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Q: How does Google Cloud API limit the usage to a specific app? If I understood it correctly, the following feature seems to be able to prevent a person from calling the API other than using the app. How does that work, and how secure is it?
Does it generate some sort of public/private key pair using the app's hash, and sign the request with the private key, so that Google's server can verify that the request was from the app? But if so, given the fact that an Android app is written in Java and can be decompiled relatively easily, if an attacker decompiles the app and extracts the private key from it, he can call Google API's without using the app, can't he?

A: As described in the documentation (and as you can see in your screenshot), the SHA-1 fingerprint of your app package is required to validate the request source.

Use Android apps for Android applications. This option requires adding your package name and SHA-1 signing-certificate fingerprint.

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In fact, when your Android app call your service, there are automatics header such as

*

*X-Android-Package which contains the package Name

*X-Android-Cert which is the SHA-1 signature of your package.

Of course, it's possible to get your package, get its name and its SHA-1 signature and reproduce programmatically your this headers
In any case, API keys isn't a good way to protect access. There is no cryptography mechanism involved.

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"To Deepen into Art..."
The Despair of Thomas Disch
Thomas M. Disch, the late SF writer (poet/critic/...), once told Jody Bottum that part of the reason he quit writing science fiction was that, to deepen it into real art, "I would have to be like Gene Wolfe and return to the Catholicism that I barely got away from when I was young -- and I can't do that, of course."
That "of course" is heartbreaking. Bottum commented that Disch "never escaped his escape from Catholicism." And there is something to that. It's a sort of intaglio, defining oneself by what one is not; and one cannot help but be reminded of holes and gaps left unfilled. His suicide was a tragedy and a loss to literature in general and SF in particular. He was once called "the most respected ... and least read of all modern first-rank SF writers." He ought not have been.
The Taking of Christ, 1602, oil on canvas,
53 X 67 in., Michelangelo da Caravaggio,
Niña con lazo y flor, mix media on
canvas, 73x54 cm, José Manuel Merello
But one is caught short by his comment that to deepen his SF into art he would have had to return to Catholicism. What could he have possibly have meant by that? That most of the great art of the West was done under the ambit of Catholicism and that art since then has grown cruder, simpler, and more empty is perhaps too facile. There has certainly been competently executed art compatible with one's interior decor. But one is struck by the exteriority of much of it, of even the best of it. That while much of it is very decorative, it may not be very substantive. Look in the faces of the Caravaggio (above, right) and someone is home. It is difficult to say that the Merello (above, left) has a face at all: it is an empty doll-face. Sometimes impressionism doesn't make much of an impression. It is Muzak™ for the eyes.
Impersonating the Person
In the world of Late Antiquity, a series of Church Councils hammered out our modern notion of a "person." Originally meaning only the mask worn by a Greek actor, the term was applied to the hypostases of the Godhead, and came ultimately to apply to individual human beings. Each of us was conceived not simply as a component in a polis, but as a separate individual with an inner life and a sense of synderesis, and from this all Western law draws its substance.
Psychology is, by definition, the science (logos) of the soul (psyche), but modern psychology denies the soul and so has declared itself to be without a subject matter. Schools of psychology war amongst one another over basic questions of what they are actually trying to study in a manner that has never much troubled physicists or chemists or, on most occasions, biologists. Two basic stances have emerged from the wreckage of Cartesian dualism:
Idealism limits itself to consciousness "and its immediate data."
Materialism limits itself to behavior, and rules out any reference to consciousness.
Materialists conclude that consciousness, will, and even self are "illusions" (suffered by whom?) principally because their chosen methodology cannot "see" them.(*) It would make psychology a subset of biology. Idealists otoh would make a science of psychology (based on controlled observation) incoherent. Brennan writes:
"Having lost its soul, its mind, and its consciousness, in that order, psychology is now in danger of losing its scientific standing."
(*) As Heisenberg wrote: "What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
A synolon: sphere+rubber
if it were alive
TOF's Perceptive Reader will note the humorous dichotomy of the two schools and the irony of the more modern reaction of the personalists, psychodiagnosticians, and factor psychologists mentioned by Brennan, who have fallen back on an older "synolistic" view of man. The word (which evidently gave rise to the modern "wholistic") comes from the synolon, the soul+body composite to which an earlier psychology attributed the nature of man.
Since a synolon is both psyche and soma, a synolistic approach incorporates both idealist and materialist insights and places them in ratio to each other. Surely, this is a richer approach than either partial psychology of the Late Modern Age, and it is one that accounts more fully for the person.
Fiction and the Person
One of the duties of the novelist -- some might say his or her primary duty -- is to fabricate artificial persons: the characters of the novel. If our writing is informed by a fragmented modern psychology, these characters may appear to the Reader much as the Merello painting above: a sketchy figure with a doll's face. You look in its eyes and there's nobody home.
Perhaps this is what Disch meant. He is no longer available for comment. But Catholic teaching has always envisioned the human being as a synolon, with all the complexity that implies, and neither as a Cartesian ghost in the machine nor as a meat puppet. Meat puppets may sound all edgy and transgressive at the Kool Kids table -- take that, bourgeoisie! -- but they make for damned poor characters in fiction.
Why? Because, like the Merello figure above, they don't look much like people we've encountered in our own lives. (Even if sometimes they capture one aspect or another.) And that ought to tell us something about deepening fiction into art.
Of course, to deepen fiction into art may not require a return to Catholicism, although that may help a great deal. Aristotle, after all, was not. Orthodoxy has much the same approach to the psyche, and so for that matter has Judaism or even the good old-fashioned humanism (not the new-fashioned humanism of the poser). Old Humanism was, after all, all about humans, and what matters is the synolistic understanding of that human. This is sometimes available by introspection or by intuition (save for those whose psychology does not allow such concepts) but also by analysis. So from time to time over the next few months TOF proposes to mumble here on the human soul and what it means for fiction.
Aristotle of Stagira. De anima.
Brennan, Robert. Thomistic Psychology (Macmillan, 1941)
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Sophia's Favorite June 13, 2014 at 10:23 PM
Impressionism was, arguably, the artistic form of materialism—the "impressions" being, basically, material properties divorced from all questions as to "identity", material and efficient causes without formal or final ones. I seem to recall that that was explicitly spelled out when they talked about the "theory" of their school.
I have read psychologists flatly denying free will because you can't have a science of something with free will.
Joseph Bottum June 14, 2014 at 3:58 AM
I should probably admit that I wrote that piece for the Weekly Standard shortly after Tom's death, and I was very, very angry with him in my grief. I've mellowed a little, in the passing years, and pray for his soul in purgatory.
That said, I think that Tom may have meant less something about the characters in his fiction and more about the metaphysically rich universe, the world of living and cosmically charged symbols, that is one of the things that makes Wolfe so fascinating—and one of the things Tom missed in his own sci-fi: He knew he could draw genuine characters, and he also maybe understood that he couldn't make them matter in a cosmic sense.
Only a guess, of course, but the line did come from him in the middle of a conversation we were having about Wolfe (over an epically awful lunch in Union Square one day, as it happens). Dana has some great Tom stories, too, if you need more.
TheOFloinn June 14, 2014 at 5:20 PM
Thank you for the comment. I was not willing to go quite so far, since I was speculating at a couple of removes from the comment (and my intent was specifically to lead into a set on Thomistic psychology). Perhaps this is meat for a later post.
FWIW, I think a certain magazine has suffered somewhat since you left it. You may find my story "Hopeful Monsters" in Captive Dreams interesting, since it is based on an essay written by Fr. Neuhaus.
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Joseph Bottum June 15, 2014 at 12:48 AM
Hah. I'll certainly read the story. For your amusement, here's a short story I wrote last fall for Standpoint magazine in London, a piece of fiction also based on something RJN once said, in a conversation we had about coming to faith: http://standpointmag.co.uk/text-october-13-folie-a-dieu-joseph-bottum
As far as your use of the anecdote about Tom Disch goes, I take your point that you were hunting psychological game. I will say, though, that a cosmically rich, metaphysically thick universe is not unrelated to the rich, thick psyche you want to see in fiction.
TJIC June 14, 2014 at 9:10 AM
> Materialists conclude that consciousness, will, and even self are "illusions" (suffered by whom?)
Ha! That's a wonderfully crisp distillation of your (our) point.
Xena Catolica June 15, 2014 at 10:51 AM
Homework and/or Sneaky Tricks! heh heh heh. Looking forward to the series.
Aloysius June 15, 2014 at 8:11 PM
Not sure if you'll see this, Mr. Flynn, but I have discovered a tidbit about Albertus Magnus which you might find illuminating, particularly for future posts that mention/treat of that great man.
In several of your posts, according to my memory, you have quoted Albert as saying this in his De vegetabilibus:
"In studying nature we have not to inquire how God the Creator may, as He freely wills, use His creatures to work miracles and thereby show forth His power; we have rather to inquire what Nature with its immanent causes can naturally bring to pass."
The problem is, I've never been able to find a reference to the specific part of that treatise where this quote may be found. However, I discovered in the old Catholic Encyclopedia an English quote from Albert very much the same in content, but the reference is to his De coelo et mundo, I.iv.10. I checked the Borgnet edition (vol. 4) of Albert's Opera Omnia and discovered that this reference is indeed correct. From p. 120 (no. 140), where he speaks of the opinion of Plato on the indissolubility of the heavens:
"Si quis autem ad omnia haec respondere velit secundum Platonem, et dicat omnia haec coelum et stellas natura quidem esse dissolubiles, eo quod sunt generatae: sed voluntate opificis esse indissolubiles, eo quod hoc quod bona ratione compositum est, non decet sapientem opificem dissolvere, quemadmodum dicitur in Timaeo. Dicemus hoc dictum non esse naturale omnino: quoniam sicut habitum est in Physicis, naturalia sunt agentia quorum actus sunt in passivis, et naturaliter patiuntur quaecumque talium actuum sunt susceptibilia: et ideo omne factum in natura, oportet quod habeat in eadem natura suum faciens: et ideo possibile et impossibile oportebit referre ad materiam rei factae et ad causam separatam et extrinsicam. Quod igitur corruptibile est de natura, hoc est simpliciter corruptibile, et habet causam in natura quae agit suam corruptionem: et si non habet talem, ipsum est incorruptibile, quia aliter omnia possent dici incorruptibilia, quia sunt incorruptibilia si Deus vult: et ideo supra diximus, quod naturalia non sunt a casu, nec a voluntate, sed a causa agente et terminante ea: nec nos in naturalibus habemus inquirere qualiter Deus opifex secundum suam liberam voluntatem in creatis ab ipso utatur ad miraculum quo declaret potentiam suam, sed potius quid in rebus naturalibus secundum causas naturae insitas naturaliter fieri possit."
Anyway, I thought you might like to know this, in case you wanted a more definite reference when using that quote of Albert's. (The English translation you often quote isn't exactly literal--my preference in things like this--but it captures the sense of the Latin well enough for one to get the gist of what he's saying. The context does help, though.)
Whoops, I should say that this is taken from pages 119-120 of vol. 4 of the Borgnet edition, not just page 120.
TheOFloinn June 15, 2014 at 10:26 PM
Gratia ago tibi.
Affectionate Italian Reader June 17, 2014 at 10:07 AM
GratiaS, dear Mr. Flynn!
Alessandro Giuliani June 17, 2014 at 12:15 PM
Perfect comment, it reminds me of what once wrote Flannery O'Connor about the necessity to be an Artist if you are Catholic in a saecular world (and not the other way around)
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JUST SAY NO TO THE STATUS QUO!
I have an ongoing dichotomy in my life: embrace stability or pursue change? We hear a lot these days about "traditional values" and a "return to simpler times." But is that what we need to grow, to improve, to become the best that we can be? Is it better to be static with the status quo, or is it better to just say "No" to it? Since my 2006 New Year's resolution was to "just say No!" you can guess the direction of this essay.
I've written elsewhere (http://www.god-dess.com/services_lifestyleAugust04.html) that I had been labeled somewhat of a dinosaur because during my healthcare management career, I often hesitated to accept recommendations to change how business was conducted. Others attributed this to fear, when in reality it was my ennui with having to clean up other peoples' mistakes.
In fact, in so many ways, I thrive on change as an opportunity to grow as a person. However, I try to not be fanatic about this. For example, you may have heard the expression, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Well, during the 90s, some management "guru" decided, "If it ain't broke, break it, and fix it." Well, that caught peoples' attention, even mine, and I thought it was clever. I still think it is clever, and I've even followed that advice at certain times in my life, but as is my style, my changes were more measured, carefully considered, and far less dramatic … sometimes they were simply accidental. Simply being "me."
For so much of my life I have marched to my own drummer, because that's all I could do. I think I was in the seventh grade, when my loving mother, thinking she was "helping," suggested "Most boys your age don't have a roomful of houseplants." I looked at her and asked, "Would you prefer that I have a jalopy on blocks in the front yard?" (Yes, even at 12 or 13, I was clever but also a smart aleck … and I still am!). She accepted that my point was well taken, and we never revisited that issue. She died prior to seeing GOD-DESS come into existence, and I know we would have had a great laugh about how I'm now helping others grow their houseplants (among the other education that I provide). I had to go against the status quo for adolescent boys' behavior.
I decided to become a paleontologist when I was four years old. My interest started with dinosaurs, as is common for four-year olds, and then my interests diversified to other animals, and to plants by the time I was seven. Unlike most youngsters, I never grew out of it. In high school I took every science, math, and English course I could in order to have the broadest background possible. I had quite a head start on collegiate education, so I was surprised when my dear father informed me "The only way you'll be able to survive at college is to be able to play bridge." I know I looked at him like he had four heads, or maybe like he had no brain. When pressed, he couldn't justify himself, and in hindsight, all I can say is 1) I have never once been asked to play bridge, and 2) he was maintaining the status quo from his own collegiate experience some 30 years earlier. I never learned to play bridge; I said "No!"
Growing up, many people were amused when I would announce, "I'm going to become a paleontologist," so my parents humored me. That is, they humored me until I was ready to start college, when my father announced, "You'll only be able to get a job and survive if you major in engineering" (he acknowledged that I could keep paleontology as a "hobby"). Again, I looked at him like he had four heads, or maybe like he had no brain. What about all of those other people in other non-engineering careers, including paleontology? Well, THEY could do it, but apparently he didn't think I had the talent to do it. Once again, he was maintaining the status quo by insisting that I should go with a "safe" career. Once again, I just said "No!" I majored in geology (the natural undergraduate precursor to a paleontological career), and graduated at the top of my department, with general honors and honors in geology (by researching and writing a paleontological undergraduate honors thesis), and even received the "Outstanding Geology Graduate" award for the entire state.
Then there was the discussion about graduate school, which would commit me to a paleontological career trajectory. My father thought, since I had done well in geology, I should enter the oil industry where I could make money! Well, I wasn't interested in the oil industry; I was interested in pursuing an academic career in evolutionary paleontology. He was sure I wasn't sufficiently qualified to be successful. Apparently, others thought I WAS qualified, as I was accepted at both of the schools to which I applied for graduate work, and I was accepted at both with full funding. I accepted the offer from The University of Michigan, where I spent five of the most intellectually stimulating years of my life. If I had gone into the oil industry, that might have been rewarding, but I KNOW I am a better man for having said "No!" to the status quo of a "safe" job and pursuing paleontology at The University of Michigan. [Confession time: while the education at UM was exceptional, the "real" growth and stimulation for me was being part of an exceptional group of graduate students who converged on The University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology during the 1980s; I shall always be grateful for having been able to associate with these amazingly talented individuals, and I am honored to still count them among my friends to this day, though our Paths have diverged widely in so many ways (but in so many ways, they all routinely say NO to the status quo)].
In 1987 I left Ann Arbor to accept a curatorial position at Chicago's Field Museum, my dream job. Yes! I loved my job. I loved living in Chicago. I loved the direction life was taking me. I didn't want anything to change. I wanted to maintain the status quo. But, even as I was basking in the joy of research and the excitement of international fame, someone was working to betray and sabotage me, thus effectively ending my paleontological career. He had betrayed the status quo of academic relationships, due in no doubt to his own psychological damage. At the time I had intense anger at the betrayal. For years I had anger at the betrayal. Today, I have gratitude that he imposed his psychoses on me and disrupted the status quo, allowing me to pursue even more rewarding life trajectories.
Let's skip ahead, past my healthcare management career with its above-mentioned accusations that I wanted to maintain the status quo. That career was never more than a segue to provide income, which it did, and while it lasted longer than I had intended, once again, I am a better person for having spent time there. Instead, I want to focus on perhaps the biggest "No!" that I ever said to the status quo: becoming an entrepreneur and creating GOD-DESS. Growing up, I never wanted to work for myself. I wanted to have that academic career, contribute to advancing science, educate others, and then hopefully achieve a sufficient level of fame that I would have the "power" to work to make the world a better place. Prior to the "betrayal," I had only once asked myself what I would do if I weren't a paleontologist. The answer was to create some sort of mechanism by which I could help people live better lives, to live as well as I did, or even better.
Global Organic Designs - Discovering Earth's Science & Spirit (GOD-DESS) was born for the very purpose of helping others live better (and live more, and be more). From the start, I knew I wanted to do something original, to be original. I didn't want to regurgitate what others were doing … that would be maintaining the status quo. I wanted to develop new syntheses from environmental and sensory psychology, from neuroanatomy, from physiology. In doing so, I have created a previously unknown body of information that I share with clients, all by just saying "No!" to the status quo.
Of course, that doesn't mean I embrace all change, especially change for the sake of change. I was reminded of this recently while reading an editorial essay in The Scientist pleading readers to embrace genetic modification for all of the benefits this biotechnology could convey. Well, I am no stranger to the benefits of biotechnology; it's a very broad and expansive field. But, I am also no stranger to the potential, theoretical widespread danger posed by genetic manipulation and modification. Despite incredible advances, we simply do not understand genetic expression sufficiently to allow such modification without additional study. Here is where we need to maintain the status quo until we have more data.
How can I embrace abandoning the status quo in one instance, but insist on maintaining it in another? It all boils down to impact. If a change is made, whom will it impact? When I've embraced change, I've made sure that I am the only one affected, or that I could manage the effect on others. If a change impacts others, it needs further consideration. In the case of genetic modification, the entire planet could theoretically be affected, for both good and for bad; until we are relatively confident it is only for good, we need to hold off. Since I am currently not partnered in a relationship, I only have to consider my cats, Lugh and Luna, when I make a decision. If/When I enter into a relationship, that relationship will become a factor when I next say "No!" to the status quo.
Have any of you ever said "No!" to the status quo? If so, please write and share your story with me. If you haven't, and you want/need some help making that change, I can help you! Just call me at 773.508.9208 or email me. Today is the first day of the rest of your life! Make the changes you need to make the rest also the best!


Meldrum Kroki (Life Drawing) is going well, I started in October last year and I now have a regular group of Sketchers that come each week. If you are interested in joining the Facebook group to get invited to the next life drawing session please click here.
It takes a while to build up a network of models. It also takes time to gain trust as it's a sensitive business. Imagine yourself coming to a stranger's apartment to pose naked in their living room. Like I said, it's going well and word has spread that Meldrum Kroki is a pleasant experience for everybody who attends.
In the autumn I hope to rent a larger room. It will be important that I maintain the cozy warm atmosphere that exists right now in my home.


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Black Liberation Theology, Trinity Church and the Rev. Jeremiah Wright all figured prominently in the life of Barack Obama. He sat in the church and listened to its teachings for approximately 20 years. To understand who Obama is and what the influences were that shaped his beliefs it is essential to have some knowledge of Trinity and its charismatic leader.
Obama chose Trinity Church for two reasons; he wanted a base from which to mobilize the religious left, and he shared the political philosophy of Rev. Wright. For these reasons, Obama was willing to tolerate some of Wright's nonsense such as his claims the U.S. government created AIDS as a way to kill off black people.
The teaching and preaching at Trinity Church is Black Liberation Theology, a concept that adds Marxism to the panoply of Christian beliefs. James Cone is the man most responsible for the spread of this joining of Marxism and Christianity and is regarded as the father of Black Liberation Theology in America. Cone's teachings are made very clear by his writings.
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Homalodotherium is an extinct genus of notoungulate mammals native to South America. Fossils of Homalodotherium have been found in the Middle Miocene (Friasian in the SALMA classification) Santa Cruz Formation of Argentina and the Río Frías Formation of Chile.

Description

Homalodotherium was about  in body length, with a weight up to , and had long forelimbs with claws instead of hooves otherwise seen in related taxa. It walked on the soles of its hind feet and the toes of its front feet, which would have made the animal higher at the shoulder than at the hips when it walked on all fours. It was probably at least partially bipedal, being able to pull down tree branches with its arms while rearing up on its hind legs. Various other prehistoric and living creatures have also developed this anatomical design and feeding style; examples are the chalicotheres, ground sloths (which shared the same environments), the giant panda, the gorilla and, possibly, the therizinosaur dinosaurs.

References

Further reading
 Scott, William B. 1928. Mammalia of the Santa Cruz beds. Astrapotheria. Reports of the Princeton University Expeditions to Patagonia, 1896–1899. 6 (4): 301-342

Toxodonts
Clawed herbivores
Burdigalian life
Langhian life
Miocene mammals of South America
Friasian
Neogene Argentina
Fossils of Argentina
Neogene Chile
Fossils of Chile
Fossil taxa described in 1870
Taxa named by Thomas Henry Huxley
Prehistoric placental genera
Austral or Magallanes Basin
Santa Cruz Formation

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South Carolina Ports Authority In Clover
zoom South Carolina Ports Authority (SCPA) reported a record container volume of nearly two million twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) handled in 2016.SCPA handled 1.996 million TEUs in 2016, surpassing the previous record of 1.985 million TEUs handled in 2005.Container volume in TEU was up 1.2 percent compared to last year.Loaded TEU volume was up 4 percent year-over-year while empty container volume was down 10 percent."We are cautiously optimistic about the future given the significant automotive projects that exist in the Southeast along with the seeming recovery of emerging market economies, which drives U.S. exports," said Jim Newsome, SCPA president and CEO."Our focus is squarely on realizing ongoing enhancements to handle the significant deployment of big container ships, specifically refurbishing our wharves, raising our cranes, deepening our harbor as soon as possible, and expanding our successful inland port network with a second inland port facility in Dillon, SC."SCPA owns and operates public seaport facilities in Charleston, Georgetown and Greer. read more
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Concern Mounts For Clippers As Griffin Paul Nicked Up
Chris Paul has a sore hip.It's not just that the Los Angeles Clippers got beat, 92-80, Wednesday night to extend their first-round playoffs series. It's pretty significant that the Clippers got beat up, too.Blake Griffin went down holding his left knee, a scary sight. Thankfully, it was a sprained and not something debilitating. Point guard Chris Paul hurt his right hip and had to come out. Not good, as L.A. looks to regroup for a close out Game 6 at Los Angeles Friday."We've got to get home, get some therapy, get rest and then get back to work on Friday," Clippers coach Vinnie Del Negro said.The team doctor and trainer told Del Negro that Griffin and Paul were healthy enough to return to action in the fourth quarter. But when Paul struggled with his mobility, Del Negro took him out.Griffin hurt his knee when he tangled legs with the Grizzlies Marc Gasol (23 points) on a drive to the basket in the third quarter. He lay on the court clutching his knee for a few minutes before going to the bench. But he returned to attempt his free throws and played most of the fourth quarter."One of our guys went down," said Clippers forward Caron Butler, who's playing despite breaking his left hand in Game 1. "Not just one of our guys, one of our superstars. It's important that we go down and check on our brother. He got up. It was a tough play. He got banged up pretty bad. But he's a soldier. He got back out there and kept chipping away at it with us."Memphis has lost all four of its games at Staples Center against the Clippers this year. The Grizzlies know they have to break through to force a decisive Game 7 in Memphis on Sunday.."There's no point leaving home if we don't know our way back," Grizzlies guard O.J. Mayo said. "We can't look at Sunday because we have to make sure we get back home after Friday night." read more
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Alaskas Capital City Braces for Potential Layoffs
Of the 16,000 State of Alaska employees, more than a quarter of them work in the capital city. On their lunch break, state employees at the State Office Building talked about their tentative employment future.Download Audio:Britten Burkhouse says her office at the Department of Health and Social Services was pretty quiet after getting the email from Gov. Bill Walker about potential state layoffs."I think we were all just dealing with the punch. Recuperating maybe a little bit. It wasn't a very good thing on a Monday."Burkhouse isn't surprised by the email. The threat of a government shutdown and layoffs has been a possibility since the legislature recessed at the end of April, but she says it makes the situation seem more desperate. She thinks Gov. Walker is doing the best he can, but,"It's come to the point where maybe he's using state employees as leverage to kind of get the Legislature to act."Burkhouse is a grants administrator for the department. She says she makes sure nonprofits get money to provide services for Alaskans."State employees do more than just show up to work every day. We actually help protect the life, health and safety of Alaskans."Mike Lewis has been a state worker for 15 years. He's the lead courier in mail services. Over the years, he's made sure Alaskans get their Permanent Fund Dividend checks. He says the potential layoffs are all part of a game."This is what they do. It's government. It's politics. I don't like politics because of this."And he doesn't think there's anything he can do, like contacting a legislator, to change the situation."It's the big people up there that make all the decisions. I don't think they care much about the little guys."If he's laid off,"I'll go fishing, crabbing – all the things I can do when I'm off. If it's only a week, it wouldn't bother me that much, but if it's longer than that it's the financial thing."Twenty-three-year-old Mackenzie Merrill just wants to have job stability. Before this email, she says she was getting other ones about positions getting cut. She's only an economist with the Department of Revenue for only eight months. It's her first job out of college."I just signed a year-long lease and I want to work here and I want to save money for my future. I went to college. This is what I signed up for. Entering the state during a severe fiscal uncertainty has been disappointing."Merrill has a vacation planned in July anyway, when layoffs could begin. But she'd like to know that she has a job to come back to. read more
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These Entrepreneurs Are Taking on Bias in Artificial Intelligence
Growing a business sometimes requires thinking outside the box. Free Webinar | Sept. 9: The Entrepreneur's Playbook for Going Global Register Now » 15+ min read September 5, 2018 Whether it's a navigation app such as Waze, a music recommendation service such as Pandora or a digital assistant such as Siri, odds are you've used artificial intelligence in your everyday life."Today 85 percent of Americans use AI every day," says Tess Posner, CEO of AI4ALL.AI has also been touted as the new must-have for business, for everything from customer service to marketing to IT. However, for all its usefulness, AI also has a dark side. In many cases, the algorithms are biased.Related: What Is AI, Anyway? Know Your Stuff With This Go-To Guide.Some of the examples of bias are blatant, such as Google's facial recognition tool tagging black faces as gorillas or an algorithm used by law enforcement to predict recidivism disproportionately flagging people of color. Others are more subtle. When Beauty.AI held an online contest judged by an algorithm, the vast majority of "winners" were light-skinned. Search Google for images of "unprofessional hair" and the results you see will mostly be pictures of black women (even searching for "man" or "woman" brings back images of mostly white individuals).While more light has been shined on the problem recently, some feel it's not an issue addressed enough in the broader tech community, let alone in research at universities or the government and law enforcement agencies that implement AI."Fundamentally, bias, if not addressed, becomes the Achilles' heel that eventually kills artificial intelligence," says Chad Steelberg, CEO of Veritone. "You can't have machines where their perception and recommendation of the world is skewed in a way that makes its decision process a non-sequitur from action. From just a basic economic perspective and a belief that you want AI to be a powerful component to the future, you have to solve this problem."As artificial intelligence becomes ever more pervasive in our everyday lives, there is now a small but growing community of entrepreneurs, data scientists and researchers working to tackle the issue of bias in AI. I spoke to a few of them to learn more about the ongoing challenges and possible solutions.Cathy O'Neil, founder of O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic AuditingSolution: Algorithm auditingBack in the early 2010s, Cathy O'Neil was working as a data scientist in advertising technology, building algorithms that determined what ads users saw as they surfed the web. The inputs for the algorithms included innocuous-seeming information like what search terms someone used or what kind of computer they owned.However, O'Neil came to realize that she was actually creating demographic profiles of users. Although gender and race were not explicit inputs, O'Neil's algorithms were discriminating against users of certain backgrounds, based on the other cues.As O'Neil began talking to colleagues in other industries, she found this to be fairly standard practice. These biased algorithms weren't just deciding what ads a user saw, but arguably more consequential decisions, such as who got hired or whether someone would be approved for a credit card. (These observations have since been studied and confirmed by O'Neil and others.)What's more, in some industries — for example, housing — if a human were to make decisions based on the specific set of criteria, it likely would be illegal due to anti-discrimination laws. But, because an algorithm was deciding, and gender and race were not explicitly the factors, it was assumed the decision was impartial."I had left the finance [world] because I wanted to do better than take advantage of a system just because I could," O'Neil says. "I'd entered data science thinking that it was less like that. I realized it was just taking advantage in a similar way to the way finance had been doing it. Yet, people were still thinking that everything was great back in 2012. That they were making the world a better place."O'Neil walked away from her adtech job. She wrote a book, Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy, about the perils of letting algorithms run the world, and started consulting.Eventually, she settled on a niche: auditing algorithms."I have to admit that it wasn't until maybe 2014 or 2015 that I realized this is also a business opportunity," O'Neil says.Right before the election in 2016, that realization led her to found O'Neil Risk Consulting & Algorithmic Auditing (ORCAA)."I started it because I realized that even if people wanted to stop that unfair or discriminatory practices then they wouldn't actually know how to do it," O'Neil says. "I didn't actually know. I didn't have good advice to give them." But, she wanted to figure it out.So, what does it mean to audit an algorithm?"The most high-level answer to that is it means to broaden our definition of what it means for an algorithm to work," O'Neil says.Often, companies will say an algorithm is working if it's accurate, effective or increasing profits, but for O'Neil, that shouldn't be enough."So, when I say I want to audit your algorithm, it means I want to delve into what it is doing to all the stakeholders in the system in which you work, in the context in which you work," O'Neil says. "And the stakeholders aren't just the company building it, aren't just for the company deploying it. It includes the target for the algorithm, so the people that are being assessed. It might even include their children. I want to think bigger. I want to think more about externalities, unforeseen consequences. I want to think more about the future."For example, Facebook's News Feed algorithm is very good at encouraging engagement and keeping users on its site. However, there's also evidence it reinforces users' beliefs, rather than promoting dialog, and has contributed to ethnic cleansing. While that may not be evidence of bias, it's certainly not a net positive.Right now, ORCAA's clients are companies that ask for their algorithms to be audited because they want a third party — such as an investor, client or the general public — to trust it. For example, O'Neil has audited an internal Siemens project and New York-based Rentlogic's landlord rating system algorithm. These types of clients are generally already on the right track and simply want a third-party stamp of approval.However, O'Neil's dream clients would be those who don't necessarily want her there."I'm going to be working with them because some amount of pressure, whether it's regulatory or litigation or some public relations pressure kind of forces their hand and they invite me in," O'Neil says.Most tech companies pursue profit above all else, O'Neil says, and won't seriously address the issue of bias unless there are consequences. She feels that existing anti-discrimination protections need to be enforced in the age of AI."The regulators don't know how to do this stuff," O'Neil says. "I would like to give them tools. But, I have to build them first. … We basically built a bunch of algorithms assuming they work perfectly, and now it's time to start building tools to test whether they're working at all."Related: Artificial Intelligence Is Likely to Make a Career in Finance, Medicine or Law a Lot Less LucrativeFrida Polli, co-founder and CEO of PymetricsSolution: Open source AI auditingMany thought artificial intelligence would solve the problem of bias in hiring, by making sure human evaluators weren't prejudging candidates based on the name they saw on a resume or the applicant's appearance. However, some argue hiring algorithms end up perpetuating the biases of their creators.Pymetrics is one company that develops algorithms to help clients fill job openings based on the traits of high-performing existing employees. It believes it's found a solution to the bias problem in an in-house auditing tool, and now it's sharing the tool with the world.Co-founder and CEO Frida Polli stresses that fighting bias was actually a secondary goal for Pymetrics."We're not a diversity-first platform," Polli says. "We are a predictive analytics platform."However, after seeing that many of her clients' employee examples used to train Pymetrics's algorithms were not diverse, combating bias became important."Either you do that or you're actually perpetuating bias," Polli says. "So, we decided we certainly were not going to perpetuate bias."Early on, the company developed Audit AI to make sure its algorithms were as neutral as possible when it came to factors including gender and race. If a company looking to fill a sales role had a sales team that was predominantly white and male, an unaudited algorithm might pick a candidate with those same traits. Polli was quick to point out that Audit AI would also recommend adjustments if an algorithm was weighted in favor of women or people of color.Some critics say if you tweak a hiring algorithm to remove bias you're lowering the bar, but Polli disagrees."It's the age-old criticism that's like, 'oh well, you're not getting the best candidate,'" Polli says. "'You're just getting the most diverse candidate, because now you've lowered how well your algorithm is working.' What's really awesome is that we don't see that. We have not seen this tradeoff at all."In May, Pymetrics published the code for its internal Audit AI auditing tool on Github. Polli says the first goal for making Audit AI open source is to encourage others to develop auditing techniques for their algorithms."If they can learn something from the way that we're doing it that's great. Obviously there are many ways to do it but we're not saying ours is the only way or the best way."Other motivations include simply starting a conversation about the issue and potentially learning from other developers who may be able to improve Audit AI."We certainly don't believe in sort of proprietary debiasing because that would sort of defeat the purpose," Polli says."The industry just needs to be more comfortable in actually realizing that if you're not checking your machine learning algorithms and you're saying, 'I don't know whether they cause bias,' I just don't think that that should be acceptable," she says. "Because it's like the ostrich in the sand approach."Related: The Scariest Thing About AI Is the Competitive Disadvantage of Being Slow to AdaptRediet Abebe, co-founder of Black in AI and Mechanism Design for Social GoodSolution: Promoting diverse AI programmers and researchers Use of facial recognition has grown dramatically in recent years — whether it's for unlocking your phone, expediting identification at the airport or scanning faces in a crowd to find potential criminals. But, it's also prone to bias.MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini and Timnit Gehru, who received her PhD from the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, found that facial recognition tools from IBM, Microsoft and Face++ accurately identified the gender of white men almost 100 percent of the time, but failed to identify darker skinned women in 20 percent to 34 percent of cases. That could be because the training sets themselves were biased: The two also found that the images used to train one of the facial recognition tools were 77 percent male and more than 83 percent white.One reason machine learning algorithms end up being biased is that they reflect the biases — whether conscious or unconscious — of the developers who built them. The tech industry as a whole is predominantly white and male, and one study by TechEmergence found women make up only 18 percent of C-level roles at AI and machine learning companies.Some in the industry are trying to change that.In March 2017, a small group of computer science researchers started a community called Black in AI because of an "alarming absence of black researchers," says co-founder Rediet Abebe, a PhD candidate in computer science at Cornell University. (Gehru is also a co-founder.)"In the conferences that I normally attend there's often no black people. I'd be the only black person," Abebe says. "We realized that this was potentially a problem, especially since AI technologies are impacting our day-to-day lives and they're involved in decision-making and a lot of different domains," including criminal justice, hiring, housing applications and even what ads you see online."All these things are now being increasingly impacted by AI technologies, and when you have a group of people that maybe have similar backgrounds or correlated experiences, that might impact the kinds of problems that you might work on and the kind of products that you put out there," Abebe says. "We felt that the lack of black people in AI was potentially detrimental to how AI technologies might impact black people's lives."Adebe feels particularly passionate about including more African women in AI; growing up in Ethiopia, a career in the sciences didn't seem like a possibility, unless she went into medicine. Her own research focuses on how certain communities are underserved or understudied when it comes to studying societal issues — for example, there is a lack of accurate data on HIV/AIDS deaths in developing countries — and how AI can be used to address those discrepancies. Adebe is also the co-founder and co-organizer of Mechanism Design for Social Good, an interdisciplinary initiative that shares research on AI's use in confronting similar societal challenges through workshops and meetings.Initially, Abebe thought Black in AI would be able to rent a van to fit all the people in the group, but Black in AI's Facebook group and email list has swollen to more than 800 people, from all over the world. While the majority of members are students or researchers, the group also includes entrepreneurs and engineers.Black in AI's biggest initiative to date was a workshop at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in December 2017 that garnered about 200 attendees. Thanks to partners such as Facebook, Google and ElementAI, the group was able to give out over $150,000 in travel grants to attendees.Abebe says a highlight of the workshop was a keynote talk by Haben Girma, the first deaf/blind graduate from Harvard Law School, which got Abebe thinking about other types of diversity and intersectionality.Black in AI is currently planning its second NIPS workshop.As part of the more informal discussions happening in the group's forums and Facebook group, members have applied and been accepted to Cornell's graduate programs, research collaborations have started and industry allies have stepped forward to ask how they can help. Black in AI hopes to set up a mentoring program for members.Related: Why Are Some Bots Racist? Look at the Humans Who Taught Them.Tess Posner, CEO of AI4ALLSolution: Introducing AI to diverse high schoolersThe nonprofit AI4ALL is targeting the next generation of AI whiz kids. Through summer programs at prestigious universities, AI4ALL exposes girls, low-income students, racial minorities and those from diverse geographic backgrounds to the possibilities of AI."It's becoming ubiquitous and invisible," says Tess Posner, who joined AI4ALL as founding CEO in 2017. "Yet, right now it's being developed by a homogenous group of technologists mostly. This is leading to negative impacts like race and gender bias getting incorporated into AI and machine learning systems. The lack of diversity is really a root cause for this."She adds, "The other piece of it is we believe that this technology has such exciting potential to be addressed to solving some key issues or key problems facing the world today, for example in health care or in environmental issues, in education. And it has incredibly positive potential for good."Started as a pilot at Stanford University in 2015 as a summer camp for girls, AI4ALL now offers programs at six universities around the country: University of California Berkeley, Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University, Princeton University, Simon Fraser University and Stanford.Participants receive a mix of technical training, hands-on learning, demos of real-world applications (such as a self-driving car), mentorship and exposure to experts in the field. This year, guest speakers included representatives from big tech firms including Tesla, Google and Microsoft, as well as startups including H20.ai, Mobileye and Argo AI.The universities provide three to five "AI for good" projects for students to work on during the program. Recent examples include developing algorithms to identify fake news, predict the infection path of the flu and map poverty in Uganda.For many participants, the AI4ALL summer program is only the beginning."We talk about wanting to create future leaders in AI, not just future creators, that can really shape what the future of this technology can bring," Posner says.AI4ALL recently piloted an AI fellowship program for summer program graduates to receive funding and mentorship to work on their own projects. One student's project involved tracking wildfires on the West Coast, while another looked at how to optimize ambulance dispatches based on the severity of the call after her grandmother died because an ambulance didn't reach her in time.Other graduates have gone on to create their own ventures after finishing the program, and AI4ALL provides "seed grants" to help them get started. Often, these ventures involve exposing other kids like themselves to AI. For example, three alumni started a workshop series called creAIte to teach middle school girls about AI and computer science using neural art, while another runs an after school workshop called Girls Explore Tech.Another graduate co-authored a paper on using AI to improve surgeons' technique that won an award at NIPS's Machine Learning for Health workshop in 2017."We have a lot of industry partners who have seen our students' projects and they go, 'Wow. I can't believe how amazing and rigorous and advanced this project is.' And it kind of changes people's minds about what talent looks like and who the face of AI really is," Posner says.Last month, AI4ALL announced it will be expanding its reach in a big way: The organization received a $1 million grant from Google to create a free digital version of its curriculum, set to launch in early 2019.Related: Artificial Intelligence May Reflect the Unfair World We Live inChad Steelberg, co-founder and CEO of VeritoneSolution: Building the next generation of AISerial entrepreneur Chad Steelberg first got involved in AI during his high school years in the 1980s, when he worked on algorithms to predict the three-dimensional structures of proteins. At the time, he felt AI's capabilities had reached a plateau, and he ended up starting multiple companies in different arenas, one of which he sold to Google in 2006.A few years later, Steelberg heard from some friends at Google that AI was about to take a huge leap forward — algorithms that could actually understand and make decisions, rather than simply compute data and spit back a result. Steelberg saw the potential, and he invested $10 million of his own money to found Veritone.Veritone's aiWARE is an operating system for AI. Instead of communicating between the software and hardware in a computer, like a traditional operating system, it takes users' queries — such as "transcribe this audio clip" — and finds the best algorithm available to process that query, whether that's Google Cloud Speech-to-Text, Nuance or some other transcription engine. As of now, aiWARE can scan more than 200 models in 16 categories, from translation to facial recognition.Algorithms work best when they have a sufficiently narrow training set. For example, if you try to train one algorithm to play go, chess and checkers, it will fail at all three, Steelberg says. Veritone tells the companies it works with to create algorithms for very narrow use cases, such as images of faces in profile. AiWARE will find the right algorithm for the specific query, and can even trigger multiple algorithms for the same query. Steelberg says when an audio clip uses multiple languages, the translations aiWARE returns are 15 percent to 20 percent more accurate than the best single engine on the platform.Algorithms designed for parsing text and speech, such as transcription and translation, are another area prone to bias. One study found algorithms categorized written African American vernacular English as "not English" at high rates, while a Washington Post investigation found voice assistants such as Amazon's Alexa have a hard time deciphering accented English.Though it wasn't built to eliminate bias, aiWARE ends up doing exactly that, Steelberg says. Just like the human brain is capable of taking all of its learned information and picking the best response to each situation, aiWARE learns which model (or models) is most appropriate to use for each query."We use our aiWARE to arbitrate and evaluate each of those models as to what they believe the right answer is, and then aiWARE is learning to choose which set of models to trust at every single point along the curve," Steelberg says.It's not an issue if an algorithm is biased. "What's problematic is when you try to solve the problem with one big, monolithic model," Steelberg says. AiWARE is learning to recognize which models are biased and how, and work around those biases.Another factor that results in biased AI is that many algorithms will ignore small subsets of a training set. If in a data set of 1 million entries, there are three that are different, you can still achieve a high degree of accuracy overall while performing horribly on certain queries. This is often the reason facial recognition software fails to recognize people of color: The training set contained mostly images of white faces.Veritone tells companies to break down training sets into micro models, and then aiWARE can interpolate to create similar examples."You're essentially inflating that population, and you can train models now on an inflated population that learn that process," Steelberg says.Using small training sets, aiWARE can build models for facial recognition with accuracy in the high 90th percentile for whatever particular subcategory a client is interested in (e.g., all the employees at your company), he says.Steelberg says he believes an intelligent AI like aiWARE has a much better chance of eliminating bias than a human auditor. For one, humans will likely have a hard time identifying flawed training sets. They also might bring their own biases to the process.And for larger AI models, which might encompass "tens of millions of petabytes of data," a human auditor is just impractical, Steelberg says. "The sheer size makes it inconceivable." read more
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Should you go with Arduino Uno or Raspberry Pi 3 for your
Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi 3 are the go-to options for IoT projects. They're tiny computers that can make a big impact in how we connect devices to each other, and to the internet. But they can also be a lot of fun too – at their best, they do both. For example, Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi were used to make a custom underwater camera solution for filming the Netflix documentary, Chasing Coral. They were also behind the Autonomous racing robot. However, how are the two microcomputers different? If you're confused about which one you should start using, here's a look at the key features of both the Arduino Uno and the Raspberry Pi 3.This will give you a clearer view on what fits your project well, or maybe just help you decide what to include on your birthday wishlist. Comparing the Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi 3 Raspberry Pi 3 has a Broadcom BCM2837 SoC with it can handle multiple tasks at one time. It is a Single Board Computer (SBC), which means it is a fully functional computer with a dedicated processor, memory, and is capable of running an OS – Raspberry Pi 3 runs on Linux. It can run multiple programs as it has its own USB ports, audio outputs, a graphic driver for HDMI output. Arduino Uno is a microcontroller board based on the ATmega328, an 8-bit microcontroller with 32KB of Flash memory and 2KB of RAM, which is not as powerful as SBCs. However, they are a great choice for quick setups. Microcontrollers are a good pick when controlling small devices such as LEDs, motors, several different types of sensors, but cannot run a full operating system. The Arduino Uno runs one program at a time. One can also install other operating systems such as Android, Windows 10, or Firefox OS. Let's look at the features and how one stands out better than the other: Speed The Raspberry Pi 3 (1.2 GHz) is much faster than Arduino (16 MHz). This means it can complete day-to-day tasks such as web surfing, playing videos, with greater ease From this perspective, Raspberry Pi is the go-to choice for media centered applications. Winner: Raspberry Pi 3 Easy time interface Arduino Uno offers a simplified approach for project building. It has easy time interfacing with presence of analog sensors, motor, and other components. By contrast, the Raspberry Pi 3 has a more complicated route if you want to set up projects. For example, to take sensor readings you'll need to install libraries and connect to a monitor, keyboard and mouse. Winner: Arduino Uno Bluetooth/ Internet connectivity Raspberry Pi 3 connects to Bluetooth devices and the internet directly using Ethernet or by connecting to Wi-Fi. The Arduino Uno can do that only with the help of a Shield that adds internet or Bluetooth connectivity. HATS (Hardware Attached on Top) and Shields can be used on both devices to give them additional functionality. For example. HATs are used on the Raspberry Pi 3, to control an RBG Matrix, add a touchscreen, or even create an arcade system. Shields that can be used on the Arduino Uno include a Relay Shield, a Touchscreen Shield, or a Bluetooth Shield. There are hundreds of Shields and HATs that provide the functionality that you regularly use. Winner: Raspberry Pi 3 Supporting ports The Raspberry Pi 3 has an HDMI port, audio port, 4 USB ports, camera port, and LCD port, which is ideal for media applications. On the other hand, Arduino Uno does not have any of these ports in the board. However, some of these ports can be added on the Arduino Uno with the help of Shields. Arduino Uno has 14 digital input/output pins (of which 6 can be used as PWM outputs), 6 analog inputs, a 16 MHz crystal oscillator, a USB connection, a power jack, an ICSP header, and a reset button. Winner: Raspberry Pi 3 Other features Set-up time Raspberry Pi 3 takes longer to set up. You'll also probably need additional components such as a HDMI cable, a monitor, a cable, and a keyboard and mouse. For the Arduino Uno you simply have to plug it in. The code then runs immediately. Winner: Arduino Uno Affordable Price Arduino Uno is much cheaper. It's around $20 compared to Raspberry Pi 3, which is around $35. It's important to note that this excludes the cost of cables, keyboards, mouse and other additional hardware.As mentioned above, you don't need those extras with the Arduino Uno. Winner: Arduino Uno Both Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi 3 are great in their individual offerings. Arduino Uno would be an ideal board if you want to get started with electronics, and begin building fun and engaging hands-on projects. It's great for learning the basics of how sensors and actuators work, and an essential tool for one's rapid prototyping needs. On the other hand, Raspberry Pi 3 is great for projects that need an online connection and have multiple operations running at the same time. Pick as per your need! You can also check some of our exciting books on Arduino Uno and Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi 3 Home Automation Projects: Bringing your home to life using Raspberry Pi 3, Arduino, and ESP8266 Build Supercomputers with Raspberry Pi 3 Internet of Things with Arduino Cookbook Read Next How to build a sensor application to measure Ambient Light5 reasons to choose AWS IoT Core for your next IoT projectBuild your first Raspberry Pi project read more
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Tuesday, November 23 from 1-3 p.m.
This Tuesday, OC Foodie Fest is bringing gourmet food trucks together to feed 300 less fortunate individuals in the Costa Mesa area. Orange County-based trucks will each donate food items from 1 to 3 p.m. this Tuesday, Nov. 23 at Someone Cares Kitchen. Feed The Hungry is an ongoing event that OC Foodie Fest would like to have at soup kitchens and other areas monthly.
Feed the Hungry was inspired by the OC Foodie Fest mission statement to celebrate the love of food and use its power to bring the community together. The local OC trucks took it upon themselves to extend that mission and are using their amazing cuisine to generously give back to the local community to help those in need.


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British pet brand Woof & Brew is showing a range of herbal teas created for dogs at Interzoo this week.
Customers prepare the tea bags by brewing them in hot water, then cooling it down to a safe temperature with cold water and serving the drink either alongside the dog's usual water bowl or poured onto its food.
The range includes mixtures to promote fresh breath, reduce urine burns and improve coats, as well as a blend for senior dogs.


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CrossCore®, Accomplishing the Impossible – Resistance Training for Large Groups
By Marty Gallagher
No one has ever been able to figure out a way to successfully conduct a hardcore progressive resistance class in a large group setting. Effective resistance training, hardcore resistance training produces measurable, quantifiable improvements in physique and performance. Hardcore progressive resistance experts use free-weights, barbells and dumbbells, to near exclusion.
Free-weights, used with great expertise, dig the deepest possible muscular inroad. Barbells and dumbbells are the progressive resistance gold standard tools and hardcore training methodology is the gold standard resistance protocol.
Nothing about hardcore training lends itself to being done in a large group setting. To practice high-level hardcore resistance training requires a barbell, plates, dumbbells, lots of accessory equipment, a flat bench, a bench that inclines, squat racks or a safety power rack, a chin bar, all of which creates clutter and requires floor space. And this assumes that the trainee knows how to make expert use of free-weights—which is highly unlikely.
Barbell training, done right, is best done in small groups of usually no more than four trainees. The small group clusters around the barbell (or dumbbells) and each athlete in turn performs the chosen exercise, round-robin style. The CrossCore® enables the user to obtain free-weight results from a portable training device. The compactness of the CrossCore® allows the trainee to conduct a serious strength-training workout within four square feet of space and without needing any other progressive resistance accessories or devices.
The results obtained from the highly unstable CrossCore® exceed results obtained from progressive resistance machines that mimic free-weight exercises. Progressive resistance machines lack instability, due to their frozen "groove." Instability is a plus for building strength and muscle. Because machines lack the 3rd dimension of tension, the need to control side-to-side movement, the unstable free-weights and the equally unstable CrossCore® are physiologically superior to a machine that mimics free-weight exercise.
CrossCore® HardCore Roots
Over the past four years, the CrossCore® tool and the HardCore strength training methodology has been vetted by world champion strength athletes and active duty Tier I spec ops fighters. The HardCore method was born in the Spec Op community and was developed and tested on the strongest of athletes and fittest of soldiers. Strategies were devised that enabled us to tax these super athletes and super soldiers up to, and then past their awesome capacities. While working with the spec ops community, it became apparent that no-compromise resistance training could be taught to large groups of people.
Strength Training 101
How would a CrossCore® HardCore strength training class look and feel? Here is a sample scenario…
The CrossCore® HardCore "Strength Training class" was held in a racquetball court that management had converted into an all-purpose fitness room: the entire back wall was taken up with a recently installed climbing wall. The room was used for indoor volleyball and yoga classes. Along both long walls ran room-length chinning bars that created anchor-points for CrossCore® devices.
The class was packed with people of all types and descriptions including out-of-shape beginners and elite athletes. This mix of levels was possible because the exercises and techniques used were identical for everyone. The difference was in the "payload," the amount of resistance and tension required to tax the CrossCore® user.
A far heavier payload is needed to maximally tax an elite athlete then say a beginner performing the identical exercise in the identical way. The beginner might use 1/10th the payload of the advanced athlete—but both can work up to 100% of their respective capacities and both can trigger the adaptive response.
The CrossCore® units hung from the chin bars that lined each wall. Strength training class participants had signed up for a ten-week course and this was week three. The instructor entered the room and got everyone's attention. He gathered them into a circle to explain what was about to happen. The participants would be put through a "whole body" strength-training program consisting of nine exercises that worked (virtually) every muscle of the human body.
These exercises would be performed in a purposefully specific order using highly specific techniques. Participants met once a week and were expected to perform the same program 2-3 times per week on their own. Sessions could be done at home if the attendee owned a CrossCore®, or here at the club as there were always a dozen CrossCore® units left hanging and available in this room.
The instructor called his senior student up front to demo the first exercise, the "slumping chest press." The technique was explained in detail as each aspect of the exercise was demonstrated and described in depth and detail. The participants then returned to their stations. Each began to perform the CrossCore® chest press; the instructor again repeated the step-by-step verbal instruction and talked everyone through the eight-rep set. As he talked, he walked along and made posture or footing corrections on an individual basis.
As the set proceeded, grunts of exertion broke out around the room at around rep five. As they finished rep seven, he said, "Remember! The ideal final rep is the barely completed rep! Equalling and exceeding our limits and capacities are where the big gains are; past our current limit is where the muscle and strength is hiding!"
At any point during the chest press set, the payload could be modified with a slight shift in the feet. This characteristic is unique to the CrossCore® and separates and differentiates it from all other progressive resistance tools: the CrossCore® trainee has the unique ability to alter a payload during each rep of a set. The CrossCore® user can make instantaneous increases or decreases in the payload as each rep is occurring. This is unprecedented.
The first few reps of the set can be done with a light payload to warm the muscles and groove in the technique. Light payloads are offset with "intensity enhancers," purposefully slowed rep speed, pauses and extended ROM.
The middle reps of the set are made heavier by shifting the feet fore or aft. Precise technique is retained while resistance is increased. The moderate resistance middle-set reps prepare the body for the all out final reps.
The final reps of the set are purposefully made maximally difficult. The trainee's duty is to maintain perfect technique while modulating the payload in order to achieve the "barely made" final rep.
The perfect CrossCore® set always ends with the trainee exerting 100% maximum effort and barely completing the last rep of the set. The class ran through nine exercises in 50-minutes: slumping chest-press, row, Superman press, I-Y-T, curl, triceps extension, squat, lying leg curl and ab sizzler. One set of each exercise with the final reps of each set punctuated by grunts of pure exertion. The CrossCore® allowed each trainee to exert 100%, yet do so safely and without fear of injury.
By the end of class, every participant, from pro athlete to out of shape housewife, had undergone a highly effective, muscle-building, strength-infusing work out. The class collectively experienced a predictable post-workout endorphin rush, the kind of pleasurable hormonal cocktail (adrenaline, endorphins and growth hormone) that is only released in response to intense physical effort. Each class member had experienced nine 100% efforts and everyone was awash in post-workout endorphin bliss; the kind of feeling that keeps them coming back for more.
The attendees would work out during the week on their own at home or in this same room. Over time, the instructor shared with the group the numerous variations on the basic exercise themes: each of the nine core exercises had many variations, single limb pushing and pulling, paused reps, varied rep speeds and differing rep combinations. These subtle and overt variations kept the training fresh and vibrant and prevented staleness and stagnation.
This was user-friendly strength training: safe, clean, no clutter, no danger, no need for resistance tools or accessories, and no need for expensive machines. The students loved it because they realized dramatic improvements in physique and performance. The club loved it because it allowed for lucrative group instruction.
This type of training was safe—and cheap. For everyone involved, the happy club member, the club, the CrossCore® Strength Training instructor, the whole situation was "win-win." Strength Training 101 becomes a reality.
The Magical Dumbbells
Imagine a pair of magical dumbbells. They are magical because whatever poundage the user wants them to be, they become that poundage instantaneously. If you were to pick up the magical dumbbells and wanted them to weigh 40 pounds each, they would immediately weigh 40 pounds each. By changing your mind you are able change the poundage of each magical dumbbell.
Pick up the 40s and press them overhead a few times. How do they feel? A little light? Just think to yourself 'adjust to 50s'—and the weight of the bells instantly jumps 10 pounds for each bell. You now press the 50s for three reps and think, 'I got a little more left' so in your mind you think, 'adjust to 60s.' You are able to handle the 60s for two tough reps—but that's it, you cannot get another rep with 60s—but wait, you want to keep the set going, so you think, 'adjust back to 40s.'
The magical bells instantaneously drop in weight and you "rep out" with 40s. You perform five perfect "burn-out" reps with the 40s before the lactic acid sets your shoulders on fire and you must quit. Because of this magical ability to alter the payload between reps or even during a rep, the warm-up sets, the interim moderate weight set, the all-out top set and the self-administered forced reps (in the form of a drop-set procedure) are all compressed into a single extended set. You can do a "One-and-Done" set if you own magical dumbbells.
The magical dumbbells exist: the CrossCore® used in full rotational mode has this magical characteristic, this unique attribute that sets it apart from all other resistance training devices: the ability to alter the resistance, the payload, the tension, between reps and during reps. The CrossCore® is the magic dumbbells. The CrossCore® user simply shifts or shuffles his feet forward or rearward, a matter of a few inches, and adds 10-40 pounds of resistance instantly.
The experienced CrossCore® user develops a balletic flow as they glide forward and back to "tune the set," make the set end on the precise predetermined, preselected number of reps for that set. Iron Immortal, Mr. Universe Bill Pearl once noted in an interview, "Does the muscle really care what tool was used to make it grow and strengthen?" As long as the muscle grows and strengthens, as long as there are real gains and measurable results, as long as our training nets us increases in power, size, athletic strength and improved body composition—what difference does it make what tool was used?
The magical dumbbells already exist. Assuming you are smart enough to know how to optimally operate them.
Marty Gallagher has been involved in high-level athletics for over 50 years. He captured his first national title and set his first national records as a 17-year old teenage Olympic weightlifter in 1967. In May of 2013 he set his most recent national records as a 64-year old powerlifter. He won the 1992 IPF world masters powerlifting title and has taken silver and bronze medals in world championships. He is a six-time national champion masters powerlifter.
As a coach he guided Team USA to the IPF world team title in 1991 and coached Black's gym to five national powerlifting team titles. He was mentored by the 1st world powerlifting champion Hugh "Huge" Cassidy and Gallagher in turn mentored hall-of-fame powerlifting world dominator "Captain" Kirk Karwoski. Gallagher competition coached Ed "King" Coan, the world's greatest powerlifter, along with iron immortals Doug Furnas, Lamar Gant and Mark Chaillet. Marty works with the military elite spec ops fighters (in this country and abroad) along with governmental special units within various agencies.
As a writer Gallagher is widely read and considered one of the finest writers operating within the health, nutrition, bodybuilding, strength and athletic training genre. He has had over 1,000 articles published since 1978, including 232 weekly 'ask the expert' fitness columns for the WashingtonPost.com and 89 articles published during a ten year relationship with Muscle & Fitness and Flex magazine. Gallagher's biographic on Ed Coan was called, "the greatest powerlifting book ever written," by the late Joe Weider. Rock star Henry Rollins called the Coan book, "Awesome!" Dr. Jeff Everson described Gallagher's Magnus opus, The Purposeful Primitive" A literary masterpiece." Gallagher lives in rural Pennsylvania.


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Q: Maximum sum of sequence Suppose we have sequence of x numbers and x-1 operators (+ or -), where the order of the numbers and the operators are fixed. For example 5-2-1+3. By different parentheses you get different values. For example (5 - 2)-1+3 = 5, 5-(2-1)+3=7 and so on. I am now interested in the maximum sum and best in linear run-time/memory space.
I think that this problem can be solved with dynamic programming, but I simply don't find a meaningful variant.

A: What you need here is certainly a dynamic algorithm.
This would work in a recursive way, finding the maximum value that can be gotten for every range.
Algorithm:
You could separate the numbers and the operators into different lists (if the first number is positive add + to the list first).
max_sum(expression, operators):
   if len(expression) == 1: return expression
   max_value = -float('inf')     # minus infinity
   length = len(expression)
   for i in range(length):
      left_exp = max_sum(expression[0:i], operators[0:i])
      right_exp = max_sum(expression[i:length], operators[i:length])
      value = operator[i].apply(left_exp, right_exp)
      if value  >= max_value:
         max_value = value
   return max_value

The main idea of the algorithm is that it checks the maximum sums in every possible range division, goes all the way down recursively and then returns the maximum sum it got.
The pseudo-code doesn't take into account a case where you could get a maximum value by substracting the minimum value of the right expression, but with a few tweaks I think you could fix it pretty fast.
I tried to make the pseudo-code as easy to convert to code as possible out of my head, I hope this helps you.

A: Let an expression be a sequence of operator-number pairs: it starts with an operator followed by a number, and ends with an operator followed by a number. Your example 5-2-1+3 can be made into an expression by placing a + at the beginning: +5-2-1+3.
Let the head of an expression be its first operator-number pair, and its tail, the rest. The head of +5-2-1+3 is +5 and the tail, -2-1+3.
In this context, let parenthesizing an expression mean placing an opening parenthesis just after the first operator and a closing parenthesis at the end of the expression, like so: +(5-2-1+3). Parenthesizing an expression with a positive head doesn't do anything. Parenthesizing an expression with a negative head is equivalent to changing every sign of its tail: -(5 -2-1+3) = -5 +2+1-3.
If you want to get an extremum by parenthesizing some of its subexpressions, then you can first make some simplifications. It's easy to see that any subexpression of the form +x1+x2+...+xn won't be split: all of its elements will be used together towards the extremum. Similarly, any subexpression of the form -x1-x2-...-xn won't be split, but may be parenthesized (-(x1-x2-...-xn)). Therefore, you can first simplify any subexpression of the first form into +X, where X is the sum of its elements, and any subexpression of the second form into -x1-X, where X is the sum of its tail elements.
The resulting expression cannot have 3 consecutive - operators or 2 consecutive + operators. Now, start from the end, find the first subexpression of the form -a-b, -a+b-c, or -a+b, and compute its potential minimum and its potential maximum:
min(-a-b) = -a-b
max(-a-b) = -(a-b)
min(-a+b-c) = -(a+b)-c
max(-a+b-c) = -a+b-c if b>=c, max(-a+b-c) = -(a+b-c) if b<=c
min(-a+b) = -(a+b)
max(-a+b) = -a+b
Repeat by treating that subexpression as a single operator-number pair in the next one, albeit with two possible values (its two extrema). This way, the extrema of each subsequent subexpression is computed until you get to the main expression, of which you can simply compute the maximum. Note that the main expression may have a positive first pair, which makes it a special case, but that's easy to take into account: just add it to the maximum.