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Kolmogorov Group
Vladimir Kolmogorov
Jeferson Zapata
Yekini Shehu
Martin Dvorak
Michal Rolinek
Alexandr Kazda
Nasim Samei
Paul Swoboda
Neel Shah
Rustem Takhanov
Senanayak Karri
Data Publications
2017 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 274 |
Kolmogorov, V. (2017). A faster approximation algorithm for the Gibbs partition function. In Proceedings of the 31st Conference On Learning Theory (Vol. 75, pp. 228–249). PMLR.
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Kazda, A., Kolmogorov, V., & Rolinek, M. (2017). Even delta-matroids and the complexity of planar Boolean CSPs (pp. 307–326). Presented at the SODA: Symposium on Discrete Algorithms, Barcelona, Spain: SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/1.9781611974782.20
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2017 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 641
Trajkovska, V., Swoboda, P., Åström, F., & Petra, S. (2017). Graphical model parameter learning by inverse linear programming. In F. Lauze, Y. Dong, & A. Bjorholm Dahl (Eds.) (Vol. 10302, pp. 323–334). Presented at the SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Kolding, Denmark: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_26
Kolmogorov, V., Krokhin, A., & Rolinek, M. (2017). The complexity of general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/16M1091836
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Kuske, J., Swoboda, P., & Petra, S. (2017). A novel convex relaxation for non binary discrete tomography. In F. Lauze, Y. Dong, & A. Bjorholm Dahl (Eds.) (Vol. 10302, pp. 235–246). Presented at the SSVM: Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Kolding, Denmark: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58771-4_19
2017 | Thesis | IST-REx-ID: 992 |
Rolinek, M. (2017). Complexity of constraint satisfaction. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:ISTA:th_815
Swoboda, P., & Andres, B. (2017). A message passing algorithm for the minimum cost multicut problem (Vol. 2017, pp. 4990–4999). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.530
Swoboda, P., Rother, C., Abu Alhaija, C., Kainmueller, D., & Savchynskyy, B. (2017). A study of lagrangean decompositions and dual ascent solvers for graph matching (Vol. 2017, pp. 7062–7071). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.747
Swoboda, P., Kuske, J., & Savchynskyy, B. (2017). A dual ascent framework for Lagrangean decomposition of combinatorial problems (Vol. 2017, pp. 4950–4960). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Honolulu, HA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2017.526
Alwen, J. F., Chen, B., Kamath Hosdurg, C., Kolmogorov, V., Pietrzak, K. Z., & Tessaro, S. (2016). On the complexity of scrypt and proofs of space in the parallel random oracle model (Vol. 9666, pp. 358–387). Presented at the EUROCRYPT: Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Vienna, Austria: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49896-5_13
Barto, L., & Kazda, A. (2016). Deciding absorption. International Journal of Algebra and Computation. World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218196716500430
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Kolmogorov, V., Pock, T., & Rolinek, M. (2016). Total variation on a tree. SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences. Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics . https://doi.org/10.1137/15M1010257
Kazda, A. (2016). CSP for binary conservative relational structures. Algebra Universalis. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8
Kolmogorov, V., & Takhanov, R. (2016). Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. Algorithmica. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7
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Kolmogorov, V. (2016). Commutativity in the algorithmic Lovasz local lemma. In Proceedings - Annual IEEE Symposium on Foundations of Computer Science (Vol. 2016–December). New Brunswick, NJ, USA : IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2016.88
Kolmogorov, V., Rolinek, M., & Takhanov, R. (2015). Effectiveness of structural restrictions for hybrid CSPs. Presented at the ISAAC: International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation, Nagoya, Japan: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48971-0_48
Kolmogorov, V. (2015). A new look at reweighted message passing. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2363465
Shah, N., Kolmogorov, V., & Lampert, C. (2015). A multi-plane block-coordinate Frank-Wolfe algorithm for training structural SVMs with a costly max-oracle (pp. 2737–2745). Presented at the CVPR: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Boston, MA, USA: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPR.2015.7298890
2015 | Conference Paper | IST-REx-ID: 1675
Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2015). Proofs of space. Presented at the CRYPTO: International Cryptology Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, United States: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-48000-7_29
Kolmogorov, V., Thapper, J., & Živný, S. (2015). The power of linear programming for general-valued CSPs. SIAM Journal on Computing. SIAM. https://doi.org/10.1137/130945648
Kolmogorov, V., Krokhin, A., & Rolinek, M. (2015). The complexity of general-valued CSPs (pp. 1246–1258). Presented at the FOCS: Foundations of Computer Science, Berkeley, CA, United States: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/FOCS.2015.80
Olsson, C., Ulen, J., Boykov, Y., & Kolmogorov, V. (2014). Partial enumeration and curvature regularization (pp. 2936–2943). Presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.365
2014 | Working Paper | IST-REx-ID: 7038 |
Huszár, K., & Rolinek, M. (n.d.). Playful Math - An introduction to mathematical games. IST Austria.
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Bachrach, Y., Kohli, P., Kolmogorov, V., & Zadimoghaddam, M. (2013). Optimal Coalition Structures in Cooperative Graph Games (pp. 81–87). Presented at the AAAI: Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Bellevue, WA, United States: AAAI Press.
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2013 | Report | IST-REx-ID: 2274 |
Dziembowski, S., Faust, S., Kolmogorov, V., & Pietrzak, K. Z. (2013). Proofs of Space. IST Austria.
Gridchyn, I., & Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Potts model, parametric maxflow and k-submodular functions (pp. 2320–2327). Presented at the ICCV: International Conference on Computer Vision, Sydney, Australia: IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCV.2013.288
Takhanov, R., & Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data. In ICML'13 Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on International (Vol. 28, pp. 145–153). Atlanta, GA, USA: International Machine Learning Society.
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Kolmogorov, V. (2013). Reweighted message passing revisited. IST Austria.
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Kolmogorov, V. (2013). The power of linear programming for finite-valued CSPs: A constructive characterization (Vol. 7965, pp. 625–636). Presented at the ICALP: Automata, Languages and Programming, Riga, Latvia: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39206-1_53
Kolmogorov, V., & Živný, S. (2013). The complexity of conservative valued CSPs. Journal of the ACM. ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/2450142.2450146
Chen, C., Kolmogorov, V., Yan, Z., Metaxas, D., & Lampert, C. (2013). Computing the M most probable modes of a graphical model (Vol. 31, pp. 161–169). Presented at the AISTATS: Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, Scottsdale, AZ, United States: JMLR.
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2012 | Preprint | IST-REx-ID: 2928 |
Kolmogorov, V., & Schoenemann, T. (2012). Generalized sequential tree-reweighted message passing. arXiv. ArXiv.
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Huber, A., & Kolmogorov, V. (2012). Towards minimizing k-submodular functions (Vol. 7422, pp. 451–462). Presented at the ISCO: International Symposium on Combinatorial Optimization, Athens, Greece: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_40
Torresani, L., Kolmogorov, V., & Rother, C. (2012). A dual decomposition approach to feature correspondence. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2012.105
Kolmogorov, V. (2012). Minimizing a sum of submodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2012.05.025
Kolmogorov, V. (2012). Generalized roof duality and bisubmodular functions. Discrete Applied Mathematics. Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2011.10.026
2012 | Technical Report | IST-REx-ID: 5396 |
Korc, F., Kolmogorov, V., & Lampert, C. (2012). Approximating marginals using discrete energy minimization. IST Austria. https://doi.org/10.15479/AT:IST-2012-0003
Korc, F., Kolmogorov, V., & Lampert, C. (2012). Approximating marginals using discrete energy minimization. Presented at the ICML: International Conference on Machine Learning, Edinburgh, Scotland: ICML.
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Each day of the 2019 Cheltenham Festival here at TRAINERS-QUOTES we give you our quick-fire positive and negative stats for EVERY Cheltenham Festival race. Apply these trends to the final cards and you will build-up a picture and a profile of which horses have historically done the best in recent renewals.
Did you know 16 of the last 20 Champion Chase winners came from the first three in the betting?
This has been a good race for the Irish in recent years – with 8 wins in the last 13. Willie Mullins in particular has sent out 4 winners and 7 places in the last 14 years so anything he runs should also be respected. The betting has revolved around the Nicky Henderson-trained Champ for a while now and having won his last four hurdles starts in eye-catching fashion then it's easy to see why. He's a big player – for sure – but with ALL of the last 13 winners aged 5 or 6 years-old then at 7 years-old he's got this hefty trend to overcome. With that in mind, the Gordon Elliott runner – BATTLEOVERDOYEN – gets the nod. This 6 year-old has won his only two starts over hurdles and with former point-to-point horses doing well over the years in this race this is another plus when looking at the trends. His Grade One win over Sams Profile at Naas back in January was a very solid effort and that also brings the runner-up that day into the mix, but with the expected improvement over the last few months I'll take the Elliott runner to uphold that form. Others to note – if running – from Ireland are the Mullins trained Easy Game and Allaho, plus Elliott could also have Commander Of Fleet running – he ticks a lot of trends too. On the home front it could be all about the B's – with Brewin'upastorm, Beakstown and Birchdale looking to have leading says too, but I'll stick with the Irish 'B' in Battleoverdoyen.
The Nicky Henderson-trained Santini has been popular for this race for a while, but despite having an obvious chance – he's not for me. 9 of the last 13 winners of this race won last time out but Santini could only manage third last time at Kempton – yes, the form of that race has been franked since with La Bague Au Roi winning since but with only two starts over fences then his lack of experience is also a worry – just one of the last 19 winners had raced less than 3 times over fences. Delta Work, for Ireland, will be very popular too – he's 3-from-3 over fences and has been very impressive in those victories. He also won the Pertemps Final Hurdle here last season so has tasted Festival wining experience before too- it's hard to fault his chance. But the call is side with the Paul Nicholls-trained TOPOFTHEGAME. 7 year-olds have a good record in this race and this improving chaser has done little wrong in his three runs over fences despite not winning yet. He ran La Bague Au Roi to 1 ½ lengths at Kempton on Boxing Day. He's been kept fresh since and last year at the Festival was only just beaten in the Coral Cup, so we know the track suits – albeit this is over fences. He's a consistent sort that I think has more to come. Of the rest, On The Blind Side looks to be back to his best so can't be ruled out, while Drovers Lane, Mortal and The Worlds End are others that can go well if lining-up at bigger prices.
If getting in the race, I've been impressed with ERICK LE ROUGE (e/w) this season – he's won his last four in decent fashion and with a light weight he looks interesting. The Irish tend to do well too but even though Willie Mullins won the race last year his overall record isn't great – 1 from 29 runners – he could have Uradel and Whiskey Sour running, who are both owned by the same owner that took this prize 12 months ago. Gordon Elliot has two recent wins in the race though so anything he runs should be noted –– Cracking Smart, Dallas Des Pictons and Farclas are possible Elliott entries, with Dallas Des Pictons, who has won his last two, could be the most interesting. However, Paul Nicholls has done well in this race over the years too (winner in 2015) and have a narrow second 12 months ago too – so his BRIO CONTI (e/w) is another to consider. He's won 3 of his 8 starts over hurdles and should be coming to the boil now with this being his third run off a 446 day break. He's run okay at the track in the past too and with only 11 career runs looks a horse that can offer more.
Let's keep this short and sweet – ALTIOR – will win this! Yes, no prizes for value or originality here but with 12 straight wins over fences then…….if it ain't broke don't try and fix it. He's the current champ and it will be the biggest Festival shock if he's not taking this again.
Another race that we are going to keep simple – the current champion and last year's Grand National winner – TIGER ROLL – is a stalwart here at the Festival and he warmed-up for this with a top win over hurdles last month. He's won a race of some sort at the Festival for the past two seasons and I expect him to reward favourite backers again here. Josies Orders is a past winner of the race too (2016) but at 11 is not getting any younger, while with the Bolger yard having a good record in this race, their other runner – Auvergnat – can go well too. Course and distance winners – Urgent De Gregaine and Fact Of The Matter – are others to consider that are at least proven at the track but it's hard to get away from last year's hero – Tiger Roll.
Not a great race for the Willie Mullins yard, but a better one for Paul Nicholls, who has won three of the last 9 runnings. He could have FRIEND OR FOE engaged and he comes here on a nice-looking mark. A good winner last time out at Taunton too on just his third career run and with 10 of the last 14 winners having had exactly three runs this is positive trend. Nicholls has clearly been protecting his mark as he's not run him so 2 ½ months now – so, if lining-up he looks a big player. Bad Of Outlaws went into many a notebook after an eye-catching win at Naas last time, but I'm not totally sure what he beat that day and looks plenty short enough in the betting, if running. Alan King has won well in the race in the past too – he could have Our Power and Cracker Factory heading to post, while others to note on the home front are Belargus and Capone. Gordon Elliott, who won this in 2013 and 2018 will certainly have a few plotted out for this too – Lethal Steps – could be one and was a 100+ rated flat performer that has had a lot more experience than most, while Chief Justice and Surin are other potential Elliott runners.
Always a tough race to call with most of these horses improving bundles between races. It's a funny year as the Willie Mullins yard that have sent out 9 winners of this race only have the one runner this year – but it's likely to be the favourite – Blue Sari. He won by 11 lengths on debut at Gowran Park so could be anything and the fact he's the sole Mullins runner suggest they think a bit of him. However, with 12 of the last 13 winners aged 5 or 6 then this 4 year-old has a big age trend to overcome. Elliott won this in 2017 and in ENVOI ALLEN he's got a big chance too. He's won all three of his starts and with that experience edge looks a serious player – of the main two in the betting this 5 year-old gets the nod. If running, there has been a lot of positive words for the Harry Fry-trained Get In The Queue, who is meant to be a very nice prospect – we'll have to see if he lines-up, but regardless this is a horse to have on your radar with his trainer already saying he could be one of the best he's ever trained or looked after and don't forget he used to be assistant to a certain Paul Nicholls.


Scientists recently discovered a region of Australia that was once part of North America, bolstering support for the idea that the two existed as a unified 'supercontinent' nearly two billion years ago.
A team led by researchers from Curtin University in Australia discovered that the sedimentary sandstone in the northern Australian region of Georgetown didn't bear much resemblance to other rock compositions in Australia, according to a Curtin University press statement. It did, however, bear quite a strong resemblance to rocks one might find in the North American landmass, known as Laurentia.
Specifically, it resembled geological features found in Canada, according to the Guardian. The researchers believe that the rock under modern-day Georgetown was once attached to North America's Laurentia, but broke away 1.7 billion years ago. After drifting for another 100 million years, it crashed into Australia. A paper describing the research was published in the scientific journal Geology.
"This was a critical part of global continental reorganisation when almost all continents on Earth assembled to form the supercontinent called Nuna," co-author Adam Nordsvan, a student at Curtin University's School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, said in the press statement.
The most well-known supercontinent, Pangea, broke apart sometime around 175 million years ago, according to Live Science. But while Pangea may be the most famous, it wasn't the first; a number of supercontinents came before it, including Nuna (sometimes referred to as the Columbia supercontinent).
Nuna itself split into pieces another 300 million years after reaching Australia, according to the statement. But even as the rest of the landmass drifted away, the rock under what would later become Georgetown refused to budge, and has remained part of Australia ever since.
Researchers first started compiling evidence for Nuna's existence in 2002, according to a separate report from Live Science. While the scientific community believed that the landmass under northeast Australia had once been situated by North America, northern China or Siberia, there was never sufficient geological data to prove it. This is a big contribution to the body of evidence supporting Nuna.
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We need to talk about success.
People tend to think of it as the end result of a competition — a race with a finish line, and at the end of the finish line are wealth, power, and influence. In this view of success, there are winners and losers: not everyone will cross that finish line and some people will cross it sooner or faster than others. In other words, this success isn't something that everyone can have, and some people must be more successful than others.
I see this definition of success as a dangerous trap for both businesses and individuals. Let me explain.
● Because if success is just defined a reaching a specific milestone, then you're left with nothing to do after you get there.
● Because if success is just defined as just earning lots of money, then you'll get trapped by the need to keep earning more.
● Because if success is just defined by artificial, external indicators that have been your primary focus, then there's a good chance you've been neglecting your personal life and relationships.
People say success brings freedom, but that's only true if you know what you want freedom from and what you'll do once you have that freedom.
I say we need better language to talk about and define success, and explore this idea in the discussion below.
I learned the hard way that success is a very personal concept.
Two years ago, I was the person having the "Is this all there is?" moment.
I was working in a small but quickly growing company, and since I was one of the few who joined before the growing began, I was able to find a niche where I could grow and move up in the company. Initially I was motivated by my belief in the mission of the company and the feeling I got from seeing my direct contributions to the company's success. As a naturally ambitious, people-pleasing go-getter, I saw my chance to become indispensable. Along the way, I received my share of incremental promotions, and frequent (but vague) promises of more to come. There was talk of me being on the COO track and of becoming a member of the inner leadership team, and that recognition of my increasing importance within the company was alluring.
But each time my status and salary increased, the workload and stress levels followed suit, year after year, promotion after promotion. I was working later and later evenings, and more and more weekends, and the downtime I had was often spent stressing or complaining about work. By all external measures, I was very successful: my bosses loved and trusted me, my team thrived under my supervision, and my colleagues saw me as a capable leader who got things done. But internally, I was miserable — miserable to the point of barely functioning, with clinical depression levels of burnout.
I realized that while I still believed in the company's mission and felt I was making meaningful and significant contributions, I'd become most fixated on the pursuit of obtaining salary and status compensation to match the amount of stress and pressure I experienced. I'd lost agency to control my level of engagement with my work and control over my workload, so I had to rely on external factors as indicators of my success. And it made me miserable.
So I quit the job and took a few months to get my life and mental health back on track, and did some very serious introspection.
Of the many insights I had, none was more powerful than the realization that professional status, power, and authority were not important to me: attaining those things didn't make me feel successful, even though it made others see me that way. I was miserable because I was failing in the aspects of life most important to me: being there for my family and friends, making time for my hobbies, taking care of my physical self (it turns out that sleep, exercise, and balanced meals really ARE important). I was miserable because I could no longer find satisfaction and fulfillment in my hard work.
I knew I had to redefine my own concept of success, and my new definition couldn't just be based on the professional indicators. To truly feel successful, I needed to experience joy and achievement in all aspects of my life, and set some clear priorities and goals. And I set out to do just that.
If success isn't only defined by status, power, and money, then what does it mean to be successful, and how do you know when you're there?
● What do you value most in life?
● What makes you happy?
● How do you like to spend your time?
This is going to be different for everyone, and it is likely going to change over time. But once you have that picture, once you define your success indicators, you will be less susceptible to falling into the status, power, and money trap.
Now, I'm not naïve: I acknowledge that money is an important factor in success. We all need a base level of income to remain healthy and safe in order to thrive, and most of us likely need disposable income to afford the things that make us happiest. But there's a caveat: money is important as a means to an end, and not the end itself. Our culture is full of stories of people who were laser focused on amassing as much money as possible, only to find themselves with no time, no hobbies, and no loved ones to enjoy it with.
When it comes to money, I strongly believe in the concept of enough: what is the minimum you need to earn in order to meet your definition of success. I work to make sure I achieve that minimum, and anything beyond that is gravy.
Spending quality with the people I love most.
Being creative in my work.
Helping others to accomplish their visions.
Having control over my schedule, workload, and stress level.
Being able to take exciting vacations all over the world.
These specific indicators have been critical for me as I've built my business. They are my guideposts and centering principles. Whenever I feel too stressed or like I'm being pulled toward the status, power, and money trap, I remind myself of my success definition, and refocus my efforts.
The refocusing part is important, because chances are you'll have to remind yourself of your success indicators often. Every time you talk to someone or read about others' goals and vision for success, it's human nature to compare yourself to their standards and feel like you aren't measuring up. But if you have a clear picture of what success looks like to you, you can recognize and turn off that line of thinking, and get back to your own journey.
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Test Tenants: A Complete Guide to Lifecycle Management in Microsoft 365
When you've got a cloud ecosystem supporting hundreds of users across multiple tenants, it becomes very important to ensure that your developmental testing doesn't disrupt the user experience, cause downtime, or introduce security vulnerabilities.
That's why it's a common practice among software engineers to set up non-production sandbox environments for testing new features and deploying experimental code. These environments are usually an exact replica of the production environment, allowing developers to run independent tests without compromising the user experience.
For organizations running on Microsoft 365, this presents an unfortunate challenge because there's no easy way to replicate your production configuration for testing purposes. This results in disparities between testing and production, which can lead to unwanted bugs and performance issues down the line.
Thankfully, there's an easy solution. In this article, we're going to talk about the best way to set up test tenants that are truly identical to your production environment in Microsoft 365, so that you can conduct your testing without having to worry about discrepancies, and how to move configurations between tenants with an approval workflow.
How to Set Up a Test Tenant in Microsoft 365
A test tenant is a dedicated instance of Microsoft 365 created specifically for testing purposes. It's not meant for live users and serves only as a temporary environment for conducting developmental testing.
Setting up a test tenant in Microsoft 365 is quite simple. Just sign up for the Microsoft Developer Program and create a new tenant. That'll get you 5 Microsoft 365 E5 licenses with access to tools like Office 365 and Azure AD.
In an ideal world, Microsoft 365 test tenants would be an exact replica of your production environment, so that you can conduct usability testing in a practical setup that's close to your real-world ecosystem.
However, the reality is quite different. Microsoft makes it very easy to sign up for a developer account and create a test tenant, but it does not provide the necessary tools to clone your production configuration to the testing environment.
That means any alterations you might have made to the configuration in your tenant will not be carried over to the test environment. You're left with a test tenant that could be drastically different from the tenants you've set up for production use.
The Problem With Microsoft 365 Test Tenants
So, what happens when your test tenants aren't in sync with the production environment in Microsoft 365? Let's take a look at the common challenges faced by enterprise developers when trying to set up a test environment on the platform:
Consistency: The overarching problem with setting up test tenants in Microsoft 365 is the lack of consistency. You've got no way to ensure that your test environment is similar to what you have in production, so any changes you try to carry over from your test tenant can produce unexpected results in production.
Maintainability: Because of the larger disparity between testing and production, maintaining your cloud infrastructure becomes an ongoing hassle. What works in testing may not work in production, disrupting the experience for the end-user.
Security: These discrepancies in configuration can easily expose vulnerabilities in your cloud infrastructure, leading to a host of exploits that can be used to the advantage of hackers and predators. It can also open up compliance issues with regional restrictions and data regulations, which may lead to legal problems.
Documentation: Microsoft 365 does not offer a way for you to track changes between production and testing, making it impossible to document anything for auditing purposes.
Recoverability: If you end up testing changes that don't work out, you have no way to roll back those changes in case of any problems.
Simeon Cloud: Automated Lifecycle Management Controls for Microsoft 365
Simeon Cloud offers a much better solution to lifecycle management in Microsoft 365. It helps ensure proper consistency between your testing and production environments by automating the process of setting up and managing test tenants.
With Simeon, you can easily compare and align non-production environments with production and move configurations between tenants. All of this can easily be done with just a few clicks and advanced approval workflows. You also get access to detailed documentation and tracking for every single change to individual tenants, allowing you to achieve complete transparency, accountability, and recovery in the event of an issue.
Navigate to the Reconcile tab inside our web portal to have a clear view of any inconsistencies or gaps between your non-production and production environments in M365. From there, you can remediate any differences and approve or reject changes to your production tenant.
But it doesn't stop there. Simeon Cloud is an end-to-end automation and management solution for Microsoft 365 configurations that also assists with baselines, drift detection, multi-tenant management, automated provisioning, backup and restore (such as Azure AD configuration backup), and so on. Looking to automate configuration management for Microsoft 365 for your enterprise? Book a demo today to find out more!

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Every time I have made a big decision without pausing, listening and waiting, it hasn't worked out too well. Each time I've rushed into a solution, forced a solution, demanded a solution right now, I find myself disappointed, frustrated and stuck.
But when I make room for the Holy Spirit, when I allow myself the time to get quiet and listen for the "next right thing," I am energized, satisfied and on the move to where it is God wants me to go.
Getting quiet – easier said than done! In our 24/7 world, being quiet is tough. But even if you get the external noise to abate, shutting down the internal noise is a whole other proposition. Internal noise is cunning and relentless.
I have experienced anxiety my entire life, and one of the enemies of anxiety is quiet. If there's background noise—music, the tv—my anxious brain won't engage in the "what ifs, how about this, what about that, why can't I, why did they…." dance. This dance leaves no room for the Holy Spirit to move and no space in my heart for discernment.
I need to "make quiet happen." This can be driving without the radio playing so that I am alone with my thoughts enough to stop the internal talking and begin the deep listening. It can be taking the dogs out for a walk and never looking at my phone; it can be setting my phone to a quiet mode from 9 at night until 6 in the morning; it can be taking a moment every hour to breathe deeply and to stretch out my back. It can be standing outside, feet firmly on the ground, arms out-stretched and face turned toward the sky. It can be a nap.
I have worked hard to find out what works for me, and I encourage you to find what works for you.
Whatever takes you out of the distractions and places you into the here and the now will open you to the working of the Holy Spirit.
I find that getting myself out of my own head and reorienting myself as one small piece of the vastness that is God's creation helps, a lot. When I realize that I am just one piece of a much greater whole, when I can breathe deeply and stand firmly, when I allow the quiet to envelop me, the Holy Spirit speaks to me, my imagination is engaged and the possibilities for my life are unleashed.
I guess my message is to hurry up and slow down! Make being quiet part of your routine, and then prepare yourself to be prodded, poked and enlightened by the Holy Spirit. For it is when we can receive the message of the Holy Spirit that discernment happens.
It is there and it is then, that we discover just who it is our gracious and life-giving God intends us to be. Enjoy the ride!
The Rev. Canon Cathy Dempesy-Sims is Canon for Connections in the Diocese of Western New York.
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Q: Firebase database with progressbar I have a problem. I can't attach progressbar to my activity when data loading from Firebase database. I tried to attach progressbar via Asynctask,
put firebase listener into AsyncTask doInBackGround, set visibility in PreExecute and PostExecute methods,  but progressbar doesn't appear. Any help appreciated.

package org.wangjie.wheelview.DirectionActivity.Direction;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.os.AsyncTask;
import android.os.Build;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.annotation.RequiresApi;
import android.support.design.widget.NavigationView;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.support.v7.widget.LinearLayoutManager;
import android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView;
import android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.View;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import android.widget.ProgressBar;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.bumptech.glide.Glide;
import com.google.firebase.crash.FirebaseCrash;
import com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseError;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseReference;
import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.AccountHeader;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.AccountHeaderBuilder;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.Drawer;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.DrawerBuilder;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.model.PrimaryDrawerItem;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.model.SecondaryDrawerItem;
import com.mikepenz.materialdrawer.model.interfaces.IDrawerItem;

import org.wangjie.wheelview.R;
import org.wangjie.wheelview.gameActivity.SixStep;
import org.wangjie.wheelview.sample.TimelineActivity;

import java.util.ArrayList;

public class ActivityMainDirection extends AppCompatActivity {
    ArrayList<Direction> gArray;
    TextView mConception,mDescription,mTools,mDirectionTitle,mTitleDirection,mTitleConception,mTitleMethods;
    ProgressBar progressBar;

    ImageView mFirstImage;
    LinearLayoutManager layoutManager,layoutManager2 ;

    private NavigationView mNavigationView;

    DatabaseReference databaseReference;

    int number,i;

    RecyclerView recycler_artist;
    RecyclerView recycler_pictures;

    TextView mTextView;

    @RequiresApi(api = Build.VERSION_CODES.JELLY_BEAN_MR2)
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
       setContentView(R.layout.scroll_main_direction);

        Toolbar mToolbar=findViewById(R.id.toolbar);

         progressBar=findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

        PrimaryDrawerItem item1 = new PrimaryDrawerItem().withIdentifier(1).withName(R.string.drawer_item_home).withSelectable(false).withTextColor(Color.BLACK);
      //  SecondaryDrawerItem item2 = new SecondaryDrawerItem().withIdentifier(2).withName(R.string.drawer_paintings).withSelectable(false).withTextColor(Color.BLACK);
        SecondaryDrawerItem item3 = new SecondaryDrawerItem().withIdentifier(2).withName(R.string.malevichGame).withSelectable(false).withTextColor(Color.BLACK);

        //  item1.withName("A new name for this drawerItem").withBadge("19").withBadgeStyle(new BadgeStyle().withTextColor(Color.BLACK));
//notify the drawer about the updated element. it will take care about everything else1
//create the drawer and remember the `Drawer` result object
        // Create the AccountHeader
        AccountHeader headerResult = new AccountHeaderBuilder()
                .withActivity(this)
                .withHeaderBackground(R.drawable.i_007)

                .build();

//Now create your drawer and pass the AccountHeader.Result

        //additional Drawer setup as shown above

        Drawer result = new DrawerBuilder()
                .withActivity(this)
                .withToolbar(mToolbar)
                .addDrawerItems(
                        item1,
                        //new DividerDrawerItem(),
                       // item2,
                        item3
                        // new SecondaryDrawerItem().withName(R.string.drawer_item_settings)
                ).withTranslucentStatusBar(false).withAccountHeader(headerResult).withActionBarDrawerToggle(true).withActionBarDrawerToggleAnimated(true).withOnDrawerItemClickListener(new Drawer.OnDrawerItemClickListener() {
                    @Override
                    public boolean onItemClick(View view, int position, IDrawerItem drawerItem) {
                        // do something with the clicked item :D
                        if(position==1){
                            Intent intent=new Intent(view.getContext(), TimelineActivity.class);
                            startActivity(intent);
                        }

                        if(position==2){
                            Intent intent=new Intent(view.getContext(), SixStep.class);
                            startActivity(intent);
                        }

                        return false;
                    }
                }).withSelectedItem(-1)

                .build();

//        getSupportActionBar().setDisplayHomeAsUpEnabled(false);
//        result.getActionBarDrawerToggle().setDrawerIndicatorEnabled(true);

        FirebaseDatabase database=FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
        databaseReference=database.getReference();
        gArray=new ArrayList<>();

        recycler_artist= (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.horizontal_artist_list);
        recycler_pictures=(RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.horizontal_list);

        mDescription= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mDescription);
        mConception= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mConception);
        mTools= (TextView) findViewById(R.id.mToolsText);

        mTitleConception=findViewById(R.id.titleConception);
        mTitleDirection=findViewById(R.id.titleDescription);
        mTitleMethods=findViewById(R.id.titleMethods);

        mFirstImage=(ImageView) findViewById(R.id.first_image);
        mDirectionTitle=(TextView) findViewById(R.id.main_title);

        View targetView = findViewById(R.id.mConceptionLayout);
        targetView.getParent().requestChildFocus(targetView,targetView);

        layoutManager = new LinearLayoutManager(this);
        layoutManager.setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL);
        //recycler_artist.setHasFixedSize(false);
        recycler_artist.setLayoutManager(layoutManager);

        layoutManager2=new LinearLayoutManager(this);
        layoutManager2.scrollToPositionWithOffset(2,20);
        layoutManager2.setOrientation(LinearLayoutManager.HORIZONTAL);
        //recycler_pictures.setHasFixedSize(true);

        layoutManager2.scrollToPositionWithOffset(2,20);

        recycler_pictures.setLayoutManager(layoutManager2);

        FirebaseCrash.logcat(Log.INFO,"Activity Direction","  WTF  ");

        new Downloader().execute();

//
//
//
//        databaseReference.addChildEventListener(new com.google.firebase.database.ChildEventListener() {
//
//            @Override
//            public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
//
//                Log.e("children tag",(dataSnapshot).toString());
//
//                Iterable<DataSnapshot> children = dataSnapshot.getChildren();
//
//                for (DataSnapshot child : children) {
//
//                    //Log.e("child tag",child.toString());
//
//                        Direction direction = child.getValue(Direction.class);
//                    gArray.add(direction);
//                    Log.e("new_dir_added", direction.toString());
//
//                }
//                Intent intent=getIntent();
//                String srt=intent.getStringExtra("Number_in_list");
//
//                number=Integer.parseInt(srt);
//
//                Log.e("arrSize", gArray.size() +"   " + number)
//                ;
//
//                Log.e("url image erre",(gArray.get(number).toString()));
//                Log.e("image_url", gArray.get(number).getMUrlImage());
//
//                String [] mPictureList=gArray.get(number).getMUrlImage().split(",");
//
//                String [] mArtistListImage=gArray.get(number).getMArtistListImage().split(",");
//
//
//
//               // recycler_artist.setAdapter(new ArtistAdapter(gArray,number));// список художников в Направлении
//              //  recycler_pictures.setAdapter(new HorizontalRVAdapter(gArray,number)); // список картин в направлении
//
//                recycler_artist.setAdapter(new ArtistAdapter(mArtistListImage,number));
//                recycler_pictures.setAdapter(new HorizontalRVAdapter(mPictureList,number));
//
//                mConception.setText(gArray.get(number).getConcept());
//                mDescription.setText(gArray.get(number).getDesc());
//                mTools.setText(gArray.get(number).getTechnique());
//                mDirectionTitle.setText(gArray.get(number).getName());
//
//                Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
//                        .load(gArray.get(number).getImage())
//                        .placeholder(R.drawable.papiros)
//                        .into(mFirstImage);
//            }
//
//            @Override
//            public void onChildChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
//
//            }
//
//            @Override
//            public void onChildRemoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
//
//            }
//
//            @Override
//            public void onChildMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {
//
//            }
//
//            @Override
//            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
//
//            }
//        });

    }

    class Downloader extends AsyncTask<Object, Object, Void> {

        private final ProgressBar progress=findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

//        public Downloader(ProgressBar progress) {
//            this.progress = progress;
//            Log.e("DownloaderCons", String.valueOf(progress.getId() == R.id.progressBar));
//        }

        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            super.onPreExecute();

            progress.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

      progress.setMax(100);

        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
            super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
            progress.setVisibility(View.GONE);

        }

        @Override
        protected void onProgressUpdate(Object... values) {
            super.onProgressUpdate(values);

            progress.setProgress((Integer) values[0]);
        }

        @Override
        protected Void doInBackground(Object... voids) {
            //return null;
            for (i=0 ;i<20;i++){
   publishProgress(i);

                try{
                    Thread.sleep(30);

                } catch (InterruptedException ie){
                    ie.printStackTrace();
                }
                databaseReference.addChildEventListener(new com.google.firebase.database.ChildEventListener() {

                    @Override
                    public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

                        Log.e("children tag",(dataSnapshot).toString());

                        Iterable<DataSnapshot> children = dataSnapshot.getChildren();

                        for (DataSnapshot child : children) {

                            //Log.e("child tag",child.toString());

                            Direction direction = child.getValue(Direction.class);
                            gArray.add(direction);
                            Log.e("new_dir_added", direction.toString());

                        }
                        Intent intent=getIntent();
                        String srt=intent.getStringExtra("Number_in_list");

                        number=Integer.parseInt(srt);

                        Log.e("arrSize", gArray.size() +"   " + number)
                        ;

                        Log.e("url image erre",(gArray.get(number).toString()));
                        Log.e("image_url", gArray.get(number).getMUrlImage());

                        String [] mPictureList=gArray.get(number).getMUrlImage().split(",");

                        String [] mArtistListImage=gArray.get(number).getMArtistListImage().split(",");

                        // recycler_artist.setAdapter(new ArtistAdapter(gArray,number));// список художников в Направлении
                        //  recycler_pictures.setAdapter(new HorizontalRVAdapter(gArray,number)); // список картин в направлении

                        recycler_artist.setAdapter(new ArtistAdapter(mArtistListImage,number));
                        recycler_pictures.setAdapter(new HorizontalRVAdapter(mPictureList,number));
                       mConception.setText(gArray.get(number).getConcept());
                        mDescription.setText(gArray.get(number).getDesc());
                        mTools.setText(gArray.get(number).getTechnique());
                        mDirectionTitle.setText(gArray.get(number).getName());

                        Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
                                .load(gArray.get(number).getImage())
                                .placeholder(R.drawable.papiros)
                                .into(mFirstImage);

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onChildChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onChildRemoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onChildMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

                    }

                    @Override
                    public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {

                    }
                });

         //   }

            return null;
        }

            return null;
        }

}}

Here is my xml

<android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout
    xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:background="@android:color/background_light"
    >
        <!-- полосу на тулбаре я убрал, теперь баг появился статус бар выпрыгивает во время прокрутки  -->

    <android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout
    android:id="@+id/main.appbar"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:fitsSystemWindows="true"

        >

        <android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout

            android:id="@+id/main.collapsing"
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            app:layout_scrollFlags="scroll|exitUntilCollapsed"
            app:contentScrim="?attr/colorPrimary"
            app:expandedTitleMarginStart="48dp"
            app:expandedTitleMarginEnd="64dp"

            >

            <ImageView
                android:src="@drawable/papiros"
                android:id="@+id/first_image"
                android:layout_marginTop="55dp"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="220dp"
                android:scaleType="centerCrop"
                app:layout_collapseMode="parallax"
                tools:ignore="ContentDescription"/>

            <android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar
                android:id="@+id/toolbar"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="?attr/actionBarSize"

                app:layout_collapseMode="pin"
                >
                <RelativeLayout
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="match_parent"
                    android:layout_weight="0.88">

                    <TextView
                        android:id="@+id/main_title"
                        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                        android:gravity="left"
                        android:text=""
                        android:textColor="#000000"
                        android:textSize="19sp"
                        android:visibility="visible"
                        tools:ignore="HardcodedText,RtlHardcoded"
                        android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                        android:layout_alignParentStart="true"/>

                </RelativeLayout>
            </android.support.v7.widget.Toolbar>

        </android.support.design.widget.CollapsingToolbarLayout>
    </android.support.design.widget.AppBarLayout>

    <android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        app:layout_behavior="@string/appbar_scrolling_view_behavior"
        >

        <LinearLayout
            android:layout_width="match_parent"
            android:layout_height="match_parent"
            android:orientation="vertical">

            <RelativeLayout
                android:id="@+id/mConceptionLayout"
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_margin="15dp"
                android:layout_marginBottom="15dp"
                >

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/mConception"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text=""

                    android:textColor="@color/textColor"
                    android:textSize="15sp"

                    android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="20dp"

                    />

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/titleConception"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

                    android:textSize="15sp"
                    android:textColor="@color/textColor"

                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginTop="13dp"
                    android:text="Концепция"
                    android:textStyle="bold"
                    tools:ignore="HardcodedText"/>

            </RelativeLayout>

            <RelativeLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                android:layout_margin="15dp"
                android:layout_marginBottom="15dp"

                >

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/titleDescription"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Описание"
                    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginTop="13dp"

                    android:textColor="@color/textColor"

                    android:textSize="15sp"

                    android:textStyle="bold"
                    tools:ignore="HardcodedText"/>

                <TextView

                    android:textColor="@color/textColor"

                    android:id="@+id/mDescription"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
                    android:layout_centerVertical="true"
                    android:layout_marginTop="70dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="20dp"
                    android:text=""

                    android:textSize="15sp"
                    />

            </RelativeLayout>

            <RelativeLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_marginTop="10dp"
                android:layout_marginBottom="15dp">

                <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                    android:id="@+id/horizontal_artist_list"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"/>

            </RelativeLayout>

            <RelativeLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                android:layout_margin="15dp"
                >

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/titleMethods"

                    android:textColor="@color/textColor"

                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:text="Методы и техники"
                    android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
                    android:layout_alignParentStart="true"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="15dp"
                    android:layout_marginTop="10dp"

                    android:textSize="15sp"

                    android:textStyle="bold"
                    tools:ignore="HardcodedText"/>

                <TextView
                    android:id="@+id/mToolsText"
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"

                    android:textColor="@color/textColor"

                    android:textSize="15sp"

                    android:text="
"
                    android:layout_marginTop="40dp"
                    android:layout_marginLeft="20dp"
                    android:layout_marginStart="20dp"
                    tools:ignore="HardcodedText"/>

            </RelativeLayout>

            <LinearLayout
                android:layout_width="match_parent"
                android:layout_height="250dp"
                android:layout_marginTop="30dp"
                android:layout_marginBottom="15dp"
                android:orientation="vertical"
                >

                <android.support.v7.widget.RecyclerView
                    android:id="@+id/horizontal_list"
                    android:layout_width="match_parent"
                    android:layout_height="220dp"
                    android:layout_gravity="center_vertical"
                    android:orientation="horizontal" />

            </LinearLayout>

        </LinearLayout>

    </android.support.v4.widget.NestedScrollView>

    <ProgressBar
        android:id="@+id/progressBar"
        style="?android:attr/progressBarStyle"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:indeterminate="true"
        android:indeterminateTintMode="src_atop"
        android:indeterminateTint="@color/grey"
        />
</android.support.design.widget.CoordinatorLayout>

A: Actually, there was quite simple solution. I just put progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE); into  for (DataSnapshot child : children) {...} loop and here is my code

 databaseReference.addChildEventListener(new com.google.firebase.database.ChildEventListener() {

            @Override
            public void onChildAdded(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

int count=0;

                Log.e("children tag",(dataSnapshot).toString());

                Iterable<DataSnapshot> children = dataSnapshot.getChildren();

                for (DataSnapshot child : children) {

count++;
                    if(count >= dataSnapshot.getChildrenCount()){
                        //stop progress bar here

                        progressBar.setVisibility(View.INVISIBLE);

                        mTitleConception.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                        mTitleDirection.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
                        mTitleMethods.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);

                    }

                    //Log.e("child tag",child.toString());

                        Direction direction = child.getValue(Direction.class);
                    gArray.add(direction);
                    Log.e("new_dir_added", direction.toString());

                }
                Intent intent=getIntent();
                String srt=intent.getStringExtra("Number_in_list");

                number=Integer.parseInt(srt);

                Log.e("arrSize", gArray.size() +"   " + number)
                ;

                Log.e("url image erre",(gArray.get(number).toString()));
                Log.e("image_url", gArray.get(number).getMUrlImage());

                String [] mPictureList=gArray.get(number).getMUrlImage().split(",");

                String [] mArtistListImage=gArray.get(number).getMArtistListImage().split(",");

               // recycler_artist.setAdapter(new ArtistAdapter(gArray,number));// список художников в Направлении
              //  recycler_pictures.setAdapter(new HorizontalRVAdapter(gArray,number)); // список картин в направлении

                recycler_artist.setAdapter(new ArtistAdapter(mArtistListImage,number));
                recycler_pictures.setAdapter(new HorizontalRVAdapter(mPictureList,number));

                mConception.setText(gArray.get(number).getConcept());
                mDescription.setText(gArray.get(number).getDesc());
                mTools.setText(gArray.get(number).getTechnique());
                mDirectionTitle.setText(gArray.get(number).getName());

                Glide.with(getApplicationContext())
                        .load(gArray.get(number).getImage())
                        .placeholder(R.drawable.rama)
                        .into(mFirstImage);

            }

            @Override
            public void onChildChanged(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onChildRemoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onChildMoved(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, String s) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {

            }
        });

Initialise instance count to get know when your data loaded.

A: I suggest you use this library afollestad/material-dialogs
Before start loading show your dialog like this
MaterialDialog.Builder builder = new MaterialDialog.Builder(this)
    .title(R.string.title)
    .content(R.string.content)
    .positiveText(R.string.agree);

MaterialDialog dialog = builder.build();
dialog.show();

after finising loading your data dismis your dialog like this
dialog.dismiss();

A: Is your code running? According to your posted code          progressBar=findViewById(R.id.progressBar); this will throw error as casting is not done. Correct will be progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);. I have used your xml layout and aynctask as below
public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    ProgressBar progressBar;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

        new AsyncTask<Object, Void, Void>() {
            ProgressBar progressBar = (ProgressBar) findViewById(R.id.progressBar);

            @Override
            protected void onPreExecute() {
                super.onPreExecute();
                progressBar.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
            }

            @Override
            protected Void doInBackground(Object... params) {
                try {
                    Thread.sleep(2000);
                } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                return null;
            }

            @Override
            protected void onPostExecute(Void aVoid) {
                super.onPostExecute(aVoid);
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A: you need to set progress bar to your activity parent layout. First find your parent layout by findviewbyid
then just create object of progressbar object, you don't need to create any xml for it.
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when you want to hide progressBar use progressBar.setVisibility(View.GONE);

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2014 Free Agency: Taylor Mays expected to return to the Cincinnati Bengals
Thanks to an injury at linebacker during the preseason in 2013, Mays found a niche on Cincinnati's defense that alluded him. Now the Bengals are interested in bringing Mays back.
By Josh Kirkendall@Josh_Kirkendall Mar 9, 2014, 10:53am EDT
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There's a feeling that the Cincinnati Bengals have enough interest with safety (and hybrid linebacker) Taylor Mays, that the two sides will strike a deal to keep the former second-rounder in Cincinnati for 2014 (if not beyond).
During his defensive backs review, Paul Dehner Jr., with the Cincinnati Enquirer writes, "Expectations are a deal will be struck with Mays." Geoff Hobson with Bengals.com adds that the Bengals have an interest in "re-signing their own backups," specifically naming Mays.
The Bengals acquired Mays from San Francisco in a trade on August 23, 2011 for a seventh-round draft pick in the 2013 NFL draft. After missing a handful of games in 2011 with a preseason knee injury, he played 10 games that year, then a full-16 game schedule (with three starts) in 2012.
Perceived as a bubble player during training camp in 2013 due to his coverage issues in the preceding seasons, Mays, with the brilliant help of Paul Guenther (former linebackers coach and current defensive coordinator) as a hybrid linebacker when WILL linebacker Emmanuel Lamur was sidelined with a season-ending shoulder injury in the preseason finale.
Because Mays was mostly working linebackers and running backs in coverage, his opposing quarterback rating improved by over 70 points (155 in '12, 84 in '13). Prior to suffering a season-ending dislocated shoulder against the New York Jets, Mays generated 21 tackles, two passes defensed, two special teams tackles and a special teams fumble recovery.
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Is There Life on Earth?
Andrew May November 11, 2014
Human beings have a tendency to picture themselves – or something very similar – when they use the word "life". By that definition, the answer to the question "Is There Life on Earth?" is "Yes, of course there is" – as long as we're talking about Earth right at this moment in time. An alien visitor would see all the key indicators SETI researchers look for – sprawling city lights on the night side of the planet, a cacophony of radio and TV transmissions, thousands of artificial satellites, and even the occasional nuclear weapon test. But the Earth has been around for a long time. What would alien observers see if they arrived at some other point in its history, not just at the present moment?
When the Earth was first formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, there certainly wasn't any life on it. The planet was volcanically hyperactive, its surface was boiling hot, and there was no oxygen in the atmosphere. The earliest traces of life date from approximately 3.8 billion years ago – some 700 million years after the planet's formation. This was "life" that only a scientist would recognize as such – microscopically small, bacteria-like organisms called prokaryotes.
The next major step in evolution was the development of eukaryotes, consisting of structured cells with a nucleus. This didn't take place until around 2.1 billion years ago, by which time the Earth was already more than half its present age. Like prokaryotes, the first eukaryotes were tiny, single-celled organisms, but before long they started to evolve into larger, multicellular forms.
The first animals – large enough to see with the naked eye, and complex enough to meet a layman's definition of living creatures – appeared at the start of the Cambrian period, about 540 million years ago. Initially such lifeforms were limited to the sea – they didn't make their way onto land until the end of the Silurian period, around 420 million years ago. Those early land animals were primitive, bug-like invertebrates. Large, land-going vertebrates such as dinosaurs didn't put in an appearance until the middle of the Triassic period, about 230 million years ago.
While dinosaurs are unquestionably "life", they're still not the kind of life you could have an intelligent conversation with. Of all the species in the planet's history, our own – homo sapiens – is the only one known to possess what is commonly thought of as "intelligence". Even if this were true of earlier, extinct, members of genus homo, it would still only date the emergence of intelligent life to something like 2.5 million years ago.
Going beyond the concept of intelligence, what about "civilization"? Obviously it depends on how you define the word, but human civilization is probably no more than ten thousand years old. Scientific civilization, with a modern understanding of stars, planets and outer space, only dates back some 500 years. Technological civilization – complete with mass communications, space travel, nuclear power and the rest – is less than a century old.
To put all that in perspective, it's helpful to think in terms of percentage probabilities. Let's define the 4.5 billion year life of the Earth as 100%, and suppose the alien equivalent of a SETI mission arrived to observe it at some random point during that time. What's the probability they would find life on Earth?
Any kind of life – 84% probability (= 3.8/4.5)
Eukaryotic life – 47% probability (= 2.1/4.5)
Animal life – 12% probability (= 540/4500)
Land-dwelling animals – 9% probability (= 420/4500)
Land-dwelling vertebrates – 5% probability (=230/4500)
Intelligent life – 0.05% probability (= 2.5/4500)
Civilization – 0.0002% probability (= 0.01/4500)
Scientific civilization – 0.00001% probability (=500/4,500,000,000)
Technological civilization – 0.000002% probability (=100/4,500,000,000)
So what's the chance that planet Earth harbors life? If you mean "life" as defined by scientists, then it's pretty high – 84%. On the other hand, if you mean the kind of life that's of interest to SETI researchers and sci-fi fans, then it's almost non-existent – just two millionths of one percent!
Thanks to Tom Head, by the way, for providing so much food for thought in his "Is There Life on…" series earlier this year – and for allowing me to emulate him in the title of this article!
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Andrew May is a versatile freelance author and consultant with 30 years experience working in academia, central government and the private sector. He has authored "Pseudoscience and Science Fiction", "Conspiracy History" and "Museum of the Future" to name a few. He's also written magazine features and online articles on subjects ranging from military history and science to Fortean topics and New Age beliefs.
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The LIP TV: Byod With Ondi Timoner- Dimitri Logothetis on Sam Giancana
Posted on December 28, 2014 by Rik Schneider
Source:The Lip TV– Frank Sinatra and JFK.
"Assassination of John F. Kennedy, mortal shooting of John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, as he rode in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. His accused killer was Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine who had embraced Marxism and defected for a time to the Soviet Union. Oswald never stood trial for murder, because, while being transferred after having been taken into custody, he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby, a distraught Dallas nightclub owner."
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"Sam Giancana-one of the heads of the mafia-was connected closely to Frank Sinatra and JFK, and we discuss the link that led to the president's assassination with Momo: The Sam Giancana Story director Dimitri Logothetis in this BYOD clip. Featuring footage from the fascinating documentary about Giancana and the far-reaching influence of the mobster, Logothetis opens a lot of eyes here."
From The Lip TV
Without Joe Kennedy's Italian Mafia connections with people like Sam Giancana, would Jack Kennedy ever become President of the United States? I'm guessing not, at least not when he did and had he not of won the presidency in 1960. h
Without his father's Italian mob connections, perhaps JFK's life gets extended and maybe he becomes a solid U.S. Senator, breaks away from his father Joe and builds his own professional reputation as a smart, tough, effective politician, and a good public servant, with a solid record in Congress.
Maybe JFK becomes Governor of Massachusetts later on and wins the presidency in 1968 or perhaps 72 without the help of his father. Pure speculation of course on my part.
It wasn't Jack Kennedy calling up the Italian Mafia and their leaders and saying: "Hey, can you help me out here, I don't think I can beat Dick Nixon by myself in Illinois and perhaps not New York Either?" Joe SR. the Kennedy's father was doing that and perhaps putting it in the same away: "Hey Sam, I don't think my son Jack can beat Dick Nixon in Illinois by himself. Anything you could do for us in Chicago especially, would be very appreciative."
What happened in 1960 is that Kennedy's used Italian mobsters and friends of Italian mobsters like Frank Sinatra, to help out Jack and then they abandoned the mob when they came to office.
One of the reasons why the Italian Mafia hated the Kennedy's, Joe, Jack and Bobby, was because without them, JFK probably doesn't become President in 1960. They felt the Kennedy's owed them and what the Kennedy Administration did instead was not just drop them like a sack of bricks, but went further than that and went after them. Attorney General Bob Kennedy launched a huge campaign against organized crime in America, including the Italian Mafia. And Sam Giancana was one of their big targets at the Justice Department. And as a result the Kennedy's created a lot of new enemies for themselves.
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I hope you're having a great week so far!
Below are a few photos from the past few weeks that although they haven't made it onto any posts, they deserve their own moment to shine. Some are things found out and about, cycling, running errands and cats. Lots of cats.
Helium balloon, peeping over the Barcelona Zoo's main entrance as seen from inside the zoo, La Merce Friday.
AJ yoga mat takeover. He decided mats are for sitting on my foot and stopping play for shoulder massages.
Google Maps street view mapping, Port Vell.
I came back from a run to find D sleeping very comfy.
The cutest tweezers ever and being toucans, they were leaving with me.
More of La Merce Correfoc's angry cat.
Breakfast with neighbourhood watch patrol AJ.
The loneliest monkey at the zoo. I don't know his monkey group name, only that he lives with 2 talapoin monkeys and has to be the loneliest monkey there. S/he has the cutest voice and always seems looking out for something or someone. The loneliest ape, the gibbon now lives with the orangutans. I'm not sure what happened to either of their companions.
Almost sunset reverse sunset waves.
AJ and D seeing through a thunderstorm.
Caught just before he peed up the side of the bath.
Autumn Fall foliage Barcelona Zoo.
Is my chicken ready yet?
Joan Miro mural El Prat airport Barcelona. Face? Cartoon bug? Cartoon bird with yellow beak looking down and across to the right?
Teensy tiny hamster or gerbil beds.
The Teleferico or Port Cable Car as seen from Barceloneta.
Great pics! Fun coffee mugs!
Thanks so much again for cheering me up with some lovely photos of zoo animals and domestic animals, my favourite!!! That one of AJ waiting for his dinner is so good!!!
How are you doing in Barcelona at the moment? Have you decided yet about what to do with your CV? Please let me know, I think about you a lot, and I hope your life takes off in a positive way.
I am warped up with the grandkids and hopefully there may be another one on the way soon, Andy & Edilene are on their honeymoon in Rhodes and she has had lots of B12 injections and vitamins, fingers crossed for a companion to Ella!! What am I like!!! Hopefully Eddie won't know about all my hopeful planning!!!!
I'm having chemo tomorrow, fingers crossed, haven't had it for a while because of chest infections!!! I want to get it over with quickly and put it behind me.
Janet! You and your schemes!
I hope the chemo's better this time around. The weather here at the moment's like the UK. Grey skies and I've dug out my light weight puffer/duvet jacket. P's here until the middle of November and it's same old same old!