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We all knew it was coming but now the peacock network has made it official. Chase has been cancelled after one abbreviated season on the air and won't be back for season two.
Chase follows US Marshall Annie Frost (Kelli Giddish) as she heads up the Houston Enforcement & Apprehension Task Force. Annie and her team (played by Cole Hauser, Amaury Nolasco, Rose Rollins, and Jesse Metcalfe) hunt down America's most dangerous fugitives.
When it debuted in September, Chase scored mediocre ratings at best and things went quickly downhill from there. On Monday nights, Chase averaged just a 1.5 rating in the 18-49 demographic and a meager 5.44 million viewers. When the series moved to Wednesday nights in 2011, the ratings only got worse and it became the lowest-rated scripted series on the network.
In February, NBC pulled the show off the air but wouldn't say that it was cancelled. Still, we all knew the writing was on the wall. There were five episodes left unaired and last month, the peacock network began burning them off on Saturday nights. If there were any hopes left, the Saturday ratings reports dashed them. New episodes of Chase typically don't perform any better than reruns of other NBC shows.
The peacock network has now made the cancellation official. Episode 17 airs tonight and the series finale of Chase airs next Saturday night at 8pm.
What do you think? Will you miss watching Chase? Why do you think the series struggled right from the start?
Wondering where the rest of your shows stand? Check our NBC cancel/renew page.
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Last Published Date: November 15, 2013
The Department of Homeland Security
Chemical Security and Resilience: A Collaborative Effort
The manufacturing, use, storage, and distribution of chemicals must be secured from threats including terrorism and accidents. Some chemical facilities possess materials that could be stolen and used to make weapons. A successful attack on certain high-risk facilities could cause a significant number of deaths and injuries. The impacts of an accident or attack are far-reaching and can occur in a variety of ways.
Ensuring chemical security and resilience is critical to the well-being and safety of our Nation. In addition to voluntary programs, the Federal approach includes a regulatory framework for chemical substances spanning multiple agencies and subject areas.
From chemical lists managed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to chemical watch lists managed by law enforcement agencies and site inspections by the Department of Homeland Security, the current regulatory framework is both comprehensive and complex.
In August 2013, President Obama issued Executive Order (EO) 13650 Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security to improve chemical facility safety in coordination with owners and operators. The subsequent Chemical Facility Safety and Security Working Group (Working Group) – co-chaired by the Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Protection Agency, and Department of Labor – leads the effort to implement the Executive Order and improve coordination and regulation of chemical facilities across the various agencies and Federal, state, local, and first responder communities.
For the latest information related to the work being conducted by the EO Working Group, please see the "What's New" section at DHS.gov. You can also contact the Working Group at firstname.lastname@example.com.
DHS Chemical Security Programs – Preventing and Preparing
Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS)
The CFATS program identifies and regulates high-risk chemical facilities to ensure they have security measures in place to reduce the risks associated with these chemicals. The CFATS regulatory program uses a dynamic multi-tiered risk assessment process to identify and regulate high-risk chemical facilities by requiring them to meet and maintain performance-based security standards appropriate to the facilities and the risks they pose. DHS chemical security inspectors work in all 50 states to help ensure facilities have security measures in place to meet CFATS requirements.
Most chemical facilities are privately owned, which renders a public-private partnership indispensable to an effective chemical security and resilience approach. The National Infrastructure Protection Plan (NIPP) established a partnership framework that enables federal, state, regional, local, tribal, territorial, and international governments to work with each other and their private sector partners. For chemical sector, this partnership is framed around the Chemical Sector Coordinating Council which includes both sector-wide programs as well as asset-specific protective programs to enhance this sector's resilience.


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He has worked for clients such as Vitra, Levi's, Add, Adidas, Nike, Urban Outfitters, Philip Lim, Gant. Nacho frequently publishes in magazines as Hercules, Vogue, Arena, L'Uomo Vogue, GQ, Mixte, Vogue, Die Zeit, New York Times T Magazine, Das Magazin, SZ Magazin, El Pais, SEPP, among others.
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Bruce Kraig is a professor and author of Hot Dog: A Global History. Hawk Krall (@hawkkrall) is an illustrator and food writer from Philadelphia who spent three years as a hot-dog columnist for Serious Eats.
What is more American than hot dogs? Hamburgers, you say? Not if history is to be credited.
Before the cult of cheeseburgers took the nation by storm, hot dogs were the first and greatest democratic food. Around 1850, Germans came in great numbers, introducing their expert sausage-making traditions. It was an easy sell—Americans were proud carnivores from the start, and who could resist the smell of wieners and franks cooking on open grills in public places? Served from portable carts or stands, the hot dog, as it came to be known, was the first meat-based street food. By the 1880s, what were once considered German sausages had become normalized—no longer called "Weisswursts," but "red hots" or "hot dogs."
Originally served on buns with only mustard and onions, the hot dog's DNA developed thanks to the innovation of immigrant communities. Between 1890 and 1920, about a half million Greeks arrived in the United States. From Rhode Island to Oklahoma, Greek stand owners loaded up their hot dogs with sauces that they labeled chili, Laced with spices from their native cuisine such as cinnamon and nutmeg, sometimes with paprika and hot pepper.
By 1900, hot dogs were everywhere, on the streets and in American pop culture. But despite the popularity of Oscar Meyer jingles in the 1950s, hot-dog chains never experienced the same type of scale and success as burger franchises. Instead, frankfurter culture remained rooted in local companies and institutions.
Inspiring such intense local pride, we know that compiling a list of the best dogs in each state is bound to ruffle some feathers. In order to narrow our search, my colleague, Hawk Krall, and I had to set some parameters. Are we limiting the search to emulsified all-beef or beef and pork? Should we include other meats such as elk or reindeer, or sausages styles like the Polish or bratwurst? We concluded that some really great stands had varieties, so places like Biker Jim's in Denver and Jim's Original in Chicago must be on the list. Hot dogs are regional foods too, so we always had an eye towards those places that best represented local traditions.
But, even so, how to choose among the various styles in such diverse states as New Jersey, Connecticut, and California? With the help of some trusted sources, and hours spent on the road searching for holy-grail franks, we're ready to declare the best of the best.
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(LifeWire) -- Nancy Dunetz, who teaches English as a second language in New York City, sat down in the school staff room to check her e-mail. One of the messages in her inbox was from an acquaintance she'd been corresponding with since their 50th high school reunion last year.
In a survey of 4,000 people, about a third said they had accidentally sent an e-mail to the wrong person.
But this e-mail last June didn't contain chummy banter or reminiscences. It simply included a lewd photo of a partly unclothed young man. The file name of the picture was "Mid East Hottie."
"I was shocked!" says Dunetz, 68. She hastily closed the e-mail and tried to erase the image from her mind.
Later that day, the sender e-mailed an apology to her and two dozen others who had received the e-mail. He explained he'd been experimenting with his new computer and was trying to figure out how to add attachments to an e-mail, Dunetz says. In doing so, he attached an image from his desktop and tried to send it to himself. Instead, the e-mail program automatically filled in an entire group from his address book -- something he apparently didn't realize until after he hit the "send" button.
"I felt terrible for him," Dunetz says. "I could imagine just how mortified he must have been."
With some 55 billion e-mails being sent daily (not including spam), according to e-mail archiving company The Radicati Group, misdirected e-mails have become the online equivalent of a wrong number. They're unavoidable, annoying -- and often embarrassing.
The 'uh-oh' e-mail
In a recent online survey conducted by AOL, 32 percent of the 4,000 respondents have at one time or another mistakenly forwarded an e-mail to an unintended recipient. And often, it's something not so nice.
Karla Comer, an account executive at an ad agency in Greensboro, North Carolina, knows just how embarrassing that can be. In 2004, Comer met a guy at a concert and went out with him a few times, but ultimately realized she wasn't interested. "He was just awkward and clumsy. And sometimes I'd catch him staring at me, which really creeped me out," she says.
She tried to end the relationship by simply not returning his phone calls. "But then he e-mailed and casually said that he had not heard from me in a while and he hoped everything was fine but just assumed I was busy," says Comer, 31.
"Before I returned his e-mail, I sent the message to a close girlfriend with a blurb about what an idiot I thought he was and that dating him was a bad idea because he had no understanding of social cues."
She thought she sent the "he's an idiot" e-mail only to her girlfriend.
To her horror, Comer says, the spurned beau replied a few minutes later, calling her some not-so-sweet names and suggesting that she "share THIS e-mail with your friends."
"I was speechless," says Comer, who chose to not respond. "But eventually I was able to laugh at it."
When errant e-mails are sent at work, however, there's often much more at stake than personal embarrassment.
Three years ago, Jamie Diamond, 33, e-mailed his then-boss to ask about a client at the public relations firm where he was working. His boss wrote back, criticizing the client as incompetent and urging Diamond to "go around him if you want to get anything done."
Unfortunately, Diamond says, she also sent the e-mail to the client -- oops, make that ex-client.
"One click, and suddenly we'd lost a $5 million account," says Diamond, who is now self-employed as a publicist in Williams, Oregon.
Can you turn back time?
Short of erasing someone's memory, there is no surefire way to retrieve a missent e-mail. Microsoft Outlook has a "recall" function that can erase unread e-mails from the in-box of the recipient -- as long as the recipient is using the same mail client or server as the sender -- as does AOL, but only for messages between AOL users. (Both AOL and CNN are divisions of Time Warner.)
Then there's BigString.com, an e-mail service which lets you tinker with (or even erase) messages that have already been sent by having the sender write e-mails that are created, stored and viewed on a remote server, where they can be edited or revoked at any time; recipients are actually accessing the e-mail on the remote server when they read the message, even though it looks like a regular e-mail.
But old-fashioned vigilance is probably the best way to avert these snafus in the first place. Roger Matus, CEO of e-mail archiving company InBoxer Inc. and keeper of the blog Death By Email, believes the easiest way to avoid these mistakes is to forget that the "reply all" button even exists. "Simply put, there is rarely a real reason to use it," he says. "Often, when you hit it, you end up e-mailing people who were blind carbon copied without realizing."
Matus offers the following tips on avoiding e-mail embarrassment:
• Type out the person's full name when addressing your e-mail. If you type just the first few letters and let your e-mail program fill out the rest based on your address book, it could easily misroute your message without your realizing it.
• Double-check the addresses of your intended recipients before you hit "send." Do you really want all the people to get this particular message?
• Be sure to notify your company's legal department if there is any chance that governance, compliance or privacy regulations were violated as a result of something you sent by mistake.
• Immediately notify the person who received the e-mail that it was a mistake and, if possible, ask them not to read the message -- or at least to delete it right away.
LifeWire provides original and syndicated content to Web publishers. Anna Jane Grossman is a freelance writer in New York City.
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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. schoolchildren still have work to do when it comes to mathematics, the secretary of education said Wednesday.
Education Secretary Arne Duncan says U.S. schools need to be better equipped to teach math.
Arne Duncan, releasing a report on the Department of Education's latest examination of how well American children are doing in mathematics, said no one should be satisfied with what it found.
"Today's results are evidence that we must better equip our schools to improve the knowledge and skills of America's students in mathematics," he said. "More must be done to narrow the troubling achievement gap that has persisted in mathematics, and to ensure that America's students make greater gains toward becoming competitive with their peers in other countries."
Fourth- and eighth-grade students from more than 7,000 public and private schools nationwide were tested by the National Assessment of Educational Progress for the report, titled "The Nation's Report Card: Mathematics 2009."
Massachusetts students had the highest marks at both grade levels. Other high-performing states were Minnesota, Vermont, New Hampshire and New Jersey.
The area with the lowest marks in both grades was the District of Columbia, though the report showed that the district -- along with Nevada, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont -- had improved its scores since the last tests were taken in 2007.
The average scores were categorized at each grade level into four groups: below basic, basic, proficient, and advanced.
According to the Department of Education, some of the skills required to achieve a basic level of understanding of mathematics at the fourth-grade level include performing simple computations with whole numbers; showing understanding of fractions and decimals; and solving simple real-world problems.
To achieve a basic level of understanding at the eighth-grade level, students must be able work with whole numbers, decimals, fractions and percentages; be able to solve word problems and use diagrams, charts and graphs; and be able to solve simple algebra and geometry problems.
Scores were slightly higher in the 2009 report than they were in 2007, but Duncan said more needs to be done.
"Our students need to graduate high school ready to succeed in college and the workplace," he said. The National Assessment of Educational Progress results "are a call to action to reform the teaching and learning of mathematics and other related subjects in order to prepare our students to compete in the global economy."
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AEC From the Ground Up--Software Strategy: Building Modeling Options31 Dec, 2004 By: AIA ,H. Edward Goldberg
How does BIM software stack up with the 3D model concept?
As software vendors push the BIM (building information modeling) concept, many firms are wondering how the various options stack up against the others. This article attempts to codify the distinctions among the major 3D building modeling applications. As outlined in the November issue of Cadalyst (http://aec.cadalyst.com/aec/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=133495), this genre of software uses the concept of working with components such as walls, doors and windows to create a virtual 3D building model from which views and information are extracted. The end result is the production of construction documents that resemble those created by 2D CAD or standard drafting methods, but these are created more quickly and contain information such as quantities, materials and areas that can be used in the construction and management of buildings.
The major BIM software products, in my opinion, are Bentley Architecture, Graphisoft ArchiCAD, VectorWorks ARCHITECT and Autodesk's Revit and Architectural Desktop. This conclusion is based on quantity of installed seats, true object CAD or parametric modeling capability, routines or programming dedicated to the architecture and construction industry and extraction of views and information directly from a 3D model. Note that I am not proficient with all of these programs, but have attempted to compare their capabilities by observing their operation by competent professionals.
BIM software solutions generally divide on two categories: unidirectional vs. bidirectional editing and single-file vs. multifile databases. All of these solutions initially design a 3D model and then extract views, such as elevations and sections, and other information. In a unidirectional approach, manipulating the extracted views and information will generally not automatically change the model or other views. Unidirectional approaches generally keep information in separate document files that are electronically linked, but where changes will not affect the model.
On the other hand, changes to extracted views and information in a bidirectional software, such as Revit, Bentley Architecture, ArchiCAD and VectorWorks ARCHITECT, do affect the model as well as all the other views and information throughout the project. To achieve this result, all information must be interrelated at all times. To create such a permanent interrelationship, the software solution must keep all the information about the project (models, views, sheets, schedules and so forth) in a single database file, or manage relationships between databases in multiple files. Though the bidirectional, single-database concept creates a very efficient operating environment, it also produces a much larger single file than those programs that use the unidirectional, electronically linked file solution. The single file, in the case of Revit and to a lesser extent with ArchiCAD and VectorWorks ARCHITECT, is probably larger than any DGN file or individual DWG file in an Architectural Desktop project, but is likely to be smaller than the total collection of files that make up an Architectural Desktop or MicroStation project. The multi-file approach is inherently more scalable and likely to perform better because it doesn't need to handle the entire model all the time, but it can require a bit more management and care in setting it up. Users need to weigh the pros and cons of each approach to match their needs.
Graphisoft ArchiCADGraphisoft ArchiCAD, introduced in 1984, was the first product among these solutions to create a virtual model. Now in its ninth version, ArchiCAD's bidirectional associative models keep all the data in one PLN file that can hold a 60,000-square-foot building—including all construction documents—in a 30MB file. ArchiCAD uses the GDL (geometric description language) model creation language. GDL contains all the information necessary to completely describe building elements as 2D CAD symbols, 3D models and text specifications for use in drawings, presentations and quantity calculations. The program also ships with the RCC (Richard Creveling database) that can be interpreted by Timberline software to instantly create Level 2 cost estimates.
ArchiCAD is a rare program—VectorWorks ARCHITECT is another—that is offered on the Macintosh as well as Windows platform. This is an excellent BIM program, and because it's been around the longest, it may have the most routines dedicated to architecture and construction. It's very popular in Europe and is used by prolific firms such as Davis Brody Bond in New York and D'Aleo and Associates in Baltimore.
Besides ArchiCAD, Graphisoft offers ArchiFM for facilities management and recently introduced a complete new product line for design/build firms, construction firms, engineering firms and consultants. This product set, which includes GS Constructor 2005 and GS Estimator 2005, allows companies to perform model-based calculations for scheduling, estimating and purchasing and provides a comprehensive platform with which they can manage an entire construction project. Constructor also includes a next-generation MEP modeling environment as well as a structural modeling library.
Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005Autodesk Architectural Desktop is an object-based BIM solution based on AutoCAD. Any improvements or updates to AutoCAD are reflected in Architectural Desktop. This solution uses specialized programming and routines to make AutoCAD perform as a BIM modeler (figure 1). It's a unidirectional solution that saves all information in separate DWG drawing files. Each file often contains information on disparate information such as doors and walls.
Figure 1. Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005 uses specialized programming and routines to make AutoCAD perform as a building modeler.
These files are then linked by a programmed xref system called the Project Navigator so the program can interact with them. Architectural Desktop is unidirectional in that any change in the model is expressed in all views, but not all views can change the model. In most cases, Architectural Desktop's documents must be saved and views refreshed to update and coordinate all of its documents.
This five-year-old solution in its fifth version. It's the most widely distributed BIM software, due in great part to the large installed AutoCAD user base. Architectural Desktop is very capable and relies heavily on the automation of entity creation. It's very sophisticated software, so new users may have some initial difficulty, but in the hands of an experienced operator, it's very productive and capable of handling the biggest projects. Because it's basically enhanced AutoCAD, using the native DWG format, it's especially capable during the construction document phase. Because Architectural Desktop is very popular, several third-party books are available, and it's taught in many universities and community colleges. More third-party plug-ins are available for Architectural Desktop than for any of the other BIM solutions.
Bentley ArchitectureBentley Architecture is the architectural application within Bentley's multidisciplinary suite of solutions. It's an object-oriented product, and like its companions for structural and building systems engineering, it's based on the MicroStation platform. Because MicroStation has the second largest number of installed seats, there is a large pool of operators from which to draw. MicroStation or AutoCAD operators can easily become proficient with Bentley Architecture, and Bentley offers full DWG support to integrate with AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop users on mixed-platform projects.
Figure 2. Bentley Architecture includes top-quality rendering and animation tools. Image courtesy of the Building Design Partnership.
Bentley Architecture has been used by leading firms on many large and inspiring architectural projects around the world. For example, Bentley's architectural and engineering solutions are currently being used to construct a full multidisciplinary model of the Pentagon, the largest office building in the world.
Bentley Architecture includes full top-quality rendering and animation from within its user interface (figure 2) and also provides capabilities for modeling, visualization, reporting, schedules, cost and program analysis, bidirectional integration with engineering analysis applications, schedule simulation and 4D design. It also offers a capability called 2D/3D choice, which allows users to work in either the 3D model or 2D drawing views—or in both at the same time—while keeping all drawings and the models in sync.
Bentley offers a complete BIM solution for architects and engineers working on a single platform and supports those on other platforms through standard formats such as DWG, PDF, CIS/2 and the IAI's IFCs, making it very appealing for multidisciplinary teams and complex projects.
Autodesk RevitAutodesk positions Revit as software purposefully engineered for BIM. Revit was conceived by programmers who created 3D software for the mechanical design industry and applied those concepts to create a solution tailored for architecture and construction. Autodesk vice-president Phil Bernstein has often called Revit the future direction of AEC software.
Figure 3. Specifically designed for building information modeling, Autodesk Revit provides bidirectional change capability.
Revit is four years old and in its seventh version. Autodesk updates it about every six months. Third-party plug-ins are available for energy analysis and specification writing using Revit's export-to-ODBC functionality. Autodesk has not disclosed the Revit API (application programming interface), but this policy will begin to change when it releases Revit Structure for structural engineering and Revit Systems for MEP engineering, both currently in beta.
Revit is truly bidirectional in that any change to any object or any document view, including views on sheets ready to plot, is expressed in all documents and views (figure 3). The program is very intuitive and has an easy initial learning curve.
Many large architectural firms are doing pilot projects with this software, and SOM is using it for its 1,776-foot-high Freedom Tower project at the 9/11 site. Autodesk is expending lots of resources developing and promoting this software to the AEC community. For architects new to BIM, this software may be an excellent choice. Revit has the smallest user base because it's the newest solution. It is, however, an excellent solution and, with the backing of Autodesk, could become an industry leader.
Nemetschek VectorWorks ARCHITECTVectorWorks ARCHITECT is developed by Nemetschek North America, a wholly owned subsidiary of European developer Nemetschek AG. Like ArchiCAD, it's a cross-platform BIM program that runs on the Macintosh as well as Windows operating systems. The developer suggests that smaller, price-conscious firms may be drawn to this product, which is the least expensive of the five packages reviewed. Although this program creates an excellent 3D model, it incorporates years of 2D CAD expertise to provide drafting and detailing capabilities (figure 4). The program's building objects display appropriately in both 2D and 3D and can be tagged with nongraphical information such as material, manufacturer and price.
Figure 4. VectorWorks building modeling capabilities make it easy to coordinate model views.
This information can be reviewed and revised at any time during the design process and can be used to create schedules, tables and reports that are linked to the drawing through a built-in worksheet capability. Unique to this program is NURBS modeling capability, which allows VectorWorks ARCHITECT to create complex surfaces and organic shapes. The program also creates photorealistic and nonphotorealistic renderings with the included RenderWorks module. Fully compatible DXF and DWG translation from AutoCAD 2.5 to 2005 is available thanks to Nemetschek North America's status as a founding member of the Open Design Alliance. This software is available in seven languages and sold in more than 80 countries. Studio Daniel Libeskind used its 2D capabilities for designing the winning entry in the World Trade Center competition.
Weigh the OptionsFamiliarity with a program is the biggest productivity advantage. Features are important, but if the operator is not proficient with the software, productivity is hampered and profits fall. Is the program a standard? Autodesk's AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT have the largest worldwide user base by far, and Autodesk's DWG file format is considered an industry-standard file exchange format.
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All these programs are not equal in creating a building model. Some will extract information more easily than others. The quality of the interfaces and the ease with which a model is created are debatable, because familiarity and workflow preference play such important factors. All of these programs produce most types of construction documents required for any level of building, and all are being used, often in concert, on real projects.
ROI is hard to predict because of personnel capabilities, and that is again a function of familiarity. As far as features are concerned, all these developers are competitive and will strive to offer the same capabilities if demand is there. Because of bidirectional capability and programming specifically for the architectural and construction industry, Revit and ArchiCAD can instantly create cost estimates directly from the 3D model using preprogrammed defaults, but may be limited in how much they can be customized. On the other hand, Bentley Architecture's powerful datagroups capabilities and links with Excel make cost and other types of reporting extremely powerful and customizable, but require more initial setup by the user. Graphisoft has the longest history with BIM software, and VectorWorks ARCHITECT's strong selling point is its affordability.
All of these software solutions create 3D models, extract automatic sections and elevations, and create, draft and document to standard 2D construction documents. Statistically, though Bentley Architecture and Architectural Desktop each have a large number of installed seats, it's not possible to determine if they are actually being used for building modeling or simply for standard 2D drafting. However these two solutions do offer a way for users to combine familiar 2D drafting with building modeling as they learn the new capabilities."
What Program is Right for Your Company?
Answering this question depends on how you rank your needs. Each of these solutions has clear areas in which it excels. The key to making the right selection is finding a match between a program's capabilities, your needs and the support and training the vendor can offer you. Factors to consider may include, but should not be limited to, your existing computer equipment, the importance of collaboration, available support, ease of use and room to grow and handle needs down the road.
Next, contact vendors and ask them to demonstrate how their software meets your needs. If possible, instead of a canned presentation, have them demonstrate on one of your projects or do a pilot project with them. Be sure that your staff is involved in the selection process. They should be willing to learn the new software and accept the work environment it provides. Also, check to see if there is good training available, either from the vendor or a third-party consultant.
Most importantly, recognize that choosing to implement BIM is a strategic decision. BIM software is the direction for the future and can add to your bottom line through increased profits and ROI, but only if you choose a solution that meshes with your needs.
Have an open mind, ask the hard questions and dig deep—a slick demo shouldn't determine the winner. No matter what you choose, it will be a big change, so don't choose the book by its cover.
H. Edward Goldberg, AIA, is a practicing licensed architect, industrial designer and AEC industry analyst. Ed's full-length book, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2005: A Comprehensive Tutorial (Prentice Hall, 2003) is available now (www.prenhall.com). His other books, Autodesk Architectural Desktop 2004: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Autodesk Architectural Desktop 3, are also available. You can reach Ed at firstname.lastname@example.com. His personal Web site is www.hegra.org
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Is anybody here familiar with such algorithms ?
I have found that this uses some cauchy-schwarz inequality and cross-correlation, but I don't understand how I can apply this to images or how to translate it in a c# algorithm.
Example: Find Waldo
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
Zainab Salbi to Deliver the 2013 Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women's Rights
Zainab Salbi, the founder of Women for Women International, will deliver the Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Women's Rights on "Empowering Voice, Engendering Change."
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Professor Elizabeth Anderson to Deliver the 2013-2014 Arthur Allen Leff Lecture
Professor Elizabeth Anderson will deliver the 2013-2014 Arthur Allen Leff Lecture at Yale Law School on Sept. 30. The title of the lecture is "Social Movements, Experiments in Living, and Moral Progress: Case Studies from Britain's Abolition of Slavery."
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic Publishes Second Report on Effects of Youth Sentenced as Adults
The Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School has published a new report, I'm Going to Move Forward: Stories of Change from Men Imprisoned as Children in Connecticut.
Monday, April 8, 2013
Bernstein Symposium April 11-12 to Examine Human Rights and Corporate Liability
The Bernstein Symposium will cover corporate liability in the 21st century and take place on Thursday, April 11, 2013, and Friday, April 12, 2013, at Yale Law School.
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
YLS and Quinnipiac Student Clinics Publish New Report on Youth Serving Long Prison Sentences
Students from the Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at YLS and the Civil Justice Clinic at Quinnipiac University School of Law have published a report on Connecticut's children serving long prison sentences.
Wednesday, March 6, 2013
Yale Law Journal Symposium to Examine Impact and Legacy of Gideon v. Wainwright Case
The two-day symposium will examine the legacy of the Gideon v. Wainwright case 50 years later.
Thursday, February 21, 2013
UMich Law Professor Rebecca J. Scott to discuss Unlawful Power: Two Moments in the Creation of Property in Persons
University of Michigan Law Professor Rebecca J. Scott will deliver a special lecture on Wednesday, March 6, 2013 at Yale Law School.
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Luis Moreno-Ocampo to Give Inaugural Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice Monday - WATCH VIA LIVESTREAM
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, will deliver the inaugural Gruber Distinguished Lecture in Global Justice at Yale Law School on Jan. 28, 2013.


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- It's the only option for streaming iTunes content
- Apple Music, HomeKit, and AirPlay further extend the box's usefulness
- App-driven home screen is easy to understand
- Fairly cheap for a high-end set-top box
- Only platform that still lacks voice search
- Outdated hardware translates to long loading times
- Limited app selection
- Remote is overly simplistic and depends on line of sight
Our Verdict
While it's beginning to show its age, Apple TV's hooks into the Apple ecosystem still make it worth considering.
Apple TV is a set-top box battered by the forces of time. Now more than two years old, it's showing its age in terms of interface and performance, and it might be replaced by a newer model in the near future. That could explain why Apple recently slashed the price from $99 to $69, giving it the distinction of being the cheapest top-shelf set-top box in our buying guide.
Despite being long in the tooth, this old Apple TV still has some redeeming qualities, especially for users who are deeply committed to the Apple ecosystem.
The biggest benefit is the ability to access your iTunes music and video purchases, and to view your personal photos and videos stored in iCloud. Mac users can also stream their iTunes content over a local Wi-Fi network. No other set-top box offers these features, at least not without moving your content to different services altogether. Apple TV also supports AirPlay, which lets users beam video and music from iPhone and iPad apps, and mirror the display on iOS devices and Macs.
Apple's ecosystem hooks will grow even deeper in the months ahead. Apple Music, the company's new subscription streaming service, will get a native Apple TV app this fall, there are rumors of a subscription video service to follow . Apple TV also acts as a remote hub for HomeKit smart-home products, letting users control their locks, lights, and thermostat from outside the house.
The benefits of Apple TV aren't as pronounced when you move away from Apple's own apps and services. Instead of a full app store, users get a tightly curated list of pre-installed apps, which means no apps for Amazon Prime, Spotify, Plex, or Sling TV. The apps themselves are visually quite plain, and can be slow to load as you move through their menus.
Those downsides may not be deal breakers if you're set the box's Apple-exclusive features, but even in that case, it may be prudent to wait for a new model, which could come as early as this fall. The current Apple TV hardware lacks modern features such as voice search and a full app store. Think long and hard before making it the anchor of your living-room streaming experience.
Editor's note: This review supersedes our original review of the Apple TV. You'll find our previous opinion preserved here.


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Marking pages as spam
Thanks for your work! In the future, though, you can just replace the text of spam pages with the template {{spam}}. Thanks, GregG 09:12, 11 October 2012 (EDT)
Good to see your edits again
Good to see your always-intelligent edits again! I look forward to reading what you just wrote about Counterexamples to String Theory.--Andy Schlafly 14:14, 14 December 2012 (EST)
- Thanks, Andy. I've been following the site since I went on hiatus (on a limited basis -- my wife and I are now the proud parents of a healthy 9-month old, so free time isn't always there!) and am glad to contribute what little bit that I can. --Jeff W. LauttamusDiscussion 14:18, 14 December 2012 (EST)
You are posting comments with different user names
You just used 2 names to post comments on the main page - RyanFT & DGalore.
comments posted by RyanFT
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Is Facebook or a computer game at fault this time? Or maybe it's just too easy.'
comments posted by DGalore
'Grand Theft Auto features "mall rampages"
No it doesn't. It features various sorts of criminal violence but nothing involving a shopping mall or resembling this kind of incident. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by DGalore (talk)'
Both posts were made under your user name. Please explain yourself. EJamesW 15:10, 14 December 2012 (EST)
- EJamesW, if you look under the history for the talk page, both editors you've listed show up with edits. I believe you've misread the situation. SharonW 15:13, 14 December 2012 (EST)
- I didn't post the comments; look at the edit history. I added the {{unsigned}} tag to the posts, as they were (obviously) unsigned. -- Jeff W. LauttamusDiscussion 16:01, 14 December 2012 (EST)
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- Edit history for what you're describing. -- Jeff W. LauttamusDiscussion 16:29, 14 December 2012 (EST)
Sorry JLauttamus, It seems I messed up! I hope you accept my apology. 17:56, 14 December 2012 (EST)
- No problems, mate. It was in good faith. Ironically enough you didn't sign that post. ;-) -- Jeff W. LauttamusDiscussion 17:57, 14 December 2012 (EST)
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If a New user is a spammer there is not much point in welcoming them as the account is just a pump and dump account operated by some slave in communist China. Please look at what they have posted before issueing them with welcome notices. The {{warning}} template is also useful. Dvergne 19:29, 14 December 2012 (EST)
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Broadband junkies in the northeastern US got some good news Wednesday in the form of an announcement from Comcast that it is extending its DOCSIS 3.0 rollout to that part of the country. The company's 50Mbps "Extreme" (can we please retire the Extreme branding already?) speed tier will be launched in the Boston area (including southern New Hampshire), as well as parts of Philadelphia and New Jersey over the next few weeks.
Back in April, Comcast flipped the switch on its first DOCSIS 3.0 deployment in the Twin Cities, pricing the 50Mbps tier at $149.95 per month. Comcast's newly-renamed Extreme 50 service is now a bit cheaper at $139.95 (upstream speed is 10Mbps). The cable giant's other new service tier is Ultra, which offers speeds of up 22Mbps down and 5Mbps up for $62.95. Most current Comcast customers will also get a speed boost: Performance broadband customers will see their speeds doubled to 12Mbps/2Mbps up, while Performance Plus subscribers get a boost to 16Mbps down.
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The word "Angkor" is derived Sanskrit, an ancient Indian language, of "Nagara" which means "City". Angkor Wat literally means "City of Temple" and Angkor Thom "The Magnificent City".
No doubts, the ancient Khmers were great masters of stone carving. As we can see today the unarguable evidences of various Angkor temples lying on the vast plain of Siemreap, or even beyond its present-day border to the Preah Vihear at Dangrek Mountain, Phnomrung and Phimai in Thailand and Wat Phu in Laos. All these were created and carefully crafts by the ancient Khmers in successive centuries. This seems to contradict with the normal and easy-going life of the local Khmer people and villagers of their time. What drive them to put such an extraordinary efforts and time will be explained in the next chapters.
The study of Khmer civilization in depth is not easy and pain-taking by the historians and archaeologists. Most of the writing, found after the excavation of Angkor, were carved in the stones which became the unperishable materials against time. Although these evidences are important for us to understand the basic constituency of Khmer society and its chronology, they were mainly concerned with religious rituals, King's praise, and literature of Indian epics of "Ramayana" and "Mahabharata". There were little things saying about the ordinary life of the local people.
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RICHARDS, Sir WILLIAM BUELL, lawyer, politician, and judge; b. 2 May 1815 in Brockville, Upper Canada, the eldest son of Stephen Richards and Phoebe Buell, and brother of Stephen and Albert Norton; m. 19 Oct. 1846 Deborah Catherine Muirhead (d. 1869), and they had three sons and two daughters; d. 26 Jan. 1889 in Ottawa, Ont.
William Buell Richards was educated at the Johnstown District Grammar School in Brockville and the St Lawrence Academy in Potsdam, N.Y. After serving in the Brockville law offices of both his uncle, Andrew Norton Buell*, and George Malloch, he was called to the bar in 1837. He practised in partnership first with Malloch, and then after 1842 with Buell, thereby cementing the close relationship which already existed between the Buell and Richards families. In 1849 he became a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada and he was named a qc the following year.
As a young man Richards was active in a number of community organizations, including the Brockville Mechanics' Institute, a debating society, a lending library, the town council, agricultural societies, and numerous social clubs. Following the strong tradition of the Buells and the Richards, he was also an ardent Reformer. Throughout the 1840s he helped to revitalize the Reformers especially in the rural areas of Leeds where he became popular among older, established families and the recently arrived Irish Roman Catholics. In 1844 he was nominated to contest the constituency of Leeds in the general election, but he retired in favour of William Buell*, his uncle. Nominated again for the election of 1848, he defeated the arch-villain of Reformers in Leeds, Ogle Robert Gowan*; this victory was particularly satisfying because during the election campaign Gowan had questioned Richards' loyalty in the 1837–38 rebellion. Once elected, Richards became involved in the distribution of patronage to the long-ostracized Reformers of eastern Upper Canada, an activity he believed fully justifiable, even necessary.
A close friend of Robert Baldwin*, who was godfather to one of his children, Richards rose rapidly in the Reform administration. In 1851, after he again defeated Gowan, he was appointed attorney general in the administration of Francis Hincks and Augustin-Norbert Morin*. In office, Richards displayed an interest in legal reform by promoting the reorganization of statute law and by helping to raise the requirements for admission to the bar. On 22 June 1853, amid considerable controversy because of what some claimed to have been a brief and undistinguished legal career, he was appointed a puisne judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Yet although political influence had helped Richards obtain the judgeship, he was, despite the protests, well qualified for the post. He became chief justice of that court on 22 July 1863.
As a judge Richards was widely acclaimed as "a man of large common sense" rather than as a brilliant jurist. He was also known for his wit, which he used especially to embarrass pompous lawyers. During the 1850s and 1860s Richards visited all regions of Canada West, holding spring and fall assizes in county towns. Because of his early experiences in Leeds County and his practical approach to the law, he became a popular judge whose decisions were seldom appealed. He heard a wide variety of cases involving boundary disputes, libel, testate questions, paternity suits, seduction charges, bad debts, and occasionally manslaughter and murder. Richards maintained detailed case-books that reported both on the evidence and on his own impressions of witnesses. No doubt this thoroughness was an important reason for his success as a judge and it helps to explain why he was appointed chief justice of Ontario's Court of Queen's Bench on 16 Nov. 1868.
Richards was involved in several well-known cases of the time. In 1858, along with William Henry Draper*, he had rendered a controversial decision in favour of the government of George-Étienne Cartier* and John A. Macdonald* over the "double shuffle" incident. He presided at the trial in 1868 of Patrick James Whelan*, charged with the assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee*, a trial marred by questionable procedure; Richards did not enhance his reputation when, after his appointment as chief justice, he sat in judgement on the appeal. In November 1874, trying a controverted election case in Kingston, he found Macdonald's campaign associates guilty of bribery, and the next month Macdonald was obliged to contest the seat in a by-election which he won by a narrow margin.
Richards also took part in early discussions concerning the creation of a supreme court for Canada, and in 1871 visited judges of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington to evaluate the effectiveness of that court. When Alexander Mackenzie*'s government established the Supreme Court of Canada in 1875, Richards was a popular choice among Liberals and even among many Conservatives for the chief justiceship.
Richards' tenure as chief justice from 8 Oct. 1875 to 9 Jan. 1879 was characterized by controversy in parliament and in the press largely because of the contention surrounding the establishment of the court itself. Many Conservatives and a few Liberals who were strongly opposed to the Supreme Court objected to the high cost of the court and its isolation in Ottawa, as well as to its slowness in coming to decisions and to the poor reports that were made of the initial cases. They also pointed to the alleged nepotism of Justice Jean-Thomas Taschereau* and to the absenteeism of judges, including Richards himself who was often abroad studying court systems. These were politically inspired debates, and during the first years of the Supreme Court Richards and his fellow justices, especially William Alexander Henry, were also confronted with the difficult task of establishing the court's role within the judicial system. A staunch defender of the court, he attempted to strengthen it while keeping it separate from the legislative arm of the federal government. As well as developing the court's early rules of order, he also dealt with questions concerning the right of appeal, the minimum worth of property cases heard before the court, and its relationship with the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. He was particularly interested in the use of the court as an arbiter of dominion-provincial relations and his tours of Europe and the United States were to determine how other courts dealt with similar problems.
Late in his career Richards received several other appointments. From 1874 to 1876 he acted for Ontario on the arbitration committee established to settle the Ontario-Manitoba boundary dispute. He was created a knight bachelor in 1877 and was designated deputy governor general in the absence of Lord Dufferin [Blackwood*]. Despite a personal friendship with Sir John A. Macdonald which had begun in the 1860s, the prime minister and his associates pressed Richards to resign in January 1879, probably because of ill health. After his retirement he travelled widely, maintaining residences in France, Ottawa, and Toronto until he died of asthma in 1889.
AO, MU 301–9. MTL, Robert Baldwin papers; William Warren Baldwin papers. PAC, MG 24, B75. Canada Law Journal, new ser., 25 (1889): 194–96. Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada, comp. George Duval et al. (64v., Ottawa, 1878–1923), I–II. Brockville Recorder (Brockville, [Ont.]), 1830–49. Canadian biog. dict., I: 9–10. CPC, 1876. Dent, Canadian portrait gallery, I: 212–13. T. W. H. Leavitt, History of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, from 1749 to 1879 . . . (Brockville, 1879; repr. Belleville, Ont., 1972). G. R. I. MacPherson, "The code of Brockville's Buells, 1830–1849"
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If a user has chosen to use Btrfs on one or more partitions, this feature will:
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- enable the user to change which snapshot will be next booted into, if desired
- enable the user to manually create a new snapshot, if desired
All of the above will require superuser privileges.
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- Josef's yum plugin has been merged
- Palimpsest code is not finished, and will be deferred until F14.
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Btrfs is capable of creating lightweight filesystem snapshots that can be mounted (and booted into) selectively. The created snapshots are copy-on-write snapshots, so there is no file duplication overhead involved for files that do not change between snapshots.
It's important to note that these snapshots are whole-filesystem snapshots -- while we propose to create a new snapshot each time a yum transaction happens, that doesn't mean reverting to an earlier snapshot will only revert the files changed by yum! The entire root filesystem will be reverted, including users' home directories if they are on btrfs. (Because of this, a user may decide to keep /home on a separate, non-btrfs partition where it is unaffected by rollbacks they decide to initiate.)
A "rollback" to an older snapshot is not destructive to data. It switches to an earlier snapshot, and later snapshots are still available afterwards. We allow the user to choose which snapshot will be mounted next, and making that choice does not affect or destroy any other snapshots.
We are not proposing Btrfs to be the default filesystem for Fedora 13; this feature would only be present on installs where Btrfs has been optionally chosen for at least one filesystem.
Benefit to Fedora
There are several interesting use cases for this feature:
- Aaron is a developer whose laptop tracks Rawhide daily. There will be days where Rawhide is not bootable/usable, though. When Rawhide breaks, automated snapshots allow Aaron to easily revert to the previous day's filesystem until Rawhide's known-working again.
- Barbara wishes to bisect a mysterious bug that appears to have crept in on one of her recent Rawhide updates. Performing the full-system bisection is made easier by binary searching the snapshots on her disk, to narrow down responsibility for the bug to a small list of modified packages and their versions.
- Christine wishes to create weekly snapshots by hand in case she later wants to have access to older versions of the files she's been working on.
- Donald has, independent of yum/rpm, somehow hosed his system and doesn't know how to recover it. He'd like to revert back to the last snapshot that was made.
Of these, the ability for our developers to feel comfortable tracking Rawhide without fear of an unusable install seems to have the most immediate utility to Fedora.
We propose to create:
- (deferred) a new "btrfs" section in gnome-disk-utility/Palimpsest. When a btrfs filesystem is highlighted, the user is shown a drop-down menu that allows choosing the snapshot that will be used the next time the filesystem is mounted, and a separate text box and "create" button for creating a new snapshot immediately. (cjb)
- (finished) a yum plugin to create a timestamped snapshot just before starting each yum transaction. (josef, skvidal)
- (deferred) a patch to grub1 -- on top of the already existing patch to support btrfs in grub1 -- to allow selecting between snapshots of the boot partition.
- (finished) a patch to btrfs to set an fs-specific option of which snapshot should be the next "default" to boot. This avoids having the control panel need to modify either the grub config or /etc/fstab; instead it would just set a filesystem property with btrfsctl(1).
How To Test
The test plan will look something like:
- Make your root filesystem be on btrfs. This can be by selecting it in the installer, or running the btrfs migration tool from ext3 or ext4. Make sure to have a backup first!
- Boot into the new btrfs system, and perform a "yum install". Does palimpsest show that a new snapshot was created? Does it allow you to set that snapshot as active for the next book without any errors?
- When you reboot, verify that the application you successfully yum-installed is no longer present on the system.
- Switch back to the latest "default" snapshot and reboot. Test that the yum-installed app is present once more.
- Try creating a snapshot by hand using palimpsest, and set it as active for the next boot. Before rebooting, touch a file in the root directory of the filesystem. After you reboot, it should be gone.
User Experience
There will be new options available if your disk contains btrfs filesystems and you run palimpsest. If there is a mounted btrfs partition, palimpsest will offer a selection of old snapshots to use at next mount, and offer the creation of new ones. If there are no btrfs mounts, the UI will be entirely unchanged.
If the grub subfeature is completed, and a user has chosen to use btrfs as their boot filesystem, users will see a list of date/timestamps corresponding to snapshots that they can select from by interrupting grub at boot-time.
All of the support needed for btrfs snapshots should be already present in the kernel. The patch to support btrfs in grub has not been committed to grub1 so far (although we note that Gentoo already carries it locally). We would have to persuade the Fedora Grub maintainer(s) to adopt the patch for the grub subfeature to be completed.
Contingency Plan
None necessary, revert if not completed.
Here is generic documentation on btrfs snapshots:
- http://blogs.igalia.com/aperez/2008/06/more-btrfs-goodness-snapshots/
- http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Getting_started
There will be significant documentation work needed to explain the following about this feature:
- While the snapshots are automatically created as part of yum transactions, they are full disk snapshots, not merely snapshots of the package changes.
- Rolling back to an earlier snapshot is not destructive. You can go back to the most recent version of the filesystem again afterwards using the same tool you used to switch to the earlier one.
Release Notes
- Users of the experimental btrfs filesystem in Fedora 13 benefit from automatic filesystem snapshots each time the yum package manager performs an installation or upgrade, and from a user interface to allow switching between snapshots.


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Editor's note: Sarah Hughes won the gold medal in figure skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, and is a graduate of Yale University.
Medalist Sarah Hughes says the Games are about excellence and unity.
(CNN) -- What are the first thoughts that pop into your mind when you hear the word Olympics? Probably something synonymous with excellence, greatness, excitement, achievement.
Maybe it's the striking image of Nadia Comaneci scoring a perfect 10 etched in your mind, or the experience of following Michael Phelps' quest to win a record-breaking eight gold medals last summer in Beijing, China.
Or is it the thrill of watching the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team winning the gold medal in Lake Placid, stacked up against unimaginable odds, that occupies that space?
I could go on and on, but whatever image the Olympics has for you is probably accompanied by a feeling of pride, happiness, joyfulness, maybe even a childlike glee.
Sometimes it's the simple way you can sum up your response to the question -- and perhaps that's the point of asking the question -- but it would be foolish to ignore other aspects of the Games that contribute to making the event happen.
Although the presence of public officials at host-city bids shows the International Olympic Committee that they are behind the bid and will be supportive, such appearances are not required.
On Friday, President Obama, a Chicago, Illinois, resident for many years, will arrive in Copenhagen, Denmark (his wife is already there), to support and try to persuade the IOC voters in favor of the 2016 Chicago bid.
Obama's visit to Copenhagen will make him the first U.S. president to attend an Olympic host-city vote. His visit will not be the first by a president (or prime minister) whose country went on to win a bid for the Games.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his wife were in Singapore lobbying IOC members for the 2012 Summer Games host-city vote when London was awarded the event. Two years later, Russian President Vladimir Putin went to the host-city vote in Guatemala when Sochi, a relatively unknown city, won the right to host the 2014 Winter Games.
The other 2016 contenders vying for votes from the 100-plus eligible members of the IOC are Madrid, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; and Tokyo, Japan.
Michelle Obama, a lifelong Chicagoan enthusiastically championing the U.S. bid, is displaying her "Olympic spirit."
On Monday, the eve of her visit to Copenhagen, she spoke of being ready to woo each voter individually if need be: "Gloves are off. I'm talking to everybody. That's what my schedule looks like." Sounding like an Olympic competitor already herself, she added that she didn't "think there's one person left off."
It is easy to come to the conclusion that I might be biased, having won a gold medal in figure skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Games, but I was an American and a fan long before those Games, and I will be one long after.
The memories, unity and patriotism from the Salt Lake Games wasn't about any one particular thing but about all those little "things" coming together: the result of what the participants -- the fans, volunteers, competitors, coaches, moms, dads, sisters, brothers, cities and nations -- created by sharing the best we have to offer with one another.
That's what the Olympics are about. They are about greatness, they are about excellence, but above all, the Games are about unity.
In a September 10 letter to IOC members, Obama wrote about how he "sees the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games as an extraordinary opportunity for America to renew our bonds of friendship and welcome the world to our shores with open arms."
And on Friday, when Obama arrives in Copenhagen, he will be joined by Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, newly appointed Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama and King Juan Carlos of Spain.
Let the Games begin.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Sarah Hughes.
All About Olympic Games • Chicago • Barack Obama


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Read the full story here Web Link posted Sunday, March 3, 2013, 2:25 PM
Town Square
Three robberies, one armed, hit Palo Alto
Original post made on Mar 3, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Sunday, March 3, 2013, 2:25 PM
Comments (36)
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2013 at 4:24 pm
Hmmm .. extra handsets are about $10 these days (maybe even a little less at a surplus store). And surveillance cameras .. not that expensive, these days.
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2013 at 4:55 pm
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a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 3, 2013 at 5:18 pm
This storage space is technically in East Palo Alto. Why does this newspaper misinform?
a resident of another community
on Mar 3, 2013 at 7:14 pm
Which East Bay Shore Storage Unit?
1961 E. Bayshore is in EPA...
2047 E. Bayshore is in fact in Palo Alto.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 3, 2013 at 8:56 pm
According to the police press release, it was 2047 East Bayshore in Palo Alto.
Web Link
"On Saturday, March 2, 2013, at about 4:57 p.m., our 24-hour dispatch center received a 9-1-1 call reporting that an armed robbery had just occurred at Public Storage at 2047 East Bayshore Road."
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 3, 2013 at 9:10 pm
Is this the place across the street from the post office and next to a school?
a resident of Crescent Park
on Mar 3, 2013 at 10:07 pm
>> Police said the victim, a woman in her 60s, approached a group of men who were standing on the sidewalk and asked if she could buy a cigarette. One of the men allegedly handed her a cigarette. When she opened her purse to get some change, the man snatched the $5 bill out of her hand and tried to run away, police said. After a few steps, he dropped the bill. Police said when the woman picked the money up, he grabbed her arm and bit her on the hand, forcing to the release the money to him. Police said he then ran away with the money south on Kipling Street.
Sheesh ... I can scarcely believe this story ... can a person get any more low and scummy than this?
Does anyone think that this guy will go to jail and get rehabilitated or do anything to fix his life? Strong-arming an old lady and then biting her for 5 bucks ... that's just disgusting. This kind of person should just be in jail his whole life because when he gets out he is just going to cause more and bigger problems.
a resident of Mountain View
on Mar 4, 2013 at 7:19 am
I've read enough of these stories to not want to frequent Palo Alto any more. These are the acts of brazen criminals who appear to fear nothing.
I suggest Palo Altans head over to Mountain View for a safer experience in our downtown.
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 4, 2013 at 7:41 am
Sure, there is been an uptick in robberies of late, but overall downtown Palo Alto is still a safe place to work, shop and dine. i know that sounds like an ad from the Chamber of Commerce, but it always bothers me to read a comment like,"Im not coming back to downtown PA because of crime.' C'mon, its still a great downtown.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Mar 4, 2013 at 8:23 am
60 yr old woman approaches a group of men to ask for a cigarette and then gets robbed of $5.
1. Quit smoking
2. Buy your own cigarettes
3. Do not approach a group of men and ask for a cigarette.
4. For a lousy $5 you could have avoided getting bit.
Shall I go on?
a resident of Greenmeadow
on Mar 4, 2013 at 8:34 am
@mountain viewer. University ave has had problems from homeless, vagrancy, public intoxication, car break ins, bike thefts, etc. for the last few decades. It is really quite scummy and I do make frequent trips to Mt View to enjoy Castro and many of the other local business that havent been forced out by high rents (like Palo Alto).
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 4, 2013 at 9:34 am
Just a note to you 'whippersnappers". A woman who is sixty years old is NOT an "old lady".
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 4, 2013 at 10:05 am
To robit noops and mountain viewer. I work in downtown PA everyday. It is one of the most pleasant environments there is for an urban or suburban downtown. I suppose that's why there is such a low vacancy rate. Sure, there is the occasional crime. That kind of thing occurs in any downtown, we just hear about it more because we have at least three newspapers in town reporting every little thing...like someone got there cell phone taken, or someone got $5 Taken when she tried to bum a cigarette. I just think the whole crime, homelessness, car break-ins thing is being blown out of proportion and y'all are not seeing the charm and buzz of downtown PA. I see it's greatness each day and as I think there is room for improvement, it's still a lot better than you and the media are making out to be.
a resident of Portola Valley
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:03 am
Its true we hear about every little crime now-a-days, but its become glaringly apparent that more of these "little crimes" (like strong arm robbery w/ guns in the middle of the sidewalk) are happening in Palo Alto and NOT happening nearly as frequently as the surrounding areas. I 2nd and 3rd the comment that Mountain View has a VASTLY more enjoyable downtown experience, especially for families
a resident of College Terrace
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:04 am
People please...there is equal amount of crime in downtown mountain view. Just dont go out late at night alone in a downtown dark area. Use your common sense. And carry mace if you are alone in a parking garage. Use your head.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:37 am
A 60-year old lady who walks up to a group of men on a downtown sidewalk at midnight asking for a cigarette is not thinking clearly. She may or may not be old, but she's definitely not smart.
a resident of University South
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:39 am
There is a flurry of robberies in Palo Alto because:
1) We're supposed to be a wealthy community, and
2) The University Ave area is conveniently close to E. Palo Alto, so robbers see lots of people walking around and can quickly drive away down the street to East Palo Alto.
and. . . why would a woman go up to a group of men standing around at midnight and ask for a cigarette? and be surprised if there's trouble??
a resident of University South
on Mar 4, 2013 at 11:39 am
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a resident of another community
on Mar 4, 2013 at 12:59 pm
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a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Mar 4, 2013 at 1:08 pm
The citizens of Palo Alto are sitting ducks!! I've lived in this town my entire life and I've never heard of more crime that there is nowaways in PA. The PA Police aren't cracking down on the violence.
Too much "political correctness" in this town.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Mar 4, 2013 at 1:32 pm
thee cigareete thing was added to a more seriuos incident to make it look like spate. different incidents are used to blame someone.. either minority persons or ''homeless''. the robber was probably not ''homeless''. maybe some are , but everyone wants to hate rather than examining themselves. doesent matter to me if youre ignorant. maybe its as it should be........
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 4, 2013 at 2:26 pm
Based on PA Weekly reports, this type of crime does appear to be rising in Palo Alto. No matter what type of citizens alert is used, more police and money to pay them will continue to be an issue. For the third incident in this story, "...around midnight, in the 400 block of Lytton Avenue. Police said the victim, a woman in her 60s, approached a group of men who were standing on the sidewalk and asked if she could buy a cigarette..."; I'm glad that Raymond, Jane and others are questioning this. Aside from being foolish choice by the victim to be walking about after midnight on her own, it is just not normal behavior to ask a strange group of men to "buy a cigarette". The rest of the incident are just effects to an undetermined cause. Don't be surprised if version 2 of that story comes out where it wasn't a robbery but rather a disagreement among strange friends...
a resident of Charleston Gardens
on Mar 4, 2013 at 2:43 pm
"People please...there is equal amount of crime in downtown mountain view."
Please don't make up things using your assumptions. Especially when they are simply not true. I've taken my daughter to both downtown areas. I stopped taking her to DT Palo Alto if at all possible. Its become a pit. No thanks.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 4, 2013 at 3:44 pm
Mountain View has averaged 49 robberies a year between 2007 and 2011. Palo Alto has averaged 32 between 2008 and 2012.
Palo Alto is pretty safe, and no statistics suggest it is getting worse. But that is no excuse to tolerate crime at the current level. We need more police, more cameras, and fewer idiotic policies that attract mentally ill homeless and drug addicts to loiter in the city.
a resident of Greater Miranda
on Mar 4, 2013 at 5:14 pm
I'd be very interested to see equal comparisons from just the last two years. MV vs PA from 2010-2012
a resident of Greater Miranda
on Mar 4, 2013 at 5:18 pm
Just looking at the PA stats, that means that in just one day, PA got 10% of their yearly average robberies since 2008. Is that a trend towards safety? We're seeing ARMED robberies on the street as well. That seems like something is broken and needs fixing fast.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Mar 4, 2013 at 7:55 pm
Only when an extremely influential person, or a very rich person in PA gets robbed downtown, will the city and the police department start to take action and address the crime problem. The PA police department will only get tough when they feel some heat. Sad but true.
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Mar 4, 2013 at 8:39 pm
@ Gail - That's not fair to the police, they are tough and do a good job given that they are terribly understaffed. They are the ones who really get it and could do something about it. The city council and mayor, not so much. You are right though, it will take something worse to happen before any sort of political will to do something arises.
a resident of Stanford
on Mar 4, 2013 at 9:06 pm
Posted by Raymond, a resident of East Palo Alto, 12 hours ago
60 yr old woman approaches a group of men to ask for a cigarette and then gets robbed of $5.
1. Quit smoking
2. Buy your own cigarettes
3. Do not approach a group of men and ask for a cigarette.
4. For a lousy $5 you could have avoided getting bit.
Shall I go on?
Clearly this woman did not exercise sound judgment. But she did not deserve to be bitten. She was the victim, and victims should not be blamed or chastised for their smoking habit.
a resident of College Terrace
on Mar 5, 2013 at 12:39 am
I've always felt safe parking at City Hall. After all the Police are there, aren't they? Perhaps there need to be cameras in the stairwells. I've never walked in the stairwell really late or alone, but it has crossed my mind that's a good ambush place. PAPD .. please monitor all levels and stairs of that parking facility.
a resident of St. Claire Gardens
on Mar 5, 2013 at 3:41 pm
too many cops spoil the soup.
a resident of Downtown North
on Mar 5, 2013 at 5:48 pm
No, too many criminals do.
a resident of another community
on Mar 5, 2013 at 11:43 pm
Funny how my post was removed. The truth is tough for some to accept I guess.
Since the paper is not going to allow people to discuss real issues, it shouldn't bother allowing anyone to post comments at all.
That would be the safest PC thing to do.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Mar 6, 2013 at 1:09 pm
Ha. You've got to be delirious or deliberately "mistaken" if you think downtown Mt View is even half as bad as downtown Palo Alto.
Mt View has the random drunks after the bars close, but you won't find a park full of derelicts as you do right there by Pizza a Go Go in Play. Nor is there a 7-11 with even more panhandlers and people bothering customers. (which makes me wonder--why are PA cops ALWAYS at starbucks on Stanford Ave, and 7-11 on Colorado, but NEVER seem to be at the downtown PA 7-11??)
The streets are deserted in downtown MV after 2am. Downtown PA is full of dark corners and people camping out. If you take away the Latham area from MV crime reports...it you'd see less 211s than PA
MV police haven't been taken over by PC requirements as PAPD has since the 90s (probably 80s)
a resident of South of Midtown
on Mar 6, 2013 at 1:13 pm
Also--are the dates right??? This was AFTER the gun buy back, so it seems very unlikely that someone would be using a gun in a crime.
Especially since a silver semi auto was probably a Raven or Jennings or some other junker. Those aren't worth $50 used anyway. I'm sure any criminals would have used the gun buy back to double their money as well as turn their life around.
a resident of Midtown
on Mar 7, 2013 at 10:59 am
It is shocking when people blame the victims for the acts of thugs. People who commit crimes like this are the worst of humanity. The fact that some will excuse it or tolerate it is just difficult to understand.
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