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Crooked Afghan police are challenge for U.S….
Crooked Afghan police are challenge for U.S. Marines
By Associated Press and Jason Straziuso |
AYNAK, Afghanistan — Afghan villagers had complained to the U.S. Marines for days: The police are the problem, not the Taliban. They steal from villagers and beat them. Days later, the Marines learned firsthand what the villagers meant.
As about 150 Marines and Afghan soldiers approached the police headquarters in the Helmand River town of Aynak, the police fired four gunshots at the combined force. No larger fight broke out, but once inside the headquarters the Marines found a raggedy force in a decrepit mud-brick compound that the police used as an open-pit toilet.
The meeting was tense. Some police were smoking pot. Others loaded their guns in a threatening manner near the Marines.
The U.S. troops ousted the police two days later and installed a better trained force they had brought with them on their recently launched operation into southern Helmand. The original force was sent away for several weeks of training the U.S. is conducting across Afghanistan to professionalize the country's police.
But the encounter, witnessed last week by The Associated Press, highlights one of the largest problems facing the international effort to stabilize Afghanistan in the face of an increasingly violent Taliban insurgency: the need for competent, trustworthy police.
Afghans across the country complain bitterly about the country's police, whose junior ranks earn only about $150 a month. Police pad their salaries by demanding bribes at checkpoints or kickbacks to investigate complaints, and police in opium poppy-growing regions turn a blind eye to drug smuggling for a cut of the profits, many Afghans complain.
The role of the local police is especially sensitive in Helmand province, the center of the lucrative opium poppy industry and a Taliban stronghold. A main goal of the ongoing U.S. military operation is to restore Afghan government control — which requires a disciplined police force that commands public respect.
Over the past year, the Interior Ministry has tried to overhaul the police, and dozens of corrupt officials have been fired. The U.S. has faced similar problems in Iraq, where years of effort have so far failed to produce a police force with the same level of skill and professionalism as the Iraqi army.
About 4,000 of the 21,000 additional troops President Barack Obama ordered to Afghanistan this year will train Afghan police and soldiers, a belated boost to a lingering problem. U.S. commanders have long complained of a shortage of trainers.
As Capt. Drew Schoenmaker pulled his men out of Aynak's police compound after that first meeting, the company commander told his Marines to "watch my 6 o'clock" — his back — in case the police again opened fire.
"I don't trust a single one of them," Schoenmaker muttered quietly.
Jason Straziuso
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The first parts of the S-400 air defense system were flown to the Murted military air base northwest of Ankara on Friday, sealing Turkey's deal with Russia, which Washington had struggled for months to prevent.
San Jose: Children's gym placed on lockdown because of police activity
The California Sports Center was cleared to reopen early Wednesday afternoon.
Customers affected by I-680/Hwy. 4 interchange mini storage fire still being notified
Management said at least 40 units were affected in the grass fire late Tuesday.


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SustainCo to market face recognition software
25 November 2020 17:08 GMT
SustainCo, awaiting name change to Universal PropTech, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a Collaboration and Commercialization Agreement with Delta-X Global to bring their Proprietary Face and Temperature Recognition software technology, Delta-XTM Trust, to market.
Facility owners and front-line workers are dealing with an extraordinary increased security and health risks of allowing and enabling the spread of viruses within their facilities without proper controls in place. Delta-XTM Trust's technology allows facilities to monitor the flow of people in and out of buildings and within facilities themselves. More importantly, the technology identifies when someone has heightened temperature readings and allow rapid response to contain illness.
The Company intends to integrate the Delta-X Trust products into the building control systems of existing customers' and new prospects to provide a more holistic healthy building environment. Once the definitive agreement is executed, the Company will introduce the Delta-X Trust products to thousands of properties through its extensive list of previous and current sites.
Delta-X Trust is a proven commercialized standalone contactless biometric access control and real-time data tracking system to provide secure authentication of digital interactions. Delta-X Trust innovates "identity and access management" (IAM) with the use of biometric and advanced encryption technology standards. https://www.deltaxglobal.com/trust.html.
Already in use in manufacturing sectors, healthcare industry, hotels, schools, hospitals and other public places with heavy traffic, Delta-X Trust products elevate data security management and disease prevention.
"We are really excited to have access to SustainCo's extensive government, commercial and multiresidential customer base," commented Derek Dlugosh-Ostap, Chief Executive Officer of Delta-X Global Corp.
"The addition of the Delta-X Trust to our arsenal of healthy building solutions and services will broaden our ability to integrate PropTech into a wide range of risk mitigation solutions for customers, during this pandemic," stated Chris Hazelton, Chief Executive of Officer of SustainCo Inc. "Our existing intelligent building technology continues to get smarter."
Among several commitments, the Company agrees to beta test the Delta-X Trust products with previous and current clients to develop go-to-market plans. Delta-X Global Corp. grants to the Company an Exclusive, non-transferable, sublicensable, license and right and to, directly or indirectly, to market, sell, distribute and install the Products to any of the Company's past clients, current clients and or new clients, and, as applicable, any respective Affiliate of any of the foregoing, including integrating the Products into its clients' and prospective clients' building control system, and providing services.
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Q: barchart with pgfplot - missing bar I am using PGFplot to make a barchart. There are 4 entries in my csv file and unfortunately I have only 3 bars in my figure.
my LaTeX code:
\begin{figure}
    \centering
    \begin{tikzpicture}
        \begin{axis}[
            x tick label style={/pgf/number format/1000 sep=},
                xlabel=Sequence,
            ylabel=Heigth,
                ymin=0.7,
            enlargelimits=0.05,
            legend style={at={(0.5,-0.15)},
                anchor=north,legend columns=-1},
            ybar interval=0.7,
            width=\textwidth,
            ]
            \addplot table [col sep=comma,trim cells=true,y=height] {numericaltests/data/test.csv};

            \addplot[red,sharp plot,update limits=false]
                coordinates {(-1,1.00) (34,1.00)}
                node[above] at (axis cs:15,1.00) {};
            \legend{Ca2Fe2As2}
        \end{axis}
    \end{tikzpicture}
    \caption{Sequence}
    \label{fig:sequenceHeight}
\end{figure}

my test.csv file:
sequence,height
1,2.0
2,1.5
3,1.8
4,2.4

Barchart:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/j6rs7gtn5dyh6ia/Screenshot%202013-11-09%2011.14.14.png

A: The problem is, that ybar interval requires a start and a end value. I changed it to ybar, then everything is fine.

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Changes in ovarian luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor content and in gonadotropin-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity during prepubertal and pubertal development of the female rat
S. Smith White, S. R. Ojeda
Ovarian hCG and FSH receptor content was measured at different postnatal ages (days 4–32), at 4-day intervals, and expressed as counts per min l25I-labeled hormone bound /μg DNA. Specific FSH binding was minimal at day 4 and increased to a maximum at day 28, with the greatest rate of increase between day 4 and 16. hCG receptor content increased 6-fold between day 4 and 32, but contrasting with FSH, its greatest rate of increase occurred between day 16 and 28. The effectiveness of in vivo treatment with LH in inducing ovarian ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity, measured in 20, 000 × g supernatants by the in vitro formation of l4CO2 from labeled ornithine, increased significantly during prepubertal development (days 21–33), paralleling the changes in hCG receptors.Ovarian hCG and FSH receptor content was also measured during the time of puberty. Specific hCG binding increased from anestrus (juvenile 32-day-old animals) to 1300 h of the first proestrus. The levels declined significantly by 1600 h of first proestrus and reached minimal values by the morning of estrus. Specific FSH binding also increased from anestrus to first proestrus, but to a much lesser degree, the levels showing only minor fluctuations during the rest of the cycle. hCG receptors measured in granulosa cells during puberty increased to an even greater extent than in the whole ovary; binding exhibited an 8-fold increase from anestrus to 1300 h of first proestrus and then declined to much lower values on estrus and the first diestrus. The capacity of LH to induce ovarian ODC activity increased markedly between anestrus and first proestrus, declining thereafter, and again paralleled the changes in LH receptor content.Evaluation of the kinetics of binding of hCG and FSH with their respective receptors in ovaries of 28-day-old rats revealed that the binding of hCG reached equilibrium within 4–8 h, whereas the binding of FSH attained equilibrium between 12–24 h. In both cases, however, the labeled hormones were clearly dissociable from their respective receptors by addition of an excess of unlabeled hormone. Moreover, although the ovarian receptor content of both hCG and FSH increased during prepubertal development, the equilibrium association constant of ither hormone with its receptor remained unchanged.The results suggest that the infantile increase in FSH receptors may be induced by the high serum FSH levels present at that age and that, as shown by others in hypophysectomized rats, the subsequent increase in hCG receptors is, at least in part, an FSH-dependent phenomenon. The parallel changes in hCG receptors and LH-induced ODC activity during pre- and peripubertal development strongly suggest that an increase in LH binding capacity plays a fundamental role in the process of ovarian growth. It is also suggested that the changes in the steroidogenic ovarian response to hCG previously observed in peripubertal rats are, at least in part, determined by changes in ovarian LH receptor content.
https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-109-1-152
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White, S. S., & Ojeda, S. R. (1981). Changes in ovarian luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor content and in gonadotropin-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity during prepubertal and pubertal development of the female rat. Endocrinology, 109(1), 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-109-1-152
Changes in ovarian luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor content and in gonadotropin-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity during prepubertal and pubertal development of the female rat. / White, S. Smith; Ojeda, S. R.
In: Endocrinology, Vol. 109, No. 1, 07.1981, p. 152-161.
White, SS & Ojeda, SR 1981, 'Changes in ovarian luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor content and in gonadotropin-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity during prepubertal and pubertal development of the female rat', Endocrinology, vol. 109, no. 1, pp. 152-161. https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-109-1-152
White SS, Ojeda SR. Changes in ovarian luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor content and in gonadotropin-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity during prepubertal and pubertal development of the female rat. Endocrinology. 1981 Jul;109(1):152-161. https://doi.org/10.1210/endo-109-1-152
White, S. Smith ; Ojeda, S. R. / Changes in ovarian luteinizing hormone and follicle-stimulating hormone receptor content and in gonadotropin-induced ornithine decarboxylase activity during prepubertal and pubertal development of the female rat. In: Endocrinology. 1981 ; Vol. 109, No. 1. pp. 152-161.
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A small Macintosh software developer has renamed a product it had been calling iWork, lending credence to rumors that Apple Computer Inc. plans to introduce office software of the same name.
IGG Software, which has marketed time-billing software as iWork, has changed the program's name to iBiz. The change follows reports on Mac user Web sites that Apple plans to offer its own version of word processing and presentation software.
ThinkSecret.com reported last week that a product from Apple called iWork would include an updated version of Apple's presentation software, Keynote, and a new word processing program, which the site says will be called Pages. The site predicted the Cupertino computer company will unveil the product at next week's Macworld Expo trade show at Moscone Center.
Such a program would be an interesting move for Apple, which has for years limited its office software ambitions, counting instead on Microsoft to produce a Mac version of Microsoft Office.
Having a version of Microsoft Office for the Mac has been a key selling point for Apple as it tries to persuade people who use Windows-based computers at work to have a Mac at home. Apple's Web site lists the Mac version of Office as reason No. 8 of 10 to switch to a Mac.
Apple's relationship with Microsoft, at least publicly, has run hot and cold. At times the companies have moved closer, but in recent months Apple has taken a number of shots at its rival.
Those shots have ranged from its Switch campaign, which focused on Windows users, to posters at last year's developer conference that suggested that Microsoft's Longhorn version of Windows would be a copycat of Apple's Tiger release this year.
For the time being, Microsoft appears to be sticking by its Macintosh products. It says it is already working on a new version of Office for the Mac.
"Our relationship with Apple remains productive and strong," said Scott Erickson, group product manager for Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit. Apple representatives were not immediately available for comment.
IGG Software representative Ian Gillespie said the name change to iBiz "better reflects the direction in which we see our product going, toward business management and not just time-billing."
The productivity arena, which includes word processing, database and spreadsheet software, is not new to Apple. It has offered a separate program, AppleWorks, with basic capabilities in all of those areas.
However, updates have been sparse in recent years, and the software appears primarily focused on education and consumer markets.
The company tiptoed more into the high-end arena with the introduction of Keynote in January 2003. The presentation tool, which can import and export documents in Microsoft's PowerPoint format, has fewer features than the Microsoft program but provides snazzier graphics and transitions. Still, the program has gotten only modest tweaks since its premiere.
The name iWork may seem a natural for Apple, which already bills its iLife software as being "like Microsoft Office for the rest of your life." But the term is already used by many others. Sun Microsystems, for instance, uses the name for a program that allows its employees to work remotely.
IGG Software applied for a trademark of the term in March 2003. In August, Apple also filed for a trademark on iWork.


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'One Safe Future' in the Philippines
Lloyd Ranque and Melissa Quetulio-Navarra
ranque-quetulionavarra.pdf
The Philippine government's 'One Safe Future' programme relocated disaster-affected poor families in areas where structures enabling opportunities are lacking.
In 2013 Typhoon Yolanda (internationally named 'Haiyan') put the Philippines on the television screens of the entire world when it drove the country to its knees, with a toll in lives in the thousands and damage to property in the tens of billions of dollars. Typhoon Yolanda had found its place in human history as the strongest typhoon ever formed and had notoriously become the evil face of climate change.
The world is dealing with the reality that it had never been as vulnerable to calamity as it is now, due to climate change. As for the Philippines, whether one calls it an act of nature or climate change, experiences of disasters have imposed the need on the government and its policymakers to prepare in terms of laws and policies (either enforcing those that exist or creating new ones) to prepare the country. Changes can now be seen in the strengthening of disaster risk reduction programmes, the formulation of preventive action plans from the upper to lower tier of the leadership, and the establishment of coordinating councils to facilitate the fast dissemination of information.
Left and right, national and local, there have been initiatives and efforts to fix the defect in the country's shield against disaster by re-thinking its urban and rural land use. This renewal entails the uprooting of families from one place and transplanting them to government-prepared relocation sites. In the national capital region of Metro Manila, for instance, where the population has grown in part due to economic migrations of families from distant rural parts of the country, the administration launched a five-year housing programme (2011-16) to relocate families living in danger, from high-risk areas that are not suitable for housing to safer ground.
The programme, called 'One Safe Future', is commendable as it aims to rescue families living alongside or on stilts in waterways. In fact, the families did not take much convincing, partly because there is an allotted budget but mainly because the families themselves had had enough. They were quite willing to move out for their own safety, especially after the experience of Typhoon Ondoy in 2009 which flooded Metro Manila to a depth of 20-30 feet. This willingness of the families who historically have been adamant about continuing to live in their dangerous dwellings is a development that the government has to take advantage of, especially in this country that has a lot to improve in practising just and humane demolition and eviction.
There are some 104,000 affected families with an average household size of slightly more than five persons and an average family income below the official poverty line. In their view, if there was ever a reason to give up their present living conditions – apart from leaving the danger areas – it was to start their life anew and escape chronic poverty by getting some fresh opportunities that relocation could offer them. They also mentioned getting back their pride by moving on from being squatters to home-owners.
But nothing could be more dramatic than leaving the place that for a long time you consider your home regardless of how dismal the situation is, and establishing a new life in an environment that has been chosen for you. Thus, as every resettlement practitioner knows, involuntary relocation of families incurs many accompanying risks to life and livelihood whose impact can only be mitigated if the government carries this out under a social development lens.
Evaluating the programme
Therefore the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor through its Informal Settler Families Unit conducted research on the short-term impact of the programme on the well-being of families that had been relocated to ten resettlement sites between 2013 and August 2014.
Going to the sites, it is noticeable how far they are from the commercial centre and with poor accessibility to the road network. The sites are tracts of land in far-flung locations with thousands of houses in rows. Being detached from the hub of the formal economy and livelihood, there has to be something that can compensate for this problem in distance and opportunities in order for these communities to thrive.
At first sight the families did what we Filipinos do – they smiled as if all is fine. But when we asked them how they are and they realised what we had come to discover, people in the community readily aired their anxieties. They lamented that although they escaped the dangers in their previous dwellings, they did not escape the disaster brought about by hunger. Sixty per cent of the surveyed families reported a decrease in family income, with some remaining unemployed since being resettled. This is further exacerbated by the inadequate and irregular provision of basic services, like drinking water and power, access to health, and education for school-age children. They assert that life in the resettlement site is doubly hard.
From a danger zone, they say, they seemed to have been relocated to a death zone. They had never experienced such difficulty, in which they have to beg for basic services. Some of their neighbours had gone back to the city, feeling betrayed by the government. This is very disturbing to hear, and alarming. Why, despite all its efforts, did the government fall short of meeting its promises of improved well-being for every family they relocate? It is not clear whether the fault is a policy lapse and an ambiguous working framework or the poor implementation of the programme by the agency tasked to carry it out under the operational framework.
Worsening poverty in every resettlement site is the result of a collapse in the very structure of opportunities. These opportunities should have been created prior to the relocation of families or, at the very least, there should have been a subsidy programme to help families gradually restore their quality of life.
Back in their former communities they used to have a source of income and reliable networks in the neighbourhood. Almost everything they needed was within reach in the city. Displacement has taken away this life and replaced it with distance, unmet provision of basic services and unknown neighbours. If this practice continues, the government can never achieve its goal of One Safe Future for the resettlers.
The One Safe Future resettlement programme is laudable in terms of its multi-sectoral approach and a wider participation space for the affected families. Nonetheless, the short-sighted view of a 'safe future' for the resettled families that involves no more than keeping them safe from flooding gets in the way of seeing the greater demands of actually securing a safe future for the resettlers in the new context. Taking them away from the waterways is only the first and easiest of many challenging subsequent steps. Current post-resettlement efforts of the programme should capitalise on its multi-sectoral and participatory approach and redirect resources towards meeting the basic needs of the families and rebuilding social trust by re-establishing our society's structure of opportunities. A nation can never overspend on the basic needs of its people.
Lloyd Ranque ranquedequezon@gmail.com is a Technical Staff member and Melissa Quetulio-Navarra melisnavarra@gmail.com is the Lead Coordinator in a government agency directly involved in the implementation of the Oplan Likas Programme of the Philippines.
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors alone and do not represent the views of the institution they are connected to.
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Pakistan Women to host England for the first time in bumper home season | T-10 NEWS
The home season will kick off on September 9 in Karachi with the Pakistan Cup one-day tournament
England Women are set to tour Pakistan for the first time, to play two T20Is and three ODIs in Rawalpindi in October. In all, Pakistan Women will compete in 33 matches – both domestic and international – in the upcoming home season, either side of the Women's ODI World Cup Qualifier in Zimbabwe. The ten-team tournament, which will also feature Pakistan, will be played between November 21 and December 5 in Harare.
According to a PCB media release, the board is also in talks with an ICC member for an ODI series prior to the national team's departure for Zimbabwe.
The home season will kick off on September 9 in Karachi with the Pakistan Cup one-day tournament before England's visit to the country. As for the National T20 Cup, it will run during June-July 2022 after which Pakistan will travel to Birmingham for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the PCB could host only the T20 tournament last season. A 14-match Under-19 tournament is also part of the forthcoming domestic calendar as the PCB seeks to identify players for the inaugural Women's Under-19 World Cup that will be held in 2023. The board has also expanded its women's domestic structure by including a fourth team now.
"Pakistan has never before seen such a jam-packed women's cricket season," Urooj Mumtaz, the chairperson of the women's selection committee, said. "The domestic events and the bilateral international series have been designed in a way to provide effective opportunities to the players to prepare themselves for the ICC Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier.
"The gradual growth in the player pool through our emerging team and Skills2Shine programme, has led to the addition of a fourth team in our domestic cricket. The increased number of matches will provide an opportunity to a larger group of players, thereby allowing greater opportunities to polish and enhance their skills, temperament and game awareness."
Pakistan Women's most recent assignment was the tour of the Caribbean, where they were swept 3-0 in the T20I leg and lost the first three ODIs before ending the trip with back-to-back consolation victories.
India Women tour of Australia – India call up uncapped Meghna Singh, Yastika Bhatia | Cricket | T-10 NEWS
तालिबान के पंजे से निकलने की कोशिश कर रहे थे ये मासूम बच्चे, 7 दिल दहला देने वाली तस्वीरें | T-10 NEWS


Sheffield United's hopes of finishing in the top six of the Sky Bet Championship suffered a knock when they lost 2-1 to relegation-threatened Birmingham City.
The Blades went ahead through Mark Duffy early on, but goals from Marc Roberts and Jacques Maghoma gave Garry Monk's side a crucial three points.
Bristol City and Hull City played out a thrilling 5-5 draw at Ashton Gate Stadium, with Famara Diedhiou netting a brace for the Robins.
Hull took the lead through Liverpool loanee Harry Wilson in the first half, but Lee Johnson's side equalised through Marlon Pack, and Diedhiou struck moments later to put the home side 2-1 up at the break.
Into the second half and Diedhiou got his second, before Frank Fielding conceded an own goal to make it 3-2.
Bobby Reid got his 19th league goal of the season to make it 4-2, before Wilson got his second of the match to make it 4-3.
Abel Hernandez equalised to make it 4-4 in the 80th minute, and Frazier Campbell made it 5-4 to Hull in the 87th minute.
Then, in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Joe Bryan equalised for Bristol City and the match ended 5-5.
Elsewhere, Burton Albion produced a thrilling comeback of their own to beat Sunderland 2-1 at the Stadium of Light.
The Black Cats went ahead through Paddy McNair, before Derby County loanee Darren Bent equalised four minutes from time for the Brewers.
Into added time, and Liam Boyce followed up his goal against Derby last weekend with a winning goal for Nigel Clough's side to keep their hopes of staying in the Championship alive.


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Q: Is there any way to exclude MathJax 3 processing from certain HTML elements? Using MathJax 2, to ignore typesetting a tag, adding the asciimath2jax_ignore class to the tag was sufficient for ignoring a tag for the AsciiMath input processor.

This won't be typeset

The entire document could be ignore by the following means:

...

Is there a way to achieve the same using MathJax 3 (I'm using the AsciiMath input processor)?

A: Yes, you can do that using the ignoreHtmlClass option in the options section of your configuration.  For example:

This is processed: `x^2+1`

This is not:  `x^2+1`

See the documentation for more details.


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Bill Callahan
Drag City
by Mike Powell
After the delicate, warm Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle, Bill Callahan returns with a more idiosyncratic record.
A list of adjectives to describe Bill Callahan's writing and music is a list of contradictions. He's penetrating, he's ironic, he's intimate, he's elusive, he's distant and calcified, he's vulnerable and warm-- it's all there, album to album, song to song, and sometimes line to line. His voice is low and his songs are slow, so it's easy to mistake him for being sad. As a lyricist, he writes meticulously about distance: the distance between people and other people, and between people and themselves. He's a cartographer of broken roads. But more than sadness, his writing represents a stoic quest for understanding in the face of knowing that these gaps usually can't be filled. "There's no truth in you, there's no truth in me," he sang on 2003's *Supper. "*The truth is between."
Apocalypse is his first studio album since 2009's Sometimes I Wish We Were an Eagle. The contrast between the two is stark. Eagle was a bath of strings, open-air ambience, French horns, and soft, measured drums. It was delicate and planned, it called out warm. Lyrically, the songs were direct and steady admissions of the kinds of sentiments that rise to light after funerals and breakups-- an exercise in what we normally call "vulnerable."
Apocalypse, ostensibly recorded live in the studio with a small band, is idiosyncratic and reluctant. Its narrators chew grass in silence and give you a too-long stare. They have meltdowns in foreign hotel rooms. And they come to us in a sound that is spare and liberated from Eagle's insistence on being gorgeous every single second. It's occasionally distorted, even ugly, a word I wouldn't use to describe almost anything Callahan's done since he recorded as Smog.
One of his most remarkable tricks-- and one he returns to all over Apocalypse-- is the ability to sound both controlled and casual at the same time. The songs here are filled with silly, borderline bad ideas that an artist with less confidence might've scrubbed after taking a long walk and a good rest. "Baby's Breath" speeds up and slows down in a way that sounds unrehearsed, devolving into distorted guitar toward the end. The sloppy backing track on "America!" quotes what sounds like Civil War songs and 50s jungle-rock. (It also casts Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson as part of an imagined U.S. military force and ends on an acidic joke about American imperialism: "Well everyone's allowed a past they don't care to mention.") A few songs feature, prominently, the flute.
But the feeling of spontaneity is also in Callahan's voice and delivery, which brings out the emotional dimension of the lines in ways the lyric sheet can't. On "One Fine Morning"-- one of two songs to use the album's title-- he sings, "It's all coming back to me now: my apocalypse, my apocalypse." The lyric is literally a realization, but it's the way he sings it that brings the feeling across: Curious and questioning, like he actually figured it out while tape was rolling. On "Universal Applicant", he describes a moment where he shoots a flare gun into the air, and punctuates it with a sound: fffff, pouh-- the flare burning and going off. The music falls silent for a few seconds. It's an aside that anchors the song. Ironically, it's not in the lyric sheet.
All these apparent accidents and asides produce a strange effect: It's like Callahan is alive in the music while it's being documented. It's vital that way, but permeable, like a friend who can tell the same story over and over again with subtle variations and capture their audience each time.
For me, Callahan's albums always return to questions of truth in song. For some people, the acoustic guitar-- when compared to the synthesizer-- is truth. For some, it's a line as unambiguous as "Most of my fantasies are of making someone else come," from 1997's Red Apple Falls. For others, it might be a line like "You always wanted to be the fire part of fire," from 2005's Woke on a Whaleheart-- a crowning example of Callahan at his most profoundly anti-poetic. He sets up alone and sings a lot of lines about feelings that start with the word "I" and doesn't use Auto-Tune, and so it's tempting to think of him as being a truth-teller. But it's more interesting-- and more flattering to him, I think-- to acknowledge the way in which he tries to climb to truth from so many different angles, where he finds footing and where he loses it, and the things he sees along the way.
One of Apocalypse's prettiest and most agreeable songs is called "Riding For the Feeling". It's a slow waltz. Callahan strums an acoustic guitar and sings close to the mic. The drums are brushed and patient. The sound alone tells us it's honest. And yet the scenario presented in the song is so strange: Callahan singing about moving, leaving, disappearing. Callahan singing about being in a hotel room with the television on mute, listening to demo tapes: "My my my apocalypse," he calls it-- the other song where the album's title comes in. "I realize I had said very little about waves or wheels/ Or riding for the feeling/ Riding for the feeling/ Is the fastest way to reach the shore."
The richness, as I hear it, is that the line describes how elusive-- and maybe even impossible-- honesty is. I don't have a clear idea of what "riding for the feeling is," but I wonder if that's the point: it's a journey toward something vague and variable. It's about the distance between how simple things feel when you experience them and how cluttered and gummed-up they come out sounding in song or verse. It's about the distance between something like Eagle's "Jim Cain" and "America!": The healthy-looking guy standing in a field telling you in past tense about his heartbreak and the one barking at you live and uncut from an Australian hotel room. One sounds too close to their feelings to make sense of them, the other sounds too far away to embody them. Which is more honest?
When his first records as Smog started coming out, it would've been easy to situate Callahan in an axis of singer-songwriters who sounded both rooted in American folk traditions but also radically disjointed from them: Dave Berman (of Silver Jews), Cat Power, and Will Oldham (then playing as Palace). Berman has retired, Cat Power has slowed down, and Oldham, like Callahan, has become the kind of musician who only makes sense within the context of himself. Callahan has nothing to add to the general conversation about music in 2011 but is making the best albums of his career. And despite the superficial changes he makes to his sound or focus, everything he's done ends on similar gestures: a stare, a nod, and the quiet question of whether trying to get to the heart of something is the same thing as actually getting to it.


AAWWWW! He wants a hug! I love this picture!!!!
Im glad you all like this photo. Sorry to be pendantic, but its a girl :) She is called Katinka, she always thinks that I have food for her, hence the reason why she was waiting for me at the window. Luckliy enough, I had the camera ready to go!


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December 24th 1953 Edition of the British Magazine, Model Engineer.
This vintage magazine is in almost new condition, with only slightly yellowed pages.
This issue has articles on feeding cutting oil to the lathe, a pressure guage calibrator and the motorcycle show.


As e-commerce continues to skyrocket, e-retailers are now encroaching into perhaps one of the last areas in which brick and mortars have an advantage – same day delivery. We're all familiar with Amazon's march across the US building fulfillment centers closer and closer to its customer-base in an attempt to decrease the number of delivery days. However as brick and mortars continue to report declining sales, many are embracing ecommerce and fighting back.
Recently, eBay announced it was testing a mobile same day delivery solution in San Francisco. Known as "eBay Now", eBay partners with such brick and mortar retailers as Target, Best Buy, Toys R Us and Nordstrom and offers delivery in as little as an hour. An interesting concept, retailers upload their stores' inventory onto eBay's online marketplace through Milo, a local shopping start-up that eBay acquired in late 2010. Shoppers involved in the test can download the app onto mobile devices such as Apple's iPhone and iPad, and then search for products to buy from local stores in San Francisco.
When they find a product, users press a "Bring It" button and the order is sent to couriers. The courier closest to the product accepts the order, drives to the store to pick up the product and then delivers it to the shopper's home.
Customers pay when the product arrives. They can pay using PayPal Here, a new service developed by eBay's PayPal unit that accepts credit and debit card payments through a small swipe device attached to iPhones or shoppers can pay by logging into their PayPal accounts through an iPhone. EBay Now couriers have iPhones to accept payments. Delivery fees are waived for the first three purchased afterwards, there is a $5.00 surcharge.
Google has created a similar product to Milo called Blue Dot which allows users to search to see if a product is in-stock at nearby stores by mobile. True, Blue Dot and Milo was originally developed for consumer research, however, if EBay's trial is successful; expect Blue Dot to do something similar. Perhaps partnering up with the likes of UPS, FedEx or the USPS may be among the thoughts going through Google – After all, UPS began as a courier-delivery company for brick and mortar retailers over 100 years ago.
Macy's, the almost 170 year old iconic retailer based in New York, has embraced the internet and has incorporated it into its overall strategy – not separately as so many brick and mortars appear to have done. According to Macy's chief financial officer, the retailer's new order fulfillment system is positioning itself to try same day delivery. Macy's began testing its fulfillment system in 2011 and expanded it to 280 of about 800 total stores so far this year. These stores act as warehouses, shipping items to shoppers' homes or to sold-out stores. The retailer believes in the concept of "buy anywhere" is "fulfill anywhere". According to Macy's, the goal is to optimize inventory for customers to shop across channels with ease. "We are also beginning to be able to satisfy online demand with store inventory when the distribution center runs out of a particular item," noted the company's spokesperson.
Perhaps the big delivery companies are working towards new product offerings to address this demand? You can bet UPS, FedEx and USPS are taking note in this quest for same day delivery particularly as couriers sprout up to take advantage of this opportunity. Not only are couriers such as Postmates and Instacart popping up, don't rule out the regional small parcel providers such as OnTrac, LoneStar and Spee-Dee all of which are more than capable to handle these types of deliveries.
Lots of opportunites - many options for retailers and e-retailers alike. The ability to think outside of the box and embrace change will win the race. However, according to Amazon's CFO, "We don't really see a way to do same-day delivery on a broad scale economically."
Maybe Amazon doesn't see a way, but I bet someone else will.


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Q: Apache Kafka Cruise Control do not automatically distribute offline replicas We are thinking about using Apache Kafka cruise control to make our stretched kafka cluster self-healing. We are currently testing cruise control locally, our current test cluster has 1 controller 6 brokers 3 on either Rack1 and Rack2. We would like cruise control to rebalance the topic replications in case of a complete Rack or Broker failure if min in sync replication cannot be done. We can tell cruisecontrol to redistribute offline partitions by triggering it manually, but we cannot set it to do it automatically. Is there a way to do this, it seems anomaly detection is not working on a broker failure state?  I will include some of the important configurations I think we have on cruise control properties.
anomaly.detection.goals=com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareDistributionGoal,com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.ReplicaDistributionGoal
self.healing.broker.failure.enabled=true
self.healing.goal.violation.enabled=true
self.healing.topic.anomaly.enabled=true
hard.goals=com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareDistributionGoal,com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.ReplicaDistributionGoal self.healing.goals=com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareDistributionGoal,com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.ReplicaDistributionGoal default.goals=com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.RackAwareDistributionGoal,com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.goals.ReplicaDistributionGoal

Cluster brokers output:
localhost:9096 (id: 4 rack: Rack2)
localhost:9093 (id: 1 rack: Rack1)
localhost:9098 (id: 6 rack: Rack2)
localhost:9097 (id: 5 rack: Rack2)
localhost:9092 (id: 0 rack: Rack1)
localhost:9094 (id: 2 rack: Rack1)

Current describe of our topic:
Topic: moot-topic-3     TopicId: ThGixXc0SEaEoNazJ_HYbQ PartitionCount: 2       ReplicationFactor: 3    Configs: min.insync.replicas=2,segment.bytes=1073741824
    Topic: moot-topic-3     Partition: 0    Leader: 2       Replicas: 2,6,0 Isr: 2,6,0
    Topic: moot-topic-3     Partition: 1    Leader: 6       Replicas: 6,5,0 Isr: 5,6,0

After we get some sampling the cruise control state is as follows;
MonitorState: {state: RUNNING(20.000% trained), NumValidWindows: (4/5) (80.000%),  NumValidPartitions: 67/67 (100.000%), flawedPartitions: 0}
ExecutorState: {state: NO_TASK_IN_PROGRESS}
AnalyzerState: {isProposalReady: true, readyGoals: [ReplicaDistributionGoal,  RackAwareDistributionGoal]}
AnomalyDetectorState: {selfHealingEnabled:[BROKER_FAILURE, GOAL_VIOLATION, TOPIC_ANOMALY],  selfHealingDisabled:[DISK_FAILURE, METRIC_ANOMALY, MAINTENANCE_EVENT],
selfHealingEnabledRatio:{BROKER_FAILURE=1.0, DISK_FAILURE=0.0, GOAL_VIOLATION=1.0,  METRIC_ANOMALY=0.0, TOPIC_ANOMALY=1.0, MAINTENANCE_EVENT=0.0}, recentGoalViolations:[],  recentBrokerFailures:[], recentMetricAnomalies:[{anomalyId=60d2c347-b07f-46fb-8692-  3f7baa97edca, detectionDate=2023-02-22T13:36:09Z, statusUpdateDate=2023-02-22T13:36:09Z,  description=Metric value 0.000 of BROKER_FOLLOWER_FETCH_LOCAL_TIME_MS_999TH for  brokerId=0,host=localhost in window 2023-02-22T13:35:00Z is out of the normal range for  percentile: [10.00, 90.00] (value: [0.081, 86.250] with margins (lower: 0.200, upper: 0.500))  in 14 history windows from 2023-02-22T13:00:00Z to 2023-02-22T11:55:00Z., status=IGNORED},  {anomalyId=419d9124-5d45-4581-8744-dd291efa58da, detectionDate=2023-02-22T13:38:39Z,  statusUpdateDate=2023-02-22T13:38:39Z, description=Metric value 0.000 of  BROKER_FOLLOWER_FETCH_LOCAL_TIME_MS_999TH for brokerId=0,host=localhost in window 2023-02-  22T13:40:00Z is out of the normal range for percentile: [10.00, 90.00] (value: [0.032,
86.250]  with margins (lower: 0.200, upper: 0.500)) in 14 history windows from 2023-02-22T13:35:00Z to  2023-02-22T12:00:00Z., status=IGNORED}, {anomalyId=bf5dbcfd-e328-4369-8a15-f29452e0ae6b,  detectionDate=2023-02-22T13:36:09Z, statusUpdateDate=2023-02-22T13:36:09Z, description=Metric  value 0.000 of BROKER_FOLLOWER_FETCH_LOCAL_TIME_MS_999TH for brokerId=5,host=localhost in  window 2023-02-22T13:35:00Z is out of the normal range for percentile: [10.00, 90.00] (value:  [0.032,
18.668] with margins (lower: 0.200, upper: 0.500)) in 14 history windows from 2023-02-  22T13:00:00Z to 2023-02-22T11:55:00Z., status=IGNORED}], recentDiskFailures:[],  recentTopicAnomalies:[], recentMaintenanceEvents:[], metrics:{meanTimeBetweenAnomalies:  {GOAL_VIOLATION:0.00 milliseconds, BROKER_FAILURE:0.00 milliseconds, METRIC_ANOMALY:2.57  milliseconds, DISK_FAILURE:0.00 milliseconds, TOPIC_ANOMALY:0.00 milliseconds},  meanTimeToStartFix:0.00 milliseconds, numSelfHealingStarted:0, numSelfHealingFailedToStart:0,  ongoingAnomalyDuration=17.95 minutes}, ongoingSelfHealingAnomaly:None, balancednessScore:100.000}

There are some metrics anomalies but we do not have self healing for them so thats fine. When broker 6 and 0 taken down, we expect the cruise control to rebalance the offline partitions to other nodes to get min in sync replicated.
After taking down brokers:
localhost:9097 (id: 5 rack: Rack2)
localhost:9096 (id: 4 rack: Rack2)
localhost:9094 (id: 2 rack: Rack1)
localhost:9093 (id: 1 rack: Rack1)

Topic describe:
Topic: moot-topic-3     TopicId: ThGixXc0SEaEoNazJ_HYbQ PartitionCount: 2       ReplicationFactor: 3    Configs: min.insync.replicas=2,segment.bytes=1073741824
    Topic: moot-topic-3     Partition: 0    Leader: 2       Replicas: 2,6,0 Isr: 2
    Topic: moot-topic-3     Partition: 1    Leader: 5       Replicas: 6,5,0 Isr: 5

Cruise control seems to be detecting the broker failures but do not act on it and skips anomaly detection logs are below;

[2023-02-22 14:59:41,356] INFO [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-2]
Node 2 disconnected. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
[2023-02-22 14:59:41,358] INFO [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-2]
Node 6 disconnected. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient)
[2023-02-22 14:59:41,358] WARN [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-2]
Connection to node 6 (localhost/127.0.0.1:9098) could not be
established. Broker may not be available.
(org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2023-02-22 14:59:41,359]
INFO [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-2] Node 0 disconnected.
(org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2023-02-22 14:59:41,359]
WARN [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-2] Connection to node 0
(localhost/127.0.0.1:9092) could not be established. Broker may not be
available. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2023-02-22
14:59:46,459] INFO [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-3] Node 5
disconnected. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2023-02-22
14:59:46,460] INFO [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-3] Node 0
disconnected. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2023-02-22
14:59:46,460] WARN [AdminClient clientId=adminclient-3] Connection to
node 0 (localhost/127.0.0.1:9092) could not be established. Broker may
not be available. (org.apache.kafka.clients.NetworkClient) [2023-02-22
15:00:46,682] INFO Kicking off metric sampling for time range
[1677074326682, 1677074446682], duration 120000 ms with timeout 120000
ms.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.MetricFetcherManager)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,691] INFO [Consumer
clientId=CruiseControlMetricsReporterSampler-consumer-7649600810020097193,
groupId=null] Seeking to offset 152692 for partition
__CruiseControlMetrics-0 (org.apache.kafka.clients.consumer.KafkaConsumer) [2023-02-22
15:00:46,695] INFO Finished sampling from topic __CruiseControlMetrics
for partitions [0] in time range [1677074326682,1677074446682].
Collected 748 metrics.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.CruiseControlMetricsReporterSampler)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,695] INFO Generated 64(3 skipped by broker
{-1=3}) partition metric samples and 4 broker metric samples for
timestamp 1677074442443.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.CruiseControlMetricsProcessor)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,696] INFO PARTITION Aggregator rolled out 1 new
windows, reset 1 windows, current window range [1677073200000,
1677074700000], abandon 134 samples.
(com.linkedin.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.aggregator.MetricSampleAggregator)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,696] INFO Collected 64 partition metric samples
for 64 partitions. Total partition assigned: 67.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.SamplingFetcher)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,696] INFO BROKER Aggregator rolled out 1 new
windows, reset 1 windows, current window range [1677068700000,
1677074700000], abandon 11 samples.
(com.linkedin.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.aggregator.MetricSampleAggregator)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,696] INFO Collected 4 broker metric samples for 4
brokers.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.SamplingFetcher)
[2023-02-22 15:00:46,705] INFO Finished sampling in 17 ms.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.sampling.MetricFetcherManager)
[2023-02-22 15:01:03,877] INFO Skipping anomaly detection because
there are dead brokers/disks in the cluster, flawed brokers: [0, 6]
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.detector.AnomalyDetectorUtils)
[2023-02-22 15:01:06,378] INFO Skipping anomaly detection because
there are dead brokers/disks in the cluster, flawed brokers: [0, 6]
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.detector.AnomalyDetectorUtils)
[2023-02-22 15:01:07,578] INFO Post processing anomaly {Fixable broker
failures detected: {Broker 0 failed at 2023-02-22T13:58:37Z,
Broker 6 failed at 2023-02-22T13:58:37Z}} for CHECK_WITH_DELAY.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.detector.AnomalyDetectorManager)
[2023-02-22 15:01:09,374] INFO Skipping anomaly detection because
there are dead brokers/disks in the cluster, flawed brokers: [0, 6]
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.detector.AnomalyDetectorUtils)
[2023-02-22 15:01:21,536] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6]
because they are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their
capacity. (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils)
[2023-02-22 15:01:21,536] WARN Detected offline partition
__KafkaCruiseControlPartitionMetricSamples-8, skipping (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,536] WARN Detected offline partition
__KafkaCruiseControlPartitionMetricSamples-8, skipping (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,536] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,537] WARN Detected offline partition
__KafkaCruiseControlPartitionMetricSamples-0, skipping (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,537] WARN Detected offline partition
__KafkaCruiseControlPartitionMetricSamples-0, skipping (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,537] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,537] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,537] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,538] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,538] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
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15:01:21,538] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,539] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,539] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,539] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,539] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,540] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,540] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,540] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
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15:01:21,540] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,541] WARN Detected offline partition
__KafkaCruiseControlPartitionMetricSamples-11, skipping (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,541] WARN Detected offline partition
__KafkaCruiseControlPartitionMetricSamples-11, skipping (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,541] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,541] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,541] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,542] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,542] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,542] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,542] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,543] INFO Assign empty capacity to brokers [6] because they
are dead and capacity resolver is unable to fetch their capacity.
(com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.monitor.MonitorUtils) [2023-02-22
15:01:21,565] INFO Finished the precomputation proposal candidates in
31 ms (com.linkedin.kafka.cruisecontrol.analyzer.GoalOptimizer)

when we do curl -X POST http://localhost:9091/kafkacruisecontrol/fix_offline_replicas?dryrun=false manually, cruise control re distribute everything to make cluster usable again;
Topic: moot-topic-3     TopicId: ThGixXc0SEaEoNazJ_HYbQ PartitionCount: 2       ReplicationFactor: 3    Configs: min.insync.replicas=2,segment.bytes=1073741824
    Topic: moot-topic-3     Partition: 0    Leader: 2       Replicas: 2,5,4 Isr: 2,5,4
    Topic: moot-topic-3     Partition: 1    Leader: 5       Replicas: 5,2,1 Isr: 5,1,2

After brokers 0 and 6 become online again, cruise control actually re distribute so the state is the same as before.


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An analysis on cultivating the next generation of engineers.
Rarely can a student be pushed into engineering. The attrition rate of engineering schools is indicative of that. For an individual to be successful in engineering, he or she must be inspired. It is that inspiration that enables engineering students to dredge through the rigors of engineering school. It is that inspiration that keeps young engineers at the office well into the night as they search for solutions to complex problems. It is that inspiration that allows seasoned engineers to change their communities, their industries, and the world. But where does this inspiration come from?
Fast forward a few generations and the question becomes: What past engineering accomplishments and what present world events can we tout as the inspiration for the next generation of engineers? This question can be difficult to answer when broadly comparing our situations today with those of the generations listed above. After all, this generation hasn't been tasked with landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade. However, a closer look does provide clear opportunities for inspiring the next generation of engineers.
Limited resources in the midst of growing population and consumption: It's no secret we live on a planet with finite resources. How could it be? Copious sums of money have been spent on increasing awareness of our finite resources and the need to reduce our consumption. These conditions make the issue of renewable energy a topic of which all students should be aware. Students simply need to be made aware of the opportunities that exist for engineers in the renewable industry. Plant the seed for inspiration and the marketing and advertising campaigns should take care of the rest.
Smart phones and the mobile revolution: Similar to the example above, large sums of money have been spent on informing people of advances in mobile computing technology (smartphones, tablets, etc.). Furthermore, tech companies that create these devices have developed a corporate culture that appeals to the younger generations. Once again, showing students the opportunities that exist for engineers in the tech industry is about all that needs to be done. Let them know they can design the newest, greatest iWhatever, and they very well might.
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Q: Template template parameter with default values unknown I have a template function that takes a container as a parameter
(I use this function for both vector, set, map so trying to avoid it would cost a lot of code copying)
so naturally I declared it as:
template<template<class T, class Allocator = std::allocator<T>> class
Container> Container<std::weak_ptr<A>>* Foo() {...}

Note that the return value of Foo uses the default parameter of the container.
When I use the function with vector, list or set it works just fine;
the problem I have is when I try to use this template with a map container with the comparator and value type fixed (which is defined as MapToValue<ValueType>::FromKey with A and Comparator<Key> already defined):
template<class Value> class MapToValue {
     template<class Key, class Allocator = std::allocator<std::pair<const
     Key, Value>>> FromKey : public std::map<Key, Value, Comparator<Key>,
     Allocator> {...}

In this case the default value of the allocator is diffrent then the one in the definition of Foo - std::allocator<std::pair<_Ty, std::string>> vs. std::allocator<_Ty>.
Long story short, I need that to send to Foo a container with a second parameter that can be defaulted WITHOUT knowing what this default type would be (so this function template can be used for both map, vector or basically any other container). Is this possible?
EDIT: I cannot use C++11 in any way, the compiler is gcc 4.1.2 (out of my control)

A: In c++11 you can take any template as template argument:
template<template <class ...> class Container>
Container<std::weak_ptr<A>>* Foo() {...}

A: There's a misunderstanding here of how template template parameters operate. This declaration:
template<template<class T, class Allocator = std::allocator<T>> class Container>
Container<std::weak_ptr<A>>* Foo() {...}

Is just an overly verbose version of this declaration:
template < template <class, class> class Container>
Container<std::weak_ptr<A>>* Foo() {...}

(What is A btw?)
It doesn't matter what the names or defaults of the types are that Container takes - Foo is simply templated on some class template that takes two template type arguments. That works with vector because it is a class template that takes two template type arguments:
template<
    class T,
    class Allocator = std::allocator<T>
> class vector;

It does not work with map because that one takes four template type arguments:
template<
    class Key,
    class T,
    class Compare = std::less<Key>,
    class Allocator = std::allocator<std::pair<const Key, T> >
> class map;

In C++11, you can generalize your function to have a template template argument take an arbitrary number of template type arguments:
template < template <class...> class Container>
Container<std::weak_ptr<A>>* Foo() {...}

Though, however, this is never going to work as some container types can't be constructed with only a single template argument (e.g. map).

A: I found a solution, it isn't elegant but it works:
Sending to Foo another template argument that would be the way to deafault the Allocator:
template<template<typename> class DefaultAllocator, template<typename T,
typename Allocator = DefaultAllocator<T>> class Container>
Container<std::weak_ptr<A>>* Foo() {...}

This way I send Foo<std::allocator,std::vector> all the same.
Also by creating some wrapper template<class T> class MapAllocatorWrapper : std::allocator<std::pair<T,std::string>>, I can send Foo<MapAllocatorWrapper, MapToType<std::string>::FromKey after slight adjustments.


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Red Dead Redemption 2 is joining Xbox Game Pass soon
May 7 is the date.
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Xbox Game Pass will soon be updated with yet another amazing hard-hitter. Of course, it's Red Dead Redemption 2. Of course, it was only a matter of time.
Microsoft announced this information on their official blog and they've confirmed that the game will arrive on the service on May 7. The company sees this as a big move obviously and they are using the opportunity to note its financial and critical prowess. Another note is that this is "Xbox Game Pass for Console" only. The PC port is still fresh and Microsoft will keep control over it via the official launcher.
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Q: Core java Multi Threading - Thread is not Ending Have created the below class with global variable.
But why my thread is not ending or become dead.
public class MTTest {
  private static boolean isRequestToStop = false;

  public static void main(String [] args) throws Exception{

    Thread T = new Thread (new Runnable(){
      public void run(){

        while(!getRequestToStop()) {
        //System.out.println(" Value is " +getRequestToStop() );
        //System.out.println("Thread");
        }
      }

    });
    T.start();
    Thread.sleep(1000);
    setRequestToStop();
    //isRequestToStop =  true;
  }
  public static void setRequestToStop(){
    System.out.println("--- setRequestToStop()--- Called");
    isRequestToStop =  true;
  }
  public static boolean getRequestToStop(){
    return isRequestToStop;

  }
}

A: you need to make your boolean variable volatile
private static volatile boolean isRequestToStop = false;

The created thread has its own version of isRequestToStop which will not be read/written from main memory, volatile will force your variable to be flushed to main memory.
check the java docs for more info
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-5222/codingpractices-1/index.html


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Q: Meetup API finding groups where user is co-organizer Looking through meetups API for groups, http://www.meetup.com/meetup_api/docs/2/groups/ , supposedly I can query groups where I am a member or organizer. Query member_id with an ID returns groups, but querying organizer_id returns nothing.
Am I missing something or require some other access? I'm positive that the ID I'm using, mine, is co-organizer of a few a groups.
And I'm using this PHP library: https://github.com/blobaugh/Meetup-API-client-for-PHP