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We are offering Cleanroom Validation Services. Cleanroom validation includes particle count test, HEPA filter leakage test, Air velocity test, Air changes per hour, Recovery test, Pressure, Temperature and Humidity test etc.Validations are based on NABL standards.
We perform Clean room visualization for customers to monitor airflow characteristics in clean rooms and other spaces.
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Air testing for specific chemical compounds is an investigative tool used to characterize the nature and extent of contaminants in air and to determine whether contaminant sources affect indoor air quality.
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Acquisition of acoustic and vibration signals is critical in a variety of industries. NI has combined industry-leading 24-bit dynamic signal acquisition hardware with ready-to-run analysis in NI LabVIEW software to provide a unique solution for prototyping and deploying sound and vibration analyzers. NI tools include ready-to-run examples that feature the flexibility of LabVIEW so you have the acoustic and vibration acquisition you need for your application.
In order meet the necessities of our customers we are offering an inclusive range of Thermal Mapping. This service provides the temperature connection across a whole network identifying those divisions of the road which are likely to freeze first. These services are mainly used for three distinct weather classes to detect the changes in surface temperature variation. To keep the proficiently completion,the industry professionals in line with industrial standards audited our presented services on various norms. In addition, we provide this service at nominal costs to our customers.
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Although HP has been a leader in almost all of the major information technology services and hardware systems for decades, it has recently had to overcome negative assumptions about its forward growth for many reasons. For one, industry competition has increased to the point of reducing HP’s market share slightly over the past few years. Secondly, the perception of HP as the undisputed market leader in hardware is being challenged by a number of these competitors. HP maintains its dominance in certain segments such as printers and printer accessories, but there is definitely room for improvement in other areas.
Despite all of these challenges, many market experts are reporting being bullish on the future of HP, with some even giving it an “outperform” rating. Key among these analysts is Oppenheimer, who recently gave HP a $21 target price, which would imply a rise in the current price of HP of more than 20 percent.
Why Do Market Analysts Think HP’s Future is Bright?
First on the list is HP’s ability to integrate the research and development efforts of the company with its go-to market functionality within the Enterprise Group. The challenges of competitors eating away at the market share of HP can be effectively countered by the incremental growth that this integration can engender. On top of this, HP has many other opportunities to grow through the synthesis of other divisions, including software and services.
HP has also shown a completely renewed commitment to innovation in the field of IT hardware, showcasing a brand new portfolio in recent investor calls. The company also has plenty of cash to invest in these new efforts, and recurring revenue locks in a level of cash flow that will ensure that new projects get funded without the need to take away funding from core functions of the company.
Today’s IT market is all about innovation, and HP plans to be at the forefront of the market. They are putting real cash behind these efforts, raising their R&D expenses 10 percent year over year since 2013. The company is also reducing overhead and consolidating redundant company functions. All of this new activity has caused market analysts to estimate a real incremental increase in earnings per share of about $0.08.
KC Computer Support is the trusted choice when it comes to staying ahead of the latest information technology tips, tricks, and news. Contact us at (913) 541-0001 or send us an email at help@kccomputersupport.com for more information.

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Marine tunicates, sea creatures often found in Asian cuisine, are a vital component in a new super material.
Who would have thought to combine wood pulp and dried-up exotic sea creatures? Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and they were smart for doing so.
The marine tunicate, an exotic sea invertebrate often used in Asian cuisine, has been combined with wood pulp to form a new composite material that's flexible, sustainable, non-toxic, and UV light-reflective, says NIST. The material could be used in construction, food packaging, biomedical devices, cars, trucks, and boats, say researchers.
University of Maryland (UMD) scientists have named it "super wood" and rightfully so, as they say it is over 10 times stronger and tougher than regular wood.
Scientists first remove the wood's lignin with acid, in a similar fashion to the University of Maryland's Super Wood, which then creates a milky solution. That solution ultimately dries to form a new material with a 'Bouligand' structure - a structure in which molecules stack up into twisted and spiral shapes. Those structures are resistant to cracking, but remained ultimately weak and unable to hold much weight.
The NIST team hypothesized that combining the short wood-derived nano-cellulose rods with another natural material with longer crystalline rods would result in something new that would be incredibly strong and flexible. With appropriate additives, this new material could be used to create films that could slow down the diffusion of water and oxygen. That's where tunicates, whose inner structures are made of long, highly-crystalline nano-cellulose, come in.
"Tunicates have stuck out as the gold standard for their physical properties," said Johan Foster from Virginia Tech University, who is one of only a handful of teams working on tunicate harvest and research around the globe. Foster gathered and supplied the tunicates for the NIST project from a dock in Western France, where the animals are considered a nuisance species.
"If you put a little tunicate into the wood pulp composite, it makes it a little stiffer, and it doesn't break as quickly and becomes more flexible," said lead author Bharath Natarajan said. "Put in 10 percent and it's twice as strong. If your mixture is 30 percent tunicate and 70 percent wood pulp, the resulting composite is 15-20 times tougher. But after that, you really don't see an improvement in strength, and there is a reduction in toughness."
Tunicates are plentiful, but remain expensive to process, say researchers, so knowing exactly how much to add is key to scaling up their use in the future, and for keeping any resulting products affordable.
The NIST team plans on running further tests on the pulp-tunicate mix, which could be made to manufacture resilient, flexible and UV-reflective composites for use in sustainable, lightweight automobiles and aerospace vehicles, among other products.

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Johnnie Walker Double Black Tasting Notes and Ratings.
Cherry licorice, smoke and nuttiness on the nose. Smoked teas on the palate along with floral qualities. Finishes with vanilla cream and peat.

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The Scottish Studies Group was relaunched in October 2009. This study group is a forum through which researchers investigating issues relating to Scotland, its people and communities, culture and society, economy and politics within the 21st century can come together. We hope to consolidate research on Scottish society and politics in a changing global world, exploring what the global climate means in this local context and what tools we can use to explore this.
The BSA Scottish Studies Group is in need of new convenors who can take the Group forward.
Scottish sociology includes a broad range of interests, topics and study areas and one of the challenges for this Study Group is to find and exploit the common themes that bring diverse Scottish sociologists (and students of sociology in Scotland) together. Is there anything distinctive about sociology in Scotland, or in the way sociology is practiced north of the border (with England)? Do Scottish sociologists approach their research in the same way as British or English sociologists? Or should Scottish sociology focus on the identity of Scotland, and how it is changing?
If you are interested in joining the current convenors, or would like to create a new team, then please contact Liz Dinnie by Friday, 3 March 2017 to discuss further.

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This piece considers the general state of policy on AI and also gives some numbers to the federal activity encouraging research and application in this field.
Growing interest in Artificial Intelligence (AI) comes from a range of audiences including academia, commercial industry, the entertainment industry, and now the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). On October 12, 2016, OSTP released two new documents on AI. The National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan is a high level framework for prioritizing and coordinating federal research and development (R&D) to advance AI. A companion piece, Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence, discusses the technologies that can be identified as AI and how these may be used to benefit society. A third document, to be authored by the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and released later this year, will explore how AI might affect employment.
AI—along with related initiatives on topics ranging from precision medicine to the Internet of Things (IoT)—was also showcased at the White House Frontiers Conference. But the winds of change blow fiercely in election years. With the presidential election approaching, one key task for the incoming administration will be to take account of current OSTP policies and determine whether these will be bolstered or recast. The rest of this piece considers: How can the next administration advance current policies? And what can be done in and beyond the White House to ensure that AI R&D remains a national priority in the coming years?
There are many technologies that can be grouped under the designation of AI, from general techniques to specific applications. One general technology is deep learning, which is a set of techniques for gradually structuring data by defining it in layers. A more specific application is machine translation, which powers the familiar service Google Translate. While many AI technologies were initially created in research laboratories, innovation in AI technology is increasingly driven by industry, thanks to (for example) market incentives for investing in digital personal assistants and autonomous driving.
Any administration that makes AI a priority will want to see the US emerge as a global leader. Unfortunately, as a relatively new area of broad public interest the exact levels of financial investment in AI research are not well-defined. Thus, determining where funding originates or how exactly it is spent is challenging. As one starting point, the National AI R&D strategy gives a number of $1.1 billion in unclassified, federally funded R&D for AI.  However, without more statistics for AI investment, it is difficult to compare US federal investments with funding in other countries. Some other approximations of productivity are possible, including comparing the number of relevant journal articles and patents in countries like China and the US (e.g., NSTC’s strategy in the National Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Strategic Plan), or comparing the number of computer science publications by country.
Another approach is to consider general trends in research funding. In 2013 gross expenses of R&D for the US and China were $457 billion and $336.5 billion respectively, which puts China’s R&D spending at 73.6% of US investments  Comparing these figures to the size of the respective economies, China spent 2.1% of GDP on R&D in 2013, vs. 2.7% in the US. Further, Chinese R&D spending is growing rapidly. Between 1993 and 2013, US spending on R&D had a compound average annual growth rate of 3.1%, while Chinese spending grew at 17.1%, adjusted for inflation. These figures reflect both government and commercial spending, and are offered as background on the two global leaders in AI R&D, China and the US.
Assuming parity in the percentage of gross funding for AI research in the PRC – a weak assumption at best – if not the amount spent on research generally, in 2012 funding could amount to $710 million for AI research. . Foreign competition however is created by foreign firms, not just facilitated by government-funded research. For examples of commercial R&D there is PRC based Baidu’s investments in AI last year, amounting to $1.5 billion.
If AI can deliver on the promises of social change and economic growth, this will be easiest when communication among academics, businesses, and government is coordinated but not constrained. Competition may be effective for supporting isolated developments and specific applications of AI—like software designed for autonomous long-haul trucking. But there will be some questions, like the challenge of ensuring safe and equitable AI development, which are by nature national in scale. With this in mind – as suggested by the National Strategic Plan – federal support for AI should establish a specific research portfolio to give federal agencies a clear indication of basic research priorities.
The next administration could encourage OSTP to further coordinate federal funding schemes and also to facilitate more communication with business and academic stakeholders. Regarding specific organizations to handle these efforts, there is the National Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) already in place for the former role, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for the latter. In the National Strategy discretion is left to the funding agencies, though with the suggestion of coordinating with NITRD on the exact implementation of allocating funds. Naturally, considering other demands on agencies’ time and resources it is possible that adherence could be uneven.
OSTP should also continue to organize fora, symposia, or other consultation processes to engage the public at large. Activities could build upon the Request for Information (RFI) that OSTP issued in June 2016, which informed the report Preparing for the Future of AI. The new administration should also consider exploring bilateral or multi-lateral cooperation in AI, particularly to support basic research. This will also require further coordination and organizational work. One example of an opportunity for multi-lateral cooperation is creating, endorsing, or spreading standards, which is a task that governments are well suited to. Again, this is something NIST can lead in the US with relatively few additional resources. One benefit of using informal standards or “best practices” for AI is that these reduce uncertainty in planning and allow for more time to be spent on improving efficiency and effectiveness of approaches and methods, rather than just keeping a business or product operational.
Interest in AI comes from not only the federal government, but from states as well, including Nevada and Michigan. The initiative of states to make certain applications of AI – such as autonomous vehicles – legal is itself a process of innovation. Generally the more complex a process is the more difficult it is to align all the elements of it to all work at the same time, never mind to align them all to work well. Given all the moving parts to the federal government setting policy to encourage AI research can require hundreds of people and can take months or perhaps years for an effect to appear. However, experimentation can occur first with state law and policy, which is often easier to formulate and implement given the difference in scale. Letting states take the initiative to experiment with their own policies could offer valuable lessons for the federal government to iterate on at a larger scale. Naturally, there is a risk that 50 states will create 50 different policies, so this approach should not be indefinite.
The Obama Administration’s AI policy offers a vision. Whether the next administration provides for the journey is open question.
 Considering the quoted figure of federal AI spending $1.1bn against total federal R&D spending ~$152bn requested for FY17, it amounts to <1% (~0.7%) of total federal R&D. Focusing on research, of the $72.8bn requested for FY2017, the $1.1bn figure amounts to 1.5% of federal research.
 National Science Board. 2016. Science and Engineering Indicators 2016. Arlington, VA: National Science Foundation (NSB-2016-1), https://www.nsf.gov/statistics/2016/nsb20161/#/, appendix table 5-31.
 For more information see tables 4 – 3, 5, 6, 11, 16 and figures 4 – 8 and 13, Science and Engineering Indicators 2016.
 Table 4-4, Science and Engineering Indicators 2016.
 Appendix Table 4-12, Science and Engineering Indicators 2016.
 Table 4-6, Science and Engineering Indicators 2016.
 Research includes basic and applied research and omits development and R&D plant.
 The inaugural report from Stanford titled the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI|100) section on policy and legal consideration goes into some detail on where the intersections for these applications and policies are.
Peter Stone, et. al. “Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030.” One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence: Report of the 2015-2016 Study Panel, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, September 2016. Doc: http://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report. Accessed: October 12, 2016.
 Just as asking international partners to join in research or product development spreads risk and brings in expertise for companies, informal standards also lower the discovery cost of finding the most efficient method or application for accomplishing tasks.

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PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: "I say this to everyone – the salaries of our Martyrs, prisoners, and wounded are a red line. They [Israel] try by all means, and exert pressure by all means, and they continue to exert: ‘It cannot be that you will pay.’ And they’ll even deduct our money that’s in their hands. They’ll deduct from it the amount that we pay to the Martyrs. We have said that this is a red line and we will not allow [it]. From 1965 until now, this matter is sacred to us. The Martyrs and their families are sacred, [and so are] the wounded and the prisoners. We must pay all of them. If one penny remains in our hands it is for them and not for the living."
This video aired on official PA TV on Nov. 16, 17, 19, 21, 24, 27, 28, 30, 2018 and on Dec. 2, 3, 5, and 17, 2018, for a total of 17 times over four weeks. Some of the broadcasts occured twice a day.

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Science doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Research and researchers are connected to society as a whole, and their findings shape how people view the world — and make complex decisions with deep moral and ethical dimensions.
Since 1995, the AAAS program of Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER) has been exploring those issues alongside members of various faith communities. DoSER connects researchers and rabbis, theologians and theoreticians, pastors and post-docs at multiple levels to promote communication and understanding among groups that are often portrayed as being at odds with one another.
Jennifer Wiseman, an astrophysicist, has led the program since 2010. Se Kim joined the AAAS and DoSER leadership in 2013 after working in epigenetics at Rice University in Houston. Together with DoSER’s dynamic and diversely skilled team, the program enables multiple projects and events that provide invigorating conversation on the broader societal implications of scientific advances.
Q: DoSER is almost 25 years old. How has it evolved?
Wiseman: For about the last 10 years, the focus of DoSER has been to build science-based interactions with religious leaders and communities that would have the broadest positive impact across grassroots American society. This approach has affected some of the types of programming that we have taken on in recent years.
One of the most interesting projects we've undertaken in the last few years was called The Perceptions Project. This was an effort to understand the underlying perceptions, right or wrong, that various religious communities have about science and scientists — and likewise the underlying perceptions that scientists have about various religious communities. These perceptions can often shadow the actual discussions about science discoveries and their implications in society. We conducted a national survey of scientists and a large swath of the American public about these perceptions and attitudes, and then we held workshops in several cities across the U.S., where we brought together local religious and science leaders. Participants spent a day-and-a-half having facilitated dialogue to get to know each other’s interests and concerns. The workshops were absolutely fantastic, and we were particularly taken by the enthusiasm both the scientists and religious leaders had for participating.
What we learned was that many of these people from both groups and various regions of the country wanted to get to know each other better, but just had no architecture for doing that. By providing meeting venues, we helped launch long-term relationships and dialogue at the local level, and it was much appreciated.
Another strong effort that we are now undertaking is called Science for Seminaries. This is the result of years of planning and recommendations from AAAS scientists and from the leaders of various religious denominations, who noted that reaching religious leaders with good science during their training would be a great way to eventually open the doors to better science dialogue within religious congregations, which are the primary contexts for contemplating identity and societal values for a large portion of the general public.
Many religious leaders get very little exposure to science during their training. So we began to work with the Association of Theological Schools (ATS), a group that accredits hundreds of Christian seminaries, to help seminary administrators and faculty find practical ways to bring interesting and relevant science – such as genetics, neuroscience, and cosmology – into their courses and educational programs, with AAAS providing science resources and science advisors. We’re now working with dozens of seminaries after a very successful pilot program. We have also done similar work with rabbinic training institutions.
Q: How have technological advances affected the program and what it covers?
Wiseman: We are finding great interest among the diverse religious communities and ethical societies that we serve in a broad swath of science topics. Many people think that discussions with religious communities focus mainly on topics related to evolution. And indeed, many religious communities are interested in the evolutionary history of life, but we have found that for the most part the religious communities that we communicate with are quite interested in other topics, including genetics and what we’re learning about the genetic and epigenetic characteristics of human beings. They’re interested in the brain and recent advances in neuroscience and how that can impact human behavior and our choice-making abilities.
They're interested in ecology and environmental stewardship, and very much want to know what we’re learning about the environment and climate in particular, so that they can be more effective at serving communities around the world. Also, astronomy and cosmology are always topics of great interest and delight as people enjoy contemplating the beauty and dynamics of the universe. But they’re also intrigued by the idea that we are finding planets outside our solar system and even looking for life beyond Earth, and this has a lot of interesting philosophical implications for what it means for the significance of human life. All of these topics and more are of great interest to religious communities (which, by the way, often have scientists in their midst).
We also sponsor a popular series of public lectures and symposia that span topics from neuroscience to ecology to space exploration, bringing perspectives of scientists, ethicists, theologians, and science communicators together for rich dialogue on the broader implications of fascinating science.
Q: What drew you toward this program?
Wiseman: I found that as I would speak to various public groups about what we’re discovering in astronomy, there was great interest in appreciating these discoveries and wanting to understand more. That is true for all kinds of public groups, but also includes religious communities who are particularly interested in “big picture” questions. Science feeds into those “big picture” contemplations, through many lenses, of what it means to be human. I've been very pleased to see how much passionate interest there is in these very diverse communities about what we're discovering in science, and their desire for positive conversations about the implications of that science and how it can be used for good.
Kim: I always knew that my skill set was in administration and public engagement. I wanted to make a broader impact for advancing science beyond the bench through engagement. AAAS is a longstanding, well-recognized science advocacy organization, and it was a real joy as a scientist to land here.
Q: What project do you think has had the most impact, or maybe sparks the most dialogue?
Kim: Since I've been here, we administered the Perceptions Project, which Dr. Wiseman mentioned. I found that to be really powerful in opening up conversations, particularly when we brought together scientists with more conservative religious leaders. Some of the religious leaders had never visited a lab, and so it was really exciting for the scientists to open up their labs and offer these faith leaders an opportunity to see how science actually works. Likewise, scientists were appreciative of the chance to meet and get to know religious leaders in their own localities, hearing their values, interests, and concerns in a personal way.
As Dr. Wiseman also mentioned, the Science for Seminaries project integrates science into theological education with the understanding that people in faith communities often go to their religious leaders when they have questions about science. The small seed grants that AAAS offers to seminaries interested in integrating science allow them to be very proactive and to creatively incorporate diverse science topics into their courses and into broader campus or public events like science-themed book readings, speakers, lecture series, or fireside chats.
DoSER also supports scientists through the “Engaging Scientists in the Science and Religion Dialogue” project. This project is a result of the scientific community reaching out to DoSER about ways to communicate science and engage religious students and audiences on important issues in science. In collaboration with the AAAS Center for Public Engagement, DoSER has been hosting science communication workshops at meetings of professional scientific societies including the American Astronomical Society, American Geophysical Union, Society for Neuroscience, American Association for Physical Anthropology, and most recently the American Society for Human Genetics. DoSER is now taking these workshops to selected research university campuses that proposed to host them. The goal is to provide helpful guidance, resources, and tools to support scientists in their engagement with diverse audiences, including a new science communication booklet, which is available for download at no cost.
Q: There's been a lot more activism and a lot more outspokenness about the importance of science in recent years, but some of it may come off as abrasive. How has that played with the religious communities that DoSER engages?
Wiseman: People, including various religious groups, realize that science and technology affect every part of modern life, whether that's health care, agriculture, communications, education, or the environment. In that sense, science is definitely seen as not only relevant but critically important for the wellbeing of people around the world — and for religious communities, for the effectiveness of their ministries to serve people around the world. We also were pleased that many religious groups actually chose to be involved in things like the March for Science and were a visible presence in those marches. Many of these communities are interested in keeping science as an informed and positive component of their activities.
What may be the biggest misperceptions that people who take part in these programs have going in?
Kim: Studies show that a large percentage of American society and particularly global society is religious or identifies as religiously affiliated. What helps a lot of us as scientists is seeing that religious communities are genuinely interested in science and recognize the value that science brings. It’s very encouraging to know that diverse publics can be beneficial partners in advancing science and science policy.
It also encourages religious communities to know that scientists are service oriented. One of the things that we learned from the Perceptions Project is that scientists are always willing to talk about what they’re working on, and they’re excited to share their research. They care about how that science is applied and how it is contributing to society. We found enthusiasm among religious communities to hear from scientists of all stripes about their research, and likewise an interest from scientists to engage with religious communities about interesting advances in science and technology, and how such resulting knowledge, relationships, and partnerships can foster greater service to the world.


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Starting Strength is a classic and one of the best barbell-based training books ever written. Starting Strength (SS) devised by the brilliant Mark Rippetoe has grown a tremendous reputation over last decade or so for being able to help you add on plenty of poundage to each major lift. It’s important to start with the basics and there isn’t a simpler yet more effective strength program out there than SS.
As a rugby player, you want to become bigger, faster and stronger. If you look as strong as you are big then you will become a formidable force for the opposition to overcome. Increasing size alone isn’t feasible it’s important to increase strength, speed and power at the same rate to become a complete player. SS can also be used by anyone looking to improve their overall strength on key compound lifts. SS is one of the most popular training methods used in American Colleges and High Schools; this is mainly due to the effectiveness of the program and how simple it is to follow.
Mark Rippetoe has a strong opinion that if you are not using a barbell in your strength program, you are probably missing out on optimal results. Coach Rip is a huge fan of the big five exercises – Squat, Bench, Deadlift, Clean, Press.
The big problem with barbell training is that the majority of people don’t know how to do the lifts correctly; luckily for you there are plenty of guides on YouTube from Mark Rippetoe himself. We recommend you check out his videos after reading this training program to make sure you start the program using correct form.
The table above is an example of someone who would usually do 90kg to 100kg for their working set. If you do for example 50-60kg for your working set, warm up using the bar and then 30kg, 35kg, 40kg, 45kg then working set. Make sure you increase the weight slowly so that you get the muscle ready for the big three sets.
It is essential that you increase the weight EVERY SESSION. Progressive overload is key in SS so adding as little as 0.5kg every session will go a long way in 8 weeks. Make sure you understand that minor progress is better than no progress at all.
Many users of the SS program advocate GOMAD (Gallon of milk a day) we do not advocate such a drastic diet. As a rugby player or a general gym goer, looking good is an important aspect of weight training and so is athleticism. Adding unnecessary fat can be problematic, as it would decrease your performance. The lean approach is a far more effective, long-term strategy. You need to make sure you are getting enough protein in, 1 – 1.5g per pound of bodyweight is the optimal range. Additionally, you need to ensure that fats are at least 40g per day for optimal hormone production and the rest of your calories should come from carbohydrates. Many people have different carbohydrate intake, some people need a high amount while others don’t. Adjust accordingly and make sure you figure out your caloric maintenance for the day. By doing this you can add 500 calories on top of your maintenance, this will ensure you will be in a surplus and gain muscle mass and strength. It simply isn’t feasible to try to cover all aspects of nutrition here so check out the nutrition section on the website for more in-depth details.
Supplements don’t play a major role in this program but it would be beneficial to consume a whey protein shake post workout and some BCAAs before or intra workout. This will ensure optimal recovery times, as you will be squatting 3x a week you will need to recover as quickly as possible! Other beneficial supplements are multivitamins and fish oils, multivitamins will make sure your body has adequate vitamins and minerals for cell function whilst omega 3s will ensure your joints are lubricated and will improve your general well being.

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Match Group, which operates dating apps like Tinder and OkCupid, completed its acquisition of the 7-year-old app Hinge on Thursday, following its purchase of a majority stake in June 2018.
For years, Hinge has positioned itself as the alternative to Tinder, a way to get away from the shallowness and disappointment of flipping through trading-card profiles in an endless carousel. The self-proclaimed "relationship app," Hinge matched people based on their mutual friends, was supposedly "designed to be deleted," and boasted love as its core company value – purposely decentralizing the gamification central to swiping apps but never quite going after the advanced matchmaking algorithm promises of Match.com or OkCupid.
But in essence, all dating apps sell you the same thing, which is access to people who might want to date you, and some tools for sifting through them. There is very little about the technology itself that makes one or the other more valuable, so buying a new dating app is almost literally just buying more customers.
Right now, it looks like the near future will see every major dating app ending up in the same hands, just one of the many stories of industry consolidation we're witnessing in what antitrust expert Tim Wu has called the second Gilded Age , which is probably abstractly scary – but more tangibly so when you think about Facebook as the only company that could possibly stop it.
What is Hinge, and why would Match Group want it?
The dating app industry is a massively lucrative one, especially now that app-makers have figured out how to monetize all of their individual features: Match's fourth-quarter earnings for 2018 showed that Tinder added 1.2 million new users last year, and that it brought in $ 805 million in revenue – more than double the year before. In total, Match Group brought in about $ 1.7 billion, a pretty big share of a growing pie. Analysts estimate the global dating app market will be worth about $ 12 billion a year by 2020.
The former app empire owned by the umbrella company InterActiveCorp (IAC) was founded in 1995, with Match.com as its cornerstone. It also operates the study guide and college-rating company the Princeton Review, and now owns upward of 45 dating-related businesses, including 25 acquisitions. Following its incorporation in 2009, it began aggressively courting acquisitions, including OkCupid in 2011, then Plenty of Fish in 2015 – four months before its initial public offering, and which was valued at $ 2.9 billion. Its crown jewel is Tinder, which was developed by IAC's internal incubator Hatch Labs and launched in 2012.
Hinge, on the other hand, almost failed at launch. Founder Justin McLeod has said that it finished out its first year with only a few thousand users and $ 32,000 in the bank. It did not see rapid user growth until 2014, relying heavily on marketing that distinguished it as the alternative to Tinder. While Tinder did its best to match users with strangers, Hinge proposed that it would be slightly less alienating and confusing if your matches were based on mutual Facebook friends.
By 2015, it was a hit, and McLeod was claiming it arranged 35,500 dates and 1,500 relationships a week. But the app was exceedingly ugly, and fell under criticism for appealing to an elitist urge to abandon the masses of Tinder and migrate to something more insular. It did not seem like something the company was trying to hide. A Hinge spokesperson told Vox's Dylan Matthews at the time: "Hinge users are 99 percent college-educated, and the most popular industries include banking, consulting, media, and fashion. We recently found 35,000 users attended Ivy League schools. "
And though the user base was growing, McLeod told Vanity Fair that user satisfaction was dropping steadily. The company surveyed its users at the end of 2015 and found that 54 percent of its users reported "feeling lonely" after swiping, and that 81 percent had never found a long-term relationship. The app got a huge visual overhaul, and it was relaunched in October 2016 with a $ 7 monthly fee meant to weed out the unserious. The new profiles included both photos and "icebreakers" – a range of personal questions from which users could select three to answer and display on their profiles. Most importantly, they were in arranged in a vertical scroll.
"We've swiped left on swiping," the company announced. "Instead of … racking up matches, people engage with the rich stories on your profile for more human conversations. It's like Instagram profiles for dating. "And then:" $ 7 is less than your monthly Netflix or Spotify subscription, and nowhere near the cost of eHarmony ($ 60 / month) or Match.com ($ 42 / month). But it's enough to make sure everyone is on the same page and not just using Hinge for entertainment. "
But within a month, it was offering some users lifetime free memberships, and by 2017, the free tier was back for everyone. Today, the main differences between the free and premium versions are the filtering options. The free app lets users filter for gender, location, age, height, ethnicity, and religion. Hinge Preferred – which is still $ 7 a month – adds additional filters for politics, drinking, smoking, drug use, whether someone has children, and whether they want children. It also comes with unlimited likes and access to "Hinge Experts" to help design your profile.
While Tinder can boast that it's the top-grossing dating app and the second-top-grossing app overall in the app store, Hinge's website brags that it's the "mobile-first" dating app mentioned most often in The New York Times wedding section. (Not doing much for charges of elitism there, but it's catchy.) That's not the only way Hinge is different from Tinder – it collects better data. It's a more robust app and knows more about its users. It lets them set "Dealbreakers" on certain filters, emphasizing just how serious they are about never dating a person of a different religion or a certain height.
It uses what it refers to as a "machine learning algorithm" to pick out one person per day as your Most Compatible, and prods conversations forward with an "anti-ghosting" Your Turn feature. Most notably, in October 2018, Hinge launched "We Met," which asks users to give feedback on the real-life dates they'd been on. This information is supposedly used to improve the matchmaking algorithm, and the Hinge site states, "What we learn from 'We Met' will only be used to improve the algorithm and ensure that the Hinge community remains safe and respectful."
Nevertheless , tons of data about the people who chose a middle ground between the ruthless swipe game of Tinder and the serious business of Match.com is valuable for Match, and could potentially be used to steer product decisions throughout its portfolio.
Match CEO Mandy Ginsberg explained Match's acquisition of Hinge by saying it's "highly relevant, particularly among urban, educated millennial women looking for relationships. "
An interesting and somewhat pointed choice of words given Match Group's failed attempt to acquire Bumble – the women-first swiping app led by Tinder co-founder Whitney Wolfe Herd in 2014, around the time Herd was settling a sexual harassment lawsuit with her former employer.
Match Group sued Bumble in March 2018 for stealing its intellectual property – i.e., Tinder's swiping functionality. Ten days later, Bumble filed its own patent infringement suit, saying that Match Group pretended to be interested in an acquisition of the company in the summer of 2017 only to gain access to privileged information and steal trade secrets, as well as "[chill] the market for an investment in Bumble. "Bumble also bought an entire page of the New York Times and used it to call Match Group a" bully, "adding," We swipe left on your multiple attempts to buy us, copy us, and , now, to intimidate us. "
Bumble later dropped its countersuit, but it did nothing to improve relations between the two companies. Match accused Bumble of engineering the entire drama "[a] on the hook to begin promoting the fact that Bumble was looking into conducting an Initial Public Offering on the New York Stock Exchange." Bumble told The Verge it still believed Match was "bent on trying to impair the very business it was so desperate to buy. "This is not exactly the dirtiest tech startup battle of the past 10 years, but it should not be overlooked.
Nor should Match Group's consolidation of power and arguable stifling of competition, even though that's unlikely to concern the Federal Trade Commission.
"For former startups, resistance against IAC is futile," Wired's Issie Lapowsky wrote in 2014, reflecting on the company's acquisition of HowAboutWe – a New York-based company that had tried to avoid selling to Match Group by diversifying its revenue with an editorial arm. Two months later, the company had been sold to Match after all. In a 2018 interview with Recode's Kara Swisher, Ginsberg, the Match CEO, pointed out that her company also owns OurTime, the most popular dating app specifically for people ages 50 and up; and BlackPeopleMeet, the most popular dating app specifically for black people; and has recently launched BLK "for young millennial African Americans," as well as Chispa, "a big partnership with Univision to attract the Latino community."
She asserted that Match Group is growing its portfolio globally at all times, filling in gaps with acquisitions, and that, in the meantime, "Every person who's 18, 19, 20 should be on Tinder … we really want to be integrated into people's single social life, especially when they're young."
Consolidation in the dating app industry does not look as urgent as consolidation in industries like social media or online retail or pharmaceuticals, and if the FTC is busy working up the nerve and resources to do anything at all about Facebook, that's definitely more important. Though, ironically, Facebook recently began testing its own dating app – undoubtedly the only new project in the space that could threaten Match's dominance. Facebook already has the largest map of social networks in human history, with more than 2 billion active users. We're hurtling toward an increasingly monopolized future, where the only challenges come from other preexisting monopolies.


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TARÍN, MANUEL ANTONIO SANTIAGO (1811–?). Manuel Tarín, Tejano soldierqv, was born in San Antonio de Béxar on July 24, 1811, the oldest son of Vizente Tarín, an officer in the Second Flying Company of San Carlos de Parras (Álamo de Parras Company), and Juana Isidora Leal, daughter of Joaquín Leal. He was baptized two days later by the military chaplain at the Valero mission. The Tarín family lived in a simple jacal near the mission's compound. In April 1813 Manuel's father resigned his command to join the invasion forces of the Gutiérrez-Magee expedition. After the rebels' subsequent defeat at the battle of Medina, he fled to Natchitoches, leaving his family behind. When Spanish General Joaquín de Arredondo's troops recaptured the Texas capital, the family's property was confiscated, leaving them destitute. The female members of the insurgents' families, including Manuel's mother, were imprisoned and subjected to the cruelest of conditions for nearly two months. After her release, she and Manuel found refuge with Father José Darío Zambrano, the parish priest of San Fernando Church. Zambrano was a known royalist but was also Manuel's godfather. By 1814, a conditional pardon was issued to the insurgents. Although this restored some of the property that had been confiscated, Manuel's father defied the pardon, forcing the family to remain in the care of the priest for many years.
Manuel became a private in the reorganized Álamo de Parras Company, serving under Lt. Col. José Francisco Ruiz by 1830. That year the Álamo de Parras Company was ordered to build and occupy Fort Tenoxtitlán, a remote frontier garrison on the Brazos River. Over a two-year period sporadic payroll shipments, isolation, and eventually starvation prompted numerous desertions from the post. Tarín deserted twice and each time was arrested and restored to duty with little more than a reprimand. He returned to San Antonio with the Álamo Company in September 1832. His continued discontent with the Mexican military was further demonstrated in the spring of 1833, when he was apprehended with his brother, José Vizente Tarín, and another accomplice attempting to steal guns from the Álamo arsenal. Tarín, like many other Tejano dissidents, ultimately aligned himself with the growing Texas army. He participated in the siege of Bexar in 1835 under Stephen F. Austin's command. By February 22, 1836, he had mustered into Juan N. Seguín's company of Tejanos. Although he was present with Seguín at San Jacinto, illness prevented him from participating in the final battle. He served for the duration of the war and left the army in the rank of corporal in July 1837. For his participation in the revolution, he received several hundred acres in bounty warrants and donation land grants. Manuel married María Luisa Cásares by 1846; they had at least two children. He died sometime after 1849.
Bexar County Archives, San Antonio. Carlos E. Castañeda, Our Catholic Heritage in Texas (7 vols., Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1936–58; rpt., New York: Arno, 1976). Jesús F. de la Teja, ed., A Revolution Remembered: The Memoirs and Selected Correspondence of Juan N. Seguín (Austin: State House Press, 1991). Ruben Rendon Lozano, Viva Tejas: The Story of the Tejanos, the Mexican-born Patriots of the Texas Revolution (San Antonio: Southern Literary Institute, 1936; 2d ed., San Antonio: Alamo Press, 1985). Thomas L. Miller, Bounty and Donation Land Grants of Texas, 1835–1888 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967). Residents of Texas, 1782–1836 (microfilm, San Antonio: University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures, 1984).
Handbook of Texas Online, Randell G. Tarín, "TARIN, MANUEL ANTONIO SANTIAGO," accessed April 19, 2019, http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fta61.


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Marine Lcpl. Ryan T. McCaughn - Run for the Fallen New Hampshire, Inc.
19, of Manchester, NH; killed in action conducting combat operations in Anbar province, Iraq.
Ryan was born in Jacksonville N.C., the home of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. He spent his early years in North Carolina and Missouri and settled in Manchester, New Hampshire. He was raised by his mother Nicole and his stepfather Raymond. Even as a child, friends said that Ryan was clear in his military ambitions. Both of his parents were former servicemen; his mother served briefly in the U.S. Army and his father, Thomas McCaughn was a Marine. His older brother Chris served in the Air Force and his brother Sean Merlin served in the Navy.
Friends describe Ryan as an irrepressible comedian who used to torment his school bus driver and sometimes splashed around in puddles just for laughs. He performed on stage with Maskers, his high-school drama club, and wasn't afraid to dress up as a woman if the part demanded it. As a high schooler, he took culinary classes at the Manchester School of Technology. He and his friends, Kyle Schmidt and Greg Lake, talked of one day opening a restaurant and bar. Ryan, they said, was going to take business classes so he could be the manager. Mostly though, friends and relatives said he spoke of joining the military and later, becoming a police officer. He worked extra hard during his senior year to complete the requirements necessary for enrolling in the Marines, at one point taking three English classes in a single semester.
At 17, he asked his mother to help him sign up for duty. "He said he was going to sign up anyway when he was 18," Schmidt said, "but he would feel better if it was with her consent."
He left for boot camp at Parris Island one week after graduating in June 2005 and was then stationed in Camp Lejeune, N.C. Although he wasn't allowed to divulge most details of his mission, friends and family members said they know he was living in Ramadi, the southwestern point of the Sunni Triangle, and that he patrolled the region with a grenade launcher and M16 rifle. "He said he needed to do this," his mother recalled. "He said if he could keep one dad from going to Iraq and he could take his place instead, then he'll feel like he's accomplished something."
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In these pages, we (artists, researchers, activists) try to rethink the experience of collective creative living here and now. Living for the sake of knowledge, art, and action.
Here we describe and elaborate a method for working with reality. The general method applied here, in this newspaper, was first tried out in kitchens, in blogs, and on the streets.
The collective hunger strike of our Petersburg comrades, inscribed in the historical moment by their radical interpretation of this experience.
The production of a new activist film. It re-enacts and ponders the thrilling events of the collective experiencing and socialization of leftist knowledge in our communal seminar in progress.
The wave of protest actions in support of a Novosibirsk artist.
The resolution to write a collective political communiqué.
This method is applied by merging all these elements into a single juncture in a particular place, into a concrete historical moment that we have collectively experienced and acknowledged, and by analyzing this moment in medias res.
We, the researchers, artists, and activists who initiated and participated in the “Communal Life” seminar, which took place on May 9, 2009, in the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) and was subjected to an illegal raid by the Center for Extremism Prevention (Center “E”), call on everyone to protest the crude violations of constitutional rights and liberties that have become the norm in today’s Russia.
We see only one reason for law enforcement’s attack on our seminar: the fact that activists were among the participants. Society has been sent a signal about how far art and academic work can be politicized: If you involve people who are under the surveillance of the Center for Extremism Prevention in your cultural and academic events, then the authorities are prepared to intervene.
Drawing on the historical tradition of political practices in art and thought, we affirm that visual art, poetry, philosophy, and the humanities possess a powerful emancipatory potential. That is why contemporary culture is unthinkable unless it extends to people who are not indifferent to the processes taking place in society. This is what scares the policemen who, in the worst traditions of TV crime serials, carry out raids on people as they peacefully discuss art and philosophy, watch a Godard film, and think about the place of art and thought in public life.
This chronicle attempts to place several events that impacted our coalition of activists, artists, and thinkers during May 2009 within the broader context that generated and shaped them. We might have begun our chronicle of this “merry month” much earlier—for example, in July 2002, when the first version of the Russian federal law on “extremism” took effect. We should at least return to the equally “merry” autumn of 2008, when the Interior Ministry’s organized crime unit was reformed as the Department for Extremism Prevention, the so-called Center “E” whose operatives have played a key role in many of the events we mention here. This reform took place amidst public avowals by high state officials that they would not allow “extremists” and other malevolent forces to take advantage of the growing world economic crisis to “destabilize” the country.
It is very difficult to understand what is going on in medias res, from the inside: these are events that are in the process of development, that affect us personally and assail us from all sides without allowing us to assume the stance of a dispassionate observer. These events affect many of us, sometimes in the literal, physical sense. The command “Hands against the wall!” A stunning blow to the head in a bus filled with people nabbed at a demonstration. Or, for example, the indescribably grotesque intrusion of a detachment of armed, shouting men during the showing of a Godard film at a peaceful leftist seminar. For about a year now the solidarity networks have been constantly delivering reports of new arrests, unlawful summonses for “discussions,” and beatings of activists. It is possible, however, that we should not be so focused on ourselves. The bad news concerns not only the minority of activists and intellectuals. The news also comes from those who are not involved in politics, education or research—from “average citizens.” The very texture of post-Soviet society in recent years has been steeped in anonymous, free-floating violence committed by the “forces of law and order.” Violence against civilians has become a kind of collateral damage, an excess of the existing system of political management. Sometimes this anonymous violence takes on personal and transgressive features. For example, in the person of a police officer who shoots at customers in a supermarket with the cold-bloodedness of a character in a computer game.
The Kiev Arts Council (Khudsovet), founded in summer 2008, unites a number of young artists, architects, translators, political activists, literary theorists, curators, designers, and journalists—a total of nineteen people.* The Arts Council functions as a curatorial group and, at the same time, as a discussion and self- (mutual-) education community. The projects of the Arts Council are based on communication, which the participants perceive as something intrinsically valuable, as a source of pleasure, and as an opportunity to go beyond the limits of alienated fields of specialized knowledge.
The work of the Arts Council is built on total verbalization and clear argumentation. Decisions made in this non-authoritarian space are repeatedly bathed and formed by the flow of words. This obviously restricts the mobility of the Arts Council: produced via irregular meetings and written correspondence, its activity can attain only a quite limited velocity. But such deceleration also holds us back from the competitive environment of today’s culture industry, where the speed of production and exposition renders the artistic utterance completely empty and senseless.
This essay will not be about the Street University. I’m tired of retelling the story. Anyone who has heard of it, regardless of their opinion of the experiment, knows that its “self-organized classes are held in the street” and its “actions are aimed at putting the public back into public space.” But what is the Street University really, with its disorderly organization, its surplus capacity for generating myths, and the constant disappointments and charms this practice provokes in its participants.
From May 28 to June 10, 2009, several artists in Petersburg organized a plein air session outside the Smolny Institute (Petersburg city hall), where they painted the horror (of Russian reality) from life.
From May 28 to June 10 those artists were on a hunger strike.
The beautiful views of St. Petersburg conceal a grim reality: summonses to prophylactic interviews, intimidation of civic activists, and cops acting with impunity in the streets. It is the duty of artists to reflect reality, no matter how horrific, by exposing its darker aspects. […] The illegal mass detention of the May 1 street demonstration organized by Petersburg artists, along with the arrest of our ‘brother in art’ Artem Loskutov in Novosibirsk on an absurd charge leave us with no doubts, and no choice. We, the artists of St. Petersburg, are forced to declare a hunger strike with the goal of appealing to the authorities to observe their own laws and our constitutional rights, and to cease the repression of artists. There must be an end to the criminalization of contemporary art.
E. Drobysheva /// The trial, or, is there life according to Kafka?
The case of Novosibirsk artist Artem Loskutov, arrested on May 15 of this year, is now widely known outside of Novosibirsk. It has given us serious cause to pay particular attention to the work of the law enforcement authorities, particularly the Department for Extremism Prevention (the so-called Center “E”), which took such an interest in Artem’s art. On the other hand, it should cause us to reflect on the methods and forms of resisting what should be characterized as Kafkaesque absurdity rather than growing idiocy.
The Radek Community emerged from dissatisfaction with the Moscow art scene. It arose within Avdei Ter-Oganyan’s School of Contemporary Art (SCA) project, which was an educational institution, habitat, and tool for transformation rolled into one.
The actions of the SCA (School of the Avant-Garde, 1997; Get Out of Art, 1998), the Non-Governmental Control Commission (Barricade, 1998; Mausoleum, 1999) or our own group actions and statements (Demonstration, 2000; Sheaves, 2001) were not the extent of Radek’s activity. Most of the work was focused within the group and was outside the sphere of artistic representation. The group was not just a space for self-education and discussing ideas. It not only created a context in which its participants could develop, but itself was a subject of our theoretical and artistic energies. Attention was focused on structuring relationships amongst ourselves, experimenting with forms of communication, avoiding the formation of hierarchies within the group, insisting on collective decision making. In the artistic field we refused to sign our own names, using instead the group name. The group was a space for making continuous, intense ethical, aesthetic and intellectual demands on one another and challenging outsiders. What to say, how to say it, how to act and how to appear (although not at all in the sense of being fashionable or looking a certain way) were important. Philosophy was a direct guide for how to manage our time, our feelings and our body, the body of the group. But theory was not the only reference point for what Radek should be. We kept abreast of the art situation and conceived of ourselves primarily as an art group.
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The United States government isn’t doing much to shed the stereotype of the ugly American. On Thursday, the office of U.S. Vice President Mike Pence sent a trip schedule to the press saying Pence would visit with Peru President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski at the Americas Summit, according to Bloomberg.
The document has since been corrected to say that Pence will be meeting with Peru’s actual president, Martín Vizcarra, instead of the aforementioned Kuczynski, who resigned last month on the heels of tape recordings apparently showing he was buying votes in his favor to stop his potential impeachment via Congress.
Pence will be arriving in Lima today to take part in the two-day Summit of the Americas in lieu of President Donald Trump, who is staying in the U.S. to deal with possible attacks on Syria and mounting legal concerns following the raid of his personal lawyer’s office by the FBI.
There’s probably no more fitting expression for what happened here than the Spanish phrase “metió la pata” (“put your foot in your mouth”), as it may confirm the worst stereotypes to Latin American officials that the U.S. authorities are largely indifferent to the region’s issues.
A recent Gallup poll shows only 16 percent of Latin Americans approve of Trump, who has made disparaging remarks about Mexicans, has reiterated his desire to build a border wall, and been vocal about the possibility of throwing out the 25-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement.
Some Peruvians questioned said the mystique around the U.S. has wained under Trump. One commenter told CNBC ahead of the summit that Trump’s populist act is easy to spot for Latinos who have had to suffer through dictators and corrupt politicians for their entire lives.


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THE MONEY SOURCE, INC., et al., Defendants.
This matter comes before the Court on Defendants' Unopposed Motion for Leave to File Exhibits Under Seal (doc. 99).
The March 2 Order's directive that The Money Source and LoanCare make a sufficient showing to justify the across-the-board sealing of their summary judgment exhibits is rooted in important public policy considerations. Federal courts have long recognized a strong presumption in favor of allowing public access to judicial records. See, e.g., Chicago Tribune Co. v. Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc., 263 F.3d 1304, 1311 (11th Cir. 2001) (“The common-law right of access to judicial proceedings, an essential component of our system of justice, is instrumental in securing the integrity of the process. … [T]he common-law right of access includes the right to inspect and copy public records and documents.”). “Indeed, the common law right of public access to judicial documents is said to predate the Constitution.” United States v. Byrd, 11 F.Supp.3d 1144, 1148 (S.D. Ala. 2014) (citation and internal marks omitted). Importantly, the presumption of public access extends to “[m]aterial filed in connection with any substantive pretrial motion, unrelated to discovery, ” and to any “motion that is presented to the court to invoke its powers or affect its decisions.” Romero v. Drummond Co., 480 F.3d 1234, 1246 (11th Cir. 2007) (citations and internal quotation marks omitted). “Litigants may not override that presumption by simply referencing a protective order.” Allstate Ins. Co. v. Regions Bank, 2015 WL 4073184, *2 n.3 (S.D. Ala. July 2, 2015); see also Suell v. United States, 32 F.Supp.3d 1190, 1192 (S.D. Ala. 2014) (“[t]he mere existence of a protective order does not automatically override the public's right of access”).
In their Motion for Leave to File Exhibits under Seal, The Money Source and LoanCare have recognized the requirements for sealing motions, as set forth in General L.R. 5.2(b). They state that the subject exhibits include materials produced in discovery pursuant to a protective order and designated “Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only.” They explain in broad language that these exhibits contain the following: (i) private information relating to plaintiff, Anastasia Diehl, as well as her loan and credit account; (ii) defendants' proprietary information; (iii) defendants' “[c]ompetitively sensitive information;” and (iv) sensitive or proprietary “agreements and related documentation.” (Doc. 99, ¶ 7.) And they enumerate in general terms their position that many exhibits include “[c]ertain documents” marked “Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only” and that the depositions excerpts include “[p]ortions” that refer to documents with such designations. (Id., ¶ 13.) Based on this showing, the Court is confident that, at least as to some part of the voluminous summary judgment exhibits, private interests in preserving confidentiality may outweigh the presumption of public access to judicial materials.
Here is the rub: The Court also has no doubt that the universe of information and documents as to which any legitimate sealing interest under Rule 26 exists is considerably smaller than defendants have requested. In its present form, the “seal-everything” Motion for Leave to File Exhibits Under Seal is breathtakingly overbroad. Part of the problem is that, as so often occurs in discovery, the litigants were overinclusive in their liberal use of the “Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only” designation in their document production. Moreover, the excessive nature of the sealing motion is exacerbated by the inclusion of deposition excerpts in which the witness is not even discussing confidential exhibits, much less disclosing their contents in a way that reasonably implicates private concerns about disclosure of sensitive information. A few examples (among the many that are readily apparent) illustrate the point. Defendants say the Declaration of Allison Bielby (doc. 90, Exh. A) must be sealed because the exhibits to such declaration were produced by LoanCare and marked “Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only.” However, the Bielby Declaration itself merely traces Anastasia Diehl's loan history, including the loan amount, the promissory note, the mortgage, the servicing of the loan, payment history, correspondence between Diehl and LoanCare, the witness's determinations as to the cause and responsible party for Diehl's payments being misrouted, and the like. Nothing in the Declaration appears to divulge “proprietary” or “commercially sensitive” information belonging to LoanCare. A copy of the Mortgage is attached to the Bielby Declaration as an exhibit, and marked “Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only, ” but a mortgage recorded in probate court cannot reasonably be viewed as confidential or proprietary. Another exhibit is the “Equity Accelerator” program agreement between LoanCare and Diehl, but Bielby unequivocally declares that this program “is not affiliated with LoanCare in any way, ” so even if this agreement were secret (which seems highly unlikely) it does not appear that public disclosure of same would trammel any legitimate privacy concerns of defendants. For another example, defendants say LoanCare's Exhibit D must be sealed because it contains documents marked “Confidential - Attorneys' Eyes Only.” This three-page exhibit consists exclusively of correspondence between Diehl and LoanCare concerning Diehl's request to “set up biweekly automatic payments.” (Doc. 90, Exh. D.) There appears to be nothing remotely proprietary, commercially sensitive or “confidential” anywhere in this exhibit.
Simply put, defendants' evidentiary submission appears to consist in substantial part of documents as to which the presumption of public access has not been overcome and does not appear to be offset by any countervailing private interests. It is not appropriate to seal a large stack of exhibits simply because a small subset may implicate bona fide private interests in confidentiality. To the contrary, The Money Source and Loan Care bear the burden of making a particularized showing that the Rule 26 good cause balancing test is satisfied with respect to each sealed item. See, e.g., Suell, 32 F.Supp.3d at 1192 (“The governing standard must be applied by the plaintiffs to each document, and to each portion of each document, separately.”); General L.R. 5.2(b)(2)(B) (motion to seal must articulate “[t]he basis upon which the party seeks the order, including the reasons why alternatives to sealing are inadequate”). Defendants have not done so here. An obvious, viable alternative to sealing every single page of movants' evidentiary submission would be for defendants to file an additional, unsealed, redacted copy of their exhibits, and thereby to facilitate public access to all portions of the deposition transcripts and documents that do not truly contain proprietary or competitively sensitive information.

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SSLv3 is older than my daughter, but is still supported by all major browsers. The latest crypto bug is a MITM (man in the middle) attack that could allow anyone with a network device (WiFi router) sitting between browser users and the destination SSLv3 server (https “secure” bank site, for instance) to snoop on the connection in plain text.
Disabling SSL 3.0 support, or CBC-mode ciphers with SSL 3.0, is sufficient to mitigate this issue, but presents significant compatibility problems, even today. Therefore our recommended response is to supportTLS_FALLBACK_SCSV. This is a mechanism that solves the problems caused by retrying failed connections and thus prevents attackers from inducing browsers to use SSL 3.0. It also prevents downgrades from TLS 1.2 to 1.1 or 1.0 and so may help prevent future attacks.
My colleague, Bodo Möller, in collaboration with Thai Duong and Krzysztof Kotowicz (also Googlers), just posted detailsabout a padding oracle attack against CBC-mode ciphers in SSLv3. This attack, called POODLE, is similar to the BEAST attackand also allows a network attacker to extract the plaintext of targeted parts of an SSL connection, usually cookie data. Unlike the BEAST attack, it doesn’t require such extensive control of the format of the plaintext and thus is more practical.
The last block contains seven bytes of padding (represented as •) and the final byte is the length of the padding. (And I’ve used a fictional, 8-byte MAC, but that doesn’t matter.) Before transmission, those blocks would be encrypted with 3DES or AES in CBC mode to provide confidentiality.
block cipherdecryptionKeyPlaintextCiphertextInitialization Vector (IV)block cipherdecryptionKeyPlaintextCiphertextblock cipherdecryptionKeyPlaintextCiphertextAn attacker can’t see the plaintext contents like we can in the diagram, above. They only see the CBC-encrypted ciphertext blocks. But what happens if the attacker duplicates the block containing the cookie data and overwrites the last block with it? When the receiver decrypts the last block it XORs in the contents of the previous ciphertext (which the attacker knows) and checks the authenticity of the data. Critically, since SSLv3 doesn’t specify the contents of the padding (•) bytes, the receiver cannot check them. Thus the record will be accepted if, and only if, the last byte ends up as a seven.
Note that the Cookie data has been shifted so that the second to last byte of the data is now at the end of the block. So, with another 256 requests the attacker can expect to have decrypted that byte and so on.
Thus, with an average of 256×n requests and a little control of the layout of those requests, an attacker can decrypt n bytes of plaintext from SSLv3. The critical part of this attack is that SSLv3 doesn’t specify the contents of padding bytes (the •s). TLS does and so this attack doesn’t work because the attacker only has a 2-64 or 2-128 chance of a duplicated block being a valid padding block.
This should be an academic curiosity because SSLv3 was deprecated very nearly 15 years ago. However, the Internet is vast and full of bugs. The vastness means that a non-trivial number of SSLv3 servers still exist and workarounds for the bugs mean that an attacker can convince a browser to use SSLv3 even when both the browser and server support a more recent version. Thus, this attack is widely applicable.
SSL/TLS has a perfectly good version negotiation mechanism that should prevent a browser and server that support a modern TLS version from using anything less. However, because some servers are buggy and don’t implement version negotiation correctly, browsers break this mechanism by retrying connections with lesser SSL/TLS versions when TLS handshaking fails. These days we’re more aware of the fact that fallback behaviour like this is a landmine for the future (as demonstrated today) but this TLS fallback behaviour was enshrined long ago and we’re stuck with it. It means that, by injecting some trivial errors on the network, an attacker can cause a browser to speak SSLv3 to any server and then run the above attack.
It’s no revelation that this fallback behaviour is bad news. In fact, Bodo and I have a draft out for a mechanism to add a second, less bug-rusted mechanism to prevent it called TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV. Chrome and Google have implemented it since February this year and so connections from Chrome to Google are already protected. We are urging server operators and other browsers to implement it too. It doesn’t just protect against this specific attack, it solves the fallback problem in general. For example, it stops attackers from downgrading TLS 1.2 to 1.1 and 1.0 and thus removing modern, AEAD ciphers from a connection. (Remember, everything less than TLS 1.2 with an AEAD mode is cryptographically broken.) There should soon be an updated OpenSSL version that supports it.
Even with TLS_FALLBACK_SCSV, there will be a long tail of servers that don’t update. Because of that, I’ve just landed a patchon Chrome trunk that disables fallback to SSLv3 for all servers. This change will break things and so we don’t feel that we can jump it straight to Chrome’s stable channel. But we do hope to get it there within weeks and so buggy servers that currently function only because of SSLv3 fallback will need to be updated.
In Firefox you can go into about:config and set security.tls.version.min to 1. I expect that other browser vendors will publish similar instructions over the coming days.As a server operator, it is possible to stop this attack by disabling SSLv3, or by disabling CBC-mode ciphers in SSLv3. However, the compatibility impact of this is unclear. Certainly, disabling SSLv3 completely is likely to break IE6. Some sites will be happy doing that, some will not.
A little further down the line, perhaps in about three months, we hope to disable SSLv3 completely. The changes that I’ve just landed in Chrome only disable fallback to SSLv3 – a server that correctly negotiates SSLv3 can still use it. Disabling SSLv3 completely will break even more than just disabling the fallback but SSLv3 is now completely broken with CBC-mode ciphers and the only other option is RC4, which is hardly that attractive. Any servers depending on SSLv3 are thus on notice that they need to address that now.
There are several excellent articles about the attack. Adam Langley (Google) has published technical details of the attack. Matthew Green (Johns Hopkins University) has also posted a less technical blog post on the attack and Google has released a security advisory.
This report is maintained by computer scientists at the University of Michigan including Zakir Durumeric, David Adrian, James Kasten, Drew Springall, Michael Bailey, and J. Alex Halderman. The team can be contacted at poodle-team@umich.edu.
As of October 12, 2014, nearly all (96.9%) of the HTTPS Alexa Top 1 Million websites supported SSLv3, and a small number (0.12%) did not support any version of TLS.
In order to check for SSLv3 and TLS support, we performed DNS lookups for each of the domains, and then connected to each IP address and recorded the highest version of TLS supported. We then performed a secondary SSLv3 handshake to determine whether each site supported SSLv3. The numbers represent which sites support SSLv3, not which sites support SSLv3 and also prefer a CBC-mode cipher suite. We will be posting updated numbers in the near future with this distinction.
We have posted a list of Alexa domains that support SSLv3, but not TLS at the bottom of the page. We have also posted our raw data for the Alexa domains.
A slightly higher percentage (98.2%) of all sites with browser trusted certificates support SSLv3. In order to measure the deployment of SSL for the full IPv4 address space, we performed a port scan on port 443 for the entire public IPv4 address space using the ZMap Internet Scanner. We attempted to perform both a TLS handshake and SSLv3 handshake to determine both the highest version of TLS that each host supported and whether SSLv3 was supported at all. We then performed certificate validation using the golang TLS library and Mozilla NSS’s root certificate store. We have also posted our raw data for public IPv4 addresses which only support SSLv3.
We also show the breakdown of support for all hosts on the public IPv4 address space, which was collected using the same methodology as Browser Trusted Certificates, but without any certificate validation.
The following websites in the Alexa Top 1 Million supported SSLv3, but did not support any versions of TLS in our last scan on October 14, 2014 at 10:00 PM EST. These sites are holding back web browsers from removing support for the compromised SSLv3 protocol. We urge these sites to deploy TLS.


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