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Latest SaaS Trends in SEA
As technology rapidly continues to drive innovation around the world, we similarly are bearing witness to the democratization of capital flows in the form of venture capital into technology startups across markets globally. On a whole, VC investments continue to rapidly rise year-on-year, from $60bn in 2012 to $301bn in 2020, at a 24.4% CAGR. SaaS investments, as a core sub-segment within VC, has followed the same growth trajectory, steadily growing every year, from $15bn in 2012 to $77bn in 2020, at a similar 23.7% CAGR. The capital market share of SaaS has remained relatively consistent, comprising approximately 25% of all VC investment annually.
VC investments into SaaS across US, Europe and Asia-Pacific
If we are to further breakdown venture capital flows of SaaS investments by region, we notice two main trends. Firstly, US SaaS investments continue to lead by a large margin at $59.6bn by 2021, making up about ~50% of total SaaS investments globally, and are likely to continue dominating in the future, due to the maturity of capital and technology markets. Secondly, we also notice that Asia-Pacific SaaS is on par with European SaaS as a whole, consistently at $16.8bn and $16.4bn respectively in 2021, keeping up a steady pace just behind the US.
SEA records the highest growth in SaaS VC investments
Diving more deeply into the Asia-Pacific, we see that VC SaaS investments in the region have predominantly been driven by VC investments into China and Japan SaaS respectively. In the Asia-Pacific, China and Japan lead SaaS investments by volume, naturally due to a larger and more mature market, consistently attracting 8-16x more than SEA investments. However, in terms of growth, SEA has grown far more quickly from $232m in 2017 to $1.5bn in 2021 at the fastest rate of 60.7% CAGR, higher than India's 43.0% growth, and far outstripping China's and Japan's more modest growth at only 12.4% and 12.5% respectively.
Late Stage SEA SaaS has Rapidly Grown in 2021, Especially Vertical SaaS
What has been driving the explosive growth of SEA SaaS of late, especially in 2021? If we are to further break down this explosive trend by stage, we recognise that this has been attributed to a rapid increase in large capital deployments into late stage SEA SaaS startups. Notwithstanding the structural shrink in VC investments we witness in 2020, which has occurred across the board due to the unexpected spread of the pandemic, we see that late-stage SaaS investments in 2021 to date has already beaten 2019's figures by 4.5x, reaching an all-time record high of $1.1bn.
If we further zoom into only late stage SaaS startups of SEA, we see that vertical SaaS has consistently been receiving the majority of VC funding. Specifically, of approximately $50~150m per year since 2017, but especially exploding to $868m in 2021, almost 3.5x the $250m of pure horizontal SaaS.
Top 10 Late Stage SEA SaaS to Watch
Who are these late stage SaaS startups which are attracting most of the capital deployments in SEA? If we are to take the top 10 late-stage SaaS based on the highest amount of fundraising to date, we can see that while generally more vertical SaaS exists, horizontal SaaS also raises relatively high funding as well. Trax, an image recognition enterprise vertical SaaS platform for the retail industry, has been attracting the most capital of all at $640m in 2021 alone. In second place at $250m in 2021, Acronis is a horizontal SaaS platform that provides end-to-end data management services on the cloud. After these top two contenders, we see that capital distribution is far more even, at approximately $50~$100m per subsequent startup.
Across the world, we have seen a steady growth and maturity of SaaS, as evidenced from the robust growth of VC capital deployments into SaaS over the recent years. Specifically, while we know that SaaS in Asia-Pacific has been predominantly led by China and Japan by volume, we notice that SEA has been growing at a rapid rate, especially in 2021. This explosive growth in SEA SaaS is predominantly due to late stage SaaS capital investments, especially in vertical SaaS, although there are also a handful of horizontal SaaS as well. What exactly are the types of late SaaS that are booming in SEA, and why have they grown so big? In subsequent articles, UBV will have a closer look at the industries that these successful SEA SaaS are occupying, analyzing their business growth strategies and how they are tackling the various opportunities for growth in SEA.
By Jorel Chan | UB Ventures Associate
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For those of you that surf the web to learn more about Alarm Management, I want to add a couple of postings in the next few weeks to your repertoire of readings… and maybe bust a few m yths in the process.
The general thinking behind this myth is that once you've identified the problem, you're pretty much done!
I guess they assume that if their software points out the problem, you would of course take action to solve it.
That's like saying an overweight person would get thin if only they knew their weight.
Plant operators and engineers already have way too much on their plate.
Sure, they may take some action and bring down the count - just like an overweight person goes on a diet and drops a few pounds.
But without correcting the situation and keeping it there, the pounds come right back after the diet stops.
And lots of customers are finding it.
At PAS, we have a number of customers who have switched from someone else's Alarm Counting software to the real thing – an Alarm Management software + service solution that corrects the under lying problems and then acts to keep those problems from recurring.
Counting alarms with printer port software was not enough for them.
Neither was the fancy analysis.
If all of this sounds like hard work, it's because it is!!!
But the benefits are there - increasing plant reliability and safety by more pro-actively alerting operators to process upsets BEFORE going off-spec, off-grade or shutting down.
A saying from my high school days have stuck with me ever since - Caveat Emptor.
It's true that you get what you pay for – those Romans were right with their advice!
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The article says "Documentation & Rationalization of existing alarms"
If I have a plant that is out of control, what is the use of documenting and rationalizing the alarms that are causing it to go out of control.
Instead, I would think that you would want to take a broader look at the problem and document and rationalize the IO, and thereby creating alarms that are appropriate for the equipment and the operation. The difference being that my plant probably has the wrong alarms in the first place, so spending time documenting those would be like the overweight person documenting and explaining the nutritional value for the Super Sized Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese meal that they have every day at lunch. Perhaps it will steer them towards not having those every day, but what they really need is a salad and 20 minutes on the tread mill.
My thought is let's not document what is already broken and instead design and document what it should be. If the plant is in good shape, then sure, document what you have. But what you are describing above is something that is badly broken.
Or did I just misread what was written?
The PAS Documentation & Rationalization service does not just document the alarms as they are, but goes through the entire configuration of control system points and alarms to determine which points should have what level of alarm – basically a re-design of the alarm system.
Hope this helps clarify the posting!


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RIOS reveals an expansive mixed-use project for Los Angeles's Chinatown
Big Development In Little Chinatown
By Shane Reiner-Roth • September 30, 2021 • Architecture, Unveiled, West
Buena Vista will occupy the long site adjacent to the Chinatown Metro Station to add much-needed housing and retail to the small historic neighborhood (Courtesy RIOS)
At the northern edge of Los Angeles's Chinatown, the local interdisciplinary architecture firm RIOS has recently designed a sprawling mixed-use development within a narrow eight-acre property straddling the long edge of the Los Angeles State Historic Park. The project, named Buena Vista, is the product of a joint venture between Lincoln Property Co. and S&R Partners with the goal of introducing retail, public open space, and nearly 1,000 apartment units (200 of which will be designated as affordable housing) to the Chinatown Metro-adjacent site.
While the majority of the project will lie low to the ground, taking in panoramic views of the park and the Downtown Los Angeles skyline beyond, a pair of towers are planned for the southern end of the property, rising 22 and 26 stories to become the tallest buildings in Chinatown. The taller tower of the two will be lifted over the main structure on pedestals to reveal a colorful mural on its underside that will partially shelter the large open green space connecting the north and south portions of Buena Vista. In addition to retail spaces overlooking the park, a number of semi-enclosed courtyards will be found throughout the site to provide respite from the noise and traffic of nearby Broadway street.
The project is broken up by generously sized open spaces that open up views to the adjacent Los Angeles State Historic Park (Courtesy RIOS)
Buena Vista is only one of a handful of developments taking shape around the Chinatown Metro station. The Portland-based architecture firm LEVER, for instance, has recently announced plans for a 145,000-square-foot mass timber office building a short walk south of the Buena Vista site that will add much-needed commercial space to the historic neighborhood.
Though aspects of the overall design are likely to be revised within the next few years, construction on the south parcel of Buena Vista is scheduled to begin early 2023 and conclude in 2026, while the other half is expected to be completed by 2029.
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SKYNET est un programme américain de la NSA qui effectue une analyse par apprentissage automatique sur les données de communication pour extraire des informations sur d'éventuels suspects de terrorisme. L'outil est utilisé pour identifier des cibles, telles que les courriers d'Al-Qaïda, qui sont transmis sur les réseaux cellulaires GSM. Plus précisément, les comportements d'utilisation des mobiles tels que le changement de cartes SIM dans des téléphones qui ont le même numéro ESN, MEID ou IMEI sont considérés comme révélateurs d'activités secrètes. Comme de nombreux autres programmes de sécurité, le programme SKYNET utilise des graphes qui comportent un ensemble de nœuds et de points afin de représenter visuellement les réseaux sociaux. L'outil utilise également des techniques de classification comme les forêts d'arbres décisionnels. Étant donné que l'ensemble de données comprend une très grande proportion de faux positifs et de petits jeux de données pour l'apprentissage, il existe un risque de surapprentissage. Bruce Schneier fait valoir qu'un taux de faux positifs de 0,008 % serait faible pour les applications commerciales où « si Google fait une erreur, les gens voient une annonce pour une voiture qu'ils ne veulent pas acheter » tandis que « si le gouvernement fait une erreur, ils tuent des innocents.»

Participation et partenariats
Directions de la NSA participant:

 Renseignement d'origine électromagnétique : S21, S22, SSG
 Recherche: R6
 Technologie: T12, T14

Il a des partenariats avec TMAC / FASTSCOPE, les laboratoires Lincoln du MIT et Harvard.

Controverses
Le projet SKYNET est lié à des systèmes de drones de combat, ce qui potentiellement amène les faux positifs à la mort d'innocents.

Selon la NSA, le projet SKYNET est capable de reconstituer avec précision des informations cruciales sur les suspects, y compris leurs relations sociales, leurs habitudes et leurs déplacements grâce à la visualisation graphique des données GSM. Cependant, les chercheurs critiquent la littérature actuelle sur la sécurité, qui associe les écarts statistiques à des anomalies comportementales, et que la méthodologie de détection d'anomalies SKYNET a un comportement binaire. Par exemple, le chef du bureau d'Al-Jazeera à Islamabad, le journaliste Ahmad Zaidan, a été identifié à tort comme un membre très probable d'Al-Qaïda et des Frères musulmans dans leurs dossiers
. Bien qu'il soit improbable d'être membre des deux groupes, il est également largement et publiquement connu pour ses voyages afin de rencontrer des groupes radicaux, mais a été identifié comme terroriste en raison de la surveillance de son téléphone portable, le plaçant dans des zones rurales. Cela a été perçu comme la preuve que le système n'est pas fiable, car il a identifié à tort un journaliste exerçant des activités publiques légitimes en tant que terroriste potentiel, tout en portant atteinte à la liberté de la presse et en enfreignant la loi américaine sur la surveillance des journalistes.

Voir également

 Surveillance globale

Références

Drone militaire
Programme de service d'espionnage révélé par Edward Snowden
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Est is one of Burkina Faso's 13 administrative regions. It was created on 2 July 2001. The region's capital is Fada N'gourma. Five provinces make up the region—Gnagna, Gourma, Komondjari, Kompienga, and Tapoa.

, the population of the region was 1,941,505 with 51% females. The population in the region was 9.47% of the total population of the country. The child mortality rate was 98, infant mortality rate was 98 and the mortality of children under five was 186. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 28.5%, compared with a national average of 28.3%. The coverage of cereal need compared with the total production of the region was 108%.

Geography

Most of Burkina Faso is a wide plateau formed by riverine systems and is called falaise de Banfora. There are three major rivers, the Red Volta, Black Volta and White Volta, which cuts through different valleys. The climate is generally hot, with unreliable rains across different seasons. Gold and quartz are common minerals found across the country, while manganese deposits are also common. The dry season is usually from October to May and rains are common during the wet season from June to September. The soil texture is porous and hence the yield is also poor. The average elevation is around  to  above mean sea level. Among West African countries, Burkino Faso has the largest elephant population and the country is replete with game reserves. The southern regions are more tropical in nature and have savannah and forests. The principal river is the Black Volta, that originates in the southern region and drains into Ghana. The areas near the rivers usually have flies like tsetse and similium, which are carriers of sleep sickness and river blindness. The average rainfall in the region is around  compared with northern regions that receive only  rainfall.

Demographics

, the population of the region was 1,941,505 with 51% females. The population in the region was 9.47% of the total population of the country. The child mortality rate was 98, infant mortality rate was 98 and the mortality of children under five was 186.
As of 2007, among the working population, there were 62.3% employees, 3.3% under employed, 32.6% inactive people, 34.4% not working and 1.8% unemployed people in the region.

Economy
As of 2007, there were  of highways,  of regional roads and  of county roads. The first set of car traffic was 29, first set of two-wheeler traffic was 2,610 and the total classified road network was 1,844.
The total corn produced during 2015 was 85,485 tonnes, cotton was 53,645 tonnes, cowpea was 44,098 tonnes, ground nut was 38,078 tonnes, millet was 87,588 tonnes, rice was 34,907 tonnes and sorghum was 193,161 tonnes. The coverage of cereal need compared with the total production of the region was 108.00 per cent. As of 2007, the literacy rate in the region was 28.5 per cent, compared with a national average of 28.3 per cent. The gross primary enrolment was 50.4 per cent, pos-primary was 15.7 per cent and gross secondary school enrolment was 3.7. There were 424 boys and 137 girls enrolled in the primary and post-secondary level. There were 43 teachers in primary & post-secondary level, while there were 489 teachers in post-primary and post-secondary level.

Administration

Burkina Faso gained independence from France in 1960. It was originally called Upper Volta. There have been military coups until 1983 when Captain Thomas Sankara took control and implemented radical left wing policies. He was ousted by Blaise Compaore, who continued for 27 years until 2014, when a popular uprising ended his rule. As per Law No.40/98/AN in 1998, Burkina Faso adhered to decentralization to provide administrative and financial autonomy to local communities. There are 13 administrative regions, each governed by a Governor. The regions are subdivided into 45 provinces, which are further subdivided into 351 communes. The communes may be urban or rural and are interchangeable. There are other administrative entities like department and village. An urban commune has typically 10,000 people under it. If any commune is not able to get 75 per cent of its planned budget in revenues for 3 years, the autonomy is taken off. The communes are administered by elected Mayors. The communes are stipulated to develop economic, social and cultural values of its citizens. A commune has financial autonomy and can interact with other communes, government agencies or international entities.

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On Friday, April 16, 1999, The Citadel will host a reception for Mrs. John Widder and Master Sergeant Ray Bows, U.S. Army (Ret.), author of Vietnam Military Lore, Legends, Shadows & Heroes. The reception will take place at 3:00 p.m. in the Daniel Library and will be followed by the afternoon parade on Summerall Field. The public is invited to attend both the reception and the parade.
Mrs. Widder is the mother of Captain John David Widder, Citadel class of 1959, who served two tours of duty in the Green Beret Special Forces in the Vietnam War; Captain Widder was killed in Vietnam on March 24, 1965. Since 1970, the Widder Medal has been presented in honor of David Widder to the most outstanding senior Army ROTC Distinguished Military Student cadet as selected by his or her peers.
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While in Charleston, Bows will also speak on his book to the Cordell Airborne Ranger Club and the Semper Fidelis Club on Thursday, April 15 at 6:00 p.m. in Jenkins Hall Auditorium on The Citadel campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.


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The gaming selection at Novomatic comprises a huge number of proprietary games including Phoenix™, Big Five™, Lilly's World™, Chicago™, Lucky Ladies Charm™, Hold Your Horses, Globe Roulette™, Book of Ra™, Burning Sky™, Lord of the Ocean™, Glamour World™, Mega Joker™ and Pumpkin Power™. The games span the full spectrum including video slots, multi-games, jackpots, and electronic table games. The Novomatic Group is a private company, with B2B and B2C operations with 2 primary segments – gaming technology and gaming operations.
5. Evolution Gaming
Evolution Gaming is the world's most trusted provider of live casino games software. The Evolution Gaming range of games includes Live Roulette, Live Blackjack, Live Baccarat, Live Three Card Poker, Live Casino Hold Them, Live Caribbean Stud Poker, Live Dream Catcher, Live Texas Hold'em and others. The world's most prestigious online casinos all utilize Evolution gaming to power their live casino games platform. The company features impressive statistics (December 31, 2016) when it comes to division of roles, employees and revenues. 86% of employees are involved in gaming operations, 11% in IT & products, 2% in administration and 1% in sales & marketing. The majority of employees are based in Latvia (2739), with a minority in Malta (554), Romania (56), Estonia (18), and Belgium (16). The company's revenues from January through December 2016 amounted to €115.461 million, for a growth rate of 51%. The company is listed in Sweden at a price of 340.50 SEK, and a market capitalization of 12,248 million SEK. The company's vision is to be the leading live casino provider in the world, and based on their current trajectory, they are on track!
6. Yggdrasil Gaming
Yggdrasil Gaming was established in 2013 as a world-class provider of casino software. Early on in the company's history, it dispensed with Flash player technology and introduced HTML 5. Yggdrasil gaming remains one of the premier casino software companies in the world, racking up one award after another among the world's most prestigious gaming authorities.
In 2019, Yggdrasil Gaming received the EGR B2B Award for Innovation in RNG Casino Supplier, as well as the International Gaming Awards prize for Innovator of the Year. Yggdrasil Gaming is fully licensed and regulated to provide top online casino software to operators, courtesy of the MGA (Malta Gaming Authority), GBGC (Great Britain Gambling Commission), and the Gibraltar Regulatory Authority.
Among the many world-class games available at Yggdrasil include Wilhelm Tell, Pirates Smugglers Paradise, and Nikola Tesla's Incredible Machine. The portfolio of games available Yggdrasil numbers in the dozens, with at least 70+ world-class Video Slots Machine games, coupled with 3 unique Blackjack games, and the ever-exciting Golden Chip Roulette. Always innovating, Yggdrasil remains a trailblazer among the casino software providers.
7. Skillzzgaming
Skillzzgaming delivers fantasy-filled entertainment to online casino players. As one of the most exciting casino software companies to hit the scene in recent times, Skillzzgaming brings casual games with real-money paydays to players. This novel approach allows Skillzzgaming to stand out from other online casino software providers. Among the many exciting titles available to players include Alchemy Blast, Fruit Blast, Pets Go Wild, Battle Royale, and Mega Money Rush. These Match-3 games are unlike any that are currently available at online casinos, making them highly enticing, entertaining, and rewarding for players.
Skillzzgaming online casino software is featured at many of the world's legendary online casino operators. Players across regulated jurisdictions, and on multiple world-class platforms get to enjoy the highly engaging, social-gaming casino games provided by Skillzzgaming software. This company is fully licensed and regulated in the United Kingdom, courtesy of the UKGC (United Kingdom Gambling Commission), with certification across multiple countries including Isle of Man, Denmark, Spain, Gibraltar, Malta, Sweden, and Colombia.
8. Gaming Realms
The name of the game is Slingo – a crafty fusion of bingo and slots machine games. Gaming Realms is the online casino software company that brought Slingo games to life for online casino players everywhere. This online casino software provider is also a licensor of mobile gaming content, with dynamic games and a bullseye focus on the Slingo theme. Multiple entertaining online casino games are available, including Slingo variants of the following games: Monopoly, Riches, Rainbow Riches, Britain's Got Talent, Extreme, Advance, Centurion Maximus Winnus, Who Wants to Be A Millionaire, X Factor, and Cascade.
This online casino software provider creates exclusive content with unique in-game mechanics for operators. Gaming Realms has already partnered with a large selection of leading organisations and online gaming companies all over the world. Gaming Realms focuses its creative talent on mobile casino games, for iOS and Android devices.
Over the years, Gaming Realms has showcased its fine selection of games to an ever-expanding audience of players. In 2018, Gaming Realms won the Which Bingo Awards for Innovation of the Year with Slingo Rainbow Riches. The company is fully licensed by the GBGC (Great Britain Gambling Commission), the DGE (Division of Gaming Enforcement), and the MGA (Malta Gaming Authority).
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Golden Race – Beyond Virtuals – is a game changer in the virtual sports betting arena. Established in 2006, Golden Race successfully launched Virtual Dog Racing to rapturous applause among the online gaming community. The company is based in Malta, with offices in Spain. This casino software company has made tremendous strides in terms of its technological prowess, bringing 3D sports-themed animation to life, for fans to bet on. This land-based and online casino software provider delivers arguably the most engaging and realistic virtual betting games on the planet.
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I have long thought that museums are similar to journalists, maintaining an objective viewpoint. Over the last few days, my opinion has changed.
Now believe that museums need to actively advocate for civil society. When people forget the importance of civil society, it is museums that can remind people of the importance of "museum".
Museums need to protect and advocate for those that cannot protect themselves, advocate for freedom of speech and freedom of an individual's vision. Artists and museums are inseparable, without museums protecting and advocating for artistic rights civil society will be compromised.


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Finance Finance News The renewable energy rush is being held up by lack of federal policy
10:00pm, Mar 22, 2021 Updated: 6:39am, Mar 23
The renewable energy rush is being held up by lack of federal policy
Rod Myer YourSuper Editor
State governments are rushing forward with renewable energy investments but the Commonwealth is dragging its feet on policy, leading to unproductive disputes and slower growth.
Although the country spent $7 billion in stimulus measures aimed at renewable energy in 2020, this was "a fraction of what has been spent in other countries", according to a report by WWF Australia (the World Wildlife Fund).
And it's not for a lack of money.
Separate research by law firm MinterEllison found that "65 per cent of investors say they will increase investments in Australian renewables in the next 12 to 24 months".
The research also found that renewable investors are confident about the political situation, with 86 per cent saying the environment in the states would be positive for renewables over the next year and 80 per cent saying the same federally.
But while the states are encouraging renewables development, "the Commonwealth is unable to create some sort of emissions reductions policy," Grattan Institute energy program director Tony Wood said.
As a result, the energy market is racked by instability, with the states encouraging renewable generation without an overarching federal blueprint.
"Renewables come on stream and eventually the market gets oversupplied, prices come down, and the weakest link – coal-fired power – breaks and prices go back up again and we begin the cycle again," Mr Wood said.
That cycle had seen the closure of coal power in South Australia and the Hazelwood power station in Victoria, and in future it will see the closure of the Yallourn and Liddell power plants, which are scheduled to close by 2028.
And at the heart of it the states and Commonwealth are fighting.
"The states blame Canberra saying 'you didn't put in a climate policy', and Canberra blames the states saying 'it's about your dumb renewables policies," Mr Wood said.
Without a national emissions policy "we can assume state renewables policies are going to drive emissions [reductions]," he added.
But that approach would require oversight to balance greater renewables with increased storage capacity or other power sources.
Mr Wood said that would be best achieved by "getting behind the work being done by the Energy Security Board".
"But rather than getting behind that to make it work, the Commonwealth is now intervening with threats to build new gas-fired generation."
The lack of national oversight is causing further instability, with "the Victorian government now intervening in the market itself with some commercial-in-confidence arrangement to keep Yallourn going," Mr Wood said.
The percentage figures in the chart are based on a mixture of WWF calculations. Source: WWF
Despite the lack of federal leadership, the ambitions of the states are impressive, with the WWF finding that Tasmania was the leader in renewables with 100 per cent renewable capacity, mainly as a result of its legacy hydro system.
It is now targeting 200 per cent, which would be the highest in the world.
South Australia comes in second with massive and growing wind resources, along with battery storage and no coal at all. Its government claims it could be net zero and produce as much as 500 per cent of its total power demands for export to other states by 2050.
All states plan on significant renewables expansion by 2030. Source: WWF
Victoria and NSW also have major expansion plans, with Victoria adopting its own renewable energy target and NSW planning renewable energy zones. These will facilitate 12 gigawatts of renewable generation and 2 gigawatts of storage by 2030.
Victoria's renewables target is 50 per cent of energy production by 2030, which the WWF described as "modest".
The Commonwealth's major commitments are the creation of a renewable hydrogen hub and a $1.3 billion modern manufacturing initiative aimed at producing green metals and boosting energy storage.
It has also committed itself to the massive Snowy 2.0 pumped hydro scheme through its 100 per cent-owned Snowy Hydro. That was estimated to cost between $3.8 billion and $4.5 billion back in 2017 but it has since blown out to $5.1 billion.
The scheme is highly controversial. It is projected to provide for as long as nine hours 2000 megawatts of storage, equal to Victoria's giant Loy Yang A coal generator, but it has detractors including the NSW National Parks Association, which says it will permanently damage Kosciuszko National Park.
Some believe Snowy 2.0 is a white elephant. Photo: AAP
Energy specialist Professor Bruce Mountain, director of the Victorian Energy Policy Centre, told The New Daily Snowy 2.0 "is a white elephant – the wrong technology at the wrong time".
"Enormous pumped hydro installations like these are yesterday's answer to yesterday's problems [the inflexibility of nuclear and coal-fired generation]," Professor Mountain said.
But the rise of renewables and closure of coal-fired power stations mean it is no longer needed.
"We've all moved on. It was never about energy and economics – the ex Prime Minister [Malcolm Turnbull who launched it] said it was about politics," Professor Mountain said.
"I think it is a step backwards. It's not wise. It's not going to pay for itself."
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Home Opinion George, news is a demanding mistress: advice from one editor to another
George, news is a demanding mistress: advice from one editor to another
Saturday, March 18, 2017 8:36 pm
George Osborne is the new editor of the London Evening Standard
Well done George Osborne on your appointment as the 31st editor of the London Evening Standard. You join a select list of editors to one of the biggest local newspapers in the country including fellow politician, the late Michael Foot.
Evening Stanard logo with Eros
With its woodcut Eros masthead and vendors standing outside tube stations across the capital, the Evening Standard is as much an icon of London as red phone boxes, the Tower and the Gherkin.
The paper is a rare beast: it fuses news from London with insight into the day's big national and international stories. The nearest like it in the country is the daily Wolverhampton Express and Star – a far cry from your weekly paper, the Knutsford Guardian.
As a youngster, on the rare occasions I travelled through London, catching the different editions of the Standard was a fun sport: spotting the changes between them all the way through to the West End Final.
A skilled team of journalists, reporters, photographers, sub-editors and printers worked tirelessly throughout the day to bring the latest news, and the papers would hit the streets often with the ink still wet.
Like the Evening Standard, we cover all the big issues that matter to our readers
Technology has changed enormously, but the demands on the job remain the same. The internet has replaced the daily editions – and the website needs to be updated round the clock.
Like you, I edit a local newspaper. It covers a busy news patch, nowhere near as big as the seven million people who live and work in London – although with Wokingham borough being commuter belt, we share some of the same readers.
We cover political intrigues, planning issues, building concerns – all types of stories that you will have in your newslists and be sweating over as you determine the shape of that day's book.
We are more likely to cover the Prime Minister's work as a constituency MP than her role in 10 Downing Street
We even share the Prime Minister.
To you she is the leader of the country, to us she is one of the four constituency MPs who serve our borough.
We're more likely to picture her opening a village fete or handing out prizes at a fun run than cover her pow-wowing with Donald Trump or Angela Merkel as she pushes through Brexit (interesting fact for the dinner parties: Wokingham voted to remain, despite one of its MPs, John Redwood, passionately imploring us to leave).
But there is so much more to local journalism than turning up the Standard's offices to sign off the front page and listen to the news conference before popping into BlackRock Investment Institute to give them some advice, making a speech for the Washington Speaker's Bureau, helping the Northern Powerhouse, researching some material for the McCain Institute or, if you've got the time, heading to the House of Commons to answer Mrs Jones' letter about the cost of parking in Tatton Street car park.
You've got a busy diary even before you look at the Londoners' Diary – how will you cope with the daily rigours of the local newspaper office?
I often joke that news is a demanding mistress. It puts pressures on me that go far beyond what a normal day job will ever make. It is not a nine-to-five job, let alone the nine-to-noon role you are envisioning.
Rob Wilson presents a prize at the Woodley Festival to Sofia Kar Almazan, who sang Home On The Range
Today is my day off.
That has meant squeezing in an early morning photo op with Rob Wilson, another of our four MPs, as he presented prizes at a local arts contest for children.
I then took my children to their Saturday activities and, while they were dancing or tae kwon do-ing, for the sake of another story, I popped over to a local pub where there had been an altercation.
A quick cuppa at home and then it was out to take photos of a hockey match before collecting my daughter.
While helping them with the homework, I'm also multi-tasking by looking at the readers' letters that have come over and checking sources lest there be any breaking news.
Weekdays – my normal working day – are little better.
Our newsroom is a lot smaller than yours, so I double up as tea boy, page setter and arbitrator to readers' queries.
That often means fielding 20-minute phone calls from someone who wants to talk to us about a story we've run. These calls can range from rants to tips that add new details to stories we've already run. At least you're already used to being called every name under the sun.
Readers have been contacting us with their views on Wokingham possibly switching to fortnightly bin collections
Yesterday, for example, one reader called to let us know about how the council assist her to get the rubbish out each week as she has limited mobility. Thanks to her call, we can now help an elderly reader who wrote to us to say they were struggling with the same issue.
I've also had convicted drug dealers on the phone pleading us not to run their story – something different from others wanting us to cover the opening of their school fete or launch of their new album.
There is something hugely rewarding about this interaction. Yes, it's time consuming but we know that what we write has an impact and makes a difference to the community in which we serve.
We love our scoops and we're often busy researching as well as writing, making sure the facts fit and our sources are accurate with their tip-offs. It's important to get this spot on.
Before we go to press, we always ask – much to Donald Trump's chagrin – is it right, is it accurate and is it fair? No fake news for us. Our readers simply wouldn't forgive us.
Then there are the finer details. The nitty gritty bits of journalism that are far from glamourous.
There is nothing sexy about writing NIBs (news in brief) – items that matter so much to the local community but will never set the world alight in the same way that your pasty tax did a few years ago.
The gig guide doesn't write itself. The theatre listings and the what's on information all come from hours of meticulous research. Laborious and thankless tasks but vital ones to ensure the community knows what's going on around it.
Every detail in every story much be checked to avoid anything libellous, scandalous or contains a double entendre so massive that you'll find it plastered over the internet before you can get a chance to correct it. Watch out for those JOBS BLOW headlines. Or leaking the budget ahead of the chancellor's speech – something that the Standard did in 2013. Mistakes can be costly, not just financially but also to your reputation.
First issue of the Daily Mirror. The usual performance took place in the evening, not the morning
The first editors of the Daily Mirror once wrote a story about a theatrical couple who were appearing in a play. They got married in the afternoon and 'the usual performance took place in the evening'. They meant the play. At least, we think they did…
You'll have the schmoozing to do.
While I doubt you'll have to spend a wet Thursday evening attending to the details of a parish council meeting, you will be invited to parties, press launches and briefings.
When they take place at lunch or evening, it's a good bet that alcohol will be involved and, because you're the editor, people will want to bend your ear, share their great ideas and invite themselves to write for the paper if you let them.
You will get letters from students wanting work experience or the opportunity to get a rung on the journalistic ladder.
In future, we'll encourage them not to get their NTCJ qualification or work on their shorthand, but instead encourage them to run for Parliament and follow your career path. It might take longer, but the salary they'll get, even as a backbencher, will dwarf the one they'll get in regional journalism (you'll be amazed at what I'm on George, you make more in a second than I do in a year).
Being a news junkie, you'll find it hard to switch off. You see, our work is addictive. You don't mind news being a mistress when she's so seductive, so alluring, always offering you variety and something new.
That letter from your constituent about the cost of parking in Tatton Street will seem so mundane compared to the thrill of the press and getting the perfect front page off-stone in time.
You'll be in the Commons listening to a debate about EU regulations on the correct pronunciation of scones while simultaneously be wanting to bash out a vital leader column on something more pressing.
You see George, being a newspaper editor isn't a morning-only commitment. It isn't a nine-to-five role either. It isn't even a job. It's a life.
News will be your demanding mistress. She will not let you go.
Mistreat her, and your readers will be, like they do to the wallpaper from your family's firm, giving you a pasting.
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Lil Pump Owns the Night With Epic Concert at New York City's Playstation Theater
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Lil Pump is a 17-year-old rapper from Miami who apparently just graduated from Harvard Business School. Or maybe he's just good at trolling.
"Pass me that Harvard shirt!" he said to a fan Tuesday night at New York's PlayStation Theater. "Bitch, I'm a Harvard dropout!"
When the beat dropped to Lil Pump and Smokepurpp's "What You Gotta Say," it was one of many displays of hyperactivity. People from the balcony shook water bottles, splashing down to the floor below like raindrops. The rapper's next song, "Boss," was heightened with confetti and theatrical smoke, hyping the crowd more and encouraging everyone to get their Snaps and Instastories in. "Open that pit up" was Pump's phrase of the night; he wanted to be in on the action. And his fans welcomed him by keeping their spirits high.
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If you're someone who hates the existence of mumble rap, a trendy term to describe artists who rely on basic lyrics and ad-libs over understandable rhymes, you may never want to see Lil Pump live. But like other SoundCloud rappers whose streaming performances equate to Billboard Hot 100 entries, he is the most visible artist with an upward trajectory. His biggest hit, "Gucci Gang," with over 65 million SoundCloud streams, peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100, while his self-titled album entered No. 2 on both Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Top Rap Album charts (dated Oct. 28), with 46,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Oct. 12.
The numbers alone should prove that Lil Pump (real name Gazzy Garcia) is a developing success story, or at least, a teenager who knows how to stay in the conversation. He's been scrutinized by the hip-hop community as the antithesis of "real hip-hop," parodied in an SNL sketch by Chance the Rapper titled "Rap History" and challenged by Joyner Lucas, who freestyled about the rap game's glorification of drug consumption over "Gucci Gang." When Big Sean dropped his collaborative album with Metro Boomin, Double or Nothing, Rap Twitter argued about the Detroit rapper's questionable lyrics, comparing them to Pump's lack of bars in his songs.
Despite criticisms about his existence in the culture, Pump's fans still sold out the mid-size venue Tuesday night. Mostly consisting of teens and 20-somethings, there were plenty of moments where Lil Pump chants would break out or someone would scream "Esketit!" – his way of saying "Let's get it." The crowd's mood often switched from excitement to restlessness after the amount of openers dragged on to delay the arrival of their colorful star. Especially after a respectable set by Staten Island's Lou the Human with fellow native Squidnice as his hypeman and a surprise appearance by 1017 Records' Lil Wop, those were unappreciated by a room who strictly wanted to turn up.
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And who could blame them? DJs who played songs by A$AP Ferg, YBN Nahmir, 6ix9ine, Rich Chigga, Rich the Kid, 21 Savage, Migos, and Chief Keef, as well as tributes to Lil Peep – one was "Benz Truck" and the other "Awful Things," which his producer Big Head introduced – brought the energy to an appropriate level for Pump to finally come out. He opened with "Crazy" – "Ouu" ad-libs and all – and continued to feed the chaotic atmosphere with "Broke My Wrist" and "Lil Pump." The thing with a Lil Pump show is that there shouldn't be much thought into why you're here. It's meant to be fun and entertaining, a reason for attendees to blow off steam after a long day. You want to mosh to "D Rose" and scream the lyrics to "Iced Out?" Pump's down for it.
But while his performance was no way polished or perfected yet, he seems to enjoy acting on impulse. During "Iced Out," he hopped on his security's shoulders, maneuvering from the left of the stage to the balcony. "New York, I fucking love y'all energy tonight. Y'all ready to go crazy right now?" he says from up top. "New York, when I say 'Gucci,' y'all say 'Gang'!"
After leaping into the crowd, "Gucci Gang" indeed got the crowd so crazy that he ran it back again. The second performance was louder, if that were even possible. He wrapped his performance with "Boss" again, sending them to pandemonium before saying his goodbyes.
In that moment, a song that's under two minutes that can produce such a reaction is telling of hip-hop in 2017. No matter what side of the spectrum you operate on (lyricism vs. mumble rap), there's a lane for everyone. Even if that someone has blonde and pink dreads with braces on his teeth, heavily favored among the youth, and who can throw one hell of party.


We´ve got a 'how it´s made´ theme this week: first up is guitar strings.
The video quality is sometimes poor, but if you want a whiteboy blues shred fest, this is red hot.
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Indorock greats The Tielman Brothers perform live in 1960. It starts slowly but stick with it; never before have MusicRadar seen such on-stage antics.
Some performance fireworks from singer-songwriter and modern acoustic player Kaki King. She can count Dave Grohl amongst her fans (having guested on a Foo Fighters album) and now, she count can MusicRadar too.
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Food waste - England must step up to the plate!
The CEO of the UK's leading anaerobic digestion company says England needs to step up to the plate in order to keep pace with Scotland and Wales when it comes to developing a clear strategy for managing food waste.
The recent WRAP report on the amount of food still being wasted in the UK has provoked interesting debate across the spectrum.
The *report stated that annual UK household food and drink waste fell by 1.1 million tonnes (13%) over a three year period from 8.3 million tonnes to an estimated 7.2 million tonnes. The report also claimed this avoided food and drink waste would fill Wembley Stadium in London to the brim.
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I'm really excited to share this interview with iPhoneography expert Dan Marcolina. Dan is a passionate iPhoneographer and the author of iPhone Obsessed iPhoneography book. In this interview you're going to learn more about Dan and how he approaches iPhoneography.
My wife Denise and I are co-owners of Philadelphia based Marcolina Design Inc . Over the last 23 years our passion for design and digital tools along with a talented staff has spurred the company to keep reinventing itself and in the process we have become nationally recognized for our design work in print, web, video and now digital publishing.
Having always used digital/photographic imagery as a cornerstone of my design process along with shooting personal fine art work in many traditional formats, my images have appeared in many venus and publications worldwide. Over the last 4 years I have found a perfect bridge between my digital design side and traditional alternative photo side – iPhoneography.
I have taken pictures since I was 15 with 110 to 120 format traditional cameras and always loved alternative processing and alternative cameras like plastic Helga's or Holgas. I have a collection of over 100 toy plastic cameras. I just love the unexpected ambiguous results that I got from these cameras.
I also had my own darkroom in which I tried different processing techniques. This all took a lot of time and money. But in 2010 I was becoming obsessed with the three megapixel camera of my iPhone and I saw that I could create similar kind of effects much quicker and cheaper. That is when my iPhone became my favorite new toy camera.
But I could not find any comprehensive info on apps or manipulation of images beyond the obvious simple filtering. Then while at a party hosted by Peachpit Press one of the editors asked if I would like to write a book in the graphic arts space and what would the subject be. My first thought was this new obsession and how I had not seen a book on the subject.
So I ended up writing iPhone Obsessed, the first major book on app stacking and using multiple apps to create new kinds of images, and I have remained excited about this new mobile movement since then.
I have been creating digital images for my design clients in Photoshop for 24 years but I never found time to do things for myself because it meant being chained to my desktop in Photoshop. Photoshop is more of production tool, not a discovery tool.
What I mean is that using a desktop image editor like Photoshop you have to have an idea in mind that you are working towards and you are constantly "pixel peeping" and leaning forward while you are working. It is absolutely the most powerful and flexible tool for image manipulation but you really need to have a plan and lots of experience to get there.
With a mobile device and simple apps you can create while not being chained to your desk, while relaxing, while leaning back. You can sculpt an image in an environment that allows you to experiment and have fun.
The iPhone also allows you to discover images in places you would not normally have a camera and it has opened my eyes up to new opportunities. For me these two reasons are why mobile photography has reignited my love of image making.
Let's talk about photo apps. What are the apps that you use for taking photos besides the native camera app?
I generally take my pics with the Apple camera app as I want to get the picture quickly and simply without thinking too much, and I mostly want to control the manipulation of the image afterwards.
Every now and then I will use something like Camera+ so I can separate the focus from the exposure, or I use camera apps that have unusual attributes that you cannot achieve by post-processing. These are apps like Slow Shutter Cam which can give images movement or a painterly look. Or I use a camera app like Bracket Mode that can quickly capture 2 images, the over and underexposed images that I can merge to HDR later.
Also unique function camera apps like Sneaky Pix which allows me to capture images secretly or Fast Camera that can capture images at full-res faster than the built-in camera.
I organize my apps into about six key categories, and in each one of the categories I have two or three favorites. You can see my apps and their priority by tapping this link.
But generally speaking I use the Snapseed app to clean up pictures, Scratch Cam to grunge up pictures and Tangled FX to give images a graphic look. I love most of the Jixi Pics apps like Vintage Scene, and Adobe Photoshop touch for compositing images.
I have a lot of accessories that I show in my workshops. The most useful ones are the Olloclip lenses for their simplicity, flexibility and size and Mophie Air battery case which allows me to edit longer with apps that eat a lot of battery power. I also found that the large rubber bracelets that people wear like Live Strong work well to allow you to operate the camera with one hand.
I would say in general new mobile photographers should think beyond their traditional experience with photography and push every aspect from finding pictures in unexpected locations and from unique points of view to editing with abundance but with restrain. Let the simplicity of seeing, snapping, and apping with a mobile device become organic and heart felt.
You teach iPhone photography workshops. What is the one thing that every student takes away from your workshops?
When people ask me to talk they think it might be challenging for me to fill 90 minutes with content around mobile photography, but I could talk all day about the many aspects of image taking, sorting, sharing, editing and printing.
So what they take away is probably a headache and a little less money for all the apps that they buy after me showing them the possibilities.
What are some the most common iPhoneography mistakes that your students make?
The most common mistake I see is adding a effects in the wrong context, not letting the image drive the edit but responding to the coolness of the effect and not how it helps the storyline or tone of the picture.
What I like to say is "effectiveness before FXs." Use restraint and feeling and don't be afraid of pushing the image or saving multiple versions and revisiting things the next day when you're fresh with new focus.
But the original image that you start with is still the most important thing… the composition, the juxtaposition, the moment, the light. Although sometimes you can extract new life out of a "nothing" picture or use a bad picture as a part of another one, getting a great image to start is pretty important.
You're one of the key speakers at the Mobile Masters event at Macworld, and you're also organizing Mobile Masters PROOF Contest. Can you tell us more about this event and contest?
I created Mobile Masters in 2013 when the folks at MacWorld called me about doing something around mobile photography.
I decided that I wanted to bring together a wide range of artists, bloggers and app developers to show how the art form was crossing the threshold. It was really energizing to meet some of the top mobile artists and influencers from around the world.
At the same time I created an e-book around the event with the work and techniques of over 50 of the most prominent artists called Mobile Masters, crossing the threshold.
This year we are doing a similar thing with a bit more focus around shooting, sharing and editing and will have six or seven speakers to bring detail to each of those areas. Along with this I'm excited to create a new Mobile Masters e-book that will show off the very best new artists from around the world.
Rather than inviting artists that I pick I wanted to open it up to a more diverse group so I created a contest with six judges. Three of the judges are from the fine art photography world and three are mobile masters. They will curate the final 48 individuals that appear in the book and in the print show.
We also have a ton of other prizes, please take a look at the Mobile Masters site. And if you enter the Mobile Masters Proof contest you will get a 45 minute in-depth Photoshop touch tutorial about the following image.
Here is a discount for the contest only for the readers of this interview.
You're also the author of several acclaimed books about iPhone photography. In a nutshell, what are these books about?
The printed book iPhone Obsessed was the first major book that introduced app stacking and discussed how to approach shooting, conceptualization and editing. It was also called the very first truly interactive book because it integrates QR tags that trigger video tutorials, galleries etc.
Each of the subsequent e-books expands on unexpected ways to pre-visualize, take and make images with multiple apps and have lots of video tutorials that concentrate on the distinct creative features of each app with step-by-step formulas for how I create images.
It's been very rewarding to get feedback on how people have discovered or rediscovered photography through my books and it is a broad range from beginners to experienced photographers who can get something from them.
Let me tell you I am constantly blown away by what I see every day in my research for my next e-book and I am having new favorite artist on a weekly basis. As a graphic designer I am open to many kinds of images – from straight to manipulated, to painted. I have a long list of people I admire and it is really hard for me to point out just a few as I do not want to leave out anyone.
But if you look in the Mobile Masters e-book you will see many of the people I admire.
You can see my photo work at marcolina.squarespace.com and @marcolina on Instagram and of course in each one of my books. You can see my paying work at marcolina.com.


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Segons el cens del 2000, Londonderry tenia 23.236 habitants, 7.623 habitatges, i 6.319 famílies. La densitat de població era de 214,6 habitants per km².

Dels 7.623 habitatges en un 50,3% hi vivien nens de menys de 18 anys, en un 70,9% hi vivien parelles casades, en un 8,6% dones solteres, i en un 17,1% no eren unitats familiars. En el 12,9% dels habitatges hi vivien persones soles el 3,3% de les quals corresponia a persones de 65 anys o més que vivien soles. El nombre mitjà de persones vivint en cada habitatge era de 3,05 i el nombre mitjà de persones que vivien en cada família era de 3,36.

Per edats la població es repartia de la següent manera: un 32,9% tenia menys de 18 anys, un 5,8% entre 18 i 24, un 32,7% entre 25 i 44, un 23,2% de 45 a 60 i un 5,3% 65 anys o més.

L'edat mediana era de 35 anys. Per cada 100 dones de 18 o més anys hi havia 95,1 homes.

La renda mediana per habitatge era de 70.501$ i la renda mediana per família de 73.513$. Els homes tenien una renda mediana de 50.566$ mentre que les dones 33.821$. La renda per capita de la població era de 26.491$. Entorn de l'1,6% de les famílies i el 2,1% de la població estaven per davall del llindar de pobresa.

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Q: Kafka transactional Producer and consumer I'm working on kafka use case where I need to have transactional semantics on producer & consumer side..I'm able to publish transactional messages using kafka transaction API 0.11 to the kafka cluster but on consumer side I'm facing the issue...I have set isolation.level=read_committed in properties file But I'm not able to consume it..I could see messages being consumed with isolation.level=read_uncommitted but this is not desired..
producer code
package com.org.kafkaPro;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.text.ParseException;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Date;
import java.util.Properties;

import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.KafkaProducer;
import org.apache.kafka.clients.producer.ProducerRecord;
import org.apache.kafka.common.errors.OutOfOrderSequenceException;
import org.apache.kafka.common.errors.ProducerFencedException;

import kafka.common.AuthorizationException;
import kafka.common.KafkaException;

    public class ProducerWithTx
    {

        public static void main(String args[]) throws FileNotFoundException {
            URL in = ProducerWithTx.class.getResource("producertx.properties");

            Properties props = new Properties();

            try {
                props.load(new FileReader(new File(in.getFile())));
            } catch (IOException e1) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e1.printStackTrace();
            }

            Paymnt pay1= new Paymnt();
            pay1.setAccid(1);
            pay1.setAccountstate("y");
            pay1.setAccountzipcode(111);
            pay1.setBankid(12);
            pay1.setCreditcardtype(15);
            pay1.setCustomerid("2");
            SimpleDateFormat ft = new SimpleDateFormat ("yyyy-MM-dd");
            Date t = null;
            try {
                t = ft.parse("2017-11-10");
            } catch (ParseException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            pay1.setPeriodid(t);

            String timeStamp = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy.MM.dd:HH:mm:ss").format(new Date());
            props.put("transactional.id", "accid=" + pay1.getAccid() +  " custid=" +pay1.getCustomerid()+  " timestmp=" +timeStamp);
            KafkaProducer<String, Paymnt> producer = new KafkaProducer(props);
            producer.initTransactions();
            try{
                producer.beginTransaction();

                //RecordMetadata metadata=producer.send((ProducerRecord<String, Paymnt>) new ProducerRecord<String, Paymnt>("test",pay1)).get();

                producer.send((ProducerRecord<String, Paymnt>) new ProducerRecord<String, Paymnt>("test",pay1));
                producer.commitTransaction();

                //System.out.println("written to" +metadata.partition());

            }
            catch (ProducerFencedException | OutOfOrderSequenceException | AuthorizationException  e){

                // We can't recover from these exceptions, so our only option is to close the producer and exit.
                producer.close();
            }
            catch(KafkaException e) {
                // For all other exceptions, just abort the transaction and try again.
                producer.abortTransaction();
            }
            producer.close();
        }

    }

producertx.properties
metadata.broker.list=localhost:9092
bootstrap.servers=localhost:9092
acks=all
retries=1
batch.size=16384
linger.ms=1
buffer.memory=33554432
key.serializer=org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringSerializer
value.serializer=com.org.kafkaPro.PaySerializer
#transactional.id=1
enable.idempotence=true
num.partitions=3

Consumer
package com.org.kafkaPro;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Properties;

public class Consumer {

    private static List<ConsumerMultiThreaded> consumersGroup;

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

        URL in = ProducerWithTx.class.getResource("consumer.properties");

        Properties props = new Properties();

        try {
            props.load(new FileReader(new File(in.getFile())));
        } catch (IOException e1) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e1.printStackTrace();
        }

        consumersGroup=new ArrayList<ConsumerMultiThreaded>();
        ConsumerMultiThreaded con1= new ConsumerMultiThreaded(props);
        ConsumerMultiThreaded con2=new ConsumerMultiThreaded(props);
        ConsumerMultiThreaded con3=new ConsumerMultiThreaded(props);
        ConsumerMultiThreaded con4=new ConsumerMultiThreaded(props);

        consumersGroup.add(con1);
        consumersGroup.add(con2);
        consumersGroup.add(con3);
        consumersGroup.add(con4);

        for (ConsumerMultiThreaded consumer : consumersGroup) {

            Thread t=new Thread(consumer);
            t.start();

        }

        while(true){
            try {
                Thread.sleep(100000);
            } catch (InterruptedException ie) {

            }

        }
    }
}

Consumer Runnable
public class ConsumerMultiThreaded implements Runnable {

private final AtomicBoolean closed = new AtomicBoolean(false);
    private final KafkaConsumer<String, Paymnt> consumer;
    private final int minBatchSize =3;
    private final List<ConsumerRecord<String, Paymnt>> buffer;

    public ConsumerMultiThreaded(Properties props){
        this.consumer= new KafkaConsumer<String, Paymnt>(props);
        buffer = new ArrayList(minBatchSize);
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        try {
            consumer.subscribe(Arrays.asList("test"));
            while (!closed.get()) {
                ConsumerRecords<String,Paymnt> records = consumer.poll(10000);

                for (ConsumerRecord<String, Paymnt> record : records) {
                    buffer.add(record);
                }

                /*for (ConsumerRecord<String, Paymnt> record : records)
                {
                    System.out.println("record consumed by Thread " +Thread.currentThread().getId() +" value is " +record.value().toString());
                }*/
                if(buffer.size()>=minBatchSize){
                    for (TopicPartition partition : records.partitions()) {
                        List<ConsumerRecord<String, Paymnt>> partitionRecords = records.records(partition);
                        for (ConsumerRecord<String, Paymnt> record : partitionRecords) {
                            System.out.println("record consumed by Thread " +Thread.currentThread().getId() +"from partition" +record.partition() +"offset" +record.offset() + "value: " + record.value().toString());
                        }
                        long lastOffset = partitionRecords.get(partitionRecords.size() - 1).offset();
                        consumer.commitSync(Collections.singletonMap(partition, new OffsetAndMetadata(lastOffset + 1)));
                        buffer.clear();
                    }
                }
            }

        } catch (WakeupException e) {
            // Ignore exception if closing
            if (!closed.get()) throw e;
        }
        finally {
            consumer.close();
        }

    }

    public void shutdown() {
        closed.set(true);
        consumer.wakeup();
    }

}

consumer.properties
bootstrap.servers=localhost:9092
session.timeout.ms=30000
key.deserializer=org.apache.kafka.common.serialization.StringDeserializer
value.deserializer=com.org.kafkaPro.PayDeserializer
enable.auto.commit=false
auto.offset.reset=earliest
group.id=test
isolation.level=read_committed

Appreciate your help..Thank you

A: In your producer properties you are using #transactional.id=1 (as you mentioned in question) in this you have mentioned # symbol. This might be creating issue.
If it is not the case than you can dump log segment of your topic and __transaction_state topic and from there you can debug easily what is going wrong.

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import filters as f

from iota import TransactionHash, TransactionTrytes
from iota.commands import FilterCommand, RequestFilter, ResponseFilter
from iota.filters import Trytes
from iota.adapter import async_return

__all__ = [
    'AttachToTangleCommand',
]

class AttachToTangleCommand(FilterCommand):
    """
    Executes ``attachToTangle`` command.

    See :py:meth:`iota.api.StrictIota.attach_to_tangle` for more info.
    """
    command = 'attachToTangle'

    def get_request_filter(self):
        return AttachToTangleRequestFilter()

    def get_response_filter(self):
        return AttachToTangleResponseFilter()

    async def _execute(self, request: dict) -> dict:
        if self.adapter.local_pow is True:
            from pow import ccurl_interface
            powed_trytes = ccurl_interface.attach_to_tangle(
                request['trytes'],
                request['branchTransaction'],
                request['trunkTransaction'],
                request['minWeightMagnitude']
            )
            return await async_return({'trytes': powed_trytes})
        else:
            return await super(FilterCommand, self)._execute(request)

class AttachToTangleRequestFilter(RequestFilter):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super(AttachToTangleRequestFilter, self).__init__({
            'branchTransaction': f.Required | Trytes(TransactionHash),
            'trunkTransaction': f.Required | Trytes(TransactionHash),

            'trytes':
                f.Required |
                f.Array |
                f.FilterRepeater(
                    f.Required | Trytes(result_type=TransactionTrytes),
                ),

            # Loosely-validated; devnet nodes require a different value
            # than mainnet.
            'minWeightMagnitude': f.Required | f.Type(int) | f.Min(1),
        })

class AttachToTangleResponseFilter(ResponseFilter):
    def __init__(self) -> None:
        super(AttachToTangleResponseFilter, self).__init__({
            'trytes':
                f.FilterRepeater(
                    f.ByteString(encoding='ascii') |
                    Trytes(TransactionTrytes),
                ),
        })

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