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Auburn Hills is a small rural city with a quaint downtown center. Much of the land is still undeveloped today, but is growing quickly. In 1998 the Great Lakes Crossing shopping mall was constructed, and by 2002 the downtown area was revitalized and nicknamed the Village Center. The city follows alongside the Interstate 75, making transportation a breeze.
Situated in Oakland County, there are plenty of recreational amenities. From mushroom hunting to BMX biking, there are so many activities residents have at their fingertips in Auburn Hills. The outdoorsy type will never get bored because there are year-round activities that are ideal for a weekend adventure.
Auburn Hills apartments for rent are ideal for someone who appreciates the simple things in life. The laidback atmosphere is endearing, and many residents find sanction in the scenic surroundings. According to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Auburn Hills has gradually increased over the past two decades. Today, more than 21,500 people consider Auburn Hills home.
In 1921, the town of Auburn was born at the corner of where Auburn and Squirrel Roads meet today. The first settler, Aaron Webster named the town after Auburn, New York that was nestled along the Clinton River. In 1826, streets were laid out, rivaling nearby town Pontiac in growth. Automobile pioneer, John Dodge, bought a farmhouse about three miles northeast of Auburn Heights. After he built a sawmill and grist mill, many settlers were attracted to the area. When his oldest child married, they built a massive country retreat 2.5 miles north of the town with a pool, horse stables, a 5,000 acre colonial revival home and hunting land. Pontiac Township purchased the land in 1976, and this property is now known as the Auburn Hills Civic Center.
The town was officially named Auburn Heights in 1919. In 1983, Auburn Heights and Pontiac Township joined together to create Auburn Hills.
Auburn Hills is very much a motor city. Some of the top employers in the town include Chrysler, Great Lakes Crossing, Palace of Auburn Hills, Comerica AHOC, Volkswagen/Audi and Borg Warner. Community officials continue to make strides to diversify the economic development in Auburn Hills to offer more opportunities to residents.
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Living in Auburn Hills is moderately inexpensive considering the scenic community and high quality of life. According to Best Places, the overall cost of living is 15 points lower than the national average, food is 3 points lower and utilities are 3 points higher. Similarly, the average cost of rentals in Auburn Hills is fairly average. According to statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, the monthly median gross rent is $807.
Residents in Auburn Hills enjoy many festivals every year. From the Friday music in the park series every summer, to festive events for the entire family, Auburn Hills has it all. The annual Parade of Stars Bluegrass Festival happens every September at the Civic Park Center. Attracting young and old, this event has featured nationally known musical acts like Lou Reid and Carolina and The Skip Cherryholmes Quintet in past years.
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Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies | |
City | Atlantic City, NJ |
League | ECHL |
Founded | 1992 |
Operated | 2001–2005 |
Home arena | Boardwalk Hall |
Franchise history | |
1992–2001 | Birmingham Bulls |
2001–2005 | Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies |
2005–present | Stockton Thunder |
Championships | |
Conference Championships | 2002–03 |
Kelly Cups | 2002–03 |
The Atlantic City Boardwalk Bullies were an ECHL hockey team in Atlantic City, New Jersey from 2001 to 2005. The team's venue was the historic Boardwalk Hall, which seats 6,979.
In 2001, the franchise played its inaugural season in Atlantic City after relocating from Birmingham, Alabama, where it was known as the Birmingham Bulls. In 2003, the team won the Kelly Cup, beating the Columbia Inferno in the finals.
Even though the Bullies found success on the ice, the team's attendance was poor. In its championship season, attendance averaged slightly above 3,000 per game. During the 2005 season, the franchise was sold to an ownership group from Stockton, California. The team moved and was renamed the Stockton Thunder for the 2005–06 season and since.
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Dwayne Bowe takes part in practice
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Dwayne Bowe is already getting up to speed with the Kansas City Chiefs.
The Pro Bowl wide receiver was on the field with the rest of his teammates Monday for the first time since signing his franchise tender last week, keeping alive the possibility that he could be play in the Chiefs' preseason game Friday night against Seattle.
"The business part is over, I signed Friday and the great part about it is I'm here now with my teammates. I've been coming in extra early in the morning, staying late after practice, in the meeting room with Matt (Cassel), trying to expedite the opportunity to get out there.
" -- Dwayne Bowe on return to practice
NFL rules prevent Bowe from practicing in pads until Tuesday, but he spent time with quarterback Matt Cassel and offensive coordinator Brian Daboll during Monday's workout.
"The business part is over, I signed Friday and the great part about it is I'm here now with my teammates," Bowe said. "I've been coming in extra early in the morning, staying late after practice, in the meeting room with Matt, trying to expedite the opportunity to get out there."
Bowe has been seeking a long-term deal and was unhappy when the Chiefs gave him the franchise tag, and ultimately decided to skip the offseason program and the start of training camp.
He didn't have much negotiating leverage -- his only option besides signing was to sit out into the start of the season. So he relented when the Chiefs broke their camp in St. Joseph, Mo., signing a contract on Friday to play this season for about $9.5 million.
The two sides will likely resume negotiations on a long-term contract when league rules permit, but Bowe could find himself in a similar situation next offseason, too.
"Every year is a big year, someone is coming in trying to take my job," Bowe told reporters after practice Monday. "My job is to prove I'm the No. 1 guy."
The former first-round draft pick has emerged as one of the game's best wide receivers, with three 1,000-yard seasons and a league-leading 15 touchdown catches in 2010, when he made his only Pro Bowl appearance. He caught 81 passes for 1,159 yards and five touchdowns last season for Kansas City.
Still, he'll be pushing to get ready as quickly as possible.
Bowe has missed several months of practice, and is far behind in learning Daboll's system. That's why the new offensive coordinator gathered Cassel and wide receivers coach Nick Sirianni along with Bowe on an adjacent practice field for a cram session Monday afternoon.
It won't be the first time that Bowe has had to learn a new offense -- he's had half a dozen coaches calling plays since getting drafted by the Chiefs five years ago.
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"The offensive coaches are giving him a crash course," Chiefs coach Romeo Crennel said. "He's a willing student, you know, because he's back in the fold, he wants to do good, he's a prideful receiver, so I think he'll do everything he can to learn as fast as he can."
Crennel said he's not sure whether Bowe will be ready for Friday night's game against the Seahawks, but it's clear that everyone involved wants to see him on the field. Starters generally do not play much in the preseason finale, which means Bowe is already running out of time.
Kansas City opens the regular season Sept. 9 against Atlanta.
"That's the coach's decision," Bowe said, when asked whether he'll play against Seattle. "If I learn all the plays before that -- if it takes a little longer, it takes a little longer."
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With regard to the budget crises, the world is laughing at this absurdity of American Politics. If as the Republins constantly state, " THE SUPER RICH ARE JOB CREATORS", THEN LET THEM PROVE IT. IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO PUT-UP OR SHUT-UP. They have had thier own way long enough. First, they raid each other and sell off the yforty to pay fortytop ayforty to pay for the takeover, then they ship the jobs overseas thus putting millions of American Workers out of jobs. When is this B.S. going to end?
Bi-partisan issues are really the crux of the problem. There's allot of bright minds representing the American people but unless we're able to work together to hash out a plan we are destined to sink into another recession soon. No one wants to lay employees off but the bottom line has to enable companies to keep their heads above water. You can't blame one person for all of these issues. We should be past the "Blame Game" and come up with an "Aim Game" instead. Is our Government really going to stop paying the military members putting their lives on the line for our country's freedom? r/ C J Byers/USN LCDR (Ret) Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
$Banks betting in banks$ is the cause of the economy crash fact.
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Our credit ratings will go from a tripple AAA credit to a BBB junk rating or to a Written off D rating if the Repblicans don't take care of this debt. Firer John and Eric and the freshman Tea party for this economy melt down. INDEPENDENT 4 LIFE
The American people want to go to the poles with 4 choices to solve the debt ceiling issue as they are suposable arguing over what we want. For the first time, figure out what the American people really want with transparency and change politics in Washington over night. 1. Rebublican plan 2. Democratic Plan 3. Raise taxes to old levels / close loop holes 4. none of the above. When are we going to go back to what the people want. Our founding fathers would be a appalled.
I Was Wondering If This Could Be the Way the USA Can Devalue the Dollar Without Complaining from the World, Default on August 2nd, Moody's & Standards & Poors Drop the USA to Double A Credit Rating Then the US Dollar Drops in Value, Then Exports Take Off Because it Cheaper the Buy USA Goods
Wolf: Remember when Kruschev announced that Capitalism would bury itself? Well, the Tea Party dug the hole and the extremeist Republicans are standing by with shovels to fill it in. No debt celing increase will certainly result in the demise of the Tea Party and the loss of many Republican Congressional seats, but it'll probably be too late to matter for years to come. The damage will already be almost beyond repair. Lobbyists should be banned from any political activity until this issue is resolved.
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Last week actress Eva Longoria announced that she is creating a foundation to help Latinas through education and entrepreneurship. Writing in the Huffington Post, the Mexican-American television star detailed the obstacles many young Latinas face and claimed:
Our mission is to help Latinas build better futures for themselves and their families through education and entrepreneurship. We will support programs which help Latinas become college ready and college graduates. And we will provide Latinas with career training, mentorship, capital and opportunity.
This has been a subject of particular interest for the actress, considering Longoria wrote about Latina entrepreneurs and leadership while working to obtain her master's degree. In the Huffington post she gave reasons why Latinas need assistance, citing:
As a group, Latinas are disproportionately impoverished and uneducated. 27% live below the poverty line, struggling to make ends meet and put food on the table. On average, women make $0.77 for every dollar a white man makes. For Latinas, the disparity is even more severe — they make only $0.54 on the dollar.
While many factors contribute to poverty, education plays a key role in a person's ability to secure a good job. Today, only 65% of adult Latinas hold high school degrees and just 15% graduate from college.
Longoria also runs another charity that bears her name, Eva's Heroes, an organization that helps teens with special needs.
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The Bengals' failure to find a No. 2 running back has placed a heavy burden on Rudi Johnson. But you won't hear him complain, writes Len Pasquarelli.
GEORGETOWN, Ky. -- The ritual began rather innocuously in an Oct. 26, 2003 game against the Seattle Seahawks. In only the second start of his career, Rudi Johnson began pedaling a stationary bike on the sidelines to keep his legs loose in the fourth quarter.
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Four years later, with three straight seasons of 1,300 or more rushing yards on his résumé, and a reputation as one of the NFL's true workhorse backs, Johnson is still riding that bicycle. And the Cincinnati Bengals, whose offense has ranked among the top eight in the league in each of the past two campaigns, still are riding Johnson.
And they can keep riding him, Johnson suggested here following a wickedly oppressive Sunday afternoon practice, until the wheels fall off.
Which, given the team's poor luck in finding a complementary No. 2 back to reduce the workload of their feature runner, is a distinct possibility.
"I'll take as many [carries] as they want to give me," said Johnson, who during a special-teams segment of practice retreated to the sideline to resume the Tour de Rudi. "That's the mentality that you have to have as a big-time runner. You have to be mentally prepared for that, to handle the load, to let them put the game on you I mean, if it was up to me, heck, I'd take all the carries."
Johnson, 27, might come close to doing just that in 2007.
Rookie tailback Kenny Irons, the second-round choice taken to add a speed dimension to the Cincinnati backfield and to spell Johnson, sustained a season-ending torn anterior cruciate ligament injury in the Aug. 9 preseason opener against the Lions. Chris Perry, the club's first-round selection in 2004, has seen his diverse talents eroded by injuries, has appeared in only 22 games in three years, and will begin 2007 on the physically unable to perform list for a second straight year. That leaves hard-working Kenny Watson, a player whose special-teams workload the club had hoped to reduce this year, as the presumptive No. 2 tailback.
And it almost certainly leaves Johnson -- who over the past three years has accounted for 87.2 percent of all the rushing attempts by the Cincinnati running backs, and for 85.5 percent of the yards -- to hoist the club's ground game on his broad shoulders.
It is a role to which the former Auburn star, a fourth-round pick in 2001 who served a three-year apprenticeship behind Dillon until ascending to the full-time starting job in 2004, has become accustomed.
Indeed, Johnson, is the Cincinnati ground game.
Over the past three seasons, in which he has played in every game and started all but three of them, no NFL back has logged more carries than Johnson's 1,039 rushes. He has averaged 346.3 attempts per season in that stretch and 21.7 carries per start. His 4,221 yards since the start of the 2004 season are the fourth most in the league. And his incredibly symmetrical 36 rushing touchdowns, a dozen in each of the last three seasons, are the fifth most.
In that three-year span, the durable Johnson has 28 games in which he carried 20 times or more, including 16 contests with 25-plus attempts and four outings with 30 or more rushes. He has rushed for 100 or more yards 14 times since the beginning of the 2004 season.
Yet the hard-running Johnson, who gains most of his yards between the tackles and after initial contact, is often overlooked. That's mainly because the Bengals boast headline-grabbing passing stars such as quarterback Carson Palmer, and wide receivers Chad Johnson and T.J. Houshmandzadeh.
Johnson was quick to note Sunday that he does not feel underappreciated, because of the respect with which he is regarded by his teammates and players around the league. That was a sentiment echoed by Bengals coach Marvin Lewis.
"He's the kind of runner who gets people excited in the huddle, a very outgoing guy, and an [emotional] player," Lewis said. "Look, we don't want him to get as many carries. But the guy wants that many carries. And when you're in the fourth quarter, trying to put together first downs and shorten the game at 'winning time,' he's the guy. He keeps the chains moving and the clock moving. He's a real closer. In those kinds of situations, you can't not give him the ball. He runs over people."
Like most standout backs, Johnson is blessed with a low center of gravity, great vision and uncanny balance. Those are natural gifts. But he has worked hard in the last few offseasons to condition himself for the rigors of 300-plus carries and the punishment he absorbs as a guy who doesn't shy from contact.
When he entered the league, Johnson was 235 pounds. With his physique now redefined and his weight redistributed, he weighs in the 214-218 range and, for a power back, looks remarkably trim. This offseason, Johnson spent extra time working with assistant strength and conditioning coach Ray Oliver on his overall leg power.
Lewis recalled that, as a young player, Johnson didn't quite understand the work ethic that is required to be a top-shelf back at the NFL level. He chafed at playing behind Dillon at times, abhorred having to perform on special teams, and his effort waned. But, Lewis emphasized, "when the light went on" for Johnson, it was like someone flipped the switch on a neon sign.
Recalled Johnson, whose efforts were recognized by Cincinnati management in 2005 with a five-year, $26 million contract extension: "A lot of what separates players in this league is how badly they want to be good. And I want to be good."
Based on his numbers over the past three seasons, Johnson, who somehow has yet to be rewarded with a Pro Bowl invitation, ranks among the best. And in one category at least, he feels he is definitely at the top of the NFL pecking order.
Asked following Sunday's practice to identify the league's toughest back, Johnson didn't even blink.
"You're looking at him," he said. "Hands down."
Len Pasquarelli is a senior writer at ESPN.com.
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As noted in Chapter 3, the committee believes that the IT research areas of highest priority for counterterrorism are in three major areas: information and network security,1 information technologies for emergency response, and technologies for information fusion. Within each of these areas, a reasonably broad agenda is appropriate, as none of them can be characterized by the presence of a single stumbling block or impediment whose removal would allow everything else to fall into place.
Attention to human and organizational issues in a counterterrorism context is also critical. Insight, knowledge, and tools that result from such attention are likely to be much more relevant to systems integration than to technology efforts devoted to proofs-of-principle or other technology development issues. However, that fact does not mean that there is no role for research, especially since system development methodologies that incorporate such tools are scarce or nonexistent. Thus, the engagement of social scientists (e.g., psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, organizational behavior analysts) will be important in any research program in IT for counterterrorist purposes.
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Rationalizing the Future Research Agenda
As noted in Chapter 3, the committee believes that the IT research areas of highest priority for counterterrorism are in three major areas: information and network security,1 information technologies for emergency response, and technologies for information fusion. Within each of these areas, a reasonably broad agenda is appropriate, as none of them can be characterized by the presence of a single stumbling block or impediment whose removal would allow everything else to fall into place.
Attention to human and organizational issues in a counterterrorism context is also critical. Insight, knowledge, and tools that result from such attention are likely to be much more relevant to systems integration than to technology efforts devoted to proofs-of-principle or other technology development issues. However, that fact does not mean that there is no role for research, especially since system development methodologies that incorporate such tools are scarce or nonexistent. Thus, the engagement of social scientists (e.g., psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists, organizational behavior analysts) will be important in any research program in IT for counterterrorist purposes.
Based on the discussion in Chapter 3, Box 5.1 summarizes some of the
Further discussion of a broader research agenda on information and network security can be found in CSTB's Computers at Risk (1991) and Trust in Cyberspace (1999). Though these reports were issued several years ago, their comments on a relevant research agenda remain pertinent today, reflecting the reality that the information-security field has not advanced much in the intervening years.
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topics within these areas that the committee believes would be fruitful to research. It is useful to note that progress in these areas would have commercial applications as well in many cases. The fruits of information and network security research would benefit all users of information technology, though their particular relevance to providers of critical infrastructure is obvious. Emergency responders will be the primary beneficiaries of research that focuses on their particular needs. Progress in information fusion has relevance across the spectrum of counterterrorism efforts, from prevention to detection to response, and indeed to information mining for other public and private purposes. (A point of particular interest is the fact that information-fusion efforts for countering bioterrorism have significant applicability to public health, especially with respect to the early identification of "natural" disease outbreaks.) Advances in developing tools to incorporate knowledge about human and organizational factors in systems integration would be relevant to the deployment of most large IT-based systems.
The fact that research in these areas may have commercial relevance raises for some questions about the necessity of government involvement. As noted in Chapter 4, the commercial market has largely failed in promoting information and network security. In other cases, the research program required (e.g., research addressing the needs of emergency responders) is of an applied nature—and focused on counterterror applications. As for information fusion, it is highly likely that its applications will have commercial applications once new technologies are developed, but whether those new technologies would develop in the absence of government-supported research and become broadly available is another question entirely.
Most of these technology research areas are not new. Efforts have long been under way in information and network security and information fusion, though additional research is needed because the resulting technologies are not sufficiently robust or effective, they degrade performance or functionality too severely, or they are too hard to use or too expensive to deploy. Moreover, given the failure of the market to adequately address security challenges, adequate government support for R&D in information systems and network security is especially important. Information technologies for emergency response have not received a great deal of attention, though efforts in other contexts (e.g., military operations) are intimately related to progress in this area.2
Military communications and civilian emergency-response communications have similarities and differences. Military forces and civilian agencies share the need to deploy emergency capacity rapidly, to interoperate, and to operate in a chaotic environment. But while military communications must typically work in a jamming environment or one in
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BOX 5.1 Illustrative Topic Areas for Long-Term Research
Authentication, Detection, Identification
Develop fast and scalable methods for high-confidence authentication.
Explore approaches that could self-monitor traffic and users to detect either anomalous users or unusual traffic patterns.
Develop intruder-detection methods that scale to function efficiently in large systems.
Develop the tools and design methodologies for systems and networks that support graceful degradation in response to an attack.
Develop mechanisms to contain attackers and limit damage rather than completely shutting down the system once an intrusion is detected.
Explore how to fuse a simple, basic control system used during "crisis mode" with a sophisticated control system used during normal operations.
Develop schemes for backing up large systems, in real time and under "hostile" conditions, that can capture the most up-to-date, but correct, snapshot of the system state.
Create new decontamination approaches for discarding as little good data as possible and for removing active and potential infections on a system that cannot be shut down for decontamination.
Cross-cutting Issues in Information and Network Security
Develop tools that support security-oriented systems development.
Find new ways to test bug fixes reliably.
Develop better system-administration tools for specifying security policies and checking against prespecified system configurations.
Create new tools to detect added and unauthorized functionality.
Develop authentication mechanisms that provide greater security and are easier to use.
Create and employ metrics to determine the improvement to system security resulting from the installation of a security measure.
Monitor and track emerging types of attack and explore potential consequences of such attacks.
Understand why previous attempts to build secure systems have failed and recommend how new efforts should be structured to be more successful.
C3I Systems for Emergency Response
Understand how to transition gracefully and with minimal disruption from a unit-specific communication system to a systemwide structure.
Define new communication protocols and develop generic technology to facilitate interconnection and interoperation of diverse information sources.
Develop approaches for communication systems to handle surge capacity and function in a saturated state.
Develop methods to provide more capacity for emergency communication and coordination.
Create self-adaptive networks that can reconfigure themselves as a function of damage and changes in demand and that can degrade gracefully.
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Understand the special security needs of rapidly deployed wireless networks.
Develop decision-support tools to assist the crisis manager in making decisions based on incomplete information.
Explore mechanisms to provide information tailored to specific individuals or locations through location-based services.
Establish more effective means of communicating the status of affected people to those outside the disaster area.
Develop robust sensors and underlying architectural concepts to track and locate survivors as well as to identify and track the spread of contaminants.
Create digital floor plans and maps of other physical infrastructure, and use wearable computers and "map ants" to generate maps that can be updated.
Develop tools to map network topology, especially of converged networks that handle voice and data traffic.
Begin to characterize the functionality of regional networks for emergency responders.
Information Fusion for Counterterrorism
Develop more effective machine-learning algorithms for data mining, including learning for different data types (text, image, audio, video).
Develop methods for systems to learn when data are scarce.
Create better mixed-initiative methods that allow the user to visualize the data and direct the data analysis.
Explore new methods to normalize and combine data from multiple sources.
Create methods to extract structured information from text.
Build approaches to handle multiple languages.
Improve algorithms for image interpretation, speech recognition, and interpretation of other sensors (including perception based on mixed media).
Extend, and test extensively in more demanding applications, the principle-based methods for reasoning under uncertainty.
Develop techniques for machine-aided query formulation.
Develop visualization techniques that are well-adapted for unstructured data.
Privacy and Confidentiality
Understand the impact on confidentiality of different kinds of data disclosure.
Develop data-mining algorithms that can be used without requiring full disclosure of individual data records.
Human and Organizational Factors
Create system development methods that more easily accommodate inputs relevant to human and organizational factors.
Develop software toolboxes and handbooks that codify and encapsulate principles derived from the social sciences that are relevant to system development and design.
Develop reliable security measures that do not interfere with legitimate workers.
Understand the IT issues related to the disparate organizational cultures of agencies that will be fused under the Department of Homeland Security.
NOTE: A future CSTB report on cybersecurity research will explicate research areas in greater detail.
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As for the funding of the research program described in this report, computer crime losses are estimated at $10 billion per year (and growing).3 Although statistics on the amount lost to cybercrime are of dubious reliability, there is no doubt that aggregate losses are considerable. The committee believes that because this research program has considerable overlap with that needed to fight cybercrime, progress in this research program has the potential to reduce cybercrime as well. Without rigorous argument, the committee believes that the potential reduction in cybercrime would likely offset a considerable portion (if not all) of the research program described in this report (though of course the primary beneficiaries will be society at large rather than any individual company that today may suffer loss). Nevertheless, the committee has not had access to information that would allow it to determine an appropriate level of funding for the research program described in this report.
The time scale on which the fruits of efforts in these research areas will become available ranges from short to long. That is, each of these areas has technologies that can be beneficially deployed on a relatively short time scale (e.g., in a few years). Each area also has other prospects for research and deployment on a much longer time scale (e.g., a decade or more) that will require the development of entirely new technologies and capabilities.
The committee is silent on the specific government agency or agencies that would be best suited to support the program described above,4 though it notes that the recently created Department of Homeland Security may expand the options available for government action. Rather, the more important policy issue is how to organize a federal infrastructure to support this research. In particular, the committee believes that this infrastructure should have the following attributes. It would:
Engage and support multidisciplinary, problem-oriented research that is useful both to civilian and military users. (Note that this approach contrasts strongly with the disciplinary orientation that characterizes most academic departments and universities.)
Develop a research program driven by a deep understanding and
which there is a need for a low probability of intercept, these conditions do not obtain for civilian emergency-response communications. Also, military forces often must communi-cate in territory without a pre-existing friendly infrastructure, while civilian agencies can potentially take advantage of such an infrastructure.
"Cyber Crime." BusinessWeek Online, February 21, 2000. Available online at <http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_08/b3669001.htm>.
See CSTB, NRC, 2002, Cybersecurity Today and Tomorrow, pp. 13-14.
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assessment of IT vulnerabilities. This will likely require access to classified information, even though most of the research should be unclassified.
Support a substantial effort in research areas with a long time horizon for payoff. Historically, such investigations have been housed most often in academia, which can conduct research with fewer pressures for immediate delivery on a bottom line. (This is not to say that private industry has no role. Indeed, because the involvement of industry is critical for deployment, and is likely to be essential for developing prototypes and mounting field demonstrations, it is highly appropriate to support both academia and industry perhaps even jointly in efforts oriented toward development.)
Provide support extending for time scales that are long enough to make meaningful progress on hard problems (perhaps 5-year project durations) and in sufficient amounts that reasonably realistic operating environments for the technology could be constructed (perhaps $2 million to $5 million per year per site for system-oriented research programs).
Invest some small fraction of its budget on thinking "outside the box" in consideration (and possible creation) of alternative futures (Box 5.2).
Be more tolerant of research directions that do not appear to promise immediate applicability. Research programs, especially in IT, are often—even generally—more "messy" than research managers would like. The desire to terminate unproductive lines of inquiry is understandable, and sometimes entirely necessary, in a constrained budget environment. On the other hand, it is frequently very hard to distinguish between (A) a line of inquiry that will never be productive and (B) one that may take some time and determined effort to be productive. While an intellectually robust research program must be expected to go down some blind alleys occasionally, the current political environment typically punishes such blind alleys as being of Type A, with little apparent regard for the possibility that they might be Type B.
Be overseen by a board or other entity with sufficient stature to attract top talent to work in the field, to provide useful feedback, and to be an effective sounding board for that talent.
Pay attention to the human resources needed to sustain the counterterrorism IT research program. This need is especially apparent in the fields of information and network security and emergency communications. Only a very small fraction of the nation's graduating doctoral students in IT specialize in either of these fields, only a very few professors conduct research in these areas, only a very few universities support research programs in these fields, and, in the judgment of the committee,
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BOX 5.2 Planning for the Future
Planning for the future is a critical dimension of any research agenda, though the resources devoted to it need not be large. System architectures and technologies such as switched optical networks, mobile code, and open-source or multinational code development will have different vulnerabilities from the technologies that characterize most of the existing infrastructure and hence require different defense strategies. Similarly, device types such as digital appliances, wireless headphones, and network-capable cell phones may pose new challenges. Even today, it is hard to interconnect systems with different security models or security semantics; unless this problem is successfully managed, it will become increasingly difficult in the future.
Furthermore, the characteristics of deployed technology that protect the nation against catastrophic IT-only attacks today (e.g., redundancy, system heterogeneity, and a reliance on networks other than the Internet for critical business functions) may not continue to protect it in the future. For example, trends toward deregulation are pushing the nation's critical infrastructure providers to reduce excess capacity, even though this is what provides much of the redundancy so important to reduced vulnerability. In the limit, the market dominance of a smaller number of products leads to system monocultures that, like their ecological and agricultural counterparts, are highly vulnerable to certain types of attack.
For these reasons, researchers and practitioners must be vigilant to changes in network technology, usage and reliance on IT, and decreasing diversity. In addition, research focused on the future is likely to have a slant that differs from the orientation of the other research efforts described in this chapter. While the latter efforts might be characterized as building on existing bodies of knowledge (and are in that sense incremental), future-oriented research would have a more radical orientation: it would, for example, try to develop alternative paradigms for secure and reliable operation that would not necessarily be straightforward evolutions from the Internet and information technology of today. One such pursuit might be the design of appropriate network infrastructure for deployment in 2020 that would be much more secure than the Internet of today. Another might be an IT infrastructure whose security relied on engineered system diversity—in which deployed systems were sufficiently similar to be interoperable, yet sufficiently diverse to essentially be resistant to large-scale attacks.
only a very small fraction of the universities that do support such programs can be regarded as first-rate universities.
One additional attribute of this R&D infrastructure would be desirable, though the committee has few good ideas on how to achieve it. The success of the nation's R&D enterprise in IT (as well as in other fields) rests in no small part on the ability of researchers to learn from each other in a relatively free and open intellectual environment. Constraining the openness of that environment (e.g., by requiring that research be classified or by forbidding certain research from being undertaken) would
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have obvious negative consequences for researchers and the creation of new knowledge. On the other hand, keeping counterterrorist missions in mind, the free and open dissemination of information has potential costs as well, because terrorists may obtain information that they can use against us. Historically, these competing interests have been "balanced"—with more of one in exchange for less of the other. But the committee believes (or at least hopes) that there are other ways of reconciling the undeniable tension, and calls for some thought to be given to a solution to this dilemma that does not demand such a trade-off. If such a solution can be found, it should be a design characteristic of the R&D infrastructure.
A comment on the counterterrorist research program is that successfully addressing the privacy and confidentiality issues that arise in counterterrorism efforts will be critical for the deployment of many information technologies. This area is so important that research in the area itself is necessary and should be a fundamental component of the work in virtually all of the other areas described in this report.
Finally, it is the belief of the committee that an R&D infrastructure with the characteristics presented above has the best chance of delivering successfully on the complex research problems described in this report. The committee is not arguing for unlimited latitude to undertake research that is driven primarily by intellectual curiosity, but rather for a program focused on the specific national needs described in this report that can look beyond immediate deliverables. More detailed research agendas should be forthcoming from the agencies responsible for implementing the broad research program described in this report.
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Thanks for the detailed review. It has been said the mobs will be activated for release, and if this is your only main gripe, then that's good news indeed. Time will tell however. |
Nice to see that the bad things can be fixed in due time. I'd like to see animations to get a touch up, for sure. I think it would've been a double edged sword to delay the game. Can you imagine the bandwagon trolls demolishing any credit the game initially had? Bleh. I really want to see how they're doing a few months after release. |
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Come now good reveiw, and i agree on many issues youve focused on, I think your easy on the crafting... Three days to make 1000 arrows that id burn in an hour.. thats hard..you need wood boards and iron ingots. 15 sec timer to pull one peice of ore or wood, or a reagent and not a peice of ore or wood... plus fails, then processing, 5 ore make 2 ingots or 5 lumber makes 2 wood boards plus fails... 30-40 ore or lumber per node limit then you have to move on, hoping you dont get pked..banking often before yuo get to 100 peices... then most items cost gold along with the resource... Its a hell of a hard grind that shouldnt be such a chore for a full loot game especially when you can walk out of town and get owned quick if you in the wrong place at the wrong time. and lose everything. And you know its damn likely to happen. Still, thats my bitch about df, excellent post mate. |
I can tell you that the early videos i saw gave away everything ,i did not need this review to already know what the game was doing.The ONLY thing i knew nothing of was crafting and AV said EVERYTHING would be crafted. They also said there WILL be elite bosses /EPIC gear,so you did not see them,they will or are there,this same gear i doubt will be craftable. Many are probably missing the big picture on magic use.The reason IMO that it is so weak at low levels is because it is ranged and gives an obvious advantage to melee.I would bet that as you get it to a reasonablke high level it probably will over power any melee otr at least become a btter option than trading blows back n forth. The op is also missing out on the obvious that was sort of explained by Tasos,there will NOT be any more mobs,their client can not handle it,the lack of NPC's was also already known and again will not be any better as time goes by. Personally i have no idea how they plan on implementing this game into the future,i see it as possibly never improving,what you see now is what you will get forever.As for crashes ,whatever i might let the OP know i had zero crashes in Vanguard or AOC,only once got stuck in Vanguard,but being a MUCH more aggressive game in every aspect ,you would expect soemthing somewhere to go wrong.The fact that DF has very little content and the world is for the most part barren,there is no real strain on your GPU/memory to cause any crashes.The combat as i watched was also VERY basic,one constant hammer swing by the melee,only the one animation over and over and the over the shoulder view was bland and very low poly,again no strain on the system. The OP did not comment on the view distance as videos varied in that respect,the ones i watched from leaked player videos showed a rather short view distance as compared to say VG for example. When the OP says you pretty much PVP or craft,that is EXACTLY what i expected from this game.such a small developer could never complete massive content as expected from SOE or Square Enix.Not that it is a knock on AV as ANY game predominantly surrounded by a PVP plot will be a superficial game with not much purpose in playing outside of PVP. Personally i was mildly interested in the game from a PVE perspective,but after watching some leaked videos,it looked bland and really has nothing to offer PVE players.I agree wit hthe OP 100% when says the mob aggro distance needs to be fixed,as that would ruin the gaming experience big time knowing you are always the prey never the predator when comes to mobs,even at that,they always seem to be using ranged to stay hidden for a period of time.I would bet it is also impossible to camp out ,expecting a mob to wander by you so that you could surprise it,they are probably stationary or would aggro you anyhow ,as soon as you are in a certain pre set range. I am really not sure what Aventurine thought their game is offering that is anything different or better than all other PVP MMO's,all i see is same old and in some areas an even weaker experience.My suggestion get rid of all these PVPMMO's and get back to the routes of making Baldur's gate/Wizardry/Might n Magic/Ultima[w/o PVP]/Everquest type games.I know the people are bored of it,but that is because the developers are looking for the easy way to do things so the games are becoming copies and nothing unique has been brought forth,FFXI is the ONLY game i have seen to bring in thoughtfull ideas,everyone else is just copying boring old ideas. http://www.youtube.com/user/Napolianboo#p/u/15/rCYLLQCNc1w |
I have a question about the the lack of high end PVe Encounters. Has anyone killed that dragon ? -Darkstar |
Originally posted by Wizardry So do you like PvP? |
Originally posted by Darkstar111 I know of 1 dragon thats been killed but most likely it's not the one showed on youtube. took 3 player a couple of hours to down him. |
While I agree with much of what you said here, I don't agree with everything. I believe there is a fair amount of mobs for a beta test. I wandered here and there all over the map and found just random things. I found these little brownie bastards that were as big as a flower out in a field that attacked the hell out of me even though I couldn't find them until it was too late, demons on the top of a volcano on a southern island, this CRAZY spire mountain with minotaurs and all sorts of stuff. I would like to see all sorts of fluff animals in the wilderness, but I don't know why there isn't any. Check out this screenshot of that spire. pretty amazing if you ask me, you could even scale to the very top fighting extreme mobs along the way, it was like a dungeon of sorts. |
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Originally posted by Darkstar111
The other dragon have been killed. It took three hours. |
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Joined: 11/07/08 "War isn''t about dieing for your country; It''s about making your enemy die for theirs." - G.Patton |
I'm very happy now, knowing this game isn't false or vaporware. I wish there was a free version/trial debuting at well. But, there's not. So, I'll wait until the NA release to give it a shot. Love the way the combat looks, the crafting, the sandbox. Loving it. ____________________________ "I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but I know World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein |
Originally posted by ste2000 Il comment you on these issues as it seems you lack experience in the PVE content or you just been hugging the towers. (the other aspects of the game you seem to explain well enough so il just comment the PVE) PVE Content: There are alot of camps for PVEe's and i would say alot more than most games. The most parts are not for Solo play if your a beginner rather you need to get a group and head off to the wild, I have personally seen maybe hundreds of diffrent camps with mobs in them and some are doable solo, some you need a small group and some you need 10 players or more. These camps are ofc not located 2 steps outside the city, you will need to travel and sometimes for an hour even just to get to the place you seek. Agon is so huge that during my beta about 2 weeks of play i have only seen maybe 15-20% of Agon. Quests: Very few quests indeed, to some are repeatble and you get a quick buck early on. MOB Population: As stated above you need to travel to the camps, and there are hundreds of mob camps. Bosses and group encounters: 90% of all camps are group encounters, unless your a very skilled player can even solo some, but most camps are quite hard and a 3-5 man team is whats needed. Several dungeaons and bosses spread around AGON for bigger raids also. I hope that cleared some things since the lack of review from poster. PS. The camps are very nice spots to jump other groups to steal their loot. |
It is very obvious that some things are still turned off, like some raid bosses (chain + platform in the middle of the map). Also I like pvp and pve and I have enjoyed the pve in darkfall, even though I know that it is not fully turned on yet. Please remember the devs have stated MULTIPLE times that the beta we are playing =/ release client. |
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I found the quests very, very limited in appeal and very few. Human start area sucks for quests bad. They are ok themselves and presented in an ordinary fashion, rewards are standard. I liked how some got you into crafting, but it is all progressive based. Do 1 to open 2 to open 3.
Good to see both sides of a review now that the NDA is lifted. Hope the game does well. I'll wait for a free trial b4 trying the game and other reviewrs opinions 1st though. Played : WOW, LOTRO, COH/COV, EQ2, SWG, and WAR. |
Originally posted by daarco
The other dragon have been killed. It took three hours. I have my doubts about that report, we newer saw any screenshots... --- |
Originally posted by strongaxe use != i thought it was a |
Refering to mob population. There was a day when MMO's weren't covered by mobs at every turn. You could actually avoid mobs and get somewhere without having to run or fight everything on the way. This is fine in a linear game but in a sandbox(PvP) style game you would go ape shit pretty quick. Sent me an email if you want me to mail you some pizza rolls. |
Thank you... decent review. |
Im having a blast in-game this is the first fantasy themed MMO Ive ever played and the mechanics are just what I needed :) there are some things that need to be addressed before release but its been said that from here to release 3-4 giant patches will be implemented into the game turning on everything addresing exploits which they have done well so far. Heres a pic of a bunch of us going to seige a city there was a lot more but cant get everyone on screen :P And for those that have seen me post before this is where I have been. |


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