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Designing a Metrics & Functions System for Monitoring & AIOPS
Ideas & Trade-offs for a Unified Operations Data Platform
Our Siglos development team was in the market for a new metrics and function specification for our core monitoring, alerting, graphing, machine learning, rule engine & AI system. Here is the why and how of what we came up with.
We looked at a LOT of different systems and have tried to merge all the best practices and our own biases into a unified system we hope you'll find interesting. Or at least you'll point out all the things we did wrong.
Taking a step back, we have a unified IT operations platform, Siglos, where we combine lots of different monitoring, configuration, log, and other data. on top of that we do various alerting things, plus graphs, then mix in machine learning, expert systems, and recently a bit of AI-oriented stuff, too.
We have a common data interface so all the UI, Dashboards, API, Graphs, Governance Policy Engines, Expert Systems, Tech Centers, Cloud Consoles, and so on use a common data system. This lets us completely abstract all data consumers from the diverse set of data producers and integrations we have.
Ideally we can represent all the data and all the mathematical functions in a simple unified manner, one that's easy to understand, use, and expand. All the caller does is supply a set of keys, scopes & time-ranges plus the function, and get back advanced and diverse data processing on demand.
Our goal is to push as much definition and functionality down the stack as we can, simplifying the upper layers and data consumers so they can be very generic, even for very advanced calculations, visualizations and transformations.
Our solution has evolved a few times, starting with direct source system access, which is very messy. Then it evolved to a simple data definition system that includes things like data source (Zabbix, Datadog, CloudWatch, Logs, etc.), metric's key/ID, units, labels, display format, common name, etc.
That's very helpful to simplify our data consumer uses (alerts, graphs, dashboards) and avoids a lot of duplication we had across the stack. But it lacked time-range control, scoping filters, and any processing power at all.
So we looked very carefully at what everyone else in this space is doing, across a wide-range of monitoring and metric tools, providers, and services. We found a rather vast array of methods, structures, and underlying ideas.
Some like Datadog, are somewhat close to what we were looking for, but very hard to generalize or expand, especially to add more advanced functionality. Plus their inner and outer functions plus separated keywords struck us as too messy and inconsistent for complex use.
Several other solutions were also very inconsistent in their naming, formatting, and functional specifications. This is, in part, because overall this is a very hard problem, and because several have grown up over the years.
Speaking of problems, what exactly was the problem we were trying to solve?
Overall, our problem was straight-forward, as follows:
Our most common source data is from a single key for a single host in a monitoring system, such as CPU% for a web server over a time range. This is a simple time series which comes to use as a horizontal vector.
If we have multiple servers, we'll have multiples sets of values, which are a semi-synchronized time series in the shape of a matrix. This matrix is defined by a key (cpu), a scope (the servers), and a time range (though the time is not exact, as not all data is gathered at the same instant).
This will be raw time series data, but can also be buckets for downsampled or processed aggregations (such as hourly/daily), which would have multiple values per time point (e.g. min, max, avg), per server.
The result of that is a 3D or nested matrix, with each row containing the CPU time series (itself consisting of a matrix of values and time), and the separate rows per host. This gets a little complicated.
We then want to perform mathematical operations on this matrix, which is where the fun begins.
First, we want to be able to perform multiple functions on this data, something Datadog is very good at. We want to do this by chaining functions together, Javascript style, such as abs().avg().max() and so on.
That means we must always be thinking about the shape of our data as inputs and outputs to/from each functions, since this is a true chain. It flows from the data source, though scoping and ranging, and in/out of the first, second, etc. functions to a final result we pass back to our caller.
Callers themselves also need to be shape-aware as various consumers and visualizations depend on various data shapes (or need to do their own post-processing to get there). For example, a single number display on a dashboard needs a single scalar from the data function system, or something like a vertical vector it can min/max/avg() to get to a single number. Graphs and other consumers have different expectations.
Data shapes get interesting & really make you think.
Our simplest function takes a matrix and returns a scalar, such as avg(). The avg() function simply averages all the data in all the rows and columns of the data and returns a single number, the overall average. This can be used in a dashboard value or as input to alerting, etc.
But what if I want the average for each server, not a single number? This is a different type of average, as the output is a vertical vector (array) of values, one CPU average per server over the time-range.
Some people also want to group these averages, so the result is not a scalar, but also not a single value per server. Instead, they want an average for web servers, one for app servers, and one for DB servers. So this might be taking 20 servers and collapsing the results into three numbers. This is a key-based downsample of a large matrix into a smaller one.
Essentially, we can combine these two needs together into an average_by() function that takes a grouping key, which might be ALL or * if we want an average of each, or a grouping key if we want to group. The output can have different shapes.
Now, what if I want a moving average of various types, such as simple average, weighted averages, or even more complex things like ARIMA. These are different from the above averages, as they output a matrix with the same number of time series and data points as the input. Of course, we can then chain them through more functions if we want.
How about a bucking average? This is essentially a down-sampling process that takes high-resolution metrics, such as every minute, and aggregates them into buckets of say one hour, with an average value per bucket. The result is still a matrix, but with fewer data points than the input. Note this type of bucketing is also done automatically by some consumers such as graphing systems to reduce resolution.
That's just for averages as the starting point. Perhaps you can see how this gets a little complex, though the above principles cover most of the various options for various functions such as standard deviations, normality tests, and more (discussed below).
So, what did we do and how did we do it?
In the end, we ended up with chained functions that take and return a matrix of various shapes: matrix, horizontal vector, vertical vector, or a scalar. The output matrices and vectors may be of the same or smaller sizes than the input matrices. Nested or 3D matrices are still being experimented with.
The simplest function spec is:
metric : scope(s) . range(r) . func(f) . func(f) …
metric — The common data metric that is data source. Usually a time series (TS), but can be scalar like status, counts, configs, etc.
scope —One or more key:values such as host, tag, or All/*
range — The time series time range, such as (-1d, now, real dates)
func — The function to apply such as avg() with various arguments
The functions are chained, and must check their input shapes to ensure they don't get a matrix when they expect a vector, or vice-versa. Some vectors are vertical (cross-host/scope), while others are horizontal (usually time series).
Functions are pretty broadly-defined, from simple avg() math, to actual machine learning, anomaly detection, and AI models. Anything that can handle matrix/vector/scalar inputs & outputs.
Note the fundamental metric, which is the first element of the above, is itself defined at a lower level and can itself be a function or have other custom processing. It may be a count of recent alerts, extracted log metrics, cloud disk sizes, nginx config values, etc. but these are all invisible to the above system.
However, this does provide a second level of processing that is closer to, and customized for, the actual data source. For some advanced data sources like ElasticSearch, we have a look-through system where the scopes, ranges, and some functions can be pushed down to the source since it can do a bunch of work for us, especially on millions of items we can't handle in the upper stack.
All Single Metric so far …
Note this is all single-metric, e.g. CPU. To do cross-metric work, we use a function that itself takes a metric spec, such as:
cpu:scope(host:web1).range(-1d).correlation( ram:scope().range() )
Future enhancements include handling multiple metrics at once, probably by combining them early on, similar to the correlation but adding in additional series, such as this, which results in a matrix with both CPU and RAM:
cpu:scope(host:web1).range(-1d).combine(ram:scope().range())
This can be expanded further to include parallel function processing, otherwise we have to call the system multiple times when we want the original CPU data, a moving average of the data, and an anomaly detection envelope for the data — ideally those three vectors could be generated with one call, such as the following, which would result in three parallel vectors in the final matrix that we can then put in a graph:
cpu:scope(host:web1).range(-1d).combine(moving_avg()).combine(anom_sarima())
We continue to expand this system, recently including more cloud and service configurations, cloud billing, log metrics, and more.
Data processing systems are always interesting, especially making them easy, flexible, and powerful all at once. We've tried to cover all the bases and build something we can use and leverage across a very diverse set of data sources and consumers. It's an on-going journey.
I'm Steve Mushero, CEO of Siglos.io - Siglos is a Unified Cloud & Operations Platform, built on 10+ years of large-scale global system management experience. Siglos includes Design, Build, Management, Monitoring, Governance, Billing, Automation, Troubleshooting, Tuning, Provisioning, Ticketing and much more. For end users and Managed Service Providers.
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Online, offline marketing and the return of proximity: Why is digital the new ally of local?
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What is geomarketing? How does it work? Why has it become critical for retailers and neighborhood stores? That's what we'll answer in this post.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted our personal and social habits, our economic systems, all manufacturing sectors, and especially the world of commerce. In short, the world in which we are immersed is no longer the world of "yesterday."
Beware, however: There is no greater mistake than that of remaining immobile and regretting the past. It's time to start gearing up for the world of "tomorrow," spotting the trends before our competitors, and seizing the new opportunities.
Marketers know very well that this is the way to survive and succeed. We want to be very concrete.
For this reason, we summarized the new marketing trends for retail – the 3Ps (Proximity, bookability, personalization) – in a previous post. We have emphasized how even the future of local "neighborhood stores" will be increasingly linked to a mix of "physical" and digital, which is already opening up enormous possibilities and opportunities for marketing and loyalty of customers, both actual and potential.
It's important to highlight from the outset that these "3Ps" are intimately related. But now we want to focus on the first one: Proximity, or, more precisely, the "new proximity."
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The starting point: What is geomarketing?
Let's start from the very definition of geomarketing, which some prefer to define as "Proximity Marketing." It is defined as a type of digital marketing, based on Big Data that is closely related to the geographical location of the target, the so-called geolocation.
This information is collected by brands and retailers through services or applications that, of course, ask for prior consent from their users. We're talking about maps, navigators, social networks, apps dedicated to sports, Travel and Tourism, weather, and much more.
In short, we're talking about services that are now part of our everyday life.
There are three key points of this data collection:
a person's geographic location, recorded in real-time
the user's places of interest (selected through preferences, past behavior, and various other metrics)
nearby services and activities, which might fall under the preferences and interests of the individual user
And it's a key element in the transition from offline to online marketing.
Here, the themes of data-driven predictive marketing and, above all, personalization begin to emerge.
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We're talking about digital marketing approaches that have the ultimate goal of one-to-one, tailored, and – precisely – "proximity" communication. Innovative ways of integrating the physical and digital worlds are made possible by specialized companies like Doxee.
It is important to underline another aspect: This proximity is not limited to the "surroundings." We're talking about something that increasingly acts (and interacts) with the physical store itself.
Think, in fact, of how our habits have changed when we find ourselves inside a store. If, for example, we find ourselves in an electronics store and we are interested in buying a new television, we all search online, on our smartphones, for the characteristics of the various devices. We inquire about performance, read opinions, reviews, feedback; we compare prices; we search for the best offers.
Some data?
According to a recent survey, as many as 31% of users are influenced in their choice of a product by searches on their smartphone while they are already inside a store (source: Digital4Biz). Of course, this percentage is even higher among younger people.
Finally, never forget this other data, which gives the measure of how decisive geomarketing and proximity marketing can be for the future: there are 5 billion smartphone users in the world (source: Statista).
In addition, the amount of time that we spend using a smartphone is constantly growing. Estimates for 2021 indicate an average of 3 hours and 54 minutes per person each day (source: eMarketer).
Types of geomarketing and enabling technologies
Proximity marketing is being integrated into the offline to online marketing strategies of almost every type of business, from the neighborhood store, to large retail chains and supermarkets, from the restaurant industry, to tourism, to real estate… and more.
For one simple reason: it works! But in which modes does it work?
Bluetooth: In some cases we refer to this mode with the term "Beacon Marketing" (for more details see, for example, here).
WiFi: Having an efficient WiFi network available is not just a plus, but a requirement that everyone expects. Sure, it's useful for customers. But it's also useful for retailers, who can have great control over navigation data and use it to build marketing, engagement, and loyalty campaigns in real time, that are calibrated on the characteristics of the individual user.
RFID/NFC: behind these acronyms are Radio Frequency Identification and Near Field Communication technologies. Without getting too technical, these are technologies that allow communication with smartphones, even in the absence of a WiFi network, exploiting – for example – the proximity between "smart barcodes" and customers' devices. It's an interesting field, because it allows companies to create interactive shopping experiences and also new and interesting modes of digital payment.
GPS: In this case, it's about something a bit more familiar. We all use GPS-based geo-targeting systems daily on our smartphones. Here, we're talking about a wider proximity than that offered by Bluetooth, WiFi or RFID/NFC systems.
Advantages and opportunities of the transition from offline to online marketing
The advantages of implementing a geomarketing strategy for your business are many and they are enormous.
First of all, there are the possibilities to intercept very specific targets using digital tools. If you have a restaurant in the province of Florence, it doesn't make sense to have your lunch menu advertised to people living in another province, unless it is nearby or a place where citizens typically visit on holiday or for work.
Up to here it is all very intuitive. But there is much more.
If it is true that loyalty is the real goal of every business, geomarketing is the best ally to achieve it. With the right tools, it's possible to build truly personalized experiences and customer journeys that move from the physical store to the digital world, with touchpoints built in an omnichannel perspective.
There are also enormous possibilities for upselling and cross-selling.
Here again, digital can and must be very surgical. It's no longer a question of aiming for the masses with offers and one-to-many communications. Instead, companies must increasingly push toward a real one-to-one dialog, with offers built based on the individual user, his characteristics, his preferences, his past behaviors, and his potential needs.
The interesting and decisive aspect is that this triggers a virtuous circle. The more you know your customer, the more you can intercept him in the best way, and the more you can profile him even more deeply.
This is always done with the utmost attention to privacy and informed consent.
Three quick and concrete examples of success
Not to limit ourselves to theory, here are three examples of very different brands that have successfully implemented the transition from offline to online marketing in their strategies.
Ulta Beauty, the American cosmetics chain, implemented a geomarketing campaign to promote the opening of new stores. Stores, where this type of campaign was implemented, reached the average weekly target of visits 43% faster (and 26 days earlier) than stores where the campaign was not activated.
Let's move on to Turkey, to Istanbul. Here, McDonald's experimented with a geomarketing campaign that relied on a well-known Turkish loyalty app (Shopping Genie). The multinational provided this tool to 15 of its stores in the city. The objective was to send a promotional coupon via Bluetooth to those passing through the area. The conversion rate was truly remarkable: 20%!
Let's close with a last example, of the European retailer Carrefour, which implemented a proximity marketing strategy inside 28 of its supermarkets in Romania. The objective was to provide additional information on products, conveying personalized offers based on the characteristics of individual users, using the brand's app.
Also in this case, the results were impressive: An 400% increase in the engagement rate and 600% growth in registered users in 7 months.
These are very significant examples, which show how geomarketing and the "new proximity" can offer enormous opportunities for retail players, from large chains to small retailers who want to embrace digital transformation.
Such opportunities also have a positive impact on customers and their shopping experience.
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Best Honeymoon Destinations in India
India has magical places for honeymooners who are looking for a bit of privacy along with spectacular scenery and unforgettable experiences.
Romantic Honeymoon in the Valley of Flowers
This enchanting valley in Uttaranchal, about 595 km from Delhi, offers the headiest of honeymoons. Surrounded by mountains, this World Heritage Site, bursts into bloom during July and August with the melting of the snow. A staggering diversity of flowers and medicinal plants (some of them endangered) carpet an area of 87.5 km.
It is said that the fragrance of the blooms is so strong that it can make people faint. Locals say that this is fairyland and those who venture too far among the flowers can be abducted by the fairies.
The Pushpawati River divides this alpine valley into two halves and many streams flow through the area. There are around 500 species of flowers here such as lilies, edelweiss, daisies, geranium, holly, pansy, zinnia, petunia, orchids and anemones. Tourists come here all the way to see the beautiful blue Himalayan poppy.
Some indigenous flowers here are the hard to find Brahma's Lotus (brahmakamal) and Cobra Lily. And of course, there are butterflies galore.
A trip to the Valley of Flowers is only for the fit. Once you get to Rishikesh from Delhi, you travel by bus (11 hours) to Joshimath. Another bus ride (1 hour) from Joshimath to Govindghat. And then, the difficult but highly enjoyable 14 km trek to Ghangria, following the Lakshman Ganga River. It is a pretty steep climb and raincoats will come in handy.
Finally, you climb 3 km from the Ghangria base camp to the Valley of Flowers where a romantic sea of flowers awaits honeymooners.
Honeymoon on a Houseboat in the Backwaters of Kerala
You will know why people call Kerala 'God's Own Country' when you cruise along the tranquil palm-fringed backwaters. You float by sleepy villages, paddy fields, water lilies, coconut groves, temples and wildlife sanctuaries. There are trees everywhere and rustic homes with red tiled Chinese pagoda roofs. In fact, the concept of the Chinese pagoda was borrowed from Kerala.
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Dining out in the open lounge with your beloved in the moonlight is an unforgettable experience.
Honeymoon in the Golden City of Jaisalmer
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This US-based EdTech Startup Helps Indian Students Study Abroad for Free with Grants & Scholarships
Every year, thousands of students from India leave their home country to fulfill their dreams of studying abroad. There are several reasons that bring Indian students to international universities.
According to The Hindu, some of the biggest reasons include lack of top-quality programs for advanced degree in Indian universities, competitiveness of international education, foreign university's degree more valuable in the Indian job market than a local degree, and better facilities, laboratories, and a more favorable culture of research, among others.
Recognizing this, StudyFree, a US-based international edtech startup, helps Indian students make their education dreams come true.
Founded by Dasha Kroshkina in 2018, StudyFree helps students to study abroad for free with the help of grants and scholarships. It operates as an online platform that helps applicants increase their chances to get a scholarship and be admitted to universities abroad. The platform offers over 15,000 programs from a bachelor's degree to Ph.D. with scholarships around the globe. Currently, StudyFree has over 25,000 active users from 108 countries, including Russia, Ukraine, Africa, Kazakhstan, Brazil, and Asia.
StudyFree allows students to evaluate their admissions chances and receive recommendations on improving their admissions portfolio, get access to a database of 15,000+ programs with scholarship opportunities worth over $107,000, and a step-by-step admissions plan with actual deadlines. The platform also provides samples of all admission documents and video instructions on how to prepare them, all the necessary resources for admission and relocation, and also a personal mentor to help students get it all done effortlessly.
The startup claims to have helped 23,000 students, with 98% admission success rate, and get funded for a total of $4.1 million in scholarships and grants.
StudyFree is focusing on the developing markets. However, among other developing markets, the company's interest is on India as the founder believes in the vast potential of this country. The company believes that India is a fast-developing country that holds much potential, and that when its students get the opportunity to gain a good education abroad, they will come back to their home country with state-of-the-art knowledge and will develop the market, applying their top-quality education.
Commenting about the Indian students, StudyFree said in a statement: "We're super excited and proud to hold interviews with Indian students to recruit them as our ambassadors. Together we can promote the values of equal and free education and help Indian students open door to the world of international opportunities."
The idea of creating StudyFree came from Kroshkina's own experience. Having been born in a small Russian town, she couldn't even think about travelling or education abroad. Financial limitations, lack of family support prevented her from fulfilling her international dream. However, after securing over $100,000 in scholarships and grants, she went on to study in Spain, China, and the USA (Stanford), and later worked for an investment bank in Singapore. Having learned how it feels like to be in the situation, Kroshkina decided she should share her experience and created StudyFree to help students around the world make their dream of studying abroad come true, no matter what their financial opportunities are.
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The Delaware-based StudyFree is the winner of the Seedstars World Competition 2020/21, the largest startup competition in emerging markets, and its founder Dasha Kroshkina has become the first female winner and the first winner of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
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After 360,000 Union soldiers died in winning the Civil War, under the leadership of the first Republican President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln, the country was finally poised to pass legislation regarding the abolition of slavery. This was accomplished with the ratifying of the 13th Amendment with 100% Republican support against a large majority of Democrats opposing it.
Upon Lincoln's assassination, Democrat Andrew Johnson assumed the Presidency. Republicans passed the 1866 Civil Rights Act conferring citizenship to all persons born in the United States, without regard to race, color, or previous condition. President Johnson vetoed the bill and stated, "This is a country for white men, and by God, as long as I am President, it shall be a government of white men. " The 14th Amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, which included former slaves recently freed at that time. It also forbade states from denying any person "life, liberty or property, without due process of law" or to "deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws". The 14th Amendment was voted against by 100% of Democrats in both the House and the Senate. Where as 100% of Republicans voted for it in the House, and 94% for it in the Senate.
In 1870, the 15th Amendment was passed by Republicans granting blacks the right to vote against 100% opposition of Democrats in the House. All three of these Amendments were passed even though the Ku Klux Klan had been attempting to intimidate voters through terrorists tactics. White congressman James Hinds, a Republican, was murdered by the KKK in Arkansas as he was there attempting to teach newly freed blacks of their rights. During this same time, Tunis Campbell and 24 other black Georgia State Senators were expelled by a Democrat majority until reinstated by a Republican controlled Congress.
In 1912, Democrat Woodrow Wilson brought Jim Crow to Washington. He was elected when many blacks voted for him after he had stated in a letter to a black church official, "Should I become President of the United States they may count upon me for absolute fair dealing for everything by which I could assist in advancing their interests of the race." This marked the first significant year of 100 years and counting of Democrats lying to blacks to pursue a racist political agenda.
In 1940, the Republican platform called for the integration of American armed forces, but for the duration of his presidency, Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt refused to order it and continued the tradition of segregation in the Federal Government. FDR also appointed former KKK member and fellow Democrat to the Supreme Court, Hugo Black.
Then in the '60s, Bull Connor, member of the Democrat National Committee and the KKK, best known for allowing fire hoses and police dogs to be unleashed on black protestors, arrested Martin Luther King, Jr. One interesting fact about King is that he was a Republican. Although John & Robert Kennedy had approved wire tapping of King during those years, JFK did make the phone call to get King released from jail. Then with Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson as president, the final version of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was written by a Republican and passed congress with almost 90% Republican approval and against almost 30% Democrat opposition. This means every civil rights legislation passed in the United States from the Civil War to this point in time were written by Republicans. Some Democrats again attempted to filibuster the vote for the 1964 Act, but failed.
One prominent Republican who voted against the legislation was Barry Goldwater, but he was a long proponent of civil rights and had voted in favor for all previous forms of the bill, but as a libertarian Republican, he was strictly opposed to the infringement on private property rights that some parts of the bill was to do. Goldwater's vote and Strom Thurmond switching from the Democrats to the Republicans is what is used as proof for the myth that the parties switched places. Twenty-one Democrat Senators voted against the '64 Act. Thurmond was the only one who became a Republican. One man switching parties can not undo over 150 years of historical fact that Republicans have always been the party of freedom. Notably, William Fulbright (D) voted against the bill and was the mentor of Bill Clinton. Al Gore Sr. (D) also voted against the bill. Frantz Kebreua of StolenHistory.org has done a fantastic job of researching this topic.
Some in Democratic circles attempt to draw racism as being due to geography with references to the "deep south". Migration trends over the years show this to be a false argument. From 1975 to 2007, the southern states lost 13 million people who migrated from their states to other regions. However, during that same time period, they saw an influx from the other regions to the tune of 19.7 million people. Not to mention the fact that since 1950, the population of the United States has more than doubled, increasing by over 150 million people. Claims that geography holds some residual power over one's stance on race is ridiculous.
The next Democratic lie is the "Southern Strategy" myth that they push citing Richard Nixon courted disenfranchised racist voters of the Democratic Party in the 1968 election. Republicans had been making inroads in the south prior to that and the south was trending Republican for years, just as America was trending towards freedom and equality for years and dragging the Democratic Party with it. In 1952, President Dwight Eisenhower (R) won three southern states, and won five in 1956. In addition, Eisenhower won the popular vote in the souther states and narrowly missed winning a sixth state, North Carolina, that would have carried a majority of the southern states. Nixon picked up North Carolina 12 years later to continue the trend that had been around for two decades.
Blacks began overwhelmingly voting for Democrats starting in 1948. No Republican has earned over 15% of the black vote since then except one. Richard Nixon received 32% of their vote in 1960.
The truth is simple. The Democratic Party has long attempted to use government power to reduce individual liberty, whether from the state or federal level, while the Republican Party has long been on the side of freedom. Knowledge is power. The truth sets us free.
This is a great post, and especially appropro given some of the recent internet memes' about how the Democrats/Libs have "always" been proponents of equal/civil rights. Yeah, sure, right up until you choose to exert those rights in a manner they don't deem "appropriate." Then you're an Uncle Tom.
Great stuff. I've added you to my Blogroll, FWIW.
Thank you for stopping by and for your kind comments. I'll assume by your moniker that you are (or were) in the military, so I sincerely thank you for your service.
excellent post. The blind bumper sticker sloganeering of the progressive movement amazingly has gotten people to believe out right lies. The fact that they look up proudly to racial and social tyrants like Woodrow Wilson who essentially created an American Gestapo should be a warning to people. But I guess believing pretty words and platitudes is easier than actual research.
Thanks Oppressor! Please help spread the information. The truth shall set us free.
I'm going to make a comments, because there are some different points I have.
This country has to move beyond the issue of race, because it's far less important than socio-economics.
I thought conservative, tea partiers didn't believe that government was the answer; but here you are telling me that the problem of race in America was solved by government.
So which is it, is government so powerful that when Abraham Lincoln and Lyndon Johnson (D) passed their laws, suddenly everything was equal, and government has the power to revolutionize society? Or is it that government should stay out of the way for the most part and only work to protect basic rights and provide security? If it's the 2nd one, then explain to me how 1 man signing a document could possibly have made everyone equal, since government can't even do that.
You assert that Republicans have in some way been trailblazers on civil rights. What about the democratic president that championed civil rights (JFK) and the democrat who signed them into law (LBJ)? By the way, Nixon was a Republican and also the only president to resign. As was the aforementioned Andrew Johnson, the first president to be impeached. There have been great Republicans and great Democrats, and plenty of bad ones too. Parties aren't the answer.
This part is just about "doing your research" since your point on Democrats opposing civil rights is out of context. Most of the democrats who opposed civil rights were southern democrats, who have largely migrated to the Republican party in the last several decades. In many ways, southern democrats were the pre-cursor to Reagan Republicans, in that they tended to advocate low taxes and high spending (Reagan was a big spender, tax cutter, and the best president since FDR give or take Bill Clinton). Anyway, you can see why/how southern democrats stopped being democrats. Consider that Lyndon Johnson himself was a Democrat from Texas. How many democrats from Texas could run for president (or vice president) now? As someone raised in Texas, I can assure you that it's none. It's hard to compare political parties over time, since political conditions change so much.
If you think that the Civil Rights laws of the 60s ended the issue of race in America, you are very naive. Consider that even now there are racial wars occurring all over the world. In the 90s it was a racial war in Serbia, and race was the prime reason that Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia splintered into individual countries. Similarly, China is splintered on the issue of race (Tibet, Taiwan) as is most of Western Africa. In Spain, the Basque region has been fighting for centuries for independence, and football club Athletico Bilbao will only field players born in the Basque region where they speak Catalan instead of Spanish.
Issues of race in America are not confined to slavery and pre-civil rights oppression. They are ongoing parts of today's society. To think that Abraham Lincoln ended slavery, or that LBJ ended race is just ignorant. Slavery and racism has been going on for thousands of years. Modern society has accomplished much, but ending slavery and racism are not among the accomplishments.
Consider my former boss, a legal Mexican immigrant with half a mil in the bank who was pulled over while driving his friend's new mercedes with his friend in the passenger seat. Why? Because the cops thought the car might be stolen, since it was a mexican in a mercedes. Or my graduate student friend who was pulled over in a parking lot while the police cuffed him and searched his car for no reason, except maybe because he was black in Inglewood (not the best part of town). What does any of that have to do with slavery or 1960s Civil Rights?
So what? Easy to say when you don't have to deal with it, and I, like you, don't. The reality is it's less about race than money. The poor get the shaft a good bit more than everyone else. It's not hard to figure out why there are more non-white poor than white poor. Hint, it's not the color of their skin.
The issue of race is very important because the Democrat Party consistently makes race an issue. So, if it is going to be made an issue, we need to educate everyone about the history of race in this country.
Republicans used additional laws to clarify existing ones to ensure that all people were treated equally under the law. That is not being a proponent of big government. Republicans want everyone to be treated equally. For everyone to learn that individual liberty is best achieved through a balance of personal responsibility.
As mentioned previously, slavery as we knew it, as a deep part of the world culture and legal, has been ended. I'll be speaking of this more in a future article how the founding of this country brought this form of slavery to an end. I covered the myth that Civil Rights legislation somehow led to a mass exodus of Democrats becoming Republicans, but it simply is not true.
This article is about the history of Republicans and Democrats regarding race in America. Not Serbia or elsewhere. Thanks for stopping by.
the people are ilnerasingcy dependent on the government for handouts and the government needs to spend more. Then all of the sudden this guys says the government needs to cut spending to not aid the people?! WTF? This guy also said there is a demand problem in USA. Well duh! How could the americans keep spending if most don't have any savings and rely on borrowing and debt. This guy lived in a cave the past few years?!
There have been great Rs and great Ds. One party will not save us, and if you think 1 party is the answer, then you're not talking about democracy and freedom anymore. The USSR had 1 party. China has 1 party. The United States could do with more parties, rather than less.
1. Slavery and civil rights law is not the history of race. It's part of it, but not the biggest part. There are also some pretty bad metrics related to poverty, upward mobility, and race that give some credence to the idea that "all men (people) are created equal" still doesn't exist in the US. I agree with your general premise that race shouldn't motivate policy in a pure sense. Addressing issues of poverty and insuring civil rights addresses the necessary issues of race. It's also important to note that some pretty atrocious stuff happened. Like, the US government actually did test syphilis on black people without their consent while denying them treatment…for 40 years including after Civil Rights was passed. I don't see that anywhere in your history.
2. To conceive of slavery era or even 60s era political parties in terms of today's parties is sloppy. Abraham Lincoln was a republican, yes. He was against states rights, for a strong federal government, and primarily supported by upper east coast elites. Sound republican to you? The southern democrats you criticize were similar to Reagan era republicans. You can't make a statement about parties and race based on the Civil War or 60s southern democrats.
You are correct that there have been great Republicans and Democrats. And I'll add that there have been bad Republicans and Democrats. And there have been times that the bad of each have done good things, and times that the good of each have done bad things.
I do not want a one party system. I think that a continuous civil discourse is essential to our future growth.
Lincoln understood our Federalism in the sense of our country being one Nation. "Four score and seven years ago, our fathers created a new Nation…" Those who believed in the State Rights doctrine were opposed to those who believed in the State Sovereignty doctrine (those who seceded from the Union) and naturally fell on the side of the preserving of the Union.
I checked out the link and it talks in generalities and attempts to draw parallels on ambiguous claims. One can draw a variety of conclusions based on the statistics cited, most likely reaching differing ones depending on one's belief system.
I agree there is a division on ideas in this country. I believe most people are socially moderate and fiscally conservative, but those who believe in socialism are currently winning the propaganda war. Fortunately, those who believe in freedom and capitalism still have the advantage of ideas and facts, so I expect that to win out in the end. The key is to allow freedom of choice in education. Once our youth are able to receive a quality education and learn about what our country is truly about, our country and the world will be saved.
As to the idea that there is an ongoing war of ideas between socialism and freedom… I think this view is far more damaging than either the liberal or conservative agenda.To think one side has a monopoly on the truth is more dangerous than anything, and it's exactly this kind of thinking that has brought us to this place teetering on the brink of disaster. For someone who believes in freedom so much, you seem keen to shut out a plurality (and sometimes majority) of opinion that you don't like from the decision-making process. America needs to seek out solutions that incorporate ideas from both sides of the party line (as well as ideas outside the party process) and to care more about good policy than ideological prerogatives. If that's "socialist" so be it, but it is more aptly called obvious.
The article also notes that the largest per-capita black populations tend to be in southern red states.This is the aspect of the issue of race that you wholeheartedly neglect. The fact is that civil rights legislation did not end discrimination, nor did it appreciably improve the quality of life for minorities. We can probably agree that race is not the ONLY reason for this; but to think race wasn't a reason at all disregards common sense and the basic history of the south.
You still never explain how freedom of choice solves the problem of too few good schools. Giving people the choice of what school they want to goto is useless if good schools are unable to accommodate the majority of students who want to go there (which is already the case). Furthermore, the large-scale busing of students into "foreign" school districts denies parents the ability to have a say in school curriculum, since curriculum is decided by geography, not enrollment. The goal of the education system isn't to make it possible for students to find a good school somewhere in their greater geographic area … it's to make schools in every district good. While it might be impossible to achieve, it's definitely impossible by incentivizing (mostly suburban) families to abandon their school and subsequently decrease funding. The net result is a handful of good schools that can only serve a small part of the population, and thus will be especially likely to be attended by mostly upper class students. I guess we don't do enough for the rich already, so maybe you're right about vouchers.
Our electoral and political system was designed in an effort to protect us from a tyranny of the majority.
Citizens on both sides of the political landscape have far more in common than we take the time to realize.
Too often, studies focus on correlations that are way off the mark. Instead, there needs to be a focus on causations. Correlations are easier to push forward with political agendas, so that is what we receive. We need to focus on individuals and not politically contrived special interest groups along some demographic line. We need to focus on individual liberty through personal responsibility.
Freedom of choice in school education is simple. It is basic economics. Once you end the government's monopoly on education funding, competition enters into the market. If you have one good school and one bad school in a geographical area, and there is a demand for a better education than the bad school is providing, and a larger demand than the good school is able to accommodate, then the market incentivizes a new school to enter into that market. Local schools competing for students and the money those students bring can address the challenges of accessing the school, either through transportation or boarding.
This is amazing stuff, and I will study it in detail. Thank you, G.
So G, here is a question. I've heard it said many times that the black voters in the south were until fairly recently resolutely Democrats. Am I confused?
Parts of the Democratic Party started seeking out the black vote in the 1900s. Woodrow Wilson courted and won a decent portion of it in 1912, but when he failed to follow through on his promises, he lost the black vote four years later. Over subsequent elections, though, the Democratic Party started to incrementally increase their share of the black vote. It was after FDR was first elected that significant progress was made into the black community for the Democratic Party. It was not simply the New Deal and that some of the benefits were given to a traditionally poor community, but the Black Cabinet which was introduced as well. The cabinet had no official capacity, but it showed the black community that their voices were heard inside the highest levels of government.
During the civil rights movement of the '60s, it was very symbolic to the black community when JFK made the phone call to help get Martin Luther King Jr. released from jail. Then when the '64 Civil Rights Act was passed, there was a Democrat holding the office of the presidency. These factors in conjunction with the narratives pushed by our liberal leaning schools and liberal leaning medias help perpetuate what we see today.
The irony is, what the Democratic Party correctly argued in the early 1900s is precisely what Republicans argue today. It does not serve the black community well to have their vote taken for granted by one party, and not seen as possible to earn by the other.
I wonder if you have any information on the progressives, and how they figure in this whole story. Progressives today posture as the bringers of all light and good, but my info points that at their dawn in the 20s and 30s, many leaned in the direction of fascism and totalitarian solutions. And were admirers of Mussolini. But I have no idea of their stand on the race issue, and how it evolved. I think that they are the loud voice behind the Democratic party which says "we are the antiracists" that color people's perceptions nowadays.
The main stream media does a disservice to the American people by creating a false narrative to the Republican Party. When speaking about the two parties during elections, they consistently refer to demographics and the Republicans relying on "old white men". And the challenges the party faces with the "browning of America". This false narrative is a subtle way of driving the uninformed voters towards the Democratic Party. The Republican Party does appeal to everyone. If you ever listen to a minority Republican speak, it is quickly apparent why.
Early progressivism was an important part of the development of the USA. Many progressives were called Populists and were abundant in the late 1800s and early 1900s speaking up for labor and labor's right to unionize. This was an important issue at the time, and that Republicans should support. Public sector unions should not be able to unionize, but private sectors should. A union is the last thing any well-run business wants, so a company has an incentive to treat their workers well and prevent a union from coming in. Populists tied themselves to the Democratic Party and the term Populists died away. Their Progressive influence was important to American development, as can be seen where their influence affected Republicans, such as the very successful and very moderate Republican, Teddy Roosevelt.
Progressives worked against the abuses in capitalism, but were not advocating socialism. At least, not at first. They worked to involve government in solving many of the obstacles that were brought about by the industrial revolution. Women's suffrage was part of this evolution of America. This movement was too, however, a moral crusade and was part of the alcohol abolitionist movement. As to be expected, movements often take on a life of their own as more people join the movement, but bring additional influences with them into the movement. Such as today's Evangelicals supporting the Fiscal Libertarian Tea Party Movement.
The progressive movement continued to grow the influence of Government. When Democrat Woodrow Wilson became President, people felt that the banking system would be in better hands with the government and Wilson helped in having the Federal Reserve Banking system created in 1913. I'll bet many of today's Democrats didn't know that.
Then during the Great Depression, socialism and communism truly entered the fray. Socialists and Communists were prevalent from the 1930s to the 1950s in America. At times they referred to themselves as liberals or progressives, and as the labels of Socialists and Communists continued to gather a stigma to them, the terms liberals and progressives were used instead. This has continued through today.
Knowledge is power. The truth sets us free.
Thank you, G. I am right now too upset to comment. If anyone would like to go to bethechange2012.wordpress.com and comment on the ugliness that's happening there, it might be a good thing. I detest both parties pretty equally myself, as tools of Big Money, but the hypocritical stance of the progressives who are now gloating over their "victory" and smearing their fellow R citizens while at the same time mouthing slogans about "tolerance" has finally stuck in my craw and is choking me with despair this morning.
Well, then. It seems that progressives are very eager to slam intolerance… until they come to their own favorite intolerances, which are enjoyed to the full! Ugh. Like smearing Republicans.
I read that Wilson regretted having created the Fed. Which is a private institution… but I think they very much wanted people to be fooled that it was part of government. I guess it worked well enough, until recently, eh?
Yes, I have seen the persistent references to the "old white men" too. But overall, to shift the topic a bit, I think it's a mistake for the tea partiers to affiliate with the GOP. The original tea party was a nonpartisan effort. It would, I think, do a lot more good that way. I myself hold a lot of sympathy with the tea party (though not with liars and aggrandizers like M. Bachmann).
I had this conversation last night with a very good liberal friend of mine over drinks at a nice Irish bar off of Times Square. I've often argued that the Tea Party needs to throw all the establishment Republicans out of office to get the party back to the ideals that made it the party of freedom in this country. The Tea Party has made great progress, but they've been demagogued and misrepresented creating a perception that they are something other than what they are. I may be convinced that the Tea Party needs to leave the Republican Party and go to the Libertarian Party. By the way… did you see that it is very possible that Obama won the election through voter fraud? Many districts reporting over 100% voter turnout. Over 100%? Scary stuff. If the media doesn't cover it aggressively, then I know our country is most likely already done regardless of what the Tea Party does.
I would drink to that too! Voter fraud is a done deal, unfortunately. With the machines that leave no paper trail?! Both parties cheat. You know, if you went the libertarian way, lots more people would support you, for sure! A great idea. It was interesting to see that the Libertarians finally had a realistic and excellent candidate this time around. It could be just the right opportunity at the right time.
Another possibility is to craft another way to do politics, and bypass the icky "2 parties – same money bag" system altogether.
Any truth to this, G?
No, very untrue. Strom Thurmond later switched to the Republican Party, but of the 22 Democratic Senators who voted against the '64 CRA, he was the only one to switch parties. Artur Davis recently left the Democratic Party for the Republican Party, so by their logic, that means all blacks bolted the Democratic Party in 2012 and rejoined the Republican Party.
The sad part of this is I think many of the people who spread this false information simply believe it to be true. Our education system and media structure are corrupt and we all suffer for it. We rarely debate the true issues facing our country, things we probably all largely agree on. The debate focuses on calling Republicans racists and forcing Republicans to spend their entire time defending against lies and smears. How does that serve us, We the People?
True, that. It doesn't serve us at all. But how many people are out there comparing notes across the divide? "Oh I'd get tainted by THEM" seems to be the ethos. Or it's more fun to heap ugliness on the "nazis" and "morons" of your choice than to behave like responsible citizens. Bah, humbug.
Would you say that in the sense that Southern white voters turned away from the Democratic party post '64, Kunstler has some truth in it, or is that fabricated too?
Southern white voters or former democrat voters? I'm sure the newer generation of white voters probably did identify with the Republican Party more than the older Democrat voters. It had been trending that way already for about 20 years. Just as the younger people in both parties nowadays are for gay marriage in much greater numbers than the older members of their respective parties. New generations of people change from previous generations and see the world differently. I'm sure many young white voters could easily identify with Barry Goldwater's ideas of individual liberty, including strong personal property rights and were drawn to the Republican Party.
Sounds like gulps of Koolaid to me. The private seotcr doesn't hold back spending because of a weak economy, they weaken the economy by not investing. You're believing their propaganda. They manipulate the system they put in place. If we'd end the illegal wars instead of placating the huge war contractors the DOD, we'd have enough $ to spend on important things like jobs. People and corporations have didn't priorities. We want jobs healthcare, they want anything that makes THEM $.
G, I just read A Nation of Deadbeats, tracing the financial history of the US, and what he says about the parties confirms your assertions here. It was the Democrats, for example, who pushed blacks from power (such as they managed to get right after the Civil War) and instituted apartheid.
I'm proud of you doing research. Keep it up!


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Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is What I Played Today REVIEW
Posted on April 8, 2021 January 29, 2023 by Dave Pizza
Scarlet Hood and the Wicked Wood is a new visual novel/interactive fiction game. The story follows Scarlet, a budding musician in an aspiring band of close friends. Start your journey on route to your band's major performance at a club in the city.
Plus, explore the opportunity it provides with a heavy offer from the club's boss. In an unexpected twist, you'll soon find yourself, through unforeseen circumstances, in another world! This land is filled with popular themes from classic fantasy stories and solvable puzzles. Together, they all blend nicely into a one-of-a-kind story.
Scarlet Hood: Definitely Try It
I'm so glad I gave this game a chance. I'm not very good at puzzles, but Scarlet Hood evenly spaces puzzles enough that it progresses smoothly. The game gets right back into the story elements of this game. Since this game is fully animated as well, it was actually pretty cool to see the characters move around and traverse back and forth to solve puzzle clues.
Although this is definitely an indie game, the quality of the illustration and dialogue is very impressive. You can even use a controller on it, which is practically unheard of for VNs! This is also, for the full version, a purchasable game though, so that is probably a factor, but still nice for the genre. Its bold use of idioms and colloquialisms is on point, and the writer and/or editor seem to have made sure everything is grammatically correct. This might not matter to you, but as a writer, I often look for this aspect of games I play with dialogue.
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I really liked the way the tour bus drives along the interstate into town like a well-produced anime film. Lab Rags feels a lot like experiencing a vastly different theme but similar vibe to the animated film from Daft Punk called Interstella 5555. If you're unfamiliar with that title, it's an anime film from 2003 about alien musicians with the whole Discovery album as a soundtrack. All of the character art is beautiful too. When I wasn't powering through dialogue, I took an extra moment to study the characters in the game. The same can be said of all the environments also.
The major plot twist occurs after the show. Scarlet travels down a road pondering the choice she's been given about her career and her band. I never reached far enough into the demo to decide what exactly had happened. A strange glow in the sky seems to be at play in this Wizard of Oz plus Alice in Wonderland transition of surroundings. If you don't follow that analysis, don't worry, because this game has its own spin on just about everything.
Overall, I really liked all the scenes and transitions of this story.
If you want a game with well-tuned dialogue and fun interactivity, this game has everything.
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An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society: Standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure
Connie C W Hsia, Dallas M. Hyde, Matthias Ochs, Ewald R. Weibel
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The charge of this Joint ATS/ERS Task Force was to critically review the state-of-the-art stereological methods in lung morphometry, provide practical guidelines for use of these methods in basic and translational lung research, define standards to promote comparability of morphometric studies, and examine the extension of these methods to noninvasive lung imaging. Broad conclusions regarding study design and standardization: 1. In quantitative assessment of lung structure, accuracy is far more critical than precision, because inaccurate or biased data cannot be made accurate by increasing the number of measurements. The only effective way to avoid bias and ensure accuracy is via rigorous experimental design and standardization of each step of tissue fixation, processing, sampling, and analysis. 2. With an efficient study design, the number of samples, sections, images, and measurements at each analytical stage can be kept low without compromising accuracy and still achieving reasonable global precision in the results. 3. Principles of design-based stereology can be applied to the sampling and morphometric analysis of structures obtained by in vivo imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and positron emission tomography (PET). Principles for standardization of study design: 4. The lung should be fixed under well-defined inflation and perfusion conditions, using appropriate fixative(s) and processing procedures that result in the best structural preservation with the least tissue distortion for the intended study goal. 5. Tissue blocks or image fields should be selected using proven unbiased sampling schemes to ensure that all parts of the whole have an equal chance for being sampled. 6. Structures that are nonrandom in orientation or distribution, and biopsy samples from nonrandom target sites, require special sampling and analytical strategies. Recommendations for methods of quantification: 7. Stereological methods that are free of geometric assumptions must be used to efficiently quantify number, length, surface area, and volume at an adequate spatial resolution to ensure that measurements made on two-dimensional (2D) images accurately represent the three-dimensional (3D) structure. 8. Alveolar surface area can be accurately estimated from profile boundary lengths or intersection counting using systematic linear probes in 2D sections that are "uniform random" (i.e., selected from all possible sections with the same probability); however, the measurement is sensitive to resolution. 9. Alveolar number and size (volume) can be accurately measured using 3D volume probes such as the disector, but not from simple counts of profiles or measurements of cross-sectional areas in uniform random 2D sections. 10. Stereological measurements should be related to the volume of the lung or an appropriate reference space. Measurements made on lung biopsy specimens should be related to an internal reference space.
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine
https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200809-1522ST
Published - Feb 15 2010
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Hsia, C. C. W., Hyde, D. M., Ochs, M., & Weibel, E. R. (2010). An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society: Standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, 181(4), 394-418. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200809-1522ST
An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society : Standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure. / Hsia, Connie C W; Hyde, Dallas M.; Ochs, Matthias et al.
In: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, Vol. 181, No. 4, 15.02.2010, p. 394-418.
Hsia, CCW, Hyde, DM, Ochs, M & Weibel, ER 2010, 'An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society: Standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure', American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine, vol. 181, no. 4, pp. 394-418. https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.200809-1522ST
Hsia CCW, Hyde DM, Ochs M, Weibel ER. An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society: Standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure. American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2010 Feb 15;181(4):394-418. doi: 10.1164/rccm.200809-1522ST
Hsia, Connie C W ; Hyde, Dallas M. ; Ochs, Matthias et al. / An official research policy statement of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society : Standards for quantitative assessment of lung structure. In: American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 2010 ; Vol. 181, No. 4. pp. 394-418.
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Q: Shiny: How to prevent input duplicates when rendering outputs? In the following example, duplicate input elements seem to be created, although output$app is re-rendered with every login/logout.
library(shiny)

user <- reactiveValues(logged_on = 0)

ui <- fluidPage(
  uiOutput("app")
)

server <- function(input, output) {

  observe({
    if (user$logged_on == 1) {
      output$app <- renderUI({
        list(
          uiOutput("container1"),
          uiOutput("container2")
        )
      })
      output$container1 <- renderUI({
        actionButton("logout", "Logout")
      })
      output$container2 <- renderUI({
        actionButton("clickme", "Click Me")
      })

      observeEvent(input$clickme, {
        print("got clicked!")
      })

      observeEvent(input$logout, ignoreInit = TRUE, {
        user$logged_on <- 0
      })

    } else {

      output$app <- renderUI({
        actionButton("login", "Login")
      })

      observeEvent(input$login, ignoreInit = TRUE, {
        user$logged_on <- 1
      })

    }

  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

Clicking Login followed by Click Me prompts got clicked! once. However, after repeating the process by Logout>Login>Click Me prompts the message twice, and so on.
Examining this problem using...
      x <- reactiveValuesToList(input)
      print(x)

...confirms that duplicates of the input elements are created. Why does this happen and how do i prevent it?

A: I think it's because you have observeEvents within your observe. This isn't necessary and I've edited your code and now the duplicates seem to have been removed. (Also the ignoreInits were unnecessary here.)
library(shiny)

user <- reactiveValues(logged_on = 0)

ui <- fluidPage(
    uiOutput("app")
)

server <- function(input, output) {

    observe({
        if (user$logged_on == 1) {
            output$app <- renderUI({
                list(
                    uiOutput("container1"),
                    uiOutput("container2")
                )
            })
            output$container1 <- renderUI({
                actionButton("logout", "Logout")
            })
            output$container2 <- renderUI({
                actionButton("clickme", "Click Me")
            })

        } else {

            output$app <- renderUI({
                actionButton("login", "Login")
            })

        }

    })

    observeEvent(input$clickme, {
        print("got clicked!")
    })

    observeEvent(input$logout, {
        user$logged_on <- 0
    })

    observeEvent(input$login, {
        user$logged_on <- 1
    })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

A: So I've found that nesting observeEvent() within each other, registers new observers and that caused the problem. A better example than my previous one is:
library(shiny)

ui <- fluidPage(
  actionButton("clicks", "Click"),
  actionButton("more_clicks", "Print")
)

server <- function(input, output) {

  observeEvent(input$clicks,{
    observeEvent(input$more_clicks, {
      print("Hello") # you can see these piling up in the console when switching buttons
    })
  })
}

shinyApp(ui, server)

My guess is that this should be avoided when possible, although observeEvent()'s can be nested if the child observer is destroyed after it has gotten triggered. This can be accomplished by the argument observeEvent(eventExpr, handlerExpr, once = TRUE).

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