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Around the Empire: Yankees news - 2/9/17
A-Rod says suspension was a pivotal moment in his life; Tanaka won't focus on opt-out until after the season; other 2018 options for the rotation; Greg Bird happy to have Chris Carter on the team; Ken Singleton and Chase Headley discuss switch-hitting; MLB to test idiotic idea in the lowest levels of the minors
By Greg Kirkland@ImNotAHRHitter Feb 9, 2017, 7:00am EST
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Newsday | Erik Boland: A lot of us joke about the adorkable nature of Alex Rodriguez lately. His Dad-Rod photos on Twitter, A-Rod Corp, and his popular stint as an analyst during the playoffs are just some of the ways he's endeared himself back into the hearts of some of his harshest critics. It wasn't always that way. According to A-Rod, his suspension was a pivotal turning point in his life. It took him four months into it to tell his daughters about what he had done. If that was indeed his turning point, he's certainly been moving in the right direction.
New York Daily News | Mike Mazzeo: Masahiro Tanaka, Yankees ace and all around swell guy, will begin his fourth year in pinstripes. At the end of this year, Tanaka can opt-out of his seven-year contract. Will he? Possibly. Tanaka will not be focusing on that during the season. The majority of stories regarding this will be answered at the end of the year. Instead he should focus on getting that much needed TJS.
New York Post | Ken Davidoff: If Tanaka does opt-out, the Yankees will have some decisions to make regarding their rotation. One of those decision might be to continue on with Tanaka. Another decision will be to look at the crop of pitchers available next offseason. This article takes a look at some of the options.
Newsday | Erik Boland: The Yankees, pending a physical, will soon sign Chris Carter to a one-year deal. Greg Bird, also known as GREG BIRD, is happy about the deal. Bird believes that Carter would add a powerful bat to the lineup, in addition to a good veteran presence. Bird still knows that he has to compete for the starting position and he is ready to give it his all in spring training. We're ready as well, Greg Bird.
Fangraphs | David Laurila: Switch-hitters use dark sorcery to hit from both sides of the plate. That's just my theory though. Actual switch-hitters who actually have played the sport of baseball discuss what it's like during certain scenarios. Current Yankees' third baseman Chase Headley and current YES broadcaster Ken Singleton discuss their different outlooks at switch-hitting.
Yahoo Sports | Jeff Passan: Our final article is dumb. Well, the article is not dumb. It just has an incredibly dumb idea about how to "improve" the sport of baseball. This stupid idea is to test having a runner on second base at the start of extra innings. This moronic plan would be tested in the lowest levels in the minors, where managers may not have the out-of-the-box thinking to immediately intentionally walk the first batter. Just go full Blernsball already and be done with it.


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Frederik Pohl was a prolific writer and editor of science fiction and the winner of multiple Hugo and Nebula awards, best known as the author of The Space Merchants (with Cyril Kornbluth) and Gateway. Pohl grew up in New York City and dropped out of high school in the 1930s to work in science fiction as an editor and agent for other writers. On the side, he wrote his own poems and short stories, using a variety of pen names. After a stint in Italy during World War II, Pohl returned to New York and began working full-time for science fiction magazines, while collaborating with other writers as co-writer, editor and agent. He was instrumental in getting Isaac Asimov's A Pebble in the Sky published, and by the 1950s, Pohl was making a living off his own work as well. During his career, he won six Hugos (as both writer and editor) and three Nebulas, along with a host of other awards. He collaborated with Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Robert Heinlein and many others, and helped the careers of a generation of science fiction writers in the mid-20th century. He also wrote several non-fiction books on a variety of subjects, traveled and lectured widely and championed a sci-fi world that centered around stories of average joes. Pohl's books include The Space Merchants (1952), Gateway (1977), Jem: The Making of a Utopia (1979), The Day the Martians Came (1988) and The Other End of Time (1996).
Frederik Pohl collaborated with Arthur C. Clarke on Clarke's last book, The Last Theorem.

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Write to Congress and tell them to revoke pesticide registration fees.
I'm concerned that the system for registering pesticides at the EPA leaves the door wide open for cronyism, where the EPA collects fees from industry to approve their products. This kind of pay-to-play scheme is exactly the kind of thing the government should not be involved in. For example, there is a loophole at the EPA that allows companies to market and sell a pesticide without having to submit all the necessary data. This happens in "conditional registration," which allows a chemical to enter the market while the company generates missing data requested by the EPA. Conditional registration was meant to be used in emergencies if a chemical was needed to, for instance, prevent a disease outbreak. But an analysis found that 65% of currently registered pesticides have been conditionally registered. The analysis also concluded that the EPA did not have systems in place to ensure that the additional data requested by the agency had been submitted by industry and reviewed by EPA staff. Clothianidin, a neonicotinoid, is a case in point. This chemical was granted conditional approval in 2003 to treat corn and canola seed. The EPA at the time said that registration was conditioned upon the submission of a field study of the chemical's effect on bees by 2004. The company, Bayer, didn't submit any study until 2007, three years late, and the study suffered from so many flaws that the EPA considered it "invalid." Despite all this, the chemical remains on the market under conditional registration. Clothianidin has been found to be immunotoxic and neurotoxic in humans, while also adversely effecting aquatic animals and bees. If the EPA is to truly offer an independent assessment of the safety of a chemical, it cannot be financially reliant on the industry submitting the chemicals for review. These same conflicts of interest exist at the FDA, and thousands of Americans have become sick or even died from dangerous drugs approved at the behest of the drug industry. I know that Congress has reauthorized PRIA this year, but I urge you to revoke pesticide registration fees and end this threat of cronyism at the EPA.


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Microsoft demonstrates ethical leadership in calling for regulation of facial recognition
What a change a CEO makes. Microsoft's CEO Satya Nadella has made a number of significant changes at the company which have improved its fortunes and reputation — not the least of which is taking stronger ethical positions on technology issues than his predecessor and most of his competitors and peers.
Nadella was the first major tech CEO I saw forcefully discuss the importance of ethical technology development at the company's 2017 Build developer conference. (Apple's Tim Cook has also done so. but in a more self-interested way.) The most recent example of Microsoft's ethical leadership is company President Brad Smith's call for federal regulation of facial recognition technology on Friday:
Facial recognition technology raises issues that go to the heart of fundamental human rights protections like privacy and freedom of expression. These issues heighten responsibility for tech companies that create these products. In our view, they also call for thoughtful government regulation and for the development of norms around acceptable uses . . .
[I] f there are concerns about how a technology will be deployed more broadly across society, the only way to regulate this broad use is for the government to do so. This in fact is what we believe is needed today – a government initiative to regulate the proper use of facial recognition technology, informed first by a bipartisan and expert commission.
In many ways, this is a remarkable thing, given that most major US tech companies favor "self-regulation," which is often a euphemism for "trust us" and little more. That's not what Microsoft is saying. It's not calling for a working group or private consortium or trade group to handle the issue. It's asking for bipartisan Congressional legislation.
Arguably, the Cambridge Analytica and "fake news" scandals that impacted the 2016 election show self-regulation does not work. And when the choice is promoting revenue growth versus "doing the right thing," most companies will choose revenue. The quarterly pressures of being a public company almost always compromise corporate ethics.
There are cynical interpretations of Microsoft's move that argue it's motivated, at least in part, by self-interest. I see the company's concerns and motivations as genuine, however. (Last month, following an employee uproar over potential AI work for the Department of Defense, Google announced a kind of AI manifesto with new rules and principles governing AI project development.)
Facial recognition, AI and other emerging technologies are ripe for potential abuse. China is already a frighting, totalitarian example of how facial recognition is being deployed to control a population. The differences between China and the US are not as great as we'd like to believe, especially given the accelerating, judicially sanctioned decline of civil liberties and civil rights.
I'm not saying that technology leaders shouldn't advocate responsible technology development or promote voluntary standards. Ethics should be part of the conversation at every step of the way. But that's not enough in certain contexts.
Congress is totally dysfunctional and may not be able to accomplish much of anything in the next several terms. But self-regulation has shown that it probably cannot deliver the protections required by a Constitutional democracy when fundamental rights are at stake.
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Stainless steel is a kind of steel or metal stuff that is resistant toward the influence of oxidation. This is not created naturally in the earth. Stainless steel is a combination of some metal elements in certain compositions. The combination produces new kind of metal with new characteristics that are commonly more superior that the forming element. Besides, the characteristics are basically those expected by manufacturers. There are many kinds of stainless steel for sure. Here, two of them are explained, Austenitic and duplex, commonly used to form certain products.
Austenitic stainless steel is made from the combination of iron, chrome, nickel, and the blend of iron, chrome, nickel, and manganese with percentage of 18% chrome and 8% nickel. Besides, there are also some other elements added like Molybdenum, Titanium, and Copper so that the characteristics of stainless steel are able to modify. The modification is basically functioned to improve the resistance towards corrosion.
Almost all kinds of stainless steel are fragile in low temperature. However, due to the content of nickel, austenitic stainless steel tends to be more suitable to be applied in the low temperature or known as cryogenic. Besides, it is also nonmagnetic and not able to be hardened or softened by heating. In general, austenitic stainless steel is the most easy to be shaped of all. Here are some products made from austenitic stainless steel; bathroom and kitchen sink, building structure (including ceiling, gutters, door, and window), kitchen appliances, chemical tank, valve, and many more.
In our daily life, it is quite easy to see the use of duplex stainless steel. Some of them are in the heat exchanger, marine navigation tool, food preservative industry, oil and gas off-shore installation, chemical and petro-chemical industry, valve, and so on.
Despite the Austenitic and Duplex stainless steel, there are surely some more types of stainless steel with different compositions and functions. However, it looks like these two are the more often ones to be found in our daily life for the high level of safety and also the resistance. It can be concluded that the difference of Austenitic and Duplex are mostly related to the forming elements and functions or applications. If Austenitic stainless steel contains higher level of nickel, Duplex is even lower. Both can be found in any utensils but Duplex stainless steel tends to be used in the industry not home appliances.


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Recently published research from our group shows that disease-causing bacteria, Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium (hereafter Salmonella) ingeniously uses the mammalian cell's (host) membrane transport machinery to attach itself and replicate, ensuring its survival inside the host cell.
Salmonella is a gram-negative facultative intracellular pathogen that causes gastroenteritis associated with intestinal inflammation and diarrhea in humans and a typhoid-like disease in mice. While the gastroenteritis is usually self-limiting, systemic infection of non-typhoidal S. enterica in immuno-compromised patients or in infants and aged population can result in a life-threatening outcome.
Mammalian cells have efficient transport machinery involving the organelles, endosomes and lysosomes that are responsible for transporting molecules (such as proteins, nutrients etc.) from the plasma membrane, sorting them and finally degrading/consuming them. Salmonella replicates inside host cells that have the capability of engulfing solid particles (phagocytosis) or in other cells without this property in a unique membrane-bound compartment known as the Salmonella-containing vacuole or SCV. To establish its replicative function, Salmonella redirects membranes and nutrients from the host cell's recycling and sorting compartments to the SCV by establishing an interconnected network of tubules, also known as Salmonella-induced filaments (SIFs) forming a continuum with the SCVs. How Salmonella ensures a constant supply of endocytic cargo to the vacuole for its survival and replication remained unexplored.
Notably, Salmonella invasion into the host cell and its replication inside the SCV is facilitated by bacterial effector proteins translocated into the fluid portion (cytosol) of the host cell by its two secretion systems. Our recent work published in PLOS pathogens uncovers a strategy evolved by Salmonella wherein it secretes a bacterial effector protein known as SifA into the host cytosol that recruits component of host vesicle fusion machinery- HOPS complex to SCVs and SIFs. We found that Salmonella effector SifA in complex with its binding partner, SKIP, interacts with HOPS and mediates recruitment of this tethering factor to SCV compartments. HOPS complex promotes docking of the late endocytic compartments at the SCV membranes eventually leading to their fusion. Depletion of HOPS subunits both in cultured mammalian cell lines as well as in mouse model inhibits Salmonella replication, likely due to reduced access to host membranes and nutrients by the vacuolar bacteria.
Our findings suggest that Salmonella exploits the host's endosomal and lysosomal membrane fusion machinery for access to host membrane and nutrients, ensuring its own intracellular survival and replication.
Description: Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium has the fascinating ability to form tubular structures known as Salmonella-induced filaments (SIFs). SIFs are formed by fusion of Salmonella-containing vacuole (SCV) with the late endocytic compartments of the host cell. Salmonella inhabits and replicates within the SCV, acquiring both membrane and nutrients from late endosomes and lysosomes. This image shows GFP-expressing Salmonella infected HeLa cells, fixed at 10 hr post infection. SIFs are recognized by immunostaining for the lysosomal marker- LAMP1 (pseudo colored in magenta).


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Planck length
Title: Planck length
Subject: Orders of magnitude (length), Max Planck, Planck units, Planck temperature, Planck time
Collection: Max Planck, Natural Units, Units of Length
1 Planck length =
0.0000×10^0 m 0.0000×10^0 nm
11.706 ℓS 0.0000×10^0 a0
US customary units (Imperial units)
0.0000×10^0 ft 0.0000×10^0 in
In physics, the Planck length, denoted ℓP, is a unit of length, equal to 6965161619900000000♠1.616199(97)×10−35 metres. It is a base unit in the system of Planck units, developed by physicist Max Planck. The Planck length can be defined from three fundamental physical constants: the speed of light in a vacuum, the Planck constant, and the gravitational constant.
Theoretical significance 2
Notes and references 5
The Planck length ℓP is defined as
\ell_\mathrm{P} =\sqrt\frac{\hbar G}{c^3} \approx 1.616\;199 (97) \times 10^{-35}\ \mathrm{m}
where c is the speed of light in a vacuum, G is the gravitational constant, and ħ is the reduced Planck constant. The two digits enclosed by parentheses are the estimated standard error associated with the reported numerical value.[1][2]
The Planck length is about 10−20 times the diameter of a proton, and thus is exceedingly small.
Theoretical significance
There is currently no proven physical significance of the Planck length; it is, however, a topic of theoretical research. Since the Planck length is so many orders of magnitude smaller than any current instrument could possibly measure, there is no way of examining it directly. According to the generalized uncertainty principle (a concept from speculative models of quantum gravity), the Planck length is, in principle, within a factor of 10, the shortest measurable length – and no theoretically known improvement in measurement instruments could change that.
In some forms of quantum gravity, the Planck length is the length scale at which the structure of spacetime becomes dominated by quantum effects, and it is impossible to determine the difference between two locations less than one Planck length apart. The precise effects of quantum gravity are unknown; it is often guessed that spacetime might have a discrete or foamy structure at a Planck length scale.
The Planck area, equal to the square of the Planck length, plays a role in black hole entropy. The value of this entropy, in units of the Boltzmann constant, is known to be given by \frac{A}{4\ell_\mathrm{P}^2}, where A is the area of the event horizon. The Planck area is the area by which the surface of a spherical black hole increases when the black hole swallows one bit of information, as was proven by Jacob Bekenstein.[3]
If large extra dimensions exist, the measured strength of gravity may be much smaller than its true (small-scale) value. In this case the Planck length would have no fundamental physical significance, and quantum gravitational effects would appear at other scales.
In string theory, the Planck length is the order of magnitude of the oscillating strings that form elementary particles, and shorter lengths do not make physical sense.[4] The string scale ls is related to the Planck scale by ℓP = gs1/4ls, where gs is the string coupling constant. Contrary to what the name suggests, the string coupling constant is not constant, but depends on the value of a scalar field known as the dilaton.
In loop quantum gravity, area is quantized, and the Planck area is, within a factor of 10, the smallest possible area value.
In doubly special relativity, the Planck length is observer-invariant.
The search for the laws of physics valid at the Planck length is a part of the search for the theory of everything.
The size of the Planck length can be visualized as follows: if a particle or dot about 0.1 mm in size (which is approximately the smallest the unaided human eye can see) were magnified in size to be as large as the observable universe, then inside that universe-sized "dot", the Planck length would be roughly the size of an actual 0.1 mm dot. In other words, a 0.1 mm dot is halfway between the Planck length and the size of the observable universe on a logarithmic scale.
Fock–Lorentz symmetry
Planck energy
Planck mass
Planck epoch
Planck scale
Planck temperature
Planck time
^ John Baez, The Planck Length
^ NIST, "Planck length", NIST's published CODATA constants
^ "Phys. Rev. D 7, 2333 (1973): Black Holes and Entropy". Prd.aps.org. Retrieved 2013-10-21.
Garay, Luis J. (January 1995). "Quantum gravity and minimum length".
Bowley, Roger;
Planck's natural units
Planck units
Base Planck units
Planck charge
Derived Planck units
Planck force
Planck power
Planck density
Planck angular frequency
Planck pressure
Planck current
Planck voltage
Planck impedance
Planck momentum
Planck area
Planck volume
Units of length
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Second, International System of Units, Krypton, Vacuum, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Time, Mass, Temperature, Electric charge, Si
Proton, Moon, Metre, Solar System, Electron
Time, International System of Units, Mass, Temperature, Electromagnetism
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Goodness me, it's the 4th of July and I intend to go jump in a pool and play in a little while. But first I wanted to pop in and say a few words over here. Lately over at Sapling I've been pretty consumed with an animation that I'm putting together over there. It's been a whole lot of work, and it's nearly finished now. I get excited at times like these.
The animation is about the translation process. From a technical standpoint, it's been interesting how much time I've been spending in the program, After Effects. I usually do a little compositing there, but then have generally brought my work into Final Cut Pro or something like that to finish up the actual shot arrangement. With this one, I've found it made more sense to actually just put the whole thing together in After Effects. I'm having to be really careful about organization and use a lot of pre-compositions. And even so, I don't believe that I have ever taken on this many layers of video to wrangle for another project in my entire life. That's the thing about animation though I guess. You literally make all of it from scratch.
One thing that I don't care for in After Effects as opposed to your more editing and less effect driven software, is it's insistence that every little thing have it's own layer. This has been one of those pieces for which I've wanted a lot of layered subtlety going on behind the scene. It would have been nice to be able to dedicate a couple of tracks for that, rather than adding a new one for every piece of footage used. That being said though, After Effects does a great job at handling image sequence footage and you do have a great deal of control over a lot of details. Still, if anyone from Adobe happens to read this, maybe the next version could at least give us the ability to group tracks into folders. For when you don't quite want to create a pre-composition and send your tracks to another timeline, but you still want to clean them up a bit for viewing sake, or to add some sort of matting to the whole bundle, just that one little thing would make After Effects so much better in general.
I especially thought that when I got into the part of this animation that I like to call the breakdown. Textbooks often use similar static illustrations to represent things that may or may not atomically look like the molecule in question. And really it's only rather recently with the work of Dr. Venki Ramakrishnan (video link to a lecture of his about the ribosome and translation process) that we even fully know the exact structure of the ribosome. So one of the things that I've been excited to do with this one is to create some more standard looking images and then layer them over the 3D animation. I then keyframed the individual components to follow their 3D counterparts so we can actually see the connection between those representations and a more 3D space. I have been simultaneously irritated with myself for coming up with such a time consuming and intricate thing to create to tell this story, while also really psyched to get to break everything down so clearly. As it's come together, every codon in the 2D overlay has had to have it's own layer in After Effects, but now that I finally have everything placed and animated, I'm really excited about it. Back in school, I recall one of our teachers, John Daugherty, telling us about how every piece that you do has to have that thing that makes it really interesting to you as an artist. Whether it's a concept, or a technique, or whatever, and I think this part of this animation is that for me. It's something that I don't see other animations doing, and for me it's like wrapping up that little aha moment that you get when you're watching these sorts of things and you finally figure out how one representation relates to another and start to get what it is that you're seeing.
As you can see, though, I've got these huge blocks of layers in the timeline there. At one point, I had more than 60 in there, and that's with many of them being pre-compositions that lead to more layers in another timeline. But it's working. And I just love it when things work.
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Julian WORRALL
Towards an Architecture of Place and Displacement
Associate Professor, Architecture and Urban Studies Director,Worrall Lab (LLLABO).
I took up my present position at the Waseda University Institute for Advanced Study in 2009, after working as an architect and urban designer with Rem Koolhaas at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam in the Netherlands. From this privileged and independent position, I have been able to develop a linked set of research interests, creative projects, and educational initiatives under the umbrella of Worrall Lab (nicknamed "LLLABO"), while also contributing to various elements of the curriculum at the Waseda Architecture program and also at the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia University. Here I give a brief outline of LLLABO's mission, activities, and future agenda.
Urbanism – the theory and practice of the city in all its complexity – has been at the core of LLLABO's agenda, and Tokyo has provided its most immediate context and inspiration. The lab's original mission has been "to distill the logic and the magic of the Asian metropolis." Cities are immensely complex entities, at once both nature and culture, that we both shape and are shaped by. Recognition of this reflexive dimension means that research on cities is intrinsically "impure", combining concepts and techniques from diverse fields, ranging across architecture, history, geography, sociology, economics, even the biological sciences. Rather than being confined to the particular specialisms of urban planning or urban design, the perspectives on the city that I encourage in the lab embrace this breadth to build a layered, polyphonic imagination of the urban condition, while aiming to connect this understanding to the specific strategies of architects as they intervene on concrete sites.
This approach was applied to a survey of recent buildings in Tokyo that resulted in my first book, entitled 21st Century Tokyo: A Guide to Contemporary Architecture (Kodansha International, 2010.) Ostensibly a guidebook to the architecture of Tokyo since 1990, the book is more accurately a collective portrait of the city as seen through its recent buildings, while simultaneously reading its buildings as embedded within larger urban patterns. Such "thick description" of buildings and places fosters a view of architecture as a cultural product born of specific conjunctions of site, circumstance, and intelligence, a perspective that enriches the understanding not only of those who shape urban places, but those who inhabit and make use of the city.
Research focussed on Tokyo continues at LLLABO – a current book project involves writing a "spatial history" of the city. Meanwhile other strands of research expanding the frame of reference beyond the city proper have been gathering strength. One line explores the proliferation in Japan of initiatives employing architecture and contemporary art to revitalise declining rural locales, such as in the Setouchi Art Festival in the Seto Inland Sea and the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale in Niigata prefecture, a phenomenon that raises important questions of place-making, landscape, tourism, and audience. Another angle focusses on the emergence of a "cosmopolitan" urban sensibility among younger architects, and with it the potential for a distinctive form of "East Asian urbanism", illuminating the question of whether urban patterns are converging or diverging under globalisation and the associated international flows of people, products, money, and ideas.
These various lines of research can be seen as orbiting a central question: how do we re-conceptualise the concept of "place" in an era of global travel and instant networked communications – in an era, in other words, of "displacement"? Today, in an global economy underpinned by mobility, place is not so much "lived" as mediated, collected, and consumed. The question of "whose place" becomes unclear – under conditions of mediation and travel, those who have legitimate claims on places can extend far beyond local owners, custodians and inhabitants; while for those defined by a condition of displacement, any primary affiliation to an original place (ie: the childhood home) becomes blurred among innumerable "elsewheres" that form the topographical map of adult identity. The production, differentiation, and consumption of place has become a major component of contemporary economic and cultural activity, in which architects and planners are deeply complicit.
To express this in poetic terms: we are all born homeless now, yet we spend our lives seeking home.
Scholars generally use publications to disseminate research, but for those in the field of architecture creative practice is a favoured domain in which the insights from research are synthesised and tested. Since 2011, LLLABO has embarked on practice-based projects, including "Australia House", a competition proposal for an artists' facility in Niigata prefecture (pictured), and an ongoing project for a weekend house in Chiba prefecture. Combining perspectives from research and practice, we are feeling our way towards a theory of architecture that sees "displacement" – the sense of being elsewhere than "here" – as being a key condition of contemporary experience, and seeks to think and shape places that reflect and respond to this condition.
Our goal, in a nutshell, could be described as the articulation of an architecture – and an urbanism – of place and displacement.
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Australian architect, scholar, and critic. Educated in architecture at University of California, Berkeley (1994) and University of Adelaide (1997). Completed a PhD (Architecture and Urban History) from the University of Tokyo in 2005. After working at Klein Dytham Architecture in Tokyo and OMA in Rotterdam, he became Assistant Professor at Waseda University Institute for Advanced Study in 2009, and has been Associate Professor since April 2012. A contributing editor for Icon magazine (UK), and widely published and translated internationally, his most recent publication is Toyo Ito: Forces of Nature (Princeton Architectural Press, 2012).


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Why did you become a CASA advocate?
Twenty years ago I made a very specific decision to become a CASA advocate. I had just moved back to Sioux Falls and felt deeply that I needed to concentrate my efforts in a couple areas. I knew I wanted to work 'hands on' on issues I cared about. At that time, I knew little to nothing about child abuse and neglect, and one of my continuing regrets is that in every community, most citizens remain blissfully unaware of this dark world many children and families inhabit. I started as a CASA because my political and personal leanings demand I contribute and 'do something' to make a difference. Today, I am more aware than ever of societal and familial dysfunction, and my efforts are minuscule in comparison to looming vicious cycles of drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, poverty, and ignorance. But this is what I can do for one group of kids at a time.
How do you balance volunteering with your career/personal life?
I am fortunate that balancing volunteering with my personal life is not difficult since I am happily retired. I cannot imagine engaging with important CASA volunteer work and holding full-time employment at the same time. There are no shortcuts to serving as an effective CASA, so at stressful times in CASA cases – especially when I'm writing a court report (!!)– the hours mount up. The volunteers who juggle employment or young families with CASA volunteering have my deepest respect. At times I certainly do stretch myself as cases grow more demanding or as a Court report looms, but each case is a priority, and kids can't wait.
What was a moment that you realized that you/CASAs do make a difference?
Perhaps it's not so much a specific moment that has made me aware of our important role, but over the years, I've compiled a growing understanding of what our role can mean to children, to Child Protection staff, and to the legal process. Certainly, there are moments that bring home the gravity of dealing with children's lives and futures. When a Judge or States' Attorney quotes from and asks questions directly from the CASA report or when a 15-year-old girl who is isolated from the rest of her family walks with me and asks important questions, I realize it makes a difference. When I uncover vital information that ensures decisions will be made in the children's best interest and when a mother calls me 5 years after guardianship was awarded to her parents and says, "Jean, I've got my act together! How do I get my kids back?!", I know serving as a CASA matters.
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Q: Can't change kafka broker-id in Incubator Helm chart? I have one Zookeeper server (say xx.xx.xx.xxx:2181) running on one GCP Compute Instance VM separately.
I have 3 GKE clusters all in different regions on which I am trying to install Kafka broker nodes so that all nodes connect to one Zookeeper server(xx.xx.xx.xxx:2181).
I installed the Zookeeper server on the VM following this guide with zookeeper properties looking like below:
dataDir=/tmp/data
clientPort=2181
maxClientCnxns=0
initLimit=5
syncLimit=2
tickTime=2000

# list of servers
server.1=0.0.0.0:2888:3888

I am using this Incubator Helm Chart to deploy the brokers on GKE clusters.
As per the README.md I am trying to install with the below command:
helm repo add incubator http://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-charts-incubator

helm install --name my-kafka \
  --set replicas=1,zookeeper.enabled=false,configurationOverrides."broker\.id"=1,configurationOverrides."zookeeper\.connect"="xx.xx.xx.xxx:2181" \
  incubator/kafka

Error
When I deploy using any of the above ways described above on all of the three GKE Clusters, only one of the brokers gets connected to the Zookeeper server and the other two pods just restart infinitely.
When I check the Zookeeper log (on the VM), it looks something like below:
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[2019-10-30 14:32:30,930] INFO Accepted socket connection from /xx.xx.xx.xxx:54978 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxnFactory)
[2019-10-30 14:32:30,936] INFO Client attempting to establish new session at /xx.xx.xx.xxx:54978 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer)
[2019-10-30 14:32:30,938] INFO Established session 0x100009621af0057 with negotiated timeout 6000 for client /xx.xx.xx.xxx:54978 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer)
[2019-10-30 14:32:32,335] INFO Got user-level KeeperException when processing sessionid:0x100009621af0057 type:create cxid:0xc zxid:0x422 txntype:-1 reqpath:n/a Error Path:/config/users Error:KeeperErrorCode = NodeExists for /config/users (org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor)
[2019-10-30 14:32:34,472] INFO Got user-level KeeperException when processing sessionid:0x100009621af0057 type:create cxid:0x14 zxid:0x424 txntype:-1 reqpath:n/a Error Path:/brokers/ids/0 Error:KeeperErrorCode = NodeExists for /brokers/ids/0 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor)
[2019-10-30 14:32:35,126] INFO Processed session termination for sessionid: 0x100009621af0057 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.PrepRequestProcessor)
[2019-10-30 14:32:35,127] INFO Closed socket connection for client /xx.xx.xx.xxx:54978 which had sessionid 0x100009621af0057 (org.apache.zookeeper.server.NIOServerCnxn)
[2019-10-30 14:36:49,123] INFO Expiring session 0x100009621af003b, timeout of 6000ms exceeded (org.apache.zookeeper.server.ZooKeeperServer)
...

I am sure I have created firewall rules to open necessary ports and that is not a problem because one of the broker nodes is able to connect (the one who reaches first).
To me, this seems like the borkerID are not getting changed for some reason and that is the reason why Zookeeper is rejecting the connections.
I say this because kubectl logs pod/my-kafka-n outputs something like below:
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[2019-10-30 19:56:24,614] INFO [SocketServer brokerId=0] Shutdown completed (kafka.network.SocketServer)
...
[2019-10-30 19:56:24,627] INFO [KafkaServer id=0] shutting down (kafka.server.KafkaServer)
...

As we can see above says brokerId=0 for all of the pods in all the 3 clusters.
However, when I do kubectl exec -ti pod/my-kafka-n -- env | grep BROKER, I can see the environment variable KAFKA_BROKER_ID is changed to 1, 2 and 3 for different brokers as I set.
What am I doing wrong? What is the correct way to change the kafka-broker id or to make all brokers connect to one Zookeeper instance?

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make all brokers connect to one Zookeeper instance?

Seems like you are doing that okay via the configurationOverrides option. That'll deploy all pods with the same configuration.
That being said, the broker ID should not be the same per pod. If you inspect the statefulset YAML, it appears that the broker ID is calculated based on the POD_NAME variable

Sidenote

3 GKE clusters all in different regions on which I am trying to install Kafka broker nodes so that all nodes connect to one Zookeeper server

It's not clear to me how you would able to deploy to 3 sepearate clusters in one API call. But, this architecture isn't recommended by Kafka, Zookeeper, or Kubernetes communities unless these regions are "geographically close"

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The following table is a list of films produced in Denmark or in the Danish language during the 2010s (decade). For an alphabetical list of all Danish films currently on wikipedia see :Category:Danish films. For Danish films from other decades see the Cinema of Denmark box above.

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Well hello there. What's new?
Today I found myself arguing with a four-year old over the way she holds scissors and why couldn't she have learned to hold them properly at preschool this year. All of a sudden I could hear my father's voice coming out of me and I knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that while I may be many things, a teacher I am not. I did not, however, call her stupid so we can all be thankful for that.
This may seem like an odd thing to write about since I haven't written a blog post in a really long time but… that's all I've got. I've spent most of this evening reading about stain removal for laundry and creating a list of things I should buy for my laundry room if I ever hope for my family to have clothing that I am not embarrassed for them to wear. Did it really take me hours to read about stain removal? No. But, as always, reading about one thing leads to another and that is the way it is with the internet.
So, how was my 'internet sabbatical' you may ask? Not that interesting. I would have to call it more of a 'blogging sabbatical' since near the end I found myself on the internet more and more but managed to stay away from reading (and, obviously, writing) blogs. Pretty much all the information I want is stored on the internet so that is where I go when I am doing research on something (we don't even bother keeping books like the Yellow Pages in the house).
The beginning was hard. I found that I kept thinking about things I wanted to blog about and I was tempted to make a list but in the end I avoided that. Making a list seemed like not living in the present which is what I was trying to do. One of the things I hoped to do was clean my house more – but not being on the internet didn't magically make me a better housekeeper. In fact, mostly I just read in the evenings. I read a lot of books – and it was nice. I watched more movies with the Mister than I usually do and that pretty much sums up the last 100+ days.
Became seriously lost in Patrick Rothfuss's Kingkiller Chronicle. Both books were large and consuming. I think that took up the rest of the winter. Highly recommended if you like fantasy – but not if you like your novels to be less than 600 pages).
Moira turned four and we have been steadily working our way through the Little House On The Prairie series.
Fionnuala started putting words together and then jumped into full sentences like, "No, Daddy go get my sippy cup," and "I DO IT MYSELF!" She calls herself Lula and sings non-stop.
The garden got planted, we bought some plum trees and there are eleventy billion sunflowers growing around our house.
I took a knitting class and made one sock. One. (Although to give myself a bit of credit, the yarn I was using was terrible and kept breaking and we had to throw it out to save my sanity and I refuse to buy more yarn until I've used up more of my stash – and that was the only sock yarn I owned).
I know much more than that happened but I didn't take notes and honestly didn't try to think too much about what life was like without blogging. Truth is I missed it, but maybe not as much as I thought I would? Truth is I'm still struggling with where I want this blog and my other blog to go. Truth is my house is still a mess and I could write more but I promised myself I would scrub out the kitchen skin before going to bed.
So tell me – what's new with you?
I got a new job and I'm inching ever closer to finishing my degree.
Me too! I owe you a letter but I just couldn't get one written before we left for Ontario. Soon!
The baby weighs 15 pounds and is quite adorable.
You should bring her over soon!
Welcome back! I'm so thrilled that Moira is reading the Little House on the Prairie books. Can't wait!
What's new? Two jobs, now with dental. I wish I had something more to share than that.
Have fun on you vacay!
Dental is good. Moira hates your jobs though – she wants you to herself.
Welcome back! The baby over here is six months old and crazy bald. She likes the dog, putting her hand in your mouth, and scratching at the cut-out bits in her board books.
All that hair gone! Moira went bald but it didn't last long. Has her hair started growing in lighter? That's what happened to Moira.
Nice pic of the girls, growing up so fast! I remember Lectio reading, as she would pronounce it "Little House on the Peerier", how she wanted to see the prairies, and now she lives here. Well, in the foothills, but still…hope you have a great summer!
Yay! I've missed you! New baby over here (Eleanor, born June 5, adorable), Miss B just finished grade 3, the boys are like wolf pups, and my house is also a mess. The amount of laundry I do is staggering.
Wolf pups – I love that description.
Glad you're back! 'Lula' is a very sweet permutation and I love the sound of the garden. Pic when the sunflowers are blooming?
Thank you! I read your short story collection while on hiatus and one of these days will post about it on my other neglected blog.
I promise lots of pics when the sunflowers bloom.
Welcome back 🙂 Nothing new happening here except for slightly more involved daydreams of what I want to try and do with my life with only very, very slightly more activity aimed at actually getting me closer to any of those daydreams. Had a couple of deaths in the family and a few colleagues have also lost people close to them in the last couple of months so it's a strange mixture of trying not to fall back into a black hole of depression and really feeling the need to be seizing the day!
We didn't dry any of the sunflowers last year – we just left them out all winter. I suspect if we do that again this winter we will be over run with sunflowers next year so maybe I should dry some. Although I would much rather have a yard of sunflowers then grass and weeds.
Feel free to share my results with him. You need to start blogging again too!
So glad you are back. I still checked daily to see if you changed your mind. New here? We are moving closer to our Waldorf school. Yippie!
That's exciting Rachel. Will you still be on a farm?
Go get sock yarn and finish that sock! Then move on and use up your stash.
My Moira wants to know when your #4 is due – she is very keen for you to use her name.
Aww so sweet my daughter and yours share a nickname <3 They are nearly the same age…my Lula turned 2 at beginning of May. I bet they would get on like peas n carrots too.
Glad to see you posting. I love your writing.
It's been a couple weeks since I wrote this post and Fionnuala refers to herself as Lula all the time now. "This Lula's water. This Lula's book." Sometimes it sounds like Nuala. It will be interesting to see what she decides on when she is older.
One sock is better than no socks!
I like your writing style a lot. Also, I'm a Canadian blogger too, so I like you just because.
While one sock IS better than no socks – it still leaves one foot very cold in our long Canadian winters.
hey you! glad to read you again. I picked up the first kingkiller a week ago, going to go to the library and get the second one tomorrow… thanks for the recommendation, am always looking for easy, enjoyable reads for after the girls go to bed.
we have been trying to keep the fire going in our little log cabin since its winter here, collecting wood for said fire, bub is learning to read and it's amazing, looking forward to moving into our new house that we've just bought with the proceeds of the sale of our place in vancouver and all sorts of other stuff. oh, and I got my driver's license at 35 years old – what?!
Thank you. And I'm glad you are enjoying the Kingkiller books. Of course, now you too have to wait YEARS for the final one to come out – and this is supposed to be just to bring us up to the present. Apparently there is another trilogy for what happens after we get caught up. I hate waiting.


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CHEVRON GRANTS AWARDED FOR MARSHALL COUNTY
Dec. 3, 2015, Wheeling, W.Va. – Nine organizations in or serving Marshall County are recipients of grant awards totaling $50,000 from the Chevron Community Fund, a component fund of The Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley (CFOV). The Chevron Community Fund is a strategic grant-making program funded by Chevron and administered by CFOV. The announcement was made during a recognition event held on December 3 at Marshall County Family Resource Network in Moundsville.
"Chevron will be operating in this region for decades, and we are committed to improving the social and economic well-being of the communities in which we operate," said Trip Oliver, manager of public affairs for Chevron's Appalachian/Michigan Business Unit. "The Chevron Fund of the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley focuses on providing support for organizations that share our company's social investment focus areas of STEM education, workforce development and basic human needs." Representatives from the organizations receiving these grants were present as well as several county and state elected officials. Lee Ann Wainwright of Chevron stated that they are committed to supporting worthwhile projects in Marshall County.
The following grant recipients were announced:
CASA For Children – $5,000 for CASA For Children Marshall County
Gabriel Project of West Virginia – $3,000 for Project Safe Nest in Marshall County
Marshall County Family Resource Network – $5,000 for The Closet of Hope
Marshall County Historical Society Cockayne Farmstead – $10,000 for an Outdoor Classroom
McNinch Primary School – $3,000 for Special Needs Adaptive Swings
Our Lady of Peace School – $5,000 for Power up Peace Project
Sherrard Middle School – $5,000 for Urban Trees; Sculpting Community Culture project
SMART Center – $9,000 for SMART Enrichment for Marshall County Schools
West Liberty University Center for Entrepreneurship – $5,000 Entrepreneurship and Business Education
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Since 1972, the Community Foundation for the Ohio Valley has connected donors who care with causes that matter by making grants to organizations working to improve the quality of life in the Upper Ohio Valley. With assets of more than $34 million, the Foundation assisted in distributing more than $2 million in grants and scholarships during 2014-15. From strengthening community schools to assisting local arts programs, from building health centers to assisting victims of violence or natural disasters, the Community Foundation continues to enhance our region. To learn more, please visit the Foundation online at www.cfov.org.
Front row from left: Faith Hicks/Gabriel Project, Joyce Bibey/Our Lady of Peace School, Ruth Keim/Sherrard Middle School, Tammy Riding/McNinch Primary School, Caitlin Hucik/Cockayne Farmstead. Back Row from left: Robert Strong/SMART Center, Gary Fordyce/Sherrard Middle School, Susan Harrison/CASA, Elizabeth James/Cockayne Farmstead, Stacie Dei/Marshall County Family Resource Network.
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Whether it is an existing building or a new construction, there are several ways of going the green path. Vani Bahl, Principal Architect, Arcriam Associates, Associate American Institute of Architects, outlines steps for the best green buildings.
The best 'site' forward: Good site selection is foundation of a green building. Do not build on sensitive habitats like wetlands, flood zones, or endangered wildlife habitats. Consider developing on a reclaimed Brownfield or on in-fill and Greyfield sites (previously developed site with all utilities in place) instead of clearing undeveloped lands known as Greenfields. Proximity to mass transit and community resources will go a long way in not only minimizing automobile dependence but also creating strong self-sustainable green communities and neighborhoods.
Cluster buildings on the site to minimize environmental impact. Build up instead of out; keep roads and service lines short. Orient the buildings on east-west axis, and take advantage of existing vegetation on the east and west sides of the buildings to considerably reduce the cooling loads. Use shrubbery to channel cool air into the buildings. Design landscapes to avoid stormwater runoff into storm sewers; facilitate on-site rainwater harvesting.
Energy miser building: Design thermally efficient building shell by using high levels of insulation, high performance windows, light colors for walls and roofs, and minimum use of glass on east and west exposure. Tie in alternative and renewable energy sources like solar, wind, and geothermal. Passive design strategies like building profile and orientation, natural lighting, and passive solar design will affect building energy performance positively. Reduce the electric loads from lighting, equipment, and appliances.
Material as Cultural and Energy Resource: Pick sustainable building materials which have recycled and reused content, low harmful gas emissions, sustainably harvested materials, and are locally available. Use dimensional planning and other material efficiency strategies which will help reduce the amount of building materials needed and also the construction costs.
A lifecycle assessment (LCA) will help assess a full range of impacts including embodied energy, global warming potential, resource use and pollution, associated with all cradle-to-grave stages of a process: from extraction of raw materials through materials processing, manufacture, distribution, use, repair and maintenance, and disposal or recycling.
Water Wise: Design dual plumbing to use water from sinks, showers, or clothes washers (graywater) for reuse in WCs and for landscape irrigation. Water efficient equipment like water-conserving toilets, showerheads, and faucet aerators not only reduce water use, they also reduce demand on septic systems or sewage treatment plants. Reducing hot water use also saves energy. Rainwater harvesting can be used to cool the buildings as well as for irrigation. Separate the meters for water use in buildings and landscape. Use mirco-irrigation to water nonturf areas and state-of- the art irrigation controllers. Design xeriscapes or landscape with drought-resistant native plants and perennial groundcovers.
Healthy Buildings: Good environmental quality in the buildings will aid in enhancing worker efficiency as well as reduce the rate of respiratory diseases, allergies, and asthma. It is imperative to choose construction materials, interior finishes, adhesives, sealants and paints with low Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs). High-efficiency ventilation and in-duct filtration is essential component of good indoor air quality. Install entryway dirt-capturing systems.
Vani Bahl, Principal Architect, Arcriam Associates, is LEED AP BD+C, Associate American Institute of Architects, Member International Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), based in California, and practices in USA and India. She is also founder of GreenExamGuide.com through which she offers free study materials for USGBC's LEED exams.
Email: vani.bahl@gmail.com
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: The greenest building may actually be an old building restored for adaptive reuse. Throughout the construction process make sure to recycle waste materials. Reduce landfill pressure and save natural resources by using salvaged materials: lumber, millwork, certain plumbing fixtures, and hardware, for example. Test these materials for lead paint and asbestos without sacrificing energy efficiency or water efficiency by reusing old windows or toilets.
Operations and Maintenance: Green building strategies do not mean much if they are not used as intended. Building commissioning is imperative for successful functioning of a green building. Regular testing and adjusting the mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to ensure that all equipment meets design criteria. It also includes instructing the staff on the operation and maintenance of equipment. Over time, building performance can be assured through measurement, adjustment, and upgrading. Proper maintenance ensures that a building continues to perform as designed and commissioned.
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Q: Android - Glide 4.0.0-RC0: how to set tint color for ImageView after successfully loading SVG I followed this sample: https://github.com/bumptech/glide/tree/master/samples/svg/src/main/java/com/bumptech/glide/samples/svg
After successfully loading SVG file with Glide 4.0.0-RC0, i want to set tint color for ImageView, but setColorFilter NOT WORKING
My source:
package com.example.quangson.glidesvg;

import static com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.drawable.DrawableTransitionOptions.withCrossFade;

import android.content.ContentResolver;
import android.graphics.PorterDuff;
import android.graphics.drawable.PictureDrawable;
import android.net.Uri;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.widget.ImageView;
import com.bumptech.glide.RequestBuilder;
import com.example.quangson.glidesvg.glide.GlideApp;
import com.example.quangson.glidesvg.glide.SvgSoftwareLayerSetter;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    private static final String TAG = "SVGActivity";
    private ImageView imageViewSVG;
    private ImageView imageViewPNG;
    private RequestBuilder<PictureDrawable> requestBuilder;

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

        imageViewSVG = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.svg_image_view1);
        imageViewPNG = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.svg_image_view2);

        imageViewPNG.setImageResource(R.drawable.image_mylogo);

        requestBuilder = GlideApp.with(this)
                .as(PictureDrawable.class)
                .error(R.drawable.image_error)
                .transition(withCrossFade())
                .listener(new SvgSoftwareLayerSetter());
        Uri uri = Uri.parse(ContentResolver.SCHEME_ANDROID_RESOURCE + "://" + getPackageName() + "/"  + R.raw.android_toy_h);
        requestBuilder.load(uri).into(imageViewSVG);

        imageViewSVG.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorAccent), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
        imageViewPNG.setColorFilter(getResources().getColor(R.color.colorAccent), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_IN);
    }
}

In my source:
I loaded PNG image (from res/drawable) into imageViewPNG and setColorFilter for imageViewPNG ⇒ WORKING
I loaded SVG image (from res/raw) into imageViewSVG and setColorFilter for imageViewSVG ⇒ NOT WORKING (Loaded SVG file successfully but can't setColorFilter)
Please help me set tint color for imageViewSVG.

I tried edit like below code to making SvgDrawableTranscoder that generates a BitmapDrawable (and will setColorFilter after that), but it's not working, help me?
package com.sonzero.chibiz.glide;

import android.graphics.Bitmap;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Picture;
import android.graphics.drawable.BitmapDrawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.Drawable;
import android.graphics.drawable.PictureDrawable;

import com.bumptech.glide.load.engine.Resource;
import com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.SimpleResource;
import com.bumptech.glide.load.resource.transcode.ResourceTranscoder;
import com.caverock.androidsvg.SVG;

/**
 * Convert the {@link SVG}'s internal representation to an Android-compatible one
 * ({@link Picture}).
 */
public class SvgDrawableTranscoder implements ResourceTranscoder<SVG, BitmapDrawable> {
    @Override
    public Resource<BitmapDrawable> transcode(Resource<SVG> toTranscode) {
        SVG svg = toTranscode.get();
        Picture picture = svg.renderToPicture();
        PictureDrawable drawable = new PictureDrawable(picture);
        Bitmap bitmap = asBitmap(drawable);
        BitmapDrawable mDrawable = new BitmapDrawable(bitmap);
        return new SimpleResource<BitmapDrawable>(mDrawable);
    }

    public Bitmap asBitmap(PictureDrawable pd) {
        Bitmap bitmap = Bitmap.createBitmap(pd.getIntrinsicWidth(),pd.getIntrinsicHeight(), Bitmap.Config.ARGB_8888);
        Canvas canvas = new Canvas(bitmap);
        canvas.drawPicture(pd.getPicture());
        return bitmap;
    }
}

A: The Glide SVG loader produces a PictureDrawable.  Last I checked, PictureDrawables do not support the setColorFilter() method.
What you could try is making your own version of the SvgDrawableTranscoder that generates a BitmapDrawable instead and draws into that using AndroidSVG's renderToCanvas() method.
Update
AndroidSVG 1.4+ now supports passing extra CSS at render time.  Create a RenderOptions object and supply some CSS rules using .css(). You can then pass that RenderOptions object to renderToPicture() in your SvgDrawableTranscoder.
RenderOptions  renderOptions = RenderOptions.create().css("path { fill: red; }");
Picture picture = svg.renderToPicture(renderOptions);
...etc...

RenderOptions documentation

A: Here my approach working fine
Step-1 Create method for updating imageview color
fun ImageView.paintColor(colorString: String) {
    val paint = Paint()
    val colorFilter = PorterDuffColorFilter(Color.parseColor(colorString), PorterDuff.Mode.SRC_ATOP)
    paint.colorFilter = colorFilter
    setLayerPaint(paint)
}

Step-2  simple call this function where you wants to update this image color
 yourImageView.paintColor("#ff0000")


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Q: How can I update an xml node than contains another node with a specific value XML in sql server Example
declare @x xml;

set @x = N'
<Root>
  <Book>
     <ID>1</ID>
     <Price>100</Price>
     <Title>false</Title>
  </Book>
  <Book>
        <ID>2</ID>
        <Price>200</Price>
        <Price>false</Price>
  </Book>
  <Book>
        <ID>3</ID>
        <Price>300</Price>
        <Title>false</Title>
   </Book>
   <Book>
        <ID>4</ID>
        <Price>400</Price>
        <Title>false</Title>
   </Book>
</Root>'

Query to select the node that contains a child node with id =3
SELECT
@tmp = a.b.query('../.')
from @x.nodes('//Book/ID[text()="3"]') a(b)

How can i modify the Price value of the selected node?

A: Consider using SQL Server's XML Data Modification Language (DML), specifically the replace value of method. Below example updates Price to 9999:
declare @x xml;

set @x = N'
<Root>
  <Book>
     <ID>1</ID>
     <Price>100</Price>
     <Title>false</Title>
  </Book>
  <Book>
        <ID>2</ID>
        <Price>200</Price>
        <Price>false</Price>
  </Book>
  <Book>
        <ID>3</ID>
        <Price>300</Price>
        <Title>false</Title>
   </Book>
   <Book>
        <ID>4</ID>
        <Price>400</Price>
        <Title>false</Title>
   </Book>
</Root>'

set @x.modify('replace value of (/Root/Book[ID="3"]/Price/text())[1] with ("9999")')

select @x


On his farm he has 7 adorable animals! Also includes a barn, garden and Old MacDonald himself. 10 pieces, and 6 page lesson guide with rhymes and activities. English, Spanish & French.
Children love to hear what she will eat next!
Boy and girl centerpiece, approx. 40.75 in.


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THE TOKYO BARTENDER WHO CAN'T SPEAK JAPANESE
Weekly_Article October 17, 2015
(P1) Squeezed among HIGH-RISE office buildings in Kabukicho, Tokyo's famous entertainment district, is Golden Gai, a LABYRINTH of narrow alleys filled with tightly packed bars. It's a dark, mysterious world that only comes alive after DUSK.
(P2) MESMERIZED by the jungle of signs, red lanterns, and wires overhead, both Japanese locals and foreign visitors CAN'T HELP BUT do a DOUBLE TAKE when passing by one bar in particular: the Back House, where a 20-SOMETHING, blue-eyed American woman pours drinks while chatting away with customers in a MISHMASH of English and Japanese.
(P3) Of the 170-ODD bars in Golden Gai, only a HANDFUL are manned by bartenders that are foreign – and fewer still are women. Japanese is not the easiest language to master, so the majority of EXPATS come to the country as English teachers. It's rare to find someone doing anything else.
(P4) However, a CHANCE ENCOUNTER pulled Jennifer Suttie out of the English teacher norm and into Tokyo's QUIRKY, RETRO world. A few months after moving to the city to become a teacher, Suttie BEFRIENDED a BURLESQUE performer named Hanako who JUGGLED a few jobs, including BARTENDING at the Back House. Wanting to show Suttie more of Tokyo's unique and hidden nightlife, Hanako introduced her to Golden Gai's WARREN of tiny WATERING HOLES.
(P5) With Suttie's previous bar experience, BUBBLY personality, and WILLINGNESS to do things outside of her COMFORT ZONE, Hanako insisted she work at the bar and introduced her to the owner. Between his BROKEN ENGLISH and her almost NON-EXISTENT Japanese, Suttie somehow LANDED herself a new job by the end of the night.
(P6) As TO BE EXPECTED, a few "LOST IN TRANSLATION" moments followed Suttie's hiring. The first time a customer asked for SAKE, she served it in a standard glass – instead of the tiny ochoko cup – and was met with a HORRIFIED face. "No, no! Small!" he said. Confused, she quickly took it back and served it again in the same type of glass, but with a smaller amount of the drink. He almost looked OFFENDED. "No, no. Ochoko! She had no idea that he was asking for the SPECIALIZED sake cup.
(P7) And while Suttie learned words here and there like kōri (ice), okawari (REFILL) and haizara (ASHTRAY), she still endures humorous pointing and GESTURING as she and her Japanese customers attempt to communicate. She learned what a haibōru – a Japanese HIGHBALL – was by a customer MIMING the action of putting ice into a glass and then pointing to bottles of whisky and soda standing on the counter.
(P8) A little lost, maybe. But thankfully for Suttie, bartending knows no BOUNDARIES. Even in a megacity like Tokyo, drinking can be a UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE that brings people together. In the hidden DENS of Golden Gai, tight, intimate spaces provide the perfect setting for interaction between cultures – a welcome benefit for foreigners who struggle to speak the local tongue. And at the Back House, some Japanese locals might even get the chance to practise their English.
SOURCE: http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151011-the-tokyo-bartender-who-cant-speak-japanese
Do you know how to make drinks?
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Why can drinking be a "universal language that draws people together"?
Do you like little OUT-OF-THE-WAY neighborhoods like Golden Gai?
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WHY GOOGLE+ FAILED, ACCORDING TO GOOGLE INSIDERS
Technology, Weekly_Article May 14, 2015
[TECHNOLOGY★★] WHY GOOGLE+ FAILED, ACCORDING TO GOOGLE INSIDERS (P1) Last month, Google announced that it's changing its strategy with Google+. (P2) It is giving up on promoting Google+ as a social network aimed at competing with Facebook. Instead, Google+ will become two …
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An Egyptian and a Libyan have been arrested and charged in Italy as investigators look into the deaths of 26 Nigerian females raped and murdered while attempting to cross the Mediterranean, The Guardian reports.
The bodies of the women had been moved to the southern Italian port of Salerno by the Spanish ship Cantabria. Fifty-three people are believed to be missing.
The men arrested, Al Mabrouc Wisam Harar from Libya, and Egyptian Mohamed Ali Al Bouzid, were identified by survivors who were among the 375 brought to Salerno by Cantabria.
Salerno prefect, Salvatore Malfi told the Italian press that the women had been travelling alongside men and when the vessels sank, "unfortunately, the women suffered the worst of it".
Marco Rotunno, an Italy spokesman for the UN refugee agency, said his colleagues were at the port in Salerno when the bodies were brought in.
Most of the survivors were either Nigerian or from other sub-Saharan countries, including Ghana, Sudan and Senegal.
"I wanted to reach Italy. I don't know what to do now," said Dora Omoruyi, a 23-year-old arts student from Benin, Edo State.
"I see no future in Nigeria, there are no jobs," she added, standing next to other survivors.
The survivors were among over 2,560 migrants saved over four days.


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1. Unfinished Business: A Civil rights Strategy For America's Third Century. Clint Bolick Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy, San Francisco, CA 1990.
3. First Amendment litigation concerning IRS tax exempt status for minority political and religious movements is also common. For an historical perspective see Income Disadvantages of Political Activities, (Colum. L. Rev. 273 (1957). Also, Clark, The Limitation On Political Activities: A Discordant Note In the Law Of Charities, 46 VA L.Rev. 439 (1960). See also, Communist Party v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 332 F.2d. 325, 329(D.C. Cir. 1964; Wolfe v. U.S. Tax Court, (1981) (D.C. Colo. 513 F.Supp. 912.


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Two layers of different flavoured ice cream with a soft centre.
One flavour of ice cream with a soft centre.
Mini chocolate cups filled with ice cream or fruit ice. Sold individually or in a box of ten.
All on display in the freezer at the front of the shop.
All ice cream and cakes made fresh on the premises.


Ask and ye shall receive. When the university solicited opinions regarding the controversial nickname issue—a topic addressed in the Summer issue of IUP Magazine—e-mails poured in from all over the country.
Some IUP alumni, students, faculty, and employees urged the university to take a stand against the NCAA's "politically correct Nazis." Many just as ardently advocated change. Others suggested IUP dispense with a nickname altogether as a form of protest. A small percentage advised administrators to change the name of the university along with the nickname.
At press time, 61.2 percent of respondents in an on-line survey expressed a preference for something other than Indians, which landed IUP on an NCAA "hit list," along with eighteen other schools, for having a nickname the organization deems "hostile or abusive." Some even offered possible alternatives: Aardvarks, Bruins, Chargers (a reference to the area's power plants), Crimson Grayhawks, Eagles, Coalcrackers (a nod to the region's coal-mining heritage), Fighting Christmas Trees (again a nod to an area resource), Mighty Oaks, Jimmies (in tribute to Indiana's Oscar-winning native son, James Stewart), and Pookas, a name any true Stewart fan will recognize.
A handful of respondents looked to the furry inhabitants of the Oak Grove for inspiration. The IUP Fighting Squirrels?
A decision on the nickname issue is expected in a matter of weeks. Check www.iup.edu/mascot for the announcement.
Following are excerpts from some of the e-mails sent by alumni and others affiliated with the university.


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The War Against Swine Flu: Who Loses?
Philip Alcabes, Hunter College, CUNY
In this talk, Prof. Alcabes will examine world health policy, viewing the 2009 swine flu outbreak in the context of global environment, commerce, and economic stress – and asking how Latin America figures into U.S.- and Europe-centered disease control.
Diego Armus, Swarthmore College
Philip Alcabes is currently Associate Professor in the Program in Urban Public Heath at Hunter College's School of Health Sciences and in the doctoral public health program at the CUNY Graduate Schools. He is also a member of Hunter's Council on Honors. In addition to his Hunter appointment he holds a visiting faculty appointment at the Yale School of Nursing.
Alcabes's new book Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu (PublicAffairs, 2009) is a history of how people have thought about epidemics in the western world. Alcabes's essays on the history, policy, and ethics of public health have appeared in The American Scholar, Virginia Quarterly Review, and the Chronicle of Higher Education, as well as peer-reviewed journals. Previously, he conducted epidemiologic research on the epidemiology of AIDS and other community-acquired infections, social issues in the spread of epidemics, and methods for the statistical study of infectious diseases. Outside the university, Alcabes is a member of the scientific advisory board of the World Trade Center Registry project in NYC. He has consulted on public-health policy and AIDS-prevention projects in Eastern Europe for the Open Society Institute, World AIDS Foundation, and Fogarty International Foundation of the National Institutes of Health.
Alcabes graduated from Union College and holds masters degrees in biochemistry (U. of California, Berkeley) and public health (Columbia University). He earned a Ph.D. in infectious-disease epidemiology in 1993 from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Diego Armus teaches courses on Latin American history at Swarthmore College. His current research centers on the history of diseases, public health, and habits in modern Latin American cities, particularly Buenos Aires. His most recent book is La Ciudad Impura. Salud, Tuberculosis y Cultura en Buenos Aires, 1870-1950 (Buenos Aires, 2007); its English version will be published by Duke University Press, tentatively entitled The Tuberculosis Years. Disease, Culture and Society in Buenos Aires, 1870-1950. He has also written or edited several books. Among them, Avatares de la Medicalización en América Latina (2005); From Malaria to AIDS (2003); Entre Médicos y Curanderos. Cultura, Historia y Enfermedad en la América Latina Moderna (2002) and Mundo Urbano y Cultura Popular. Estudios de Historia Social Argentina (1990).


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Upgrades are set to be completed over the next 15 to 18 months at Mount Vernon Park and South Washington Park, two housing complexes spanning 327 units.
"There has been no significant investment in these properties since they were built 30 years ago," said Doug Fleming, executive director of the Lansing Housing Commission, an agency that manages more than 800 subsidized housing units across scattered sites and five complexes. "Improving the current affordable housing in the city, to me, is on equal footing (with) building more affordable housing in the city."
The investment, totaling $13.1 million at South Washington and $15.4 million at Mount Vernon, includes replacing roofs, installing new flooring, restoring brick, adding security cameras, improving fire safety, upgrading plumbing and electrical systems and putting dishwashers into some units, according to the LHC.
Published in March: Some low-income housing providers pause evictions during pandemic
Complexes get new names
And, in conjunction with the project, both buildings are getting new names based on resident input, Fleming said.
Mount Vernon Park, located on Waverly Road, will become Waverly Place. South Washington Park will eventually become seniors-only housing known as Capital City Senior Apartments. Non-seniors will be not be kicked out of South Washington; rather, the LHC plans to make the transition through attrition, Fleming said.
While the construction is ongoing, Mount Vernon and South Washington residents will be relocated to other LHC units. LHC managed the temporary shuffle by not filling vacant units for about four months, Fleming said. He said the LHC is providing moving boxes and covering relocation expenses during construction.
The LHC is financing the $28.5 million project through low-income tax credits from the Michigan State Housing Development Authority and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's Rental Assistance Demonstration program, which allows public housing agencies to leverage private and public debt to fund capital improvements.
Federal officials say they've enabled RAD agreements to help counteract a backlog in necessary repairs at public housing estimated at tens of billions of dollars nationwide.
Lansing officials also okayed a 10% Payment in Lieu of Taxes for the project.
The LHC plans to use a similar funding model to eventually finance major renovations at its other housing complexes, which are the LaRoy Froh Townhouses, Hildebrandt Park Apartments and the Oliver Gardens Apartments.
"We can't just be satisfied with the fact that we have the units or that we have people housed," said Fleming, who's been leading the LHC sinceSeptember 2018. "We have to take a look at ourselves and make sure that that's quality housing as well."
In 2018, Lansing officials began re-inspecting public housing in the city in the wake of a June fire at the LHC's LaRoy Froh housing complex. The fire, which killed two people, began inside a building that had failed its most recent city rental inspection due to electrical issues and other problems. Lansing Mayor Schor later said he did not believe a city inspection could have prevented the fire, although he promised to step up code enforcement.
The Lansing State Journal reported that, as of June 2018, most LHC complexes including LaRoy Froh were not certified as safe to rent. In many cases, that was because LHC management failed to submit documents showing they had fixed safety issues flagged by the city.
"My administration has worked with LHC members and with Doug Fleming to ensure those properties are up to code and to ensure the best living conditions for residents," Schor said in a statement. "I supported the RAD process because of the potential for investments into these affordable housing properties."
Contact reporter Sarah Lehr at slehr@lsj.com. Follow her on @SarahGLehr.


Not sure when this changed, but in today's world a software company's update on its terms and conditions reaches the national news level. It was the case recently when nu.nl published an article about a change in Google's Privacy Terms and its Terms of Service. The main change is that Google Ireland Limited now provides the Google services if you're based in the European Economic Area and Switzerland.
How many Dutch Google users would have known that these terms changed if there wouldn't have been a news item? They would have received an email or a pop-up from Google about this change, but who reads these? It is only about terms and conditions. Boring stuff and after last year we are still a bit tired of all the GDPR emails and pop-ups.
While it may not be perceived as a big deal for personal use by most of us, it raises an interesting question: if individuals do not take the time to validate these changes, even when highlighted in the national news, do they display different behavior when it is about changes published by the software they use in their work? While privately you might decide it is not worth your time, businesses that use the software maybe should see this differently. Reading terms and conditions isn't a very appealing way to spend your time, but it's important to understand the rights you have as a customer regarding the usage of software products and/or services. Not complying to these rights and restrictions can have commercial consequences.
On top of that, the software publishers use very generic language and sometimes even create the impression they are deliberately made hard to read and understand. To illustrate: the changes in Google's Privacy Terms happened around the same time as Google got fined $57 million by privacy regulators in France for burying Privacy Terms where users won't find them. While this example is about Google, there are probably many situations where customers use software products with license terms that are not 100% clear, that are very complex or that have changed without them knowing.
Keeping track of changes in the terms and conditions of the software (services) that you use is important. Using a specialist equipped with the right tools to do that can makes life easier. At B-lay we have invested in developing a solution that does just that. It will not only monitor all the changes in online conditions, but it will also judge the changes and decide if they are important enough to bring them to your attention and, when needed, help you understand them. This means that you or your staff don't have to keep track of hundreds of important updates in the software publisher's terms and conditions.
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