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Q: How to add overlays and then export a UIImage? I have a photo editing app that Im currently moving to swift and would like to expand to allow overlays. At present a UIImageView holds the original image and presents on screen, the image is passed through GPUImage to add filters etc.
I would like for the user to add text/images as overlays and then be allowed to move and resize those overlays (like a lot of current photo editing and drawing apps do). I am currently adding them as subviews of the UIImageView and the resizing/moving is not a problem.
Now the question is how do I go about "transferring" those new subviews onto the original image. I was looking at rendering in context but that only creates an image of the same size as the UIImageView dimension. I am looking to add these overlays to the original image thus keeping the original size of the image.
Any advice on the approach would be great thanks.

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Born in Indiana, raised in Florida, Darren has appeared with international recording acts, in Television Series, Films, appeared on Broadway, written two novels and is currently producing and starring in a his third film, THE TERRITORY, which follows on the heels of his previous two films Christmas In Hollywood and Rock and Roll the Movie, both of which he wrote, directed and starred. Dowler is starring in the feature film GRACE OF THE FATHER May of 2015. Dowler also appeared in the blockbusters Hancock with Will Smith and Eagle Eye with Billy Bob Thornton. For ten years Dowler performed with The Lettermen, in which he was inducted into The Vocal Group Hall Of Fame in 2004.
He's sung with The Righteous Brothers, Fifth Dimension, The Jordanaires, The Beach Boys, and many others as well as being the original lead guitarist for The Backstreet Boys. Dowler the author, is working on his third novel, the first being the epic THE WAR OF ANGELS published in 2007. The latter two are to be published soon.
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Discovering the Secrets of "Dream Teams" – Evernote Sits Down with Shane Snow
Forrest Dylan Bryant • May 23, 2018
We've all heard about "dream teams," collections of amazing individuals who somehow become more than the sum of their parts and achieve extraordinary things. History is littered with legendary sports teams, breakthrough businesses, and other groups who overcome impossible odds, but such teams are still incredibly rare. So we celebrate them, mythologize them, and even build pop culture franchises around the dream-team concept (superheroes, anyone?).
But beyond the myths are some questions. Where does synergy come from? What can we learn from the teams that have it? And how can we apply those lessons to our own work? To find out, we asked Shane Snow, author of the new book Dream Teams: Working Together without Falling Apart.
In the latest episode of the Evernote podcast, Shane argues that the teams which overcome the biggest challenges aren't necessarily the ones with all-star talent. Instead, they're groups where a diversity of skills, knowledge, and ways of solving problems come together, harnessing the tension that results in ways that push them into new territory. Shane also shares how he used Evernote throughout the process of writing the book. Listen below or read on for some highlights from our conversation.
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What makes a dream team?
So much of the conventional wisdom is that [building a dream team] is about collaboration, without really thinking about what that means. Just get the best and brightest people together in a room, and structure our offices to make sure that they're all in each other's faces all the time and magic happens, right? But you argue in the book that it's not just about collecting all-star talent.
Right. It turns out that when you look at, say, hockey or basketball, team sports that require lots and lots of coordination in order to win, you look at the data and it shows you that teams that have the best players actually tend to underperform versus teams that just have a couple of best players and then really good collaborators with them.
There has to be some sort of chemistry.
Yes. In the 1970s psychologists did a bunch of studies where they wanted to get at what makes people happiest at work, and what they concluded from these studies is that if you work with people who are very similar to you, having similar personalities, similar values, that you will be happier at work. And over the next 48 years, we conflated being happy at work, being comfortable at work, with success. We assumed that being happy means you will work together better, but it turns out that that's the wrong thing. That's actually not correlated with innovation at all. You can be happy and very innovative or you can be happy and not innovative. Turns out that our ideas around team unity actually tend to hold us back from what really matters, which is combining different ways of thinking so that we can come up with something better.
And so, the result is we have teams that get along really well or that self-select for people who will get along well, who then don't have the dissent that they need to think outside of their own paradigm. They don't have the provocation to think harder, they don't end up being as cognitively engaged on hard problems as they would be if they'd collected different people who would be more likely to not have similar personalities, but more likely to come up with better ideas together. I'm not saying that you can't have a team that's nice, that loves each other, but that is not correlated with success. And more often than not, it's correlated with things that hold you back.
Teams that actually do beat the odds, that add up to way more than the sum of their parts, the ones with the best stats, are the teams with the most interesting combinations of people.
The analogy I like I to use is: you're a movie director, you want to make the next best movie that's uh ever been made, and it's time to cast your actors. Do you take the last 20 people that acted in your last film and apply them to this film? Probably not. Do you pick the actors with the best GPAs, who just applied with their resumes? Probably not. Do you only select actors from Harvard? Probably not. You cast the most interesting combination of people that are going to help you make this groundbreaking film.
The power of discomfort
I think one reason that teams don't seek out different ways of thinking is a natural tendency not to want to rock the boat. We feel like it's easier if everybody's naturally in sync. Doesn't breaking that culture fit that you've established make it harder to work together?
It does, and that's precisely why you can do better. One of the things that happen in companies that try to be thoughtful about adding different kinds of people to the group is they immediately experience fear and conflict. Different people will have different ideas and what happens next is either going to be some sort of a showdown … or they hold back, they start to keep quiet, they participate less, they participate only if it feels like it's safe to. And so what you end up with is a group of people who have fear and conflict, but who gets none of the benefits of that discomfort.
You know, discomfort causes us to think differently, to engage our brains more and in different ways, and this is how we come up with better solutions to problems. So often when we're discussing this idea of diversity, we're only discussing half of it.
And then the second half we often discuss is: how do we make this comfortable for everyone? We have all these different people now, how do we make them comfortable? We want to make them feel safe, but being comfortable is not the point. Being comfortable is actually liable to hold us back. It's possible to have full personal and emotional support and also full intellectual conflict. That I think is the ideal. But we tie those two things too closely together.
Some of the other folks who've appeared on this podcast have spoken about a "discomfort zone" — the notion that we make the best progress when we push ourselves beyond our comfort zone. But we don't want to go so far that we set ourselves up for failure. Throughout the book, you talk a lot about the potential energy that is unleashed by tension, and you use this metaphor of the rubber band.
You can chart the amount of potential that a group or relationship has between them, and the more tension between their different ways of thinking or approaching problems, the more potential energy there is. It's almost like a skateboard ramp. On one end, there's kind of very little potential because there's very little tension, and it goes up and up and up. But at a certain point, there's so much tension that the dynamic turns into a destructive one.
Often this is where a group is working on foiling each other rather than solving problems together. But the goal is to stay in that zone where there's as much potential as possible, and that's the place where there's most tension. So our challenge is to keep our relationships, our conversations, our debates, our exercises and problem-solving in that area where we have the most potential. You want to keep the rubber band stretched tight because it has all this energy, but we don't want to turn it on each other and shoot each other with it.
Banding together
I'm reminded a little bit of the science fiction trope where the thing that finally gets humans to stop killing each other is when the external threat appears, right? The killer asteroid or the alien space fleet lands and then we suddenly realize "Oh, we're more alike than different; let's go fight that other thing." Is this what teams need? To rally around a big challenge?
This is what psychologists call a superordinate goal, a goal that supersedes all other goals. An existential threat is a really good way to get a superordinate goal, 'cause we all want to survive. But, you know, if you're working in a business — say you're working in a software company — the superordinate goal is kind of hard to find. We all have different goals. It's hard to say "if you don't do this, you'll die" and for people to believe it. It's hard to manufacture that. But it is possible to simulate that and this is where, I think, an overriding purpose is very helpful. There are a lot of great groups in history that were very different, did not necessarily believe in all the same things, but did have one overriding purpose were able to come together and use that as a way to bond.
The trouble we get into is we think that our beliefs have to be the same in order for us to do that, and that's not the case. But our purpose of what we're striving for, if it's powerful enough, can be that. And the thing that happens is when you have this really strong superordinate goal, this shared purpose, you start to do what they call an optimal distinction: you want to be different, you want to have your identity, but you start to respect the fact that your distinctions can be useful to this purpose and other peoples' distinctions can be useful to this purpose too. And in the right environment, it allows you to see yourself as part of one big group, but also part of your own group, which is sort of important to us psychologically.
I think that the best analogy is a great family. A family that is really powerful, that is really strong, is the family that no matter what the kids decide to do with their lives, no matter who leaves home, the family is the important thing.
It's hard to get to that point in a group that's working on something that doesn't matter that much, you know? But you can see how things that you are working on can translate into something that people care about more. You're building buildings but you're actually providing a place for people to live and for families. People that care about that thing, that's who you want on your team and then they can be different and distinct, and it's okay.
So it's not just about the thing that you're doing, it's about why you're doing that thing and who can you find who can resonate with, understand, and act on that reason?
And not forcing people to care about that thing, but finding people who do care about that thing no matter how different they are.
Going to the edge
Often when we're thinking about breakthrough ideas, you have to go pretty far out of your comfort zone to get to them. If you're going to move from flat earth to round earth, you have to really kind of smash the paradigms. But that also opens the door to really crazy, kooky ideas. How far is too far?
I spent a good deal of time on this question. There are these two competing studies that I discovered that were really troubling. One was the attributes of people we're likely to put in leadership, and the main attribute that inversely correlated with being promoted or elected is creativity. And right around the same time I read this study, they surveyed Fortune 500 CEOs and asked what attributes does the next generation of CEOs need to be successful, and they said number one is creativity. So that's troubling.
Creativity is risky. Something that is outside of the norm could be good or it could be bad and we feel less safe when we have that. So you draw that to sort of its extreme conclusion. If we operate within our normal boundaries, we are unlikely to make breakthroughs but we are also unlikely to fall into a pit and die. So the question becomes do we need crazy people who are willing to go out into the unknown, to explore the edge of the map?
The thing that I've concluded, and it's backed up by research, is that even terrible ideas can be very useful. Someone who's explored the edge of the map has paved the way for us to explore what's in between.
Even a clearly bad idea that is not directly applicable to the situation you're in can still be useful by pointing your thinking in an entirely new direction. Sometimes maybe you need to go all the way to the edge and then pull back a bit and that's when you start to find things that actually can help you.
And I think that is a case for never ignoring people who we write off normally as crazy. Whether they're crazy or whether they're geniuses that we don't recognize, whether their ideas are good or bad, paying attention to them and exploring them can help us to come up with new and better ideas in our own work.
Storytelling as a hiring tool
Now, on a realistic level, I work on a creative team. I don't necessarily want to start hiring raving lunatics but I do want to enhance the creativity of the team. How do you go about identifying what a good individual fit would be on a team? How would you test for this? is this something you could bring into a job interview?
My favorite mechanism or device for determining the potential for a different mental toolkit is storytelling. There's the checklist of things that people need to know in order to be qualified for a job, but sometimes I think we have the wrong checklist, often we do.
If you are going to get the job, there's a certain set of things you need to know how to do. The more interesting thing for me in interviews is getting at someone's personal story. So I like to ask questions like, "What's a time in your life when you really changed your mind about something really important?" And I like to push people on that. I'll also ask, "What's something that you know how to do that most people don't know how to do and can you teach me? And how did you learn that?" Or, "Outside of a work context, what do you like to read?" And these kinds of questions get people to start talking about their unique story. You're also giving them implicit permission to be themselves, which is really important.
We often show up to interviews trying to conform to what someone expects us to be. But the guy who was a piano tuner before he became a computer programmer and who has a great story of how he made that switch, might have a different way of looking at the world than the five people you just hired who were just computer programmers straight out of college. And you don't really find that out necessarily unless you get people to dig into their story.
Looking for culture add or cognitive contribution rather than culture fit or cognitive fit is really important. And stories are a way to do that.
I asked two people in one day the "what do you read" question in job interviews. And one guy said, "I read sales blogs and sales books. Sales all the time, I just love it. I get up in the morning, I read sales." And, you know, he's probably lying about this. Who does that?
Next person I interviewed said, "Well, I have three young kids and they're starting to get to this age where they're reading young adult novels, so I've started reading these books that they're about to read so I know what's in them. And I have to tell you, it's kind of embarrassing, but I really love these books and I think that vampires are on their way out and angels are the next thing." And we spent 15 minutes talking about vampires and werewolves. I learned something about who she is. You can't ask in an interview if someone has kids but I learned through her talking about this that she manages a house of three crazy, young kids and she's very thoughtful about the way that she does it and she also is a delightful, multidimensional person. Only one of those people got a job that day, and you can guess which one it was.
Evernote as a writing hub
I know you're an Evernote user and you used Evernote pretty substantially in the creation of this book. Tell me a little bit about your process.
I've been using Evernote for years as my own personal productivity tool to remember everything, right? As a journalist, as a business person, I take my notes in Evernote, save my notes in Evernote, and for this project, because I wanted to inject more collaboration into this process, I made more use of Evernote than I ever had before.
So I have this whole workflow where I'll do an interview, and I'll record using the Evernote audio recorder. I'll have that sent to be transcribed into a Word doc, and then that goes back into Evernote. So I have my interview that now is in audio and text, searchable in Evernote. I don't even have to tag it anymore because the search tool is great.
So I do that, I clip research from the web, I save PDFs in there, I take photos of everything. It's all inside of Evernote. And then, as I'm assembling my article, or in this case chapters, I have them in one place.
I think this book is so much better than my other books, not just because I'm a more mature writer, but because I collaborated with many more people and I had many more sources as part of this process, and organizing all that, searching all that, filtering all that is just so much more possible using a centralized tool like Evernote. So I'm kind of obsessed. I've convinced a lot of people in my life to start using Evernote, but I wouldn't do it unless it was truly useful for me.
How do you organize your notes?
I have different [stacks] of notebooks for the big projects. So for this book, there's a Dream Teams collection and inside of that are notebooks for each chapter, each concept, a notebook for general research and notes, which basically I'll save stuff into and then I'll sort it later. The nice thing about the search tool is if I put things in the wrong notebook, it's going to be fine. And then, I have a notebook for marketing, a notebook for general ideas. And then, in each notebook I have the different PDFs, research documents, notes I've taken, interview transcripts, and then I'll generally have a note that has my to-do list, and I kind of use that as my own project management.
Breaking the mold
You included a lot of amazing historical stories in the book. Did you discover any new personal heroes?
Yeah. In the first chapter, I talk about the first female detective in American history. Her name is Kate Warne and she is awesome. She was instrumental in not only saving some very important lives but also setting the foundation for what we now know as the modern private detective agency and how we do detective work. Also, the U.S. Secret Service comes from the group of collaborators that she was a part of.
She was so good at disguises, at ferreting out secrets, about getting people to cough up information, she was sort of the smooth-talking detective that was the counterpoint to these other detectives that would, you know, kick down doors. She was so good at this job and her boss, Allen Pinkerton, recognized that she could bring something unique that the rest of the agency couldn't, at a time when police departments were exclusively men. He knew that was going to make things better. And she literally changed the world. I won't spoil it, but the course of American history would've gone very differently if not for this woman. And so she's one of my heroes.
Shane Snow is co-founder of Contently, a technology platform for content creators. His writing has appeared in Wired and The New Yorker, and he is the author of three books. Shane also sits on the board of the Hatch Institute for Investigative Journalism.
Dream Teams: Working Together Without Falling Apart will be published by Portfolio Books on June 5, 2018.
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Why the Blackhawks Will Win At Least Two Playoff Rounds
Posted by Jake Golden | Jun 5, 2020 | BLACKHAWKS, NHL |
With the NHLPA approving the 24-team return-to-play format on May 22, 2020, Blackhawk's playoff hockey is officially back in Chicago for the first time since 2017. The team will face the Edmonton Oilers in the play-in round, and will then lead to the typical 16-team format used year-to-year.
If they beat the Oilers, they will play the Dallas Stars in the official first round series. I believe the Blackhawks can beat both of these teams. Here's why:
First, the Blackhawks have playoff-proven players in Johnathan Towes, Patrick Kane, Brandon Saad, Duncan Keith, and even other non-dynasty players such as Ryan Carpenter (SJS/VGK) and Calvin DeHaan (CAR). These guys know how to play in the playoffs and know how to get business done.
Secondly, Corey Crawford. Plain and simple. Having played in 87 playoff games since 2009, he won 48 of them and backstopped the Blackhawks to two Stanley Cup championships in three seasons. In this span, he also managed to post a .920 save percentage along with a 2.25 GAA, which is beyond remarkable. Crawford has showed throughout his time as an NHL goalie he can step up in big games, which includes the playoffs. If he can do that, there's already an extra win or two per series there.
Lastly, the Blackhawks can be a good team. They can. They showed it last year going on a seven game winning streak, and this year by going on a four game winning streak. They can win three of four, or at least three of five games at a time. If the whole* team wants it, they can get it.
But, the whole team has to want it. The young guys can't count on the older, experienced guys to carry them, and the older guys can't always count on the young guys to want it bad enough to perform. This needs to be a team effort. If it is, we may be in for some interesting hockey, and something the city of Chicago hasn't seen since 2015, a Blackhawks playoff series WIN.
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Write an argumentative academic essay on one of three given topics related to management theory. The essay will be written in accordance with the guidelines for writing academic essays in the Academic Learning Skills (ALS) student guide "Essay Writing".
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First discussing the Wings' hope that Mantha can emulate James van Riemsdyk's net-front presence, as Kulfan noted…
Mantha (6-foot-5, 225) and van Riemsdyk (6-foot-3, 217) have the same body type – lanky and with a long reach – and with Mantha's hand-eye coordination and knack with the puck, the potential is there to dominate around the net.
"He's a good player in this league – I look at his game," said Mantha, who has watched video with the coaching staff on JVR's work. "Watch a lot of clips of him net-front, learn the details, and how to get into the right spot."
Entering Saturday's game, van Riemsdyk leads the Maple Leafs with 34 goals, while averaging 14:49 of ice time. Of the 34 goals, a team-leading 11 have come on the power play.
Over the last five games, van Riemsdyk had scored eight goals.
"James van Riemsdyk is a guy we've talked about with Anthony," Blashill said. "JVR has as good a hands around the net for a big guy, and makes a lot of plays, makes their power play extremely dangerous. A lot of penalty kills want to leave the net-front guy to the goalie. He's a tough guy to leave alone for a goalie because of how dangerous he is in that area."
Kulfan continues, and the Free Press's St. James both spoke of Mantha's desire to emulate van Riemsdyk as well as the Wings' decision to reunite #39 and #71:
Feeding Mantha the puck is on Dylan Larkin's to-do list.
"He's great around the net," Larkin said. "He's a shooter, so you have to give him the puck and that's something we've been working on. We've been talking a lot — I have to get him more pucks so he can use that great shot he has.
"The more we play together, the better we will get. We haven't played together much this year — we've been really good, and we've had nights were we struggled, so the more we talk and the more we communicate as we spend time together, we'll know where we are and know what we need to do to be successful."
Larkin, 21, started out his NHL career playing wing next to Henrik Zetterberg, but as the playoffs grew out of reach last season, Larkin moved to center, and showed he can run his own line. Mantha, 23, has played much of his young career with Zetterberg, but for nearly a month now the former first-round picks have been linemates for a reason.
"We're trying to hopefully create some chemistry between the two of them," Blashill said. "Dylan has improved his give-and-go game, his passing game has been really improved, and Anthony is a guy that can shoot it in the net. It's two young guys that we'd like to see over the next number of years become elite players, so we might as well play them together and try to create that good chemistry between the two of them."
The two relish the opportunity to play with one another. In Larkin, Mantha has a center with blazing speed, one who loves to skate with the puck.
"You need to try to be in the right spot and open up and he can feed you pretty good," Mantha said. "I enjoy playing with Dylan. I love the way he plays. It could be really good for the near future."
St. James also continues, and she posted a lengthy video of van Riemsdyk, Mike Babcock, Mantha, Blashill and Larkin speaking with the media:
 Here's more from Hockeybuzz's Bob Duff:
"James van Riemsdyk is a guy we've talked to Anthony lots about," Blashill said. "I think JVR's got as good hands around the net for a big guy and makes lots of plays, makes their power play extraordinarily dangerous.
"Lots of penalty kills want to leave the net-front guy to the goalie. He's a tough guy to leave alone with the goalie because of how dangerous he is in those areas. I think over the years if you look at JVR's production, it's been excellent, and it's been noted lately without lots of minutes."
There's the other lesson the Wings seek to emphasize when paralleling Van Riemsdyk to Mantha – how he maximizes his productivity to ice time ratio. Skating 14:49 per game, Van Riemsdyk is the first NHLer since the 2005-06 season to pot 30 goals while playing less than 15 minutes a night.
Mantha has played much more, averaging 17:16 per game.
"That's what net front does," Blashill said. "If you can get great at the net front you can score lots of – I don't want to say easy goals – but that's where the goals come from. So I think it's a guy that certainly Mantha can learn from.
"I think one of the big things is he's scored lots of goals standing in front of the goalie, and I think when you learn to embrace that as a player – I don't think it was a natural thing for him – they've got guy in van Riemsdyk who consistently scores around 30 because he's real good in front of the net.
"I think Anthony is hopefully seeing that, just by being in front of the net you can increase your goal totals a ton, so I think it's a good reinforcement of what that net presence and that spot on the power play means."
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2 thoughts on "On Mantha emulating van Riemsdyk, and Mantha and Larkin's chemistry"
Cyril Rogers(aka as NewfieWing) says:
The chemistry between them was obvious early this season when they played together briefly, along with AA.
Blashill seems to quickly break up combos that demonstrate any chemistry though. He talks a good game but his in-game moves tend to belie the sentiment he expressed in this article.
biv says:
Blashill has stuck with his lines the past few games. Other than some odd defensive shuffling to protect a lead.
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Q: vaadin generated page doesnt show any component I have a problem at vaadin framework in general.
I created a class extends vaadin application(MyFirst), after that I created a custom component with vaadin visual designer(MyFormApp).
I did instantiate the custom component MyFormApp, and I added it to the main window of the MyFirst.
After deploying the app, the page generated by vaadin does not show any component.
My code :
/*
 * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */
package com.example.vaadin;

import com.vaadin.Application;
import com.vaadin.ui.*;

/**
*
* @author anis.bouchenafa
*/
public class MyFirst extends Application{

private Button newContact = new Button("Add contact");
private Button search = new Button("Search");
private Button share = new Button("Share");
private Button help = new Button("Help");
private HorizontalSplitPanel horizontalSplit = new HorizontalSplitPanel();
private TextField tf = new TextField();

@Override
public void init() {
    //buildMainLayout();

    MyFirstApp a = new MyFirstApp();
   Window w = new Window("aness conf");
   w.addComponent(a);
   setMainWindow(w);

}

}

my second class is MyFirstApp (custom componant):
package com.example.vaadin;

import com.vaadin.annotations.AutoGenerated;
import com.vaadin.ui.AbsoluteLayout;
import com.vaadin.ui.CustomComponent;
import com.vaadin.ui.LoginForm;

public class MyFirstApp extends CustomComponent {

@AutoGenerated
private AbsoluteLayout mainLayout;
@AutoGenerated
private LoginForm loginForm_2;

/*- VaadinEditorProperties=        {"grid":"RegularGrid,20","showGrid":true,"snapToGrid":true,"snapToObject":true,"movingGuides":false,"snappingDistance":10} */

/*- VaadinEditorProperties={"grid":"RegularGrid,20","showGrid":true,"snapToGrid":true,"snapToObject":true,"movingGuides":false,"snappingDistance":10} */

/**
 * The constructor should first build the main layout, set the
 * composition root and then do any custom initialization.
 *
 * The constructor will not be automatically regenerated by the
 * visual editor.
 */
public MyFirstApp() {
    buildMainLayout();
    setCompositionRoot(mainLayout);

    // TODO add user code here
}

@AutoGenerated
private AbsoluteLayout buildMainLayout() {
    // common part: create layout
    mainLayout = new AbsoluteLayout();
    mainLayout.setImmediate(false);
    mainLayout.setWidth("100%");
    mainLayout.setHeight("100%");

    // top-level component properties
    setWidth("100.0%");
    setHeight("100.0%");

    // loginForm_2
    loginForm_2 = new LoginForm();
    loginForm_2.setStyleName("v-loginform");
    loginForm_2.setImmediate(false);
    loginForm_2.setWidth("340px");
    loginForm_2.setHeight("-1px");
    mainLayout.addComponent(loginForm_2, "top:160.0px;left:200.0px;");

    return mainLayout;
}

}

after the execution of the servlet nothing shows up at browser.

A: With AbsoluteLayout, you need to define the position of display for the components for example:
mainLayout = new AbsoluteLayout();
mainLayout.setWidth("400px");
mainLayout.setHeight("350px");

For more info, refers to:
https://vaadin.com/book/-/page/layout.absolutelayout.html

A: well, you call buildMainLayout() what is visually empty. it only contains an AbsoluteLayout and a LoginForm() without any components in it. It's like generating a borderless HTML table and not add any text.
Your components I think you wanted to add
private Button newContact = new Button("Add contact");
private Button search = new Button("Search");
private Button share = new Button("Share");
private Button help = new Button("Help");
private HorizontalSplitPanel horizontalSplit = new HorizontalSplitPanel();
private TextField tf = new TextField();

should

*

*be declared and initialized in your "class MyFirstApp" and

*be added to your layout via addComponent()

Layouts in detail (and other basics) are also explained in Book of Vaadin:
Book of Vaadin: https://vaadin.com/book/-/page/intro.html
Book of Vaadin - Layouts: Layout:https://vaadin.com/book/-/page/layout.html
Vaadin Layout Examples: http://demo.vaadin.com/sampler#Layouts

A: I had the same problem when using the Visual Editor in Vaadin 7. However, if you change the Layout property from AbsoluteLayout to any other Layout, (i.e GridLayout, HorizontalLayout or VerticalLayout). The component shows. Hope that helps.


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The Abuja music scene has produced some of the most unique superstars in Afropop today. Among many, Tay Iwar, Psycho YP, Zilla Oaks and more stand out, making mainstream incursions with folk-tinged soul and vivacious raps, quite different but sharing the same individualistic drive that forms the core of their communities. The 26-year-old artist and producer Detailmadeit emerges from this tradition.
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Between his father's profession and his mother being a professor in political science, Detail turned to his elder brother who shared a similar interest in music, and "showed [him] it was possible." His early loves included famed icons Michael Jackson and Fela Kuti, while his gruff-inflected melodies were influenced by the incandescent music of rappers such as 2Pac, The Notorious B.I.G, Ja-Rule and 50Cent.
Detail although makes it clear he listens to pretty much everything else. "When people ask me what genre of music I make," he says, "I find it quite difficult to answer, because I make what I feel." We linger a bit on this when he mentions Kanye West as a major influence, choosing 'My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy' as his favourite in West's catalogue. The Jeen-yuhs Netflix documentary being a natural side-topic, Detail imagines looking back on his career from a similar level of acclaim. "For me, regardless of how much work I've put in so far, it still very much feels like the beginning," he says.
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As a young Nigerian in the diaspora, Detailmadeit leaned into the communal aspect of music-making. "I used to record songs in my room and release on SoundCloud and people on my campus would listen to them and they'd big me up," he recounts. "If they had little shows here and there, I'd perform. I was also deejaying a lot and I got paid for it. That's how I mainly keyed into entertainment there and I know all the rappers on campus, all the singers, they're all trying to come to my dorm room to record, to see what we can put together."
In 2017, Detailmadeit released his debut project, 'Summer in the Capital', collaborating across the Abuja scene with explosive beats inspired by Hip-Hop and Caribbean styles, reveling in the independence of being his own producer. 2018's 'Scorpio Season' was even better, with fuller 808s and vivid detail on introspective highlights such as "Life" and "Phases", the emotive opener where he raps about life outside Nigeria. "Nothing was the same/ At sixteen, I had to leave my parents; I had to grow up and be my own man/ That's how my life changed."
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Last year, Detailmadeit released "WAR READY", "STEPPINGS" and "Talk & Do", working to consistently put himself out there. Recently, he shared "Issa Vibe", a bubbly collaboration with DJ Neptune and Baby Fresh, who uncharacteristically sang the record's hook. "Not too many people know that because we wrote the song together so when we switched, you wouldn't realise, unless you know my voice and you're really paying attention to the song," Detail explains. "It was a pretty good experience working with the two of them and it's still ongoing, you know it's a kind of 'for life' thing cos we've done something this great. Definitely many more things are still coming."
If Detailmadeit projects confidence in his moves, it's because he's a practical individual and every bit a businessman as he is creative. Hours before we spoke, he was in a meeting that required his presence as the founder and CEO of Galaxy Records Limited, which he describes as "a one-stop audio-visual and branding solutions company". The Abuja-based company opened in 2020, ideated as part of his Masters project studying audio production at the University of Westminster. "I've always liked music and I've always liked entertainment," he explains, "and my passion for those two things really pushed me towards opening up a business like this."
Last year, Detail also registered the clothing brand 'Lifestyle' as a business company. "I actually take pride in my dressing," he says. "I like clothes a lot. And I was thinking 'what could I really do that would be outside of music, but still be in entertainment. I said 'okay, let me go into clothes'. My brother owns a factory in Lagos making clothes and I'm like 'cool bro, let's collaborate on this.' Cos also, a very key part of entertainment and music is merchandising, so 'Lifestyle' is pretty much my merchandising aspect of my music. Cos las las, it's my lifestyle. Everyone has their lifestyle."
There's a number of forthcoming stuff from Detail. Exciting videos have already been shot for "Issa Vibe", directed by Lucas Reed while he's looking to get more strategic partners to support the music. He's sure, as he said during our interview, "[that] Detailmadeit doesn't disappoint. Wherever you put him, he can play. He can do something and you'll be wowed."
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Grimes announces next studio album, 'Miss_Anthropocene'.
Grimes, aka 'c' as per her recent name change, has shared on Instagram the announcement of her next studio album - titled 'Miss_Anthropocene'. The album name is a play on two words; 'misanthrope' - a person disliking humanity, and 'anthropocene' - the scientific name for the current global epoch.
Lately, things have been getting consistently mysterious on the Grimes front - from the nu-metal hit 'We Appreciate Power' starring herself and friend Hana in Tesla's unopened Boring Company tunnel, to the recent song 'Pretty Dark' - allegedly not actually by Grimes but one of her new sub-egos called Dark. It seems that 'Miss_Anthropocene' will be no different if c's description of it in the caption is anything to attest to; "It's a concept album about the anthropomorphic Goddess of climate Change. A psychedelic, space-dwelling demon/beauty-Queen who relishes the end of the world." says Grimes, "She's composed of Ivory and Oil." Apparently though, Grimes does not aim to paint climate change in a bad light.
Each song on the album will be a different interpretation of human extinction, and in the meantime a few more singles and EPs may be shared.
In her first interview in a couple of years, Grimes spoke of wanting to be free of the whole Grimes moniker - hence the name change - and that she doesn't like being confined by the branding she came up with in 2009. "If you say you're something, then people get super upset if you appear to be a different thing," she says. She knows some of her fans don't like her new music, and she plans on moving on soon - killing Grimes, so to speak.
For now though, we have a new album to look froward to, new music videos being planned, and then whatever weird and wonderful, fantastical augmented reality world c decides to take us to next.
MusicGrimes x 'Asos' magazine, Autumn 2016.
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MusicGrimes feat. Janelle Monáe - 'Venus Fly' music video.
MusicHaim preview their 'My Song 5' music video.
MusicGrimes releases new demo 'Pretty Dark' into the world.
MusicListen: Grimes performing 'Flesh Without Blood', 'REALiTi' and 'Ave Maria' for BBC Radio 1.
MusicGrimes - 'California' music video.
MusicMust-watch: Janelle Monáe feat. Grimes - 'PYNK' music video.


Every second year we convene somewhere in Europe, meet to discuss among ourselves, learn from each other, promote ourselves and our departments. We come with new ideas, latest results looking forward to sharing them and hoping to participate in the progress of interventional pulmonology, making it a fast-growing field.
The next European Congress of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology (ECBIP), 5th in the row will take place in Dubrovnik, a beautiful medieval town on the Adriatic coast. Many renowned statesmen, famous movie stars and other celebrities have visited Dubrovnik so now it is time for famous bronchologysts to converge to this southmost part of Croatian coast.
The organizing committee is looking forward to welcoming more than 500 participants from all over Europe and Overseas. Eminent experts will come and give state of the art lectures but also young and ambitious fellows are invited to send their work, their abstracts. They will be reviewed and selected either for oral presentations or poster sessions. An exhibition area will enable companies to present us their innovations and latest equipment we could use in our everyday work for the benefit of patients. Workshops and sponsored satellite symposia will be organized. We are dedicated to make the congress venue lively as a beehive, bursting with discussions and new ideas, encouraging new contacts and collaborations.
The Congress is focused on interventional pulmonology but it will integrate pulmonology, oncology, and pathology making it more attractive and interesting to a wide range of specialists. We will discuss diagnosis and treatment of peripheral lesions, ways to resolve benign and malignant central airway obstructions, modalities of treatment for emphysema and obstructive lung diseases, diagnostic options for pleural diseases and therapeutic possibilities, among others. Our aim is to give you the best Congress ever.
So please, mark the date in your calendars. Let the begging of May be your time for learning, socializing and enjoying in the company of fellow bronchoscopist from all over Europe, from all over the world in a beautiful surrounding.
We will be waiting for you and will do our best to make it a memorable experience.


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Should You Skip Your Annual Pelvic Exam?
By Ava Feuer
In 2012, the United States Preventative Task Force recommended that women ages 21 to 65 forgo their annual pap smear, instead undergoing the cervical cancer screening method once every three years. Now, there may be one more thing to skip at the doctor.
Yesterday, the American College of Physicians suggested that doctors stop performing routine pelvic exams, explaining that there's no evidence that they help to accurately diagnose ovarian cancer, only that they spur anxiety and pain in many women. The group also found no studies to support claims that pelvic exams benefit women with fibroids, pelvic inflammatory disease, or warts.
The recommendations come up against those of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. "I'm not sure there's evidence to support most of what we do on physical exams," said Dr. Barbara S. Levy, the organization's vice president for health policy. "Lack of evidence does not mean lack of value."
Beyond Levy's point is that of your piece of mind. Given the large percentage of women that deal with issues like fibroids, endometriosis, and infertility, learning your pelvic exam was totally normal can be reassuring. "The positive side effect are giving patients peace of mind and an opportunity to talk with their doctor," says board-certified internist Nancy Simpkins, M.D. "Once the doctor assures her patient that the exam was normal, there's room for a longer conversation about personal health."
It's also important to remember that these new guidelines apply only to routine checkups for healthy women, not to those who are pregnant or visit the doctor to investigate pain.
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