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"Bernie Has Plenty To Lose": The Sanders Campaign Is Divided Over How It Wants To Die
The night Hillary Clinton won the New York primary, the Sanders campaign sent two radically different messages about how it planned to proceed. In an interview with the Associated Press, senior Sanders adviser Tad Devine said the campaign would "sit back and assess where we are" after the five northeastern primaries on April 26. At roughly the same time, the senator's campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, told MSNBC that there would be nothing to assess until the superdelegates cast their official votes at the convention.
"We're going to go to the convention," Weaver told Steve Kornacki. "It is extremely unlikely that either candidate will have the requisite number of pledged delegates … so it is going to be an election determined by the superdelegates."
Weaver won that argument. Bernie Sanders lost four of five states on April 26, but continued campaigning aggressively, nonetheless, arguing that a win in California – combined with his superior performance in head-to-head polls with Donald Trump – would convince superdelegates to throw the election to him in Philadelphia.
Now, with Clinton set to clinch a majority of pledged delegates when the final six states cast their primary ballots Tuesday night, the Devine-Weaver divide is resurfacing – and their boss doesn't seem to know whose side he's on.
On Monday night, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Sanders campaign is divided between the "Sandernistas" – longtime Bernie backers from his time in Vermont and Congress who want to rage against the dying of the light – and those with broader ties to the Democratic Party, who believe Sanders's agenda would be best served by uniting the party against Trump. Devine, who advised Democratic nominees Al Gore and John Kerry, speaks for the latter.
"What will happen hopefully when the voting is done, our two campaigns will begin to talk once more to one another and figure out where the common ground is," Devine told the Journal on Monday night.
Weaver, who has worked as a Sanders operative since the mid-'80s, told the paper a different story.
"The plan is as the senator has described it: to go forward after Tuesday and keep the campaign going to the convention and make the case to superdelegates that Sen. Sanders is the best chance that Democrats have to beat Trump," Weaver said. "The trajectory is the same regardless of the outcome in California."
In most of his recent statements, Sanders sounds more like his campaign manager. On Monday night in Los Angeles, Sanders told supporters that a win in California would give him "enormous momentum" with superdelegates going into the convention. But earlier in the day, he struck a more "Devine" note – asked about whether he would endorse Clinton before the convention, Sanders replied, "Let me just talk to you after the primary here in California where we hope to win. Let's assess where we are after tomorrow before we make statements based on speculation."
For Weaver, there's no cause for such assessments. Nothing hinges on the outcome in California. But his candidate sounds less certain. And not without reason. There are a lot of powerful voices whispering into his other ear.
Over the weekend, Sanders and President Obama spoke for over 30 minutes, according to CBS News. While the content of the conversation is unknown, the president has argued that Tuesday's results will be decisive – and has indicated that he intends to endorse Clinton well ahead of the July convention.
Meanwhile, Sanders's sole backer in the U.S. Senate, Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley, has called on Sanders to drop out once Clinton secures a majority of pledged delegates. The Vermont senator's Clinton-backing colleagues – along with virtually every other elected Democrat – obviously agree.
If Sanders was looking for a way to sustain his campaign past a loss in California, the Associated Press's decision to declare Clinton the primary's winner on Monday night may provide one justification. In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Weaver argued that the AP's call – which was based on a revised count of Clinton's advantage among superdelegates – was "suppressing voter turnout in six states across the country."
But the Vermont senator has something to lose in defying the will of the Democratic Party. Should Democrats recapture the Senate, Sanders is in line to become chair of the Budget Committee – a powerful post, especially when held by a politician with a national following and first-rate donor list. If the democratic socialist opts for political revolution over party unity, however, his colleagues could ostensibly deny him that position.
Plus, Sanders's superdelegate strategy works a lot better as a rationale for giving Democrats in California a chance to make their preferences known than it does as a means of actually winning the nomination. Barring an FBI indictment or medical catastrophe, Democratic elites are not going to overturn the will of their voters to give the party's nod to a man who has been a Democrat for a little over a year.
But Bernie Sanders isn't known for being terribly sensitive to political pressure. And at least one voice in his campaign is telling him to go down swinging. We'll know very soon how loudly all the other voices speak.
By: Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, June 7, 2016
June 9, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Bernie Sanders, Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton	| Donald Trump, Jeff Merkley, Jeff Weaver, Pledged Delegates, Sanders Supporters, Superdelegates, Tad Devine | Leave a comment
"An Infinite Loop Of Bullshit": Bernie Sanders Has Some Strange Ideas About Why He Deserves The Nomination
The season-finale episode of Saturday Night Live imagines a bar-stool conversation between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders in which the two candidates bond over Sanders's stupidity in refusing to attack Clinton, and Clinton having rigged the primary system. (Clinton: "Remember all those states like Wyoming where you beat me by a lot, but I still got most of the delegates?" Sanders: "That was so stupid! It's rigged!" Clinton: "I know. It's so rigged!")
The system isn't rigged. Clinton is going to win the nomination because she has won far more votes. She currently leads with 55 percent of the total vote to 43 percent. That's fairly close for a primary, but it's not Bush-versus-Gore close. It's not even Bush-versus-Dukakis close (the 1988 election, widely seen as a landslide, was settled by less than 8 percent). Clinton's lead in pledged delegates is proportionally smaller than her lead in total votes because Sanders has benefited from low-turnout caucuses. Yet Sanders has enjoyed astonishing success at framing his narrative of the primary as a contest that, in some form or fashion, has been stolen from its rightful winner. His version of events has bled into the popular culture and fueled disillusionment among his supporters.
Sanders initially discounted Clinton's success as the product of "conservative" states, which is a technically accurate depiction of the states as a whole, but not of the heavily African-American Democratic voters in them who supported Clinton. As Sanders has continued to fail to dent Clinton's enormous lead in votes and delegates, his campaign has devised a series of increasingly absurd formulations to defend its theme that Sanders, not Clinton, is the authentic choice of the people.
The activists love Bernie. "Any objective analyst of the current campaign understands that the energy and the grass-roots activism of this campaign is with us," Sanders said recently. "Not Hillary Clinton." But that's not how you decide elections. Energy and activism are definitely part of the election process. But the way you determine the winner is by holding elections.
Bernie has won more a lot of states. Sanders's "top advisers" tell Politico that he will make "an aggressive pitch" for his nomination because Sanders "will be able to point to victories over Clinton in more than 20 states." There are two problems with this pitch. First, unless you're really into states' rights, the number of states won is not a terribly useful metric — Sanders has done disproportionately well in low-population states, while Clinton's supporters are concentrated in larger states. That is hardly a democratic basis to award him the nomination.
Also, 20 states is definitely less than half of all the states.
Pledged delegates don't count because of superdelegates. When presented with Clinton's insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, Sanders notes dismissively that pledged delegates alone are not enough to win (i.e., "Hillary Clinton will not have the requisite number of pledged delegates to win the Democratic nomination at the end of the nominating process on June 14. Won't happen. She will be dependent on superdelegates.").
Superdelegates also don't count because of pledged delegates. The superdelegate system, he has charged, "stacks the deck in a very, very unfair way for any establishment candidate." Or, alternately, "The media is in error when they lumped superdelegates with pledged delegates. Pledged delegates are real."
The nomination is won by adding up pledged delegates and superdelegates. Clinton has a large lead in pledged delegates, and an even larger lead in superdelegates. You could rely entirely on one or the other, or change the weights between them in any fashion, and Clinton would still win. Sanders simply refuses to accept the combination of the two, instead changing subjects from one to the other. Ask him about the pledged delegates, and he brings up the superdelegates. Ask about the superdelegates, and he changes to the pledged delegates. It's an infinite loop of bullshit.
Sanders deserves some sympathy. He set out to run a message campaign to spread his ideas. At some point, the race became quasi-competitive, and he discovered that he needed a competitive rationale in order to make the news media cover it, and as he has failed to gain ground, his competitive rationale has gone from strained to ludicrous. Meanwhile, his message has attracted fervent supporters who like him so much they actually believe his crazy process arguments.
By: Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, New York Magazine, June 6, 2016
June 8, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Bernie Sanders, Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton	| African Americans, media, Pledged Delegates, Popular Vote, Sanders Supporters, Superdelegates | 4 Comments
"Without The Help Of Superdelegates": Hillary Clinton Shatters America's 240-Year-Old Glass Ceiling
History was a long time coming, but it arrived last night when the venerable Associated Press broke the news that Hillary Rodham Clinton had surpassed the needed number of delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.
For women born in the middle of the last century, this is the kind of unimagined achievement that makes you wonder if you stepped into the middle of a new Broadway play, perhaps "Hamilton" spun in another way to make the Founding Fathers turn over in their graves.
Like Clinton herself, these women, and I'm one of them, found their voices during the women's movement of the 1970s, the civil rights movement of the 1960s and beyond, and the antiwar movement of the sixties and seventies. And while Clinton has her flaws, as we all do, she was on the front lines of all this social change, especially when it comes to women and girls.
"I got to tell you, according to the news, we are on the brink of a historic, historic unprecedented moment, but we still have work to do, don't we?" Clinton said at a rally in California, one of six states holding elections today, and the one that could send her off with a big boost if she can edge out rival Bernie Sanders.
History made quietly with math is history all the same.
Yet its arrival in the midst of a still heated primary race makes it awkward for Clinton to fully embrace all that it means. The AP's count includes the so-called superdelegates, party leaders and lawmakers who Sanders has vilified as unelected and unrepresentative of the voters.
The irony, of course, is that, Sanders—if he weren't running for president—would be a superdelegate along with every Democratic member of Congress, and Democratic governor. Also, Clinton is expected to win enough pledged or earned delegates in the other contests, that by the time the polls close in New Jersey, she will reach the magic number and be the victor without the help of superdelegates.
It is another irony that Clinton while achieving what no other woman in America has done at the same time is so disliked. How can that be? It's partly a function of the Clintons themselves, the dodging and weaving we've come to know so well, and partly the fault of our politics. Negative campaigning works, and we're in for a sustained period of mudslinging as the two presumptive nominees work to define each other as the worst of the worst.
Clinton campaigned in 2008 as a fighter, and the Democrats chose Barack Obama, the healer. Obama leaves the presidency with extraordinary accomplishments, but bringing the country together is not one of them.
Clinton often says on the campaign trail that after everything the other side has thrown at her, "I'm still standing."
The changing nature of the country is on full display. After a long line of white men, Obama shattered the tradition, and now Clinton is poised to continue the change that Obama's presidency began. It's been a long time since we've seen an incumbent president enthusiastically out on the campaign trail working to elect his successor.
President George W. Bush was constrained by an unpopular war from helping his party, and in 2000 Al Gore kept his distance from President Clinton, believing that Clinton's moral lapses would hurt him.
Obama has given every indication he will be an active campaigner for Clinton, rallying the coalition of young people, single women, and minorities that elected him twice with over 50 percent of the vote, a threshold that Bill Clinton did not quite reach in his two elections—and that Hillary Clinton surely has set as her goal.
Perhaps it's fitting then that 2016 is shaping up as a referendum on diversity, with Donald Trump making statements that have alienated certain groups and ethnicities, while Obama and Clinton have embraced this new America.
There are plenty more tests ahead, but for now Clinton has gone where no other woman in American history has gone. Adapting what Neil Armstrong said when he set foot on the moon, "That's one small step for woman, one giant leap for humankind."
By: Eleanor Clift, The Daily Beast, June 7, 2016
June 8, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Democratic National Convention, Election 2016, Hillary Clinton	| Al Gore, Bernie Sanders, Civil rights movement, Donald Trump, George W. Bush, Racism, Superdelegates, Women's Movement | Leave a comment
"A Day Of Reckoning For The Sanders Campaign": Decision Time, To Concede Or Attempt To Disrupt The Convention
Coming off of big wins in the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico this weekend, the Associated Press reports that Hillary Clinton is within 26 delegates (pledged and super) of clinching the Democratic presidential nomination. With upcoming races on Tuesday in New Jersey, California, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota and New Mexico, the folks at NBC First Read summarized the situation with pledged delegates like this:
Clinton must win 30% of remaining pledged delegates to get a majority in pledged delegates
Sanders must win 70% of remaining pledged delegates to get a majority in pledged delegates
Based on previous races and current polling, it is likely that Clinton will win New Jersey and New Mexico, while Sanders will prevail in much less delegate-rich Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota. Everyone expects California to be a nail-biter. That's why this morning Greg Sargent suggests that even a "win" in California won't save the Sanders campaign. At the end of the day on Tuesday, he will be behind Clinton in the number of pledged delegates and – if you include superdelegates – she will have gone over the threshold of the 2,382 needed to win the nomination. His only play would be to convince a large number of superdelegates to vote against the leader in pledged delegates.
All of this means that Bernie Sanders' day of reckoning will be this Wednesday. Either he will decide to concede that he has lost the primary, or attempt to disrupt the Democratic Convention in July. According to Peter Nicholas, that is still an unsettled discussion going on within the campaign.
A split is emerging inside the Bernie Sanders campaign over whether the senator should stand down after Tuesday's election contests and unite behind Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, or take the fight all the way to the July party convention and try to pry the nomination from her…
Tad Devine, a senior Sanders strategist who advised Democratic nominees Al Gore in 2000 and John Kerry in 2004, among others, suggested the "path forward" is uncertain, hinging on the outcome in California and other states that have yet to vote. He voiced a conciliatory note, describing how the two campaigns might set aside differences that have grown more pronounced in the heat of the year-long campaign…
Campaign manager Jeff Weaver, who has worked in Mr. Sanders's congressional offices and Vermont-based campaigns dating to the mid-1980s, takes a more aggressive approach…
"The plan is as the senator has described it: to go forward after Tuesday and keep the campaign going to the convention and make the case to superdelegates that Sen. Sanders is the best chance that Democrats have to beat Trump," Mr. Weaver said. "The trajectory is the same regardless of the outcome in California."
Ultimately, the candidate himself will have to make the call. It will be up to Bernie Sanders to decide whether he continues to be a progressive voice within the Democratic Party or sidelines both himself and his supporters as disrupters.
By: Nancy LeTourneau, Political Animal Blog, The Washington Monthly, June 6, 2016
June 7, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Bernie Sanders, Democratic National Convention, Hillary Clinton	| Democratic Presidential Nominee, Donald Trump, Jeff Weaver, Pledged Delegates, Sanders Supporters, Superdelegates, Tad Devine | Leave a comment
"The White Entitlement Of Some Sanders Supporters": If You're Young, White And Privileged, You Don't Expect To Lose
"Killary Clinton is stealing the nomination and the system is rigged against Bernie Sanders," said the two young white guys standing behind me in line. They rambled incessantly about how she was cheating and could not be trusted. Superdelegates were their greatest frustration. Unelected delegates who could "decide" the nomination proved that the process was a sham that was intentionally set up to prevent Sanders from winning.
At first I tried to ignore the conversation and thought they were Trump supporters ("Killary" is usually a right-wing thing). But once it became clear that these guys were Sanders supporters, I had to jump in. For years, these guys had been "my people." I have been a fan of Sanders long before his presidential run and have made many friends due to our mutual admiration of his policies. Surely, I'd be able to have a civil, rational conversation with these guys, right?
When, I chimed in it was evident that we were speaking different languages. We agreed on most of the substantive policy issues, and I told them how I even interned for Sanders about a decade ago. We should have been able to see eye to eye, but we could not. The main source of their frustration was merely the fact that they had lost. The fact that she is ahead in the popular vote, has won more primaries and caucuses, and has earned more delegates was to them a minor nuisance. They had their absurd talking points and were unwilling to deviate into reality.
The more I reflected on them, the more I realized the key point: They felt entitled to win, and a defeat meant that someone must have cheated or that their opinions did not matter, which of course couldn't be true. They preferred to suspend reality and fabricate injustices rather than concede that Sanders has lost fair and square.
Essentially, we disagreed on what America supposedly promised or owed us. They felt success was promised to them. The entitlement to believe that you should always win allowed them to overlook how the system in many ways has always been unjustly rigged in their favor because they're white. I brought up race during our conversation and how I'm very aware of how a system can be rigged against you. These guys acknowledged my point, but it was obvious that this reality did not factor much into their thinking. They felt aggrieved and cheated, and that was all that mattered.
They could not understand the perspectives of blacks, Latinos and other minorities in America who are regularly treated as threats to society before their voices can be heard. We are often silenced before we even have the chance to win. And as a result, we know that losing is a reality we will confront and that success can be a difficult and long process that may only show its face in the lives of our children or grandchildren who have more opportunities because we've spent a lifetime fighting for positive change.
These guys could not understand this struggle. They wanted immediate success and gratification, and they were not used to things not going their way. The issues and the lives of others had become irrelevant. All they wanted was for me to agree that they had been unjustly cheated, and that "Killary" and the DNC had rigged everything against them. I could not agree, so I had to walk away.
Sanders's message has resonated mostly with a younger, predominantly white electorate like those two guys. Their message and frustrations have been heard loud and clear, but their electoral defeats have resulted in an intensified pack or tribalist mentality that unfortunately has similarities to the white tribalism that has guided Trump's campaign. Sanders and Trump are mining similar disaffections amongst the white electorate.
On Face the Nation, Sanders recently attempted to pour cold water on some of the rage and rhetoric of his supporters, "I wouldn't use the word rigged…I think it's just a dumb process which has certainly disadvantaged our campaign."
Trump on the other hand regularly feeds and emboldens these sentiments. He is speaking to voters like a commenter to The Atlantic whose perspective was so striking that the publication published his unsolicited comment in their Notes section, which regularly incorporates a more conversational and untraditional approach to covering the news. The commenter is a Midwestern, working-class white male in his late 30s who intends to vote for Trump if Sanders does not win the nomination because "if it is all going to be tribal politics, then well, I guess you have to go with your own tribe—if not for your sake, then for the sake of your kids."
Sanders has broadened the Democratic electorate to include voters who may not normally participate in the primaries and caucuses, but now they need to combat the tribalism that could negatively impact Clinton and other Democrats in the general election. Sanders, unfortunately, has said that he has no obligation to convince his supporters to throw in with Clinton.
A beguiling component of Sanders's campaign is how the unintentional white tribalism that has been forged on shared economic hardships has boosted his campaign, while at the same time rendering him unappealing to the minorities he needed to win the nomination.
Sanders's class-based, inequality and economy focused agenda was not intended to stoke racial divisions, but even progressives are impacted by the class and race-based structures that American society has been built upon. Minorities agree with Sanders's commitment to crack down on big banks and Wall Street, but many of the economic and social injustices we face exist on Main Street and within the police precincts that are supposed to protect us. And while Sanders may see this distinction, some of his supporters appear not to.
As an African American I could not join the tribe of Sanders's belligerent, incensed supporters. But I should not have to as long as both they and I are committed to working together to combat structures that disenfranchise Americans electorally and economically. The fact that we could not should be incredibly disconcerting to Sanders, Clinton, and the DNC.
White entitlement is shaping up to be a critical issue during this election for both the Democrats and the Republicans. Trump and the GOP are championing the entitled white life of yore. But the Democrats have another dilemma and must figure out a way for their diverse electorate to converse and unite around the shared goals of equity and progress without the archaic divisions and privileges of the past. Thus far it looks like the Democrats and the Sanders campaign still have a lot of work to do.
By: Barrett Holmes Pitner, The Daily Beast, June 5, 2016
June 6, 2016 Posted by raemd95 | Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton, Sanders Supporters, White Privilege	| Democratic National Committtee, Donald Trump, Minorities, Pledged Delegates, Popular Vote, Superdelegates, White Tribalism, Young White Males | Leave a comment


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See Hellyeah Cover Pantera With Stone Sour's Roy Mayorga at Vinnie Paul Tribute Show
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Published on: May 13, 2019, 1:25 PM
On Saturday, May 11th, Hellyeah played their first show since the death of their drummer and Pantera legend Vinnie Paul from heart-related issues. The band — singer Chad Gray, guitarists Tom Maxwell and Christian Brady and bassist Kyle Sanders — enlisted Stone Sour's Roy Mayorga, a longtime friend of Paul's, to handle drum duties at the concert, which was a billed as "A Celebration of the Life of Vinnie Paul" and took place at the House of Blues in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hellyeah played a career-spanning set list of original cuts, including the live debut of the band's most recent single "333," and they also blasted through raucous renditions of a few Pantera classics, "I'm Broken" and "Walk." The celebration notably included the official declaration of May 11th as "Vinnie Paul Day" in Clark County, a.k.a. the area of Las Vegas, where the Texas-born Paul spent his later years before his death.
Check out footage of both Hellyeah's Pantera covers and of the proclamation being read before the show below. Hellyeah's forthcoming sixth studio album, Welcome Home — which includes the song "333" as well as the last material that Paul recorded in the studio before his passing — is due to be released on September 27th.
Clark County proclaimed today as Vinnie Paul Day #vinniepaul
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Q: TensorFlow: Classify multiple images from a folder The code I previously wrote works well on a single image. But now I want the program to run multiple images. I just need to give the folder name as an argument.
I modified my code in such a way that it opens a directory and saves the images but I get an error

ValueError: cannot reshape array of size 98304 into shape
  (1,128,128,3)

on x_batch=images.reshape(1,128,128,3):
images = []

for filename in os.listdir(folder):
    image = cv2.imread(os.path.join(folder,filename))
    image = cv2.resize(image, (128, 128))
    images = np.append(images, image)
    images = np.array(images, dtype=np.uint8)
    images = images.astype('float32')
    images = np.multiply(images, 1.0/255.0)
    x_batch=images.reshape(1,128,128,3)        <------ ERROR HERE

    sess = tf.Session()
    saver = tf.train.import_meta_graph('/home/kubuntu/SimpleCode/.meta')
    saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./'))
    graph = tf.get_default_graph()
    y_pred = graph.get_tensor_by_name("y_pred:0")
    x= graph.get_tensor_by_name("x:0")
    y_true = graph.get_tensor_by_name("y_true:0")
    y_test_images = np.zeros((1, 6))
    feed_dict_testing= {x:x_batch, y_true:y_test_images}
    result=sess.run(y_pred, feed_dict=feed_dict_testing)
    print("Up  :"+str(result[0][0]))
    print("Down :"+str(result[0][1]))
    print("Left  :"+str(result[0][2]))
    print("Right  :"+str(result[0][3]))
    print("Forward  :"+str(result[0][4]))
    print("Backward  :"+str(result[0][5]))

Is this the correct way of reading images from a folder? How do I classify all the images inside a given folder and gives the prediction for each image?

A: Based on your answers you should do the following:
for filename in os.listdir(folder):
    image = cv2.imread(os.path.join(folder,filename))
    image = cv2.resize(image, (128, 128))
    image = np.array(image, dtype=np.uint8)
    image = image.astype('float32')
    image = np.multiply(image, 1.0/255.0)
    x_batch=image.reshape(1,128,128,3)

The code failed when you were reading the second image, because the images array had two images appended and you were trying to reshape it like there is only one image.
Besides, it's an extremely bad practice to iteratively create tf.Session in a for loop and load the graph all the time. I would change the whole code in the following way:
with tf.Session() as sess:
    saver = tf.train.import_meta_graph('/home/kubuntu/SimpleCode/.meta')
    saver.restore(sess, tf.train.latest_checkpoint('./'))
    graph = tf.get_default_graph()
    y_pred = graph.get_tensor_by_name("y_pred:0")
    x = graph.get_tensor_by_name("x:0")
    y_true = graph.get_tensor_by_name("y_true:0")
    y_test_images = np.zeros((1, 6))

    for filename in os.listdir(folder):
        image = cv2.imread(os.path.join(folder,filename))
        image = cv2.resize(image, (128, 128))
        image = np.array(image, dtype=np.uint8)
        image = image.astype('float32')
        image = np.multiply(image, 1.0/255.0)
        x_batch=image.reshape(1,128,128,3)
        feed_dict_testing= {x:x_batch, y_true:y_test_images}
        result = sess.run(y_pred, feed_dict=feed_dict_testing)
        print("Up  :"+str(result[0][0]))
        print("Down :"+str(result[0][1]))
        print("Left  :"+str(result[0][2]))
        print("Right  :"+str(result[0][3]))
        print("Forward  :"+str(result[0][4]))
        print("Backward  :"+str(result[0][5]))

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Belgrave Square Garden will play host to the second Belgravia Classic Car Show, presented in association with Chestertons. Marvel at some of the best motors throughout history, including the Ferrari 250SWB, the Rolls Royce P 1 and the McLaren 650, exhibited by the famous 96 Club and other enthusiasts.
On a usual day, Belgrave Square Garden is closed to the public, but this is certainly no ordinary day! During the event, guests will be able to admire 100 different classic cars whilst enjoying lots of live music and entertainment.


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A few thoughts about expert consultants, as employed by both the government and the private sector.
First, they are almost always actual experts, at least to some degree, with respect to the area for which they have been hired to consult.
Second, they are inclined to shape the data, whether consciously or subconsciously, to suit the outcomes and conclusions sought by the government / private sector actor that has engaged them.
Third, a consultant can make the data say whatever they want it to say, through a combination of selecting and / or favouring certain data points / sets over others, and in the all important part of interpreting that data and drawing conclusions based on those interpretations.
I'll illustrate with a story.
Years ago, not long after I left the NSFDC, I was hired, along with two other former NSFDC staffers, as a consultant by a provincial government. They were considering whether or not to build a film sound stage there (everyone was considering whether or not to build a sound stage around 2000), and they hired various consultants to put a study together. There were technical and engineering consultants for the sound stage itself, but our job was to provide an expert analysis of the industry. We were eminently qualified.
Here's the thing. We were told by the film development chief at the time that they wanted a sound stage. Nobody forced us to say that the film industry was booming, or that a sound stage (which was, after all, going to be a significant public expense) was an important part of continuing to build the industry there. But it was made clear to us that this was the conclusion that government was looking for… and they were the ones signing our cheques.
Of course, we took our job seriously. We made a couple of trips to the other province, and met with filmmakers there, and got their views. Key point? There was no consensus. The bigger producers and the ones who wanted to do service productions wanted a sound stage (as did the film bureaucrats who had commissioned us); the smaller, independent producers wanted the precious government resources to go elsewhere. Documentary makers in particular wanted nothing to do with a sound stage. So there was no firm answer there.
We examined the data supplied to us by government for the industry in that province (which, having compiled similar data during our time in government in Nova Scotia, we took with a grain of salt), and then we examined the data as it existed across the country, and in other jurisdictions. And in the end, privately, all three of us were convinced that a sound stage was a bad investment.
But that's not what our report said (and it also wasn't our job to make that call). We extolled the virtues of the film industry (which we really believed to be true, to a point, although we larded it up with a lot of rose-coloured fluff, as these things always do), and said that a sound stage was considered by key segments of the production community (i.e. the ones that government tends to listen to, which is to say the bigger companies) to be a necessary component of continued growth. We mentioned, in passing (probably a footnote, although I don't recall), the opposition.
We didn't tell them to build it, but we provided a measure of cover for them if they eventually chose to do so. One of the civil servants with whom we dealt later told me that folks further up the food chain weren't terribly happy with our findings, in the sense that they weren't quite as firmly pro-film (which really meant "pro sound stage") as they had hoped. But none of us were going to sign our names to that kind of report, and in the end the one we did author was good enough – or at least we got paid. I never found out what they did with it. Being politicians, I suspect they cherry-picked the data and interpretations they liked from the data and interpretations we provided, which was to some degree already cherry-picked. But who knows?
I want to stress that absolutely none of the information that we provided was false. But it was carefully selected. And there is a difference. For example – and this is the easiest way to shift reports on economic development in one direction or another – we had to use a multiplier for the spin-off effects that the film industry had in the province. The problem was that there was no single multiplier for that kind of thing. We checked, and multiple government agencies and private sector groups used different multipliers for economic activity. Some were higher than the others, but as far as we could tell, most were just guesses. And in many cases, wildly speculative ones at that.
So what did we do? We just cobbled together a list of about a dozen different multipliers used across Canada in different sectors, added them together, divided by twelve, and took the average as the multiplier that we used (after rounding up, of course). It seemed like the most reasonable course of action, given that there was no real alternative. I can't recall with certainty, but I'm pretty sure we loaded it up with a few caveats.
But the lesson for me was clear – never put your faith solely in expert reports that come from an interested party (and all parties who commission an expert report are "interested parties" to some degree). Trust claims of spin-offs less than everything else. At best, it's like throwing a dart blindfolded.
Most important, always remember that most of these things are cases of the conclusions leading the research, and not the other way around. I'm sure if there was a group that was vehemently against a sound stage being built and it had commissioned a report, it would have gotten results along their line of thinking (or, if they didn't, the report would never have seen the light of day).
Think of it like this – someone has a story that they want to write, and they know how they want it to end, but they're not writers. So they hire a ghost writer to do the heavy lifting. In essence, that's what most consultants are. I know that sounds cynical, but once you understand what's really going on, you can approach expert reports better equipped to judge their worth / relevance.
And maybe that's the best that can be hoped for – competing studies, put out in the open for all to see, from two sides in a debate / argument / policy dispute, so that citizens can look at both and decide for themselves which one makes more sense, or which parts of both seem right.
Kind of like politics.
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Q&A | Building Robots for the Workforce: A New Paradigm
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How have robots been designed with the needs and skills of the workforce in mind? Jason Walker, co-founder and chief executive officer with Waypoint Robotics, addresses the issue.
SCB: What do we mean when we talk about robots for the workforce, as distinct from those for other types of applications?
Walker: The issue is that robots have always been something that either displaced workers or were placed next to them, and they've had to put up with them and work around them. For the first time in history, we're developing robots for the workforce, and we think other robotics companies ought to be doing that too.
SCB: What do you mean by "for the workforce"?
Walker: Traditionally, robots have been so hard to set up and use that you needed to be a robotics or automation engineer. The work of small to mid-sized manufacturers is variable, and changes every day. So setting up a single rigid configuration wasn't worth it, if it had to be reset up by an expert every time.
"For the workforce" means that whoever's on that loading dock or assembly can take ownership of the robot. They can be the ones to configure and reconfigure it, and to put it to use. They become part of Industry 4.0, and the automation future of their company.
SCB: In order to make that happen, you have to do either train the worker to become sophisticated enough to deal with a robot, or create a robot that's simple enough to be understood by the typical worker.
Walker: What you just described is the skills gap. Traditionally it's been dealt with by retraining workers — sending them off to community college or somewhere else to figure out how to deal with the machine. We looked at that and said, "Why can't we cross the gap?" So we made a robot that's so easy to use that workers can grasp what's going on. We can train them how to use it in 15 minutes. Our message to the industry, the folks making the robots as well as the ones buying them, is, "This should be your objective — to design your products with the workforce in mind. Make something they can use."
SCB: Is it like being being able to drive a car without knowing what's going on under the hood? Is that your vision of what a robot should be?
Walker: Better than that. We use what we call a "Bobby First" design philosophy. We invented this persona of Bobby, who's been doing that job forever, and knows it better than anyone working on the docks. Our litmus test is, "Are we doing the right thing? Are we simplifying the technology enough so that Bobby can make sense of it?"
SCB: Human employees can feel a lot of apprehension when a robot comes on the scene, even if the robot's not there to take their job away. How do you deal with that?
Walker: When we do a demo for a company, we ask them to go get somebody out of their shipping and receiving office, off the assembly line, and bring them into the demo. They look over my shoulder when I'm setting it up. Halfway through it, I hand them the iPad and they start running the robot, while I keep talking to the folks who are asking questions. By the end of it, they're trained, interested and excited. They're actually doing real work with this robot in the course of the demo. They're part of the automation process, and the future of the company. They know their company is investing in them as well as in the equipment.
SCB: They don't feel that they're training the robot to eventually take over their job?
Walker: If they have, they haven't told me. What I see on their faces is enthusiasm. They're excited that this is a tool they can use, because every other machine that's come in has been one that's pushed them to the side.
SCB: In what types of settings does this particular technology best function? We're here at a material handling show, where it's all about distribution centers and warehousing. Is that a particularly good spot for this technology to be installed?
Walker: It works really well in those situations, but we've actually designed for what we think is a more difficult situation, which is small to mid-sized manufacturers, where the work changes all the time. Dealing with variability is one of the things that companies have to solve to make their products "Bobby First."
SCB: Still, when I think of factories, I envision facilities that are especially prone to total automation. Why should people be in there at all? Do they actually have a role in the continued manufacturing of product within the four walls of the plant?
Walker: If you're talking about Ford, where everything's choreographed to the millisecond, that's a different story. If you're talking about the other 90 percent of American manufacturing, where it's a 50-year-old machine shop and they haven't done anything towards automation, they still have machinists who are walking a quarter of a mile from one end of the factory to the other to pick up materials.
The machinists hate that — they know it's a waste of their capabilities. On a day-to-day basis, it's physically exhausting. So there's an opportunity for that worker to have a better life, because you're not doing an essential but low-value task. In a labor market as tight as what we have now, that's a big win, irrespective of all the other easily calculable ROIs.
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Tracking Investment to Safeguard the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage
Posted on 8 June 2021 by davidrcurry
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Tracking Investment to Safeguard the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage – Results of the 2020 UIS Survey on Expenditure on Cultural and Natural Heritage (SDG Indicator 11.4.1)
UNESCO – Jun 2021 :: 12 pages
Introduction [excepts]
Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Indicator 11.4.1 measures expenditure on cultural and natural heritage and is the first cultural indicator developed for the Agenda 2030. Target 11.4 explicitly calls on countries to "strengthen efforts to protect and safeguard the world's cultural and natural heritage" and data for Indicator 11.4.1 is one step on the way there…
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 62 countries responded to the UIS questionnaire. However, this report is based on analysis of the 29 countries able to provide sufficient data to calculate the indicator. Of the 33 countries for which data could not be used, 13 indicated that they did not collect these data. The UIS was not able to use the data received from the remaining 20 countries due to incompleteness, inadequate data coverage, or confidentiality or data quality issues.
UNESCO Institute for Statistics Releases Key Findings in New Cultural and Natural Heritage Report
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) has released the first set of data for Indicator 11.4.1 related to culture for the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Agenda 2030. The results and analysis are available in a new report, Tracking Investment to Safeguard the World's Cultural and Natural Heritage.
Indicator 11.4.1 is defined as "total per capita expenditure on the preservation, protection and conservation of all cultural and natural heritage, by source of funding (public, private), type of heritage (cultural, natural) and level of government (national, regional and local/municipal)."
Crucial Role of Collecting Data in the Midst of COVID
Activities associated with preserving our cultural and natural heritage are multifaceted and complex with many benefits to society ranging from employing cultural workers to educational activities in museums. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major impacts for the culture sector and for heritage preservation, as tourism fell and some 95% of the world's museums closed during the crisis in April 2020. World Heritage sites all around the world have been impacted by the pandemic. Data has a crucial role to play in providing information so that we can ensure that our cultural and natural heritage remain strong for generations to come.
This first survey to collect data on culture and natural heritage expenditure took place between June 2020 and February 2021, and while the pandemic complicated reporting for many countries, these data mark an important first step in fulfilling global commitments to safeguarding our natural and cultural heritage for the Agenda 2030. Indicator 11.4.1 is the first indicator of the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators framework indicating expenditure on heritage. Going forward, the UIS has planned a series of webinars and will offer additional technical support to Member States to increase survey participation, data quality and that would also contribute to the implementation of the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators.
Key Results and Analysis
Sixty-two countries responded to the survey and 29 had sufficiently robust data of a high enough quality to include in the indicator calculations. Of these, 28 countries were able to report public expenditure on cultural and natural heritage and six (Finland, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden) were able to provide data to calculate the entire indicator.
Half of the countries (13 countries) reporting data on public expenditures were from Europe and Northern America. They spent, on average, PPP$ 75 per capita to protect heritage in 2019, ranging from PPP$ 6 in Moldova to PPP$ 162 in Hungary.
An analysis of expenditure by level of government revealed that of the seven countries reporting spending by local government, (Belarus, Brazil, Ecuador, France, Hungary, Peru, Turkey) expenditures were higher than the national or federal level in five of them (Belarus, Brazil, France, Turkey, Spain), pointing to the importance of municipalities in preserving heritage.
Comparing public expenditure on cultural and natural heritage against all expenditure on cultural and natural activities showed a wide range of outcomes within each SDG region. The five reporting countries from Latin America and the Caribbean (Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Nicaragua), for example, spent less than PPP$ 20 per capita on cultural and natural heritage, though the proportion of heritage spending within culture ranged from 75% in Ecuador to 20% in Mexico.
Moving Ahead: UIS Initiatives
Looking forward, this survey is a key step towards demonstrating the multifaceted contribution of culture to sustainable development – a crucial endeavor in contributing to the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators in the run-up to the UNESCO Global Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development – Mondiacult II in 2022.
The UIS will organize a meeting in July 2021 with countries and selected international agency/organization representatives to share best practices for collecting data and to identify compilation issues and to strengthen its alignment with the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators. A second data collection cycle is planned for 2021 and to support countries during this second wave also to support the pilot phase of implementation of the UNESCO Culture|2030 Indicators. The UIS is planning five webinars in September 2021 to provide instructions on the completion of the survey and guidance on compilation.
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Alexander Christoffersen Blonz (französisch Alexandre, * 17. April 2000 in Clamart, Frankreich) ist ein norwegischer Handballspieler. Der 1,87 m große linke Außenspieler spielt seit 2021 für den ungarischen Spitzenklub OTP Bank-Pick Szeged und steht im Aufgebot der norwegischen Nationalmannschaft.

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Alexander Blonz war ab 2016 für die erste Herrenmannschaft von Viking HK Stavanger, die 2017 ohne ihn aus der zweiten norwegischen Liga abstieg, einsatzberechtigt. In der Saison 2017/18 trug er mit 103 Treffern in 23 Spielen zum Wiederaufstieg in die 1. divisjon bei. Auch in der Saison 2018/19 gehörte er mit 124 Toren in 22 Spielen zu den besten Torschützen der Liga. 2019 wechselte der Rechtshänder folgerichtig zum Serienmeister Elverum Håndball, mit dem er 2020 und 2021 norwegischer Meister sowie 2020 auch Pokalsieger wurde. In der EHF Champions League 2019/20 und 2020/21 schied man in der Gruppenphase aus, Blonz konnte mit 57 bzw. 50 Toren in je 14 Spielen größere Vereine auf sich aufmerksam machen. Zur Saison 2021/22 unterschrieb er daraufhin beim ungarischen Meister Pick Szeged. Mit Szeged gewann er 2022 die ungarische Meisterschaft. Zur Saison 2023/24 unterzeichnete er einen Zweijahresvertrag beim dänischen Erstligisten GOG.

Nationalmannschaft
In der norwegischen Nationalmannschaft debütierte Blonz am 3. Januar 2019 gegen Island. Bei der folgenden Weltmeisterschaft 2019 gewann er mit Norwegen die Silbermedaille und wurde der erste Handballer des Jahrgangs 2000 in einem WM-Finale. Ein Jahr später holte er mit den Skandinaviern bei der Europameisterschaft 2020 die Bronzemedaille. Auch bei der Weltmeisterschaft 2021 und der Weltmeisterschaft 2023 stand er im Aufgebot.

Erfolge
 mit Elverum Håndball
 Norwegischer Meister: 2020 und 2021
 Norwegischer Pokalsieger: 2020

 mit Pick Szeged
 Ungarischer Meister: 2022

 mit der Nationalmannschaft
 Weltmeisterschaften: Silber 2019, 6. Platz 2021 und 2023
 Europameisterschaften: Bronze 2020

Privates
Alexander Blonz' Eltern, Vater Franzose und Mutter Norwegerin, lernten sich während des Studiums in Paris kennen. Alexander kam in Clamart auf die Welt, lernte aber erst in der Grundschule Französisch, da zu Hause Norwegisch und Englisch gesprochen wurde. Die Familie zog nach Stavanger als er noch ein Kind war. Er trägt die Rückennummer 71 zu Ehren seines mit 71 Jahren verstorbenen Großvaters.

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Nice pic of the Dark Knight. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, I love how it came out and it was rather easy actually to do.
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I don't know many of the artist's of the DC and or Marvel realm. Long time fan but people seem to move around alot it's hard for me to keep track. I love Alex Ross's work, I have a huge Batman book which I look thru everyday. Hopefully I'll watercolor like that some day. Anyway to get back to my point, who's that?
if you've ever heard of Batman: The Long Halloween or Dark Victory, Tim's the artist on those (and many many other) books.
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Janette Rose Robison Posey, 79, of Villa Park, passed away peacefully on Dec. 22. Her husband, Walter Daniel Posey, was at her bedside.
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The Minister of Works and Transport, Gen Katumba Wamala addressing students of MUBS while closing the expo on Thursday
The Minister of Works and Transport, Gen Katumba Wamala has challenged students at Makerere University Business School (MUBS) to uphold high ethical standards if they are to thrive in the current job market.
He said that the work environment requires ethical values and for one to exhibit professional discipline, impartiality, good character as well as upright morals.
Gen Katumba was Thursday speaking at the closing of a three-day Career and Employers Expo 2018 orgarnised under the theme "Connecting with the world of work" at MUBS in Nakawa.
"Maintaining intergrity is key because today in Uganda intergrity is a very scarce component. You must always be honest and dependable at your work place, execute loyalty in everything, then doors shall be open for them to reach greater heights," Gen Katumba told the students.
He further advised the students never to sacrifice their integrity, honesty and ethical standards in order to acquire quick riches.
"Always adopt to change and transform the changes into opportunities. Be innovative and not a liability to your companies that will take you on in future", he advised.
The Minister used the event to also speak to the mismatch between the skills currently being taught to students and what is required by employees.
"There is a mismatch between graduates and the job market. So you should take advantage of the university "expo" and connect to the working world and pick ideas to begin thinking outside the academic box" he added.
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Spain must ensure inclusive education for persons with disabilities, UN human rights experts say
GENEVA (May 29, 2018) – Spain's segregation and exclusion of students with disabilities from mainstream education, on grounds of their impairments, amounts to grave or systematic violations of those students' right to education under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UN human rights experts said in a report issued today in Geneva.
"The parallel education system in place for those students with disabilities who do not fit mainstream schools becomes parallel tracks of school life, employment and later on, residence, leading to very different life outcomes," said Ms. Theresia Degener, Chairperson of the UN's Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.
The experts stated their findings in a report issued following a 2017 confidential inquiry. In January and February of that year, Mr. Coomaravel Pyaneandee, Committee Vice-Chair and Committee member Mr. Carlos Parra Dussan travelled to Madrid, León, Valladolid, Barcelona, Seville and Málaga where they met more than 165 people. These included civil servants from the central Government and the 17 Autonomous Communities (regional governments), as well as representatives of organizations of persons with disabilities and other civil society organizations, researchers, academics, judges and lawyers.
Their inquiry was in response to submissions from a representative organization of persons with disabilities (2014) and one of the entities in the national independent monitoring framework (2016), alleging that despite legal reforms to education at the national level, Spain's education laws and policies perpetuated the medical model of disability.
The experts found that Spain has contributed to a discriminatory system that in effect uses legal provisions in place to maintain two educational systems and divert students with disabilities outside mainstream education. Additionally, they found that the lack of safeguards in place for independent monitoring mechanisms means that once a student leaves the mainstream education system, he or she will remain out.
"Two separate modalities of education cannot coexist in an inclusive education system based on the right to non-discrimination and equality of opportunities. The system must consist of one modality for all students and must be based on the quality of the education, providing to each student the support that he or she requires," said Mr. Parra.
The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities works to ensure that countries which have ratified the Convention, such as Spain, live up to their human rights commitments. That includes a commitment to ensure that "persons with disabilities are not excluded from the general education system on the basis of disability, and that children with disabilities are not excluded from free and compulsory primary education, or from secondary education, on the basis of disability."
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Q: Paging library - populate from cache while requesting from network I have to load cached version of data from database and simultaneously I want to make a request to server for fresh data and I want to do this on per page basis.
So, for example for first page I want to show a cached version of first page data from database while requesting fresh data only for first page.

I want to achieve this using Paging Library.

I tried creating custom data source which helped me intercept page load request which then I used to make a network call with required page number and limit and meanwhile I returned a cached version from db, the problem is after getting fresh data from network I update the database but those updates are not reflected.

(I believe the whole table is being observed for any modifications using Invalidation Tracker and data source is invalidated whenever tables are invalidated, I added that tracker in my data source too but still it ain't working; I was able to make out that Invalidation Tracker thing by temporarily creating: LivePagedListProvider getJobs() in JobDao and checking generated implementation)
Code:
public class JobListDataSource<T> extends TiledDataSource<T> {

private final JobsRepository mJobsRepository;
private final InvalidationTracker.Observer mObserver;

String query = "";

public JobListDataSource(JobsRepository jobsRepository) {
    mJobsRepository = jobsRepository;

    mObserver = new InvalidationTracker.Observer(JobEntity.TABLE_NAME) {
        @Override
        public void onInvalidated(@NonNull Set<String> tables) {
            invalidate();
        }
    };

    jobsRepository.addInvalidationTracker(mObserver);
}

@Override
public int countItems() {
    return DataSource.COUNT_UNDEFINED;
}

@Override
public List<T> loadRange(int startPosition, int count) {
    return (List<T>) mJobsRepository.getJobs(query, startPosition, count);
}

public void setQuery(String query) {
    this.query = query;
}
}

Jobs repository functions:
public List<JobEntity> getJobs(String query, int startPosition, int count) {
    if (!isJobListInit) {
        JobList jobList = mApiService.getOpenJobList(
                mRequestJobList.setPageNo(startPosition/count + 1)
                .setMaxResults(count)
                .setSearchKeyword(query)
        ).blockingSingle();
        mJobDao.insert(jobList.getJobsData());
    }
    return mJobDao.getJobs(startPosition, count);
}

public void addInvalidationTracker(InvalidationTracker.Observer observer) {
    mAppDatabase.getInvalidationTracker().addObserver(observer);
}

A: So I understood why it wasn't working, there was a mistake at my end, I was passing wrong parameters to getJobs method of JobDao in JobsRepository.
The getJobs method of JobDao goes as follows:
@Query("SELECT * FROM jobs ORDER BY jobID ASC LIMIT :limit OFFSET :offset")
List<JobEntity> getJobs(int limit, int offset);

And the call getJobs() in JobsRepository goes as follows:
return mJobDao.getJobs(startPosition, count);

So the first parameter was the limit and the next one was the offset but I was passing other way around.

Now it works like a charm!
Furthermore, I made a change to getJobs() in JobsRepository:
First get data from db, if available return and make an async request to network if required.
If no data is available in db, make a synchronous call to network, get data from network, parse it and save it db and now access latest data from db and return it.
So the function goes like this:
//you can even refactor this code so that all the network related stuff is in one class and just call that method
public List<JobListItemEntity> getJobs(String query, int startPosition, int count) {
    Observable<JobList> jobListObservable = mApiService.getOpenJobList(
            mRequestJobList.setPageNo(startPosition / count + 1)
                    .setMaxResults(count)
                    .setSearchKeyword(query));

    List<JobListItemEntity> jobs = mJobDao.getJobsLimitOffset(count, startPosition);

    //no data in db, make a synchronous call to network to get the data
    if (jobs.size() == 0) {
        JobList jobList = jobListObservable.blockingSingle();
        updateJobList(jobList, startPosition, false);
    } else if (shouldFetchJobList(jobs)) {
        //data available in db, so show a cached version and make async network call to update data as this data is no longer fresh
        jobListObservable.subscribe(new Observer<JobList>() {
            @Override
            public void onSubscribe(Disposable d) {

            }

            @Override
            public void onNext(JobList jobList) {
                updateJobList(jobList, startPosition, true);
            }

            @Override
            public void onError(Throwable e) {
                Timber.e(e);
            }

            @Override
            public void onComplete() {

            }
        });
    }
    return mJobDao.getJobsLimitOffset(count, startPosition);
}

updateJobList() code:
    private void updateJobList(JobList jobList, int startPosition, boolean performInvalidation) {
    JobListItemEntity[] jobs = jobList.getJobsData();

    Date currentDate = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();

    //tracks when this item was inserted in db, used in calculating whether data is stale
    for (int i = 0; i < jobs.length; i++) {
        jobs[i].insertedAt = currentDate;
    }

    mJobDao.insert(jobs);

    if (performInvalidation) {
        mJobListDataSource.invalidate();
    }
}

(I also renamed the getJobs() in JobDao to getJobsLimitOffset() as it makes it more readable and that is also the way methods are generated by paging library)


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