.
By turning off the carrier, complete silence can be heard and it opens the opportunity to hear other channels that are normally silenced. Cage deals with silence, and I am interested in emptiness and what appears then.
Given the characteristics of the radio and the nature of the distribution of radio frequencies, it leads to uneven distribution of signals, depending on the location of the listener and the strength of the transmitter of the radio stations. By turning the radio frequency of the radio program OFF for 18 minutes and 7.489 seconds, you get a gap in the space that is filled with other closest frequencies of other radio programs that are in the vicinity of the listener's radio receiver. Each listener has a totally different "performance", according to its location and signal strength of nearby radio stations within the similar frequency range.
We get something similar to Cage's 4'33", only with much greater range and democratization of "performance." All the listeners of the program are becoming part of the execution, performance, and have their own random variation that varies from "white noise" to the random frequencies that fall into frequency space of their receiver and belong to other radio stations.
In 4'33" Cage deals with silence, or the inability to achieve it, and with redirecting attention from the performer on to the audience. Every performance is completely different, since it depends on the surrounding factors of the performance; the audience, the acoustics of the hall ... Therefore, it is impossible to repeat it. It can exist only as a reproduction, or documentation, but the real work can be experienced only immediately, in real time. That is also the case in 18'7489", it functions as an "event" and can not exist as a recording, i.e., it can not be recorded, because no listener has the same sound picture. It can not exist as a soundtrack, but only as a live performance.
The specificity of 18'7489" is the randomness and radicalism of "performance" by taking over the emptiness as part of "broadcasting". This radicality manifests in distribution of an idea without a signal. Broadcasting in quotation marks as restrictive concept that includes transmitting a signal, while in the case of 18'7489" broadcasting refers to distribution of an idea and does not neceserely imply a radio signal.
18'7489 "takes up the space of the void, the space deprived of the presence of the signal and converts it into a broadcast format. No matter if radio program is off, simply because it is part of its program plan, it is still part of its "broadcast". The existence of the radio program is not questionable, but moreover highlighted.
Originally the word "broadcast" originates from the early radio engineers from the region of the Midwestern United States, and literary means "broad casting", sowing seeds in large areas. Therefore, the term "broadcasting" is not as wrong, because it means planting seed of ideas on large areas, and does not refer solely to the media of radio or the carrier signal. So, as long as an idea is carried the program is being emitted.
The work 18'7489" is the seed (idea) and in order to fully come to life, it needs its live performance, the space of its realization.
PDF version of the text is available here.
The work was comissioned by radio program "Picture of Sound", curated by Evelina Turković for the 3rd Program of Croatian National Radio.


The statement suggests the successful attack by the Egyptian army fulfills a promise to avenge the deaths of Egyptian soldiers and security officers killed in ISIS attacks, and a signal that the army will continue to chase down the terrorists to achieve stability.
Al Ansari's group was suspected to have planted bombs on board a Russian jet flying home tourists from Sharm el-Sheikh to St. Petersburg that exploded in middair in October, killing all the more than 200 people on board. ISIS claimed responsibility for the blast at the time.
The strike also follows an ISIS Sinai video threat against Israel.The 35-minute clip released on Monday said that "Jews will not remain in Palestine, we will turn it into a graveyard for Jews."
Egyptian forces have been battling Islamic militants in Sinai for years but the insurgency there has grown deadlier since the 2013 ouster by the military Islamist president Mohammed Morsi.


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by EpyonAdmin | Apr 6, 2020 | Police Misconduct
During a criminal investigation, you have certain basic rights. There are also best practices that law enforcement officers should follow to ensure that they don't violate the rights of an individual suspected of a crime. Unfortunately, current best practices for law enforcement officers often include intentionally lying to or misleading the subject of an investigation in order to access information and evidence.
Police can lie directly to someone whom they suspect of a crime, as well as other people with secondary or tertiary connection to the crime. The better you understand your rights, the better you can determine if police violated those rights during an investigation or an arrest.
Why do police lie during an investigation?
Police lie for a number of reasons. The first and most obvious is to create a sense of urgency in a suspect that can promote honesty when they might otherwise withhold information. Beyond that, police officers may say certain things to a suspect in order to build rapport, which means they want the suspects to trust them.
Lying about what the officer believes happened or what kind of evidence the police have is a common tactic to undermine someone's story or get them to comply with the wishes of the police. Although it is against the law for people to give false statements to the police, the same is not true for law enforcement. They can and do lie to both suspects and others during criminal investigations without any sort of consequence.
How police lies affect those accused of crimes
By misrepresenting a situation, police can make people feel like they don't have any choice but to cooperate with law enforcement. For example, if an officer tells someone that a confidential informant places them at the scene of a crime for which the suspect has no alibi, that individual may decide to confess in the hope of securing a plea bargain that will reduce the penalties they face.
Research has repeatedly demonstrated that police dishonesty has negative consequences for innocent individuals suspected of a crime and may push them into confessing or pleading guilty to an offense that they had nothing to do with. If you believe that police violated your rights in the way they conducted an investigation, discussing those concerns with an attorney can help you better determine what options you have available.
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Drew is a writer, curator, and activist, and holds down a day job as the social media manager for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is also the creator of Black Contemporary Art, a popular Tumblr account that brings together work by Black artists from around the world and across a range of disciplines. Drew created the account in 2011 after studying Art History and African-American Studies at Smith College. Though she recently tweeted that Jean-Michel Basquiat was her "first love," Drew's work shines an equal light across the wide spectrum that is Black art. She speaks with intent, and people are listening: 213,000 and counting on Instagram alone.
"My thoughts on the word 'curator' haven't changed very much," she says, referring to a question she frequently fields about precisely defining her role in the art world. "It's really a word that's much more about 'care' than anything else. I am definitely a curator in that sense." As of late, Drew is writing more and more, and has recently been called on to moderate high-profile panels, like a recent conversation between designer Virgil Abloh and tennis champion Serena Williams. This professional expansion makes sense: Drew is both a thoughtful listener and a considerate speaker who clearly understands the power of language.
Soon, Drew will add a new platform from which to speak: She is currently at work on her first book, The Black Futures Project, co-written with journalist Jenna Wortham. The book is intended to record the current moment in Black culture from the perspective of a wide range of today's artists, thinkers, and doers.
We spoke to Drew about actively choosing optimism, Instagram fame, and why she only checks her email three times a day.
I'm interested in promoting Black artists. It's not really about speaking up against inequities or inequalities; it's much more about supporting and promoting the artists that I'm interested in. The most important role that I play is that of advocate. I am really invested in communities and a community-based way of working. I think that the most important role [I have] is to be that early supporter, whether that's listening—meaning being an active listener—or showing up.
"I hope that more and more people become members of the art world: as art historians, public intellectuals, board members, guards. I want a future where there are simply more voices present."
The only thing that is missing from the conversation is more voices. I have a sincere interest in hearing from more people—not only about the artists that I'm interested in, but artists that others are interested in, as well. I hope that more and more people become members of the art world: as art historians, public intellectuals, board members, guards. I want a future where there are simply more voices present.
Instagram fame is weird, but I think it's also a matter of the framework through which you're working in. It took me a moment—and some really great conversations—to realize that I'm not an influencer. I am more of a thought leader, and working from that framework makes me very happy about the recognition that I've gotten through social media. I am very, very lucky to have access to so many people on a global scale who are interested in the things I'm interested in. It's very rare that I travel somewhere and feel totally alone—that's an amazing gift.
I'm also an optimist generally, and so dwelling on what little obstacles I have faced really doesn't do justice to the telling of my story, or the hard-fought victories of women in my field who made a career like mine a reality.
One of my mentors, Virgil Abloh, has said, "You don't necessarily have to have a relationship—a direct relationship with someone—for them to operate as a mentor to you." In that spirit, I have many, many mentors. That began when I started to study more. A lot of it centers on my time at the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I began to get to know people who could be potential mentors for me. I've been very fortunate throughout my life to have mentors or mentor-like figures that have supported me and my development.
I totally stole my email-checking rule from Ashley Ford, who is an amazing thought leader and just an incredible goddess. [Editor's note: Drew only checks email at 8 AM, 12 PM, and 4 PM.] I decided to borrow and use that rule because I am almost too easy to access at times. So in the interest of being a responsible correspondent, I decided to regulate my email-checking to make sure that when I check emails, it's an active thing.
Working on a book has been a thrilling experience. [My co-author Jenna Wortham and I] are very much interested in the book format because it grants us the ability to bring together topics and moments that we cherish. We really hope The Black Futures Project will instruct future generations about this moment in Black culture. The truth is, social media could be gone tomorrow, and with our book, Jenna and I are hoping to create a text that could help fight that type of erasure that could occur.
I was amazed to hear that Miss Tina had been collecting art since she was 19 years old—before she was famous. It's quite a gift to find a passion that early in life. [Meeting her] was a reminder that our passions are what push us forward as humans, first and foremost.


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 Dorf in der Autonomen Republik Krim, Rajon Krasnohwardijske, siehe Sorja (Krasnohwardijske)
 Dorf in der Oblast Cherson, Rajon Kachowka, siehe Sorja (Kachowka)
 Dorf in der Oblast Dnipropetrowsk, Rajon Krywyj Rih, siehe Sorja (Krywyj Rih)
 Dorf in der Oblast Dnipropetrowsk, Rajon Krynytschky, siehe Sorja (Krynytschky)
 Dorf in der Oblast Dnipropetrowsk, Rajon Wassylkiwka, siehe Sorja (Wassylkiwka)
 Dorf in der Oblast Donezk, Rajon Pokrowsk, siehe Sorja (Pokrowsk)
 Dorf in der Oblast Donezk, Rajon Mariupol, siehe Sorja (Mariupol)
 Dorf in der Oblast Kiew, Rajon Browary, siehe Sorja (Browary)
 Dorf in der Oblast Kirowohrad, Rajon Kropywnyzkyj, siehe Sorja (Kropywnyzkyj)
 Dorf in der Oblast Mykolajiw, Rajon Baschtanka, siehe Sorja (Baschtanka)
 Dorf in der Oblast Mykolajiw, Rajon Witowka, siehe Sorja (Witowka)
 Dorf in der Oblast Mykolajiw, Rajon Wesselynowe, siehe Sorja (Wesselynowe)
 Dorf in der Oblast Mykolajiw, Rajon Wosnessensk, siehe Sorja (Wosnessensk)
 Dorf in der Oblast Odessa, Rajon Bilhorod-Dnistrowskyj, siehe Sorja (Bilhorod-Dnistrowskyj)
 Dorf in der Oblast Poltawa, Rajon Maschiwka, siehe Sorja (Maschiwka)
 Dorf in der Oblast Riwne, Rajon Riwne, siehe Sorja (Riwne)
 Dorf in der Oblast Saporischschja, Rajon Polohy, siehe Sorja (Polohy) (bis 2016 Karla Libknechta)
 Dorf in der Oblast Saporischschja, Rajon Berdjansk, siehe Sorja (Berdjansk)
 Dorf in der Oblast Tschernihiw, Rajon Nowhorod-Siwerskyj, siehe Sorja (Nowhorod-Siwerskyj)
 Dorf in der Oblast Tschernihiw, Rajon Semeniwka, siehe Sorja (Semeniwka)
 Dorf in der Oblast Wolyn, Rajon Wolodymyr, siehe Sorja (Wolodymyr)

 Siedlung in der Oblast Dnipropetrowsk, Rajon Dnipropetrowsk, siehe Sorja (Dnipropetrowsk)
 Siedlung in der Oblast Dnipropetrowsk, Rajon Tomakiwka, siehe Sorja (Tomakiwka)
 Siedlung in der Oblast Donezk, Rajon Kramatorsk, siehe Sorja (Kramatorsk)

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About Sara Avery
The Antidote to Perfectionism
By Sara Avery • August 18, 2012
I spend my time immersed in contemplating opposites. When clients come to me with what they want to change, I'm always looking for the negative feeling that is at the root of their problems. Then, I look for the opposite of that feeling, so I can help them shift to it. In the case of perfectionism, the opposite is uniqueness.
But let me back up. What leads you to feel that you need to be perfect in the first place?
Early in life, your sense of self is developed through absorbing how people around you feel about being human. It becomes a sort of rechargeable battery from which your brain generates every moment of your life, automatically, without your conscious input. This rechargeable battery ends up containing two kinds of energy:
1. Well-being, which is the kernel of energy you began with in the womb. Moments in which you feel good just being yourself or moments that feel effortless are generated from well-being.
2. Learned Distress, the feeling that "there is something wrong with me being just the way I am." Your negative moments or moments in which you have to work hard for things to go well are generated from Learned Distress.
One of the ways your brain gives you to survive while feeling that there is something wrong with you is your attempts to be perfect. "If I am perfect enough, I will be OK." You probably already know on a conscious level that it's impossible to be perfect, or even that it isn't good for you to try. You might even say that you have learned that you don't need to be perfect. But, if you still feel that pressure from deep within to be perfect in some way, this is evidence that your Learned Distress is causing a coping mechanism to kick in.
So, now, back to the opposite of perfectionism: uniqueness. Perfectionism is based on comparison to a standard of some sort. But when you think of something unique—like a snowflake—you might say that each snowflake is perfect in its own uniqueness. Each is different, but not better than or worse than. There is no standard to which they have to conform, no "perfect snowflake" against which they are judged. What if it were the same way for people?
I recently suggested to a client that it might be good for everyone if she were to do things in her own unique way. She came back to me a couple weeks later, saying that she just couldn't work with that concept at all, because her experience in life has been that others are inconvenienced when she does that. All she could comprehend of her uniqueness was feeling disorganized and being late all the time—her inability to be perfect. We came up with a new concept that helped her open up to the fact that her well-being is who she really is, and that it's safe to tap into that. Even though she had crossed out "do things in my own unique way" in her journal, her brain kept working with it.
A week later, she told me that she had to deliver a project "late" to someone, but this person didn't feel inconvenienced at all. And, she showed up to a class she teaches without being prepared "perfectly." Her students not only loved that class, but asked her to continue teaching in just the improvised way that resulted from her being what she considered being unprepared. They actually liked her unique way much better than when she had tried to conform to the "perfect" way to teach. She is finding out what I have seen for myself and so many of my clients—that often, the thing that feels "wrong" about us is just what the world needs and wants.
Another client is a professional musician in an arena that demands a sort of cookie-cutter perfection. She has felt for a long time that she had to work harder than everyone else to attain perfection, and this felt like a huge struggle. As her shift towards uniqueness has taken place, she has felt increasingly that she could just rely on the fact that she knows how to play very well already. She has felt more relaxed and able to express herself artistically, rather than conform to the "perfect way." And, she has received a lot of unsolicited, positive feedback from many people since this shift began.
Where do you feel the pressure to be perfect? What if you could allow your uniqueness to shine, instead? What might the world gain from you sharing who you really are? Uniqueness always makes for a much richer, more vibrant way to express yourself, and the more of us that do that, the richer and more vibrant our world becomes.
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Spring is in the air, and it has been for quite some time. This year's winter may have been mild for the most part, but that doesn't necessarily mean that your home isn't in need of some repairs. Keep in mind these six tips to maintain your home this spring, and to help avoid costly expenses later on in the year.
Check your roof for damage. Years of snow, ice and wind can cause a lot of damage to your roof. The formation of ice dams prevents excess water from draining off, which then forces the water to back up under the roof, eventually causing leaks and deterioration. Additionally, high winds and hail from winter storms can be powerful enough to tear off shingles or drive moisture beneath them.
Clean out your gutters. Remove blockage and debris away from gutters and downspouts, and make sure the water flow is directed away from your house. Ice dams can also cause damage to your gutters. Be sure to check for leaks or other issues with drainage and reattach gutters that are separated from the roof line.
Inspect your home's exterior. Winter conditions can also damage the outside of your home. Peeling paint can make your home more susceptible to moisture infiltration, which can lead to wood rot. Hail and fallen tree limbs can also damage siding, denting aluminum or cracking vinyl. You can help prevent future damage by painting your home's exterior in the springtime and checking for dents or cracks in the siding.
Make repairs to your driveway. In spring, main roads can become a battlefield covered in potholes. But, did you know that potholes can also form on your driveway? Potholes form when water seeps into small cracks and then freezes. When the water freezes, it expands, causing the crack to increase in size and eventually form a pothole. Repair cracked, broken, or uneven driveways and walkways.
Inspect your home's foundation. The same process that can cause damage to your driveway can also damage your foundation. Hairline cracks that develop naturally over time expand during the winter months. If left unchecked, this process can end up causing major structural damage to your home. Have the foundation inspected in the spring so you can have any issues repaired before next winter.
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package org.researchstack.skin.ui;

import android.animation.ArgbEvaluator;
import android.animation.ValueAnimator;
import android.content.Intent;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.design.widget.TabLayout;
import android.support.v4.content.ContextCompat;
import android.support.v4.view.ViewPager;
import android.support.v7.widget.AppCompatButton;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.Button;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.LinearLayout;
import android.widget.TextView;

import org.researchstack.backbone.StorageAccess;
import org.researchstack.backbone.result.TaskResult;
import org.researchstack.backbone.task.OrderedTask;
import org.researchstack.backbone.ui.PinCodeActivity;
import org.researchstack.backbone.ui.ViewTaskActivity;
import org.researchstack.backbone.utils.ResUtils;
import org.researchstack.backbone.utils.TextUtils;
import org.researchstack.skin.AppPrefs;
import org.researchstack.skin.R;
import org.researchstack.skin.ResourceManager;
import org.researchstack.skin.TaskProvider;
import org.researchstack.skin.UiManager;
import org.researchstack.skin.model.StudyOverviewModel;
import org.researchstack.skin.step.PassCodeCreationStep;
import org.researchstack.skin.task.OnboardingTask;
import org.researchstack.skin.task.SignInTask;
import org.researchstack.skin.task.SignUpTask;
import org.researchstack.skin.ui.adapter.OnboardingPagerAdapter;

public class OnboardingActivity extends PinCodeActivity implements View.OnClickListener {
    public static final int REQUEST_CODE_SIGN_UP = 21473;
    public static final int REQUEST_CODE_SIGN_IN = 31473;
    public static final int REQUEST_CODE_PASSCODE = 41473;
    private View pagerFrame;
    private View pagerContainer;
    private TabLayout tabStrip;
    private Button skip;
    private Button signUp;
    private TextView signIn;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        super.setContentView(R.layout.rss_activity_onboarding);

        ImageView logoView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.layout_studyoverview_landing_logo);
        TextView titleView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.layout_studyoverview_landing_title);
        TextView subtitleView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.layout_studyoverview_landing_subtitle);

        LinearLayout linearLayout = (LinearLayout) findViewById(R.id.layout_studyoverview_main);
        StudyOverviewModel model = parseStudyOverviewModel();

        // The first item is used for the main activity and not the tabbed dialog
        StudyOverviewModel.Question welcomeQuestion = model.getQuestions().remove(0);

        titleView.setText(welcomeQuestion.getTitle());

        if (!TextUtils.isEmpty(welcomeQuestion.getDetails())) {
            subtitleView.setText(welcomeQuestion.getDetails());
        } else {
            subtitleView.setVisibility(View.GONE);
        }

        // add Read Consent option to list and tabbed dialog
        if ("yes".equals(welcomeQuestion.getShowConsent())) {
            StudyOverviewModel.Question consent = new StudyOverviewModel.Question();
            consent.setTitle(getString(R.string.rss_read_consent_doc));
            consent.setDetails(ResourceManager.getInstance().getConsentHtml().getName());
            model.getQuestions().add(0, consent);
        }

        for (int i = 0; i < model.getQuestions().size(); i++) {
            AppCompatButton button = (AppCompatButton) LayoutInflater.from(this)
                    .inflate(R.layout.rss_button_study_overview, linearLayout, false);
            button.setText(model.getQuestions().get(i).getTitle());
            // set the index for opening the viewpager to the correct page on click
            button.setTag(i);
            linearLayout.addView(button);
            button.setOnClickListener(this);
        }

        signUp = (Button) findViewById(R.id.intro_sign_up);
        signIn = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.intro_sign_in);

        skip = (Button) findViewById(R.id.intro_skip);
        skip.setVisibility(UiManager.getInstance().isConsentSkippable() ? View.VISIBLE : View.GONE);

        int resId = ResUtils.getDrawableResourceId(this, model.getLogoName());
        logoView.setImageResource(resId);

        pagerContainer = findViewById(R.id.pager_container);
        pagerContainer.setTranslationY(48);
        pagerContainer.setAlpha(0);
        pagerContainer.setScaleX(.9f);
        pagerContainer.setScaleY(.9f);

        pagerFrame = findViewById(R.id.pager_frame);
        pagerFrame.setAlpha(0);
        pagerFrame.setOnClickListener(v -> hidePager());

        OnboardingPagerAdapter adapter = new OnboardingPagerAdapter(this, model.getQuestions());
        ViewPager pager = (ViewPager) findViewById(R.id.pager);
        pager.setOffscreenPageLimit(2);
        pager.setAdapter(adapter);
        tabStrip = (TabLayout) findViewById(R.id.pager_title_strip);
        tabStrip.setupWithViewPager(pager);
    }

    @Override
    public void onDataAuth() {
        if (StorageAccess.getInstance().hasPinCode(this)) {
            super.onDataAuth();
        } else // allow onboarding if no pincode
        {
            onDataReady();
        }
    }

    private StudyOverviewModel parseStudyOverviewModel() {
        return ResourceManager.getInstance().getStudyOverview().create(this);
    }

    @Override
    public void onClick(View v) {
        showPager((int) v.getTag());
    }

    private void showPager(int index) {
        pagerFrame.animate().alpha(1)
                .setDuration(150)
                .withStartAction(() -> pagerFrame.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE))
                .withEndAction(() -> {
                    pagerContainer.animate()
                            .translationY(0)
                            .setDuration(100)
                            .alpha(1)
                            .scaleX(1)
                            .scaleY(1);
                });
        tabStrip.getTabAt(index).select();
        skip.setActivated(true);
        signUp.setActivated(true);

        int colorFrom = ContextCompat.getColor(this, android.R.color.black);
        int colorTo = ContextCompat.getColor(this, android.R.color.white);
        ValueAnimator colorAnimation = ValueAnimator.ofObject(new ArgbEvaluator(), colorFrom, colorTo);
        colorAnimation.setDuration(150);
        colorAnimation.addUpdateListener(animator -> signIn.setTextColor((int) animator.getAnimatedValue()));
        colorAnimation.start();
    }

    private void hidePager() {
        pagerContainer.animate()
                .translationY(48)
                .alpha(0)
                .setDuration(100)
                .scaleX(.9f)
                .scaleY(.9f)
                .withEndAction(() -> {
                    pagerFrame.animate()
                            .alpha(0)
                            .setDuration(150)
                            .withEndAction(() -> pagerFrame.setVisibility(View.GONE));
                    skip.setActivated(false);
                    signUp.setActivated(false);
                });

        int colorFrom = ContextCompat.getColor(this, android.R.color.white);
        int colorTo = ContextCompat.getColor(this, android.R.color.black);
        ValueAnimator colorAnimation = ValueAnimator.ofObject(new ArgbEvaluator(), colorFrom, colorTo);
        colorAnimation.setDuration(150);
        colorAnimation.addUpdateListener(animator -> signIn.setTextColor((int) animator.getAnimatedValue()));
        colorAnimation.start();
    }

    @Override
    public void onBackPressed() {
        if (pagerFrame.getVisibility() == View.VISIBLE) {
            hidePager();
        } else {
            super.onBackPressed();
        }
    }

    public void onSignUpClicked(View view) {
        hidePager();

        boolean hasPin = StorageAccess.getInstance().hasPinCode(this);

        SignUpTask task = (SignUpTask) TaskProvider.getInstance().get(TaskProvider.TASK_ID_SIGN_UP);
        task.setHasPasscode(hasPin);
        startActivityForResult(SignUpTaskActivity.newIntent(this, task), REQUEST_CODE_SIGN_UP);
    }

    public void onSkipClicked(View view) {
        hidePager();
        boolean hasPasscode = StorageAccess.getInstance().hasPinCode(this);
        if (!hasPasscode) {
            PassCodeCreationStep step = new PassCodeCreationStep(OnboardingTask.SignUpPassCodeCreationStepIdentifier,
                    R.string.rss_passcode);
            OrderedTask task = new OrderedTask("PasscodeTask", step);
            startActivityForResult(ConsentTaskActivity.newIntent(this, task),
                    REQUEST_CODE_PASSCODE);
        } else {
            skipToMainActivity();
        }
    }

    public void onSignInClicked(View view) {
        hidePager();
        boolean hasPasscode = StorageAccess.getInstance().hasPinCode(this);

        SignInTask task = (SignInTask) TaskProvider.getInstance().get(TaskProvider.TASK_ID_SIGN_IN);
        task.setHasPasscode(hasPasscode);
        startActivityForResult(SignUpTaskActivity.newIntent(this, task), REQUEST_CODE_SIGN_IN);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onActivityResult(int requestCode, int resultCode, Intent data) {
        if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE_SIGN_IN && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            finish();

            AppPrefs.getInstance(this).setSkippedOnboarding(false);
            AppPrefs.getInstance(this).setOnboardingComplete(true);

            TaskResult result = (TaskResult) data.getSerializableExtra(ViewTaskActivity.EXTRA_TASK_RESULT);
            String email = (String) result.getStepResult(OnboardingTask.SignInStepIdentifier)
                    .getResultForIdentifier(SignInTask.ID_EMAIL);
            String password = (String) result.getStepResult(OnboardingTask.SignInStepIdentifier)
                    .getResultForIdentifier(SignInTask.ID_PASSWORD);

            if (email == null || password == null) {
                startMainActivity();
            } else {
                Intent intent = new Intent(this, EmailVerificationActivity.class);
                intent.putExtra(EmailVerificationActivity.EXTRA_EMAIL, email);
                intent.putExtra(EmailVerificationActivity.EXTRA_PASSWORD, password);
                startActivity(intent);
            }

        } else if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE_SIGN_UP && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {

            finish();

            AppPrefs.getInstance(this).setSkippedOnboarding(false);
            AppPrefs.getInstance(this).setOnboardingComplete(true);

            TaskResult result = (TaskResult) data.getSerializableExtra(ViewTaskActivity.EXTRA_TASK_RESULT);
            String email = (String) result.getStepResult(OnboardingTask.SignUpStepIdentifier)
                    .getResultForIdentifier(SignUpTask.ID_EMAIL);
            String password = (String) result.getStepResult(OnboardingTask.SignUpStepIdentifier)
                    .getResultForIdentifier(SignUpTask.ID_PASSWORD);
            Intent intent = new Intent(this, EmailVerificationActivity.class);
            intent.putExtra(EmailVerificationActivity.EXTRA_EMAIL, email);
            intent.putExtra(EmailVerificationActivity.EXTRA_PASSWORD, password);
            startActivity(intent);
        } else if (requestCode == REQUEST_CODE_PASSCODE && resultCode == RESULT_OK) {
            TaskResult result = (TaskResult) data.getSerializableExtra(ViewTaskActivity.EXTRA_TASK_RESULT);
            String passcode = (String) result.getStepResult(OnboardingTask.SignUpPassCodeCreationStepIdentifier)
                    .getResult();
            StorageAccess.getInstance().createPinCode(this, passcode);

            skipToMainActivity();
        } else {
            super.onActivityResult(requestCode, resultCode, data);
        }
    }

    private void skipToMainActivity() {
        AppPrefs.getInstance(this).setSkippedOnboarding(true);
        startMainActivity();
    }

    private void startMainActivity() {
        // Onboarding completion is checked in splash activity. The check allows us to pass through
        // to MainActivity even if we haven't signed in. We want to set this true in every case so
        // the user is really only forced through Onboarding once. If they leave the study, they must
        // re-enroll in Settings, which starts OnboardingActivty.
        AppPrefs.getInstance(this).setOnboardingComplete(true);

        // Start MainActivity w/ clear_top and single_top flags. MainActivity may
        // already be on the activity-task. We want to re-use that activity instead
        // of creating a new instance and have two instance active.
        Intent intent = new Intent(this, MainActivity.class);
        intent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP | Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP);
        startActivity(intent);
        finish();
    }
}


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NUMERO CIVICO » Blog Archive » United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale : Dimensions of Citizenship
Padiglione Stati Uniti La Biennale Architettura 2018
Giardini della Biennale, Castello
30122 Venezia VE
uspavilion@finnpartners.com
dimensionsofcitizenship.org
segnalato da Stefano Giovanazzi
condiviso da numero civico
Mika Rottenberg, Cosmic Generator (still), 2017. © Mika Rottenberg.
United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Dimensions of Citizenship
US Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale to feature film and video artworks that expand the exhibition Dimensions of Citizenship
The curators of Dimensions of Citizenship, the US Pavilion exhibition at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale, today announced that they will present film and video works that explore multiple perspectives—narrative, speculative, or impressionistic—in the pavilion's rotunda. Entitled "Transit Screening Lounge," this collection features recent single-channel works by Frances Bodomo, Mandana Moghaddam, David Rueter and Marissa Lee Benedict, Mika Rottenberg, and Liam Young. As reflections on the spatial conditions of citizenship, these evocative works join installations by the Pavilion's seven commissioned participants: Amanda Williams & Andres L. Hernandez, Design Earth, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Estudio Teddy Cruz + Fonna Forman, Keller Easterling, SCAPE, and Studio Gang.
The commissioners of the 2018 US Pavilion are the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago.
Curators Niall Atkinson, Ann Lui, and Mimi Zeiger said, "While each of the installations commissioned from the architects and designers will consider what it means to belong at different and specific spatial scales, the 'Transit Screening Lounge' will offer more ambiguous readings of contemporary citizenship, involving blurred boundaries, gray areas, and alternative histories. The selected works look at citizenship through a lens of movement: migration, transgression, transmission, travel, and mobility, as a way to visualize conditions that can be difficult to delineate through traditional architectural means."
The following films and videos have been selected for the US Pavilion:
Afronauts (2014)
Frances Bodomo
It's July 16, 1969, and the US is preparing to launch Apollo 11. Thousands of miles away, the Zambia Space Academy is hoping to beat America to the moon. Inspired by true events. Frances Bodomo, born in Accra in 1988, is an award-winning Ghanaian filmmaker.
Exodus (2012)
Mandana Moghaddam
Borrowing a title best known from the Bible, Exodus addresses the mass flight of people across the world in the wake of war, poverty, and social injustice. Through images of luggage adrift at sea, the video evokes the sense of being uprooted, losing one's identity, and having to fight for one's integrity.
Dark Fiber (2015)
David Rueter and Marissa Lee Benedict
Tunneling through commercial and industrial fiber optic networks and traveling in their shadows, Dark Fiber follows the course of a single cable, in a video that pushes against conventional representations of networks and logistics. The video's montage sequences depict movement between systems and scales as seen in vast landscapes, industrial infrastructure, media apparatuses, art venues, domestic spaces, and imagined worlds.
Cosmic Generator (2017)
Cosmic Generator explores a kaleidoscopic world in which the US and Mexico are linked by a secret system of tunnels, which enable trade among various places and actors. The tunnels lead from the Golden Dragon Restaurant in Mexicali, Mexico, to a 99 Cents Store in Calexico, California, while an enormous plastic commodities market in Yiwu, China, also plays a role in the imaginary network.
Where the City Can't See (2016)
Liam Young
Where the City Can't See is the first narrative fiction film shot entirely with the laser scanning technology used for navigation by self-driving vehicles. In a Chinese-owned and controlled Detroit Economic Zone, a group of young auto workers drifts around in a driverless taxi, searching for a place they know exists but that their car doesn't recognize. They are part of an underground community in which people adorn themselves in machine-vision camouflage and anti-facial recognition masks to enact escapist fantasies in the city's hidden spaces.
Giardini della Biennale, Castello - Venezia
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Manufacturing Could Return To China, As Covid Cases Spike In India And Vietnam
The Covid-19 resurgence in some parts of Asia could lead to a change in fortunes for China, according to an economist.
Previously, the U.S.-China trade war caused companies to move their supply chains out of China, shifting their production and distribution networks for products and services. As a result, countries like Vietnam and India benefited as companies moved to set up shop in their countries.
But the situation appears to be changing, and supply chains could pivot back to China as cases spike in India and Vietnam, according to Zhang Zhiwei, chief economist at Pinpoint Asset Management.
"Before the pandemic, we saw factories moving out of China — Samsung, Foxconn these big name companies — setting up factories in Vietnam, India," he told CNBC's "Street Signs Asia" on Monday.
The spike in cases in those two countries has forced factories owned by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn, a major Apple supplier, to shut down facilities in India and Vietnam, he said.
"This could put the relocation of supply chains on hold for quite some time. The key issue here is that international travel is suspended, so multinational companies can't send their staff to India and Vietnam to set up new factories," Zhang added.
Cases in India surged to record-breaking highs in April and shows little signs of abating significantly —economists have predicted the South Asian economy will likely contract this quarter.WATCH NOWVIDEO02:12Opportunities in China is moving from manufacturing to consumption: Strategist
In Vietnam, the northern province of Bac Giang on Tuesday ordered four industrial parks — including three that house production facilities of Taiwan's Foxconn — to temporarily shut down due to an outbreak of Covid-19.
The situation could benefit China, Zhang suggested. However, he pointed out that the extent of how much China could stand to gain will depend on how long the situation in India and Vietnam continues for.
Right now, export growth in China is between 20% to 40% a month, he said. If the factories in India and Vietnam return to production very soon, China's exports would be expected to slow down in the second half of the year as companies move their manufacturing to those two countries.
"But if supply chain (in India and Vietnam) is disrupted for a long time, we could see this kind of 20%, 30% export growth (in China) to continue into next year," Zhang said.
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Port Everglades executives worried so much about their offices being bugged that one of them met in the parking lot with a private detective to order an investigation of labor union critics, records and interviews reveal.
During tense times for the public seaport two years ago, Deputy Director Gene Ciccarelli would not talk in detail on the telephone or within the government offices. Instead, records and interviews show, he requested the investigation while sitting in a private eye's car."He wanted to walk me to my car because he just wanted to discuss some things," said Joseph Lodge, who works for the Business Risks International security firm. "To either talk in the conference room or talk in the confines of the building wasn't smart."
Business Risks later swept the port headquarters for electronic listening devices, but it didn't find any. It also began investigating union leader Alexander "Doc" Cullison and some of his union colleagues, checking for lawsuits, criminal charges and business ventures, according to documents examined by the Miami Herald.
Mr. Ciccarelli has denied through a port spokesman that he ever ordered such work. His attorney, Tom Shahady, reiterated Mr. Ciccarelli's words.
''He just denies that it occurred," Mr. Shahady said. "I can't tell you why they're saying what they're saying. But I can tell you he denies he ever requested that investigation."
The disclosures are contained in company records turned over to Mr. Cullison by Business Risks International as part of Mr. Cullison's lawsuit against Port Everglades, Mr. Ciccarelli and Commissioner Walter Browne.
The suit alleges that the port retaliated against Mr. Cullison after he requested a state audit and tried to blow the whistle on what he thought were questionable port practices.
''It appears that Port Everglades and Ciccarelli did some wholesale investigation of our labor organization, at the port's expense," Mr. Cullison said. "That's, I think, certainly an abuse of public trust."
Business Risks' records show that Mr. Ciccarelli met with Mr. Lodge, the company's Miami office manager, on Sept. 1, 1989.
About that same time, newspapers were reporting instances of improper spending and mismanagement at the port. Taxpayers filled the chambers in protest when port commissioners decided shortly after that to impose their first countywide property tax in six years.
Business Risks, whose officers include several former federal agents, was hired to perform what it called an "investigation of Industrial Espionage at Port Everglades."
Business Risks and the port are now involved in a billing dispute over the work. The company says the port owes $30,000, but the port won't pay.
Business Risks has agreed to drop its $3,314 bill for the Cullison investigation in an effort to get paid the rest of the money.
At one point during its investigation, the records show, the company conferred with Mr. Ciccarelli about conducting a sweep for electronic bugs at the home of then-Director Joel Alesi. But Mr. Alesi nixed the idea.
funds they had available for them to do his own home."
Records show the entire investigation was called off by Mr. Ciccarelli after only a few days.
Mr. Lodge said he didn't know for sure why Port Everglades had wanted to investigate Mr. Cullison and other executives of the Federation of Public Employees, District 1 MEBA/NMU.
''Other than they felt there was a possibility they were getting information that was not being obtained properly concerning the activity of the port," Mr. Lodge said.
''They simply asked for a very brief, cursory background investigation and we got started on it," he said. "And it ended even before we even got into it."


Click Here — Learn more about caregiving and watch thousands of SCI videos on SPINALpedia!
Writing this caregiving section of the website, I feel has been the hardest section to write about. There's so much that goes into caregiving. Just thinking back since my August 1, 2004 spinal cord injury and about all the things I've been through and all the things I've accomplished, it's been because I've had someone by my side.
The bottom line is that I'm here today because people have taken care of me. Caregiving ranges from family, friends, and paid employees. Caregivers are people in our lives that are taking care of us and are here because of love. Too often, I take advantage of this love and say things to my caregivers out of frustration.
Frustration is normal when having a spinal cord injury, but what is important is how we release that frustration. When getting frustrated find a little routine to calm yourself down and to reevaluate the situation. I always think of a quote a friend once told me, "It is not what you say, it is how you say it." And remember, don't take your anger out on your caregiver; they're here to help us.
When it comes to family and friends, these new caregiving duties can be rewarding, frustrating, time-consuming, and exhausting. Caregiving has its goods and bads, but the main factor that remains the same is that a loved one needs your help. Caregiving is a developed skill, and as time goes on there are certain tricks of the trade that are developed. In order to be the best caregiver that you can be, you need to first be motivated and educated. Educate yourself as much as you possibly can about the person you're taking care of. The most important thing is to be patient.
As a person with a spinal cord injury, I can tell you that I get frustrated. Understanding that your patient is just frustrated and is not trying to deliberately be mean or rude is the first step to realizing to not take everything so seriously that comes out of the patient's mouth. Step back mentally and reevaluate the situation. Over exposure and working too long of hours can cause a caregiver to burnout.
Create a balanced, doable schedule that will not burn you out. Work with multiple caregivers that are part of the patient's life and think about it as though you're working together as a team. In order for any team to work successfully, communication and reliability need to be the concentrating factors.
Caregiving resources provided on the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Foundation.
How to Find the Right Paid Caregiver?
What is your name? Where are you from? What is the best way to reach you?
Have you ever taken care of someone with a spinal cord injury?
What kind of nurse are you/what are your job experiences?
Where do you live and how long does it take for you to get here during these specific times?


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Around a dozen representatives of the hippie movement still live in Lviv. They paint a varied portrait of this movement—or, more accurately, non-movement. The single unifying element was a love of 'forbidden' western music; the heart of their ideology was a love of freedom. Beyond that, each of them went their own way. The hippies were seen as harmless by the authorities, since they were not considered political opponents of the Soviet system. But Lviv's first Amnesty International representative was one of the founders of the Soviet hippie movement. So what mattered more: music or politics, free love or drugs? Were these hippies part of a global movement or did they create something unique?


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4Front Ventures Corp. Announces Participation in Needham's 24th Annual Virtual Growth Conference
January 7, 2022 | News release
PHOENIX, January 7, 2022 – 4Front Ventures Corp. (CSE: FFNT) (OTCQX: FFNTF) ("4Front" or the "Company"), a vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis operator and retailer, today announced that its executive team will participate in Needham's 24th Annual Virtual Growth Conference, held January 10-14, 2022. Andrew Thut, Chief Investment Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer of 4Front, will give a fireside chat to conference attendees on Friday, January 14 at 12:30pm ET, and the Company will host small group and one-on-one investor meetings throughout the event.
For more information or to schedule a one-on-one investor meeting, please contact 4Front's Investor Relations team at [email protected].
About 4Front Ventures Corp.
4Front Ventures Corp. ("4Front" or the "Company") (CSE: FFNT) (OTCQX: FFNTF) is a national, vertically integrated multi-state cannabis operator who owns or manages operations and facilities in strategic medical and adult-use cannabis markets, including California, Illinois, California, Michigan and Washington. Since its founding in 2011, 4Front has built a strong reputation for its high standards and low-cost cultivation and production methodologies earned through a track record of success in facility design, cultivation, genetics, growing processes, manufacturing, purchasing, distribution, and retail. To date, 4Front has successfully brought to market more than 20 different cannabis brands and over 1800 products, which are strategically distributed through its fully owned and operated Mission dispensaries and retail outlets in its core markets. As the Company continues to drive value for its shareholders, its team is applying its decade of expertise in the sector across the cannabis industry value chain and ecosystem. For more information, visit https://4frontventures.com/.
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Ah haaaa!! So the little paper stars have some new friends 🙂 some stripes made from vintage photographs, and some stripes made from old quilts.
This piece now lives happily in a lovely little bed and breakfast in an old firehouse in Harvard Square.
Happy Forth of July wishes to you!
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Working on a Comission tonight … Can you guess what these are for?
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Have you ever had one of those places that everyone tells you to visit? That place, for me, is Oaxaca. Millions (okay, I am exaggerating now) tons of other artists have told me how much they love this place. They talk about the beauty, the color, the art, the music, the flavors, colors, markets, and the rich traditions. Artists go there and return changed, they are enhanced somehow. They are Illuminated by the culture and their life and work has more juice and spark after they visit.
I am thrilled to announce that Carla Sonheim and I will be co-teaching a mini version of our online class 2015: Year of the Spark, and the best part is that this workshop will be taught in person and in beautiful Oaxaca, Mexico!
We are delighted that the amazing Kathie Vezzabi is organizing this trip. Kathie explains: Our home base will be at Las Bugambilias, a family owned and run B&B led by the beautiful matriarch, Emilia Arroyo Cabrera. Seeing what Emilia wears each morning is a visual treat for a bunch of artists as are the place settings at our breakfast. The motto of Las Bugambilias is that "we do not receive hosts, we receive friends." Emilia and her family and their staff truly do make you feel as though their home is yours.
There is so much to see in Oaxaca. Take the time during your visit to wander through some of Oaxaca's museums to see the paintings of local artists, weavings at the Textile Museum, jewelry from silversmiths, handmade paper, black pottery, colorful alebrijes, and murals and statues the multitude of churches that abound.
Kathie has combined her love for food and and art by organizing tours to Mexico with Culinary Advertures, Inc. for the past twenty years. She and Marilyn Tausend have traveled with chefs such as Diana Kennedy, Rick Bayless, Susana Trilling (from Oaxaca) Roberto Santibanez and more. Joining us on this trip is Ane Elena Martinez, a pastry chef from Pubela, who coordinates details in Mexico.
Our time in Oaxaca promises to be filled with delicious flavors, artful adventures, new experiences and new friends.
The trip will be limited to 12 participants. Please join us! click below for more information.
A little flower power for you!!
Flowers!!! A fresh pop of inspiration!!!
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Carla you are amazing!! This is so cute!!
Lovely post from Carla Sonheim!!
Over the next few months I want to introduce you to our wonderful teaching artists in a bit more depth! And, since Lynn Whipple is repeating her wonderful class, "The Joy of Collage," we'll talk with Lynn today!
Lynn lives in Winter Park, Florida, and is currently co-teaching "2015: Year of the Spark!" with me and also has just launched a new line of cards: Creativity = Happiness (which you can find here at her etsy site!).
Two cards from Lynn's new card line!


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Place:Davao, Philippines
Name Davao
Alt names Davao source: Family History Library Catalog
Department of Mindanao & Sulu source: Family History Library Catalog
Region XI source: Wikipedia
Davao del Norte ( 1969 - )
Kapalong
Pantukan
Davao Region, formerly called Southern Mindanao, is an administrative region in the Philippines, designated as Region XI. It is situated at the southeastern portion of Mindanao, comprising five provinces: Compostela Valley, Davao del Norte, Davao del Sur, Davao Oriental and Davao Occidental, the newly created province.
The region encloses the Davao Gulf, and its regional center is Davao City. Dávao is the Hispanicized pronunciation of daba-daba, the Bagobo word for "fire" (the Cebuano translation is kalayo).
This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original content was at Davao Region. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with WeRelate, the content of Wikipedia is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
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MIDLAND, TX (KWES) - A double check of the Salvation Army shows they are in the final stages of setting up their new facility at Terrell and Wall Street.
A ribbon cutting for the new facility is set to take place April 10, with a grand opening and banquet to follow.
The Salvation Army shared a blueprint which shows dorms for shelter, bathrooms to wash up, laundry to clean clothes, and a kitchen to prepare hot meals for over 80 people in the dining room.
Captain Jeremy Walker sees this as an opportunity to provide even more support.
"All the services we offer now we will still continue offering. We're just going to be able to offer to a lot more folks and be able to house more folks and be able to feed a lot more folks," said Walker.
He also says that a bigger facility means a larger workforce.
The project is not yet finished, but Walker says he is excited for everyone to see and experience the facility.
"This facility is coming along. We're excited about having it. It's a lot of work and the community's poured into it and those that have given and we're so appreciative," said Walker.
The Midland Salvation on Baird St. is still open while they move, and in Odessa, you can still visit their location on 11th st.
Robert joined the NewsWest 9 team in January 2019 as a multi-skilled journalist. He graduated from Ball State University with a Bachelor's Degree in journalism and telecommunications.
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FOSTER Open Sciences: Courses
FOSTER Plus (Fostering the practical implementation of Open Science in Horizon 2020 and beyond) is a 2-year, EU-funded project, carried out by 11 partners across 6 countries.
University of Minho, University of Göttingen, The Open University, Electronic Information for Libraries, University of Edinburgh, University of Glasgow, Technical University of Denmark, Association of European Research Libraries, Spanish National Research Council, GESIS – Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences, DARIAH ERIC, TIB
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Triney Sandoval and Miriam A. Laube in The Book of Will.
From then on, I was obsessed with the idea of owning a Collected Works. I grew up in England and saw these at all of my friends' houses, but given the value of Shakespeare's work, I assumed they were insanely expensive, and we didn't have much money. I never mentioned my longing to my mother, just sneaked into other people's studies and bedrooms to slide their Shakespeare off the shelf, sit on the floor and read.
When I was thirteen, I received a collection as a school prize.
Lauren Gunderson's The Book of Will, now premiering at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, is about that precious book and the way the first folio came together seven years after Shakespeare's death because of the passion and dedication of two actors in his company, The King's Men: John Heminges and Henry Condell. Up until then, the plays had been recorded in bits and pieces, printed on flimsy, unreliable quartos, scattered. Heminges and Condell went to extraordinary lengths to gather everything together, figure out authenticity, raise funds and find a way of working with the only publisher who had the resources for the task, William Jaggard, whom Shakespeare had disliked for printing works that he hadn't written under his name and scrambling works he had.
This might make the play sound like a tutorial, full of worthwhile information but essentially static. Gunderson, however, has peopled the stage with lively, historically based characters, joking, drinking, expressing familial love or professional rivalry, acting Shakespearean scenes and squabbling — primarily about whether the task they're undertaking is necessary or even doable. She paints a vivid portrait of the times in language sometimes formal, sometimes poetic and often as contemporary as "shits and giggles." She also gives a real feel for theater life and what it means to be an actor; you sense this is a work of both scholarship and love.
There's a lot of funny stuff, too. Wesley Mann's cunning William Jaggard is a mix of pure mendacity and perhaps a touch of wistful yearning. Triney Sandoval is hilariously over the top as Richard Burbage, the most famous actor of his time, and he also gives full expression to Ben Jonson's inner cauldron of anger, generosity and narcissism. Portrayed by Rodney Lizcano, Ralph Crane is the muted, persnickety prototype of every nitpicking proofreader that journalists have both cursed and blessed over the years. And Heminges and Condell are well played by Liam Craig and Kurt Rhoads, respectively.
The script isn't perfect: There's a bit too much repetition in the discussion of the plays' worth and why they should be preserved, a death that comes inexplicably fast, a time or two when actors slide into a rhythmic cadence that often comes with assumed English accents and which people mistakenly think of as Shakespearean.
But overall the evening is pure delight. When the great printing press finally starts to roll toward the end, it's a moment of pure triumph that brings everything together: acting, script and the brilliant tech. It serves as homage to those who sacrificed to make the first folio happen and to Shakespeare's magnificent words. On the heels of this roaring moment comes a quiet ending and a single, gentle revelation.
Presented by the Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company through February 26, Ricketson Theatre, Denver Performing Arts Complex, 303-893-4100, denvercenter.org.


I have just completed my Graduation in commerce and now looking for a job. I am a very shy person right from the beginning and thus my friends and relatives are discouraging me from giving any interview as according to them I will definitely fail in it. So I am really very depressed right now. Can you please suggest me some jobs which I can join without giving any interview. Are such jobs available?
Re: Can I get a job without giving any interview?
I think you are taking it all worng . Running away from interviews will never solve the problem .
You should know , an interview is a basic requirement test that any firm takes to get to know a person .
I understand that you are a shy person but nothing happens in a interview that you should be afraid of .
You should not let yourself be depressed as even working at a CALL CENTRE requires an interview .
An interview is just two people having a conversation where he gets to know you as a person .
You will not like someone working in your company and you dont even now him .
troubles . I advice to get yourself out of the shell .
they prepare you how to handle an interview .
but dont start looking for jobs without interviews , because you will never be able to grow in the industry .
Hope i was of some help to you .
YOU CAN'T GET JOB WITHOUT INTERVIEW... interview is must for getting job becuase there are many interviews in many jobs being shy is not acceptable because its very important to face people and also deal with situations you face by answering the interviewers... your knowledge is under test,your communication skills is under test,your body language is also tested in interviews... so its very important to attend interview you should learn to face interview its very important that you know the mind set of people well this will help you in dealing with tough situations... all the best..
First thing i want to say that self confidence is the best confidence so why are sicking off because you are a graduate student you have to be always believe in your self not others.So try to remove it from your mind that you can not got any job without interview.If you try at your best level then success will touch you.Now you must know that from hero to zero all are taking interview so you prepared yourself.But also there a possible way that is in railway group D exam where interview is not necessary if you clear written then it is fitness test or ground test if you qualified then medical test and after that joining letter.


Not to be dramatic, however digital entrepreneurs in the present day live and die by the tools of the trade. Whereas there are lots of automation tools on the market for specific fields or verticals (for instance, the HubSpot workflows device for advertising automation ), there aren't many tools that can help you automate the assorted completely different tools you utilize all through all facets of your life.
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These software program packages carry new and useful instruments to enhance buyer assist and entice new clients to sign on with us. Next, we now have a mixed advertising effort with an Animoto video and Fixed Contact advertising e-mail informing present and new clients of some elements of our expanding companies which might be being supplied.
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Luckily, I have the privilege of engaged on a crew of one hundred fifty+ different entrepreneurs who specialize in different features than I do. And because of that, I used to be capable of curate this record of the top fifty eight instruments every marketer ought to learn about and being using in 2017.


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Ferdinand and Isabella. They are up there with the "big time" medieval monarchs--Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, and Ferdinand and Isabella. That being said, they are really known among most people for two things: the Spanish Inquisition and sponsoring Christopher Columbus.
I will admit that my knowledge of Spanish history during this period lacks when compared to my knowledge of English, Italian or even German history of the same period. But, when it comes to biographical historical fiction, I prefer to read about characters I don't know as well, so the topic of Isabella of Castile appealed to me.
This book sucked me in from the first sentence. Gortner does an admirable job of creating Isabella's world and drawing Isabella as a character who is both created by and rebelling against that world. Often times when I read about a "character ahead of her time," it just strikes me of an author taking a centuries-old figure and throwing a robe of 21st-century sensibilities over their shoulders. However, I really didn't get that from this book. I understood why Isabella was such a strong woman and, although she did not fit the mold of women in the late 15th century, she did not seem anachronistic.
Gortner also needs to be commended on his descriptions of Ferdinand and Isabella's relationship. While he does take some liberties in order to tell this story--which he explains in his afterward--I think he probably has as accurate an account of their marriage as anyone 600 years later can write. Yes, they loved each other and, yes, Ferdinand had his dalliances. Marital fidelity among the ruling classes was, well, different during that time. If Gortner had painted Ferdinand as a pillar of honor on this count, he would have damaged his novel's credibility.
I utterly enjoyed this book and it left me with 2 desires: to read more by C.W. Gortner and to go to Spain. I reserved Gortner's The Last Queen, about Ferdinand and Isabella's daughter Juana, at the library--but I think that visit to Spain will have to wait for a while.
If you are at all interested in historical fiction, I heartily recommend The Queen's Vow.
I was not solicited for this review and all opinions are mine and mine alone. I received no compensation for this review.
That being said, I just discovered that this book is on tour with Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours. If you are interested in reading additional reviews of this book, the schedule for that tour is listed here.
I'm so glad that you liked this one :) I fell in LOVE with it and my gushing review will be going up soon, lol. I HAVE to get to the rest of his books!


Pseudoscorpions are tiny arachnids, 2 to 8 millimeters in length, with four pairs of legs and one pair of relatively large pedipalps (pincer-like claws). Most people do not notice or recognize pseudoscorpions, which is primarily due to the secretive nature and small size of these animals. Frequently, homeowners discover pseudoscorpions in bathroom sinks and tubs, and many believe they are either ticks or small spiders. Pseudoscorpions are neither dangerous, nor destructive; they eat many small arthropods, including caterpillars, flies, ants, beetle larvae, and booklice. Most of the more than 2000 described species inhabit the tropics, where they occupy animal nests, crevices of bark, and leaf litter. Several dozens species are present in Pennsylvania. The pseudoscorpion species commonly encountered by Pennsylvanians is cosmopolitan—the house pseudoscorpion, Chelifer cancroides (L.).
The house pseudoscorpion adult is 3 to 4 millimeters in length and has a rich mahogany color. Its four pairs of legs increase sequentially in length. It has one eye on each side of its cephalothorax (head plus thorax) and a 12-segment abdomen (only ten are easily visible). Overall, the body resembles a teardrop. The pedipalps, located in front of the first pair of legs, are more than twice as long as the legs. When extended, crab-like, they measure 7 to 9 millimeters across.
The mating behavior of C. cancroides is interesting. Mature males create a mating territory 1 to 2 centimeters in size. They rub their ventral surface on the center of this territory, which some arachnologists postulate as pheromone placement. When a female enters this area, the male begins a mating dance by rapidly vibrating his body and displaying his pedipalps. He deposits a sac that contains sperm (spermatophore) on the substrate, moves backwards over it, and guides the female on top of the sac, where she then picks up the sperm. The entire mating process takes from 10 minutes to 1 hour.
The female produces 20 to 40 eggs that she carries beneath her abdomen. After the young house pseudoscorpions, which look like small adults, emerge, they stay with the female for several days, sometimes riding on her back. The entire brood then disperses. This process, from egg deposit to brood dispersal, can take 3 weeks.
The young house pseudoscorpions molt three times before adulthood; these stages are protonymph, deutonymph, and tritonymph. The developmental period is temperature dependent and takes 10 to 24 months. Adults do not molt and can live for 3 or 4 years.
Older house pseudoscorpions are less agile. They often have difficulty climbing smooth surfaces and are less likely to right themselves after flipping onto their backs. These factors, plus their increased visibility due to their large size, may explain why only adult specimens are submitted for identification.
Peudoscorpions pose no hazards for homeowners. Their presence may diagnose a high level of atmospheric humidity and/or a population of other arthropods, on which the pseudoscorpions are feeding. Using pesticides to control these animals is not recommended.