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We recently closed the sale of our family home using The Steve Bianchi Team. Having never bought or sold a home before I knew nothing of the process. I did know that I needed to have an experienced, trustworthy agent. Steve took the time to explain each step. He treated the sale of my home with the utmost of urgency as though I were his only client at the time. He worked tirelessly both at the house and at his office putting together comps, sales literature and screening out the numerous offers we received. My home sold in less than a month for $128,000 over the asking price. My home had no upgrades or remodels, nor did we stage or update anything before putting on the market. Steve made suggestions for improvement but never pushed for any of these changes to be made. Throughout the tedious process of disclosure statements I felt secure knowing that we had Steve's 30+ years of real estate knowledge to guide us through all the paperwork. The level of professionalism and service I received from Steve and his assistant Debbie was beyond any of my expectations. Steve will have mine and my family's business exclusively from here on.
Yolanda Pitre
May 27, 2015
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Anna and Frank Zaccaro
Our mother had recently passed away. We needed a Realtor to sell her home. We used Steve Bianchi from Realty World as our Realtor. He did an amazing job and completed the process in such a short time. His service and communication skills were excellent. He did his due diligence with such energy! He was always one step ahead.
Thank you, Steve for a job well done! Not only have we gained a Realtor, but we also gained a trustworthy friend"
3 days ago
Serenella Lhote
I highly recommend Steve, he is a great person to work with. He is very knowledgeable in what he does and gives it his all. Earlier this year I lost my mother. Steve and his wife Debbie were able to help sell her house very smoothly and in a timely matter. Steve and Debbie are very efficient and give great advice when it comes to preparing the house to sell. They make themselves available any day and at any time. I am very pleased with the outcome of the sale and I have Steve and Debbie to thank for it.
May 27, 2019
Mike Canavan
VP Sales
I've sold 4 houses in my life time and have worked with very good realtors. Steve was by far the best I have ever worked with. Selling our family home was not easy, Steve ran the entire process very efficiently and thorough, from house prep, marketing, pricing to closing. We are very thankful to have Steve working for us and highly recommend him to anyone selling a home. Mike
Jan 23, 2019
Russ Porter
Homeowner and Seller
Steve and Debbie are a powerhouse couple with boundless interest and determination to make the home real estate transaction as smooth as they can make it. They make a very complicated business as clear and understandable as they can by staying in touch regularly to inform and answer the inevitable many questions that develop. I highly recommend them to handle your real estate situation.
Aug 21, 2018
Kimberly Perlmutter
Home Owner
The experience I have experienced and witnessed with Steve Bianchi is he honestly cares about offering the home he lists from the sellers and buyers perspective. I found Steve to be professional, personal, very skilled thru out the small details to the difficult details thru out the process of preparing and actually holding Opne Houses for the house on the market thru selling our largest personal asset.
I would recommend Steve Bianchi highlighting his heart space and caring while putting so much attention to every part of the process; ie. communicating often to give us all relevant progress and expenses incurred. He and his wife Debbie provided an almost nightly check in on the vacant house to make sure it was properly locked during the Open House - close of Escrow! Steve is a Very impressive professional, compassionate realtor.
Jun 18, 2018
Mark Quilici
Business owner
Professional and a pleasure to work with.
Jun 12, 2018
Nanette Quilici
Administrative Assistant
Very knowledgeable and professional. Listens to client's needs. Pleasure to work with.
Jun 12, 2018
Nanette Quilici
Administrative Assistant
Very knowledgeable and professional. Listens to client's needs. Pleasure to work with.
Nov 30, 2017
Steve is an absolute gem in the Real Estate Game! Steve is an Old school Broker, who has adapted with the new age of Real Estate, while staying true to his moral's and beliefs and making the client's dreams and wishes come true. My girlfriend and I purchased a newer home in Fairfield, Ca and we would not have won the bid without Steve's unmatched passion and dedication. Steve sold my home in Redwood city in June 2016 and He got 150,000 over asking price. Steve always makes you feel as if your the Only client or Deal he is working on at that time. That show's me his vast knowledge and his well organized touch to doing these transactions. I Highly Recommend Steve Bianchi to anyone who reads this review.
Oct 26, 2017
Paul Fochetti
Sales Manager
Steve and his wife Debbie were awsome! Not only did they help sell our house for way more than what we were asking for, but they even helped us out with our project of getting a beautiful manufactured home for my mother in law. They were both there through out the whole process of selling our home and made sure we took the right steps to get 13 great offers on our home. What also helped us alot was there knowdlege on what painter, staging company, and home inspection companies to use. They really know there stuff, and i would say they are one of the best! Even when it came to closing escrow, they were there step by step for us. We moved our house so quickly too. We closed within 30 days! Thanks so look much you guys! If you are looking for a great realtor don't pass up Steve and Debbie Bianchi!
Sep 7, 2017
Alan Rathjen
Steve is an absolute gem in the Real Estate Game! Steve is an Old school Broker, who has adapted with the new age of Real Estate, while staying true to his moral's and beliefs and making the client's dreams and wishes come true. My girlfriend and I purchased a newer home in Fairfield, Ca and we would not have won the bid without Steve's unmatched passion and dedication. Steve sold my home in Redwood city in June 2016 and He got 150,000 over asking price. Steve always makes you feel as if your the Only client or Deal he is working on at that time. That show's me his vast knowledge and his well organized touch to doing these transactions. I Highly Recommend Steve Bianchi to anyone who reads this review.
Aug 6, 2017
Michael Smith
If you seek a real estate agent who know the market place, keeps current on a daily basis, understands fully the needs and desires of the client, devotes himself tirelessly to fulfilling those needs and desires, explains in a thoughtful and understandable fashion the terms of each aspect of the sale and/or purchase involved, quickly establishes rapport with the other agent(s) with whom negotiation may occur, and is essentially there for you day or night, rain or shine, whenever or whereever, then Steve Bianchi is your agent. His devoted attention to me and my family (and to every detail) in our recently completed transaction is beyond comparison. Thank you Steve and thank you Debbie. We loved working with you!!!
Aug 5, 2017
Tom and Laurie Farrell
Steve Bianchi is an amazing Realtor. When we decided to sell my parents house, Steve and Debbie were by our sides during the whole journey. They both took care of every single detail that had to be done. The house sold within 3 weeks, and we got over the asking price. They worked very hard for us. I trusted Steve and his judgement completely. Steve and Debbie were very sensitive to my feelings, regarding selling my family home. I can't wait to use them again.
May 5, 2017
Rick Peters
Journeyman Sheetmetal Worker
I was recommended for use of his services when putting my house on the market. I called him to get a feel of his character. Talking with him and given my situation I agreed to meet with him and his wife. We came up with a plan (which at first had my doubts) and went to work. Everything they had promised came to reality and under the conditions they pulled it off. I myself could not had been happier with them working around my time frame and producing all that they had promised. I was one pleased client and will recommend to anybody that is looking to sell or buy in the area. Thanks again
Mar 27, 2017
Jimmy/Sally Lao
Shop Forman
The Steve Bianchi Team at Realty World were very thorough and professional throughout the whole process with the property. This team is highly recommended because not only were they organized, but their communication as well helped us greatly making it a great experience with them. Another thing to note was the amazing flyer they created of the property, as well as the detailed pictures that they took which made the property stand out. Also their expertise and suggestions were very beneficial to sell our home. Their long hours during the weekdays and even the weekends will definitely not go overlooked and were greatly appreciated.
Mar 22, 2017
Julie Lao Burton
It has been such a pleasant experience working with The Steve Bianchi Team on the recent sale of our home in Pinole, CA.
The Steve Bianchi Team is honest, thorough, and knowledgeable in the real estate business. They walked us through the process completely and always have time to answer any questions that we have. They are dedicated professionals who care about their clients.
I highly recommend The Steve Bianchi Team.
Jan 19, 2017
Michelle and John
The Steve Bianchi Team is great! They were phenomenal in facilitating our recent real estate purchase. They are very thorough, precise, organized and they care about their clients. They know the real estate business very well and anyone would be in great hands using them for their real estate needs. We felt very comfortable having them represent us and they did an amazing job.
Mar 18, 2016
David Pirotto
President of seafood and poultry company
I would highly recommend Steve for any
Commercial or residential property because
of his experience, knowledge and mainly his
hands on approach. He will see the transaction through till the end and that
is reassuring as a buyer
Jan 4, 2016
Martin Zanoni
Engineering Project Specialist
The Steve Bianchi Team is great!. They thoroughly walked us through the process of selling our home and made sure nothing was left behind. Steve made sure we were comfortable with the whole process answering all questions we had.
Their professionalism shown through while creating websites and showing our home. Our house sold very quickly and we are very grateful for the hard work the Bianchi's put into the sale of our house.
Jan 4, 2016
Martin Zanoni
Engineering Project Specialist
Steve Bianchi Team is GREAT. They thoroughly walked us through the process of selling our home and made sure nothing was left behind. Steve made sure we were comfortable with the whole process answering all questions we had.
Their professionalism shown through while creating websites and showing our home. Our house sold very quickly and we are very grateful for the hard work the Bianchi's put into the sale of our house.
Dec 29, 2015
Donald Rathjen
The Steve Bianchi Team at Realty World has been a friend and our Real Estate broker for many years. My wife and I have every confidence in him. He goes above and beyond what most people expect of a broker. Steve has watched out to be sure we are being treated fairly and his negotiation skills are bar none. He is very good at hand holding, sometimes we have been nervous nellies. The personal attention we received was as if we were the only clients in his care. We just completed our seventh transaction with him representing us. We could not have asked for better. Steve gets the top honor for being the best broker!
Nov 2, 2015
John Murray
Retired Board Chairman
Steve is a very competent professional who can lead you through the complicated process of selling your property. He has a very good business mind and marketing expertise to maximize the value of your real estate.
Sep 23, 2015
Nikki C.
Fleming St. Oakland, California
During the process of selling our property in Oakland Steve Bianchi was there with my family every step of the way, reassuring us that everything would work out perfectly. The virtual tour of our home, the weekly stat updates on the open houses were just a few of the many tools Steve used to make this a seamless transition. We appreciate his attention to the details of the process as well as the attention he gave our family whenever we had questions. All in all it was a pleasure working the Steve Bianchi Team and we highly recommend him.
Jul 21, 2015
Susan Rathjen
My husband and I have worked with The Steve Bianchi Team on numerous real estate transactions and have always been so pleased with the results. He just helped us sell my mother's home. It was a difficult situation with siblings in all parts of the state and a mountain of work to be done on the property. Steve was so very helpful, keeping us on task and seeing to getting the house on the market in record time. Each time we have dealt with Steve, he has managed to put the best light on the property and because of his attention to detail, got us the best possible price. This was a remarkable sale, it came in over the asking price and the closing was short and now we can sit back and thank our very clever realtor for all of his hard work and dedication.
Jul 16, 2015
David Lazzareschi
The Steve Bianchi Team helped us sell our own home in 2012, and he has just successfully sold my mother's home in San Carlos. The house sold within two weeks of listing for $377,000 over the asking price. Steve is extremely professional and thorough in all that he does. He has extensive knowledge about both buying and selling property, from the initial walk-through to the close of escrow. During both home sales, he kept us informed and up-to-date with all proceedings. He was never too busy to talk with us. He was patient in answering our questions and addressing all concerns. Steve has a keen understanding of the pressures involved in selling a home, and he is strives to make the process as painless as possible. He has a great sense of humor! After working with Steve to sell two homes, I cannot imagine working with any other realtor. He is simply the best.
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Confidence among upstate consumers fell slightly from October to November, a monthly survey by the Siena Research Institute shows.
Overall confidence—which includes current and future confidence—fell to 73.6 last month from 75.6 in October, but was up from 60.6 a year ago. Current confidence increased to 77.7 from 73.9 in October and 65.2 a year ago. Future confidence was 71, compared with 76.6 in October and 57.7 in November 2011.
Statewide, overall confidence rose to 79.4 from 78.7 in October and 62.2 a year ago. Current confidence was 78.4, compared with 75.4 in October and 62.9 in November 2011. Future confidence fell slightly to 80 from 80.8 in October, but was up from 61.8 a year ago.
Nationally, overall confidence was 82.7 last month, compared with 82.6 in October and 64.1 a year ago. Current confidence was 90.7, up from 88.1 in October and 77.6 in November 2011. Future confidence was 77.6 last month, compared with 79 in October and 55.4 a year ago.
Democrats continued to report the highest overall confidence last month, while Republicans reported the lowest.
"Despite Sandy's widespread effects and the current threat of all of us being thrown over the fiscal cliff, consumer sentiment was up slightly this month, reaching its highest point since the summer of 2007," SRI founding director Douglas Lonnstrom said in a statement. "Every group of New Yorkers has now reached or exceeded the confidence breakeven point at which optimism equals pessimism except for Republicans, upstaters and low-income residents."
Some 66 percent of upstate consumers said gas prices are having a very serious or somewhat serious impact on their financial condition, down from 71 percent in October. Sixty-four percent said food prices were having a serious impact on their finances, compared with 77 percent in October.
Buying plans were up for vehicles, computers, furniture, homes and major home improvements in November.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer today e-mailed the entire company to announce that Bob Muglia, president of the Server and Tools Business (STB), will be leaving the company in the summer.
With this announcement, Muglia joins Robbie Bach (former president of the Entertainment and Devices division) and Stephen Elop (former president of the Business division) as the third president to leave the company in the last 18 months.
In the e-mail, Ballmer described how STB has quietly grown to become a $15 billion business, joining the ranks of the Windows and Office divisions. STB includes Windows Server, Exchange, SQL Server, and development tools (Visual Studio); last year, Microsoft's cloud platform Windows Azure was also merged into STB. Though Ballmer praised Muglia's leadership in the many divisions he has led during his 23-year stint at Microsoft, the wording of the e-mail suggests that Muglia has been pushed aside after disagreements with Ballmer on the best strategy to move STB forward into the rapidly growing cloud market:
The best time to think about change is when you are in a position of strength, and that's where we are today with STB—leading the server business, successful with our developer tools, and poised to lead the rapidly emerging cloud future. Bob Muglia and I have been talking about the overall business and what is needed to accelerate our growth. In this context, I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB.
As a result, Muglia will be leaving the company in the summer. A replacement has not yet been named. In the e-mail, Ballmer wrote that he will "conduct an internal and external search for the new leader," with Muglia continuing to run STB in the meantime.
The e-mail reiterated Microsoft's push for cloud computing: Ballmer clearly believes that cloud computing represents a large growth market for the company, and growth into new markets is something the software giant sorely needs if it is to ever increase its infamously stagnant stock market valuation. What's a little surprising is that Ballmer apparently felt that Muglia was not the right person to stimulate growth in this market; in public, at least, Muglia was a vocal proponent of both public and private cloud initiatives.


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DENVER — A dinged-up right thumb wasn't enough to throw Peyton Manning off his game, and to no one's surprise, neither was the New Orleans Saints' defense.
DENVER — A dinged-up right thumb wasn't enough to throw Peyton Manning off his game, and to no one's surprise, neither was the New Orleans Saints' defense.
Despite banging his throwing thumb on an opponent's helmet in the second quarter Sunday night, Manning passed for 305 yards and three scores, led a pair of 90-plus-yard touchdown drives and easily outplayed Drew Brees to lead the Denver Broncos to a 34-14 victory over the Saints.
Manning surpassed the 300-yard mark for the fifth straight time to match his personal best and set a franchise record for Denver (4-3). He completed 22 of 30 throws for a passer rating of 138.9. Willis McGahee ran for 122 yards and a score for the Broncos, who won two in a row for the first time this season and took sole possession of first place in the AFC West.
The Broncos gained 530 yards — a season high — against the NFL's worst defense, which came in allowing more yards (2,793) over the first six games of a season than any team since 1950.
New Orleans (2-5) was hoping to get a boost from the return of linebackers-turned-interim head coach Joe Vitt from his six-game suspension for the team's bounty scandal. All he can do is stand on the sidelines, though, and linebacker Jonathan Vilma — another Saint implicated in the scandal — returned to the starting lineup, but he couldn't plug the holes, either.
The Broncos' defense, meanwhile, held Brees and the league's top passing offense to 213 yards and two scores, the second marking the first points Denver has allowed in the fourth quarter since opening week. Brees threw for both scores to extend his record to 50 straight games with at least one touchdown pass. He also reached 301 career touchdown passes to climb past John Elway for sixth on the career list.
Small consolation on a night in which the Broncos defense looked almost as good as its offense.
Linebacker Wesley Woodyard did extensive damage, finishing with 13 tackles, one sack, one forced fumble and one interception, when Vitt chose to go for it on fourth-and-2 from the Denver 47 early in the second quarter with the game tied at 7.
Manning answered with a 56-yard drive for the go-ahead touchdown, capped on a 13-yard pass to Eric Decker, who was all alone when Jabari Greer slipped. Decker celebrated by spiking the ball a good 10 rows into the stands.
A bit later, Manning dinged his thumb while completing a 23-yard pass to Decker, leaving a trace of blood across the quarterback's thumb. Manning handed off the next four plays and the Broncos settled for a field goal before halftime. But when Manning returned for the third quarter, he warmed up with no trouble and showed no signs of injury.
He then answered any questions by going 4 for 4 to start the third quarter, moving the Broncos 93 yards and capping it with a 1-yard pass to Demaryius Thomas for a 24-7 lead.
Thomas finished with seven catches for 137 yards. Decker also caught a 2-yard touchdown pass early in the fourth quarter for a 31-7 lead. He finished with 43 yards receiving.
Denver's first scoring drive opened at the 2 and began with four straight runs by McGahee for gains of 4, 12, 7 and 3. That set up play action and Manning hit Thomas for 41 yards. Five plays later, Manning dropped back, peaked through the crowded line and somehow picked out McGahee among all the big men clogging things up. That little flip screen was good for 14 yards and set up McGahee's 1-yard touchdown run to open the scoring.


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November 23, 2012
March 17, 2013
Gallery 14
Exhibition Overview
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Sex. Mere mention of the topic provokes within us intensely diverse emotional reactions, yet few subjects are as universally understood and as instrumental in forming our identities as adult human beings. Sexuality has been a consistent topic throughout the history of visual art in various cultures. Japanese artists of the Edo period (1615-1868), including the most revered designers of ukiyo-e prints, were involved in the production of erotica known as shunga (literally "spring pictures") as well as more restrained depictions of sexuality. Exploring the genre of shunga offers us a much richer understanding of ukiyo-e printmaking as well as the general attitudes about sexuality and gender that were prevalent in Edo society.
The Honolulu Museum of Art's collection includes more than 800 works of shunga that have never before been publicly displayed. These works originate from the collections of Richard D. Lane and James A. Michener. Lane, a pioneering scholar in the field of shunga, rehabilitated the genre's public image through years of tireless advocacy, and he eventually convinced the Japanese government to allow its uncensored reproduction. Michener held a far more skeptical view of shunga's overall art historical importance, but ironically, the erotic works that he contributed are arguably among the finest examples in the entire genre.
This first exhibition, featuring more than 90 woodblock prints, woodblock-printed books, and paintings, will focus on the early development of shunga as a genre during the 17th and 18th centuries. Overarching themes that the exhibition explores include the role of erotica in the nationwide discourse on sexuality, concepts of gender as reflected in erotica, and the depiction of the commercial sex industry in shunga and other Japanese art genres. The exhibition promises a startlingly bold reconsideration of many beloved works in the Honolulu Museum of Art's permanent collection, and it guarantees to challenge the viewers' assumptions and attitudes about sexuality and gender.
The second exhibition in this series, scheduled for November 2013, will discuss the topic of humor in shunga. In November 2014, the series will culminate with a presentation of erotic works from the 19th and 20th centuries.
The Honolulu Museum of Art would like to express its gratitude to the Robert F. Lange Foundation for its ongoing support of the museum's continuing efforts to catalogue its extensive collection of Japanese art, including the works that are in this exhibition.
The exhibition series Arts of the Bedchamber: Japanese Shunga is co-curated by Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art, and Stephen Salel, Robert F. Lange Foundation Research Associate for Japanese Art.


text: Laurie Gagne, director, Edmundite Center for Peace and Justice, and Dr. John Reuwer, M.D. of the college's Peace and Justice faculty tied for 4th place in a nationwide Peace Essay Contest sponsored by the West Suburban Faith Based Peace Coalition of Chicago. The subject of the contest was "How Can we Enforce the Law Against War" referring to the Kellogg-Briand Treaty. Participants were asked to write a letter to an influential figure suggesting a way that he or she could promote the cause of world peace. Their letter was addressed to Pope Francis and called on him to publicly renounce the Just War Treaty and proclaim nonviolence as the only method of conflict resolution in keeping with the message of Jesus. Laurie and John, along with the other award recipients, are to be honored at a luncheon in Chicago on August 27. Laurie also led the group, SMC for DRC (St. Michael's College for the Democratic Republic of Congo) to the United Nations for a panel on Sexual Violence in the Congo on March 6. SMC for DRC was invited to attend the panel by the ENOUGH Project, which co-sponsored the event in celebration of International Women's Day. (posted August 2014) Laurie Gagne, director of the Edmundite Center for Peace & Justice, won the top teaching award, Excellence in Community-Based Teaching, from Vermont Campus Compact at the group's annual statewide awards on April 12, 2012, in Montpelier. She was cited for her tireless commitment to educating students about social justice issues in and out of the classroom, and for her central role redesigning the college's Peace and Justice minor to incorporate service learning. Laurie teaches Peace and Justice First Year Seminar; Approaches to Peace; and Religion and War and Peace.


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I'm interested in buying an iPad, but I'm trying to understand what the implications are of not synchronise/docking it with a computer. I only have Linux (Ubuntu) machines these days; I have nothing running Windows or MacOS. As far as I understand, there is no official support for Linux (I am aware of libimobiledevice, but would like not to rely on it).
I'm used to my HTC Desire, which is able to synchronise most things I care about (IMAP, Google Mail, Google Calendar being three key ones) over the air, and I'd like to work this way with the iPad. When folks speak about the iPad, there seems to be a lot of talk of docking it with the computer, but I'm not clear why this would be needed/desirable. Can iPad apps typically sync over the air? I've seen reference to MobileMe, but that implies that this facility is not built in and may cost extra.
What do I lose by not docking/syncing the iPad to a computer? Can I do that - buy it and use it indefinitely without docking it? Will I lose any major functionality?


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I am a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. I am interested in data and signal analysis problems that reduce complexity and remove pain points for users. My current interests include data-mining for fraud and abuse, authentication, safety and data-driven security. I received my PhD from Columbia University, my MSEE from Georgia Tech and my BE from University College Cork, Ireland.
Some of my recent work explains why Nigerian scammers say they're from Nigeria, why those scary numbers you hear about billions lost to cybercrime are junk, and why you're right to suspect that most security advice is a waste of time.
Here's a short profile of me done by MSR, and some media coverage of my work: All Things Considered (NPR), the Boston Globe, the NY Times, Wired, Ars Technica, theAtlantic, Bloomberg TV, The Economist, the Wall St Journal. An OpEd I wrote for the NY Times.
Videos of recent talks:
Unfalsifiability of Security Claims, Invited talk at Usenix 2016
Pushing on String: the don't care regions of password strength, talk at PasswordsCon Las Vegas, August 2015
Passwords: a Guide to the Ruins, talk at CMU October 2014
Press coverage and other stuff
- "Researchers Propose New Approach to Address Online Password-Guessing Attacks," DarkReading
- "Pushing on String: when password strength makes no difference" Video of my talk at Passwords15
- Very nice write-up of my keynote at UK Research Institute of Science of Cyber Security
- Video of me giving a talk on passwords at CMU
- Administrator's Guide to passwords: Wired, The Register, NakedSecurity, slashdot
- Password portfolios: Ars Technica, slashdot, The Register, The Guardian, Independent, Telegraph
- Password meters: Ars Technica, Threatpost, slashdot
- Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria: The Economist, Slate, Bloomberg TV, Wall St. Journal, Forbes, NPR [On The Media], The New Yorker, The Telegraph, Computerworld Australia, NY Times, BBC and slashdot
- Some reactions to an NY Times Oped I wrote: theAtlantic, Ars Technica, slashdot, Infoworld,threatpost, P=NP Blog
- Everything we Know about Password-stealing is Wrong: threatpost, The Register, slashdot, Freakonomics blog
- Video of me giving the keynote at WOOT 2012
- Persistence of passwords: Wired, The Register, slashdot, Network World, Wall St. Journal
- Why isn't Everyone hacked every day? TechRepublic
- Cyber-crime surveys: ProPublica, The Economist, The Register, slashdot, BBC, RiskyBiz, Schneier, threatpost, Technology Review, Sydney Morning Herald, CSO, TheAge, StraightStatistics, The Economist [again]
- Where Do Security Policies Come From? NY Times, slashdot, theAtlantic, Schneier
- Password popularity: Technology Review, slashdot, TechRepublic
- Economics of targeted attacks: threatpost
- Interview with Erik Meijer on MSDN Channel 9
- Users and security advice: NPR, Boston Globe, CBS News, slashdot, slashdot [again], darkreading, techrepublic, internet evolution, SC magazine, NewSchoolSecurity, SecurityNow!
- Video of me speaking at CMU
- Underground Economy and IRC channels: DarkReading, ZDnet
- Economics of Phishing: slashdot, The Register, ZDnet, NY Times
- Password strength: Newsweek, slashdot, TechRepublic, Technology Review, Infoworld
- Keylogging advice: Digg coverage, Washington Post
- Large scale password study: Folha, Infoworld
- US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill pretty happy with my work on anti-counterfeiting
- J. Bonneau, C. Herley, P.C. van Oorschot and F. Stajano, "Passwords and the Evolution of Imperfect Authentication", Commun. ACM, July 2015
- D. Florencio, C. Herley and P.C. van Oorschot, "An Administrator's Guide to Internet Password Research", Proc. Usenix LISA, 2014
- D. Florencio, C. Herley and P.C. van Oorschot, "Password Portfolios and the Finite-Effort User: Sustainably Managing Large Numbers of Accounts", Proc. Usenix Security, 2014
- S. Komanduri, R. Shay, L. Cranor, C. Herley and S. Schechter, "Telepathwords: preventing weak passwords by reading users' minds", Proc. Usenix Security 2014
- S. Egelman, A. Sotirakopoulos, I. Muslukhov, K. Beznosov and C. Herley, "Does My Password Go up to Eleven? The Impact of Password Meters on Password Selection" Proc. CHI 2013
- J. Bonneau, C. Herley, P.C. van Oorschot and F. Stajano, "The quest to replace passwords: A framework for comparative evaluation of web authentication schemes", IEEE Symp. Security & Privacy 2012
- C. Herley and P.C. van Oorschot, "A Research Agenda Acknowledging the Persistence of Passwords,"IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, Jan. 2012
- S. Schechter, C. Herley and M. Mitzenmacher, "Popularity is Everything: a new approach to protecting passwords from statistical-guessing attacks," Proc. HotSEC 2010
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Where Do Security Policies Come From?", SOUPS 2010 [Best paper award at SOUPS]
- C. Herley, P.C. van Oorschot and A.S. Patrick, "Passwords: If We're So Smart Why Are We Still Using Them?" Financial Crypto 2009
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "A Large Scale Study of Web Password Habits," WWW 2007, Banff
- D. Florencio, C. Herley and B. Coskun,"Do Strong Web Passwords Accomplish Anything?," Usenix HotSEC '07, Boston
Economics of cybercrime:
- M. Javed, C. Herley, M. Peinado, V. Paxson, Measurement and Analysis of Traffic Exchange Services, Proc. Internet Measurement Conf, 2015
- D. Florencio, C. Herley and A. Shostack, "FUD: a plea for intolerance," Comm. ACM June 2014
- C. Herley, "Security, Cyber-crime and Scale," Comm. ACM Sept. 2014
- C. Herley, "Small World: Collisions among attackers in a finite population", WEIS 2013
- C. Herley, "When does Targeting Make Sense for an Attacker?" IEEE Security & Privacy magazine, March 2013
- C. Herley, "Why do Nigerian Scammers say they are from Nigeria?", Proc. WEIS 2012
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Is Everything We Know About Password Stealing Wrong?" IEEE Security and Privacy magazine, Dec 2012
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Where Do All the Attacks Go?" WEIS 2011
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Sex, Lies and Cyber-crime Surveys," WEIS 2011
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, Phishing and Money Mules, Proc WIFS, 2010
- C. Herley, "The Plight of the Targeted Attacker in a World of Scale," WEIS 2010
- C. Herley and D. Florencio, "Economics and the Underground Economy," Black Hat 2009
- C. Herley and D. Florencio, "Nobody Sells Gold for the Price of Silver: Dishonesty, Uncertainty and the Underground Economy," WEIS 2009, London
- C. Herley and D. Florencio, "A Profitless Endeavor: Phishing as a Tragedy of the Commons," NSPW 2008, Lake Tahoe, CA
Safety and security:
- G. Wang, J. Stokes, C. Herley and D. Felstead, "Detecting Landing Pages in Malware Distribution Networks: A Comparisoon of Rule and Cklassifier-based Methods," IEEE DSN 2013
- Z. Mao, D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Painless Migration to Two-factor Authentication," Proc. WIFS 2011
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "One-time Password Access to Any Server Without Changing the Server,"ISC 2008, Taipei
- B. Coskun and C. Herley, "Can Something-You-Know be Saved?" ISC 2008, Taipei
- C. Herley and D. Florencio, "Protecting Financial Institutions from Brute-Force Attacks," SEC 2008, Milan
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Evaluating Password Re-Use for Phishing Prevention," APWG eCrime '07 Pittsburgh
- D. Florencio and C. Herley,"KLASSP: Entering Passwords on a Spyware Infected Machine Using a Shared-Secret Proxy," Proc. ACSAC 2006
- D. Florencio and C. Herley, "Password Rescue: A New Approach to Phishing Prevention," Usenix HotSEC '06, Vancouver
- C. Herley and D. Florencio, "How to Login from an Internet Cafe Without Worrying about Keyloggers," Symp. On Usable Privacy and Security '06 [poster] [Note: please don't rely on this. It was a cute idea in 2006, but offers very little protection in 2010]
- D. Florencio and C. Herley,"Analysis and Improvement of Anti-Phishing Schemes," Proc SEC 2006
- D. Florencio and C. Herley,"Stopping a Phishing Attack, Even when the Victims Ignore Warnings,"MSR-TR-2005-142
P2P and networking:
- Z. Mao and C. Herley, "A Robust Link-Translating Proxy Mirroring the Whole Web", Proc. ACM SAC 2010
- A. Bharambe, C. Herley and V. Padmanabhan,"Analyzing and Improving a BitTorrent Network's Performance Mechanisms," Proc. InfoComm 2006 [Download the simulator]
- A. Bharambe, C. Herley and V. Padmanabhan, "Some Observations on BitTorrent," Proc. ACM SigMetrics 2005 [poster]
- C. Herley, "ARGOS: Automatically extracting Repeating Objects from multimedia Streams", IEEE Trans, Multimedia, Feb. 2006
- R. Ragno, C. J. C. Burges and C. Herley, "Inferring Similarity Between Music Objects with Application to Playlist Generation," Proc. ACM Workshop Multimedia Information Retrieval, 2005
- C. Herley, "Accurate Repeat Finding and Object Skipping Using Fingerprints," Proc. ACM Multimedia 2005
- C. Herley,"Why Watermarking is Nonsense", Signal Processing Magazine, Sept. 2002
Image processing:
- C. Herley, "Occlusion Removal with Minimum Number of Images," Proc ICIP 2005
- C. Herley, "Efficient Inscribing of Noisy Rectangular Objects in Scanned Images," Proc. ICIP 2004
- C. Herley, P. Vora and S. Yang, "Detection and Deterrence of Counterfeiting of Valuable Documents,"Proc. ICIP 2004
- C. Herley, "Extracting Repeats from Media Streams", ICASSP 2004, Montreal
- C. Herley, "Recursive Method to Detect and Segment Multiple Rectangular Objects in Scanned Images", MSR TR
- C. Herley, "Recursive Method to Extract Rectangular Objects from Scans", Proc ICIP 2003
- C. Herley, "Document Capture Using a Digital Camera", Proc. Int Conf. Image Proc., Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct 2001
- C. Herley, "Protecting Images Online: a Security Mechanism that does not involve Watermarking,"Proc. Int. Conf. Image Proc., Vancouver, BC, Sept. 2000


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phill.butte wrote:I've attached a JavaScript web page program for generating a Papywizard XML output file for the GigaPan Epic 100.
One of the great features of Papywizard is its ability to generate an XML output file with all the image position information that can be fed into the stitching software to help orient the images before stitching. It's especially helpful for panoramas with large areas of blue sky or indistinct clouds. Unfortunately, the Epic 100 does not provide for computer control so I've had to struggle with manually placing control points on images of featureless skies. Using Papywizard in simulation mode wasn't possible due to the way the Epic 100 works. .
phill.butte wrote:The only information available from the Epic 100 when you set up a panorama is the vertical field of view of the image and the number of rows and columns. A key variable is the amount of horizontal and vertical overlap and that's not available from the Epic 100. I measured a vertical overlap of around 32% from 3 to 5 degrees FOV, 31% to 41% from 7.5 to 35 degrees and then 35% to 37% from 40 to 60 degrees FOV. I found it much more straightforward and reliable to just measure the angles each of the two axes move for a specific FOV value and use that in the calculation.
Using Papywizard would mean basing the movements on the % overlap, which I think is unreliable in this situation.
phill.butte wrote:That's correct, a different amount for each FOV. I sent GigaPan support a request for information on the formula or lookup table they used but never got a response.
I can't say if its unreliable in practice, but % overlap is a derived value from my measurements of the angles. It might turn put to be "close enough" in practice but I think using the actual angles will give me more accurate results.
phill.butte wrote:I just ran a comparison on the two methods and here's what I found for the test pano I did yesterday. The pano was 10 columns by 5 rows with a Canon 60D and 200 mm lens. The image FOV was 5 degrees. The first problem is that the horizontal and vertical overlap figures for the Epic 100 are different for almost all FOV settings, sometimes by as much as 10%. In this case the vertical overlap is 33.2% and the horizontal 29.9%. Papywizard only allows one setting for overlap and it doesn't allow fractions, so I used 33%.
Papywizard calculated that the pitch head movement was 2.32 degrees and the yaw movement was 3.88 degrees for each image. The actual is 2.67 and 4.17. Papywizard calculated the total pitch movement at 11.6 degrees and the total yaw movement at 38 .8 degrees, vs. 13.35 and 41.67 actual. That's a total difference of 13.1% for the pitch and 7% in the yaw axis.
So I would say that for a small panorama using the Papywizard simulator for the Epic 100 would probably be "close enough". For the large, 300-400 gigapixel panos that I like to do I think the accumulated error would be too much.
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Despite the records, or maybe because of them, many investors are worried the market is due for a correction.
Good news about business inventories and small business sentiment was offset by a disappointing increase in retail sales last month. The Dow gained 20 points, the S&P 500 edged slightly higher, but the Nasdaq composite (^IXIC) fell 13 points.
There were no big mergers announced Tuesday, but there was plenty of talk about deals that could happen. Keurig Green Mountain (GMCR) rose 7½ percent on news that Coca-Cola (KO) had boosted its stake in the single cup coffee maker. That prompted speculation that Coke could eventually buy the company outright.
Allergan (AGN) gained another 1 percent after Valeant Pharmaceuticals (VRX) said it plans to increase its hostile takeover offer.
But DirecTV (DTV) fell more than 1 percent despite reports that AT&T (T) is preparing a bid for nearly $50 billion. DirecTV shares have jumped 34 percent over the past six months.
Some homebuilders gained ground after the new head of the agency that oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac said they should focus on making more credit available to potential homebuyers. D.R. Horton (DHI) gained 2 percent, while Lennar (LEN), Pulte (PHM) and KBHome (KBH) all gained about 1 percent.
Most of the big name Internet and social media stocks traded in a fairly narrow range for a change, even though LinkedIn (LNKD) fell 3 percent.
On the earnings front, the web hosting company Rackspace (RAX) jumped 8½ percent after beating expectations.
Drug wholesaler McKesson (MCK) gained more than 3 percent as both net and revenue jumped.
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And DXP Enterprises (DXPE), which does maintenance and repairs for industrial companies, could use some repairs of its own. It slid 39 percent as both net and revenue fell short of expectations.
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Adam Levine, Christina Aguilera, CeeLo Green and the show's host and producer Carson Daly addressed journalists at the Television Critics Association summer press tour. Blake Shelton did not attend because he's on tour.
During Saturday's panel Levine said finding a star "would be really nice" but it's not the goal.
"A lot of things have to happen in order for that to take place," he said. "I think the goal of the show is to do what we can do for these amazing singers while they're on the show...I think that we all know that the lightning in a bottle you have to capture in order to be successful in this business is extraordinarily difficult. I'm not sure that that is the overall mission statement of the show."
"American Idol'" producers and judges weren't shy about wanting to crank out insta-stars like Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. Its 11th season winner Phillip Phillips has had huge radio success with songs like 'Home" and "Gone, Gone, Gone." Even some finalists who haven't made a real mark in the music world like Kellie Pickler and Katharine McPhee still have name recognition and have found success in other areas. (Pickler, who is a country singer, won the most recent season of "Dancing with the Stars." McPhee had a starring role on NBC's "Smash.")
It should be noted "American Idol" has had its flops as well. Ninth season winner Lee DeWyze's album "Live it Up" was a major disappointment. He sold just 151,000 copies. By contrast, Javier Colon, who won season one of "The Voice," sold 46,000 copies of his first post-"Voice" album called "Come Through for You" as of last month.
Aguilera says it's unrealistic to expect someone to turn into an overnight sensation and cites her own career as an example.
"It's not like everything needs to be like boom, boom, boom, then record deal, then No. 1 success. It doesn't happen like that. It didn't happen that way for me either. Like, for instance...my experience with 'The Mickey Mouse Club', the alumni from that show, you know, you have huge names Britney (Spears), Justin (Timberlake), Ryan Gosling, you know, all these names come from that show. But, you know, right after the show, did we rocket to success right after it? No. It takes time."
Of season four winner, Danielle Bradbery, "The Voice" host and producer Carson Daly argued that she has time on her side.
"She has eight years to figure it out, her voice, an album, whatever it might be. And in eight years she'll be the same age as Taylor Swift is right now. She's got time," he said.
Bradbery's new single "The Heart of Dixie" debuted at No. 58 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 16 on the country charts.
When asked about the show's ratings decline when its star judges are featured less, the panel seemed a bit irked.
"Isn't the show like huge, though?" asked Levine.
"The show is huge, yes," answered Daly.
"So what's he talking about?" asked Levine, referring to the journalist's question.
To their credit, "The Voice" is a successful TV show. It's nominated in the Outstanding Reality Program Emmy Award category for a second year in a row.
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Eric Harris, who reviews films for The News, ranks last year's offerings of dramas, comedies and science-fiction offerings. He will be back with occasional reviews in 2011.
1. "Black Swan" – I loved nearly every aspect of this film. Darren Aronofsky has made a disturbing classic featuring the best female lead performance of the year from Natalie Portman.
I thought it was great how Aronofsky took the pure, beautiful world of ballet and showed its darker, uglier – but still just as beautiful somehow – side. Aronofsky has cemented himself as one of my favorite filmmakers.
2. "Inception" – Jaw-dropping and utterly impressive. This is what a summer blockbuster should be. It has action, it is deep – insanely, literally deep at times – and it has an amazing cast. Christopher Nolan does a masterful job of staging a ridiculously complicated setup in such a way that it is easy to follow. That feat alone makes it one of the year's best. All of the other elements, like the overpowering score or Tom Hardy's scene-stealing performance, are just a bonus that propels it to my No. 2 spot.
3. "The Social Network" – The story behind Facebook is engaging and funny. Aaron Sorkin's quick-witted, rapid-fire dialogue screenplay is the best of the year. David Fincher tones down his style a bit to create a grounded, yet still visually interesting film. Jesse Eisenberg leads a great cast in what I found to be the best male lead performance of the year. This is a film that requires multiple viewings to let all of the great dialogue and interesting camerawork wash over you.
4. "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" – A movie made by and for geeks. Many people may have been turned off by the frenetic pace and video game references, but certain types of people – this critic included, obviously – loved the film for those very reasons.
Michael Cera breaks out of his wimpy stereotype to play a fun and cool hero. Director Edgar Wright obviously loved the source material and because of that the end result is a love letter to geeks. I, for one, am thankful.
5. "127 Hours" – The most intense film of the year. Great, frantic direction from Danny Boyle keeps what could have been a slow movie very fast-paced and interesting. James Franco gives the best performance of his career (of the year, some would argue). The fact that this survival story is based on a real event makes it that much more effective and uplifting.
It never received the true wide release it deserved and it is catching some backlash all of a sudden – I've noticed it on one or two "most overrated" lists – but I thought it was great and it needs to be seen by more people.
6. "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans"/"My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done" – This is my Werner Herzog double-feature pick. "Bad Lieutenant" technically came out in 2009, but I only got to see when it was released on home video this year. "My Son, My Son" was basically a direct-to-DVD release.
I think it is OK to pair these two up not only because of director Werner Herzog's involvement, but also because both films deal with insanity. Nicolas Cage goes all out in "Bad Lieutenant" and the result is funny and ridiculous. Michael Shannon does the same in "My Son," though it's a bit weirder and more disturbing. Both films are very interesting and I loved every minute of both of them.
7. "The Fighter" – This story of a boxer and his family works because it is funny and real. Mark Wahlberg returns to form in an understated role and Christian Bale is flat-out amazing as his crack-addict brother – by far my favorite male supporting performance of the year.
8. "Shutter Island" – This movie was a delight from a directing perspective. Martin Scorsese shows how skillful he is in his depiction of madness in this thriller.
The strong visuals and distracting score all piece together a portrait of insanity. Leonardo DiCaprio gives a great performance, but Scorsese is the star of this one.
9. "True Grit" – The Coen Brothers have made a funny and refreshingly straightforward western. It is not a very deep film, but it is still on par with their best work. It's light on the action, but that's OK when you have a cast with the likes of Jeff Bridges in the Rooster Cogburn role and Matt Damon as LeBoeuf.
Hailee Steinfeld was a surprising aspect as she gave my favorite female supporting performance of the year.
10. "The King's Speech" – This film about a stuttering prince who would be king may seem like awards bait, but it is a very impressive, interesting film. It is all held together by the performances of Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush. Their friendship in the film provides the real backbone of the film and it ends up being quite touching.
Honorable Mentions: "Get Him to the Greek," "The American," "Robin Hood," "The Town," "TRON: Legacy," "Exit Through the Gift Shop," "Kick-Ass" and "The Book of Eli."
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30 in 15: Reinhart pushes for spot with Islandersby Brian Compton
NHL.com continues its preview of the 2013-14 season, which will include in-depth looks at all 30 teams throughout September.
When the New York Islanders selected defenseman Griffin Reinhart with the fourth pick at the 2012 NHL Draft, they knew he wouldn't be ready to step into their lineup right away. It was going to take some time.
The work stoppage last fall allowed Reinhart to return to the Edmonton Oil Kings of the Western Hockey League, when he continued to hone his skills with hopes of one day anchoring New York's blue line. In 59 games last season, Reinhart (6-foot-4, 205 pounds) had eight goals, 21 assists and a plus-30 rating.
Reinhart, 19, has another season of junior eligibility, which means he can play up to nine games for the Islanders before they have to decide whether to keep him or return him to the Oil Kings. The son of former NHL defenseman Paul Reinhart seems to have every intention of making this an extremely tough decision for Islanders general manager Garth Snow and coach Jack Capuano.
"It's a situation where as we go through camp, Garth and myself and the coaches will sit down and evaluate every day and after every game and see where we are," Capuano told NHL.com. "If there's somebody that's going to help us win games and get us to ultimately where we want to be, that guy's going to be penciled in."
The departure of Mark Streit to the Philadelphia Flyers in June created a vacancy on the Islanders' blue line, setting up what is arguably the biggest competition at training camp. Reinhart, who scored in New York's first preseason game, a 5-3 loss to the Calgary Flames, is battling Matt Donovan and Calvin de Haan for a spot on the roster. Donovan had 93 points over the past two seasons for the Bridgeport Sound Tigers in the American Hockey League; de Haan is a 2009 first-round pick (No. 12) who missed almost all of last season with a shoulder injury.
"I've improved my skating and the way I think the game," Reinhart said. "I'm going to continue to work, and if I can keep improving in those areas, I think I'll be able to make the transition to the pros that much easier. I don't feel like there's one specific flaw in my game that I need to improve, but there's a bunch of little habits that make the difference between juniors and the pros, and hopefully I can do those things."
Reinhart flashed his offensive ability in New York's preseason opener. With his team down by three goals, he collected the puck inside his own blue line, outskated a Flames defender in the neutral zone then drove into the Calgary end before firing a wrist shot from the left circle past Joey MacDonald.
"I had the puck in our own end and saw some ice, so I took advantage of it," Reinhart said. "I saw the D-man backing up, so I took the shot and fortunately it went in."
Donovan (23) and de Haan (22) are a few years older than the teenage defenseman, so Reinhart is going to have to really stand out the way he did in Calgary in order to win the job. So far, Islanders brass is nothing but impressed.
"He looks really good," director of player development Eric Cairns told the team's website. "This summer, [Griffin] took a step in his off-ice training and really put some good work in. He's working hard on the little details of the game. He's a smart defenseman who moves the puck very well and a big, tall guy with a long reach who can use that to defend."


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WASHINGTON — The Bush administration raised the terror alert a notch to code orange for the nation's mass transit systems on Thursday, responding to a spate of deadly rush-hour bus and subway bombings in London. New York and other major cities moved immediately to tighten security, calling in thousands of additional law enforcement officers.
"Obviously we're concerned about the possibility of a copycat attack," said Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
The heightened alert will apply to "regional and inter-city passenger rail, subways and metropolitan bus systems," Chertoff said at a news conference.
Security at foreign embassies in Washington was also increased, particularly around the British Embassy, said State Department spokesman Sean McCormack.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice issued a strong condemnation of the attacks as the work of terrorists. She offered U.S. support to the British government and people and also ordered U.S. embassies around the world "to review their security posture," McCormack said.
Raising the alert level to orange, or high, means local officials are urged to implement heightened security measures such as increasing police patrols, inspecting some cars and using bomb-sniffing dogs.
New York beefs up
In New York, Gov. George Pataki and New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg held a briefing at Grand Central Station, presenting the heightened security measures taken by the city and state governments.
Thousands of additional New York police officers had been deployed to secure subways and sensitive sites such as the British embassy, Bloomberg said. New York also deployed escort boats to escort ferries and increased security around the city's water supplies.
Pataki said he had signed an executive order giving state law enforcement officers in Connecticut and New Jersey full authority to police trains entering the city from their states. Mass transit systems throughout the state were getting security assistance from hundreds of national guard and state troopers.
Mass transit travel was at normal levels, Pataki said. About 4.5 million passengers use New York City subways daily.
"I've always been aware that the subway could be a target but it hasn't affected the way I live my life. I got on this morning and rode downtown just like I always do," said Mary Ellen Kelly, who lives in midtown Manhattan.
Bloomberg urged people to go about their business as usual. "We must not allow these cowardly terrorists to ruin our ways of life," he said.
False alarms in Washington
Security was stepped up in Washington, with bomb-sniffing dogs and armed police officers patrolling subways and buses. Police carrying rifles rode some trains, and passengers were urged to report any suspicious activity.
At the Capitol, public tours continued unabated, while armed police officers patrolled outside, as they do every day.
In Washington DC's Metro train system, electronic message boards that normally indicate expected arrival times instead flashed security messages. "Please report any suspicious packages," they read, offering a special incident response phone number.
The Medical Center Metro stop near Bethesda was temporarily closed at around 10 a.m. after a caller reported a suspicious package, according to Metro spokeswoman Linda Foxwell. Train service was not interrupted, but travelers were not allowed into the station while the report was investigated.
The station was re-opened quickly, Foxwell said.
Another, similar call had security forces checking for a package at the Rockville station, a few miles northwest of Washington D.C. That also turned out to be a false alarm.
At 11 a.m., in a show of force, a special 8-member Metro Special Response security team did a sweep of the L'Enfant Plaza Metro station. Brandishing machine guns, the crew picked through trash cans and peeked behind benches looking for signs of trouble. They found none.
Despite the stir, tourists groups and summer school classes jammed Metro stations near the National Mall and the Smithsonian museums. A group of Tourists from Montreal who came for tonight's Washington Nationals game — last year, the team was the Montreal Expos — donned their "M" caps and headed early to RFK Stadium, where the Nationals were scheduled to play.
"We drove 11 hours for this," one said before rushing onto the Metro. The group was headed next to Baltimore's Camden Yards, and to Yankee Stadium in New York this weekend. "This is going to be a great trip."
Nationwide watch on trains
Amtrak officials increased security at all its stations around the country, and posted police officers on board all trains.
"These security measures are just taken as a precaution," company spokeswoman Tracy Connell said. "We will continue the heightened security threat level until we have a better understanding of what happened in London."
In San Francisco, Bay Area Rapid Transit System officials closed all station bathrooms, while Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took the unprecedented step of raising the security level on Boston's transit system.
"The governor is alarmed by what happened in London," Romney spokesman Eric Fehrnstrom said. There was no specific intelligence about any threat to the city or the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority system, he said.
No specific warning signs
Chertoff said that U.S. authorities have "no specific credible evidence" pointing toward an attack in the United States. At the same time, he said, "we are also asking for increased vigilance" particularly in the U.S. transportation system.
He stressed that authorities are not asking Americans to avoid using their subways and bus systems in light of the worst attack in London since World War II. To the contrary, he said those who use mass transit should continue to do so.
Chertoff told reporters he was not aware of any specific evidence that had foretold the attacks in London. Dozens of rush-hour commuters were killed and hundreds injured when four blasts went off in the city's subway system and a bus.
"I think our transit systems are safe," Chertoff said, adding that there have been vast improvements in the nearly four years since terrorists struck the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.
The terror alert had not been raised in the United States since last August, when the Homeland Security Department increased it to orange — or high — for financial institutions in Washington, New York and Newark, N.J., in the run up to the November elections.
President Bush, in Scotland for a meeting of the Group of Eight leaders, conferred in a secure video conference with national security and homeland security officials in Washington.
"I instructed them to be in touch with local and state officials about the facts of what took place here and in London," Bush told reporters from a summit of world leaders. Bush said he urged caution "as our folks start heading to work."
Rice telephoned British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw offering assistance. She also visited the British Embassy in Washington to sign the condolence book.
"It may take some time to untangle this," Rice said in an interview with the BBC. "But whoever did this, it's a part of clearly a concerted campaign to try and terrorize innocent people and it's certainly not going to succeed."
Vulnerable trains
Subway systems are inviting targets for terrorists because they are difficult to secure.
The kind of screening equipment used to check passengers at airports can't be used because it's too slow for systems designed to quickly move large numbers of people.
"Mass transportation systems will always be vulnerable to some extent if we want to keep them as efficient as they are today," said Rafi Ron, president of the Washington-based transportation security consulting firm, New Age Solutions.
About 29 million people take commuter trains, subways and buses daily in the United States, with the New York City area accounting for about a third of the total, said Alan Pisarski, a Washington-based national transportation policy analyst. The next-largest systems are Chicago, Washington, Boston and Philadelphia. San Francisco has the largest system on the West Coast.
James Carafano, a homeland security expert with the Heritage Foundation think tank, said trains are a tempting target for terrorists because they're so predictable.
"It's very, very easy to do reconnaissance," Carafano said.
Despite the increase in the alert level for U.S. mass transit, security efforts were not being increased at airports, airline industry officials said.
"The Department of Homeland Security says they're not raising the alert level for aviation," said Ian Redhead, vice president of security for Airports Council International, a trade group representing airports.
MSNBC.com's Bob Sullivan, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.


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The nearly 34,000-square-foot, four-story structure is FOAs first major building in the United States and its first museum. It will provide MOCA with street presence for the first time in its forty-plus-year history, and will enable it to present a diversity of innovative exhibitions and programs, while appealing to both current and new audiences. At the same time, it will give the city of Cleveland and its cultural community a signature building for contemporary art and ideas.
Located at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and Mayfield Road, the new MOCA is a flagship project of Clevelands emerging Uptown district, a major urban revitalization project undertaken by Case Western Reserve University; developer MRN, Ltd.; and other institutions in the University Circle neighborhood. The Museum will serve as a catalyst for creativity and growth in the areawhich is home to one of the countrys largest concentrations of cultural, educational, and medical institutionswith greatly expanded educational and public programs, as well as imaginative collaborations with neighboring organizations and cultural partners.
MOCA Director Jill Snyder says, The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland is elated that the design for its new building has been approved by the City Planning Commission. This represents an endorsement of FOAs inspired building-design and a recognition of the critical importance of MOCA to the cultural life of the city. FOAs design for our building is the perfect expression of our programone that will not only enable us to operate at the highest level, but that will also be beautiful, intriguing, and sensitive to our urban surroundings and community. The Museums ability to realize this project during a period of economic instability is a clear testament to the vision and dedication of MOCAs Board leadership and community funders.
Farshid Moussavi, principal of FOA, adds, As FOAs first museum and first U.S. commission, this is an especially meaningful and inspirational project for us. Museums today are not just homes for art, but serve multiple functions and host a variety of activities. Our design for MOCA Cleveland aims to provide visitors with a museum that is a dynamic public space in which to experience contemporary art in its infinite manifestations.
In addition to Foreign Office Architects, the design team for the new Museum includes executive architects Westlake Reed Leskosky, headquartered in Cleveland and designers of more than fifty cultural buildings throughout the United States.
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The new MOCA, which will be forty-four percent larger than the Museums current, leased facility, will demonstrate that a museum expansion need not be large in scale to be ambitious in all respects. Devised for both environmental and fiscal sustainability, the design for the four-story building is at once technically inventive, visually stunning, and highly practical.
FOA has responded ingeniously to the projects roughly triangular site by designing a building with a hexagonal base that, with imperceptible changes in the shape of each story, rises to a square roof. Viewed from the exterior, the building will appear as an inventive massing of six geometric facets, some flat, others sloping at various angles, all coming together to create a powerful abstract form.
Clad primarily in mirror-finish black Rimex stainless steel, the façade of the new MOCA will reflect its urban surroundings, changing in appearance with differences in light and weather. Window glazing will be tinted to assimilate with the reflective skin so that during the day the building will read as a unified volume, while at night interior lights will create a dynamic pattern on the dark surface.
Three of the buildings six facets, one of them clad in transparent glass, will flank a public plaza. This will provide a public gathering place and also serve as MOCAs front yard, and will be the setting for seasonal programming. From here, visitors and passersby may look through the transparent facet, site of the Museum entrance, into the ground floor, a space intended for socializing and for civic and cultural events.
While the buildings dark exterior will offer almost no hint of the interior massing and structure, the experience inside will be notably transparent. Upon entering MOCA, visitors will find themselves in an atrium from which they may visually grasp the dynamic shape and structure of the building as it rises. This space will lead in turn to the Museums lobby, café, and shop, and to a double-height multipurpose room that will house public programs and other events. From here, visitors may take the Museums staircaseitself a monumental sculptural object or an elevator to the upper floors.
Because MOCA is a non-collecting institutionone of the few such contemporary art museums in the countryits new building does not need to accommodate collection galleries. In order to achieve maximum flexibility for the museums diverse exhibitions, the main gallery has been sited at the top of the building. There it will be structurally unencumbered, needing only to hold the lightweight roof, the underside of which will be fully visible from the gallery. Moveable walls will enable the 6,000-square-foot space to be divided into a variety of configurations. This floor will also contain a gallery designed specifically for new-media work and a lounge with a view of the city, where visitors can relax, reflect on what they have seen, and read about the exhibitions.
Ms. Snyder notes, As Clevelands only museum of contemporary art, MOCA is committed to presenting exhibitions that break new ground, showing the work of emerging artists from across the globe as well as from our own region. Flexibility is key to a program that, like ours, embraces aesthetic, conceptual, and cultural diversity, and displays works in a great variety of mediums and genres. We are thrilled with the gallery space planned for the new Museum.
While the main exhibition gallery is on the top floor, all four floors of the Museum contain space for either exhibitions or public programs, with the second and third floors combining public and back of house functions. The second floor, for example, will house both exhibition workshops and a 1,500-square-foot public gallery, to be used for more intimately scaled exhibitions; consonant with the openness that is characteristic of the buildings interior, visitors approaching this gallery by stair will also be able to glimpse the workshops. The third floor, home to MOCAs administrative offices, will also include spaces for classes, lectures, and other educational programs.
In keeping with the ways in which contemporary visitors engage with art, the new building will have wi-fi throughout, enabling the use of wireless devices for on demand learning. MOCA anticipates that the building will receive LEED silver accreditation.
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Neal hat trick powers Penguins past Blue Jacketsby Craig Merz
COLUMBUS -- James Neal is making up for lost time in a hurry.
After missing half of the Pittsburgh Penguins' first 40 games due to injury (15) and suspension (five), Neal's career-high five points, including three goals, led the Penguins to a 5-3 victory against the Columbus Blue Jackets at Nationwide Arena on Sunday.
Neal has 10 points (four goals) in five games since returning from a five-game suspension for kneeing Boston Bruins forward Brad Marchand on Dec. 7. The five-point game pushed his season total to 30 (14 goals, 16 assists) in 21 games.
"[Columbus] had some good zone time, but it felt like we created enough good chances," Pittsburgh captain Sidney Crosby said. "The way Nealer was shooting the puck tonight, it makes everyone look good."
Crosby and linemate Chris Kunitz each had a goal and two assists for the Penguins, who have won nine of their past 10 games and 14 of 16.
The difference Sunday was the power play; Pittsburgh went 3-for-6 and Columbus was scoreless in three tries.
"Special teams is going to win you games," Neal said. "You saw that tonight. We got hemmed in our zone a little bit more than we would have liked, but our PP came up big."
Pittsburgh broke a 2-2 tie with third-period goals from Crosby, Kunitz and Neal, the latter two with the man advantage.
"It doesn't matter how good your penalty kill is," Columbus forward Corey Tropp said. "You put them on the power play that many times in a row and they're going to get their opportunities."
Columbus coach Todd Richards said the Penguins' skill led to many of his team's infractions.
"Most were with the stick. They were reaching penalties," he said.
Columbus, which had its three-game winning streak snapped, got a first-period goal from Brandon Dubinsky, a spectacular goal by Tropp in the second to tie the game at 2-2, and a late goal by Nikita Nikitin to close out the scoring.
Tropp electrified Nationwide Arena with an individual effort that ended with his second goal at 13:42 of the second period. After gathering a pass from Boone Jenner, Tropp undressed Olli Maatta by dragging the puck between the rookie defenseman's skates, then went backhand to forehand before putting the puck between goalie Jeff Zatkoff's outstretched pad and the right post.
The Penguins fans in attendance littered the ice with hats following Neal's third goal, which made it 5-2 with 2:27 left in the third.
Earlier in the period, Crosby broke a 2-2 tie with his 22nd goal at 10:51.
Crosby took a touch pass near the right post and fired on Curtis McElhinney. The Columbus goalie got a piece of the puck, which was pushed across the goal line by Columbus defenseman Fedor Tyutin.
The goal was upheld by video review.
"It was kind of tucked under [McElhinney's] armpit, and he ended up falling into the net," Crosby said.
Crosby then assisted on Kunitz's 21st goal, which came on the power play, at 12:58.
McElhinney and Zatkoff each made 25 saves.
Zatkoff earned his first NHL victory against Columbus on Nov. 2 on the Penguins' most-recent trip to Columbus. He was barely tested in the earlier game, making 19 saves for 3-0 victory.
It was a different story this time. He made two saves on Dubinsky while Columbus was shorthanded in a 1-1 game in the first period, but saved his best sequence for five minutes into the middle period, with the score still deadlocked, when he made point-blank stops on Blake Comeau and the rebound try by Ryan Johansen.
The Penguins' dominance over Columbus continues. They have won all four games this season, five straight in the series and are 8-1-1 in the past 10. Pittsburgh has also won four straight in Nationwide Arena and hasn't lost a game in regulation in Columbus since a 6-1 loss on Jan. 11, 2006.
"It's still a road game," Crosby said in reference to the thousands of Penguins fans in attendance. "It gets pretty loud in here. [The Blue Jackets] fed off their crowd when they put a few of those shifts together. It's always nice to see so many fans on the road. It's a good rivalry."
Despite more than 230 man-games missed due to injuries and suspensions, the Penguins have won 14 of 16 games to assume the points lead in the Eastern Conference over the Boston Bruins.
Pittsburgh got some good news on the injury front when defenseman Rob Scuderi (broken ankle) played for the first time in 30 games. He had not played since Oct. 26 against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Scuderi played 18:01 and took 21 shifts.
The Blue Jackets continue to struggle against the top two teams in the conference; they lost all three games in the season series to Boston. But the loss to Pittsburgh was particularly galling since Columbus (17-18-4) had climbed back to .500 for the first time since being 5-5-0. The only time the Blue Jackets had been a game above .500 was after winning two of the first three games.
Richards said the Blue Jackets were in good position to finally beat the Penguins.
"It was about cracking, and we cracked first," he said.
Playing Pittsburgh tight for most of the game was of little consolation to the Blue Jackets.
"We did a lot of good things out there," Dubinsky said. "But we're at the point of the season where moral victories and small victories aren't good enough."


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Stephen has raised concerns regarding the impact of storms on Cardiff and Penarth's coastline.
Speaking after Labour called on the Secretary of State for Communities to make a statement on the government's response to the flooding and storms, Stephen told the Commons: "Communities in my constituency, particularly along the Penarth coastline, have also been affected by these unprecedented events in recent weeks, albeit not, thankfully, to the extent we have seen elsewhere in Wales or, indeed, in the south-west and the Thames valley.
"Can the Secretary of State please assure the House that he has, and will continue to have, close co-operation with Welsh Ministers, Welsh local authorities and Natural Resources Wales (NRW) given that climate change, wind, waves and rain respect no boundaries?"
The Cardiff South and Penarth MP spoke out because, although the issues dealt with by the Environment Agency in England are devolved here in Wales and come under the remit of Natural Resources Wales, he wants Ministers to take on board any lessons to be learned from the recent and ongoing flooding and storms in England and Wales, and vice versa.
Speaking after the debate, he said: "Soon after I was elected, I made an early visit to NRW to discuss these important issues – given the potential impacts on the Cardiff and Penarth areas from flooding, historical risk, and the risk of further changes due to climate change.
"I will continue to work closely with Vaughan Gething AM to scrutinise the work of NRW and if there are any lessons to be learned from experiences at the Environment Agency in England, we must take them on board."
He added: "The Severn Estuary Partnership believes that 'one of the most significant threats to the estuary over the next hundred years comes from climate change' – and I agree.
"The potential threats from climate change, changes in our weather and sea level rises should be in all of our minds after these recent events.
"While we cannot attribute any individual event to climate change – the risks are huge. As well as building resilience, we need to move to a more sustainable and low carbon economy, and the UK government's failure to set an ambitious decarbonisation target is shocking."


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Colorado's Stanley Hotel was opened by F O Stanley, the inventor of America's Stanley Steamer automobiles, in 1907 and paranormal activity has been a part of the hotel's history ever since. Elisabeth Wilson, a former housekeeper, who died at the hotel in 1911, is said to have returned to assist guests in Room 217 in the past, unpacking and storing away their belongings.
The sounds of children running and giggling down the halls are also regularly reported on the fourth floor. The ghosts of Mr Stanley and his wife are said to pass through the lobby quite frequently, according to staff members and guests. Mrs Stanley is also said to be heard playing her piano in the music room.
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