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/**
 * Show the activity over the lockscreen and wake up the device. If you launched the app manually
 * both of these conditions are already true. If you deployed from the IDE, however, this will
 * save you from hundreds of power button presses and pattern swiping per day!
 */
public static void riseAndShine(Activity activity) {
  activity.getWindow().addFlags(FLAG_SHOW_WHEN_LOCKED);

  PowerManager power = (PowerManager) activity.getSystemService(POWER_SERVICE);
  PowerManager.WakeLock lock =

BartoszJarocki

import org.joda.time.DateTime;
import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;


public class WCFDateTimeParser {
    /**
     * <p>WCF services supply Dates over JSON in a strange format. This method
     * takes a WCF-formatted Date string and parses it into a JodaTime DateTime
     * object. Assumes valid input matching a format described below.</p>
     *