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I went to the Biergarten on a Saturday for lunch. I ordered the Pimento cheese roll appetizer (recommended by the server), Pork Schnitzel, tried two different beers, and my dining companion had sweet tea and a salad. The pimento cheese rolls lacked any discernible taste other than 'gooey cheese', could have been Velveeta for all I know. The pork schnitzel was as tough as shoe leather and tasted about the same as one would expect shoe leather to taste. Proper schnitzel, when prepared correctly, has been pounded thin, and could basically be cut with a fork. This was certainly not true of the Biergarten's version which was a carved piece of meat, that was then egg-battered and dredged through flour. Thankfully we passed on the 'beer card'. $50 for lunch that was not very tasty? I do not think so. My lasting impression is that if you desire a large space to hang out and drink beer, this is probably a good option, but I would skip on the food. Parking, as mentioned in several others post is a major problem.
horrible place, food is sucks, service is slow. i was there yesterday to watch halloween contest. i do not f.. believe that winners had no costumes won. Judges eliminated really good costumes like everybody's favorite rednecks couple. i believe winners were friends with bar stuffs or judges. worst halloween contest ever ever ever. highly not recommended. place needs to shut down.
I have been going to Morgan Creek grill for several years. Haven't ever thought much of the service or the food, but love the location. After enjoying a nice afternoon downstairs at the Creek with friends I learned a few days later that they had charged my credit card twice. I called immediately and after speaking with 3 people was transferred to Carla Pope the "manager" who told me "it was a busy day, it was a human error." I totally agreed. Carla said they would refund my credit card for the second duplicate charge, so I asked that the restaurant also pay the expenses they incurred because of their double charge and Carla refused. She told me "its not our fault you can't manage your money." What? As a local who has frequently Morgan Creek Grill for years I cannot believe the outrageous attitude and behavior Carla exhibited. Where is the service recovery? After speaking with the bank today and no refund has been processed I will be contacting the fraud department.
I have never been treated so poorly in my life. My 2 year old hit his head and screamed in pain. When we were able to calm him down a few minutes later we placed our order. Literally, a minute later, the general manager, Travis, came over and asked "IS THERE GOING TO BE A PROBLEM HERE? YOU'RE KID'S YELLING IS DISTURBING!" Nevermind that he almost busted his head open and we were clearly emabarrased that we quickly requested boxes. On our way out, he took it upon himself to to tell us "BYE BYE!" As if he was the conquering hero that saved his patrons from the terrible 2 1/2 and 1 year old children. After we went home and put our kids to sleep for their nap, I went back to calmly let him know I have never been treated so poorly and wouldn't be coming back even though I have been there regularly for a decade. He actually told me he doesn't want to tell me how to raise my kids, but he had to look after his other customers comfort. Clearly he doesn't have kids, or he would have known that we were more worried about our son's well being than disturbing a few tourists sucking down horrible, overpriced Bloody Mary's at the bar. Way to go Travis, you clearly care about your regular customers.
OK drinks. Horrible service. The bartender (possibly owner) was disrespectful and confrontational. Better to take your business a few doors down to any of the other cocktail bars on King St.
Fondue? More like fon-DON'T...
I visited Fonduely Yours with my girlfriend last night for her birthday. She's a vegetarian, so she brought her own vegetable broth to cook her food in. We arrived around 6:30 on a Thursday evening; we were the only diners in the restaurant. We were promptly seated in a far corner of the restaurant, where we reviewed the menu as we waited for our server. When she finally arrived, we ordered some drinks and then asked her if we could move to a table with two hot-plates so that I wouldn't dip my chicken or shrimp into her veggie broth. She curtly replied "No."
I gave her a bit of a funny look, as I was sure she was joking with us. Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. Two burner tables, it turns out, are reserved for parties of five or more. She returned with our drinks after a few minutes, so we asked again about the table. At this point our other options were for me to eat veggies only (not the end of the world) or go elsewhere. She changed her story and said it was OK to move to a new table, considering there was literally nobody else in the place save the three fellows posted up at the bar. She neither looked nor sounded happy about this accommodation.
Our first fondue pot was brought to the table along with some bread. Before we had the opportunity to melt our cheese, the manager (?) came by our table. "Your hostess tells me that you asked to be seated at a two burner table", he said. Here it comes, I thought, a quick apology for her handling of our request; nice touch. What came next literally dropped my jaw. "That's not allowed. You have to go back to your original table." Apparently there was a rush of five-tops coming in a matter of seconds, as he made it clear they would not allow us to use two pots to keep our veggie broth free of meat residue. We asked him to reconsider pointing out that none of the two burner tables had a single patron seated at them, but he was adamant.
As a result of their inflexibility regarding seating policy, we chose to request our check, pay for two drinks that had barely been touched, and take our business elsewhere. As I signed my credit card receipt, the manager said "I'm sorry you feel that way" in the snarkiest tone he could muster. We headed for the door, mindful to keep an eye peeled for the ravenous hordes surely headed in, lest we be trampled. To our surprise, however, the parking lot was empty. Curious.
Since we didn't eat a bite of food, I can't comment on that aspect of this restaurant. It is, however, very dark, not very clean looking, and has a stink about it thanks to decades of smoking inside. Every person that we dealt with looked unhappy to be there and exhibited terrible customer service skills. There are other fondue options in Charleston on a Thursday night, I strongly encourage you to explore them. I know my girlfriend and I will never be back.
I have been here twice in 2 years. Had to give it a second chance. While the atmosphere is cozy, the food is nothing to talk about or eat! The worst sheppards pie I've ever had. It had chili base with chunks of potatoes on top. Awful! You need a new chef!
I live in the near vicinity of Parson Jack's and have tried the restaurant a couple of times. The first time I went there, the service was so so, but having worked in the service industry for years, I know that there are some nights when the staff is just "off." The second time I went there, the service was still pretty lacking. For example, I asked for a glass with my bottled beer and the waitress looked at me like I was crazy for asking for such a thing. I was with friends who knew the waitress, so i didn't make a big stink about it, but deep down I was like, "Really?!"
Also, the times I have been there, the waitresses always try to make excuses as to why the food takes forever to come out. The first excuse was, "We're really backed up tonight, so it's gonna take at least 45 minutes for your food to come out." The ironic part was that there was maybe 6 tables seated in the whole restaurant, so I didn't buy that excuse. The second excuse was, "our entire kitchen staff is new, so it is gonna take about an hour for your food to come out. They're still working out the kinks." You'd think that management would keep a couple of veterans on board to train the newbies, unless the entire kitchen staff walked out the night before. Knowing this place, I wouldn't put it past them.
Basically, the managment of this establishment should take a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror because what they're doing now isn't working. I really want to like this place since I live nearby and I really think that it has some potential, but the management needs to change in order for me to return.
P.S. - I really hope that Parson Jack's management reads this post and does something to save their restaurant.
I would like to take back what I said about food prices. The food prices were average. I would also like to say I like the idea of this restaurant... I just think the bar area is too small for entertainment and the kitchen closes to early when they have so many customers. I was really aggravated-and so was my bf when we drove all the way out there, hungry, and couldn't watch my friend play or eat.
Went for the last time on Mother's Day weekend. The food was poor along with the service. We used to love the place...now we will leave it for the tourists.
went on Mothers Day, food was nothing but average, drinks were poor and service nothing special either, not going back..
Things wrong from my visit last summer (and only visit).
1. Wait staff took over 10 minutes to say hello to the table (We, a 4 top, were 1 of 4 tables so they weren't weeded)
2. So much dust and crud on the walls that it was NASTY to look at.
3. Lack of management intervention during a scuffle between two employees. Curse words flew rampant out of one guys mouth involved in the scuffle.
4. Wait staff (all four servers), hostess and bartender stayed by the bar and talked the whole time. Drinks stayed empty and the cook had to walk the food out due to our "server" chatting at the bar.
5. Management promised gift certificates mailed due to our horrible experience to make up for the scuffled witnessed but they never came.
6. Food was marginal at best.
7. The best part was the cook who walked our food out and checked on us 2x due to our waiter loving to chat with other workers.
I've run a restaurant and I never would have allowed this lack of service to take place. I will never go there again and when friends ask, I am very honest about my experience there.
Nastiest lasagna....how do they stay open? Gross.
Horrible service. Almost 1.5 hours for dinner. Every time is a long wait. Wish we had a better pub in West Ashley
Finz is a nice place except for one problem: they have those damn roll up doors between the inside smoke free area and the outside addict area, so the addicts can just stand in the doors and blow their poison inside.
They leave these doors open so the poison gets in the smoke free area.
I won't be going back.
As with all non-smoke free places like this, the actual rating is zero stars.
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This is the thing that ticks me off about poor restaurant service especially when you've been in the food and bev. business for years. A salad which costs about $2.00 in ingredients to make can be comped easily at no loss to a restaurant with the hope someone sees this as an act of faith to get a costumer back in again, improve quality, and gain more business from rave reviews.
As far as I'm concerned I'll never go to this place. Hopefully the management will read these comments and improve things quickly or perhaps comment on the poor service and why it is this way.
For the last few years I have been aware that almost all of the food I have ordered here was mediocre with the occasional above average dish. Which I have been fine with me because for some reason I have always wanted to support Med Bistro and before that Med Deli, when the food was good. However, last Sunday my experience went beyond bad and I have to comment on it. I ordered a the pecan chicken salad and when it arrived it was truly one of the worst salads I have ever had. Extremely tasteless and bland and by the time the server asked how it was, I had no appetite any longer. I told her how bad it was and she asked if there was anything else she could bring me and I told her no. She took my plate with only @ 10% of it eaten and that was that or so I thought. When the bill came the salad was still on it... No manager came by to see why I had sent the meal back or for a discussion and there were only @ 6 tables at the time we were served. So I paid for it and on the bottom I said that I will never be back and I won't. When I said to the waitress that I was shocked that I was charged for such a bad meal she told me that she had asked the manager to remove it from the bill and was told no. Now, I was in food and beverage for 10 years and have never seen anything like this. I guess it goes to show that even the managers and owners have decided that bad food it too bad for the customer that ordered it. I will never be returning and I encourage all people reading this to stop bland food and stop supporting resturants that no longer seem to care about their customers or what kind of quality comes out of their kitchen. Thank you.
What happened? My last few visits have left a bad taste in my mouth. How do burn chicken fingers? They tasted like burnt grease, my fries were soggy! You need to get a waitress as your bartenders are lazy and to busy taking shots at the bar with their friends and could careless that my food sucked and my draft was warm and flat. I mean hot! as in the pint must have just came out of the dishwasher! What happened to Moe's? it is just not the same any more.
I ordered shrimp tacos. Horrible. Boiled tasteless cut up meat. Daughter ordered the grits and they were burnt.
Husband ordered fried shrimp that were supposed to be tossed in barbecue sauce. They were just plain. As a solution the waitress brought out a side container of barbecue. This plate was ok.
My son did like his fried chicken tenders and french fries. But honestly he likes anything fried.
Brother-in law had chicken wings that were cold.
Service was bad. Food took way too long. Had to find her for another beer or water and again for napkins.
Won't go back.
The old gray mare just ain't what she used to be. That great staff is gone. What used to be a good 8oz burger. Is now a 7oz burger even though the menu still say's 8oz. Everything i used to know and love about this local dive bar is gone. The half priced wings at happy hour, gone! Price did not go though as they are the only thing that stayed..$6.00 fireball shot Wow!!My one beer and a fire ball shooter were over $11.00. Guess i'll go to the recovery room get a PBR and watch the beatnik's fight!! bye bye Moe's you had a good run while it lasted! I can't wait to see what fills that building once Moe's folds.


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Junior Wes Nordquist (Adel, Iowa/ADM) scored a team-high 19 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for his third double-double of the season, but it wasn't quite enough as Simpson College (5-9, 2-4 IIAC) hung on for the 68-64 victory inside of Siebens Fieldhouse on Wednesday night.
Nordquist finished 9-of-21 shooting and also added three assists and two blocks in 28 minutes. He's now just 10 rebounds shy of 500 in his career. Senior Jeff Janssen (Fairmont, Minn./Fairmont) made three long range buckets and followed with 11 points, while also dishing out three assists. He now has 123 career three-point buckets, moving him into a tie for 10th on the program's all-time list. Sophomore Michael Kaufmann (Harlan, Iowa/Harlan) made a pair of three-pointers and turned in eight points to go along with five assists. Doug Bissen (Earling, Iowa/Harlan) scored seven points and grabbed six rebounds, giving him 502 career boards for his career, making him just the 14th player in program history to reach that milestone.
After shooting less than 29 percent in the first half, the Beavers heated up more in the second and shot better than 42 percent from the field. The team also forced 16 turnovers, while committing only six.
Simpson broke an 11-11 tie with a 14-5 run to take a nine-point lead with under seven minutes left in the first half. Zach Barragan, who scored 20 points for the Storm in the first half, nailed a three to put the Storm up 12 at 35-23 with just over two minutes to go before halftime. Janssen buried a three-pointer with less than a minute to go, pulling the Beavers back into single digits heading into the locker room, 35-28.
Simpson scored the game's first four points of the second half to go in front by 11 and continue to lead by that same margin five minutes in. Nordquist then scored the game's next six points to help spark an 8-0 run that saw BVU get back within three at 48-45. A pair of Simpson free-throws then pushed the lead back up to six before Alex Savage (Des Moines, Iowa/Dowling Catholic) and Janssen each nailed long range buckets sandwiched around a Nordquist jumper, and the Beavers regained the lead at 53-51 nearing the eight minute mark.
Trent Fisher (Johnston, Iowa/Johnston) then bumped it up to four with a jumper of his own before the Storm, however, scored four straight of their own to square things up at 55-55 with just more than six minutes left in regulation.
The game was then tied three separate times over the next four minutes before Simpson grabbed the lead for good with 2:28 to play. BVU trailed by just one with 1:26 to play, but a three-pointer from Simpson with just over a minute left, increased the advantage to four. Nordquist answered with a jumper in the paint to make it a 66-64 game with 48 seconds left, and after Simpson turned it over on its ensuing possession, the Beavers couldn't convert their attempt in the paint and Simpson made both free-throws with two seconds left to seal the win.
Barragan finished with 27 points, including 7-of-9 from downtown, to lead all scorers, while Cornelius Mosby, the only player in the IIAC averaging a double-double on the year, posted 15 points and 11 rebounds.
Buena Vista is now 6-8 overall this season (2-3 IIAC) and will now travel to Coe College (10-5, 4-2 IIAC) on Saturday afternoon for a 6:00pm contest.


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John Stewart has the results from the 2010-2011 Mailing Services Pricing Study. This year's study includes more large companies than before, but pricing practices are remarkably uniform. Be sure to check out the charts and graphs included in this...
As many readers know, I have been publishing various research studies on behalf of three or four national trade associations for more than 25 years. Most of these studies have been published for NAQP and have dealt with subjects such as industry pricing, wages and benefits, bindery services, and my own favorite, financial operating ratios—which we now refer to as financial benchmarking. I have, however, published studies for two other industries as well—the mailing services industry and the reprographics industry.
My most recent study is the 2010-2011 Mailing Services Pricing Study. I began publishing this study in 2002 at the request of a small association (no longer active) called the Southeastern Mailer's Association. I have published five editions of it since that time, and by the time you read this I will have released the sixth edition.
However, before I provide you with you some details gathered from this recent survey, I want to share with you something that I experience every time I publish a study, regardless of the industry. As a general rule, we (or the sponsoring organization) make it a practice to provide a free copy of the study to every company that participates and returns a completed survey by the published deadline. We typically receive 300-400 surveys for one of these studies. Approximately 70% are submitted electronically, while the remainder arrive by mail.
General Profile of Mailers
Thanks to the joint sponsorship of Quick Printing, the Mailing Fulfillment Service Association (MFSA), and Mailing Systems Technology, we not only received a record number of responses, but the data came from a broad cross section of companies that offer mailing services. These sponsors bent over backwards to help me in every way they could to provide the best mailing lists possible. As a result of their efforts, we heard from a broader range of firms providing mailing services than at any time in the past. This year's pricing study represents the most diverse list of participants we have ever received and, as a result, we have been able to paint the best picture possible of real world pricing practices in the mailing industry.
While the reason for using certain selection criteria is explained in greater detail in the final study, suffice it to say that to qualify for inclusion in our database, firms had to report annual 2009 sales between $200,000 and $40 million. Yes, that is a broad sales range, but we had many additional companies outside that range that submitted surveys as well. However, for various reasons, we felt their data would distort rather than help build a true picture of the industry. Companies had to mail a minimum of 10,000 or more pieces per month for their pricing to be included in our database. Companies falling outside our data limits are still entitled to a free study, but we chose not to use some or all of the data they supplied.
As a result of including companies with annual sales of $15-$40 million, the average annual sales increased substantially over what has been reported in the past. However, while the reported average annual sales of participants increased significantly, most of our other key ratios, including overall pricing practices, remained relatively similar to what has been reported in the past. If anything, the result of including many of these larger firms that would have been excluded in the past has resulted in a report far more reflective of industry-wide pricing practices.
Pricing Extractions
In order to provide an even more accurate analysis of pricing trends among all sizes and types of printing and mailing firms, we decided that for the first time we would subdivide our pricing report based upon the reported dollar volume of annual mailing sales. As a consequence, we provide three major breakouts for virtually every pricing operation covered by the latest mailing survey:
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Well we MOST CERTAINLY have a problem with our Cleremont tickets!! Having supported Sarries for 20 ish years, 15 as season ticket holders at VR, we were stuck in the lower right corner of the North stand and hardly saw a thing all match. We asked whoever was on the phone, for tickets roughly in the middle of the North Stand, GRRRRRRRRRR.
Luckily we recorded the game and were able to see it when we got home. Makes us wonder why we bothered to go!!!!! And indeed, if we will bother again for a big televised match if these are the seats allocated to very loyal supporters!!!!!
Fuming x 2 of Kings Langley!!!!!!
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Sorry to be raising the issue of Ticketmaster again but I ordered a Ticket for the London Irish game on 30th March. Two days before the game this had not arrived. Full praise to Richard from the Saracens ticket office who sorted out a duplicate ticket for me to collect at the Madjeski Stadium So I saw the game.
But at the time of writing this no ticket has ever arrived at my home address. As a season ticket holder my details are known and on the club database. I have never had a problem with the Saracens ticket office before Ticketmaster's involvement and I do think this was a case of the club trying to "fix" something that was not broken in the first place because it's a considerable disincentive to purchase tickets from the club if you feel you will have this palaver again.
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Blimey! Tickets for Chiefs game ordered from TM late on Sunday evening, and they've arrived in this morning's post. And they are the tickets I ordered!
How on earth can TM justify the same £2 fee for the customer to "Print at Home" option as for the postage option?
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I worked at the running store today. Nothing of interest happened, except that I got to talk to a coworker's son, who is three. He was very amused with the Stick and kept rolling everything in sight, including:
- His mom and dad (in various awkward positions)
- The chair
- My shoes
- My chest-al region (I nipped that one in the bud immediately.)
Check out this shirt I got for the boyfriend. It was on sale at Threadless. He's sad that none of his Physics grad school friends will understand it. That's what he gets for picking a department full of science nerds, unlike the chic and hip French department.
Like I said, it's hot in here, so I am uninspired to post or take pictures of what I am doing or eating. Therefore, I leave you with this video we made a couple days ago. It's 51 seconds long. As always, I am dismayed to hear that my voice on camera makes me sound like a drunken banshee...or something like that.


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Nate Yeomans and the OAM army represent at the WQS NB Pro!
Nate Yeomans back to back!
Congratulations to On A Mission team rider Nate Yeomans on his 1st place last weekend at the Newport Pro WQS! Nate was definitely the man to beat all weak absolutely ripping. When it was all said and done, he was the back to back champ! This puts Nate in great position to repeat as the Macy's Trifecta Champion.
All in all it was a great week for Team OAM with Brent Reily, Blake Howard, Brandon Ragenovich, Calder Deyerle, Evan Thompson, Nick Skawinski, Sean Hayes, Bud Freitas, and Nate Yeomans all flyin the OAM flag!
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text: Home Culture Stop Racist Halloween Costumes! Single-Minded: A Q&A with the leaders of an Ohio University campaign against offensive garb. By: Helena Andrews Posted: Oct. 28 2011 12:39 AM 0 Halloween is nothing like it used to be. I was a late-October baby, and my childhood birthday pictures swap cakes and candles for ghosts and ghouls. Two Halloweens in a row I was a "movie star," which in 1989 meant a long "red carpet" dress from the thrift store and really, really big sunglasses. But these days Halloween is either an excuse for someone to slap a tail on a black-lace teddy and call it a "sexy tiger" costume, or to slather on some black face, a ball cap, fake bling and voilà! "Sexy thug." The 10 members of Ohio University's STARS organization were fed up with offensive costumes that reinforce negative racial and cultural stereotypes. So STARS, which stands for Students Teaching About Racism in Society, created a poster campaign to draw attention to those costume choices that are simply "not okay." With just five powerful posters featuring young men or women of various races holding a photo of a "racist costume," the students of STARS have started a movement. Since posting pictures of the "We're a Culture, Not a Costume" campaign online last Friday, STARS President Sarah Williams and her organization have gotten attention from local news, CNN, MSNBC and even Germany. A nerve has been struck. In between their classes, The Root caught up with Williams, a senior majoring in political science, and the posters' designer, Taylor See, a junior retail-merchandising and fashion product-development major. We talked about the origin of the campaign and where it's headed next. The Root: So, what is STARS? What's the organization's goal? SW: We've been on OU's campus since 1988. STARS started as a class on race taught by Sheila Williams, a psychologist here, and it grew into an organization. Our main purpose is to facilitate a discussion about racism and discrimination. Our purpose is to educate. We brought a former knight of the KKK to OU, we've sponsored voter-registration drives and hosted a panel on Islamophobia. TR: How do Halloween costumes fit in? TS: Just last year a group of white students hosted a "black party." Attendees painted their skin brown, showed up in "grills" and "urban clothing." They served chicken and watermelon. We decided that was something we should address. And when the time came this October, we thought a poster campaign would be an inexpensive way to spread the word. TR: What's been the reaction thus far? Page 1 of 3 NEXT PAGE > Powered by Livefyre


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I'm sure they need their resting place in your resting place just not -- Iraq.
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You know.
You -- -- stuff unless you pay me just let -- -- Just come and get your mum then.
Don't worry about it.
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Where -- they belong.
I wanna think I'm very you know at least let me have my parents back I do appreciate that.
And I'm sorry you know for what happens if do you think in it -- hold them right now.
I'm I'm glad they're back with me.
It's it's really aren't.
The -- hard time lately and it's this.
Usually it wouldn't be back with you Mike says he will never rent a room at a stranger's house again.
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Hopefully that guy won't leave anything -- behind.
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Many dogs have behavior problems. There are those that show aggressive dog behavior, the ones that that have turned barking into a past-time and those that are continually whining, for example. So, if you're having difficulties with your dog, don't have a panic attack! You are not the sole one with an uncontrollable pet, and there are solutions to your dog's problems. Dog dominance aggression is a typical problem that dog owners are confronted with. Bad dog behaviors such as this can be eliminated. If you wish to stop dog behavior problems, however, your first step is to understand what is causing them.
Correcting aggressive dogs needs you to first decide the roots of their behavior, that is, what's causing the aggression. Is your dog aggressive towards strangers, family members, or both? This is a critical question to ask yourself, as the answer has a great impact on prevention and / or treatment.
If your dog only acts aggressively towards strangers, then it's required for you to learn how to socialize your dog. If your dog exhibits aggressive behavior towards people in your family, you need to learn how to handle dog pack behavior and resource guarding.
Mishandling or mistreating a dog might also cause a dog to show aggression towards family members. Thus, everyone in the family should find out what types of handling / treatment can incite aggressive dog behavior.
Training dominant dogs is a difficult tack in the absence of some type of guidance. Books on dog behavior will teach you basic dog obedience training and the way to stop dog behavior issues, like that of dog dominance aggression.
These are five Tips for correcting aggressive dogs:
When your pet is a puppy dog, let him meet plenty of new folks and bring him into many different environments
Touch your puppy on a common foundation in a way that doesn't threaten him, this can permit him to get used to being handled.
Make your dog aware that he's not the leader, you are.
Use obedience training lessons that are short, consistent, and occur on a regular basis.
Give rewards to your dog when he follows your commands and put him into seclusion when he plays up.
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MULTI-TASKING: Researchers report that the same default network of regions active when the brain is unoccupied likely cause daydreams while performing mundane tasks
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Some people seem to continually have their heads in the clouds. Perhaps they are pondering during their drive to work the next pickle 24 protagonist Jack Bauer will find himself in. Or maybe they are assessing while buttering toast the Indianapolis Colts' chances of finally making it to the Super Bowl. Or considering where they will dine that evening as they tap out an e-mail. The question is: What makes their minds veer from the task at hand?
Researchers at Dartmouth College may have the answer. They found that a default network of regions in the brain's cortex—a grouping known to be active when the mind is completely unoccupied—is firing away as a person is engaged in routine activities. Malia Mason, now a postdoctoral researcher of neurocognition at Harvard Medical School, trained subjects in verbal and spatial memory tasks that after four days of continual repetition became quite banal—perfect conditions for thinking about something unassociated with the work at hand. In fact, subjects reported more daydreaming when performing the rehearsed sequences rather then when the tasks were tweaked slightly to introduce a novel stimulus requiring a bit more focus.
On the fifth day, the subjects performed these activities while being surveyed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). While the subjects were not performing any task, there was activation in several cortical regions, including parts of the medial prefrontal cortex (involved in executive functions), the premotor cortex (which coordinates body movements), and the cingulate (part of the limbic system that is implicated in memory and learning). When the subjects were asked to perform their well-rehearsed tasks, many of these areas were recruited once again, but when the job was slightly altered, the signals from these areas attenuated.
This finding "suggests that the default network appears to be associated with the production of these thoughts," Mason says.
The research team speculates that when engaged in a mundane task, mind wandering allows people to remain properly aroused. Alternatively, they say, daydreams could be a conduit for uniting experiences from a person's past or present to their future. Or, the brain may just have evolved the ability to handle more than one function at once.
"In a sense, these thoughts reflect an amazing capacity on our part to multitask," Mason explains, expanding on the last possibility. "It's like we have a sense of what we can and what we cannot get away with. In other words, it is as if we have a sense of how much attentional resources we have "left over" and [then we] allocate these resources to working out some problem or anticipating what we have to do in the near future."
Jonathan Schooler, a psychologist at the University of British Columbia, says that Mason's study illustrates that daydreaming is really the default state of the brain. He cautions, however, that while he finds the evidence—published in this week's Science—compelling, the measurements are indirect. "They didn't actually examine activation of the default network specifically during times when individuals were reporting mind wandering versus not," he says. "That's an important additional line of research that needs to be done."


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Total equity market turnover for July was US$280.03 billion in the country, down slightly from US$303.15 billion the previous month. However, SBI Japannext increased its market share to 3.66% from 3.62% the previous month, consolidating its position ahead of rival PTS Chi-X Japan, which held 1.34%, down from 1.67% the previous month. A year ago, the two platforms were neck and neck, with 2.08% and 2.05% market share respectively.
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And now we're going straight to -- -- -- with the wall street journal editorial board and now we're gonna stick with the workplace for a little that you have a great story about how companies are treating.
The disabled that is ironically disabling them in the sense that also normal healthy workers -- what -- got -- what we can't.
Just real drama over the last month at some -- the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
It's one of these federal agencies it's it's in Washington -- nobody really look Sadr koppers.
And eat what happens when nobody looks at federal agencies they try to obviously overstepped their bounds I -- So it does well yes so this is what TSE -- -- -- UC wanted to do they want to do three things have.
They wanted to make it harder for companies to use credit checks.
And criminal histories when they hire people.
And then they also wanted to expand the Americans with disabilities act so we -- the first part -- you have to first -- right.
Got what no this is outrageous this is importance now in credit checks and criminal checks.
Let's think about this so you -- -- care agency tell you -- know if you're employee has a criminal record -- say you're a bank right.
You don't you want to know that the person -- handling their customers' money is doing a good job yet.
And -- not first look at the DC said look this discriminates against minorities because more minorities.
Are incarcerated -- arrested then say white people so you know what we need to give them a leg up.
Never mind that they have the option not to 'cause -- chainsaw and to have good credit just like the rest of us so.
That that's not that's very very important.
The American disability abilities act piece.
This is another thing that would really impose great costs on business so this whole drama played out over the last couple of weeks right and last week.
We came to the final meeting and their interest in conclusion.
Okay what is that okay well after we called attention to the stuff on the wall street journal editorial page.
Magically the commission decided you know what.
Maybe you'll just drop that idea of banning companies use of credit checks maybe that's important.
-- you know what the Americans with disabilities act you know we wanted to make it harder to fire the disabled.
We wanted to give the disabled.
Indefinite leave imagine the costs on companies meeting today exactly it's not so hard to.
Prove that you're -- and that's that's fresh end.
That back I mean right but it wasn't always like that and then holding that job for a normal struggling purse and looking to get into the job market they have -- it.
Correct disabled this is what they wanted to do because -- EEOC has never liked the idea that companies could set very clear rules.
About say unpaid leave.
-- -- that idea for -- after Sears Roebuck and company for years since here's finally caved -- Sinn -- Here's some money please stop pursuing us is so.
Look if they were they were going down the road of imposing huge costs on businesses and then magically last week.
Just like the credit checks the American -- disabilities act stuff disappeared so what -- they left with they say you know what.
We think we can go forward on these criminal check IDS.
Right is so we are going to make it easier.
For the disabled.
To kind of have a conversation with their employer if they have a criminal check we're also gonna make it easier for the plaintiff's bar to sue.
Under state laws and I'm American disabilities act so it's kind of like they're merging that disabled in -- criminal.
Lots good big date they dropped CAD dropped the credit -- and they're gonna make -- date they want to place restrictions on the criminal -- side of things affect so this this does what do they do they said.
We think minorities are discriminated against in terms of criminal checks.
We want to get special treatment -- to criminals so let's say you hired somebody was has a criminal record and act out at work we you know what.
You have to figure out why they were acting out of work hand is -- a result of there history.
That is so we're gonna -- give them special treatment.
And also we're gonna make it easier to sue under state law for discrimination.
If you if companies -- criminal checks and hiring.
So this is all right our company that is incredible losing five person commission that's yeah imposing costs on businesses and very few people are -- And that's been saying it's so easy to lash out at big business out there but if you want them or even small business if you want business to hire someone to have to -- environment a lot more friendly and cost effective for them so they're spending money.
And all this other stuff.
Why -- they -- more work.
Yeah and this is gonna affect companies have fifteen workers or more so you're not really talking about small and -- -- -- you know what.
Good -- CE -- for dropping this crazy.
Credit check -- in this crazy Americans with disabilities act expansion.
That really would have been harmful I think moving forward with restricting criminal checks is not a great idea it is going to result in more lawsuits and more.
Legal paperwork for businesses they will have to be careful.
-- isn't isn't sentenced him.
Well the debate what teen years he can do is to put out guidance -- not like the SEC they don't come out with rules that you need public comments on they put out these little papers and -- what we think you should do.
Of course companies take it as a new rule because they can get sued on the back of this guidance right so you look.
I think it this is just another example of an agency in Washington.
Which really has very little public scrutiny which is moving forward ideas that are truly radical ideas in the fact that they even consider.
Banning credit checks when you hire someone -- that's extraordinary had a they concoct this can very easily I'm glad you asset Christine.
Again it has to do with what they call.
Anti discrimination actions they they don't like things that they saying disproportionately affect minorities.
So they said you know what.
-- credit checks well.
Many minorities don't have very good credit so if you if you -- -- check somebody's credit that's gonna have what we call a disparate impact on.
Well again why should people with bad credit get special treatment and hiring.
And -- the Obama administration is on this and number various it's on -- from mortgage loans they say minorities should get.
Mortgage loans just by virtue of the fact that they're minorities right they should be easier to hire.
And more -- is gonna fix the job market because.
There are all sort of people who can't catch up right now so it's not gonna it's not -- think you know it it it it won't sixty employment numbers that narrative might -- them.
It it will hurt them because the morning you interfere with business's ability and make good decisions is the more.
All of our stories.
Lately the fact that the government just needs sit back a little bit and let everything -- happen organically and let.
Let private enterprise -- and small businesses kind of just work on their own.
That's right this government wants to be involved in every in the -- new show.
This this this case we've just talked about what he has seen this is the -- Of how you hire someone the minutia of how you treat some in the minutia of how you fire them.
Think about that if we if what if if this -- he he had moved forward on these two initiatives that would have been.
It's hugely hugely expense of the business so good for them for not doing that.
But -- -- the restrictions on criminal checks not a great outcome I think you really need to keep an eye on these guys.
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General | |
Designers | National Security Agency |
First published | 2001 |
Series | (SHA-0), SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3 |
Certification | FIPS PUB 180-4, CRYPTREC, NESSIE |
Detail | |
Digest sizes | 224/256 bits or 384/512 bits |
Structure | Merkle–Damgård construction |
Rounds | 64 or 80 |
Best public cryptanalysis | |
A 2008 attack breaks preimage resistance for 46 out of 80 rounds of SHA-512, and 41 out of 64 rounds of SHA-256.[1] Collision attacks against up to 24 steps of SHA-256[1] |
SHA-2 is a set of cryptographic hash functions (SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512) designed by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) and published in 2001 by the NIST as a U.S. Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). SHA stands for Secure Hash Algorithm. SHA-2 includes a significant number of changes from its predecessor, SHA-1. SHA-2 consists of a set of four hash functions with digests that are 224, 256, 384 or 512 bits.
SHA-256 and SHA-512 are novel hash functions computed with 32 and 64-bit words, respectively. They use different shift amounts and additive constants, but their structures are otherwise virtually identical, differing only in the number of rounds. SHA-224 and SHA-384 are simply truncated versions of the first two, computed with different initial values. SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256 are also truncated versions of SHA-512, but the initial values are generated using the method described in FIPS PUB 180-4. The SHA-2 family of algorithms are patented in US 6829355. The United States has released the patent under a royalty-free license.[2]
In 2005, security flaws were identified in SHA-1, namely that a mathematical weakness might exist, indicating that a stronger hash function would be desirable.[3] Although SHA-2 bears some similarity to the SHA-1 algorithm, these attacks have not been successfully extended to SHA-2.
Currently, the best public attacks break 46 of the 64 rounds of SHA-256[4] or 46 of the 80 rounds of SHA-512, as discussed in the "Cryptanalysis and Validation" section below.[5]
A hash function is an algorithm that transforms (hashes) an arbitrary set of data elements, such as a text file, into a single fixed length value (the hash). The computed hash value may then be used to verify the integrity of copies of the original data without providing any means to derive said original data. Irreversible, a hash value may be freely distributed, stored and used for comparative purposes.
The security provided by a hashing algorithm is entirely dependent upon its ability to produce a unique value for any specific set of data. When a hash function produces the same hash value for two different sets of data then a collision is said to occur. Collision raises the possibility that an attacker may be able to computationally craft sets of data which provide access to information secured by the hashed values of pass codes or to alter computer data files in a fashion that would not change the resulting hash value and would thereby escape detection. A strong hash function is one that is resistant to such computational attacks. A weak hash function is one where a computational approach to producing collisions is believed to be possible. A broken hash function is one where a computational method for producing collisions is known to exist.
Hash standard[edit]
With the publication of FIPS PUB 180-2, NIST added three additional hash functions in the SHA family. The algorithms are collectively known as SHA-2, named after their digest lengths (in bits): SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.
The algorithms were first published in 2001 in the draft FIPS PUB 180-2, at which time public review and comments were accepted. In August 2002, FIPS PUB 180-2 became the new Secure Hash Standard, replacing FIPS PUB 180-1, which was released in April 1995. The updated standard included the original SHA-1 algorithm, with updated technical notation consistent with that describing the inner workings of the SHA-2 family.[6]
In February 2004, a change notice was published for FIPS PUB 180-2, specifying an additional variant, SHA-224, defined to match the key length of two-key Triple DES.[7] In October 2008, the standard was updated in FIPS PUB 180-3, including SHA-224 from the change notice, but otherwise making no fundamental changes to the standard. The primary motivation for updating the standard was relocating security information about the hash algorithms and recommendations for their use to Special Publications 800-107 and 800-57.[8][9][10] Detailed test data and example message digests were also removed from the standard, and provided as separate documents.[11]
In March 2012, the standard was updated in FIPS PUB 180-4, adding the hash functions SHA-512/224 and SHA-512/256, and describing a method for generating initial values for truncated versions of SHA-512. Additionally, a restriction on padding the input data prior to hash calculation was removed, allowing hash data to be calculated simultaneously with content generation, such as a real-time video or audio feed. Padding the final data block must still occur prior to hash output.[12]
The NIST hash function competition selected a new hash function, SHA-3, in 2012.[13] The SHA-3 algorithm is not derived from SHA-2.
Comparison of SHA functions[edit]
In the table below, internal state means the "internal hash sum" after each compression of a data block.
Algorithm and variant |
Output size (bits) | Internal state size (bits) | Block size (bits) | Max message size (bits) | Word size (bits) | Rounds | Bitwise operations | Collisions found | Example Performance (MiB/s)[14] | |
MD5 (as reference) | 128 | 128 | 512 | 264 − 1 | 32 | 64 | and,or,xor,rot | Yes | 335 | |
SHA-0 | 160 | 160 | 512 | 264 − 1 | 32 | 80 | and,or,xor,rot | Yes | - | |
SHA-1 | 160 | 160 | 512 | 264 − 1 | 32 | 80 | and,or,xor,rot | Theoretical attack (260)[15] | 192 | |
224 256 |
256 | 512 | 264 − 1 | 32 | 64 | and,or,xor,shr,rot | None | 139 |
384 512 224 256 |
512 | 1024 | 2128 − 1 | 64 | 80 | and,or,xor,shr,rot | None | 154 | |
SHA-3 | 224/256/384/512 | 1600 (5×5 array of 64-bit words) |
64 | 24 | and,xor,not,rot | None |
In the bitwise operations column, "rot" stands for rotate no carry, and "shr" stands for logical shift. All of these algorithms employ modular addition in some fashion.
The performance numbers above were for a single-threaded implementation on an AMD Opteron 8354 running at 2.2 GHz under Linux in 64-bit mode, and serve only as a rough point for general comparison. More detailed performance measurements on modern processor architectures are given in the table below.
CPU Architecture | Frequency | Algorithm | Word size (bits) | Cycles/Byte x86 | MiB/s x86 | Cycles/Byte x86-64 | MiB/s x86-64 |
Intel Ivy Bridge | 3.5 GHz | SHA-256 | 32-bit | 16.80 | 199 | 13.05 | 256 |
SHA-512 | 64-bit | 43.66 | 76 | 8.48 | 394 | ||
AMD Piledriver | 3.8 GHz | SHA-256 | 32-bit | 22.87 | 158 | 18.47 | 196 |
SHA-512 | 64-bit | 88.36 | 41 | 12.43 | 292 |
The performance numbers labeled 'x86' were running using 32-bit code on 64-bit processors, whereas the 'x86-64' numbers are native 64-bit code. While SHA-256 is designed for 32-bit calculations, it does benefit from code optimized for 64-bit processors. 32-bit implementations of SHA-512 are significantly slower than their 64-bit counterparts. Variants of both algorithms with different output sizes will perform similarly, since the message expansion and compression functions are identical, and only the initial hash values and output sizes are different. The best implementations of MD5 and SHA-1 perform between 4.5 and 6 cycles per byte on modern processors.
Testing was performed by the University of Illinois at Chicago on their hydra8 system running an Intel Xeon E3-1275 V2 at a clock speed of 3.5 GHz, and on their hydra9 system running an AMD A10-5800K at a clock speed of 3.8 GHz.[16] The referenced cycles per byte speeds above are the median performance of an algorithm digesting a 4096 byte message using the SUPERCOP cryptographic benchmarking software.[17] The MiB/s performance is extrapolated from the CPU clockspeed on a single core, real world performance will vary due to a variety of factors.
The SHA-2 hash function is implemented in some widely used security applications and protocols, including TLS and SSL, PGP, SSH, S/MIME, Bitcoin and IPsec.
Several cryptocurrencies use SHA-2 as part of their proof-of-work scheme. Bitcoin was the first to do this by using Hashcash with a double round of SHA-256 at its core. The rise of ASIC SHA-2 accelerator chips used in cryptocurrency mining has led to the use of scrypt based proof-of-work schemes for many alternative cryptocurrencies. SHA-256 is used to authenticate Debian GNU/Linux software packages[18] and in the DKIM message signing standard; SHA-512 is part of a system to authenticate archival video from the International Criminal Tribunal of the Rwandan genocide.[19] SHA-256 and SHA-512 are proposed for use in DNSSEC.[20] Unix and Linux vendors are moving to using 256- and 512-bit SHA-2 for secure password hashing.[21]
SHA-1 and SHA-2 are the secure hash algorithms required by law for use in certain U.S. Government applications, including use within other cryptographic algorithms and protocols, for the protection of sensitive unclassified information. FIPS PUB 180-1 also encouraged adoption and use of SHA-1 by private and commercial organizations. SHA-1 is being retired for most government uses; the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology says, "Federal agencies should stop using SHA-1 for...applications that require collision resistance as soon as practical, and must use the SHA-2 family of hash functions for these applications after 2010" (emphasis in original).[22] NIST's directive that U.S. government agencies must stop uses of SHA-1 after 2010[23] and the completion of SHA-3[13] may accelerate migration away from SHA-1.
The SHA-2 functions are not as widely used as SHA-1, despite their better security. Reasons might include lack of support for SHA-2 on systems running Windows XP SP2 or older,[24] or a lack of perceived urgency since SHA-1 collisions have not yet been found.
Cryptanalysis and validation[edit]
For a hash function for which L is the number of bits in the message digest, finding a message that corresponds to a given message digest can always be done using a brute force search in 2L evaluations. This is called a preimage attack and may or may not be practical depending on L and the particular computing environment. The second criterion, finding two different messages that produce the same message digest, known as a collision, requires on average only 2L/2 evaluations using a birthday attack.
In terms of practical security, a major concern about these[which?] new attacks is that they might pave the way to more efficient ones. Whether this is the case has yet to be seen, but a migration to stronger hashes is believed to be prudent.[by whom?] Some of the applications that use cryptographic hashes, such as password storage, are only minimally affected by a collision attack. Constructing a password that works for a given account requires a preimage attack, as well as access to the hash of the original password (typically in the shadow file) which may or may not be trivial. Reversing password encryption (e.g., to obtain a password to try against a user's account elsewhere) is not made possible by the attacks. (However, even a secure password hash cannot prevent brute-force attacks on weak passwords.)
In the case of document signing, an attacker could not simply fake a signature from an existing document—the attacker would have to produce a pair of documents, one innocuous and one damaging, and get the private key holder to sign the innocuous document. There are practical circumstances in which this is possible; until the end of 2008, it was possible to create forged SSL certificates using a MD5 collision.[25]
There are two meet-in-the-middle preimage attacks against SHA-2 with a reduced number of rounds. The first one attacks 41-round SHA-256 out of 64 rounds with time complexity of 2253.5 and space complexity of 216, and 46-round SHA-512 out of 80 rounds with time 2511.5 and space 23.[1] The second one attacks 42-round SHA-256 with time complexity of 2251.7 and space complexity of 212, and 42-round SHA-512 with time 2502 and space 222.[26]
Official validation[edit]
Implementations of all FIPS-approved security functions can be officially validated through the CMVP program, jointly run by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). For informal verification, a package to generate a high number of test vectors is made available for download on the NIST site; the resulting verification however does not replace in any way the formal CMVP validation, which is required by law for certain applications.
Examples of SHA-2 variants[edit]
Hash values of empty string.
SHA224("") 0x d14a028c2a3a2bc9476102bb288234c415a2b01f828ea62ac5b3e42f SHA256("") 0x e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 SHA384("") 0x 38b060a751ac96384cd9327eb1b1e36a21fdb71114be07434c0cc7bf63f6e1da274edebfe76f65fbd51ad2f14898b95b SHA512("") 0x cf83e1357eefb8bdf1542850d66d8007d620e4050b5715dc83f4a921d36ce9ce47d0d13c5d85f2b0ff8318d2877eec2f63b931bd47417a81a538327af927da3e SHA512/224("") 0x 6ed0dd02806fa89e25de060c19d3ac86cabb87d6a0ddd05c333b84f4 SHA512/256("") 0x c672b8d1ef56ed28ab87c3622c5114069bdd3ad7b8f9737498d0c01ecef0967a
Even a small change in the message will (with overwhelming probability) result in a mostly different hash, due to the avalanche effect. For example, adding a period to the end of the sentence:
SHA224("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") 0x 730e109bd7a8a32b1cb9d9a09aa2325d2430587ddbc0c38bad911525 SHA224("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") 0x 619cba8e8e05826e9b8c519c0a5c68f4fb653e8a3d8aa04bb2c8cd4c SHA256("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") 0x d7a8fbb307d7809469ca9abcb0082e4f8d5651e46d3cdb762d02d0bf37c9e592 SHA256("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") 0x ef537f25c895bfa782526529a9b63d97aa631564d5d789c2b765448c8635fb6c SHA384("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") 0x ca737f1014a48f4c0b6dd43cb177b0afd9e5169367544c494011e3317dbf9a509cb1e5dc1e85a941bbee3d7f2afbc9b1 SHA384("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") 0x ed892481d8272ca6df370bf706e4d7bc1b5739fa2177aae6c50e946678718fc67a7af2819a021c2fc34e91bdb63409d7 SHA512("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") 0x 07e547d9586f6a73f73fbac0435ed76951218fb7d0c8d788a309d785436bbb642e93a252a954f23912547d1e8a3b5ed6e1bfd7097821233fa0538f3db854fee6 SHA512("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") 0x 91ea1245f20d46ae9a037a989f54f1f790f0a47607eeb8a14d12890cea77a1bbc6c7ed9cf205e67b7f2b8fd4c7dfd3a7a8617e45f3c463d481c7e586c39ac1ed SHA512/224("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") 0x 944cd2847fb54558d4775db0485a50003111c8e5daa63fe722c6aa37 SHA512/224("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") 0x 6d6a9279495ec4061769752e7ff9c68b6b0b3c5a281b7917ce0572de SHA512/256("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog") 0x dd9d67b371519c339ed8dbd25af90e976a1eeefd4ad3d889005e532fc5bef04d SHA512/256("The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.") 0x 1546741840f8a492b959d9b8b2344b9b0eb51b004bba35c0aebaac86d45264c3
Pseudocode for the SHA-256 algorithm follows. Note the great increase in mixing between bits of the w[16..63]
words compared to SHA-1.
Note 1: All variables are 32 bit unsigned integers and addition is calculated modulo 232 Note 2: For each round, there is one round constant k[i] and one entry in the message schedule array w[i], 0 ≤ i ≤ 63 Note 3: The compression function uses 8 working variables, a through h Note 4: Big-endian convention is used when expressing the constants in this pseudocode, and when parsing message block data from bytes to words, for example, the first word of the input message "abc" after padding is 0x61626380 Initialize hash values: (first 32 bits of the fractional parts of the square roots of the first 8 primes 2..19): h0 := 0x6a09e667 h1 := 0xbb67ae85 h2 := 0x3c6ef372 h3 := 0xa54ff53a h4 := 0x510e527f h5 := 0x9b05688c h6 := 0x1f83d9ab h7 := 0x5be0cd19 Initialize array of round constants: (first 32 bits of the fractional parts of the cube roots of the first 64 primes 2..311): k[0..63] := 0x428a2f98, 0x71374491, 0xb5c0fbcf, 0xe9b5dba5, 0x3956c25b, 0x59f111f1, 0x923f82a4, 0xab1c5ed5, 0xd807aa98, 0x12835b01, 0x243185be, 0x550c7dc3, 0x72be5d74, 0x80deb1fe, 0x9bdc06a7, 0xc19bf174, 0xe49b69c1, 0xefbe4786, 0x0fc19dc6, 0x240ca1cc, 0x2de92c6f, 0x4a7484aa, 0x5cb0a9dc, 0x76f988da, 0x983e5152, 0xa831c66d, 0xb00327c8, 0xbf597fc7, 0xc6e00bf3, 0xd5a79147, 0x06ca6351, 0x14292967, 0x27b70a85, 0x2e1b2138, 0x4d2c6dfc, 0x53380d13, 0x650a7354, 0x766a0abb, 0x81c2c92e, 0x92722c85, 0xa2bfe8a1, 0xa81a664b, 0xc24b8b70, 0xc76c51a3, 0xd192e819, 0xd6990624, 0xf40e3585, 0x106aa070, 0x19a4c116, 0x1e376c08, 0x2748774c, 0x34b0bcb5, 0x391c0cb3, 0x4ed8aa4a, 0x5b9cca4f, 0x682e6ff3, 0x748f82ee, 0x78a5636f, 0x84c87814, 0x8cc70208, 0x90befffa, 0xa4506ceb, 0xbef9a3f7, 0xc67178f2 Pre-processing: append the bit '1' to the message append k bits '0', where k is the minimum number >= 0 such that the resulting message length (modulo 512 in bits) is 448. append length of message (without the '1' bit or padding), in bits, as 64-bit big-endian integer (this will make the entire post-processed length a multiple of 512 bits) Process the message in successive 512-bit chunks: break message into 512-bit chunks for each chunk create a 64-entry message schedule array w[0..63] of 32-bit words (The initial values in w[0..63] don't matter, so many implementations zero them here) copy chunk into first 16 words w[0..15] of the message schedule array Extend the first 16 words into the remaining 48 words w[16..63] of the message schedule array: for i from 16 to 63 s0 := (w[i-15] rightrotate 7) xor (w[i-15] rightrotate 18) xor (w[i-15] rightshift 3) s1 := (w[i-2] rightrotate 17) xor (w[i-2] rightrotate 19) xor (w[i-2] rightshift 10) w[i] := w[i-16] + s0 + w[i-7] + s1 Initialize working variables to current hash value: a := h0 b := h1 c := h2 d := h3 e := h4 f := h5 g := h6 h := h7 Compression function main loop: for i from 0 to 63 S1 := (e rightrotate 6) xor (e rightrotate 11) xor (e rightrotate 25) ch := (e and f) xor ((not e) and g) temp1 := h + S1 + ch + k[i] + w[i] S0 := (a rightrotate 2) xor (a rightrotate 13) xor (a rightrotate 22) maj := (a and b) xor (a and c) xor (b and c) temp2 := S0 + maj h := g g := f f := e e := d + temp1 d := c c := b b := a a := temp1 + temp2 Add the compressed chunk to the current hash value: h0 := h0 + a h1 := h1 + b h2 := h2 + c h3 := h3 + d h4 := h4 + e h5 := h5 + f h6 := h6 + g h7 := h7 + h Produce the final hash value (big-endian): digest := hash := h0 append h1 append h2 append h3 append h4 append h5 append h6 append h7
The computation of the ch
and maj
values can be optimized the same way as described for SHA-1.
SHA-224 is identical to SHA-256, except that:
- the initial hash values
are different, and - the output is constructed by omitting
SHA-224 initial hash values (in big endian): (The second 32 bits of the fractional parts of the square roots of the 9th through 16th primes 23..53) h[0..7] := 0xc1059ed8, 0x367cd507, 0x3070dd17, 0xf70e5939, 0xffc00b31, 0x68581511, 0x64f98fa7, 0xbefa4fa4
SHA-512 is identical in structure to SHA-256, but:
- the message is broken into 1024-bit chunks,
- the initial hash values and round constants are extended to 64 bits,
- there are 80 rounds instead of 64,
- the round constants are based on the first 80 primes 2..409,
- the word size used for calculations is 64 bits long,
- the appended length of the message (before pre-processing), in bits, is a 128-bit big-endian integer, and
- the shift and rotate amounts used are different.
SHA-512 initial hash values (in big-endian):
h[0..7] := 0x6a09e667f3bcc908, 0xbb67ae8584caa73b, 0x3c6ef372fe94f82b, 0xa54ff53a5f1d36f1,
0x510e527fade682d1, 0x9b05688c2b3e6c1f, 0x1f83d9abfb41bd6b, 0x5be0cd19137e2179
SHA-512 round constants:
k[0..79] := [ 0x428a2f98d728ae22, 0x7137449123ef65cd, 0xb5c0fbcfec4d3b2f, 0xe9b5dba58189dbbc, 0x3956c25bf348b538,
0x59f111f1b605d019, 0x923f82a4af194f9b, 0xab1c5ed5da6d8118, 0xd807aa98a3030242, 0x12835b0145706fbe,
0x243185be4ee4b28c, 0x550c7dc3d5ffb4e2, 0x72be5d74f27b896f, 0x80deb1fe3b1696b1, 0x9bdc06a725c71235,
0xc19bf174cf692694, 0xe49b69c19ef14ad2, 0xefbe4786384f25e3, 0x0fc19dc68b8cd5b5, 0x240ca1cc77ac9c65,
0x2de92c6f592b0275, 0x4a7484aa6ea6e483, 0x5cb0a9dcbd41fbd4, 0x76f988da831153b5, 0x983e5152ee66dfab,
0xa831c66d2db43210, 0xb00327c898fb213f, 0xbf597fc7beef0ee4, 0xc6e00bf33da88fc2, 0xd5a79147930aa725,
0x06ca6351e003826f, 0x142929670a0e6e70, 0x27b70a8546d22ffc, 0x2e1b21385c26c926, 0x4d2c6dfc5ac42aed,
0x53380d139d95b3df, 0x650a73548baf63de, 0x766a0abb3c77b2a8, 0x81c2c92e47edaee6, 0x92722c851482353b,
0xa2bfe8a14cf10364, 0xa81a664bbc423001, 0xc24b8b70d0f89791, 0xc76c51a30654be30, 0xd192e819d6ef5218,
0xd69906245565a910, 0xf40e35855771202a, 0x106aa07032bbd1b8, 0x19a4c116b8d2d0c8, 0x1e376c085141ab53,
0x2748774cdf8eeb99, 0x34b0bcb5e19b48a8, 0x391c0cb3c5c95a63, 0x4ed8aa4ae3418acb, 0x5b9cca4f7763e373,
0x682e6ff3d6b2b8a3, 0x748f82ee5defb2fc, 0x78a5636f43172f60, 0x84c87814a1f0ab72, 0x8cc702081a6439ec,
0x90befffa23631e28, 0xa4506cebde82bde9, 0xbef9a3f7b2c67915, 0xc67178f2e372532b, 0xca273eceea26619c,
0xd186b8c721c0c207, 0xeada7dd6cde0eb1e, 0xf57d4f7fee6ed178, 0x06f067aa72176fba, 0x0a637dc5a2c898a6,
0x113f9804bef90dae, 0x1b710b35131c471b, 0x28db77f523047d84, 0x32caab7b40c72493, 0x3c9ebe0a15c9bebc,
0x431d67c49c100d4c, 0x4cc5d4becb3e42b6, 0x597f299cfc657e2a, 0x5fcb6fab3ad6faec, 0x6c44198c4a475817]
SHA-512 Sum & Sigma:
S0 := (a rightrotate 28) xor (a rightrotate 34) xor (a rightrotate 39)
S1 := (e rightrotate 14) xor (e rightrotate 18) xor (e rightrotate 41)
s0 := (w[i-15] rightrotate 1) xor (w[i-15] rightrotate 8) xor (w[i-15] rightshift 7)
s1 := (w[i-2] rightrotate 19) xor (w[i-2] rightrotate 61) xor (w[i-2] rightshift 6)
SHA-384 is identical to SHA-512, except that:
- the initial hash values
are different (taken from the 9th through 16th primes), and - the output is constructed by omitting
SHA-384 initial hash values (in big-endian):
h[0..7] := 0xcbbb9d5dc1059ed8, 0x629a292a367cd507, 0x9159015a3070dd17, 0x152fecd8f70e5939,
0x67332667ffc00b31, 0x8eb44a8768581511, 0xdb0c2e0d64f98fa7, 0x47b5481dbefa4fa4
SHA-512/t is identical to SHA-512 except that:
- the initial hash values
are given by the SHA-512/t IV generation function, - the output is constructed by truncating the concatenation of
at t bits, - t equal to 384 is not allowed, instead SHA-384 should be used as specified, and
- t values 224 and 256 are especially mentioned as approved.
Implementations in common languages[edit]
SHA hashing functions are found in many modern programming languages, such as C, C++, C#, Go,[27] Javascript, Java,[28] Python,[29] PHP,[30] Perl,[31] and Ruby.[32]
Other implementations[edit]
- Bouncy Castle
- The Bouncy Castle Library is a free Java and C# class library that contains implementations of the SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512 algorithms as well as other algorithms like Whirlpool, Tiger, RIPEMD, GOST-3411, MD2, MD4 and MD5.
- cryptlib
- an open source cross-platform software security toolkit library.
- Crypto++
- An open source, permissively licensed, C++ class library of cryptographic schemes, including implementations of the SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 algorithms.
- jsSHA
- libsparkcrypto
- A formally verified implementation of several widely used symmetric cryptographic algorithms using the SPARK programming language and toolset, complete library proofs of the absence of run-time errors like type range violations, division by zero and numerical overflows are available.
- LibTomCrypt
- A portable ISO C cryptographic toolkit, Public Domain.
- Libgcrypt
- A general purpose cryptographic library based on the code from GNU Privacy Guard.
- md5deep
- A set of programs to compute MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, Tiger, or Whirlpool cryptographic message digests on an arbitrary number of files. It is used in computer security, system administration and computer forensics communities for purposes of running large numbers of files through any of several different cryptographic digests. It is similar to sha1sum from GNU Core Utilities and md5sum.
- OpenSSL
- The widely used OpenSSL
library includes free, open-source – implementations of SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. - PolarSSL
- The small PolarSSL
library includes open-source – implementations of SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512. - sphlib
- A free, open-source library which implements many hash functions, including SHA-1 and SHA-2, both in portable (but optimized) C and in Java.
- A free, open-source collection of hardware implementations of hash functions (including SHA-1 and SHA-2) in portable (but optimized) VHDL.
See also[edit]
- Comparison of cryptographic hash functions
- Digital timestamping
- Hash based Message Authentication Code (HMAC) or Keyed Hash
- Hashcash
- International Association for Cryptologic Research (IACR)
- sha1sum (sha224sum, sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum) commands
- scrypt
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- ^ Licensing Declaration for US patent 6829355.. Retrieved 2008-02-17.
- ^ "Schneier on Security: Cryptanalysis of SHA-1". Schneier.com. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ Mario Lamberger and Florian Mendel, Higher-Order Differential Attack on Reduced SHA-256, accessed August 24, 2012.
- ^ Yu Sasaki, Lei Wang, and Kazumaro Aoki, Preimage Attacks on 41-Step SHA-256 and 46-Step SHA-512, accessed January 3, 2010.
- ^ Federal Register Notice 02-21599, Announcing Approval of FIPS Publication 180-2
- ^ FIPS 180-2 with Change Notice 1
- ^ Federal Register Notice E8-24743, Announcing Approval of FIPS Publication 180-3
- ^ FIPS SP 800-107 Recommendation for Applications Using Approved Hash Algorithms
- ^ FIPS SP 800-57 Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1: General
- ^ NIST Algorithm Examples, Secure Hashing
- ^ Federal Register Notice 2012-5400, Announcing Approval of FIPS Publication 180-4
- ^ a b NIST Selects Winner of Secure Hash Algorithm (SHA-3) Competition
- ^ "Crypto++ 5.6.0 Benchmarks". Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- ^ "Cryptanalysis of MD5 & SHA-1" (PDF). Retrieved 2013-04-25.
- ^ SUPERCOP Benchmarks Measurements of hash functions, indexed by machine
- ^ SUPERCOP Benchmarking Toolkit
- ^ "Debian codebase in Google Code". Google. Retrieved 2011-11-08.[dead link]
- ^ John Markoff, A Tool to Verify Digital Records, Even as Technology Shifts, New York Times, January 26, 2009
- ^ RFC 5702,RFC-Editor.org
- ^ Ulrich Drepper, Unix crypt with SHA-256/512
- ^ National Institute on Standards and Technology Computer Security Resource Center, NIST's Policy on Hash Functions, accessed March 29, 2009.
- ^ "Secure Hashing - NIST Computer Security Division - Computer Security Resource Center". NIST. Retrieved 2010-11-25.
- ^ Microsoft Corporation,Overview of Windows XP Service Pack 3
- ^ Alexander Sotirov, Marc Stevens, Jacob Appelbaum, Arjen Lenstra, David Molnar, Dag Arne Osvik, Benne de Weger, MD5 considered harmful today: Creating a rogue CA certificate, accessed March 29, 2009.
- ^ Jian Guo, Krystian Matusiewicz (2008-11-25). Preimages for Step-Reduced SHA-2.
- ^ "The Go Programming Language". Retrieved 2013-02-04.
- ^ "Hashing Java". OWASP. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ "14.1. hashlib — Secure hashes and message digests — Python v2.7.2 documentation". Docs.python.org. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ "hash - Manual". PHP. 2011-11-04. Retrieved 2011-11-08.
- ^ "Digest::SHA". metacpan.org. Retrieved 2013-12-09.
- ^ "Module: Digest". Ruby. Retrieved 2013-10-14.
- Henri Gilbert, Helena Handschuh: Security Analysis of SHA-256 and Sisters. Selected Areas in Cryptography 2003: pp175–193
- "Proposed Revision of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180, Secure Hash Standard". Federal Register 59 (131): 35317–35318. 1994-07-11. Retrieved 2007-04-26.
External links[edit]
- Descriptions of SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 from NIST
- Specifications for a Secure Hash Standard (SHS) – Draft for proposed SHS (SHA-0)
- Secure Hash Standard (SHS) – Proposed SHS (SHA-0)
- CSRC Cryptographic Toolkit – Official NIST site for the Secure Hash Standard
- FIPS 180-4: Secure Hash Standard (SHS) (PDF, 1.7 MB) – Current version of the Secure Hash Standard (SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512), March 2012
- Test vectors for SHA-256/384/512 from the NESSIE project
- Test vectors for SHA-1, SHA-2 from NIST site
- NIST Cryptographic Hash Project SHA-3 competition
- RFC 3874: A 224-bit One-way Hash Function: SHA-224.
- RFC 6234: US Secure Hash Algorithms SHA and SHA-based HMAC and HKDF. Contains sample C implementation.


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Harry Slatkin on The Evolution of Home Fragrances (video)
When home fragrance expert Harry Slatkin began his career in home fragrances 18 years ago, he literally changed the industry. Since he founded Slatkin & Co., many others have followed suit, from Ralph Lauren to Banana Republic and Martha Stewart. Slatkin now oversees product development for all the home fragrance brands under Bath & Body Works, the country's largest bath and body retailer with over 1,650 stores.
Home fragrances used to be more of a women's world. Since then, the industry has changed dramatically, says Slatkin.
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October 14, 2007
October 14, 2007, Sewanee, Tenn. - Sarah MacGregor's goal with an assist from Julia Drummond at 56:54 gave DePauw all it needed in a 1-0 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference win at Sewanee. DePauw improved to 5-9 overall and 3-2 in the SCAC, while Sewanee dropped to 6-4 overall and 3-2 in the conference.
DePauw outshot Sewanee 22-7 in the win and held a 5-4 edge in corners. Brooke Shipley earned the shutout in goal with four saves and Sewanee's Liz Spragans had 12.
The Tigers travel to Trinity on Friday, October 19.


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Why did Reggie Evans, a nine-year veteran, sign a free agent contract with the Clippers?
"I wanted to win," Evans said Monday. "I took a two-year vacation in not making the playoffs, you know (playing with Toronto the past seasons.) I feel like coming here, my chance are good. I feel happy. It's exciting."
Clippers? Playoffs? Win?
Those three words haven't been mentioned together in a sentence since 2006, when the Clippers advanced to the Western Conference semifinals. That is, until now.
Evans said he wanted not the chance to play with All-Star Chris Paul and Chauncey Billups — two new Clippers — but to help make the team a contender. Before this season, that idea was about as absurd as hearing an opposing Clippers crowd chant "Beat L.A."
"Our our coach, made it sound pretty good. We got great goup of guys," Evans said. "… I felt it was a good opportunity for me."
Evans will add depth to the Clippers' front court and give them another solid rebounder when he returns from a foot injury. He has averaged 6.7 rebounds and 5.9 points in his career.


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