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VIDEO: Antony Bitar Debuts 'Turn Around' Music Video
Armed and ready with his new stripped-down piano ballad "Turn Around," New Jersey's very own Antony Bitar is looking forward to some very big things. The video recently premiered on Bonnie Fuller's HollywoodLife.com and you can watch it below!
"My new single is probably the song I'm most proud of writing ever. I poured out every last little bit of emotion I had in me for that song. It's a breakup song; it's about having put so much into your end of the relationship and never seeing anything come back. It's a reflection on any relationship that I've ever had," says Antony.
Growing up singing in church choir and acting in school plays, Antony always knew that music was the path for him. After the passing of his grandfather, Antony sat down at a piano and began to play. It came so naturally and easy for him that his future became certain. "I literally cannot walk past a piano without playing it," he says.
In September of 2011 he released his self-titled debut album and played countless shows in New York, LA and D.C. Antony also co-wrote the first single for Melissa Gorga from Real Housewives of New Jersey called "On Display" which charted on iTunes.
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Law School Has 3L Football Agent? Yes, One More Law Grad Employed In A 'JD Advantage' Position!
Will this law student's client be a first- or second-round pick in the 2014 NFL Draft?
The NBA Constitution Is Not A Suicide Pact
My father had a theory. Like most of his theories, he freely admitted that he had probably heard or read it somewhere else. At any rate, the theory involved the scrubs who sat at the end of NBA benches and how a subtle and acceptable racism dictated that those guys who would never see the […]
Recent Survey Reveals Attorneys Biggest Obstacle in Locating Responsive Information
Quickly locating responsive information is the single best way to reduce legal/e-discovery costs. A recent survey of nearly 150 in-house legal/IT professionals identified "locating responsive information" as the No. 1 e-discovery challenge.
Andrew Cuomo, Basketball, Biglaw, Football, Free Speech, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Rankings, Sports, White House Counsel
* Boies Schiller announced it will be working with Hausfeld LLP for the limited purpose of creating a new practice group that will allow the firms to co-represent professional athletes. (Sorry, college athletes, you don't count yet.) [Bloomberg]
* It's highly likely that departing White House counsel Kathryn Ruemmler will return to her former stomping grounds at Latham & Watkins. Imagine how many pairs of shoes she'll be able to buy with her Biglaw money. [Washington Post]
* Governor Andrew Cuomo is so desperate to keep the Buffalo Bills in Western New York that he recently inked a $350K deal with Foley & Lardner to convince the team's future owners to stay put. [Buffalo News]
* The Above the Law Top 50 Law School Rankings are virtually ungameable, but Kyle McEntee of Law School Transparency proposes a novel way deans can try: by lowering tuition. GASP! [Law.com (reg. req.)]
* Marc Randazza, one of the preeminent lawyers on First Amendment rights (who happens to represent us from time to time), thinks what happened to Don Sterling was "morally wrong." Interesting theory. [CNN]
Affirmative Action, Biglaw, Football, Gay, Gay Marriage, John Roberts, Morning Docket, Racism, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court
* Meow! Last week, in a rare move, Justice Sonia Sotomayor let the world see that she's not exactly the best of friends with Chief Justice John Roberts through her fiery dissent in the Schuette affirmative action case. [National Law Journal]
* The Am Law 100 law firm rankings are out, and 2013 is being described as a "middling" year for most Biglaw firms. On the bright side, it looks like the big and rich got even bigger and richer. We'll have more on this later. [American Lawyer]
* Bingham McCutchen has settled a discrimination suit filed by Sleeping Beauty a former associate with a rare sleep disorder. We hope this lawyer will be able to sleep well on her new bed of cash. [Am Law Daily]
* Secrets, secrets are no fun: The search for a new dean is on at George Washington University Law, but professors say they were "sworn to secrecy" on the candidates who've visited campus. [GW Hatchet]
* "It's not about me getting the money; it's about showing the NFL you can't do this." Ex-Vikings punter Chris Kluwe may sue the team after being cut for expressing positive views on gay marriage. [NBC Sports]
* Donald Sterling's wife ain't sayin' V. Stiviano is a gold digger — she's alleging V. Stiviano is a gold digger. This, plus the accusations of racism against Sterling, is a flagrant foul. [L.A. Now / Los Angeles Times]
This week, the Bills carry on their illustrious history as God's punchline, closing one lawsuit and preparing for another.
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* 5 reasons why Northwestern football won't really unionize. [The Legal Blitz]
* Law grad who failed the bar arrested for claiming to be a lawyer. So much for Jimmy Malone's advice… [Albany Times Union]
* This morning we wrote about a lawyer turned babysitter. Jane Genova has some thoughts on how this story can have a happy ending. [Law and More]
* This is why you don't get tattoos. [The Independent]
* Sitting judge should be on "high" court — listed as president of three different pot-related businesses. [Las Vegas Law Blog]
* The Second Circuit is not pleased with the secrecy of the Obama administration. [The New Republic]
* Corporette launches a new motherhood newsletter. She's looking for guest bloggers too if you're passionate about these issues. [Corporette]
* Another argument for killing law school. [The Week]
* Kash Hill looks at a Loyola Law grad who hunts down revenge porn sites. [Forbes]
* Lorne Michaels has a new courtroom comedy webseries starring Bob Balaban. The first episode is embedded below…
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* The $160K-Plus Club welcomes its newest member: Duval & Stachenfeld, a real estate firm in NY, is more than doubling its starting salary for associates to $175K. Look for them recruiting at your "tier one" school soon. [New York Law Journal]
* In this economy, bankruptcy firms are being hit hard: Stutman Treister & Glatt, a top L.A. firm that once assisted businesses like Lehman Brothers and Enron Corp. in their Chapter 11 proceedings, is closing up shop. [WSJ Law Blog (sub. req.)]
* It ain't easy being dean at the law school with the best Biglaw prospects — oh wait, yes it is. Congrats to Gillian Lester, who will serve as Columbia Law's fifteenth dean come January 2015. [Columbia News]
* "Do I think he thought he was gonna beat it? Yeah." The district attorney who brought charges against Stephen McDaniel thinks the law school killer was too big for his chainmail britches. [Macon Telegraph]
* From catcalling to "jiggle tests," NFL cheerleaders have to put up with a lot of really ridiculous stuff. Not being paid the minimum wage is one thing, but having to put up with being groped is quite another. [TIME]
Death Penalty, Football, Law Schools, Morning Docket, Patton Boggs
* Duck Season! Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Human Season! $275,000 lawsuit filed after duck attack. [KATU]
* Following Moody's downgrade of Vermont Law School, three other law schools see their credit join the ranks of junk bonds. [Tax Prof Blog]
* Lobbying firms are making money again. Well, except for down-on-their- luck merger candidate Patton Boggs. [Washington Post]
* Prosecution called off after the police lost the 100 Oxycodone pills in evidence. Sure. "Lost." [The Journal News]
* Much like the Raiderettes before them, a group of former Buffalo Bills cheerleaders are suing over their pay. Thankfully Donald Trump is threatening to buy the team, so this suit isn't the worst thing happening to the Bills right now. [WHEC]
* A sad account of how an alcoholic lawyer drank vodka by the quart while botching a death penalty trial. [Mother Jones]
NCAA Stupidity Not Limited To Bureaucrats
What would the world of college sports look like if the jocks finally avenged their tragic defeat depicted in the non-fiction film Revenge of the Nerds?
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Lots of star football players are in trouble with the law right now.
American Bar Association / ABA, Drinking, Football, Job Searches, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Sports
* The shaming of Professor Rene Reich-Graefe continues, with Steven Harper weighing in. Law professors… so many people are onto your game of creating rosy scenarios to dupe prospective law students. Maybe you could spend more time trying to fix the problem in legal education, and a little less time trying to hide it? [Belly of the Beast]
* I enjoy reminding subway performers that their career choices are illegal. [Above the Law: Redline]
* Can't Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker, and Jim Beam settle their differences over a beer? [Wall Street Journal]
* I only hope Northwestern's law students have as much legal success as Northwestern's football students. [Deadspin]
* The ABA wants comment on whether for-credit externships can also be paid. [Faculty Lounge]
* I miss Kash. I hate drones. [Forbes]
* This isn't a legal link. There's no legal standard regarding gender specific displays of pubic hair. There's just a double standard. [Fashionista]
Football, Lawyer Advertising, March Madness, Romance and Dating, Trademarks
Kansas To Win This National Championship For Fred
With March Madness upon us, let's talk sports (and law)!
Football, Gay, Legal Ethics, Racism, Rudeness, Sexism, Technology
Judge Caught Making Racist, Sexist Comments On Internet Board
Anonymity can only protect you so much on the internet. This judge may have found out the hard way that what you say online can come back to haunt you.
A Washington lobbyist is focused on changing the law to segregate openly gay players in the NFL.
Christopher Christie, Copyright, Events, Football, Guns / Firearms, Law Schools, Music, New Jersey, Non-Sequiturs, Politics, Sports
* Judge orders guns returned to blind guy. David Sedaris has a great routine where he talks about the few stupid jurisdictions that let the blind participate in gunplay. Well consider Florida stupider: this is a blind guy who previously shot 15 times at his cousin while drunk and has since killed his friend — not only while drunk, but after a "10 a.m. beer run" — and he's getting his guns back. [Raw Story]
* An intrepid, but hopelessly clueless jailhouse lawyer is taking it upon himself to free Gucci Mane. Fight on, you hero! [Global Grind]
* Area Man Coasting By On Good Looks, Work Ethic, In-Depth Knowledge Of Virginia Real Estate Law. [The Onion]
* It seems Ray Rice took out all the aggression he feels over having Joe Flacco as a quarterback by allegedly knocking his fiancée unconscious. By "allegedly," I mean, "I'm not saying, but it was in an Atlantic City casino and videotapes show it from every angle." Anyway, here's a good primer on the differences between assault, simple assault, and aggravated assault in the state of New Jersey. [The Legal Blitz]
* Speaking of Rutgers players, the merger between Rutgers-Camden and Rutgers-Newark into Rutgers-Both Law School is on track for 2015. [Philadelphia Inquirer]
* So it's a great time to go to law school! If you thought 2007 was a great time to go to law school that is. [Gawker]
* Here's an innovative way to fight illegal music downloads: the band Gridlink is running a contest encouraging users to upload bogus versions of their songs to gum up the works in exchange for a free, official copy of the latest album. [Handshake Inc.]
* The lawyer who may topple Chris Christie is a defense lawyer who stymied the rotund Republican during his tenure as U.S. Attorney. That must be sweet. [Newark Star-Ledger]
* Passionate about public-interest law? Here's your chance to win a paid one-year fellowship with Save the Children. (Our very own David Lat is one of the contest judges.) [BARBRI]
* The University of Pennsylvania Law School Entertainment and Sports Law Society is hosting the Penn Law Sports Law Symposium presented by the Heisman Trust this Friday, February 28th from 9:30am-6:00pm at the Law School in Philadelphia. Jim Delaney will be there to talk about how the Big Ten would go bankrupt if one cent of their billions in revenue were diverted. Tickets at the link. [ESLS]
Biglaw, Craigslist, Football, Gambling / Gaming, Gay, Gay Marriage, Lateral Moves, Non-Sequiturs, Partner Issues, Prisons, Technology, Video games
* Being a mass murderer wouldn't be any fun if you couldn't play video games. Also, let's Upworthy this: Elie tells a story about himself dancing naked… you won't believe what happens next. [ATL Redline]
* Ted Wells of Paul Weiss finally got off his duff and issued his report on the harassment situation in the Miami Dolphins locker room. [Deadspin]
* ♫Rubber Duckie, you're the one, you make state legislative sessions drafting complicated statutes allowing gambling on racing you so much fun!♫ [Lowering the Bar]
* From the "dick moves" file, this guy put up a Craigslist ad pimping out his neighbor without her knowledge or consent. From the f**king idiot files, this guy had no idea how easy it would be for the authorities to track him down. [IT-Lex]
* Is the aggressive lateral partner recruitment strategy bringing results? [Adam Smith, Esq.]
* There's pretty much nothing OK with the new gay segregation law in Kansas. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* The Virginia decision legalizing gay marriage made one slight misstatement. "Our Constitution declares that 'all men' are created equal." Really? Does it now? [Josh Blackman's Blog; WSJ Law Blog]
* Intelligence Squared held a debate last night between Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and the ACLU's Ben Wizner against former prosecutor (not Weekend at Bernie's star) Andrew McCarthy and former CIA Director R. James Woolsey on the question: Snowden Was Justified. The video is embedded after the jump…. [Intelligence Squared]
Antitrust, Baseball, Football, Labor / Employment
The Labor Law Origins Of The Infield Fly Rule
This may come as a shock, but professional sports just may be exploiting labor.
Football, Gay, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Student Loans, Television, White-Collar Crime
* Lawyer decides to fight City Hall… with spray-can graffiti. [KING]
* A new survey finds that pre-law students want a 2-year law school model. They want to come out of law school with 33 percent less debt? Shocking. [Kaplan Test Prep]
* Should law schools fire professors who stop writing post-tenure? I mean who does that? I thought tenured professors work harder than ever. [PrawfsBlawg]
* A look at the future of computer forensics via Almost Human. Frankly, when I think of the future of criminal policing I think of a different Karl Urban vehicle. [The Legal Geeks]
* With the revelation that standout defensive end Michael Sam is gay, a number of NFL types are trotting out the whole "he'll be a distraction" excuse. That's a pretty stupid excuse. [Lawyers, Guns & Money]
* Who is the "tipsy coachman"? [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* It's a zombie! The living dead! Or maybe just a living woman that banks have declared dead despite all evidence to the contrary. [ATL Redline]
* Remember Brandon Hamilton? He used to be the the assistant dean of admissions at Louisville Law before he promised students $2.4 million more in scholarships than the school had to give. Well, he finalized his plea bargain. [The Courier-Journal]

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Fuentes graces swimsuit issue
The Spanish-language offshoot of People magazine plans to launch its first swimsuit issue with cover girl Daisy Fuentes in a pink polka-dot bikini.
The swimwear edition of People en Español will be on newsstands Monday.
Fuentes, who was born in Cuba and grew up in Spain and New Jersey, offers health and beauty tips in the magazine.
A swimsuit edition from National Geographic magazine is set for release Saturday, chronicling the history of the bathing suit over the last 100 years.
Sajak to host Fox talk show
Pat Sajak will be taking a spin as host of a new talk show.
Sajak, the longtime host of the game show ''Wheel of Fortune,'' will add a Fox News Channel series to his schedule. ''Pat Sajak Weekend'' will air at 9 p.m. Sunday starting in the spring, Fox said.
''I enjoy exercising my interviewing muscles and I look forward to having the chance to do that every weekend,'' Sajak said in a statement.
Fox described the program as an hourlong ''celebrity- and newsmaker-driven talk show.'' A debut date was not announced.
--- The Associated Press
A rule of law
Ja Rule had no fewer than 11 bodyguards around him recently at the Source Magazine party at Sessa in Manhattan. The rapper apparently feels he needs the protection.
''(The cops) don't care about the rappers,'' Rule told us. ''(Killers think), 'We can kill the rappers, but we won't be caught. They won't even look for us.' ''
The ''I'm Real'' rapper revealed that, like Damon Dash and Eminem, he's developing an autobiographical movie. It's titled ''Back in the Day.''
''I play a college student who tries to get out of the street life,'' Rule said. He is talking with Vanessa Williams and Joy Bryant about co-starring.
''I see a lot of myself in it - a guy who came from a hard place,'' he said.
-- Tribune Media Services
Their doctor's dilemma
Winona Ryder, Courtney Love and other stars are denying, denying, denying allegations by a former doctor about their use of prescription drugs.
Jules Lusman is taking revenge after, he says, ''Winona Ryder brought my career crashing down.''
He also claims Ryder and Love wrote bad checks to pay for his services.
The Hollywood doc was fined and had his license revoked by the Medical Board of California after it decided he was too free with his prescription pad. Details of his professional relationship with Ryder emerged during her shoplifting trial.
He tells this week's National Enquirer, ''Winona was becoming very intrusive into my practice. She would constantly leave messages. ... She'd hound me day and night.''
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The Words-and-Music Equation: More Than a New Math of Rap
By JOHN ROCKWELL
Published: May 7, 2004
In college I had a Sunday-night opera radio show, and my introductory theme was the string sextet that begins Richard Strauss's last opera, "Capriccio." It's pretty music — beautiful, even. But it's music, not words. A point worth making, since the central issue of the opera is the age-old battle over the relative importance of words and music.
In the opera, there are flesh-and-blood characters to animate the underlying ideas, but (as a German opera) it's the ideas that count: whether operatic music supports the words or the words just float on the surface of the music, providing emotional cues but then getting out of the way. Since Strauss composed this opera and since the conductor Clemens Krauss wrote the libretto with Strauss, and since the opera begins with my lovely string sextet and ends with a gorgeous scene with French horn solo, the balance might seem decisively tilted toward the music.
And so, in one giddy leap, to contemporary commercial American popular music: one of my most cherished beliefs as a rock critic, to which I clung even when the evidence to the contrary seemed almost overwhelming, was that what made (and makes) a pop song popular was the music, not the words. Rock critics all around me would subject lyrics to exhaustive analysis, usually quoting Keats. Me, I liked the tunes and the rhythm and the hook ("It's got a good beat; I'll give it a 10"), and then only later, if at all, I'd get around to paying grudging attention to whatever story was being told or metaphor being belabored.
It wasn't that words were unnecessary: people need words to tell them what to feel, just as today they seem to need videos to provide pictures of what's going on in a song. They need pointers, but they'll pay attention to a song only if the music has first compelled that attention.
Even as I clung to my theory, though, I had to recognize that in some songs the words really were important. Bob Dylan's long narrative ballads, for instance. Yet for all the ingenuity of his images and his wordplay, what made Dylan popular was as much his scruffy theatrical personality, his sneering articulation of the words and notes, his furious guitar and harmonica playing, the pungency of the Band and the sheer, anthemlike conviction of his choruses ("This Wheel's on Fire" being the most awesomely apocalyptic, for its music even more than its biblical verbal imagery).
If Mr. Dylan's words ruffled the calm surface of my certitude, imagine how I felt when rap established itself in the 1980's. Here was a pop music genre that seemed to rely almost entirely on words: on clever end-rhymes and internal rhymes, on extravagant boasting, on sheer tongue-twisting verbal trickery. How did my music-über-alles theory stand up to that?
Pretty well, actually. To be sure, some successful rap "songs" rely so heavily on verbal brilliance and dramatic characters that one simply must pay attention to the story: Eminem's "Stan" is a fine recent example. But "Stan" (which tells the tale of an increasingly deranged fan feeling rejected by a pop star and crashing his car into a river with his pregnant girlfriend trapped in the trunk) is hardly all words. There is the haunting choral lament by Dido, the English pop singer. There is the musical quality of Eminem's declamation. And there are the ever-present hooks of Dr. Dre's production.
My 15-year-old daughter, the rap fan, claims I turned her on to the stuff, which is flattering, but she is really my mentor now. She loves Eminem and 50 Cent and Nas and Nelly and Ludacris and the others. She thinks OutKast's Big Boi is good but not so good as her favorites. And she confirms (independently, without paternal prodding) that what she hears first in a new rap song is the beat and the other aspects of the music, and when those grab her, she starts paying attention to the words.
To be sure, the music of much rap is minimal compared to, say, a Frank Sinatra ballad or George Martin's productions for the Beatles. In the eternal roundalay of melody, harmony and rhythm, rhythm has seized the spotlight. But that is merely a reflection of the steady evolution of 20th-century popular music, led by black music, that starts out underground and eventually conquers the mainstream.
It isn't just rhythm that defines rap's music, though: throughout its history rap has reached out to summarize and reinterpret black pop's past. I remember a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five show I reviewed at the Peppermint Lounge in 1982, in which I was struck back then by rap's "links to black popular music of the last 30 years," meaning back to the early 1950's.
And now we have OutKast's "Love Below"/"Speakerboxxx" double CD, which has been at or near the top of the charts for months. In a previous album, OutKast thanked an entire litany of pop predecessors, from Curtis Mayfield to Bob Marley to the Beatles and Led Zeppelin and Kraftwerk to Jimi Hendrix and Earth, Wind and Fire, as if to lay claim to a legacy.
On this latest set, "Speakerboxxx" is more Big Boi's, and hence closer to unadulterated rap, although even here the musical elements claim one's attention. But it is "The Love Below" by the other member of this duo, André 3000 (his real name is André Benjamin; Big Boi's is Antwan Patton) that confirms that rap represents no real refutation of music, that it has never really broken from the broad tradition of black pop music in the first place.
The musical variety here is dazzling, and surely handled throughout. There is rapping and singing, orchestral music and electrified instruments, electronic beats and turntable scratching and sampling of every sort.
In Strauss's "Capriccio," the Countess must choose between two lovers, one representing words and the other music. She finds the choice impossible and, in pop as well as in opera, that's ultimately true. Yet for me, in all song, it's ultimately the music that counts. Music's emotions may be directed and focused by words, but it's the musical emotions that dig down deep. Even in such a seemingly word-driven genre as rap.


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Canada's Walk Off the Earth trades in exuberant, anthemic folk-pop (they've made twee YouTube covers of songs like Magic!'s "Rude" and Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know"). The peppy five-piece backs its newest LP, Sing It All Away, due in June.
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Conference Paper: Virtual Broking Coding for Reliable In-Network Storage on WSANsThe Twentieth IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC); 07/2015
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ABSTRACT: Fault tolerance is one of the most important wireless sensor networks requirements. It ensures that the network continue to function correctly even when some components fail. In fact, fault tolerance is a need in this type of networks due to sensor node characteristics, radio communications and hostile environments in which these networks are deployed. In this survey, we give an overview of WSN mechanisms that provide or improve the fault tolerance property of wireless sensor networks. However, the different solutions presented in this survey are not only intended to mechanisms dedicated to fault tolerance, but they also include all the mechanisms allowing the prevention of fault occurrence such as energy aware routing and data aggregation & compression. Besides the classification of fault tolerance mechanisms according to the tasks they target (data management, flow management), we also propose a new classification based on the network size, since the performance of the majority mechanisms depends on the size in terms of geographical area and number of nodes. Thus, a well performing protocol conceived for small networks may be inadequate for large networks and vice versa.Computer Communications 06/2015; DOI:10.1016/j.comcom.2015.05.007 · 1.70 Impact Factor
Article: Increasing User Perceived Quality by Selective Load Balancing of Video Traffic in Wireless Networks[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Wireless mesh networks (WMNs) are becoming increasingly popular mostly due to their deployment flexibility. The main drawback of these networks is their lack of guaranteeing high Quality of Service (QoS) levels to their clients. The latest ubiquitous mobile and wireless support and significant growth in smartphone features have fueled user demand for rich media services on their devices. Unfortunately, this traffic increase puts additional pressure on WMN resources, eventually affecting user QoS levels and providing solutions to address this is highly challenging. This paper shows how by using ViLBaS, an innovative selective load balancing solution for video deliveries in WMN, increased QoS levels of remotely transmitted video are obtained. ViLBaS employs distributed monitoring of network traffic, identifies the node most affected by congestion and prevents imminent packet drops by rerouting the video flows around the congested node. A hybrid simulation-emulation-based test-bed is built and used for assessing ViLBaS performance in comparison with classic solutions employing the best-known routing metrics. Real video traffic was transmitted from a sever to a client over a WMN topology and the received video quality was assessed in different scenarios. The results demonstrate that ViLBaS outperforms all other solutions when delivering various video content with diverse characteristics and at different quality levels.IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting 06/2015; 61(2):1-1. DOI:10.1109/TBC.2015.2400811 · 1.83 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: In the recent years, the research community has proposed several protocols and applications for opportunistic networking. These protocols require that all users are willing to cooperate with the network. However, users could have selfish behavior, which can lead to degradations in the network performance. In this work, we propose an incentive mechanism to improve routing, called MINEIRO, which aims to detect and avoid selfish nodes based on the source of the messages. We demonstrate that our algorithm leads to bayeasian equilibrium. Moreover, we analyzed the impact of selfishness in opportunistic networks and showed that without an incentive mechanism, the delivery ratio is constant for up to 60% of nodes with selfish behavior in a network with random node mobility. Meanwhile, our proposal incentivizes rational users to forward messages regardless of the amount of selfish nodes. Resumo. Nosúltimos anos, a comunidade científica propôs diversos protocolos e aplicativos para redes oportunísticas. Estes protocolos requerem que todos os usuários estejam dispostos a cooperar com a rede. No entanto, os usuários podem ter comportamento egoísta, o que pode afetar o desempenho da rede. Neste trabalho, propomos um mecanismo de incentivo para melhoria do rote-amento em redes oportunísticas, chamado MINEIRO, que tem como objetivo detectar e evitar os nós egoístas com base na origem das mensagens recebi-das. O MINEIRO utiliza apenas informações locais. Demonstramos sob quais condições nosso algoritmo atinge o equilíbrio bayesiano em um jogo dinâmico. Além disso, analisamos o impacto do egoísmo em redes oportunísticas e mos-tramos que, sem nenhum mecanismo, a taxa de entregá e constante para até 60% de nós com comportamento egoísta em redes com mobilidade aleatória. Nossa proposta, por sua vez, incentiva os usuários racionais a encaminharem mensagens em qualquer quantidade de nós egoístas. * Os autores gostariam de agradecerà CAPES, COFECUB, CNPq e FAPEMIG pelo apoio financeiro parcial a este trabalho.Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos (SBRC), Vitória - Espirito Santos; 05/2015
Conference Paper: A Mechanism for Uplink Packet Scheduler in LTE Network in the Context of Machine-to-Machine Communication[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a mechanism for uplink packet scheduler in LTE network in the context of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication. The proposed approach uses the current and past information of the system to satisfy the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, to ensure fairness in resource allocation and to control the congestion caused by M2M devices. We carried out some network simulations by using a NS-3 simulator so as to show the effectiveness of the proposed approach. The results indicate that our solution can reduce the impact of M2M communication on Human-to-Human (H2H) communication and avoid the problem of starvation, when compared to related approaches.GLOBECOM 2014; 12/2014
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Article: A Job Market Signaling Scheme for Incentive and Trust Management in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: In collaborative wireless networks with a low infrastructure, the presence of misbehaving nodes can have a negative impact on network performance. In particular, we are interested in dealing with this nasty presence in road safety applications, based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs). Because of its characteristics, namely high mobility, frequent topology changes, and large deployment areas, verifying safety data validity is difficult, and existing solutions to tackle this issue are inefficient in VANETs. In this work, we consider as harmful the presence of malicious nodes, which spread false and forged data; and selfish nodes, which cooperate only for their own benefit. To deal with this, we propose DTM2, a Distributed Trust Model, adapted from the Job Market Signaling Model. DTM2 is based on allocating credits to nodes and securely managing these credits. To motivate selfish nodes to cooperate more, our solution establishes the cost of reception to access data, forcing them to earn credits. Moreover, to detect and exclude malicious nodes, DTM2 requires the cost of sending, using signaling values inspired form economics and based on the node's behavior, so that the more a node is malicious, the higher its sending cost, thus limiting their participation in the network. Similarly, rewards are given to nodes whose sent messages are considered as truthful, and that paid a sending cost considered as correct. The latter is a guarantee for the receivers about the truthfulness of the message since, in case of message refusal, the source node is not rewarded despite its payment. We validated DTM2 via a theoretical study using Markov chains; and with a set of simulations, in both urban and highway scenarios. Both theoretical and simulation results show that DTM2 excludes from the network 100% of malicious nodes, without causing any false positive detection. Moreover, our solution guarantees a good ratio of reception even in the presence of selfish nodes.IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology 09/2014; DOI:10.1109/TVT.2014.2360883 · 1.98 Impact Factor
Conference Paper: The "Object-as-a-Service" Paradigm[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The increasing interest about the Internet of Things (IoT) is almost as remarkable than its practical absence in our everyday lives. Announced as the new breakthrough in IT industry, the domain is characterized by a large number of architecture propositions that are in charge of providing a structure for applications creation. These architectures are needed because of the heterogeneity of stakeholders involved in IoT Applications. Programming languages, operating systems, hardware specificities, processing power, memory, network organization, characteristics, constraints, the world of IoT is so diverse. Furthermore, these architectures should provide an easy access to users that are not aware of IT technologies involved. The Services Oriented Computing (SOC) has shown in the past its relevance to the decoupling constraints interoper-ability among stakeholders. The composition of loosely coupled services facilitates the integration of very varied elements and provides agility in the creation of new applications. But unlike the approach inherited from the SOC in pre-existing services are composed to obtain a specific application, we propose a more dynamic notion of service. Our "Object-as-a-Service" point of view is based on the notion of building dynamically the service needed on each Object and then integrate it in the whole composition. This paper focus on the gain of this approach for the IoT by promoting the "Object-as-a-Service" paradigm as a basis for the creation of dynamic and agile user-made applications. I. INTRODUCTION With the spread of wireless communications and the rise of the number of devices capable of processing data, the idea of connecting everything to everything, through the universal medium offered by the Internet, opens the way to a new era in the computing domain, usually called the "Internet of Things". The "Major trends in computing", as defined by M. Weiser [31] has occurred. At the beginning, the "mainframe" era (one computer for many users), followed by the "personal" era (one computer for one person), we are now entering the "ubiquitous" computing era (many computers for one user). Desktop computers, laptops, but also smartphones, palm, internet Boxes, and now connected TVs, household appliances, phydgets, single-board micro-computers, we are surrounded by "intelligent" objects, able to process data, communicating through networks, and hav-ing new capabilities of sensing or acting on the real world. The main idea of the Internet of Things is to expand the network, extending it into houses, buildings (walls, floor, windows, doors, etc.) and cities (car park, traffic light, lights, etc.). After its connection to offices, then homes, the InternetGlobal Information Infrastructure and Networking Symposium - GIIS 2014 -, Montréal; 09/2014
Conference Paper: Formal Rule Representation and Verification from Natural Language Requirements Using an Ontology[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The development of a system is usually based on shared and accepted require-ments. Hence, to be largely understood by the stakeholders, requirements are often written in natural language (NL). However, checking requirements completeness and consistency requires having them in a formal form. In this article, we focus on user requirements describing a system behaviour, i.e. its behavioural rules. We show how to transform behavioural rules identified from NL requirements and represented within an OWL ontology into the formal specification language Maude. The OWL ontology represents the generic behaviour of a system and al-low us to bridge the gap between informal and formal languages and to automate the transformation of NL rules into a Maude specification.RuleML 2014, Prague, Tcheque republic; 08/2014
Conference Paper: Fault-recovery and Coherence in Internet of Things Choreographies[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: Facilitating the creation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications is a major concern to increase its de-velopment. D-LITe, our previous work, is a framework for that purpose. In D-LITe, Objects are considered as part of a whole application. They offer a REST web service that describes Object capabilities, receives the logic to be executed, and interacts with other stakeholders. Then, the complete application is seen as a choreography dynamically deployed on various objects. But the main issue of choreographies is the loss of coherence. Because of their unreliability, some networks used in IoT may introduce de-synchronization between Objects, leading to errors and failures. In this paper, we propose a solution to re-introduce coherence in the application, in order to keep the advantages of choreography while dealing with this main issue. An overlay of logical check-points at the application layer defines links between the coherent states of a set of objects and triggers re-synchronization messages. Correcting statements are thus spread through the network, which enables fault recovery in Choreographies. This paper ends with a comparison between the checking cost and the reliability improvement.wf-iot; 03/2014
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ABSTRACT: Service Oriented Computing (SOC) is a common way to build applications/services by composing distributed bricks of logic. Recently, the SOC paradigm has been considered for the design and implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) applications by abstracting objects as service providers or consumers. Based on this trend, we proposed in a previous work D-LITe: a lightweight RESTful virtual machine that allows ubiquitous logic description and deployment for IoT applications using Finite State Transducers (FST). Though D-LITe allows faster and more efficient application creation for heterogeneous objects, it turns out that FST design can be fastidious for inexperienced users. With that in mind, we propose in this paper BeC 3 (Behaviour Crowd Centric Composition) an innovative crowd centric architecture, grounded on D-LITe. It provides a simpler way to compose interactions between IoT components. The idea is to reverse the bottom-up approach of SOC by a rather top-down vision in which the user expresses the expected result of his application by composing behaviours that are proposed by contributors. These behaviours are deployed on each concerned component, which then act exactly as needed to fulfil their role in the composition. The crowd-Centric aspect of this platform allows a community-based design, granting a wide panel of modular and incremental interactions for a wide variety of components. Eventually, BeC 3 will give inexperienced users the ability to organise, interconnect and compose both state of the art web-services and IoT components to create interactive 2.0-like applications for the IoT.Mobile Networks and Applications 02/2014; 19(1):18-32. DOI:10.1007/s11036-013-0481-8 · 1.05 Impact Factor
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ABSTRACT: The Long Term Evolution (LTE) standard is one of the most promising technologies of wireless network for the development of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication because of its high data rates, low latency, high flexibility and low cost. However, improvements are needed in the network to support the uplink-heavy traffic generated by M2M communication and also to ensure the diversity of service requirements of this communication. The uplink packet scheduler is included in the necessary improvements. In this article, we evaluate the performance of the main schedulers for M2M communication regarding the aspects of service requirements, fairness, energy efficiency and impact on the system performance of current LTE traffic.Wireless Days; 01/2014
Conference Paper: Um Mecanismo para Escalonamento de Pacotes no Uplink da Rede LTE no Contexto da Comunicação Máquina-a-Máquina[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: This paper proposes a mechanism for uplink packet scheduler in LTE network in the context of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications that uses the current and past information of the system to satisfy the Quality of Service (QoS) requirements, ensure fairness in the allocation of resources and control the congestion caused by the M2M devices. The results indicate that the proposed approach can reduce the impact of M2M communication on the Human-to- Human (H2H) communication and avoid the problem of starvation.32º Simpósio Brasileiro de Redes de Computadores e Sistemas Distribuídos – SBRC 2014; 01/2014
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ABSTRACT: In order to check requirement specifications written in natural language, we have chosen to model domain knowledge through an ontology and to formally represent user requirements by its population. Our approach of ontology population focuses on instance property identification from texts. We do so using extraction rules automatically acquired from a training corpus and a bootstrapping terminology. These rules aim at identifying instance property mentions represented by triples of terms, using lexical, syntactic and semantic levels of analysis. They are generated from recurrent syntactic paths between terms denoting instances of concepts and properties. We show how focusing on instance property identification allows us to precisely identify concept instances explicitly or implicitly mentioned in texts.2013 IEEE 25th International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI); 11/2013
Conference Paper: Efficient Coupling of Routing and Location-based Service for VANETs[Show abstract] [Hide abstract]
ABSTRACT: The high node mobility in Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANETs) leads to frequent topology changes and link breaks. Geographic routing protocols are more suitable for these networks where the use of position-to-position paradigm to forward data. We need to know the destination position usually given by an external service denoted as a location-based service. However, geographic routing protocols and location-based services are often implemented separately and are not gathered. In this paper, we discuss a coupling mechanism of geographic routing protocols and hierarchical location-based services. We have implemented this mechanism under the NS-2 simulator. We have shown the reduction of the location-based service overhead. In the meantime, the packet delivery ratio and the average end-to-end delay have been improved.Broadband and Wireless Computing, Communication and Applications (BWCCA), 2013 Eighth International Conference on; 10/2013
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ABSTRACT: The primary contribution of this paper is the design of a novel architecture and mechanisms to enable voice services to be deployed over femtocells backhauled using a wireless mesh network. The architecture combines three mechanisms designed to improve Voice Over IP (VoIP) call quality and capacity in a deployment comprised of meshed-femtocells backhauled over a WiFi-based Wireless Mesh Network (WMN), or femto-over-mesh. The three mechanisms are: (i) a Call Admission Control (CAC) mechanism employed to protect the network against congestion; (ii) the frame aggregation feature of the 802.11e protocol which allows multiple smaller frames to be aggregated into a single larger frame; and (iii) a novel delay-piggy-backing mechanism with two key benefits: prioritizing delayed packets over less delayed packets, and enabling the measurement of voice call quality at intermediate network nodes rather than just at the path end-points. The results show that the combination of the three mechanisms improves the system capacity for high quality voice calls while preventing the network from accepting calls which would result in call quality degradation across all calls, and while maximizing the call capacity available with a given set of network resources.2013 IEEE 24th International Symposium on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications: Mobile and Wireless Networks (PIMRC'13 - Mobile and Wireless Networks); 09/2013
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ABSTRACT: Machine Type Communication (MTC) is an essential service for next generation cellular networks. Because of the massive number of communicating devices, MTC poses great challenges for Radio Access Network (RAN). This is mainly caused by the overloading problem that has been aggressively addressed by 3GPP as an essential working item. Because of this overloading problem, classical Human to Human (H2H) communications may be negatively affected. In this paper we first introduce the MTC and its challenges with a focus on its use in the healthcare domain. The Random Access procedure (RACH) used in Long Term Evolution (LTE) cellular networks will be then explained in order to address the issue of RACH overload coming from massive number of MTC devices. To resolve RAN overload, 3GPP and others have proposed several RAN solutions. We evaluate and compare these solutions and conclude finally with their advantages and weaknesses in order to select the best solution for an operator.2013 2nd International Conference on Advances in Biomedical Engineering (ICABME); 09/2013
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The United Queendom of Retailia
and The Front Door
First Show - May 2015
In July 2014 I mounted the
first show on my front door and since then there has been a steady
stream of Mail Art finding it way through the letterbox up the door
and getting stuck there, by magic. Truly, this Front Door Gallery
has kept me happily busy with most days bringing Kevin the
Superpostman with some decorated envelopes in his hand.
The Front Door
A Real Door with Real Mail Art
I have published an eBook with all the art work sent to me since the beginning of 2015, which I show month by month on the door.
|To read the book click its cover above. Click July Show PDF file to download it your computer.
These pictures are from the young
artists that live in my street, shown during the Neighbourhood Summer
MAIL ART '... has no history, only a present' Ray Johnson
Mail Art is the
present, the gift, of any artwork that can be sent by post.
Handmade postcards,
photocopies, computer prints, collages, paintings, drawings,
found objects, anything you wish. Mail
Art is whatever you want to make of it. Some people are very
serious and
work on themes related to saving the world, others just have fun,
also helps to save the world, at least from depression and
despair. To join the network of mail artists the only thing you need to
do is to answer an
invitation and do some artwork yourself
organizing artist will send documentation of the event to all the
participants, which will consist of some kind of report so senders would know what
happened to their artwork.
If you wish to join us go to my links and from there to one of the sites listed where invitations or calls are published and choose something that appeals to you. I am afraid that I tried to put calls up but could not find the time to keep up to date, so I am grateful to those of us who manage so well their sites.
After a while of answering calls you will start to receive invitations directly and then you will know you are part of the Eternal Network of Mail Artists too! Later on, if you like, you can initiate your own projects and post the invitations in these websites. You could have a place to show and then produce some form of documentation. Some people are lucky and have a place like a café, a shop, or manage to get a school involved but others show in very odd places, perhaps their hat or their front door. Also you can make artists' books or make use of any other devise to collate the artwork received.
I have shown
Mail Art on many venues but the main one has been my shopping trolley,
the Shopping Trolley Gallery - UK. I have also a bag dedicated to Mail Art, the Handbag Gallery, as
back up. In time no amount of back up could help the STG because the
amount of contributions to the projects became too much for it to carry so
that resulted in it. Since then I
have focused more on responding to calls rather than initiating projects, at least
for a while.


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healing miracle in trois rivieres
i am 60 years of age, married and for the last 4 mo. living in trois rivieres. as many older generation i have some health problems, arthritis, unable to close my hands, unable to turn my neck very far, pain in my nees and many other joints. urination problems, and other just getting old problems. my wife is a nurse and university professor and skeptical of everything. in late june, 07, my wife and i visited the old church at the basillica. many times before we visited the new church but this time the old church was the destination. as we entered the old church i felt a presence around me and a strange sensation. we were in the church about 20 minutes saying a prayer for our family and lighting a candle. when we came out of the church i told my wife i feel releived. much to my surprise my arthritis was completely gone and 3 mo later still no signs. i knew immediately there was changes in my body but did not realise the scope of the changes. my e mail is firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like other info on this miracle. i am not catholic but thanks be to god for the cure and other powers he has since given me.
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This is a Picture of The Franciscan Residents and Museum. --------------------" FATHER FREDERIC", To the local people is a Saint.( His Body is entombed here) He has been Beatified by the Pope and has miracles to his Credit. He was visited by The Virgin Mary and as a result he became Director of Pilgrimages for The Sanctuary at NOTRE- DAME- DU- CAP. He was an excellent Preacher and Teacher and a great writer . He traveled all over Quebec exhorting people to pray the " CHEMIN DE LA CROIX"
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THE AFL is set to target the western corridor with Springfield now the front-runner in the race to be the new home base of the Brisbane Lions.
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The QT understands Springfield and the QEII complex at Nathan are the only two options being seriously considered as headquarters for the Lions.
The club will continue to play at the Gabba, but one well-placed source said that Springfield was now the favoured location for its training and administration facilities.
And Springfield Land Corporation has now handed a six-hectare parcel of land on Springfield Parkway to the Ipswich City Council for the purpose of developing the sporting complex.
The site is within 300m of the Springfield Central railway station now under construction.
The council's planning chairman, Councillor Paul Tully, and recreation chairman, Councillor David Morrison, have also already toured AFL facilities in Melbourne with a view to replicating an elite AFL training and community base in Springfield.
Cr Tully travelled to Melbourne with representatives of the Springfield Land Corporation and met AFL Queensland CEO Mick Conlon. They inspected the training centres of clubs such as Geelong, Hawthorn and North Melbourne.
"Our trip was with a view to enticing the Lions to Springfield to base a major training facility there," Cr Tully said.
"We were looking at the range of facilities of various AFL clubs in terms of their training needs and how those sorts of facilities could be replicated in Springfield.
"To be able to bring the Lions to the western corridor would be great for the city of Ipswich and the western corridor area right out to Ripley."
Brisbane Lions general manager of communications Dave Donaghy said the club was still working through submissions and wouldn't be rushed into a decision.
"We are still working through the process," he said.
"We haven't made any decisions about the location of a future training base but Springfield is certainly still in the mix."
Ipswich Mayor Paul Pisasale said the council was determined to strike a deal with the AFL club.
"We are very serious," Cr Pisasale said.
"If the Lions understand the growth of the western corridor then they will come where the fish are biting. It is going to be much better for them to be involved in Ipswich than in Brisbane."
Cr Morrison likened the Springfield site to the development of Carrara on the Gold Coast, suggesting it may one day be an additional top-level sporting stadium for south-east Queensland.
"I may not be around to see it because it all depends on demand," he said.
"If we didn't leave the planning potential for that now we would be robbing future generations."
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The striker provided a clinical finish to Emmanuel Adebayor's pass following a quick break from Andros Townsend for the only goal of the game in the 28th minute at the Lane.
Our fans on @SpursOfficial on Twitter, Facebook and our Match Centre here on tottenhamhotspur.com handed Roberto over 50 per cent of the votes.
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Chapter 25
Bildad bemoans the lowly state of man and classifies him as a worm.
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2 Dominion and fear are with him, he maketh peace in his high places.
3 Is there any number of his armies? and upon whom doth not his light arise?
4 How then can man be
5 Behold even to the moon, and it shineth not; yea, the stars are not pure in his sight.
6 How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?
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The United Earth Space Probe Agency (which eventually was renamed Starfleet Command)
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The rest of my post actually said that. Various Trek art departments have also sprinkled references to UESPA here and there over the years, but most require screen captures to find them. In VOY's
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It was a great time the dealers were great, friendly and the casino was clean, the rooms were great!
Had a blast
The only thing is they close at 4AM during the weekdays, they should be open 24 hours all the time being casino, like all of the other ones! Also they should have complimentary drinks. I have never been to a casino were the drinks weren't free when you are playing the tables.
Close to where the concert was
No one answered the phone at the front desk. Needed more pillows. Went to front desk and a sign was up saying that the employee had stepped out for thirty minutes. Next morning the juice machine at the continental breakfast was broken. Only had coffee to drink. For the money was a good value. Most likely wouldn't stay again if the was is for more than a night.
Everything, I was pleasantly impressed.
My family and I were very pleased. We felt comfortable and enjoyed our stay. All hotel staff were pleasant and helpful, especially the woman running the breakfast! We were taken good care of!
I booked a room with 2 queen beds and I really think we got a room with 2 double beds because the beds seemed smaller than the queen we have at home.
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Not enough towels, smokers were in it, and service was by a bell after we checked in.
There was a crack in the shower floor. Crud around the baseboard and mold on the bathroom ceiling. No cover over 4' fluorescent bulb over sink. Coffee only available in lobby. Not a problem except door was locked.
I loved the fact that everything was so xlean.
The breakfast was extremely cheap.
Proximity to the golf course and we were very surprised that the hotel was renovated. The rooms were really nice and comfortable.
Pillows were small. Also the room temperature was up and down.
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White House adviser Gene Sperling on Monday said the Obama administration won't allow House Republicans to use the threat of breaching the debt ceiling as leverage in budget negotiations.
"The only way for us to go forward is to all make clear that the era of threatening default is over," Mr. Sperling, director of the White House's National Economic Council, said at a breakfast organized by Politico.
The White House and Congress are deadlocked in talks over the budget, which has led to a partial government shutdown, and the looming Oct. 17 debt ceiling deadline.
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House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) said Sunday he wouldn't bring up bills to fully reopen the government or increase the country's borrowing limit unless Democrats agree to broader talks aimed at trimming the deficit. "The votes are not in the House to pass a clean debt limit, and the president is risking default by not having a conversation with us," Mr. Boehner told ABC.
Mr. Sperling and Jason Furman, chairman of the White House's Council of Economic Advisers, said moving the country toward default could lead to dire consequences.
"It's irresponsible to even get to the 17th without having acted. But then you don't fall off a cliff instantly. We've never actually tested it . We don't know. We don't ever want to find out [what happens], Mr. Furman said.
When asked if a two-week extension would be acceptable, Mr. Sperling said that such a decision is up to Congress though a longer-term solution is preferable. A longer-term extension creates more economic certainty, he said.
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POWNAL A Bennington man was arrested Friday night after what police say was a drunken driving crash that followed a theft of gas from a nearby service station.
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Just prior to the crash, the car was reported involved in a theft of gas from a Stewarts gas station on Route 7, police said.
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J.P. Morgan's Mid-Cap Investment Bank is part of J.P. Morgan's Global Investment Bank and focuses on capital raising and strategic advisory for private and public companies that are existing Commercial Bank clients or prospects of the Firm. The group focuses on companies on a regional basis, with offices in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
Clients span multiple industries such as Consumer, Retail, Industrials, Automotive, Transportation, Metals & Mining, Chemicals, Healthcare, Technology, Media, Telecom, Energy, Financial Institutions, Real Estate and Financial Sponsors. The team partners closely with both industry specialists and product experts across the Firm to be the client's strategic advisor and financial partner, providing a broad range of investment banking products to existing Commercial Bank clients and prospects.
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ATHENS, Greece — Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos will submit his official resignation on Monday after being elected to head the majority Socialist party as the country heads into early general elections.
Venizelos was the only candidate for the leadership of the PASOK party in party's elections on Sunday, and is to formally take over from his predecessor, former Prime Minister George Papandreou, later in the day.
He has been at the heart of months-long negotiations that resulted in a massive second bailout for Greece and a debt writedown deal with private creditors.
"We have the elections ahead of us and I had the opportunity this morning at a farewell meeting at the finance ministry ... to give my final instructions," Venizelos said after meeting with the country's president, Karolos Papoulias, to inform him of the party election results.
The coalition government has not indicated who will be appointed in Venizelos' place. Early general elections are expected in late April or early May, though no firm date has been set.
PASOK won a landslide victory in 2009 general elections, but party defections and public anger over austerity measures prompted it to form an interim coalition government with the rival conservatives last November.
Recent opinion polls have seen its support sink to as low as 11 percent, taking a hit from widespread public anger over repeated austerity measures which have included salary and pension cuts as well as several rounds of tax hikes.
The Bank of Greece predicted the country's will contract by 4.5 percent in 2012 and remain in mild recession next year, while unemployment will surpass 19 percent on average this year.
The gloomy predictions in the central bank's annual report overshadow the coalition government's recent success in negotiating financial rescue deals with both private creditors and emergency lenders from the eurozone and International Monetary Fund.
Greece has taken significant steps to reform the economic system since it signed its first bailout agreement for €110 billion in 2010, the bank said.
However, results were "below expectations," it noted.
"The policy pursued did not convince as a whole that it will succeed, because there was a lack of determination for reform," the central bank said. "The changes were treated as orders from the lenders and not as necessary reforms which cannot be postponed without disastrous consequences."
The bank stressed that in order for the situation to improve and confidence to be restored in the economy, Greece's pledges taken in return for its rescue loans must be implemented "to the letter."
Harsh austerity measures, however, have led to frequent strikes and often violent demonstrations. In the latest labor action, dock workers walked off the job Monday at the start of what they have vowed will be rolling 48-hour strikes. Farmers on islands have argued the strike will leave them facing huge losses as they will be unable to transport their produce to the main urban markets on the mainland.
Sporadic instances of violence have also occurred. Police arrested a man armed who had stormed into a tax office in the Greek capital with a shotgun and fired a shot Monday morning. Police said nobody was injured in the shooting. The man's motives were not immediately clear.
Meanwhile, holders of insurance on Greek bonds are to learn how much they will earn from the country's bond swap deal, agreed this month with private creditors to lower the nation's debt load.
So-called credit default swaps, or CDS, act as insurance for holders of bonds in case of default. An international finance body has ruled that Greece's bond swap will trigger these CDS payouts and has estimated their total value at around $3.2 billion.
The actual amount paid out to CDS holders, however, will be somewhat less — analysts estimate around $2.5 billion — since the country is not defaulting on the full value of its bonds. Investors are taking real losses of about 75 percent of their bondholdings.
The size of the CDS payout will be determined Monday in an auction in which a panel of financial firms estimates the size of the losses on the Greek bonds.
Derek Gatopoulos contributed to this report.
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