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package android.app;

import android.content.Intent;
import android.content.pm.ActivityInfo;
import android.os.Binder;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.util.Log;
import android.view.Window;
import com.android.internal.content.ReferrerIntent;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 *
Helper class for managing multiple running embedded activities in the same
 * process. This class is not normally used directly, but rather created for
 * you as part of the {@link android.app.ActivityGroup} implementation.
 *
 * @see ActivityGroup
 *
 * @deprecated Use the new {@link Fragment} and {@link FragmentManager} APIs
 * instead; these are also
 * available on older platforms through the Android compatibility package.
 */
@Deprecated
public class LocalActivityManager {
    private static final String TAG = "LocalActivityManager";
    private static final boolean localLOGV = false;

    // Internal token for an Activity being managed by LocalActivityManager.
    private static class LocalActivityRecord extends Binder {
        LocalActivityRecord(String _id, Intent _intent) {
            id = _id;
            intent = _intent;
        }

        final String id;                // Unique name of this record.
        Intent intent;                  // Which activity to run here.
        ActivityInfo activityInfo;      // Package manager info about activity.
        Activity activity;              // Currently instantiated activity.
        Window window;                  // Activity's top-level window.
        Bundle instanceState;           // Last retrieved freeze state.
        int curState = RESTORED;        // Current state the activity is in.
    }

    static final int RESTORED = 0;      // State restored, but no startActivity().
    static final int INITIALIZING = 1;  // Ready to launch (after startActivity()).
    static final int CREATED = 2;       // Created, not started or resumed.
    static final int STARTED = 3;       // Created and started, not resumed.
    static final int RESUMED = 4;       // Created started and resumed.
    static final int DESTROYED = 5;     // No longer with us.

    /** Thread our activities are running in. */
    private final ActivityThread mActivityThread;
    /** The containing activity that owns the activities we create. */
    private final Activity mParent;

    /** The activity that is currently resumed. */
    private LocalActivityRecord mResumed;
    /** id -> record of all known activities. */
    private final Map<String, LocalActivityRecord> mActivities
            = new HashMap<String, LocalActivityRecord>();
    /** array of all known activities for easy iterating. */
    private final ArrayList<LocalActivityRecord> mActivityArray
            = new ArrayList<LocalActivityRecord>();

    /** True if only one activity can be resumed at a time */
    private boolean mSingleMode;

    /** Set to true once we find out the container is finishing. */
    private boolean mFinishing;

    /** Current state the owner (ActivityGroup) is in */
    private int mCurState = INITIALIZING;

    /** String ids of running activities starting with least recently used. */
    // TODO: put back in stopping of activities.
    //private List<LocalActivityRecord>  mLRU = new ArrayList();

    /**
     * Create a new LocalActivityManager for holding activities running within
     * the given <var>parent</var>.
     *
     * @param parent the host of the embedded activities
     * @param singleMode True if the LocalActivityManger should keep a maximum
     * of one activity resumed
     */
    public LocalActivityManager(Activity parent, boolean singleMode) {
        mActivityThread = ActivityThread.currentActivityThread();
        mParent = parent;
        mSingleMode = singleMode;
    }

    private void moveToState(LocalActivityRecord r, int desiredState) {
        if (r.curState == RESTORED || r.curState == DESTROYED) {
            // startActivity() has not yet been called, so nothing to do.
            return;
        }

        if (r.curState == INITIALIZING) {
            // Get the lastNonConfigurationInstance for the activity
            HashMap<String, Object> lastNonConfigurationInstances =
                    mParent.getLastNonConfigurationChildInstances();
            Object instanceObj = null;
            if (lastNonConfigurationInstances != null) {
                instanceObj = lastNonConfigurationInstances.get(r.id);
            }
            Activity.NonConfigurationInstances instance = null;
            if (instanceObj != null) {
                instance = new Activity.NonConfigurationInstances();
                instance.activity = instanceObj;
            }

            // We need to have always created the activity.
            if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": starting " + r.intent);
            if (r.activityInfo == null) {
                r.activityInfo = mActivityThread.resolveActivityInfo(r.intent);
            }
            r.activity = mActivityThread.startActivityNow(
                    mParent, r.id, r.intent, r.activityInfo, r, r.instanceState, instance);
            if (r.activity == null) {
                return;
            }
            r.window = r.activity.getWindow();
            r.instanceState = null;
            r.curState = STARTED;

            if (desiredState == RESUMED) {
                if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": resuming");
                mActivityThread.performResumeActivity(r, true);
                r.curState = RESUMED;
            }

            // Don't do anything more here.  There is an important case:
            // if this is being done as part of onCreate() of the group, then
            // the launching of the activity gets its state a little ahead
            // of our own (it is now STARTED, while we are only CREATED).
            // If we just leave things as-is, we'll deal with it as the
            // group's state catches up.
            return;
        }

        switch (r.curState) {
            case CREATED:
                if (desiredState == STARTED) {
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": restarting");
                    mActivityThread.performRestartActivity(r);
                    r.curState = STARTED;
                }
                if (desiredState == RESUMED) {
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": restarting and resuming");
                    mActivityThread.performRestartActivity(r);
                    mActivityThread.performResumeActivity(r, true);
                    r.curState = RESUMED;
                }
                return;

            case STARTED:
                if (desiredState == RESUMED) {
                    // Need to resume it...
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": resuming");
                    mActivityThread.performResumeActivity(r, true);
                    r.instanceState = null;
                    r.curState = RESUMED;
                }
                if (desiredState == CREATED) {
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": stopping");
                    mActivityThread.performStopActivity(r, false);
                    r.curState = CREATED;
                }
                return;

            case RESUMED:
                if (desiredState == STARTED) {
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": pausing");
                    performPause(r, mFinishing);
                    r.curState = STARTED;
                }
                if (desiredState == CREATED) {
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": pausing");
                    performPause(r, mFinishing);
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": stopping");
                    mActivityThread.performStopActivity(r, false);
                    r.curState = CREATED;
                }
                return;
        }
    }

    private void performPause(LocalActivityRecord r, boolean finishing) {
        boolean needState = r.instanceState == null;
        Bundle instanceState = mActivityThread.performPauseActivity(r,
                finishing, needState);
        if (needState) {
            r.instanceState = instanceState;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Start a new activity running in the group.  Every activity you start
     * must have a unique string ID associated with it -- this is used to keep
     * track of the activity, so that if you later call startActivity() again
     * on it the same activity object will be retained.
     *
     *
When there had previously been an activity started under this id,
     * it may either be destroyed and a new one started, or the current
     * one re-used, based on these conditions, in order:

     *
     *

     *
 If the Intent maps to a different activity component than is
     * currently running, the current activity is finished and a new one
     * started.
     *
 If the current activity uses a non-multiple launch mode (such
     * as singleTop), or the Intent has the
     * {@link Intent#FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP} flag set, then the current
     * activity will remain running and its
     * {@link Activity#onNewIntent(Intent) Activity.onNewIntent()} method
     * called.
     *
 If the new Intent is the same (excluding extras) as the previous
     * one, and the new Intent does not have the
     * {@link Intent#FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP} set, then the current activity
     * will remain running as-is.
     *
 Otherwise, the current activity will be finished and a new
     * one started.
     *

     *
     *
If the given Intent can not be resolved to an available Activity,
     * this method throws {@link android.content.ActivityNotFoundException}.
     *
     *
Warning: There is an issue where, if the Intent does not
     * include an explicit component, we can restore the state for a different
     * activity class than was previously running when the state was saved (if
     * the set of available activities changes between those points).
     *
     * @param id Unique identifier of the activity to be started
     * @param intent The Intent describing the activity to be started
     *
     * @return Returns the window of the activity.  The caller needs to take
     * care of adding this window to a view hierarchy, and likewise dealing
     * with removing the old window if the activity has changed.
     *
     * @throws android.content.ActivityNotFoundException
     */
    public Window startActivity(String id, Intent intent) {
        if (mCurState == INITIALIZING) {
            throw new IllegalStateException(
                    "Activities can't be added until the containing group has been created.");
        }

        boolean adding = false;
        boolean sameIntent = false;

        ActivityInfo aInfo = null;

        // Already have information about the new activity id?
        LocalActivityRecord r = mActivities.get(id);
        if (r == null) {
            // Need to create it...
            r = new LocalActivityRecord(id, intent);
            adding = true;
        } else if (r.intent != null) {
            sameIntent = r.intent.filterEquals(intent);
            if (sameIntent) {
                // We are starting the same activity.
                aInfo = r.activityInfo;
            }
        }
        if (aInfo == null) {
            aInfo = mActivityThread.resolveActivityInfo(intent);
        }

        // Pause the currently running activity if there is one and only a single
        // activity is allowed to be running at a time.
        if (mSingleMode) {
            LocalActivityRecord old = mResumed;

            // If there was a previous activity, and it is not the current
            // activity, we need to stop it.
            if (old != null && old != r && mCurState == RESUMED) {
                moveToState(old, STARTED);
            }
        }

        if (adding) {
            // It's a brand new world.
            mActivities.put(id, r);
            mActivityArray.add(r);
        } else if (r.activityInfo != null) {
            // If the new activity is the same as the current one, then
            // we may be able to reuse it.
            if (aInfo == r.activityInfo ||
                    (aInfo.name.equals(r.activityInfo.name) &&
                            aInfo.packageName.equals(r.activityInfo.packageName))) {
                if (aInfo.launchMode != ActivityInfo.LAUNCH_MULTIPLE ||
                        (intent.getFlags()&Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_SINGLE_TOP) != 0) {
                    // The activity wants onNewIntent() called.
                    ArrayList<ReferrerIntent> intents = new ArrayList<>(1);
                    intents.add(new ReferrerIntent(intent, mParent.getPackageName()));
                    if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": new intent");
                    mActivityThread.performNewIntents(r, intents);
                    r.intent = intent;
                    moveToState(r, mCurState);
                    if (mSingleMode) {
                        mResumed = r;
                    }
                    return r.window;
                }
                if (sameIntent &&
                        (intent.getFlags()&Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP) == 0) {
                    // We are showing the same thing, so this activity is
                    // just resumed and stays as-is.
                    r.intent = intent;
                    moveToState(r, mCurState);
                    if (mSingleMode) {
                        mResumed = r;
                    }
                    return r.window;
                }
            }

            // The new activity is different than the current one, or it
            // is a multiple launch activity, so we need to destroy what
            // is currently there.
            performDestroy(r, true);
        }

        r.intent = intent;
        r.curState = INITIALIZING;
        r.activityInfo = aInfo;

        moveToState(r, mCurState);

        // When in single mode keep track of the current activity
        if (mSingleMode) {
            mResumed = r;
        }
        return r.window;
    }

    private Window performDestroy(LocalActivityRecord r, boolean finish) {
        Window win;
        win = r.window;
        if (r.curState == RESUMED && !finish) {
            performPause(r, finish);
        }
        if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": destroying");
        mActivityThread.performDestroyActivity(r, finish);
        r.activity = null;
        r.window = null;
        if (finish) {
            r.instanceState = null;
        }
        r.curState = DESTROYED;
        return win;
    }

    /**
     * Destroy the activity associated with a particular id.  This activity
     * will go through the normal lifecycle events and fine onDestroy(), and
     * then the id removed from the group.
     *
     * @param id Unique identifier of the activity to be destroyed
     * @param finish If true, this activity will be finished, so its id and
     * all state are removed from the group.
     *
     * @return Returns the window that was used to display the activity, or
     * null if there was none.
     */
    public Window destroyActivity(String id, boolean finish) {
        LocalActivityRecord r = mActivities.get(id);
        Window win = null;
        if (r != null) {
            win = performDestroy(r, finish);
            if (finish) {
                mActivities.remove(id);
                mActivityArray.remove(r);
            }
        }
        return win;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the Activity that is currently running.
     *
     * @return the currently running (resumed) Activity, or null if there is
     *         not one
     *
     * @see #startActivity
     * @see #getCurrentId
     */
    public Activity getCurrentActivity() {
        return mResumed != null ? mResumed.activity : null;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the ID of the activity that is currently running.
     *
     * @return the ID of the currently running (resumed) Activity, or null if
     *         there is not one
     *
     * @see #startActivity
     * @see #getCurrentActivity
     */
    public String getCurrentId() {
        return mResumed != null ? mResumed.id : null;
    }

    /**
     * Return the Activity object associated with a string ID.
     *
     * @see #startActivity
     *
     * @return the associated Activity object, or null if the id is unknown or
     *         its activity is not currently instantiated
     */
    public Activity getActivity(String id) {
        LocalActivityRecord r = mActivities.get(id);
        return r != null ? r.activity : null;
    }

    /**
     * Restore a state that was previously returned by {@link #saveInstanceState}.  This
     * adds to the activity group information about all activity IDs that had
     * previously been saved, even if they have not been started yet, so if the
     * user later navigates to them the correct state will be restored.
     *
     *
Note: This does not change the current running activity, or
     * start whatever activity was previously running when the state was saved.
     * That is up to the client to do, in whatever way it thinks is best.
     *
     * @param state a previously saved state; does nothing if this is null
     *
     * @see #saveInstanceState
     */
    public void dispatchCreate(Bundle state) {
        if (state != null) {
            for (String id : state.keySet()) {
                try {
                    final Bundle astate = state.getBundle(id);
                    LocalActivityRecord r = mActivities.get(id);
                    if (r != null) {
                        r.instanceState = astate;
                    } else {
                        r = new LocalActivityRecord(id, null);
                        r.instanceState = astate;
                        mActivities.put(id, r);
                        mActivityArray.add(r);
                    }
                } catch (Exception e) {
                    // Recover from -all- app errors.
                    Log.e(TAG, "Exception thrown when restoring LocalActivityManager state", e);
                }
            }
        }

        mCurState = CREATED;
    }

    /**
     * Retrieve the state of all activities known by the group.  For
     * activities that have previously run and are now stopped or finished, the
     * last saved state is used.  For the current running activity, its
     * {@link Activity#onSaveInstanceState} is called to retrieve its current state.
     *
     * @return a Bundle holding the newly created state of all known activities
     *
     * @see #dispatchCreate
     */
    public Bundle saveInstanceState() {
        Bundle state = null;

        // FIXME: child activities will freeze as part of onPaused. Do we
        // need to do this here?
        final int N = mActivityArray.size();
        for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
            final LocalActivityRecord r = mActivityArray.get(i);
            if (state == null) {
                state = new Bundle();
            }
            if ((r.instanceState != null || r.curState == RESUMED)
                    && r.activity != null) {
                // We need to save the state now, if we don't currently
                // already have it or the activity is currently resumed.
                final Bundle childState = new Bundle();
                r.activity.performSaveInstanceState(childState);
                r.instanceState = childState;
            }
            if (r.instanceState != null) {
                state.putBundle(r.id, r.instanceState);
            }
        }

        return state;
    }

    /**
     * Called by the container activity in its {@link Activity#onResume} so
     * that LocalActivityManager can perform the corresponding action on the
     * activities it holds.
     *
     * @see Activity#onResume
     */
    public void dispatchResume() {
        mCurState = RESUMED;
        if (mSingleMode) {
            if (mResumed != null) {
                moveToState(mResumed, RESUMED);
            }
        } else {
            final int N = mActivityArray.size();
            for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
                moveToState(mActivityArray.get(i), RESUMED);
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Called by the container activity in its {@link Activity#onPause} so
     * that LocalActivityManager can perform the corresponding action on the
     * activities it holds.
     *
     * @param finishing set to true if the parent activity has been finished;
     *                  this can be determined by calling
     *                  Activity.isFinishing()
     *
     * @see Activity#onPause
     * @see Activity#isFinishing
     */
    public void dispatchPause(boolean finishing) {
        if (finishing) {
            mFinishing = true;
        }
        mCurState = STARTED;
        if (mSingleMode) {
            if (mResumed != null) {
                moveToState(mResumed, STARTED);
            }
        } else {
            final int N = mActivityArray.size();
            for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
                LocalActivityRecord r = mActivityArray.get(i);
                if (r.curState == RESUMED) {
                    moveToState(r, STARTED);
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Called by the container activity in its {@link Activity#onStop} so
     * that LocalActivityManager can perform the corresponding action on the
     * activities it holds.
     *
     * @see Activity#onStop
     */
    public void dispatchStop() {
        mCurState = CREATED;
        final int N = mActivityArray.size();
        for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
            LocalActivityRecord r = mActivityArray.get(i);
            moveToState(r, CREATED);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Call onRetainNonConfigurationInstance on each child activity and store the
     * results in a HashMap by id.  Only construct the HashMap if there is a non-null
     * object to store.  Note that this does not support nested ActivityGroups.
     *
     * {@hide}
     */
    public HashMap<String,Object> dispatchRetainNonConfigurationInstance() {
        HashMap<String,Object> instanceMap = null;

        final int N = mActivityArray.size();
        for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
            LocalActivityRecord r = mActivityArray.get(i);
            if ((r != null) && (r.activity != null)) {
                Object instance = r.activity.onRetainNonConfigurationInstance();
                if (instance != null) {
                    if (instanceMap == null) {
                        instanceMap = new HashMap<String,Object>();
                    }
                    instanceMap.put(r.id, instance);
                }
            }
        }
        return instanceMap;
    }

    /**
     * Remove all activities from this LocalActivityManager, performing an
     * {@link Activity#onDestroy} on any that are currently instantiated.
     */
    public void removeAllActivities() {
        dispatchDestroy(true);
    }

    /**
     * Called by the container activity in its {@link Activity#onDestroy} so
     * that LocalActivityManager can perform the corresponding action on the
     * activities it holds.
     *
     * @see Activity#onDestroy
     */
    public void dispatchDestroy(boolean finishing) {
        final int N = mActivityArray.size();
        for (int i=0; i<N; i++) {
            LocalActivityRecord r = mActivityArray.get(i);
            if (localLOGV) Log.v(TAG, r.id + ": destroying");
            mActivityThread.performDestroyActivity(r, finishing);
        }
        mActivities.clear();
        mActivityArray.clear();
    }
}


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Integration of energy management systems into existing buildings brings in several challenges and financial constraints. Some of the challenges in the existing smart building solutions are that they require large-scale deployment of sensors, high rate of data collection, real-time data analysis in short span of time, and lack of knowledge about the energy usage with respect to the behavior of individuals and groups. This work proposes an affordable wearable device system as an alternative for large-scale deployment of sensors in industrial buildings. For effective energy management in the buildings, a personalized behavior analysis has been done in machine learning and neural networks algorithm and integrated with the proposed system. The complete system is implemented and tested extensively. The results show that the proposed system could provide 85% user comfort and 23% energy savings.
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Angie Sigmon
Angie Sigmon (NC '14)
Instructional Technology Facilitator
Newton-Conover City Schools
At the time of the Award, Angie Sigmon was:
Shuford Elementary School
If you walk into the first grade classroom of Angie Sigmon at Shuford Elementary School, you might be surprised to find a child teaching and Sigmon facilitating. This is what one colleague called "True Teaching." When a teacher can trust the students to teach the class, she is creating leaders. And Sigmon believes that there's a leader in every one of her students and it's her job to help them emerge. Expectations are high for every child; even those who come in facing significant learning and behavioral challenges are transformed by the time they leave her. It's evident when you walk into her classroom that something's different. Students are on-task and so intrigued by what they're learning that they often don't want to leave the classroom for recess. At the beginning of the school year, each student is asked to sign a classroom mission statement so they know their purpose. The statement is recited every morning and is routinely referenced. Sigmon creates a family environment in which the students form strong, positive relationships and feel safe to take chances and make mistakes. A strong advocate of technology in the classroom, Sigmon was selected to run a model Blended Learning Classroom. Her students use iPads to solve math problems collaboratively and to address real world issues. When she presented at the North Carolina Technology in Education Society Conference, her students also participated in a showcase demonstrating how technology can be best used in the classroom. Sigmon carefully evaluates individual student data to customize instruction, whether it be whole group, teamwork or individualized teaching. When the 2013-14 school year began, fewer than 50% of students in Sigmon's classroom were at grade level. By the end of the school year, more than 80% of students in her class were performing at or above grade level, and ALL students had made progress.
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Back to the drawing room at the Po estate. Seamus is apparently sleeping on the sofa. Peng-Bo is standing a few meters away, looking at him thoughtfully.
Drawing closer, Peng-Bo pulls a gadget from a hidden pocket in his robe. It looks a bit like a Star Trek TNG tricorder, but with a short muzzle pointing out its back.
Peng-Bo holds the gadget with the muzzle pointed at Seamus' head, and dons a visor.
Peng-Bo lies stunned on the floor, the tricorder lays smoking nearby. We have pulled back to see Seamus still apparently sleeping.
Peng-Bo half-stumbles away from Seamus, taking his tricorder with him. Seamus opens one eye to look at him -- maybe he wasn't sleeping after all.


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A Day in the Life of a Pet Talent Agent
Did you know that the pet modelling business is one of the fastest-growing industries? It's true. And in some cases, pets are even covering the household bills, earning upwards of £1000 per shoot. Layla Flaherty explains more.
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Layla Flaherty and Buttons / Photo Credit: K9 Magazine
How many pets have you seen in adverts lately? More than half, we bet, have featured a dog or cat to capture your attention, helping to frame a brand in a specific light (family friendly, caring, fun, trustworthy).
While dogs in advertising isn't a new concept - brands such as Chanel, Andrex, Dulux, Taco Bell and Budweiser have been utilising the power of the dog as the world's greatest salesman for decades - the pet modelling industry has become one of the fastest-growing industries in the UK, as more brands than ever look to capitalize on our love of animals by featuring a furry face in their latest advertising campaign.
"Believe it or not but some pets have now become the main bread earners in their household where they take care of the mortgage and household bills," says Layla Flaherty, owner of Urban Paws UK, who explains that a typical dog model can earn from £650 a day for standard modelling roles and animal actors (pets trained to perform certain tricks) can earn upwards of £1000 per day.
Intrigued by the growing industry, we asked Layla to share more about what a typical day in her life as a pet talent agent involves.
Here's Layla.
Where do I begin? When I first set up Urban Paws UK with my trusty Yorkshire Terrier Buttons, I could never have imagined how well the business would take off.
I've always loved animals and having worked as a professional model myself, I certainly knew the tricks of the trade. The move from model to agent seems like a natural evolution, but I figured that managing people was far too dull. Managing dogs, cats, parrots, rabbits, and any other animal you can think of? Now we're talking.
Layla and Buttons / Photo Credit: K9 Magazine
I begin the day with a scan of my inbox. We regularly receive applications from pet owners who think their Beagle or Bengal is the next Lassie or Puss in Boots.
A lot of the time these animals will be great looking but will only have basic, if any, obedience training. We need animals that will sit still and pose for the camera, sometimes for long periods on end, so obedience is key. If a pet model has been trick-trained that's even better, as we can put them forward for roles as an 'animal actor'.
Essentially, these are more complex gigs that require specific skills in addition to the always essential skill of not getting freaked out by large crowds on set! Working out whether an animal could be the next big thing really gets me excited, and the regular influx of new talent means that my job is always varied.
Buttons in the Urban Paws UK office / Photo Credit: Layla Flaherty
On an average day, I'll take a handful of calls from clients in need of specific animals to star in their production. They could be film studios, television companies or PR agencies looking for that special animal, usually a dog or cat. I say usually but we've been tasked with sourcing some pretty crazy animals over the years, including tigers and ostriches!
Most of my time is spent negotiating and ensuring that our talent and clients both get a fair deal and that we choose the correct animals for the job.
Recently, however, we've also started working with smaller businesses and have pioneered a new form of advertising: pet influencer marketing.
Pet influencers are just like their human counterparts. They are social media superstars who can leverage their influential position to become brand ambassadors, urging their followers to use products or services that they feel a particular affinity with.
Do you remember Spud?
My team's job is to sign only the best pet influencers and feed them out to clients in need of a unique marketing strategy. I say the best and not the biggest because 'petfluencers' with smaller follower counts can be just as viable for smaller businesses looking to target a niche audience. Helping these businesses grow is often more rewarding than working on the more high-profile media campaigns.
On top of managing our social media pages and implementing our own marketing strategies, my team also help to facilitate PR events like meet and greets and photo opportunities, which are always super fun to get behind.
Being an animal talent agent is as rewarding as it is exciting and having a dog with a job is a great way to build a bond with your pet and a fun way to spend quality time together.
I've been able to work with some of the biggest brands out there, including Disney and Gucci. No two campaigns are ever the same. It's always wonderful to hear the feedback our pet owners share about their time on set, especially when they say they had so much fun and the crew made such a fuss over their pet because it means they can't wait to do it all again.
But you never forget your first campaign and the first booking we had was for a film. I couldn't believe it. They asked for a Staffordshire Bull Terrier and I didn't have one on the agency books at that time. They wanted a senior dog that looked wise and showed the visible signs of ageing which totally went against what I had imagined a pet agency was all about.
I envisioned cute and fluffy dogs being booked for pet modelling roles, not a wise old Staffy for a huge Hollywood film. I was in utter shock and totally out of my depth and hadn't a clue what to do but I thought, "I've got this. If my dream of having a pet agency is to become a reality, I've got to do this."
I had to think out of the box. I approached a woman on Facebook as she had a dog that fitted the brief. I messaged her and her instant thought was that it was a scam.
As a new agency, she hadn't heard of us and didn't really believe that agencies like mine existed to source dogs for films. She really was in disbelief and very cautious of me.
I spent the next few days reassuring her and talking her round and eventually, she agreed to take part. Her dog played the role perfectly but it was a huge learning curve and it made me realise the challenges I had ahead of me while building a reputable name in the industry so that people trusted me and wanted to work with my agency.
Five years on and as the pet modelling industry grows at warp speed, people know Urban Paws UK. People are talking about us and we have built brand awareness in the industry.
Through all the feathers and the fur, being a pet talent agent is an amazing job that allows me to see regular people's pets flourish and transform into animal stars, and really, that's the greatest reward.


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Benny Andrews: There Must Be a Heaven
March 19 – May 18, 2013
Benny Andrews (1930-2006)
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March 19-May 18, 2013
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(New York—March 5, 2013) Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Benny Andrews: There Must Be A Heaven, an exhibition of thirty-six works that span from 1964 to 2005. It is the first comprehensive survey since Andrews's death in 2006 and the first solo exhibition of his work at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, which recently moved to 100 Eleventh Avenue in Chelsea. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully-illustrated catalogue featuring an essay by Dr. Lowery Stokes Sims and a foreword by Congressman John Lewis, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (Georgia).
A self-described "people's painter," Benny Andrews (American, 1930-2006) was born in Plainview, Georgia, to a family of sharecroppers. In 1948, he received a small scholarship to attend college, but eventually had to drop out. He joined the US Air Force in 1950, served for the duration of the Korean War, and received an honorable discharge in 1954. With funding from the GI Bill, Andrews returned to school, enrolling in the Art Institute of Chicago. In 1958, he received his degree and left Chicago for New York City.
Settling in a tenement on the Lower East Side, he developed the "rough collage" technique that became a hallmark of his style. As Sims in her catalogues essay explains, "Andrews's use of collage came out of that fact that he found oil painting 'too academic' and imbued with more 'sophisticated' associations. He found the textural quality of collage appealing, and he used it to 'keep himself off balance.' . . . Andrews's work, with its calculated awkwardness, unconventional techniques, and Southern focus, exists provocatively alongside that of self-taught artists. But as art historian and Andrews scholar J. Richard Gruber would caution us, despite Andrews's predilection for 'realistic subject matter, he was intrigued by the fundamental issues associated with abstract art.' While he was often in conflict with his instructors and peers over the emphasis on abstract expressionism at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago . . . he would come to be 'increasingly more convinced that all art was fundamentally abstract.'"
By the 1960s, Andrews had mastered this technique and exhibition opportunities followed. In 1965, with funding from a John Hay Whitney Fellowship, Andrews traveled to Georgia and began working on his Autobiographical Series. He continued to paint, exhibit, travel, write, and teach until his death from cancer at age 76. During his lifetime, he lectured extensively and received numerous fellowships, grants, and other awards from prestigious international institutions. His work is featured in over thirty permanent collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, High Museum (Atlanta, Georgia), Art Institute of Chicago, Studio Museum of Harlem, and Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington, DC).
Andrews did not see art as a substitute for action. In 1968, he began teaching at Queens College, CUNY, where he was part of the SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge) program designed to help students from underserved areas prepare for college. In 1969, he was a founding member of the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), which advocated for greater representation of black artists, curators, and intellectuals within major museums. In 1971, the art classes he had been teaching at the Manhattan Detention Complex became the cornerstone of a nation-wide prison art program. From 1982 to 1984, he directed the NEA's Visual Arts Program, and shortly before his death in 2006, Andrews was working on an art project in the Gulf Coast with children displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In 2002, he and his wife, sculptor Nene Humphrey, established the Benny Andrews Foundation to help emerging artists gain greater recognition and to encourage artists to donate their work to historically black museums. In 2008, The Foundation donated over 300 of Andrews's artworks to the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) to be distributed to appropriate cultural and educational institutions that will use the artworks as a foundation for education initiatives.
In 2008, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery became the representative of the estate of Benny Andrews, but the gallery has been exhibiting his work regularly since 1994. Most recently, Andrews was part of the 2012 exhibition Benny Andrews, Bob Thompson, Alice Neel, which brought together three New York friends, who steadily pursued figural expressionism in a creative landscape dominated by abstraction and minimalism.
Lowery Stokes Sims, author of "Benny Andrews: From Earth to Heaven and Back," is the Charles Bronfman International Curator at the Museum of Arts and Design. She was on the education and curatorial staff of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1972-1999 before serving as executive director, president, and adjunct curator for the permanent collection at The Studio Museum in Harlem (2000-2007). A specialist in modern and contemporary art, Sims is known for her expertise in the work of African, Latino, Native, and Asian American artists. She has lectured and guest curated exhibitions nationally and internationally and was a visiting professor at Queens College and Hunter College in New York City, a fellow at the Clark Art Institute, and a visiting scholar in the Department of Art at the University of Minnesota in 2007. She has also served on the selection jury for the World Trade Center memorial and is on the boards of ArtTable, Inc., the Tiffany Foundation, and Art Matters, Inc.
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Nic Boling new Sydney Opera House CTO
By Byron Connolly
Australia Editor, CIO	 Nov 3, 2015 12:13 am PST
The Sydney Opera House has appointed Nic Boling as its chief technology officer in a newly created role. Boling was previously head of technical support at the organisation.
Meanwhile, the company's head of information systems, Daniel Johnson, will depart on November 20 after more than four years in the role. Johnson had been with Sydney Opera House since 2007, starting as an IS operations manager.
A Sydney Opera House spokesperson told CIO that Johnson's core responsibilities had been incorporated into the CTO role, aligned with the organisation's objective of unifying its technology leadership and planning.
The spokesperson said that Johnson will depart this month "having made a very significant contribution in the senior head of IS position."
Boling's newly created CTO role highlights the strategic importance of technology across the organisation, the spokesperson said.
Boling will lead the management and development of all ICT resources, infrastructure and operations for the organisation's corporate, commercial, building, and theatre-related activities.
He is tasked with implementing a whole-of-business technology strategy to unify Opera House's technology leadership and delivery; and will lead a unified technology team to deliver and maintain platforms that enable the organisation to sell tickets, put on shows, and maintain the building, the spokesperson said.
He will also work with other areas of the business to enrich the visitor experience – within the precinct and online – and will help expand the Opera House's reach through the use of digital technologies.
"Technology is an essential enabler of everything we do and this role is integral to our efforts to renew the Opera House for future generations of artists, audiences and visitors.
"Nic has a strong strategic and operational understanding of what technology needs to deliver in the Opera House's corporate and production environments. He previously led the technical support team at the Opera House after moving across from our information systems (IS) operations team.
"Over the coming months, Nic will unify our technology leadership, planning and ICT-related teams and roles," the spokesperson said.
Boling is reporting to Sydney Opera House's chief financial officer, Natasha Collier.
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Best speaker (Oral presentation) award at International Elastomer Conferenc organised by Rubber Division, American Chemical Society (ACS) from Oct. 7-10, 2013 at Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Dr. Santinath Ghosh Memorial Award for best oral presentation in Poly 2012, organized by North Bengal University and Siliguri Institute of Technology, Darjeeling, 2-4 November ,2012.
Best poster award at Rubber Technology Center in Research Scholars Day 2012.
Knowledge in physico-mechanical testing, thermal testing, and characterization of materials etc.
Experience in coating technologies using Hot Dip Galvanization technique for steel tubes.


For a long time, people have been told that foods rich in high-density lipoprotein (HDL) are healthy. It turns out, getting too much HDL can be a bad thing, even if it's called the "good cholesterol," according to a study presented at the European Society of Cardiology Congress. The research, led by a team from the Emory University School of Medicine, revealed that people with extremely high levels of good cholesterol have an increased risk of heart attack and death.
HDL is generally good for the body since it moves bad cholesterol from the blood vessels to the liver so that it can be broken down and eliminated from the body. This prevents the formation of plaques that block the arteries and prevent blood from flowing. Because of this, the risk of developing heart disease, atherosclerosis, heart attack, and stroke is significantly lowered. Although low levels of HDL are associated with greater risk of these diseases, previous studies have not shown that very high levels of good cholesterol have protective effects on the body.
The authors of this study evaluated the effects of HDL levels on the risk of heart attack and death in 5,965 individuals. Most of these participants already had preexisting heart conditions so the researchers also put this into consideration, along with smoking, diabetes, bad cholesterol levels, and alcohol intake. After four years, 13 percent of the participants had a heart attack or died due to heart problems. The researchers also observed that patients whose HDL levels fell between 41 to 60 mg/dL had the lowest risk of cardiovascular problems. As expected, participants who had lower levels of good cholesterol had a higher risk of heart problems. What was shocking was that people whose HDL levels were above 60 mg/dL were also more likely to have heart attacks and die from them. In fact, their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease was 50 percent higher than patients who had 41 to 60 mg/dL of good cholesterol. This could be attributed to a higher chance of HDL malfunction when more of it are present, allowing unstable plaques to form and cause inflammation in the arteries.
"Our results are important because they contribute to a steadily growing body of evidence that very high HDL cholesterol levels may not be protective," said Dr. Allard-Ratick who is one of the authors of the study.
The results of this study don't eliminate the fact that HDL is beneficial to the body. What is important is that you maintain enough of it to overpower bad cholesterol while not going overboard. Lifestyle plays a major role in managing healthy cholesterol levels. By simply doing more exercises, quitting smoking, and limiting alcohol intake, you can already experience significant improvements in HDL levels. You can also increase the intake of the following foods to help you on your journey to better health.


Large ships can not use the so-called Oostroute through Amsterdam from Tuesday. As a result of the continuing and extreme heat, the metal of the bridges set out to such an extent that they are "locked" and can not open to let large ships through, a spokesperson for the municipality of Amsterdam said to ANP.
Cooling the bridges with water from the canals no longer helps. The 12 bridges will therefore remain closed until further notice.


Recreate yourself this summer at the Hunter Museum!
The Hunter Museum is offering nine unique camps this summer for children ages 4-12 (children must be potty trained and age listed on the first day of camp). Each summer, talented art instructors design new activities and experiences in the arts for your camper. Camps incorporate art making, physical activity, field trips to local parks and attractions and visits by local artists. Each week of camp closes with an Art Exhibition where campers share their hard work and creativity with family and friends.
All supplies and snacks (one snack for half-day sessions and two for a full-day session) are included in the camp cost. Camp t-shirts are also included. Packed lunches are required.
Space is limited and pre-registration is strongly suggested. Your child is not enrolled in camp until you receive a confirmation email from rveal@huntermuseum.org.
* The Hunter Museum offers a need-based scholarship opportunity for one student who might not otherwise be able to attend a Summer Art Camp. This fund was created in memory of Molly Pryor, volunteer and colleague at the Hunter Museum. For more information about this opportunity and to apply, click here.
Dates: June 2 - 6, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Metal, thread, wax…what do all of these have in common? They're art mediums of course! You don't always need paint and a brush to make a work of art. Learn about design, create art from fabric, linoleum, or wood objects, and explore an array of mixed media techniques in this summer art camp.
Dates: June 9 - 13, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Tandem teaching in which we explore aerial dance along with the components of music. This is sure to be a dynamic class that will stir the senses and create a tangible connection to the interplay between several different types of art.
Dates: June 16 - 20, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Do you have a story to tell? This is your chance to bring it to life. Illustration, storytelling, and bookmaking will be the focus for this camp.
Dates: June 23 - 27, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
With the rise of eco-awareness through things like vegetarian and vegan friendly diets & restaurant offerings and a growing realization of environmental conservation, the art world can be earth-friendly too. Learn about eco-friendly art supplies along with making art from recycled materials, everyday objects, and even trash!
THIS CAMP HAS BEEN CANCELLED.
Dates: July 7 - 11, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Begin looking at everyday objects (whether manmade or in Nature) through a different perspective and as inspiration for art making. Repetition, pattern, line, and color exist all around and can inspire your own creative works as you observe the world around you.
Dates: July 21 - 25, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
From the beginning of mark making to traditional styles and even today's contemporary artistic expressions, travel through the progression of artistic movements while creating your own works inspired by places along the journey.
Dates: July 28 - August 1; Morning Session 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Play your way into the art world. Come experiment with different mediums: paint, pastels, clay. Have fun exploring the basics of art.
Dates: July 28 - August 1; Afternoon Session 1 p.m. - 4 p.m.


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Downey Avenue road work in final stages
DOWNEY - Construction on Downey Avenue, from 5th Street to Gallatin Road, is expected to be complete by the end of March, city officials said this week.Dial Construction, subcontractor to the city's contractor on the project, Silvia Construction, is nearing completion of upgrades to potable water facilities along the corridor. Work is almost complete on concrete improvements, with the exception of new sidewalk along the west side of Downey Avenue between Dacosta Street and Gallatin Road. Roadway paving was scheduled to begin the week of Feb. 28. "It is anticipated that the project will be substantially complete by the end of March," officials said. Construction on Florence Avenue, meanwhile, also continues as crews install potable water improvements, install new fire hydrants and replace existing water meter services. The city's contractor, Sully-Miller Contracting Company, has already completed the installation of a new 12-inch recycled water mainline. Work was scheduled to begin this week on the installation of new landscaped median islands and parkways, new street and pedestrian lights, and pavement rehabilitation work. Southern California Edison, Verizon, Time Warner Cable and NextG Networkers are also installing their cables and utilities underground. When that is complete, overhead facilities and power poles will be removed, officials said. The entire project is scheduled to be "substantially completed" by late June or early July, council members said Tuesday. -City Council Roundup by Eric Pierce, city editor
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The neutral tones and splashes of red in the rugs and artwork provide a serene, elegant atmosphere.
The Teton Pines clubhouse is the perfect place to relax after a day of skiing or a round of golf. In the summer, club members can lounge at the pool. Year-round, both members and visitors can enjoy fine dining, including gourmet holiday feasts. Truly a place for the whole family, the club offers children's programming throughout the summer. The clubhouse staff also hosts many events for valley nonprofit organizations, such as the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Special Olympics Wyoming and the Community Safety Network.
Teton Pines is unique in the Jackson Hole valley: It is a semi-private club that allows the public to access its Arnold Palmer-designed golf course, groomed cross-country ski trails, tennis courts and clubhouse. The Pines—as it's known by locals—opened in 1987. Last year its membership engaged local designers Colleen Walls and Lacey Stalter, of Willow Creek Interior Design, founded in 2001 by Walls, to give this beloved valley retreat a fresh new look and feel.
Willow Creek set out to create a transitional design that would appeal to current, long-term members as well as attract new members to the club. What set its design proposal apart from competing firms' proposals, says Kevin Getz, general manager of Teton Pines, was "Willow Creek's professional presentation, which really wowed the design committee." Stalter used 3-D modeling software to show a 360-degree perspective of the proposed remodel, enabling committee members to visualize the end result.
The resurfaced fireplace was deemed a necessary change, says Walls. "We wouldn't have felt the remodel was complete if we hadn't redesigned the fireplace." The original river rock (above) was replaced with Oakley stone, lending a more timeless look to this centerpiece.
The dramatic new staircase, redressed with dark steel rails, walnut and custom-designed newel posts, guides you downstairs from the lobby and into the golf reception area. The With the Grain team reused much of the original staircase structure, thereby adhering closely to the budget.
Willow Creek also collaborated with Kismet Fine Rugs, supplier of custom-manufactured rugs, service and maintenance in Jackson since 1990, to design two large rugs for the updated clubhouse. Working with a globally connected gallery with such a wealth of experience in space planning and blueprint design gave the project team an enriching insight into the ancient art form of rug making. The resulting mountain contemporary rugs effectively drove much of the design aesthetic, from the geometric shapes that Walls and Kismet Fine Rugs' owner drew up, to the warm colors and wool textures that resonate with the clean lines in the new furniture, walls and window treatments. Kismet Fine Rugs' owner followed up in person with the rugs' manufacturer in Pakistan to assure their quality construction—a service offered to all Kismet Fine Rugs clients who order custom-made rugs.
Members have consistently commented that the clubhouse feels completely transformed. The staff has been thrilled with the result, as well; the subtle structural changes that Walls and Stalter implemented have improved the efficiency and entertainment capability of the club.
The existing dining room was underutilized due to unsightly cafeteria-style cabinetry. The cabinets were removed and new finishes were added to create an upscale dining atmosphere.
The tired, dated bar was redefined by applying a walnut veneer and a sleek quartz countertop. LED lighting was inset in the three-tiered cabinetry above the bar, creating an emphasis on the room's focal point.


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Independent Minnesota 8th Congressional District candidate seeks nomination
Ken Driessen Mar 26, 2012 3 Comments Share
I realized back when I was a young man the United States of America was not the pillar of democracy that the propagandists claim it to be. Expressing what I knew as a 19 year old, I could name quite a list of ruthless dictators that clandestine parts of the U.S. government had at least some responsibility of bringing into power if they did not outright install them. They included the Shah of Iran, Baby Doc, Marcos, Batista, Samoza, Suharto and Saddam Hussein to name a few.
In those youthful years, I also knew that within the internal workings of our nation; in spite the 'privilege' of a chance to vote on the two party partisan candidates to represent me; in reality I had far less than even one divided by the total population, now about a 310-million-to-one of a say.
The issue of installing dictators around the planet is just one example of many things our government does that conflicts with the well-being and morals of the majority of American people. Another is the Federal Reserve Act which put our monetary system in the hands of private bankers who very seldom if ever act with the interests of the United States as a whole in mind.
One of the few decent U.S. Senators, Independent Bernie Sanders, informed me of the true extent of the banker bailout at over $16.1 trillion dollars. Because your current Senators and Congressman failed to acknowledge and inform you of this ongoing unconstitutional financial crime; they themselves are now accomplices. We are not broke; the deficit is nothing more than a sleight of hand, an unconstitutional transfer of wealth from workers to an infinitely greedy class.
Then another issue is the fact that more than a handful of individual defense contractor CEOs each have profited in the hundreds of millions of dollars range and possibly billions from the questionable wars we are all expected to pay for. To express the extent of their sinister dysfunctional lead: do you feel protected by the more than 5000 nuclear warheads pointed at us, enough to kill every man woman and child on the planet 4 times over?
You say it is too radical and over the top to label the majority of our elected officials criminals? The U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Law of the Land, contains no article, section or clause to allow widespread government secrecy, torture or murder of our citizens whether at home or abroad, nor the selling of weapons to our enemies, nor the uninvestigated disappearance of trillions of dollars of money added to our collective national debt. The constitutionally guaranteed rights of each and every one of us are being systematically violated on a daily basis and that undeniably constitutes criminal activity.
We are so obviously led by a group of insane narcissistic sociopath individuals who do not serve or represent the morals or interests of the majority. In fact the trillions of dollars exchanged in the above scenario is just a small iota of our Nation's problems. We hear enough about our problems everyday and next to nothing about solutions. I propose a solution based upon a way for everyday people to have meaningful participation and involvement, which I call direct participatory democracy. Democracy is not a spectator sport, participate or lose.
Understanding this lack of a real say and a real way to participate, around 1996 I theorized a method which the majority could have a meaningful vote and say. You see, the Internet came to be a viable means of communication around then. I knew at that time that computers and the Internet would provide us with the method through which every citizen would be able to vote on law and appropriation rather than on a pompous, prima donna individuals installed by the moneyed elite leaving us to vote on the lesser of two evils.
It is now possible for a congress person, a real representative of "We the People," to use readily available computerized technology to offer each eligible person a chance to vote on each piece of legislation to come before them and enter the collective majority of that vote as the vote of the congressional district.
Since that initial realization of the possibility of true democracy; I have also studied those multiple-choice tests and utilization of optical mark recognition scanners. Using this technology will allow eligible people who don't use computers, but still want to vote, a choice to return a ballot sent through the mail containing the bills most likely to come before the legislature. This way people who can't or won't use a computer can still vote. These methods of collecting the will and vote of the majority of people who exercise their right and responsibility of voting would have a say by their collective majority vote becoming the vote of the representative. One person one vote, direct participatory democracy is now possible on a district, national and worldwide basis.
So with this letter I put my name forward as an independent direct participatory democracy candidate for Minnesota's 8th Congressional District. All I need is one person to nominate me and then for me to deposit a $100 fee, collect 1000 signatures, then Direct Participatory Democracy will be on the ballot in November 2012 for the first time in human history.
Again, Direct Participatory Democracy in this sense means I will implement the technology to put in place a one person one vote system for every registered voter within the 8th District willing exercise their right and responsibility to vote on legislation and appropriation of our national funds. When elected I will contribute half of the Congressperson salary to get the Direct Participatory Democracy system in place and make it the best possible system. A $174,000 a year Congressperson's salary for pulling the wool over our eyes is out of touch with the common American to begin with. I can live high and fine on half that. Every citizen is a stakeholder and deserves a say and a meaningful vote. I am smart enough to be able to supply each of you with the pros and cons of each bill, to write the bills the majority of the 8th District wants to put before the U.S. Congress and humble enough to be your vote counter.
Although I have spoke and played music in front of quite a few people and I have been a union steward, I don't have a lot of experience as a politician. Yet on the other hand I am not afraid of any of them. The opposition can cut me down in any way that they like; it is not me alone that the people will be voting on, it will be a vote for themselves; a vote that will help lead this once great nation to it's true potential of liberty, justice and a high standard of living for all; not just the few.
Yes, I will accomplish what I am saying here if I am elected, yet I remain modest. If someone else will take up the cause of direct participatory democracy with more name recognition and experience I would be happy to support them instead of running myself. I believe in the people of Northeastern Minnesota. What we have now is not democracy; it is a neo-capitalist cabal of a government with their being little or no difference between the democrats and republicans. I believe we can start an evolution within the system right here in Minnesota and avoid the growing necessity of a revolution that will most likely become violent. Once our district falls away from the neo-capitalist cabal toward a true one person one vote democracy others will follow. We can empower ourselves to change our neighborhoods, our state, our nation and even our Earth for the better. I welcome you to be part of it. Please let me know if you want to be part of the DPD movement or want me to speak to any person or group to promote DPD.
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Ken, I applaud you for initial efforts and bold plan.  The idea of a true one person-one vote system is one that I've been harboring for many years, but I always took the perspective of the whole system needing to be reformed from the ground up, a task which seemed virtually impossible (without some serious destruction).
The U.S. government, as it has come to be, is a very powerful entity based off of the preservation of status quo, one that serves to withhold power amongst a very small group of people (notably, politicians and wealthy businesspeople).  To stand up against this system, I believe, is to take a perilous journey, as the oppositional powers will likely stop at nothing to preserve their power.  But what I can say, is that in the scenario of your ideas coming to fruition via election, I think you would be supported strongly by the electorate, as Northeastern Minnesota is the best place in the country for this change to happen, in my opinion.
It appears that you have strong constitutional values and a solid retrospective into what our founding citizens had envisioned for this country.  I've been disenchanted by the political system in the U.S. since before I could even vote, and the whole binary argument of red vs. blue (if you're not for this, you're for that) is a complete and utter fallacy of logic - it's a false dilemma (anyone who thinks there are two clear cut solutions to a problem are quite out of touch with their perspective of reality).
So, thanks for finally providing a refreshing take on a system that I have little faith in - best of luck!
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What you are talking about is called "direct democracy." It is an idea that certainly sounds appealing, but has some downsides as well. Most notably it is the governing by popular emotion. Yeah, our politicians can be nasty pieces of work, but they do come pretty directly from the people, and I would argue they are no more, or less corrupt than any given member of society. I tend to think that the intelligence of a group of people diminishes the more people that have direct input upon it.
Want to see direct democracy in action? This fall will be a great time here in MN as the state legislature is doing an end run around the governor veto pen  by putting to ballot numerous changes to the State Constitution. Including inserting a ban on marriage equality directly into the constitution, and limiting voter access to the polls by requiring state ID. Both of which can be seen as a restriction of rights. To me the majority voting on the rights of the minority seems more than a little squicky.
Direct democracy is not a panacea, it is something that I think would work well in a well-informed, engaged population, but then again if we actually had that many of our problems would be resolved already. To me "the rot" starts with an ignorant and fearful and emotion-driven population which is something that doesn't "just happen" but is indicative of how people chose to live their lives and make choices. What we see in government is just a visible manifestation. So changing the type of government would do little to changing the national character (and may actually make things worse).
Hi Edgeways:
As far as the majority voting in laws that restrict minorities, that is why we have a constitution and supreme court, supposedly. You would think members of the high court would be smart eh? Well if catering to infinite greed is smart, they are. Free speech is money and corporate eminent domain is constitutional. Is smart like Rick Santorum who votes and speaks as though Viagra for men is something insurance should pay for but not birth control for women? David Brooks of DBH sold bullet proof vests to US and had a salary of over 70 million dollars in the same year, when he found that some of the vest produced did not pass standards, he quickly sold his stock and made a total of 250 million dollars in one year, he is smart eh? So in your analogy, that we need smart people to tell us all what to do, he should be president right?
I've worked with physically and mentally challenged people. Ask them if they want elected officials within our government to control the money or private bankers. What do you think any person who is smart enough to ever make or spend a single dollar would say? In a time in our history when infinite greed is considered smart and those sociopaths that follow that tenant buy our government, I will go with the will of the people right off.
The vast majority of US people were against the banker bail out. The majority of US people want US to get out of Afghanistan. The majority of US people want universal national health care like every other civilized nation. The majority want cannabis regulated like alcohol and tobacco.   That is what major polls and surveys have said only they are meaningless. Yes, the movement I am working on could be shortened to direct democracy but that does not allow for meaningful participation.  Please rethink your reservations about Direct Participatory Democracy.
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Patchwork is Not a Model (Part 3)
on October 2, 2018 October 2, 2018 By xenogothic
It was brought to my attention a few weeks back that the conversation Michael James, Ed Berger and myself, had over a series of blogposts and their comments sections, made its way to Facebook where a really interesting discussion took place between Reza Negarestani and Levi Bryant.
I'm not sure of the etiquette of Facebook-to-blogosphere transplants so I'm just going to quote pertinent comments using first names only. I think it would be a shame, for those of us actively discussing these things, to lose this conversation behind the Facebook wall.
Of Michael's blog response to my short little shitpost — facepalm for not leading with the at least somewhat boiled if not fully cooked takes… — Reza (rightly) writes:
Reza: This an excellent post. Even though I think what counts as a scientific model is not free floating. The idea that a map is not the territory is advanced by people who think we can actually talk about an exterior reality without a proper structure to logically, mathematically or computationally discern it. From the standpoint of scientific theories, it would be absurd to talk about a territory without a demarcation of [what] we distinguish as a territory, separate from the map. It would be the very definition of the myth of the given. In any case, this is a good piece, informative and not beholden to trends.
Levi: That's interesting. I don't think the claim that the map is not the territory is the suggestion that the territory is a given. Rather, it's just a reminder not to erase the territory or replace it with a map. I think we do this all the time, especially in philosophy and what's referred to as theory. We engage only with maps, treating them as having no difference from territories.
I want to note here that the original intention of the post was absolutely along the lines that Levi describes here. Rather than that make the conversation redundant, however, I think much of what is said here resonates with a number of other discussions around patchwork going on at the moment, particularly revealing the complexity of nationalism and its mythologies.
Reza: Levi, I can agree with you on this point. But we should realize that map / territory crowd come in at least (reactively speaking) two groups. Your suggestion is what I would call vigilant realists and I find it to be sufficiently critical, the other group though (the ones who think we can simply have a territory without a map, being without structure) are what I would call greedy materialists and realists. Of course, in the the latter camp things can also be fundamentally different.
Levi: The worst part about what you call greedy materialists is that often they're confusing the map and the territory without even realizing it. Their territory is a map that's not recognized as a map.
Reza: Levi, I highly suggest Puntel's book Structure and Being on this issue. It really addresses some of the issues we take for granted.
I'm very curious to check out this book myself, especially considering the inchoate investigations of this blog where the relationship between nation and subject — structure and being? — is reciprocal and, therefore, plastic in much the same way.
Yvette: What if 'the map is not the territory' is taken more literally to mean 'A 2-D projection of a thing is not the same as the 3-D thing, mainly because it lacks a dimension which is fundamental to the 3-D thing". i.e., a circle is not a sphere, a triangle is not a pyramid, which is true. ?
Reza: Yvette, that is another problem, broadly understood this is the issue of unhinged / unconstrained idealism and theory. You can call it the caprice of thought where one simply applies the last trend in what counts as a theoretical structure to the world with no critical reservation. This is why I think we should take philosophy of science seriously, because its major concerns deal with exactly the same issues. First epistemic ones: How our projections have any traction on items in the world? Second methodological ones: which structure is better, logic or math (the debate between logicicism and its mathematical detractors), third, is it actually wise to talk about a mind-independent reality (debates around idealism and realism).
Levi: Isn't this already getting too far into the weeds of abstraction in a way that erases the territory? Let's tarry with Yvette's literalism for a section. A map in the literal sense is a flat surface that has a metric grid over it. Let's say it's a map of the peninsula of Svaerholt in Norway: a remote region that once housed a fishing village, a Nazi fortress, and a Russian POW camp. Now on that map, a kilometer is a kilometer. They're all the same. Now you land on Svaerholt. You find that all kilometer's are not equal and that distance is textured and means very different things depending on the type of boots you're wearing and the terrain you're walking across. First you have to cross the beach, which is covered with rocks and drift that are very difficult to move across. Then you get a little further and the rocks are still there, but now there's rusting barbed wire and rusted out land mines. This poses it's own challenges and you slow down more. Now you get to the grass and the hills and the rainwater that covers those grasses. Distance means something different as you cross all of these terrains and distance is something quite different if you're wearing the poorly constructed clogs the Russian POWs wore, or a good pair of waterproof hiking boots. I don't know that pointing this out is falling prey to the myth of the given. Is Svaerholt "given"? It's different than that flat metric on the map. Often in our theorizing and philosophizing this dimension is completely lost and we speak of it as if it contributes nothing. However, once you're there you know a little bit more about what life was like for those soldiers and prisoners that's very difficult to convey in a text or a map.
Reza: I disagree that a map is 'essentially' a flattened world view. A simple glance at complexity sciences and modern engineering shows us that a map can actually be a multi-level description of the world. How many modelers think that a map is a flat world or that it is actually the world? That would be an oversimplification. Does Boltzmann think his statistical multi-level of map of thermal phenomena is the same as macroscopic thermodynamic irreversible behaviors?
Levi: Yes, we can have many different sorts of maps, but that doesn't change the fact that they always lose something. No matter how beautifully I describe coffee (a map), the person who has not drank coffee will not know what it tastes like. We too often proceed as if not existing in language means the thing doesn't exist at all. That's the first move of Hegel's Phenomenology, in fact. There are all sorts of things that can only be gestured at without being said. It's why people who want to become doctors and nurses need to go through clinicals and actually work in hospitals as a part of their training. It would be good if philosophers had to do something similar.
Reza: The idea that we always lose something is part of what Kant calls objectivity: to arrive at a status when we say something is thus and so with the understanding that we may be wrong but we have fulfilled a set of criteria such that our claims can be gauged and rectified. To think that there is a lossless reality out there which we can simply accessed is tantamount to the myths of private access, neither scientific nor philosophical. Does Newton think his equations of motions are the ultimate descriptions of reality? No he is a scientist, he knows after Kepler that such equations are lossy pictures of natural laws. In fact it would be dogmatic to think of natural laws as if there are some stuff out there awaiting our recognition. There is no natural law that can be put forward without deductive-nomological, statistical-nolomological and statitiscal-inductive frameworks, all of which require theoretical structuration, be it in the domain of deductive logical theory or probability logic.
Again, I feel like Levi is capturing beautifully the many problematics I hoped would be encapsulated in the original post, but I also want to take Reza's critiques seriously.
However, is this issue of Kantian objectivity not precisely at the heart of the issue here? I'm reminded of this in revisiting Land's The Thirst of Annihilation — which I was doing earlier today in working on another post — and in the first chapter there is a passage on what Land calls the "dialectical illusion" that I spent quite a bit of time with.
He notes how, for Kant, the dialectical illusion is between objectivity and objects, which is to say, it is "a confusion between conditions of possibility and their products." Reza seems to describe this too here but I'm unsure how this differs from what Levi is also saying? Is this not a coalescence of objects and objectivity; of the map of a territory and the territory-in-itself? We cannot know the latter absolutely so we must accept that the map is only ever an approximation.
There's a later passage that I likewise found intriguing in light of this conversation — and I should add here, on the off chance Reza sees this, that I'm not bringing in Land simply to be an irritant, I know he's moved on — in which Land goes on to likewise describe a relationship between "model" and "subject". He writes, speaking indirectly to the conundrum of map and territory-in-itself:
This is not merely to collapse Kant's thing-in-itself back into the phenomenal world, because Hegel does not think of spirit as a timeless (transcendentally pre-given) system of cognitive faculties (in Kantian fashion), but as a historical auto-production, in which the self is really — and not merely reflectively — determined by the logically orchestrated content of thinking as and through time. Hegelian history is not formal but speculative, which means that the subject is developed — and not merely expressed — through the series of predicates by which 'it' is thought.
Modelling, and mapmaking in particular, are processes. Reza says as much himself. Much of the point of which I think the patchwork conversations are currently revolving is that new circumstances demand new cartographies of both world and subject in tandem. How might we go about imaging these maps in the radical terms that our immediate crises demand? As illuminating as Reza's thought is — and I must confess that I suspect there to be much on this, particularly related to Hegel, in Intelligence & Spirit, which I am yet to properly crack the spine of — I remain sceptical as to how this can assist in the speculative notions that Levi emphasises here, as I also intended to do.
Is it simply a difference in perspective concerning the same resolution to an issue? Or is it deeper than that?
I'm remembering that at the start of this year I said I planned to properly read Kant's first critique. An aborted promise which has ended up with me reading Hume instead…
As far as these last few comments go, I feel like I need to get a move on with catching up on my Kant and Hegel… Because at this point, they lost me:
Choggys: I have always thought hypothetical lossless reification of essence as a means of providing context to definitions which are only ever rudimentary and incomplete. It's Kant's as if.
Reza: Yes they are species of 'as-if' judgements. As I mentioned, Kant sometimes forgets his own dictum that as-if should not be mistaken as a constitutive judgement. This is in my opinion a source of a lot of confusions pertaining to transcendental deduction. The only 'tentative solution' is to think of as-if arguments in terms of a virtuous circle of analogy where we have to account for the scale or the extent of analogies rather than just overextending them.
Miguel: But the problem is not that we are loosing something… It's an issue with accuracy, as stated in Borges' "On Exactitude in Science". But maybe it is not a "problem" as such. Each known physical theory, so far, proposes a limit to certainty. Is it credible to make any sort of distinction between a theoretical proposition and a reality which is definable only and exclusively in terms of measurability (i.e. a matematizable) reality? Objective measures of complexity exist (Kolmogorov complexity) What constitutes the information is going to be locally determined by the process of which its epistemic metarepresentation is taking part.
Levi: But I'm not making the claim that you're attributing to me. I'm pointing out 1) that an occupational hazard of our discipline consists in thinking only concepts are real (we only talk about maps), and 2) overlooking that we must go to the world itself to know many things because they can't be put in language. This was the point of my example of medical training. I'll bow out of discussion at this point because it's clear we're talking past each other and about entirely different things.
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In the previous parts of the series I outlined the basics on Dynamic Sampling. Let's see how Dynamic Sampling deals with typical real-life data patterns.
As you might be aware, quite often real data follows certain patterns for how data is clustered together, usually related to how the data arrives. This clustering (or scattering) of data within a table can be influenced by the physical organisation of the table, but in the most commonly used Heap Organized Table in Oracle the data can be stored generally in any table block and hence usually follows the natural pattern dictated by the data arrival.
Furthermore quite often the most interesting data is the latest data, and the data your queries might be interested in is usually not spread randomly across the table, but clustered together in a specific area of the table.
If you think about how Dynamic Sampling works by randomly sampling – usually only a very limited number of blocks (commonly something between 32 and 256 blocks) – then it might become obvious that problems dealing with such clustered data patterns can arise, because very likely the few blocks sampled won't contain a representative sub-set of the data we are looking for.
This means that Dynamic Sampling works well if the data you're looking for is spread randomly across a table, but by default has problems when the data you're looking for is either clustered together or simply very rare. In both cases chances are high that the blocks sampled don't contain a representative sub-set of the data you're looking for, and the sanity checks built into the code will then kick in and reject the Dynamic Sampling results.
Let's see a simple test case for how Dynamic Sampling deals with such a data pattern.
What I simulate here is a typical problem of correlated column values – I'm looking for the most recent data that is in a certain status that represents "unprocessed" data. Of course, it is very likely that the most recent data is the data that is yet to be processed, so these two questions basically ask for the same information, but in two different ways.
The example is based on the "parcels" example Jonathan Lewis used in his "Statistics" chapter of the book "Expert Oracle Practices" (used with permission).
There are 1,000 parcels per day for the last 1,000 days, and the last 1,000 parcels are marked as "In-transit".
So both filter predicates identify 1,000 rows each out of 1,000,000 and since I have generated a histogram on the highly skewed "delivery_status" column the optimizer is aware of this. Applying the predicates independently from each other shows that the optimizer's estimates are in the right ballpark.
The problem however is that applying both together by default results in an estimate of 1 out 1,000,000 since the optimizer doesn't know about the correlation.
Since one of the predicates is based on a non-equal comparison the new "Extended Statistics" of 11g is of no help either, since it works for column groups only if all filters on the column group are based on equal comparisons.
So we are left with Dynamic Sampling. At the session default level of 2 Dynamic Sampling won't kick in. We need to either increase the session/cursor level (according to the level descriptions, level 4 or higher sound reasonable for correlated column values), or we could ask for an explicit table level Dynamic Sampling. Remember that the number of blocks sampled is defined differently for the "session/cursor" and "table" level Dynamic Sampling (as explained in the previous parts of this series).
As expected and already outlined above that didn't really help. There is no notice of Dynamic Sampling in the DBMS_XPLAN.DISPLAY output, although we would expect Dynamic Sampling to kick in under these circumstances.
So Dynamic Sampling was performed, but the result was rejected due to the fact that the sample size was just 31 blocks and no positive samples were found.
** Dynamic sampling initial checks returning TRUE (level = 8).
We sampled almost four percent of the original table (1023 blocks), but still no luck.
Note that your results might vary, depending on the random blocks sampled – some levels below 10 might produce usable results, most however won't.
Clearly this looks like bad luck, even higher levels of Dynamic Sampling don't generate a reasonable estimate, and other options like Extended Statistics won't help either.
Unfortunately this doesn't look much better: We can tell from the line "filtered sample card. (index PARCELS_IDX): 0" that the code recognized the index, but somehow it didn't really use it.
In the next part of this series we'll see if the indexes can be of any help and what further options exist, if any.


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