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by Bill Batson April 30, 20199:58 am
Nyack Sketch Log: Pat Hickman's River Teeth
Pat Hickman allows us to communicate with rivers, volcanoes, and wind, forces that shape our physical existence. Fabric, steel, wood, membrane, the ubiquitous material that surround us, have become mostly silent to western ears. As materialistic as we have become, oddly, we are not on speaking terms with the natural world. Pat Hickman can translate.
Her work reveals the universe that exists beneath the bark of a tree or below the surface of water, or the language a muslim woman in Turkey speaks through the edging of her scarf. Like the creative process that John Updike described in the Blessed Man from Boston, as an artist, Hickman walks through volumes of the unexpressed and like a snail leave(s) behind a faint thread.
Meet Pat Hickman.
Could you say a few words about your current show at Ray Lagstein's Galllery, Floodlines: Water Rises?
I live above the Hudson, in Dutchtown, high enough that I don't expect the Hudson to rise to the level of my house. But after recent hurricanes, here and there, and frequent news of water rising, ice melting, and many subsequent disasters due to climate change in so many parts of the world, I feel that we must heed the warning and not ignore what is happening. My installation of river teeth suggests water surging with rivulets of river teeth pouring across the gallery floor. Drawings of individual river teeth fill the walls. These drawings are not treated as precious, but layered and attached in an almost helter-skelter way, disordered and confused, almost as birds flying in retreat, as water rises. The bottom two layers of drawings have been sprayed with water, establishing the floodline, allowing the walnut ink of some of the drawings to drip down, tear-like.
When did you first discover river teeth? How long have they been featured in your work?
When I was at Haystack Mountain School in Deer Isle, Maine in 2008, I overlapped with artist Dorothy Gill Barnes, who introduced me to a river tooth found there in the woods. She had used a very few river teeth in her sculptural baskets. She also pointed me to the writer, David James Duncan, and his "River Teeth: Stories and Writings." I became intrigued with the idea, function, shape and potential meaning of river teeth and collected them on subsequent times at Haystack when I was there either teaching a workshop or as part of an open studio residency. I exhibited my first installation of them at the Tovin Gallery in Nyack in 2011. Over the past eight years, I have created several reconfigured, different installations, of river teeth at other venues.
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Was your studio at Garnerville damaged by the floods after Hurricane Irene?
No, my studio on the second floor of my building was not damaged, but the impact was felt. Images of water rushing through the complex from Minisceongo Creek overflowing were shocking and meant damage for so many tenants there—loss of equipment, of artwork, of work space, of the gallery. For two months, we had no water or heat. Even if we didn't know all those affected, it had a huge influence on the community and that historic site. We wondered if flooding could happen again, if Garner could bounce back. There was a sense of loss.
Did you acquire any material for your work from that flood?
When water was released upstream from Harriman Park, debris from higher up the creek jammed up the flow, causing damage below. By the time it surged through the Garner complex, this debris was crashing against the old brick walls and buildings. Before that, I had molded gut (skin membrane) over a 19th century elevator door that had been saved and attached to the outside wall in Brick Alley. I loved that door and wanted to pick up (transfer onto the gut) the memory of the rust marks, making reference to the history of Garner. I created a piece I called "Calicoed by Rust", thinking of the rust marks almost like small printed designs as on the calico the factory made. After the hurricane, after the damage—even though that elevator door survived, I felt the piece needed to reflect what had happened with water pouring through that narrow alleyway. On top of the calicoed surface, I added layers of molded shapes of rusty railroad plates, for holding down railroad ties—as heavy metal had come loose and floated down the creek. I didn't literally acquire those railroad plates from the flood, but what I did with them made reference to the flood damage, changing that place forever. I entitled the reworked piece, "Downriver Ravages"
What are some of the other seen and unseen natural forces that shape your work?
I think about "life force" and the miracle of bodies working mostly as well as they do. When I first saw a gut parka from Alaska, made of seal or walrus intestine, I found the idea of the translucent membrane beautiful, transformed into a wearable, protective outer waterproof garment. I became interested in that which is unseen, in the interior of a body, that it can become seen, given new life. I wanted to experiment with skin membrane that might be accessible to me. I started exploring what I might do with sausage casings (hog casings) which I now get from http://www.sausagemaker.com A lot of my work addresses the fragility of life, bringing ideas of life and death together with the use of this skin membrane. In covering river teeth with skin membrane, I take that which is inside a tree, invisible from the outside—the river tooth which is holding a branch to the tree trunk—and make it visible, combining the unseen from the plant world with the unseen from the animal world, bringing them together, making both visible. My father was a butcher. As a child growing up in small town in rural CO, I had trouble watching dad butcher animals for relatives who raised cattle. Perhaps the idea of giving another chance for life grew out of those childhood memories of such family gatherings.
Having lived and taught in Hawaii for 16 years, I remain awed by the force of the volcano on the Big Island and massive flowing lava, resulting in incredible formations in black lava fields. I'm moved by that unseen power and energy when it's made visible, sometimes in horrific, destructive ways. I have not found ways to have this shape my work, as it seems impossible to imitate or duplicate the beauty and power of nature, though designing the monumental entrance gates for the Maui Arts & Cultural Center (1991-1994) and working with the foundry at the University of Tasmania, is the closest I've come to fire and molten metal in casting.
In addition to Updike's quote about the "volumes of the unexpressed," that you shared at the Nyack Center Pecha Kucha event in 2016, who are some of the artists that inspire you?
At the University of CA, Berkeley, where I did my graduate work, I was fortunate to study with and have as mentors: Ed Rossbach and Lillian Elliott. They and their work had an impact on my thinking, my way of working. I also consider Katherine Westphal a mentor.
I'm inspired by the work of Ann Hamilton, Doris Salcedo, Kimsooja, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Sonya Clark, Joyce Scott, Jim Bassler, etc. The list could go on much longer.
What are some of the places that inspire you?
Where I live by the Hudson. Istanbul (on the Bosphorus) and Cappadocia in Turkey; the Big Island of Hawaii, the Northern CA coast, the Maine woods AND cities and museums almost everywhere.
What are some of the materials that inspire you?
I come out of a textile tradition and respond to the expressiveness of cloth, of fibrous materials, of flexible linear materials, of making something out of seemingly nothing, of forgiving materials. I use natural materials, reeds and branches, found materials, rusted materials, paper—that which speaks of time and memory, of materials which feel close to life. I create structure out of stiff materials which I can manipulate, sometimes covering structures with skin membrane. I find materials which express what I'm trying to say in my artwork.
who are some of the people that inspire you?
James Baldwin, Nelson Mandela, Jacinda Ardern
In addition to termites, who are some of your other collaborators?
I consider "Ripples", a piece I created with found or gifted dead geckoes in Hawaii, to be in collaboration with them, with their tiny life-like gestural bodies which I stitched around and which led to the shape and meaning of the work. And yes, responding to the work of termites, I have created a couple of pieces responding to their creations—to the beauty of chewed lace-like wooden beams (above piece is entitled "Hunger") or to a mound I found termites had made in the bush in Australia. I had a long term eleven year artistic collaboration in the '80s & early '90s with Lillian Elliott, a mentor and colleague in Berkeley, CA. We exhibited collaborative work for those many years but always did our own individual work during that time, sharing a studio. I sometimes now collaborate with David Bacharach, an artist in Baltimore, who creates structures in metal which I cover with skin membrane, each bringing our own materials and way of working to the artwork.
You've referenced Hawaiian and Alaskan myths and practices in your work, could you describe those two and a few others cultures that inspire you?
In Hawaii, from native Hawaiian students and others, especially from the Pacific Islands, I came to understand a deep connection to the living earth, and all that is on it—knowledge that has been understood by indigenous peoples from the beginning—but I had not experienced it or taken it in, as much as I did the years I lived and taught at the University of Hawaii. I became much more aware of non Western ways of thinking, realizing how my own perspective was from a Western point of view, from Western based education central to my view of the world. I saw first hand what damage colonization had done in Hawaii and the complicated history of that place, still burdened by tourist stereotypes of "paradise" and needing to believe a place like Hawaii exists. I learned a lot by living there.
Over several summers, I taught workshops in Alaska at the University of AK Fairbanks. For the San Francisco Craft & Folk Art Museum, I guest curated an exhibition "Innerskins/Outerskins: Gut and Fishskin", borrowing objects from provincial museums in AK. Through my research for that exhibit and catalogue, I gained a keen sense of respect native Alaskans have for other animals, for example when seals gave their lives to a community, Yu'piks saved and inflated the bladders from those animals and ceremoniously offered them back to the sea as a thank you for those animals who had given their lives to sustain the life of the community.
I am fortunate to have lived in Turkey for seven years, going there originally to teach in a Turkish Girl's school. I became very interested in the language of communication, silent communication among women, understood from the edging on their headscarves—needlelace edging in tiny shapes—which conveyed innermost feelings of the wearer. For example, edging a woman wore could say that she was pregnant, that she was arguing with her husband, that her son was going to the army, etc. Meaning could be communicated through barely visible 3 dimensional minuscule net-like structures.
Artwork by Pat Hickman in her studio .
I have taught textile history and world textiles, believing that to be the core foundation for any program in Art in the Fiber Medium. There are cultures in so many places in the world that I/we learned from. Through their textiles and what was conveyed in others' making and the role their work played in their own lives, I believe there are strong connections to the present.
What are some of the things on your current to do list?
I am a list maker, have daily lists, things that get checked off, things that get moved to the next day's list. I actually have saved and used those lists as art materials. I still save them. The black crossed off lines remind me of running stitches, lists become almost like a daily log, a diary of comings and goings throughout a day—a plan of what "to do". Not always urgent, just how I think through what I might do each day. It's a mark making habit—black/white pattern on a little notepad, pages then tucked away, for something that might come in the future. Mostly to anyone else, these appear as scraps of paper to be thrown away. I see them as "pure potential", waiting to see what's next. This phase of my life is about seeing what I can do with my time in my artwork, in the studio, in relationships with family and friends, finding my way in a place that still seems new to me, traveling, going into the City as an adventure, experiencing new things, new places, new people. Even though those don't get put down on a "to do" list, that's what is there, unwritten.
Are there more peoples and places that you wish to learn from?
Yes, always, wherever I go, whenever I have the opportunity to experience something new.
I have a solo exhibit opening May 3 at Buster Levi Gallery in Cold Spring.I have a residency scheduled for two weeks in July in Monson, Maine. I'm going, not knowing what I'll do there but want to use that time to find the next direction, possibly new materials, just to see what will happen when I have uninterrupted time, without the distractions of daily life. Even though that's a bit scary, I trust something will happen with this gift of time.
Pat Hickman: Floodlines: Water Rises is on display at the Lagstein Gallery until May 13. Founded by painter Ray Lagstein in 2014, the contemporary art gallery is located at 85 South Broadway. For more information visit lagsteingallery.com
Bill Batson is an activist, artist and writer who lives and sketch logs in Nyack, NY. Nyack Sketch Log: "Pat Hickman's River Teeth" © 2019 Bill Batson. To see more, visit billbatsonarts.com


You Raise Me Up by Arjun Hemmady is Leadstart Publishing book. In this book, the author has expressed his thoughts in a way too simple way.
Blurb : Aalok Sharma, a 27-year-old, chartered accountant, meets the vivacious and beautiful Priyanka Mehra, on a flight from Delhi to Mumbai. They are instantly attracted to each other, though completely opposite in nature. However, something is holding Aalok back. Will this thing throw a spanner in his love story? Or will he be able to overcome his demons?
Cover and Title: The cover is again simple and doesn't convey much. Maybe it suits the theme but it fails to grab attention of the readers, so those who judge the book by its cover, might not like it. The title is YOu Raise ME Up. It surely gives us no idea to what the author wants to convey so here, the readers want to grab this fat book and read it.
Plot : Again the plot is easy to predict and it revolves around Aalok Sharma and Priyanka Mehra. They happens to be from different backgrounds and cross their paths on a journey. Something click between them but the dark past of Aalok stops him back to make any move. This book about that dark past and how these too realise each other's worth.
Remarks: The blurb is simple and I feel it could have been presented in a more innovative way. Coming to the plot, it reminds me of a situation of Aniket and Nidhi from Preeti Shenoy's It's All in the Planets. The way Arjun's characters meet are just way too relatable to Preeti's characters. Further, the predictability of the book makes it a turn off. I really liked the way the characters are delineated. The structure of the novel into three parts makes it quick and easy read. The writing style is again simple and condensed. I feel that surprise element seems missing in the book. The book could have been much better as it had that spark in it.


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Q: probability of having linearly independent sparse vectors over finite fields Suppose that there are $i< N$ linearly independent $N$-dimensional vectors $\mathbf{v}_1,\mathbf{v}_2,\ldots,\mathbf{v}_i$ over a finite field $\mathbb{F}_q$, whose elements are denoted as $\{0,1,2,\ldots,q-1\}$. Each vector consists of exactly $m$ nonzero elements uniformly randomly chosen from $\{1,2,\ldots,q-1\}$, $m\ll N$. The nonzero coordinates of each vector are randomly located.
Now the question is, given a new such random $N$-dimensional vector $\mathbf{v}_{i+1}$, what is the probability that it is linearly independent with the previous $i$ vectors?
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A: These are some preliminary thoughts that are too long for a comment.
An equivalent question is: How many vectors with exactly $m$ nonzero entries are in the subspace generated by the first $i$ vectors? Then one just divides by $(q-1)^m\left(\begin{array}{c}N \\ m \end{array}\right)$ to get the probability. A naive guess is $\frac{(q-1)^m}{q^{N-i}} \left(\begin{array}{c}N \\ m \end{array}\right)$. A trivial lower bound is $i (q-1)$. A trivial upper bound is $q^i-1$.
I would guess that, as long as $m$ is reasonably large, for small $i$ the trivial lower bound is approximately correct, and for larger $i$ the naive guess is correct. All in all, the problem behaves very differently depending on the relative sizes of $i$, $m$, $N$, and, to a lesser extent, $q$. What regimes are you most interested in?
When $m$ is very small, we get some interesting behavior. For $m=1$, we can exactly compute the probability of linear independence - it is $(1-1/N)^{i}$. For $m=2$, we can see the $N$ elements as vertices of a graph and the $i$ vectors as edges. Then our new vector can be linearly dependent only if the two nonzero coordinates are connected to each other, or both connected to cycles. I think one can get accurate formulas without too much difficulty this way.
When the probability of a linear dependence among the $i$ vectors is sufficiently small, a good upper bound is provided by counting the expected number of ways to write a new vector as the sum of old vectors. One can write this a a sum over different ways to write a new vector as a sum of old ones, and try to find the largest terms. In particular for small $i$ I think only a couple of ways of writing a new vector as a sum of old ones will be dominant - most vectors of length $m$ that are sums of vectors of length $m$ will be sums of only $1$ or $2$ or $3$ vectors of length $m$. Then you would get a sequence of increasingly exact formulas.
The most important question is really how $i,m,$ and $N$ relate to each other. The problem is really very different for different values of that.

A: You might wanna take a look at the following papers by Calkin:

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*Dependent sets of constant weight binary vectors

*Dependent sets of constant weight vectors in GF(q)

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As part of her day job, Executive Coach Gali Bloch Liran helps founders, CEOs, and investors develop the right skills and mentality. Her podcast takes us through the roller coaster of vulnerability, humanity, and the personalities of these "top dogs" of business and tech...
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Being a founder, not to mention a CEO, can be a very lonely place, carrying loads of stress and required to constantly be at peak performance. This often makes it hard to find balance between one's professional and personal life. Maintaining strong relationships with the co-founders and investors, is also not an easy task, where clarity and empathy are not always present. As one of my entrepreneurs says: "It's not the technological challenge we deal with, it's the mental one".
"Throughout my +15 years as a professional, I've always been attracted to the intersection of business and psychology through entrepreneurship - What makes people tick? How do people think and act? And what motivates people in business? What drives me is being there for the amazing entrepreneurs, who are under constant pressure, so that they can make our world a better place. That's what I'm here for, and this is my podcast – The Human Founder."
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Omer's family was involved in a major car accident when he was a young boy. His mother, who was a ballet dancer and owned a studio, never went back to her bar, and his sister was seriously injured. It took them many years to overcome this experience.
Years later - Omer drove his motorcycle, and once done with his ride - he told himself that he was lucky enough to avoid the statistics of 1.3 million people dying on the roads every year and that 80% of car accidents are caused by human error.
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In Unit 81 he spent 2 periods - the 1st one taught him how to be an amazing integrator - to challenge the experts under unbelievable pressure and tight deadlines, so that the only thing that pushes you forward is the strong passion that you derive from what you do, knowing how important it is. Their slogan was: Capability, Passion, Commitment - making the impossible-possible. The 2nd period - he was leading tech projects, the decision maker. What he learned from there - is the power of communication and transparency - a culture he brings into Innoviz, creating trust and making everyone approachable.
Finishing up coffee and a chat with the CEO & co-founder @Innoviz, Omer Keilaf
Omer shared the way he sees a 1st time experience - when your eyes are fresh, you feel confident, ask questions, make your voice heards and not necessarily take things as they are - that's where you have an impact and can lead to a healthy change.
As team leaders - you have to educate and explain things - that's where you learn as well. Omer earns his points when he is able to share something new he has learned. His job as a CEO is to learn new things>>see the blind spots>>solve problems and>>connect the dots. Not to spend time in meetings.
Omer, 2*Orens, and the whole Innoviz Team are on a very important mission, committed to save lives. You can feel it from Omer's vibe when he speaks about what they do and the problem they are solving. Omer shows honest, mindful, empowering and humble leadership, wrapped in a very calm and balanced personality.
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Q: Why do I get a gray background for item when i addView for ViewGroup when keep space keylistener? When i keep key listener for this view
edit_text.setOnKeyListener(keyListener)

Space key code
KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE -> {
    if (listener != null && event.action == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        val text = edit_text.text
        if (text.isEmpty()) {
            return@OnKeyListener false
        }
        val startSelection = edit_text.selectionStart
        val endSelection = edit_text.selectionEnd

        if (startSelection < 0 || endSelection < 0) {
            return@OnKeyListener false
        }

        if (endSelection == startSelection) {
            val urlSpan = text.getSpans(0, startSelection, EditorUrlSpan::class.java)
            if (urlSpan?.isNotEmpty() == true) {
                val firstUrlSpan = urlSpan[0]
                val lastUrlSpan = urlSpan[urlSpan.size - 1]

                val firstStartIndex = text.getSpanStart(firstUrlSpan)
                val firstEndIndex = text.getSpanEnd(firstUrlSpan)
                val lastStartIndex = text.getSpanStart(lastUrlSpan)
                val lastEndIndex = text.getSpanEnd(lastUrlSpan)

                val character = when {
                    firstEndIndex < lastStartIndex -> text.subSequence(firstEndIndex, lastStartIndex)
                    firstStartIndex == lastStartIndex && firstEndIndex == lastEndIndex -> " "
                    else -> ""
                }
                when {
                    firstStartIndex == 0 && lastEndIndex >= endSelection && character == " " -> {
                        text.delete(lastStartIndex, lastEndIndex)
                        setText(text)
                        setSelection(length())
                        listener?.insertLink(this@KoalaEditTextView, lastUrlSpan.mLinkData.apply {
                            this.linkTitle = this.linkTitle?.replace("$href ", "")
                        })
                        return@OnKeyListener true
                    }

                    lastUrlSpan.mLinkData.linkTitle.isNullOrEmpty() -> {
                        sendParseUrlMessage(lastStartIndex, lastEndIndex, lastUrlSpan.mLinkData.linkUrl)
                        return@OnKeyListener true
                    }
                }

            }
        }
    }
    false
}

End key code
KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER -> {
    if (listener != null && event.action == KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN) {
        if (section == SECTION_NULL) {
            if (!quote) {
                listener!!.pressEnter(this@KoalaEditTextView)
                return@OnKeyListener true
            } else {
                val text = edit_text.text
                if (text.isEmpty()) {
                    setText("")
                    listener!!.pressEnter(this@KoalaEditTextView)
                    return@OnKeyListener true
                } else if (edit_text.selectionEnd == text.length && text.toString()[text.length - 1] == '\n') {
                    setText(text.subSequence(0, text.toString().length - 1))
                    setSelection(edit_text.length())
                    listener!!.pressEnter(this@KoalaEditTextView)
                    return@OnKeyListener true
                }
                if (edit_text.selectionStart == edit_text.selectionEnd && edit_text.selectionStart == 1
                    && text.toString()[0] == '\n') {
                    setText(text.subSequence(1, text.length))
                    listener!!.insertEdit(this@KoalaEditTextView)
                    return@OnKeyListener true
                }
            }
        } else {
            if (edit_text.text.toString().trim { it <= ' ' }.isEmpty()) {
                cleanSection(this@KoalaEditTextView)
                resetPosition()
                return@OnKeyListener true
            } else {
                listener!!.pressEnter(this@KoalaEditTextView)
                return@OnKeyListener true
            }
        }
        return@OnKeyListener false
    }
    true
}

and listener insertLink and pressEnter
override fun insertLink(v: KoalaEditTextView, linkData: LinkData) {
    val index = container.indexOfChild(v)
    val linkView = KoalaLinkView(context, linkData)
    linkView.setOnLinkClickListener(itemLinkListener)
    val lpCard = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
    container.addView(linkView, index + 1, lpCard)
    linkView.requestFocus()
    linkView.post {
        linkView.link_right_area.requestFocus()
        linkView.link_right_area.performClick()
    }
}

override fun pressEnter(v: KoalaEditTextView) {
    var leftSelectionText: CharSequence
    var rightSelectionText: CharSequence
    val index = container.indexOfChild(v)
    val startSelection = v.selectionStart
    val endSelection = v.selectionStart
    val txt = SpannableStringBuilder(v.obtainText())
    if (startSelection < v.length()) {
        leftSelectionText = txt.subSequence(0, if (startSelection > -1) {
            startSelection
        } else {
            0
        })
        rightSelectionText = txt.subSequence(if (startSelection > -1) {
            startSelection
        } else {
            0
        }, v.length())
    } else {
        leftSelectionText = txt
        rightSelectionText = ""
    }

    val urlSpan = txt.getSpans(0, startSelection, KoalaEditTextView.Companion.EditorUrlSpan::class.java)
    if (urlSpan?.isNotEmpty() == true) {
        val firstUrlSpan = urlSpan[0]
        val lastUrlSpan = urlSpan[urlSpan.size - 1]

        val firstStartIndex = txt.getSpanStart(firstUrlSpan)
        val firstEndIndex = txt.getSpanEnd(firstUrlSpan)
        val lastStartIndex = txt.getSpanStart(lastUrlSpan)
        val lastEndIndex = txt.getSpanEnd(lastUrlSpan)

        val character = when {
            firstEndIndex < lastStartIndex -> txt.subSequence(firstEndIndex, lastStartIndex)
            firstStartIndex == lastStartIndex && firstEndIndex == lastEndIndex -> "\n"
            else -> ""
        }
        when {
            firstStartIndex == 0 && startSelection > 0 && lastEndIndex >= endSelection && character == "\n" -> {
                txt.delete(lastStartIndex, lastEndIndex)
                v.setText(txt)
                v.setSelection(v.length())
                insertLink(v, lastUrlSpan.mLinkData.apply {
                    this.linkTitle = this.linkTitle?.replace("$href ", "")
                })
                return
            }

            lastUrlSpan.mLinkData.linkTitle.isNullOrEmpty() -> {
                v.sendParseUrlMessage(lastStartIndex, lastEndIndex, lastUrlSpan.mLinkData.linkUrl)
                return
            }

            endSelection > -1 && lastEndIndex > endSelection -> {
                leftSelectionText = txt.subSequence(0, lastStartIndex)
                rightSelectionText = txt.subSequence(lastStartIndex, v.length())
            }
        }
    }

    v.setText(leftSelectionText)
    val editTextView = KoalaEditTextView(context, this, menuStatusListener, contentListener)
    val lp = LinearLayout.LayoutParams(ViewGroup.LayoutParams.MATCH_PARENT, ViewGroup.LayoutParams.WRAP_CONTENT)
    container.addView(editTextView, index + 1, lp)
    editTextView.setText(rightSelectionText)
    editTextView.requestFocus()
    editTextView.setSelection(0)
    if (v.obtainSection() == SECTION_NUMBER) {
        editTextView.setNumberSection(editTextView)
    } else if (v.obtainSection() == SECTION_DOT) {
        editTextView.setDotSection(editTextView)
    }
    editTextView.resetPosition()
    setHint()
}

something has happend when i press space and enter, the code has called
add view for space key
add view for enter key
called the same code, and space key got a gray bg, the enter key is not
the gray background
How to solve this? Thank you!

A: now, i solved it by look android source code for InputMethodService.class
in my code ,i has implemented InputConnectionWrapper to override commitText for this code
 override fun commitText(text: CharSequence?, newCursorPosition: Int): Boolean {
            return when {
                text?.toString() == "\n" -> sendDownUpKeyEvents(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_ENTER)
                text?.toString() == " " -> sendDownUpKeyEvents(KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE)
                else -> super.commitText(text, newCursorPosition)
            }
        }

        private fun sendDownUpKeyEvents(keyCode: Int): Boolean {
            val eventTime = SystemClock.uptimeMillis()
            return sendKeyEvent(KeyEvent(eventTime, eventTime,
                KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, keyCode, 0, 0, KeyCharacterMap.VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD, 0,
                KeyEvent.FLAG_SOFT_KEYBOARD or KeyEvent.FLAG_KEEP_TOUCH_MODE))
                && sendKeyEvent(KeyEvent(eventTime, eventTime,
                KeyEvent.ACTION_UP, keyCode, 0, 0, KeyCharacterMap.VIRTUAL_KEYBOARD, 0,
                KeyEvent.FLAG_SOFT_KEYBOARD or KeyEvent.FLAG_KEEP_TOUCH_MODE))
        }

something happend in there sendDownUpKeyEvents,this bug is happend where i used

text?.toString() == " " -> sendKeyEvent(KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_DOWN, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE))
                          && sendKeyEvent(KeyEvent(KeyEvent.ACTION_UP, KeyEvent.KEYCODE_SPACE))

i read the reasons for KeyEvent.class constructor params in flags
the KeyEvent.FLAG_KEEP_TOUCH_MODE is more important for this bug!


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The ACLU of North Carolina works to ensure that all eligible voters have an opportunity to cast a ballot that counts. Through litigation, advocacy, and lobbying we challenge laws that seek to suppress or dilute the votes of different communities and work to uphold the promise of the Voting Rights Act by fighting attempts to restrict voting opportunities for communities of color.
In 2016, a lawsuit from the ACLU and other groups led a federal court to block a range of suppressive voting restrictions -- including voter ID and the elimination of same-day registration, out-of-precinct voting, and a week of early voting -- from going into effect for the November 2016 election. The court found that North Carolina's law was enacted "with discriminatory intent" and targeted African-American voters with "almost surgical precision."
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A Nation in Mourning
The King's body being taken to the Grand Palace
A little over two weeks ago, His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, King Rama IX, died after many years of illness, and after seventy years as ruler of the Kingdom of Thailand. He was the world's longest reigning monarch and is now followed in that title by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom – but unlike her he assumed a throne of a very, very young constitutional monarchy.
Until 1932 Thailand was an absolute monarchy. The king ruled. And that was it.
But in 1932 His Majesty King Rama VII signed a new constitution that changed Thailand from an absolute monarchy to a democratic constitutional monarchy – much like the monarchies in the UK, Holland and many other European countries – but only eighty or so years ago, so the democratic state of Thailand is just eighty years old.
I dislike those who criticise Thailand or its military coups or political troubles over the last eighty years as it struggles to become a modern democratic nation. The United Kingdom – so-called birthplace of democracy – has seen civil wars, executions of monarchs, scandalous divorces and remarriages of members of the royal family – but thanks to the long-reigning monarchy of Elizabeth II, the nation continues to be strong and draws its strength from many centuries of history and tradition.
The USA has had two hundred years of democracy and now produces as a Presidential possibility Donald Trump. Words – or emoticons – fail me here.
It is said that a week is a long time in politics. Eighty years in Thailand is thus a very very long time.
His Majesty was born in the USA in 1927 and became King of Thailand at the age of nineteen after the unexplained death in 1946 of his elder – and much loved – brother, King Ananda Mahidol, Rama VIII. Bhumibol Adulyadej was crowned King in 1950. He is survived by his wife, Queen Sirikit, and his four children: Princess Ubolratana, Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn, Crown Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, and Princess Chulabhorn.
In 1972 His Majesty confirmed that his son, HRH Maha Vajiralongkorn, would be his successor, and last week the Prime Minister confirmed that the Crown Prince will succeed His Majesty.
During his seventy-year reign, King Bhumibol was served by some thirty Prime Ministers, of whom the most recent and current is former army general HE Prayut Chan-o-cha. General Prayut became PM following the army coup in 2014 and many Thais and many non-Thais consider him to be an excellent and stabilising influence on the Kingdom as it moves forward from the troubled Red Shirt / Yellow Shirt / Thaksin / Yingluk times of recent years, and forges its way ahead with a new constitution (the draft was approved by 61% in a recent referendum), a new style of government and a new monarch.
The government has declared a twelve-month period of official mourning for the death of His Majesty, with his cremation likely to take place in late-2017 once proper arrangements have been made for this important event, and with HRH the Crown Princess in charge of arrangements for the funeral pyre. Long delays between cremations – and coronations – is not unusual in the Kingdom, as so many traditional and Buddhist diktats have to be observed.
While the Crown Prince has asked the Kingdom for time to mourn the death of his father, it is likely that he will be pronounced the new king quite soon, although his official coronation is unlikely to take place until the year-long period of mourning is completed. In the interim, ninety-two-year-old and much-revered HE General Prem Tinsulanonda, formerly PM, and formerly President of the Thai Privy Council (and for whom the school where I worked for many years was named) is acting as Regent.
In the meantime, what is happening here?
There has been a severe crackdown on any websites that may be deemed disloyal to the royal family, as Thailand has strict lèse majesté rules, and as we enter what may be troublesome times. The man who is to become the new king is not well-known to most foreigners as he has spent some years living in Europe, but he was a central and supportive focus in the funerary observations following the King's death two weeks ago. He was also accompanied or assisted on many occasions by his sister, the Crown Princess, a constant supporter and assistant to their father the king during his many years of travelling and working in the remote areas of Thailand.
Hundreds of thousands have visited the Grand Palace in Bangkok, where HM's body is lying in state. Humble food vendors are offering free snacks and there is a huge logistics operation in place to serve and transport and accommodate those who wish to pay respect to the late King. Bangkok – and the whole of Thailand – has turned black as people don black (or white or grey) clothes in mourning and as government buildings and schools and many private offices drape black and white bunting along their fences, and with black and white devotional shrines to His Majesty and condolence books for passers-by to sign. Some of these are quite simple but others – such as the one in Central Chidlom department store – are superb displays of florists' art with massed white chrysanthemums and white orchids interspersed with flickering candles and festoons of black and white drapery focusing attention on His Majesty's portrait as centrepiece of the display.
I saw a young man at the service station where I filled my car today. He had had his hair cut in a very clever way with long and short patches very effectively showing a ghostly portrait of the king. Many others are having the king's portrait tattooed on their bodies to show that they feel part of this important man's reign.
Most people – even the Chinese tourists! – are wearing black or white or grey clothing, but there have been reports that market and stall holders have boosted their prices by up to 300% for "official" black garments. I have just come back from a few days in Bangkok, where virtually everyone in the trains, on the streets and in stores is in black. There is a stylish – and very nice T-shirt I hope to buy: a simple black shirt with a "9" in the Thai script on the front. King Bhumibol was our last king – Rama IX.
Many public events and television or radio shows have been cancelled or deferred. We have an official twelve-month period of mourning, and an interim thirty-day period of strict mourning. I went to a superb concert on the day of HM's death – at the end of which his death was announced – and the subsequent concerts and competitions of the international music festival were cancelled. Many websites' home pages are no longer in colour – simply black and white – and roadside digital advertising screens are no longer blaring out advertisements for Honda motorbikes, but are showing quiet and sedate images of His Majesty's life. The Bangkok Post has just republished an eight part special spread celebrating the eight decades of the king's life and a new book is due to be published this weekend.
King Bhumibol was an exceptional monarch who – although having no executive powers – achieved so much and gave so much to the people of Thailand.
His reign covered many fields and he will be remembered for the Royal Projects (designed at least in part to give opium farmers better and safer and more rewarding crops to grow), the "monkey cheek" plans to help manage Central Thailand's annual floods, the 30:30:30:10 ratio for subsistence farmers (30% for water catchment, 30% for rice production, 30% for orchards, herb and vegetable gardens, 10% for buildings and roads) and for his music and even for his inventions: he designed and patented a simple water aerator which subsequently won numerous awards.
Possibly a fitting final statement was spoken by Marc Antony in Act III of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar:
He's left you all his walkways — in his private gardens and newly planted orchards — on this side of the Tiber River. He's left them to you and to your heirs forever — public pleasures in which you will be able to stroll and relax. Here was a Caesar! When will there be another like him?
Events: October 2016
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7 thoughts on "A Nation in Mourning"
Thanks for sharing that with us all Chris
Chris, you have given me such a wonderful insight – thank you. Your words are supportive and heartfelt and an honest account. Your adopted country needs to heal xxx
Beautifully written, Chris
Darcy Tronson says:
Thanks, Chris. Very informative – – Darcy T
Thanks Darcy – a sad time indeed – and I am tempted to compare the nation's grief with the emotions felt in 1997 after Princess Di's death.
Pip says:
Many thanks, Chris. Truly informative for those like me who knew so little about this monarch.
Thanks Pip
HM was indeed a formidable presence in this land and we wonder what will happen now he is no longer here to act as a strong and moderate leader. In your many travels you really should come here and experience the wonderful Thai lifestyle and learn about a democracy in the formative stages of its life


Ministering to elderly and sick nursing homes residents with Pee-Wee.
Note to Readers: My journaling of my battle with Dystonia-TMJ is to bring awareness to friends l loved ones in the hopes of giving more help, compassion and understanding to our deficiencies. I also hope doctors and medical personnel can understand the various areas of our lives that are restricted and inhibit by inability to administer to our former duties, responsibilities and personal creative endeavors. These journal entries and (medical personnel involved) . Our symptoms may even affect our judgement and/or mental-emotional prowess before we had our condition. The utmost patience and compassion is needed for us to be contributors to our father's kingdom. May our prayers, not just for Dystonia, Alzheimer, Dementia ( or any other victim of a health disorder,) not just be for our immediate healing, (so we don't have to be inconvenienced) but to teach us patience and forbearance.
Just woke up to another overcast day, promising more rain. I don't complain because many states are in a water crisis. My vegetable garden is flourishing, but the barometer and humidity has wrecked havoc with my jaw joints. When atmospheric pressure changes, my neck muscles, nerves and jaws go berserk, making it almost impossible to accomplish any thing with merit. It's going on two weeks trying to get together two of my best story to send to Guidepost inspirational magazine. I'm also waiting to get motivated to send m art package to a greeting card company here in Paterson, NJ.
Each day is different in this season of TMJ Dystonia in regards to what I'm able to accomplish, but it's always the same regarding my determination to receive my miracle manifestation of healing. God has still not answered my question regarding what purpose this tormenting condition persists. At times my flesh reminds me that it's going on nine years and if God had a great plan for me, how could He be so cruel to allow it to linger and so curtail my vivaciousness and productivity. I remind myself that Abba is a good God and everything He gives is wonderful and needful to His children. One thing I know for sure ..that His ways are perfect and He does know how much I'm suffering. Satan's plan is always to ambush our minds and barrage us with a continual spray of doubting questions, physical pain and our focus of it.
At times when I have a moment of peace, such as when I'm pulling acorn seedlings in my yard, I feel His gentle presence. Oddly, my muscles rest and my jaw is calm. My jaw and throat also seem to get calmer while I'm focusing on my fine bead work. But mostly, I'm groaning in agony as I press forward, (much like pushing through a tropical impenetrable forest), through each hour to make it to bedtime. Here is where I rely on Father's strength each day for sanity! When the neck spasms get so bad that I fall on the floor and writhe in pain, I can't bare to be alive. Here is where I have to take captive that demonic spirit of suicide, death and insanity. I can't explain to anyone except someone enduring daily pain on a scale of 8 or nine every waking moment of their lives.
After these many years, I deal with the grief of losing a good chunk of my life. A dark season of nine years is a lot. I know brother Joseph, in the Bible, had to bear thirteen years of incarceration, but having a agonizing and distracting bodily condition is a whole new ball game. The most painful thing for me is deducing my relationship with Father, Jesus and Holy Spirit. I've always believed that valid and thriving relationship with the Lord had to be true and breath-takingly reverent. My prayer times are anything but reverential There's a whole lot of shaking and jerking going on, hardly my idea of anything pleasing to God! My focused prayer and devotions to Him are at best , sporadic. (I'm just being transparent with you). I often go in to prayer expecting the outcome to be detached and superficial because mostly… I weep through the whole time! Whew. Imagine struggling through your talking to father God?
Maybe tomorrow, I will have no more spasms and I can joyfully never and praise him. This is the uncharted waters that the Bible doesn't address, so I have to contend with disgust of my inability to give Father my best and to even give Him His proper due.
The other devastating thing i that doctors I've seen have no idea where to even start for a treatment program. They look at me in surprise and apologize that there is nothing they can do. I've been researching and GOOGLING for over six years and have found only a few doctors who specifically treated Dystonia of the mouth and.or upper cervical area. A girl freind messaged me a few weeks ago telling me she also was researching my condition and found a Dr LEE, who has a private practice in South Korea. Many of his Dystonia and TMJ patients were getting successful results with his treatments! I also found a doctor in DE who treated TMJ. Unfortunately, they are very few and far in between in NJ and to travel to other states like the doctor in Teaas would be very costly and inconvenient for my husband to take off work. I continue to ask and pray whether father wants me to wait for His divine supernatural creative miracle for my jaw or travel to a TMJ physician. Father be merciful to us who are suffering.
Dr Lee's practice and You-Tube link.
July 4th was spent praying for a breakthrough rest with my jaw and neck spasms. The day was already almost half over and I needed to express my love for my Heavenly Father. it was so frustrating, picking up my Taylor and just jerking so wildly, I had to lay down. Uselessness and despair threatened to ruin my day, but finally picked up my guitar anyway and started to sing my favorite energetic hymns, like Onward Christian Soldiers. Anyway, I am more than a conqueror!
Fast forward today, brought my Bible, a Max Lucado devotional and Jewel's book, Chasing The Dawn into the bedroom. I prayed that something would awaken my heart and I'd be able to move forward into my day. My eyes fell upon the subtitle of Jewel's book, Melbourne, Australia. I've always dreamed of Australia even as a young girl. Down Under seemed a glorious utopia far away from the chaos and heartache of my present circumstance of my parents plan to divorce. I often dreamed in my bed at night that I would somehow end up there and live a peaceful and creative life!
So Jewel expressed the sensations of her entering the stage to perform her repertoire to her Australian fans. Her writing was so elegant and enticing, making me miss my own performing and composing tenure. I felt a profound sense of loss that I was so far and disconnected to that glorious season of my life. Words cannot describe a performance were the performer "feels" her audience and they feel her. It is an indescribable connection that infuses the artists expression of singing-performing (and doctors have no idea the profound effects that a neurological disorder as Dystonia-TMJ can have on the creativity of a talented singer-composer. This has been a major grief, few realize the extent of loss when a performing artist is unable to perform (and compose) at the high level she was used to. I feel less than human and disconnected that this condition has so disrupted the beautiful overflow of expressing my music-soul.
When I perform before an audience, it's like I gently fall off a trapeze like a leaf I lose all sense of the present, of time and the faces that gaze at me. Father placed me in a I a divine bubble and I'm floating in His love. Everything around me fades into nothingness and all I'm aware of is the holiness (and lightness0 of His presence. This has happened several times. Twice, when I sang at dying persons' deathbed and at a funeral service, where a seer told my husband she saw cherubim dancing joyously around me as I sang my Psalm 91 original. Another recent time, was just last month while singing two of my favorite Hymns His Eye is on the Sparrow and It Is Well at a church concert. . Despite the fact I was miserable and my neck was inflamed with pain and my mouth was moving violently, I grabbed Father's hand and took His strength. No one could have been more surprised than me, when everyone stood up and joined me on the heart-rending chorus, It is Well With My Soul. I knew it was God and God alone who carried me through the song.
A girl, her voice and Guitar, Proclaiming the Love of Christ!
This dark season I'm immersed in is complicated, daunting and bizarre with its untold repercussions. I can't bare to be seen in public because of the embarrassing facial grimaces and my arms and upper shoulder jerking. Even standing in line at the post office for fifteen minutes is main achievement. With these negative symptoms molding me into something no one would want to be, I've learned to make some adjustments. I've long discarded the activity of complaining and have made a lovely habit of making someone's day a little better. If I'm at the grocery store I find something attractive about the person near me and compliment them. I so delights me to see them smile and to make their day by a compliment. The practice of being a blessing to someone is a high point of my day. I refuse to give the enemy any ground or make him think that his attacks on me will sully God's wonderful destiny for me. I want to please my Father by serving and being a blessing no matter how hard it is! I feel sad for mean people because I know that they've not practiced and seen the results of kindness in spite of their physical misery, stressful relationship or mundane life. Persistent acts of kindness and serving cheerfully is evidence of a God-infused lifestyle.
All this being said, I'm reminded of President Abraham Lincoln, One of the greatest presidents who ever lived, who endured and succeeded despite countless failures and disappointments, shut doors and heart-aches. Amazingly, he grabbed the bull by the horn in all his tenacity and audacity…his faith in God almighty. He prevailed, head held high even during one of America's most horrific times, the Civil War. Though I'm not faced with anarchy, riots and the threat of assassination, I still am facing a mountain which shall be moved by my obstinate faith in the God who restores and rewards all things.
Weathering Dystonia, (as president Lincoln faced his own giants) I know that God must have a very important job for me to do in the future and He is preparing and training me for such a time as this. Thankfully, July 5, 20016, we are still in peace here in America and life is somewhat normal. I recently watched a Christian outreach organization, Ezra International outreach who focused their relief efforts on the refugees from cities near Ukraine. Soldiers had all but demolishes the businesses, neighborhoods and banks by bombs and machine gun fire. I couldn't believe my eyes as I gazed at the footage of such devastation. Thousands were killed, there were bodies in the streets and many holocaust survivors were starving and left on their own. America could soon be enduring the same fate and I prayed that God would be merciful to the sick, elderly and young ones. Any of us American citizens could suddenly face the terrible war atrocities as our brethren in war-torn Ukraine and any other middle eastern city!
So… it would behoove me…and everyone to thank God that our country is still somewhat intact and not facing the atrocities and hardships of war and judgment. Maybe for a short time, we are still the land of the free and though my own personal suffering is challenging, t's nowhere near the suffering of people who've had their homes destroyed by bombs and have no where to go to get their next meal.
Dystonia reminds me of the need to be more compassionate, empathetic and giving of my resources to those who have less. Though I'd never wish anyone to endure a condition that robs and diminishes so much of our lives, the blessing in disguise is the awareness and empathy of others sufferings and the motivation to do something about it!


The acquis in Chapter 25 - Science and Research - requires the Member States to ensure the necessary implementing capacities to pursue the Community objectives and activities in the field of research and technological development. This Chapter does not require transposition of EU rules into the national legal order.
The implementing capacity in the context of "Science and Research" chapter is related with the existence of the necessary conditions for the efficient participation of Turkish Research Area to Community Programmes (Framework Programme).
Another important issue is the Turkish Research Area's integration performance to European Research Area. Candidate Countries, under this Chapter, is expected to make progress in terms of integration to European Research Area and in terms of EU's science and research objectives.
25th Chapter - Science and Research - was opened and provisionally closed for negotiation on 12th June 2006.
Science and Research is among the fields of utmost importance in Turkey. The importance given to this field reflects itself in the vast improvements in the field, especially in the last five years. The Turkey is the 5th country when compared to the EU countries, in terms of the rate of increase in the percent allocation from Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to Research and Development between years 2002-2007. The expenditure on R&D nearly tripled in 2008 when compared to 2003. The total expenditure of Turkey in R&D is approximately 7 billion TL in 2008.
The share of business expenditure in the R&D expenditures also rised from %24 in 2003 to %44 in 2008.
Turkey acknowledging the main component of achieving progress in R&D is human component, increased its researchers %107 between 2002 and 2007. Turkey is in the first rank in this increase rate in European level.
More than 57 thematic research centres are established to increase the national science and research capacity till now. These infrastructures are aimed to get integrated with their European counterparts.
Turkey gradually becomes an integral and essential component of European Research Area. Turkey had participated in 5th Framework Programmes (FP5) on a project basis. In FP6, Turkey took the action in the next level and participated in FP6 as an associated country in equal terms with the EU member states (except with the right to vote). Turkey is now participating in FP7 (7th Framework Programmes).
Turkey paid 60 Mio € as a national contribution for the first three years of FP7 and in return 70 Mio € is obtained from the FP7 to the Turkish participants. Approximately, 7.5 Mio € of this amount consists of the funding to the SMEs. In these 3 years approximately 400 project has been participated by Turkish participants (universities, public and private sector). The total amount of budgets in the projects that are participated by Turkish participants constitute a grand sum of 900 Mio €. Next generation technologies, with international consortia's are realised under 7th Framework Programmes and Turkey is an integral part of this programme.


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