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In an effort to improve the security and reliability of software, Carnegie Mellon University has joined forces with federal agencies, technology companies, and others to form the Sustainable Computing Consortium (SCC). "We have a broad scope, from developing methodology, tools, specifications and standards to public policy recommendations," explains Ken Jacobs of SCC member Oracle. The organization's goal is to build business practices for software creation and devise tools to test software for glitches and security holes. SCC director Bill Guttman says the consortium will work out an agenda this summer; thus far, $30 million in funding has been poured into the organization. He notes that SCC members can freely use whatever technology is developed from the initiative--at least internally. However, they must pay a royalty to Carnegie Mellon if they wish to add the technology to their products. This has made the open-source software community uneasy, and Guttman says the organization is "engaged in discussions" to smooth out any wrinkles. Other SCC members include Cisco Systems, Pfizer, Merck, NASA, and Microsoft.
Moore's Law could end in as little as 10 years, and many people believe nanotechnology is the key to extending its life. A key nanotech development that IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and others are working on is self-assembling nanoscale transistors; IBM recently created a double gate transistor that IBM Research's Thomas Theis believes will be a major milestone. Speaking at the Nanotech Planet Spring 2002 conference, Theis said, "[Self-assembly] will enable more efficient and vastly less expensive manufacturing processes." HP has also made a self-assembling transistor that features parallel wires linked by a quantum switch. The wires form spontaneously when a material placed on a silicon substrate is heated, according to HP Labs fellow and Nanotech Planet speaker R. Stanley Williams. He anticipates that the first commercial nanoelectronic products will debut in about five years, while Theis thinks that sensors built on silicon chips will be the first such devices to proliferate widely. Theis goes on to predict that logic and memory devices will start to be supplanted by nanotech in a little more than a decade, while it could be 20 to 50 years before microelectronics is replaced by nanoelectronics. In order for this to happen, nanotech must receive adequate funding from both the federal and private sectors.
D.C. politicians and lobbyists toasted the health of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) at a celebration on Thursday, praising its success at curtailing piracy and encouraging innovation. "Creativity--and the economy--thrive when copyrights are strong," argued Business Software Alliance President Robert Holleyman. "The DMCA is proof of that." Other DMCA proponents at the celebration included Motion Picture Association of America President Jack Valenti, Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters, Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), and Hilary Rosen of the Recording Industry Association of America. The turnout at the reception demonstrated that content owners draw a lot of water in Washington. Meanwhile, the DMCA continues to come under fire for allegedly stifling creativity and fair use: Its prohibition on the bypassing of anti-copying technology has led to lawsuits against people and organizations for distributing such services. For example, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday said it would not revisit an earlier ruling that 2600 magazine had broken the law by offering DVD decoding technology. Movie studios want to further anti-piracy measures by making the installation of copy-protection technology in most hardware and software a requirement.
An online privacy bill has been stalled in the Senate Commerce Committee by Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.), who has objected strongly to provisions allowing consumers to sue over infringement and releasing offline companies from the rules. Although the solid Democratic bloc on the committee is likely to guarantee that the bill will make it to the Senate floor for a vote, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) warned that it would be mired in debate because of the controversial points. The bill, sponsored by Sen. Ernest F. Hollings (D-S.C.), allows individual lawsuits against online companies that gather and share personal information, but would exclude offline firms from the same liability. Republicans want the lawsuit provision waived and the rules to extend to offline companies as well. Democrats are likely to pursue the debate because it would put Republicans in a compromising position in regards to privacy protections, costing them political points with consumers.
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Dell Computer, the world's No. 2 PC vendor, will release the details of its PC recycling program within a few days, according to spokesman Bryant Hilton. The new program would provide another option for Dell customers. Under the DellExchange system, in operation since late 2000, consumers can trade in old computers or monitors, auction them off, or donate them to nonprofits. The effort is an attempt to staunch the flow of electronic waste containing toxic substances that can leak into the environment. Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition executive director Ted Smith notes that Dell's nonparticipation in the National Electronic Product Stewardship Initiative (NEPSI) is "a major focus of contention." NEPSI is trying to set up a national electronics recycling infrastructure, and is discussing the possibility of embedding recycling costs in the purchase of new PCs, TVs, and computer peripherals. Other electronics vendors, such as IBM and Hewlett-Packard, charge fees to consumers who wish to exercise their recycling option. The Calvert mutual fund company has put forward a proposal for Dell to take more responsibility for recycling discarded computers, which could come up for a vote at Dell's annual shareholder conference in July. Calvert environmental analyst Julie Frieder says that if Dell can prove that it can furnish a feasibility study that fulfills Calvert's needs, then the proposal might be withdrawn.
Teaching search engines to customize their results for users would solve a lot of headaches, according to David Plotnikoff, whose theory was inspired by a special report on the adaptive Web in the May issue of Communications of the ACM. He envisions a search engine that monitors the user's smallest activities, assembles a history database of all viewed pages, and automatically notes similarities between relevant pages so it can pattern the user's search habits. XML data within the history database would note specific content traits that help the search engine determine relevance. Plotnikoff suggests that search engine developers could take their cue from e-commerce efforts such as Amazon.com's collaborative filtering software, which re-tunes the product selections the Web site offers to consumers based on their preferences. He believes the key to crafting a teachable search engine is processing a vast amount of meta-tags and cached Web pages with brute-force computing. However, one of the drawbacks is that the engine would essentially be making guesses, a function that today's computers are ill-equipped to carry out.
Using artificial intelligence, MIT scientists are able to convincingly doctor videos of people so that they speak words and sentences they never actually said. MIT team leader Tony F. Ezzat explains that the computer studies between two to four minutes of video to capture the mouth and face's full range of motion, combining the images into facial expressions. By analyzing the video, the machine learns how the subject expresses each individual sound. To produce a face to go with a new sound, the computer superimposes a virtual mouth area onto the face, according to a project document. The retooled video is so realistic that viewers cannot tell whether the clips are authentic or computer-generated, according to the researchers. The method is limited--the person on the video must remain still and face the camera, and no new audio is generated. But MIT team member Tomaso Poggio says the technology could be refined to handle moving heads positioned at any angle. The commercial prospects for the technique include video games and film special effects, but scientists warn that it could also be used for fraudulent purposes, such as discrediting or embarrassing people with doctored footage, or having well-known figures make unauthorized product endorsements.
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A Stanford University-based online clearinghouse where creative people can contribute selected works will be launched on Thursday; artists could share the donated material without obtaining permission from and paying royalties to copyright owners. The Creative Commons, as it is known, is seen as a counter-agent to strict intellectual property laws that Stanford law professor Lawrence Lessig says are choking innovation. Almost $900,000 has been raised by the Creative Commons, its chief contributor being the nonprofit Center for the Public Domain. Among the organizations that have promised material and administrative support to the project are the Electronic Frontier Foundation, O'Reilly and Associates, and the Internet Archive and Prelinger Archives. Creative Commons executive director Molly S. Van Houweling says startup bands and relatively unknown authors could use the clearinghouse as a platform for their works, while more well-known creators could contribute material that would help noncommercial projects. Contributors to the commons retain ownership of their works and are free to sell them outside the commons.
The Electrochemical Society of Philadelphia is celebrating its centenary this week, with approximately 2,000 chemists, engineers, physicists, and Silicon Valley innovators convening to discuss the issues and challenges of the day. One such challenge is to devise cleaner processes to generate energy and manufacture goods. A century ago at the founding of the society, the major issues concerned battery design, plating metals, and chemical manufacturing. Many trend-setting technologies--television sets, laptops, and Palm Pilots among them--would not have been possible without electrochemistry. Conference attendee and speaker Carver Mead of the California Institute of Technology predicts that in three decades silicon chips will have shrunk to the point where they can be significantly affected by quantum mechanics. He expects new technologies to come to the fore once silicon's threshold has been reached, among them: Carbon nanotubes, optical computing, ultrasmall transistors, and systems that function much like the human brain.
Napster may be on its last legs, but the peer-to-peer (P2P) technology it popularized is thriving, as evidenced at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference. For instance, Onion Networks has unveiled a P2P "content-addressable Web" that offers people at the network edge an easy, cheap way to distribute large files. Onion CTO Justin Chapweske says the technology will be offered free to open-source and public-domain projects, as a way "to give something back to the open-source community." Meanwhile, Stanford Law School professor Lawrence Lessig is helping initiate Creative Commons, an organization that will provide a database of works contributed by people who wish to share certain creations with others. For now, the organization is developing technology that lets people license their work on their own terms. Others who wish to use such work will be able to easily search for it on the Creative Commons database. Creative Commons will premiere at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference on Thursday; on hand will be 15-year-old Aaron Swartz, who is developing the software that will bring the database to life.
"'Dork' Duo Finally Get Noticed"
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The hacker group known as "The Deceptive Duo" is responsible for defacing many public- and private-sector Web sites in an effort to bring the electronic infrastructure's vulnerability to the attention of the nation, but it may have worked too well. One member of the duo, 18-year-old Robert Lyttle, has been placed under house arrest following an FBI raid that involved the seizure of his computers as well as those of his partner in crime, a hacker known as "The-Rev." Lyttle, whose hacker name is "Pimpshiz," was arrested for defacing over 100 Web sites two years ago, and received two years' probation. The duo claimed that they carried out their assaults in the name of patriotism, and the need to strengthen the country's critical systems from enemy cyberattacks. However, security experts and other members of the hacker community believe the duo is either misguided or merely showboating. "Jericho" of the security Web site attrition.org dismisses Lyttle as "one of those dorks that think getting popped for hacking is a path to a good job." Companies and agencies whose sites were defaced by the duo include NASA, the FAA, the Gartner Group, Midwest Airlines, and the Department of Transportation.
Analysts believe a trio of trends--mobile hard drives, fuel cells, and global roaming--could make a significant impact in the wireless sector. Gartner's Phil Redman forecasts that practically all mobile computing and consumer applications that need at least 1 GB of storage space will be equipped with miniature hard-disk drives within eight years. What is more, he expects 1-inch mini drives to be able to store up to 10 GB by 2005, while 1.8-inch mini drives will boast maximum capacity of 30 GB. Redman also believes fuel cells that rely on chemical rather than electrical power will become an important component in mobile consumer devices, once safer technology is developed. He projects that refuelable cells will hit niche markets in 2005 and become embedded in about 30 percent of mobile devices by 2010. Meanwhile, Yankee Group analyst David Berndt sees much potential in global roaming--in fact, he believes users will one day be able to make mobile phone calls from just about any location that is serviced by a wireless operator, via subscriber identity module (SIM) cards. These trends, while important, are often overshadowed by well-known technologies such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and 3G.
The convergence of IT strategy and business goals will continue until 25 percent of Global 2000 firms can form virtual project teams on an as-needed basis by 2007, according to the META Group. This dynamic structuring and restructuring in the workforce will make employee training and management all the more important, says the META Group. Highly-skilled workers are increasingly in demand, thus keeping IT workers' skills sets current is vital; for example, software engineers have a half-life of 18 months, say some professors. Whereas an average IT worker currently receives 40 hours of training annually, companies are finding that the resources invested in their best-performing employees yield tremendous results. As a result, the best workers at Global 2000 firms will receive an annual average of 80 hours of training by 2005. Conversely, IT organizations will jettison marginally performing workers while increasing their hiring standards, providing less skills training for new hires. Skills gap analysis, development plans, and measuring personality to fit with the company's culture and goals are all important to leveraging what will be IT firms' most important asset--human capital.
Voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) technology promises to merge data and voice networks, cutting costs for large organizations while increasing functionality by transmitting voice calls in digital packets over converged networks along with emails and Web pages. Even as the technology becomes more advanced and robust, current users tout VOIP's capabilities, including voice mails that can be accessed through an email inbox, and voice connections that offer simultaneous online document collaboration or videoconferencing. Dan Mangelsdorf of Nortel, one of the leaders in VOIP technology, says he was able to tap his company's intranet while on a business trip from Australia, check messages, and answer and make calls as if from his office in North Carolina. However, Forrester Research says just 13 percent of the 693 companies it recently surveyed are installing or using VOIP technology, although many companies are interested in the technology. Forrester analysts say corporate adoption is slow because existing circuit-switch voice networks work fine and are more reliable, even if they are more expensive. Forrester analyst Maribel Dolinov says VOIP technology is "still not as good as the existing circuit-switch network." Still, Bell Canada's Charles Salameh predicts VOIP will eventually take over not only in the business sector, but in home use as well, as home networks emerge. Salameh says one possibility is that users could see who is calling while watching television, because a video box would pop up with the caller's live video feed.
As the global semiconductor sector bounces back from recession, India's major technology companies are seeking out workers with expertise in chip software and hardware development. Among those trolling for such candidates, as evidenced by want-ads in Wednesday's Times of India, are Honeywell, Intel, Alliance Semiconductor, Infosys, Sasken, and Satyam Computer Services. "Embedded systems has been a focus area for us even in the downturn last year and we continue to add and train people in this area," says Wipro's Pratik Kumar. Gartner expects global semiconductor revenue to grow 3 percent in 2002; last year, revenue fell 31 percent because of chip surpluses, slackening economies, and too much investment in telecoms infrastructure. Analysts also believe the Indian tech workforce will benefit from a flood of native engineers returning from the United States as a result of last year's economic implosion. As of March, India's software services exports had risen 29 percent in the past year, and industry officials anticipate a 30 percent gain this year.
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The Sept. 11 attacks and the U.S. government's response highlight the increasingly critical nature of how organizations manage information. What is evident from both the hijackers' standpoint and the military operation in Afghanistan is that the hardware is taken for granted--how information is used is more important. Information available on the Web, in flight simulators, and manuals gave the hijackers the tools they needed to carry out their plan, while the Allied forces in Afghanistan relied primarily on precise information coordinated from ground troops, GPS devices, and other networked mechanisms. Since the attacks, government leaders have made tremendous efforts to make use of existing data, linking databases and networks in order to add depth of meaning to their information: The Immigration and Naturalization Service, for example, is merging its database of criminals and fingerprints together with the FBI. The U.S. Customs Service is piloting a cross-checking system in Arizona that automatically flags suspicious vehicles crossing the border based on data from state and federal registries and previous crossing information. And the Joint Forces Command at the Pentagon is testing a system that would link a minimal deployment of personnel to remote specialist centers that can be called on ad hoc--similar to outsourcing in the business world. Besides military and security functions, managing information promises great yields in the civilian sector, where bureaucracy is being challenged to change from linear to parallel processes. Instead of documents and projects being passed up the chain of command in a paper-based system, they can be put online and collaborated on simultaneously.
Sun Microsystems' open source guru, Richard P. Gabriel, also heads the Feyerabend Project, which is dedicated to making computer programming and software more robust and adaptable. When code was being written for the first computers, programming talent was relatively cheap in comparison with the cost of the hardware--today, the opposite is true. The Feyerabend Project is named after Paul Feyerabend, a philosopher who noted that it was always necessary in at least one circumstance to ignore or adopt philosophies in contrary to an established scientific rule. Gabriel says that thinking, when applied to computer programming, means systems should be built to respond automatically to disruptions and return back to their normal state. He adds that programmers need to think how to harness the massive computing power available to them to make their job easier, as well as being more responsive to end users through processes such as extreme programming, where coders and users interact while applications are in development. Some of the projects Gabriel is currently working on include a rule-based version of Microsoft Word that would attach a number of rules to each entry of data, so that information would be easily incorporated with other data created using the same rules. He says the project is a proof-of-concept work that would show it is possible to get computers to actually help with the task of programming.
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Microsoft Research founder and multimillionaire Nathan Myhrvold has embarked on an ambitious undertaking at his Intellectual Ventures firm: The Invention Factory, a collective of inventors recruited to brainstorm projects in numerous fields, including biotechnology, distributed computing, and business processes. "We want to create new stuff, either evolutionary or revolutionary stuff," Myhrvold declares. License fees and royalties would be split between the inventors and the company, while Myhrvold and partner Edward Jung hope to make the joy of inventing a prime attraction for its cadre of innovators. Their hopes are that the Invention Factory will profit from the American economy entering what Myhrvold calls the "fourth stage" of innovation, when "organized lone inventing" is enjoying a resurgence thanks to copious funding and many information tools being available to inventors. The Invention Factory will primarily be targeted to the dozens of independent inventors who already own lucrative patents but have not started their own companies; it will offer them access to a comprehensive legal and support infrastructure and group them on specific projects to increase the chances of a breakthrough. Myhrvold says the Invention Factory will not be an incubator of Silicon Valley-type startups, since it would be too expensive and take focus away from inventing. Professional Inventors Alliance President Ronald J. Riley says the success of Myhrvold and Jung's venture will be difficult to achieve, since it usually takes five to 10 years for solid patents to turn into profits. Furthermore, he adds, some inventors may balk that their independence is being encroached
Developers of the low-power, short-range ultrawideband (UWB) wireless technology envision many uses for it, including the transmission of wireless data between networks of portable electronic devices, motion detection, and location triangulation. The carrierless technology has the potential to handle more users by cutting power and distance, just as cellular telephony did. UWB could pave the way for revolutionary electronic devices, such as mass-storage units that can download films wirelessly, or 3D eyeglasses that provide streaming video input or interactive games. Engineers project that these gadgets will be less expensive, more compact, and consume less power than current narrowband radio devices. Key to UWB's success will be its spatial capacity, especially as the congestion of broadband users in airports, workplaces, and other public areas increases. Another attractive property of UWB is its low radiation output. There is concern that UWB could interfere with narrowband systems because the intermittent pulses that comprise UWB emissions use the same frequency as conventional radio services; but UWB receivers are more likely to be interfered with by other emitters until designers can boost their jamming resistance. The FCC approved of the use of UWB communications applications, provided they had "incidental radiation" power limits of between 3.1 and 10.6 GHz.
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Brind School, Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Kimmel Center Present 'Time Machine' at PIFA
Ambitious theater collaboration features UArts students, alumna April 24 – 26 during Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts
April 15, 2013
The Ira Brind School of Theater Arts at the University of the Arts has partnered with Philadelphia Young Playwrights (PYP) and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts to present "Time Machine," an original work developed over the past semester at UArts.
This ambitious project will have its world premiere during the 2013 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA) April 24 – 26 in the Kimmel Center Innovation Studio (300 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia). Tickets are $10 and can be purchased online at PIFA.org or by calling 215-546-PIFA (7432).
"Time Machine" was developed in the Brind School's new "Approaches to Multi-Generational Theater-Making" class, where UArts students worked with area high school students and professional theater artists throughout the semester. The class is taught by Senior Lecturer Glen Knapp, who is also executive producing director at PYP, and Master Lecturer David Bradley, who directs the production.
Participating UArts students include Steven Albitz '13 (Acting), Cheyenne Barboza '13 (Directing, Playwriting & Production), Molly Barron '14 (Directing, Playwriting & Production), Christiane Boren '16 (Directing, Playwriting & Production), Joshua Campbell '14 (Directing, Playwriting & Production), David Hutchison '13 (Acting), Ainye Johnson '13 (Acting), Tess Kunik '13 (Acting), exchange student Jiwon Lee (Directing, Playwriting & Production), Amy Martin '14 (Theater Design & Technology), Anthony Martinez-Briggs '13 (Acting), Theresa Mittelman '16 (Directing, Playwriting & Production), Rachel Sampley '14 (Theater Design & Technology), Katherine Shelly '16 (Directing, Playwriting & Production), Katrina Shobe '16 (Directing, Playwriting & Production) and Aria Velz '14 (Directing, Playwriting & Production).
Brind School alumna Aimé Kelly BFA '09 (Acting) serves as a teaching artist and performer.
PIFA is a month-long, city-wide arts festival produced by the Kimmel Center that celebrates innovation, collaboration and creativity with over 50 arts and cultural organizations presenting multidisciplinary artistic interpretations of new works, classical performances and exhibits. The 2013 thematic focus, "If You Had a Time Machine…," takes audiences on a journey through time to experience the convergence of art, culture and history in artistic interpretations of great defining moments that continue to influence society today.
Above: Pictured during class are (l-r) faculty member David Bradley, director, "Time Machine"; Abigail Adams, artistic director, People's Light & Theatre Company; UArts student Rachel Sampley '14 (Theater Design & Technology), lighting designer, "Time Machine"; and UArts students Amy Martin '14 (Theater Design & Technology), Theresa (Terry) Mittelman '16 (Directing, Playwriting & Production) and Ainye Johnson '13 (Acting).


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ARIA (Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia).
ARIA+ is widely accepted as Australia's most authoritative geographic measure of remoteness.
ARIA and its successors ARIA+ and ARIA++, are indexes of remoteness derived from measures of road distances between populated localities and Service Centres. These road distance measures are then used to generate a remoteness score for any location in Australia.
ARIA+ is the standard Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) endorsed measure of remoteness. ARIA+ forms the basis for the ABS "Remoteness Structure" component of the Australian Standard Geographical Classification and continues to be utilised for the "Remoteness Structure" component of the Australian Statistical Geography Standard.
What is ARIA?
ARIA+, like its predecessor ARIA, is an unambiguously geographical approach to defining remoteness. ARIA+ is a continuous varying index with values ranging from 0 (high accessibility) to 15 (high remoteness), based on road distance measurements from over 12,000 populated localities to the nearest Service Centres in five categories based on population size. The five distance measurements, one to each level of Service Centre, is recorded for each populated locality and standardized to a ratio. The ratio is calculated by dividing the measured distance for a given locality by the Australian average (mean) for that category. After applying a threshold of three to each of the ratios, all ratios are summed to produce the ARIA+ score for each populated locality across Australia.
An interpolation procedure is then used to derive the index values for each of the localities to a 1 km grid so that all areas of Australia are able to be assigned an index value. Using the interpolated grid surface, scores for larger areas such as SA1, SA2, LGAs, etc.., can be derived.
The major advantages of ARIA over other methods of measuring remoteness are;
- it is a purely geographic measure of remoteness, which excludes any consideration of socio-economic status, 'rurality' and populations size factors (other than the use of breaks in the population distribution of Urban Centres to define the Service Centre categories);
- it is flexible and can be aggregated to a range of spatial units, used as a continuum or classified;
- its methodology is conceptually clear;
- it is precise; and
- it is relatively stable over time.
As a comparable index of remoteness that covers the whole of Australia, ARIA provides a measure of remoteness that is suitable for a broad range of applications including assisting in service planning, demographic analysis and resource allocation.
Although ARIA+ provides a measure of accessibility and remoteness for the whole of Australia, including metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas, the principal focus of the index has been to quantify accessibility in non-metropolitan Australia. This is not to deny the importance of service access issues within major urban areas, but a detailed analysis of accessibility within urban areas is believed better served by a dedicated methodology - Metro ARIA.
Brief Methodology
ARIA+ - (Accessibility/Remoteness Index of Australia Plus) measures remoteness in terms of access along the road network from populated localities to each of five categories of Service Centre. Localities that are more remote have less access to Service Centres; those that are less remote have greater access to Service Centres.
Populated Localities - these are based on AUSLIGs (now Geoscience Australia) 'Populated Centres' and supplemented with some additional populated towns from the AUSLIG gazetteer and other mapping sources. Localities were only added to the database if they were known to be populated. There are over 12,000 populated localities in the 2011 ARIA+ database.
If one thinks of ARIA as based on the distances people have to travel to obtain services, then populated localities are where they are coming from, and Service Centres are where they are going to.
Service Centres - are populated localities where the population is greater than 1,000 persons (greater than 200 in the case of ARIA++). The Urban Centre/Locality structure from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has been used to define the extent and population of these areas.
The table below shows the population break points that were used to group Urban Centres into the five Service Centre categories. The ARIA+ analysis considers over 700 Services Centres in determining remoteness values across Australia. These Service Centres are a subset of the 12,000+ populated localities.
In instances where the ABS defined Urban Centres are split by a state border, such as in the case of Albury and Wodonga, the population and spatial extents for each of these Urban Centres have been combined and treated as one Service Centre.
|Service Centre Category
|Urban Centre Population
|250,000 persons or more
|48,000 - 249,999 persons
|18,000 - 47,999 persons
|5,000 - 17,999 persons
|1,000 - 4,999 persons
|F (ARIA++ only)
|200 - 999 persons
Index Derivation
The ARIA+ methodology regards services as concentrated into Service Centres. Populated localities with populations of greater than 1,000 persons are considered to contain at least some basic level of services (for example health, education, or retail), and as such these towns and localities are regarded as Service Centres. Those Service Centres with larger populations are assumed to contain a greater level of service provision.
The road distance from each of the 12,000+ populated localities to the boundary of the nearest Service Centre in each category was calculated. This calculation resulted in five distance measurements being recorded for each populated locality, one for each Service Centre. Populated towns within a Service Centre (based on ABS-defined Urban Centre boundaries) in the relevant category were given a distance value of zero for that category. Each distance value was divided by the Australian average (mean) for that category in order to derive a standardised (or ratio) value. Distance measurements are standardised so that large distance measurements would not overwhelm the effect of the other distance measurements.
Each ratio value is thresholded at three (i.e. three times the Australian mean) to remove the effects of any remaining extreme values from the index. All towns with a ratio value higher than three for a given category are considered 'remote' in terms of access to that category, and were given a value for that category equal to the threshold. For each populated locality, the standardized value from each of the five Service Centre categories is summed to produce an overall index value ranging between 0 and 15. The lower the value, the greater the access to services
Example ARIA+ Calculation
The example below shows how the ARIA+ 2011 score for Pine Creek is calculated (Please note: rounding has been applied for the purpose of this example).
The locality of Pine Creek in the Northern Territory is:
- 2,819 km from the nearest Category A Service Centre (Adelaide)
- 212 km from the nearest Category B Service Centre (Darwin)
- 212 km from the nearest Category C Service Centre (Darwin)*
- 92 km from the nearest Category D Service Centre (Katherine)
- 92 km from the nearest Category E Service Centre (Katherine)**
Next, divide by national average for each category:
- Its Category A score is 2,819 / 418 (national average for category A) = 6.74 {exceeds threshold so score = 3.00}
- Its Category B score is 212 / 217 = 0.98
- Its Category C score is 212 / 132= 1.61
- Its Category D score is 92 / 84 = 1.10
- Its Category E score is 92 / 47 = 1.96
The ARIA score is thus 3.00 + 0.98 + 1.61 + 1.10 + 1.96 = 8.65
* There were no Category C Service Centres closer to Pine Creek than Darwin, so Darwin functions as both the closest Class B and Class C centre.
** There were no Category E Service Centres closer to Pine Creek than Katherine, so Katherine functions as both the closest Class D and Class E centre
Interpolating ARIA Scores to Generate a Continuous Remoteness Surface
The ARIA values for all populated localities are then spatially interpolated to form a grid of 1km cells across the whole of Australia. This grid enabled remoteness to be expressed continuously over the total land area. In addition, it allows ARIA values to be calculated (by summation of 1km grid cells) for any statistical geography, including SA1's, Statistical Local Areas, and Local Government Areas.


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Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
Milan, 1571-Porto Ercole, 1610
Michelangelo Merisi, known as Caravaggio, was the son of Fermo Merisi, who was in the service of Francesco Sforza Colonna. He trained with Simone Peterzano in Milan, where he is documented in 1584. In 1592 he was in Rome where he frequented the studio of the Cavaliere d'Arpino and that of Antiveduto Grammatica. In 1594 the artist met his first patron, Cardinal Del Monte, for whom he painted a number of works including The Head of Medusa (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence) and The Fortune Teller (Pinacoteca Capitolina, Rome). Caravaggio's first important commission was for the canvases on the life of Saint Matthew in the Contarelli chapel in San Luigi dei Francesci (1599–1600), followed by those for Santa Maria del Popolo (1600–1). The pronounced realism of these series and their use of an intense chiaroscuro made a profound impression on the Roman art world due to their highly innovative nature. During his time in Rome Caravaggio painted The Burial of Christ (Pinacoteca Vaticana), The Virgin of Loreto (church of Sant'Agostino), The Virgin of the Palafrenieri (Galleria Borghese) and The Death of the Virgin (Musée du Louvre, Paris). The artist worked for some of the most important patrons of the day including the Marquis Vincenzo Giustiniani, Cardinal Scipione Borghese, and the banker Ottavio Costa. However, many of his works were not well received and were rejected. In general Caravaggio was not held in high esteem, probably due to his supposed lack of decorum and his constant problems with the legal authorities. In 1606, following a serious incident, the artist was condemned to death. He fled from Rome and moved to Naples where his work made a profound impact. From then on Caravaggio lived as a fugitive from justice. In 1607 he is documented in Malta, where he was protected by Alof de Wignacourt, Grand Master of the Order of the Knights of Malta. While in Malta Caravaggio painted The Decapitation of Saint John the Baptist, which is his only signed work. He then moved to Sicily where he lived from 1608 to 1609 and painted The Raising of Lazarus in Messina and The Burial of Saint Lucy in Siracusa. In late 1609 Caravaggio returned to Naples where he died a few months later on the beach at Porto Ercole. Although he had no direct pupils, Caravaggio had numerous followers who disseminated his style throughout Italy and the rest of Europe. Echoes of his art can be detected in the work of Rembrandt and Velázquez.


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Mayor of Pimpri Chinchwad, Mrs. Mangala Kadam, alongwith
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PCMC. felicitated during the meeting.
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General Gameplay Tips for Lords Of WaterdeepHome / iPhone - iPad /
This page contains Lords Of Waterdeep Hints for iPhone - iPad called "General Gameplay Tips" and has been posted or updated on Dec 6, 2013 by fifachamp.
- Developer: Playdek, Inc.
- Publisher: Playdek, Inc.
- Genre: Action
- Release: Nov 21, 2013
- ESRB: Not Set
General Gameplay Tips
There are the kind of pursuits you will wish to focus on throughout the game. It can be an excellent technique to concentrate the majority of your attention on simply one sort of pursuit. If you get Durnan the Wanderer, who provides an incentive for Commerce and Warfare, you could focus on Warfare, which will mainly make use of fighters to hold out the missions.
Purchase a structure early on in the game. You get even more from structures the earlier you purchase them, so they are most useful in the first couple of rounds of the game. If there is a structure that grants travelers of the exact same type you'll require finishing pursuits for your Lord, purchasing it in the very early rounds can imply even more missions completed by the end of the game.
Some missions are best done rapidly. Just like the purchasing a structure early in the game idea, if you have a pursuit that gives a persisting incentive each round, such as the capability to play your agent in an area even if an additional agent has actually made use of that area, the pursuit can be rather important early on, and practically ineffective later on in the game.
Constantly determine success points. Eventually, triumph points are the key to winning. Travelers are worth one point, and you get one point for each 2 coins. You can utilize this formula to compute which pursuit offers the very best bang for the dollar. It has an expense of 6 triumph points if a mission needs 4 travelers and 4 coins. You just get 2 points for finishing the pursuit if it just provides 8 triumph points. You efficiently get 4 points for the mission if it provides 8 success points and 2 fighters.
Often, doing a pursuit beyond your Lord reward is worth it. This goes together with determining triumph points. Some missions have a reduced expense with simply a couple of travelers required and provide a reasonable quantity of triumph points, so if you see a pursuit that needs a crook, a fighter and a wizard and grants 8 points, do not bother with your Lord perk, simply go all out.
Offering travelers can be a bargain, however look out for the concealed catch. In some cases, you'll have the chance to offer some coin or a traveler to a fellow player for triumph points, based upon a specific Intrigue card being played. This can be well worth it for the right offer. One traveler relates to one success point, so being provided 5 success points for a priest is an obvious fact even if you require that priest for a pursuit. 4 triumph points for 4 coin isn't really so great when you think about a challenger is getting those coins. You could be obtaining 2 additional success points, however you are providing 2 success indicate a challenger.
Constantly take note of your challengers. That offer of 4 triumph points for 4 coins could be worth it to completion of the game if the individual providing you the offer is means behind in general triumph points. You'll likewise be asked to offer resources to a challenger after playing particular Intrigue cards. Understanding which sort of pursuits your challengers are pursuing can assist you select the very best player to get those resources. If a challenger is finishing Arcana missions, you do not desire to provide him a wizard!
Concentrate on the huge payout in the last couple of rounds. The preliminaries of the game are great for finishing missions with non-victory-point incentives, such as a plot pursuit that provides additional triumph points upon finishing even more pursuits of that type. At the end of the game, you desire to go for those 20 and 25 point benefits.
Cascading missions is the fastest course to triumph. Not all missions offer simply success points, some offer you back travelers. Finishing a mission that offers you 4 warriors and making use of those warriors to complete a 2nd pursuit is a great method to acquire a bunch of triumph points. This is much better than finishing that first mission and not understanding exactly what to do with all those warriors.
Do not forget about Waterdeep Harbor! Playing Intrigue cards is a great means to obtain "free" resources. Keep in mind, you get to reassign that agent at the end of the round, so you are not quiting resources to play the card. You may not get the resource you want, given that an additional player could go all out after you play your Intrigue card, however you will get something out of it. If you have to complete a mission, choose those resources at the start of the round, otherwise, playing a Intrigue card could be the much better step.
Missions, missions, missions. It is a game of missions, and the player with the very best pursuits will typically win. The "Reset Quests" choice in Cliffwatch Inn can be an effective step if you do not see a great mission on the board and do not such as those you have in your hand. Keep in mind to compute those success indicate find the very best mission, and keep in mind to count your Lord perk in the estimation.
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Calcutta: East Bengal coach Armando Colaco is not too happy with the fact that he will have to start the pre-season as early as June 18. The reason for the early start is IFA Shield, which is expected to begin mid-July.
"It will be tough for the players. Never in my coaching career I have had a pre-season so early. It will be raining and the grounds will not be in good condition.
"Also chances will be high that the players will get injured," Colaco, who renewed his contract with East Bengal on Sunday, said.
Colaco was also not pleased with the timing of the ISL. "The window is impractical. You cannot have a three-month tournament before the I-League. What if the players get injured?
"Suppose I spend a good amount on a marquee player and he gets injured while playing in ISL. What would I do then?
"Then when the I-League begins, the period will be so short that you may end up playing two-three matches a week. I am worried about my players and also the fixture congestion," he said.
Colaco said he will be trying out youngsters in the IFA Shield. "It will be a big chance for them. You have to give confidence to the youngsters. We have the AFC Cup also this season.
"So the senior players will need rest. I cannot afford to play them in IFA Shield at the beginning of the season and find them tired at the business end," he said.
But didn't Seimenlen Doungel, a youngster who got a lot of match-time last season under Colaco, leave the club seeking greener pastures? Colaco said he was not unhappy with Doungel's decision. "You have to make sacrifices
I wish him all the best," he said.
Colaco said the reason behind renewing his contract was the love of the East Bengal supporters.
"When I came in November everyone was talking about Trevor James Morgan. But now he is a thing of the past. Nobody talks about Morgan anymore
The supporters have given me the confidence," he said.
Talking about All India Football Federation's move to make it mandatory for I-League clubs to sign one marquee player, Colaco said: "As long as we get good foreigners, it's fine. But given our poor rankings do you think any big name will be interested in playing in India? So I have to wait and see," he said.
Colaco revealed that if East Bengal were game he could speak to Trinidad and Tobago World Cupper Densill Theobald.
"He has the experience of playing in India when I was Dempo. He linked up well with Ranty Martins
So he could be the ideal marquee player."
Colaco also welcomed AIFF's decision that a club can only appoint technical directors with A-License degree. "It's a good move. But coaching is not an easy job. I would like to see coaches being educated."
Talking about what to expect from East Bengal in the coming season, the former India coach pleaded for patience. "Please have patience. This team will deliver. One trophy doesn't make a coach great or a team world-class," he said.


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There's a new all-time record holding squad in girls lacrosse, and their streak of consecutive victories is going to awfully hard to catch.
As noted by the Baltimore Sun and a variety of other outlets, the Owings Mills (Md.) McDonogh School girls lacrosse team won its 74th consecutive game on Saturday, knocking off Newtown Square (Pa.) Episcopal School, 17-3, to surpass the previous mark of 73 consecutive victories held by Carle Place (N.Y.) High in the mid 1980s. The Eagles haven't lost a single game since the 2009 season.
What's more impressive than the sheer heft of McDonogh's streak is the quality of opponent the team has knocked off on its journey through the record books. In 2013 alone, the team has already knocked off two other members of the preseason Nike/US Lacrosse girls top-25 … and those games weren't even particularly close. McDonogh (yes, it's ranked No. 1) knocked off preseason No. 11 Vero Beach (Fl.) High by a score of 12-6 and No. 19 Milton (Ga.) Academy 11-8.
The road ahead won't get any easier, either. According to the Baltimore Sun, the team began the season with six teams in the preseason top-25 on their 19-game regular season schedule. More than half of the top-15 ranked teams in the Baltimore Sun's regional top-15 also feature against McDonogh.
So, how can a team possibly face such tough opposition and continue to cruise to victories? The answer, according to McDonogh senior attacker Sammi Burgess, it's all about focusing on one game, practice and even play at a time.
"[McDonogh head coach Chris Robinson] has always made it very clear that it's not really about the streak or anything like that," Burgess told the Sun. "It's about game-by-game situations. He wants the pressure to be off of us. Obviously, we would love to continue the streak, but it's really about focusing on the opponents that we play and playing good lacrosse rather than on keeping the dynasty going."
That focus is enhanced by a sense of complete buy-in among Robinson's squads. According to the Sun, one key hallmark of McDonogh teams has been a deep bench, with as many 18 or 19 players receiving regular playing time every season. That's a stark contrast with many prep lacrosse teams which lean heavily on nine starters (not counting a goalie) and rotate in as few as four or five other players.
Even more impressive is the percentage of those players who are truly "home grown." While the school might add one or two significant players many years, an overwhelming majority of the squad's best players have all come up through the McDonough school system, some from kindergarten.
That self-made squad dynamic makes the girls lacrosse team an incredible source of pride for the Maryland private school, even if the players who are earning the plaudits are usually too focused on the next game ahead to take stock in what they've achieved.
"Just because we win a lot doesn't mean we take this lightly," junior attacker Megan Whittle said. "I think playing in the league that we do prepares us for our out-of conference games and we have the mentality of one game at a time and improving after every game. There's really no chance for us to get cocky because we've got to wake up the next morning and play another really hard team."
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Major politicians both nationally and in California are talking as if changes in America's immigration system are now inevitable, Don't bet the house on it. Especially don't bet that the House will go along.
Yes, the tide of anti-undocumented immigrant sentiment has waned considerably in the past year. Yes, many Republican politicians are coming to realize their party might be doomed to perpetual minority status if it doesn't appease Latino voters, who have taken out their anger at the GOP's tough immigration stance by voting overwhelming for Democrats. Latinos are the nation's fastest-growing voter bloc.
And yes, immigration amnesty, even with the very tough requirements in plans proposed by both President Obama and a bipartisan group of eight influential U.S. senators, is the most humane way to go.
But Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada might have been prematurely optimistic when he said the other day that "Republicans can no longer stop this. They've tried it; it hasn't worked. "
Reid has not always been a good reader of tea leaves. He might be wrong again.
To pass, any amnesty plan would need a significant number of votes from Republican members of Congress - and while some GOP politicians have broken lately from their party's previously-solid anti-undocumented immigrant stance, it's yet to be determined how many might do it.
One reason they might be reluctant: As with the Democrats, the majority of Republicans in the House hail from districts where their party is dominant. Most GOP representatives win re-election by consistent margins of 55-45 percent or more.
The only time politicians in these solidly "red" districts usually lose is in primaries, where they can be attacked by more conservative candidates.
Despite an overall national sense that amnesty is appropriate for undocumented immigrants who have worked here for many years, paid their back taxes, paid a fine and not committed any crimes (evidenced in several major polls over the last three months), that feeling still does not prevail in the more conservative precincts whence most Republicans in Congress hail.
Listen to Rosemary Jenks, director of government affairs for the anti-undocumented immigrant group NumbersUSA: "If the Senate were serious about reforming our failed immigration system, the first step of their plan would be immediate, mandatory use of E-Verify. "
Republican Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, a longtime leading amnesty opponent, said: "If you legalize 11 million people, it is going to cost taxpayers when they become eligible for government benefits, it's going to cost Americans their jobs when they have to compete with millions more people for scarce jobs. I don't see much good here for Americans. "
The great likelihood is that neither will the majority of voters in the most preponderantly Republican districts around the nation and that GOP congress members will hear about it in town halls they regularly hold. That happened this month to Arizona Sen. John McCain, a recent Republican convert to the amnesty concept. What's more, despite their seeming enthusiasm for immigration changes including a path to citizenship, many Democrats probably would not mind all that much if their Republican colleagues remained adamant against it.
For Democrats everywhere well know how far the GOP has fallen in California and how tarnished the Republican brand has become among Latinos here since then-Gov. Pete Wilson campaigned in 1994 as a staunch foe of undocumented immigrants.
All of which makes this a key moment for Republicans.
Thomas D. Elias is a writer in Southern California. Write him at email@example.com.


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David Thewlis' mother is willing to clear up reports that the relationship between her son and Anna Friel is on the rocks, saying 'I'm happy now this so-called romance of Anna's is a load of rubbish.'
David Thewlis' mother has dismissed reports the actor's relationship with Anna Friel is in trouble, insisting the "Harry Potter" star will soon be reunited with his partner in Los Angeles. The couple's longterm romance was rocked by allegations of an affair after Friel was photographed embracing Joseph Cross, her co-star in a London stage production of "Breakfast at Tiffany's", in December 2009.
Friel denied the claims, but the gossip flared up again on Saturday, April 3 when she was snapped enjoying a day out in Los Angeles with Cross while her actor partner is away filming in Europe. But Thewlis' mum Maureen Wheeler insists the couple is still very much together.
Wheeler says, "I've talked to those involved and I'm happy now this so-called romance of Anna's is a load of rubbish. I know David is flying to L.A. as soon as he has finished in Berlin and his 'Harry Potter' commitments have ended. Anna is a very tactile woman. I have spoken to a friend who is in L.A. at the moment. She knows Anna and my son very well. There is no problem with their relationship. They are fine." Thewlis and Friel are parents to a four-year-old daughter, Gracie.


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Editor's note: Young Writers Project, a Vermont nonprofit dedicated to helping students write well, will be sharing several exceptional pieces of best student work each week at VTDigger.org for special display over the weekend. We hope you appreciate the young writers' viewpoints, imagination and experiences. Please let us know what you think.
Sleepy Secrets
By Sam van de Ven,
a home-schooled junior
Wrapped in a cozy blanket;
just us two,
this day, this moment
was made for me and you.
Away from where we are
couldn't get much colder,
but I'm safe and warm in your arms
with my head on your shoulder.
It's not my fault
if you thought I was asleep;
my shallow breaths
didn't mean I wasn't falling deep.
Your lips pretend
and whispered a secret
I sweat that on all that is mine,
I will keep it.
I tried not to smile
and squeezed shut my eyes tighter;
I peaked one short time
and your eyes shone brighter.
Words asleep
are never fake;
when will you repeat them
when I'm awake?
I finally smile
and continue to rest;
his heart beats the truth
beneath his chest.
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The numerous constructional timbers provide ideal conditions for the dating of individual houses or entire village units to the year by using dendrochronology: the structure of the timbers is preserved so that the tree-rings can easily be measured. Their pattern is like a bar code that has recorded the sequence of good and poor years of growth. The comparison with reference chronologies reveals the exact position within the timeline of the tree-ring sequence measured. If the last tree-ring inside the bark has survived, this gives the actual year the tree was felled.
More than 100,000 pile-dwelling timbers have already been dated using this method. This does not only allow us to reconstruct the building history of the villages to the year but it also means that the finds can be dated with an accuracy that is unique worldwide. Finally, in many cases the pile-dwelling sites bear great potential for future climate change research. Tree-ring analyses offer invaluable insight into the climate and environmental conditions.


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Enty, it doesn't matter that Chris/Grizzly has a bad MMA record, that doesn't affect his opinion and it doesntn't matter what field of work you are in or your background. Does Joe Silva look likes he been competing in Combat sports for the last 20 years? NO.
You can know about MMA without actually being a successful MMA fighter.
End of the day this is a forum, you will get trolls and opinionated people, if you can't take someone else's opinion then this is not a platform to be on.
I like Enty's style and think he's a good fighter but he's not UFC level, if he did get there he'd probably get cut after a fight or 2


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To: Website Fans, Browsers, Clients
From: Jude Wanniski
Re: Update on Plame Affair
The only reason the Valeria Plame affair remains a big story is
the small possibility that when U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald
and the federal grand jury take action, any day now, it may reach
into the Oval Office. That is, one or more indictments of government
officials may lead to hard information that President Bush knew
the Niger yellowcake story was pure propaganda, which helped him
justify war with Iraq, when he used it in his 2003 State of the
Union speech for that purpose.
Fitzgerald has been keeping his cards close to his vest, but sources
close to the story tell me they think the chances the story will
touch the President are no more than 2 out of 10. Chances it may
touch the Vice President have just increased because it has been
learned that Scooter Libby, Mr. Cheney's chief of staff, met with
Judy Miller of the NYTimes on July 8, 2003, two days after
Joe Wilson published his column in the NYTimes. Miller is
now in jail for refusing to testify on that conversation. In his
column, Wilson charged the administration knew several months before
that Bush address that the assertion Saddam was seeking to reconstitute
his nuclear weapons program was a hoax, built around forged documents
that the CIA knew had been forged prior to their use by the President.
Mr. Bush at least altered his speech to the nation by saying it
was the British who supplied to intelligence that Iraq was trying
to buy nuclear material in Africa.
Murray Wass of the American
Prospect, reported on the meeting of Libby and Judith Miller
in the liberal periodical's online edition yesterday. It was the
first time I'd learned of the meeting. It was also the first time
I'd learned that Miller does not have a personal waiver of confidentiality
from Libby — of the kind that Time magazine's Matt Cooper
got from Karl Rove, the President's closest political confidante.
In the Wass report, he writes:
In response to questions for this article, Catherine J. Mathis,
a spokesperson for the Times, said, "We don't have any
comment regarding Ms. Miller's whereabouts on July 8, 2003." She
also added, "Ms. Miller has not received a waiver that she believes
to be freely given." It is also unclear whether Miller would testify
to Fitzgerald's grand jury even if she were to receive such a
personalized waiver from Libby. Her attorney, Floyd Abrams, said
in an interview: "Judith Miller is in jail and at continued jeopardy.
… I have no comment about what she might do in circumstances
that do not now exist."
But numerous people involved in the case said in interviews for
this story that a personalized waiver for Miller by Libby could
potentially pave the way for Miller's release. Miller's testimony,
in turn, might be crucial to a determination as to whether anyone
might be criminally charged, and even to a potential end to the
criminal investigation. At least two attorneys representing private
clients who are embroiled in the Plame probe also privately questioned
whether or not President Bush had encouraged Libby to provide
a personalized waiver for Miller in an effort to obtain her cooperation.
Wass also suggests
the reason for Fitzgerald's delay in asking the grand jury for an
indictment is that there are loose ends he must tie up by getting
Judith Miller to testify, inferring that the President has to ask
Scooter Libby to give her the personal waiver the Times indicates
may be the chief barrier.
It does seem unlikely to me that it is the chief barrier, for Fitzgerald
could have gotten what he needed from Libby when Libby testified
before the grand jury. It is more likely that Miller prefers jail
to telling how she originally decided to take an interest in the
Plame story. We can reasonably be assured that Miller got her information
about Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame from Ahmed Chalabi, the
Iraqi who provided most of the false information to the U.S. government
about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Chalabi, now deputy
prime minister in the Iraqi interim government, has been part of
the neo-con network for decades, from the days he and Paul Wolfowitz
were fellow students at the University of Chicago. A WorldNetDaily.com
report of July 23, 2003, by Paul Sperry, mentioned her friendship
with Laurie Mylroie, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
who has also been doing the bidding of the neo-cons in promoting
the Iraq war.
1990, Mylroie co-authored with Judith Miller another Iraq book
called "Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf." Miller is
the New York Times reporter who broke, with another reporter,
the blockbuster story last September that Hussein was trying to
import aluminum tubing to restart a nuclear weapons program. The
claim, which she attributed to unnamed Bush administration "hard-liners"
and Iraqi defectors, was touted by Cheney and National Security
Adviser Condoleezza Rice the day it appeared. But it's now under
serious dispute.
Miller, who is close to Defense Undersecretary Douglas Feith,
another noted neocon, also broke the now widely discredited story
that two trailers found in Iraq were disguised mobile bioweapons
labs. It was recently revealed that the source of several of Miller's
Iraq stories was Ahmed Chalabi an Iraqi defector favored by the
administration to replace Hussein, and one with whom Miller has
had a 10-year relationship. U.S. intelligence officials tell WorldNetDaily
the vast majority of the information Chalabi has provided on Hussein's
regime has proved to be unreliable or false. The CIA and FBI no
longer rely on him as a source, they say.
The surmise
on antiwar internet websites has been that after Wilson wrote the
Times piece, the White House decided there had to be damage
control, and one piece of the story put out was that Wilson was
not credible because he was a Democrat who had been sent to Niger
by his wife, a CIA functionary involved in tracking WMD. Judith
Miller might well have learned of the u201Cstoryu201D from Chalabi, who
had been feeding her propaganda on Iraq for years that she had been
dutifully reporting for the NYT. She could not report on
this Chalabi u201Ctipu201D without verification, so she asked for the July
8 meeting with Scooter Libby in the Veep's office. In that meeting,
Libby would confirm the tip from Chalabi.
Why didn't Miller write the story? Speculation is either she never
intended to write about it, or that she knew it would endanger her
career if she did, given where it might lead. The suspicions have
reached a point where the American Society of Journalists and Authors,
which had given her its Conscience in Media award for her willingness
to go to jail to protect her sources, reversed
itself. As reported in Editor & Publisher, the Society
based its decision to withdraw the award u201Con its opinion that her
entire career, and even her current actions in the Plame/CIA leak
case, cast doubt on her credentials for this award.u201D
We should see what comes out of the two-year inquiry by Fitzgerald
within weeks, I'd imagine, and it should involve at least one indictment
for all the time and money spent on the effort. More importantly,
an indictment or two would stir the national press corps into another
hunt for answers. If the war were going well, little of this would
matter, but the war is not going well and does not look like things
will improve.
8, 2005
Wanniski [send him mail]
runs the financial/political advisory service Wanniski.com.


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Morris III adds depth to experienced group of running backs
Yuki Mizuma | Staff Photographer
While Syracuse is undergoing a lot of changes this spring, the running back position is one of the few stable offensive positions.
Ryan Nassib is gone, and in his place is a fierce three-man quarterback competition. Justin Pugh and Zack Chibane, staples of the offensive line, are gone, leaving nearly half of the line in need of reshaping. Starting wide receivers Marcus Sales and Alec Lemon are gone, leaving a new-look corps in their place.
But Prince-Tyson Gulley and Jerome Smith remain, leaving running back as the unquestioned strength of the offense. On Saturday, though, Gulley watched from the sidelines, just as he will for the rest of the spring. And on the field, an unknown sophomore, George Morris III, filled his role admirably.
"You've got to look at the positives any time you have an injury," head coach Scott Shafer said. " … With Tyson Gulley being out, it does give opportunities to guys like George Morris, and those kids to get good reps with both the ones and twos."
Morris, a sophomore running back who never saw the field during his freshman year, stole the show at spring practice Saturday, bursting through holes for long runs up the gut and exploding down sidelines for big carries.
But Morris' big practice doesn't come as a surprise to Smith. He saw Morris' talent in practice last season, but there was "just a little bit of youth last year" holding him back.
Now, he's relishing his opportunity. He was one of the best all-around high school backs in Georgia, totaling more than 700 rushing and receiving yards in his junior year at Central Gwinnett High School. He's a mix between the Orange's top two running backs, Smith said, with a combination of finesse and power, but it's his unique running style that sets him apart.
"If you've ever seen him run, he runs like a duck," Smith said, "so it's hard to know where he's going because he's got these duck feet."
Morris' role in a deep stable of running backs remains to be determined, but as a group, SU will lean on its running backs.
None of the three quarterbacks on the roster have ever started a game. Both running backs have 1,000-yard potential.
"We will definitely, I feel like, lean on the run game a little more," quarterback Terrel Hunt said. "We'll be a run-first, pass-second team, and we have fantastic running backs, so that definitely gives us some support and allows the coaches to use them to help us."
Morris will simply be a factor in that group. He'll have a tough time stealing carries from Gulley or Smith, but he pushes the duo and will find himself with the ball if one of them goes down. If he continues to perform the way he did on Saturday, it'll be tough to keep him off of the field.
The team will lean on its running game, but after practice, John Kinder delved into specifics. The coaching staff has told Kinder and his teammates they want to run the ball "50 times a game."
If Kinder or Hunt wins the quarterback job, then option elements to the offense won't be out of the question, meaning more running backs will have an opportunity to get onto the field.
Nonetheless, seeing more options emerge is key. With a potential first-round pick in Nassib at the helm a year ago, Syracuse had the ability to air it out and pick up chunks of yardage through the air. That won't be the case in 2013. The Orange will need as many playmakers that can carry the ball as possible.
"If we run 70 plays, they're going to get it most of the time, so we're leaning on them a lot. And George Morris," Kinder said, "he's going to be a great running back here."
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Freshmen Earn Women's Tennis SEC Honors
April 25, 2012
LEXINGTON, Ky. – The University of Kentucky women's tennis team had two members receive Southeastern Conference honors, the league office announced on Wednesday. After impressive breakout seasons, freshmen Stephanie Fox and Edmée Morin-Kougoucheff were named to the SEC All-Freshman Team.
Both freshmen made an immediate impact upon their arrivals at UK. They played vital roles on the team as the only two members of the 2011-12 squad to make an appearance in every regular season match.
Morin-Kougoucheff, a native of Capbreton, France, worked her way into the starting lineup with ease, finding a home at the No. 3 and No. 4 singles slots. She found the greatest success at the No. 4 slot, posting a 5-2 record, 2-1 in the SEC. She proved her worth in doubles, compiling an even 11-11 record against multiple ranked opponents and tough competitors.
Fox provided fierce competition for the Cats throughout the coarse of the season. The Huntington, W.Va., native occupied four of the six singles slots throughout the season, finding the greatest fit in the No. 4 and No. 5 slot where she went 6-7 and 3-3 respectively. She also found great success with sophomore Cece Witten at the No. 2 and No. 3 doubles positions, earning a 5-2 record.
This is the first SEC honor for either freshman. Players from No. 6 Georgia, No. 16 Ole Miss, No. 26 Vanderbilt joined Fox and Morin-Kougoucheff as members of the All-Freshman Team.
Alabama's Jenny Mainz was named Coach of the Year, while Lauren Embree, was honored as Player of the Year. Georgia's Lauren Herring, a member of the All-SEC First Team and the All-SEC Freshman Team, snagged the Freshman of the Year honor. Courtney McLane of Alabama was named the Scholar Athlete of the Year.
For more information on the UK women's tennis team, log on to UKathletics.com.
2012 Southeastern Conference Women's Tennis Awards
Coach of the Year: Jenny Mainz, Alabama
Player of the Year: Lauren Embree, Florida
Freshman of the Year: Lauren Herring, Georgia
Scholar Athlete of the Year: Courtney McLane, Alabama
All-SEC First Team
Alexa Guarachi, Alabama
Mary Anna Macfarlane, Alabama
Lauren Embree, Florida
Joanna Mather, Florida
Sofie Oyen, Florida
Allie Will, Florida
Chelsey Gullickson, Georgia
Lauren Herring, Goergia
Maho Kowase, Georgia
Kristi Boxx, Ole Miss
Brynn Boren, Tennessee
Jackie Wu, Vanderbilt
All-SEC Second Team
Courtney McLane, Alabama
Alexandra Cercone, Florida
Caroline Hitimana, Florida
Kate Fuller, Georgia
Nadja Gilchrist, Georgia
Lilly Kimbell, Georgia
Abby Guthrie, Ole Miss
Carolina Rohde-Moe, Ole Miss
Jaklin Alawi, South Carolina
Anya Morgina, South Carolina
Natalie Pluskota, Tennessee
Kata Szekely, Tennessee
Marie Casares, Vanderbilt
Lauren Mira, Vanderbilt
All-Freshman Team
Lauren Herring, Georgia
Marie Casares, Vanderbilt
Ashleigh Antal, Vanderbilt
Julia Jones, Ole Miss
Erin Stephens, Ole Miss
Stephanie Fox, Kentucky
Edmée Morin-Kougoucheff, Kentucky


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'Plagued with guilt after the trauma of killing an innocent on a mission, Agent O'Kelly goes into hiding in rural Ireland. However, not even a spy can hide from their fears and responsibilities forever.'
Episode three of 'Year of Spies', March, was set around St. Patrick's Day. Shot on the Blackmagic Cinema Camera over seven days and starring Garry Graham-Smith, Alex Harding and Charles O'Neill.Read more...
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The second episode of Year of Spies is set in the month of February, on the evening of Valentine's Day. It was shot in some of the more glamourous locations Stoke-On-Trent has to offer over a period of five days. It stars Sian Hill, Gerard Rea and Nina Gilhooly.Read more...


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His travel writing is regularly published in leading newspapers, magazines and websites in Hong Kong. He also shares his years of travel and photography experience to others with workshops and classes hosted by travel agencies, local media, and private organizations.
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I not only enjoy casual shooting to assimilate the local cultures and I also like taking part in theme shooting projects anywhere in the world. In March 2014, I shot with a Fujifilm XE-2 on the ecological awareness of the Tokyo residents. In April, I brought a Fujifilm XT-1 along to Sekinchan, Malaysia to catch the scenery of tranquil fishing village and bucolic paddy field. In May, I traveled to the North Island of New Zealand to visit a kiwi farm and learn the endeavor of the farm owner. Everyone I met and every story I heard deeply impressed me and I hope my own contributions will inspire others to go out and see the world for themselves.