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The announcement of the prospective merger of the American Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq stock market makes it sound so alluring.
The deal will ''combine the best features of the Amex's auction market and N.A.S.D.'s electronic market,'' an Amex statement said. Proponents tick off myriad benefits: The smaller American exchange would gain technological expertise and cost efficiency. And the National Association of Securities Dealers, Nasdaq's parent, could build share in the lucrative options market.
But on closer examination the two exchanges are so different, and so entrenched in their ways, that many of these benefits will be very difficult to achieve without substantial risk to both of their existing markets.
With the computer systems at the American Exchange so intertwined with the New York Stock Exchange, experts say, there would be few benefits and many potential pitfalls were Nasdaq to try to switch the Amex to its own computer system. And the prospect of tinkering with either market mechanism is potentially fraught with peril.
Indeed, the London Stock Exchange recently has been switching from a system modeled on Nasdaq to one more like the Amex, and the early results have been very disappointing to many investors.Continue reading the main story
It is still not exactly clear what impact the merger, which has still not been formally agreed to, will have on the existing exchanges. At first both the Amex, which operates from a trading floor in lower Manhattan, and the Nasdaq, which trades through a computer network and telephone lines, will stay separate. But over time, the markets may be linked more closely or even merged in some form.
The trend around the world, after all, is for stock exchanges to close their traditional trading floors and to move to fully computerized systems. The Toronto Stock Exchange turned the lights off on its floor last May. In other countries, like Germany, various regional exchanges are merging into bigger entities.
''We have too many markets,'' said Wayne H. Wagner, president of the Plexus Group, a consulting firm that helps big investors lower their trading costs. ''We will see more markets close their floors and more markets close their doors.''
To compete with electronic markets, the New York Stock Exchange is giving traders on its floors all manner of hand-held computer and communication devices. ''The typical broker on the floor is starting to look like a space cadet,'' said Greg Kipnis, a pioneer in electronic trading now running Invictus Partners, an investment fund. ''The N.Y.S.E. is doing a great job to increase the capacity of their human system.''
Trading experts say that Nasdaq may choose to close Amex's stock trading floor rather than keeping up with that space race. (It may have to invest in more technology for the options trading floor to compete with the Chicago Board Options Exchange, which has won business with its high-technology trading pits.)
In any case, the potential savings from combining the Amex and the Nasdaq is one of the principal motivations for the deal. ''What everyone is focused on is the huge amount of costs involved in running these marketplaces,'' said Bernard L. Madoff, the founder of a brokerage firm that bears his name.
Yet such savings may be much harder to realize than the Nasdaq hopes, trading experts say. Most of the core computers that run the Amex are part of the Securities Industry Automation Corporation, an organization owned two-thirds by the New York exchange and one-third by the American.
While fights between the two Wall Street neighbors over the years have resulted in increasingly separate systems, with the equivalent of red lines being drawn down the middle of the computer room, many parts of S.I.A.C. are still shared. The exchanges are in fact bound together by a shared data network.
Moving the operations of the Amex to Nasdaq's computers, in Trumbull, Conn., would involve complex negotiations with the Big Board, cost a lot of money, and force brokerage firms to reprogram their computers to change the way Amex orders are handled.
''There are not a lot of obvious cost savings if the Amex moves to the Nasdaq system,'' said Brad M. Friedlander, a principal with Arthur D. Little, who has provided consulting services to the New York exchange and to S.I.A.C.
An even more difficult problem, perhaps, is the potential that the trading approaches of the two exchanges would be merged. Traditionally, markets that used an auction system, like both the New York and American exchanges, have been seen as diametric opposites to collections of dealers like Nasdaq.
In auction markets, all the orders to trade in a given stock meet in one location on its trading floor. Often a buy order from one customer is matched directly with a sell order from another. A trader known as a specialist trades with a customer only if there is no ready other side for a trade.
On Nasdaq, all trades are sent to one of several dealers, who buy and sell out of their inventory. A computerized bulletin board system enables comparison shopping by posting the prices of all the competing dealers.
In theory, the auction markets have been seen as better for customers because they often eliminate the middleman and concentrate all the shares for sale in one spot. In practice, the lines between the two trading systems have been blurring for years. In particular, the Securities and Exchange Commission has forced Nasdaq to create systems for limit orders -- those which specify a price -- that let customers buy and sell from each other without trading with dealers.
''The auction market, even New York, has a lot more dealer involvement than it did, and Nasdaq has a lot more auction aspects,'' Mr. Madoff said. ''The market of the future will be a hybrid.''
Yet London's attempt to create such a hybrid has resulted in a system that has alienated many British investors. In the so-called Big Bang in 1986, London closed its trading floor and moved to a system modeled after Nasdaq, in which investors were required to buy and sell from dealers. In an attempt to create fairer prices for all investors, the London exchange last fall introduced a system in which orders are entered into a computerized auction so investors who want to buy and sell can have their trades matched up.
Yet the rules allowed brokerage firms to ignore the auction if they wanted to. So a big dealer could sell a stock to a client, say at $:3, even when someone had entered a limit order into the computer to sell the same company's shares at $:2.95. As a result, investors have found that orders using the computerized system make them pay too much for shares they want to buy and receive too little when they sell. Now 70 percent of the trading is bypassing the new auction system.
''London has designed perhaps the worst limit order book in the world,'' said Eric K. Clemons, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, who has provided consulting services to the London exchange. The reason it works so badly, he said, is that it is meant to preserve the profits of the large firms that deal in stocks rather than those of the customers. That is exactly the criticism that has been leveled over the years at Nasdaq.
As the Nasdaq now debates whether to complete this merger and then how to carry it out, seemingly minor rules, like those adopted in London, will have a great effect on how well any combination of an auction and a dealer market will serve all customers rather than just a handful of dealers.
''Some of these things,'' Mr. Madoff said, ''could gore a little bit of everybody's ox.''Continue reading the main story


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As the new college hoops season tips off, it becomes increasingly important to be able to add more value to your at-work lunchtime debates than "Emeka Okefor rules." Your preparation must include the scoop on the hottest storylines, names and trends. Heaven forbid you mistakenly reference "Carmelo Anthony" and risk social ostracism.
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In particular, you should make sure you check out the Royal Flying Doctor Service in The Gap, Adelaide House, the Araluen Cultural Precinct, the Museum of Central Australia in Gillen and the National Pioneer Women's Hall of Fame.
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Despite her imprisonment and the murders of her mother, husband and friends by the Nazis, Alice has been victorious in her ability to live a life without bitterness. She credits music as the key to her survival and ability to acknowledge the humanity in each person, even her enemies.
A pianist herself, Stoessinger is a recognized authority on music of the Holocaust. She is the world authority on the life and compositions of Sir Georg Henschel, the first conductor of the Boston Symphony. Her biography of Henschel's friendship with Brahms is titled" Henschel's Diary." Stoessinger has performed on the stages of Carnegie Hall, the 92nd Y, Lincoln Center and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Stoessinger has performed as piano soloist with the American Symphony, Oslo Philharmonic, Brooklyn Philharmonic, Prague Symphony, Czech Philharmonic and Orchestra of St. Luke's.
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The Cat in the Hat & Joey, retitled The Cat in the Hat Gets Tricked for American Audiences, is the first episode of The Cat in the Hat and Friends. It is a parody of the Thomas & Friends episode Thomas & Gordon/Thomas Gets Tricked.
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- Joey (Sam-I-Am's Friend) as Gordon
- Sneetches as Coaches
- A Who as Thomas' Driver
- Horton the Elephant as Henry (Cameo Role)
- Norval the Fish as James (Cameo Role)
Narrator: "The Cat in the Hat is a cat who lives in a big playhouse on Seussville. He is a cheeky little cat, with black and white fur, a long tail, a red bow tie, and a large red and white striped hat.
He's a fussy little cat, too. Always bringing Sneetches about, ready for the bigger animals to take on long journeys.
And when animals come in, he brings the Sneetches back home so that the animals can go and rest.
The Cat thinks no animal works as hard as he does. He loves playing tricks on them, including Joey, the biggest and proudest dog of them all. The Cat likes whistling rudely at him."
The Cat in the Hat: "Wake up, lazy bones, why don't you work hard, like me!"
Narrator: "One day, after taking some Sneetches on a journey, Joey arrived back at his house, very tired. He was just going to sleep when The Cat came up in his cheeky way."
The Cat in the Hat: "Wake up, lazy bones! Do some hard work for a change! You can't catch me!"
Narrator: "And off he ran, laughing.
Instead of going to sleep again, Joey thought how he could get back at The Cat.
One morning, The Cat wouldn't wake up. His Who couldn't make him start. His stamina was low, and there was not enough strength. It was nearly time for the express. People were waiting, but the Sneetches weren't ready.
At last, The Cat started."
The Cat in the Hat: "Oh dear, oh dear!"
Narrator: "He yawned.
He fussed into the station, where Joey was waiting.
Joey: "Hurry up, you!"
Narrator: "Said Joey."
The Cat in the Hat: "Hurry yourself!"
Narrator: "Replied The Cat.
Joey began making his plan."
Joey: "Yes,"
Narrator: "Said Joey,"
Joey: "I will."
Narrator: "And almost before the Sneetches stopped moving, Joey reversed quickly and held the first one's hand."
Joey: "Get in quickly, please."
Narrator: "He whistled.
The Cat usually pushed behind the Sneetches to help them start, but they always let go of him first. This time, Joey started so quickly, they forgot to let go of The Cat. Joey's chance had come."
Joey: "Come on, come on,"
Narrator: "Puffed Joey to the Sneetches.
The line went faster and faster. Too fast for The Cat. He wanted to stop, but he couldn't!"
The Cat in the Hat: "Hey, hey! Stop, stop!"
Joey: "Hurry, hurry, hurry!"
Narrator: "Laughed Joey."
Sneetches: "You can't get away, you can't get away!"
Narrator: "Laughed the Sneetches.
The poor Cat was going faster than he had ever gone before. He was out of breath, and his feet hurt him, but he had to go on."
The Cat in the Hat: "I shall never be the same again!"
Narrator: "He thought sadly."
The Cat in the Hat: "My feet will be quite worn out."
Narrator: "At last, they stopped at a station.
The Cat let go, and he felt very silly and exhausted.
Next, he sat on a turntable, thinking of everyone laughing at him.
And then he ran onto a path, out of the way."
Joey "Well, little Cat,"
Narrator: "Chuckled Joey."
Joey: "Now you know what hard work means, don't you?"
Narrator: "The poor Cat couldn't answer. He had no breath. He just puffed slowly away to rest, and had a long, long drink.
He went home very slowly, and was careful afterwards never to be cheeky to Joey again."
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I have questions about the d7100 viewfinder. I have a canon t2i and the viewfinder is a pentamirror type. I find it dull, dark, and grainy to look into. The camera is nice tho.
My dad got a canon 6d that he returned then got a 5dm3 and I looked into his viewfinders on these cameras and WOW they are so bright and crystal clear unlike my t2i. I have never seen this type of viewfinder before.
I looked into this and learned the pentaprism is on these 2 high end canon products and it is a feature i would value.
Now I would like to be a nikon guy and im looking at the d7100 as my 1st nikon dslr and im very excited about this camera and I am 90% sure i will get this camera over the canon 6d or a nex6. Today i was in best buy because its raining real bad here and I was stuck inside for a bit. I asked to see the d7000 and I was disappointed that the d7000 had the same type of look in the viewfinder as my t2i being dark grainy and dull. I thought the d7000 was also a pentaprism and should have the same clarity as the canon cameras I mentioned above. The sales guy gave me a 6d to look thru and i notice how much brighter it was then the d7000. the Canon was so loud with clarity and brightness. (edit to say i did play with aperture and achieved the same results
Is the d7000 a pentamirror? Will the d7100 have the pentaprism clarity as the canon 6d? What is the difference i notice. Am i correct to assume to get the super clear pentaprism effect i am after its gonna cost lots more$$ for a more high end camera with a higher grade viewfinder?
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Lodi Lake is typically drained in November and refilled with Mokelumne River water about April 1 each year. But the Woodbridge district has requested a month's delay so that the contractor building the new Woodbridge Dam can construct a large portion of a new fish bypass during the spring, said Tim Gatschet, the dam's project manager for F&H Construction.


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The surrounding streets are also famed for their night life, the majority of which is found along the notorious bar street, a long stretch filled with bars and clubs where you can drink and dance until the early hours of the morning.
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The Sophia Hotel Faliraki offers studio accommodation with a private shower room, balcony and the option of a kitchenette. Each comes with air conditioning and satellite TV. Certain amenities may be payable locally.
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Following the recall of nearly 12 million Shrek glasses over the summer because of toxic levels of brain-damaging, cancer-causing lead and cadmium, the Associated Press has discovered that pretty much every decorative drinking glass ever made carries the same risk, dating back to nearly 50 years ago. A specially commissioned laboratory test of 35 separate drinking glasses made between the late 1960s and this year — including those with enamel designs of Superman, Batman, and characters from The Wizard Of Oz — found that all of them exceeded federal limits on lead in children's products by up to 1,000 times, many of these coming from glasses given out as part of various fast-food promotions over the years.
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text: PoliticsAssad forces leave Syrian towns in shambles Like many other towns, Harasta, outside Damascus is left destroyed by government forces. 26 Jan 2013 16:03 GMT | Politics, Environment, Middle East, Syria The 22-month-long conflict in Syria has led to entire towns being emptied. Harasta, in the suburbs of Damascus, is one such town. Al Jazeera's Sophie Nicholson reports on the town once home to 500,000 people where now nearly everything has been destroyed and locals are left without basics.Source: Al Jazeera


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Ever Brite is a wireless, solar powered light which turns on at night, with a built in motion sensor to increase and decrease the light based on your approach and departure. The company claims to detect movement up to 12 feet away. They have construction grade adhesive which claims to mount in seconds to any exterior material including shingles, siding, and doors. There are also claims that these lights can be useful lighting up steps, above doors, in garages, on sheds, and virtually any other surface. In addition to their waterproof construction, consumers get LED bulbs which last a lifetime.
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Solar powered lights without tools or wires.
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- Overpriced
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Frankie Cocozza has hit out at The X Factor, claiming that he would rather cause himself injury than audition for the show again.
The Celebrity Big Brother runner-up found fame on the ITV reality show last year, but was axed from the live stages of the competition after allegedly bragging about his drug use.
"Thinking about going to audition for the xfactor this year #lies," the 19-year-old wrote on Twitter. "i would rather put a toothpick under my toe nail and kick a wall."
However, Cocozza quickly backtracked on his criticism of the The X Factor, saying that he was grateful for the fame it brought.
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A Rhetorical Analysis Essay Project
of 2015 Super Bowl Commercials
By Mackenzie Bielen
English 12 with Mr. Smith at CNHS
BMW: Newfangled Idea
2015 Super Bowl Commercial
Mr. Smith's English 12 Essay Project
Rhetorical Analysis Essay
By Mackenzie Bielen
As a senior in high school, I am always looking towards the future, wondering what it will be like and what will be the next big thing. In today's society we all have this similar mindset of looking for the next big thing. For example, the 2015 Super Bowl commercial for BMW talked about when the internet came out it was considered a huge event and was labeled by many to be the next big thing. I can look at this commercial for the BMW I3 and appreciate how it appeals towards this mindset by making the implication that, like the internet, the BMW I3 is going to be the next big thing. The "Newfangled Idea" commercial uses different forms of pathos, logos, and ethos to persuade the viewer to want their product.
In this advertisement by BMW from the 2015 Super Bowl, different forms of emotional appeal are used to gain the viewer's interest. The first noticeable appeal presented is pathos, which is used in the form of comedy. It begins by showing a clip from 1994 where two news anchors, are discussing what was, at the time, a new invention called the internet. As they try to define what the internet is and figure out how it works, the viewer can't help but smile because today the internet is such a common thing. After that clip it switches to present time and shows those same news anchors driving BMW's new electric car and trying to figure out how it works, just like they were doing 11 years prior with the internet.
Pathos is used again just before the commercial ends. When the male news anchor looks over to his co host and asks if she can twerk. This is using emotional appeal because most of our society has a knowledge of twerking due to the famous celebrity, Miley Cyrus, popularizing it. When the audience is shown a video of people in their fifties talking about twerking it will come off comically, which will work towards their advantage because comedy is a great way to get the viewer's attention, and interest, and help them feel joy which they will associate with the brand.
Ethical appeals are used in this commercial. Ethos is used when they show the two news anchors, Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric, two influential and respected people in our society. It is from these credible people advertising this new car that we are able to place more trust in the dependability of this vehicle. Another way ethos is used is by the BMW name backing up the product. BMW, being the idolized car company that it is, allows the viewers to believe that this is a reliable vehicle and that it in fact one of the best we would be able to find out on the line.
One more way that this commercial appeals to its viewers is by the use of logos. Many logical appeals are used in order to prove the stability of the vehicle and why we should buy this one compared to its competitors. The commercial describes how the vehicle is not only energy efficient and beneficial to our planet, but also made in a way that does not use any fossil fuels, but instead uses wind turbines. Stating the miles per fill up, safety features found in this car, and extra qualities added to make this car the best that it can be also appeals to the logical side of our brain.
At the end of the commercial we can notice a slide that states, "Big ideas take a little getting used to." This is an attempt at both pathos and logos. We can tell that it is using pathos because reading a quote like this inspires emotional feeling in most viewers since it is a popular quote in our society. This is also a form of logos, however, because using this quote causes the viewer to think that its user is wise and knows what they are talking about.
A last attempt at logos is used in the slogan that BMW uses, which is presented at the end under the BMW logo. It reads "The Ultimate Driving Machine". This is a use of logos because it is a statement of BMW's authority. It is telling the viewer that they know what they are talking about and how to build a great car because they are the ultimate, or the very, very best.
After carefully analyzing this commercial BMW has done a good job of using pathos, ethos and logos to sell the product to their viewer. They were successfully able to capture the viewers emotion through pathos and draw you in with comedic ploys and scenes. They successfully used logos to statistically assure you that there product is worth buying by stating how their car is made using wind turbines and doesn't emit any fossil fuel into our environment. Finally, they established credibility through using news anchors that have been around for awhile. As a high school senior, I am looking forward to the future and to having a BMW I3.


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Amsterdam business eyes site for redevelopment
An Amsterdam business owner still waiting for financial assistance promised a year ago for a previous project is now considering a new project that would bring a vacant building back to use on the city's South Side.
The Amsterdam Industrial Development Agency is holding a public hearing Thursday to consider assistance, including a payment in lieu of taxes arrangement, for Mohawk Properties, a sister company of Mohawk Fabric.
IDA Director Jody Zakrevsky said the business is eyeing the purchase of the former bowling alley at 1451 state Route 5S as part of a $300,000 project.
"It's been vacant for a while," Zakrevsky said.
Mohawk Properties is looking to use the facility as a cold storage site for Mohawk Fabric, according to a notice published by the city's IDA.
Mohawk Fabric completed a 14,000-square-foot expansion project at its facility at 96 Guy Park Ave. in 2011 and now employs 14 people.
Mohawk Fabric CEO Dominic Wade could not be reached for comment for this story.
The textile manufacturer, which makes gaskets for the automotive and aerospace industries, has been waiting for nearly $50,000 in grant funding that was promised and secured to purchase equipment for the expansion, Wade said in September.
The city's Urban Renewal Agency, according to minutes from an August meeting, can't release funding even though it's already been approved due to the city not having had a recent audit. The city of Amsterdam is supposed to audit its books and provide details to the state, and the lack of the audit for the city's finances dating from the end of June 2012 precludes the release of the money.
AURA, according to the minutes, initiated its own audit to attempt to unfreeze funds.
A spokesman said the state Comptroller's Office doesn't track spending on the part of the city and said federal agencies would be responsible for "freezing" accounts for lack of audits.
AURA director Nick Zabawski could not be reached for comment Monday.
Zakrevsky said the delay in funding from the city of Amsterdam is not expected to affect incentives being sought through the IDA.
Mayor Ann Thane on Monday said it's her understanding the city's deputy controller is finalizing the audit.
During its meeting Thursday, the IDA will consider a variety of incentives for Mohawk Properties, including exemptions from sales tax, mortgage recording and other real estate taxes.
The property being considered on the South Side consists of 4.1 acres of land and a one-story, 12,636-square-foot building valued at $246,479, according to county property records.
The IDA will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in City Hall, 61 Church St. A public hearing on the Mohawk Properties project is slated for 6:15 p.m.


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SiriusXM radio host Chris "Mad Dog" Russo performs William Shakespeare classic sonnet, "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day" in the clip embedded below.
Why would he do that?
It's part of SiriusXM's Valentine's Day promotion, a limited-run pop-up channel on Friday called "Romance Radio" (Channel 108 for subscribers).
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Eamonn O'Kane wins again
Eamonn O'Kane and Marc McCullough walked away from the Craigavon Leisure Centre brimming with confidence after two eye-catching victories on Saturday night.
Commonwealth Games middleweight gold medallist O'Kane was always a class above Tommy Tolan in their six-rounder and the Belfast man failed to come out for the final round.
It's two out of two for O'Kane who now expects to return to action on July 23 in London.
O'Kane said: "I'm very pleased with my performance, Tommy made it tough, particularly inside where he was holding. It was a good learning fight for me and a great start to my pro career."
Featherweight McCullough won the battle of the debutants when he stopped fellow Belfast man Eddie Nesbitt in the second round, having floored him in the first.
Lurgan welterweight Stephen Haughian easily outpointed Poland's Arek Malek over six rounds, while unbeaten flyweight Jamie Conlan was taken the distance by journeyman Delroy Spencer in their six-rounder.
Omagh's Dee Taggart and Belfast's Mark Ginley also won on points against Scotland's Guiseppe Daprato and England's Robin Deakin respectively, while in Dublin Belfast's Ciaran Healy pulled off a shock with a first round knockout of Brendan Fitzpatrick - his first pro loss.
In Cologne, Irishman Matthew Macklin felt he was robbed of the WBA World middleweight title when he lost a split decision to German Felix Sturm, 116-112, 116-112, 113-115. Macklin is hoping for an immediate re-match.
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Technical Superintendent
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- Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire
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- Expires
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MSM is currently managing dry cargo, RoRo and reefer vessels
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Technical Superintendent
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"Just as we fired the first shot to start the revolution, this might be the first shot – no pun intended – to start a movement against assault weapons that would capture the state and therefore maybe explode to reach the country."
-Robert Rotberg author and catalyst of Lexington's gun ban proposal.
Lexington, Massachusetts. Does the name of that quaint New England town ring a bell for anyone? It should, Lexington, MA, is where American independence was kicked into high gear. On April 19, 1775, the British "red coats" marched out of Boston, heading for Concord, intending to seize caches of arms stored by local militias. They were first met on the Lexington town green and the skirmish was on, the rest as they say is history.
Fast-forward almost 240 years to the day and some of the residents of Lexington have come full circle.
They are now advocating for the government to seize legally owned firearms from the town's residents.
The town of Lexington utilizes an annual town meeting to set policy, bylaws and approve things like the town budget. The residents do not vote directly; instead they have approximately 200 "town meeting members" who vote in representation of their constituents.
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The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday it believes a recovery in the U.S. housing market is key to eventually boosting economic growth in the United States and bringing down the country's unemployment rate.
The IMF's annual assessment of the U.S. economy released on Thursday forecast U.S. growth strengthening from current low levels of around 2.0 per cent to about 3.4 per cent by 2016 and 3.3 per cent in 2017.
"We know that over the next few years the formation of U.S. households and depreciation of the housing stock will imply there will be a need for about 1.5 million homes to be built on a yearly basis," IMF economist Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti told a conference call with reporters.
"That is clearly going to be something that will help U.S. growth over the medium term and of course a firming of the housing market will have all sorts of positive implications ... in other sectors connected to housing," he added.
While the IMF released a statement on its assessment of the U.S. economy on July 3, the report published on Thursday is more detailed.
The IMF has urged the United States to quickly remove the uncertainty over the path of fiscal policy, which is set to tighten abruptly at the start of next year without congressional action.
IMF staff said without a political agreement on the so-called "fiscal cliff" of $4-trillion (U.S.) worth of expiring tax cuts and automatic government spending reductions next year, growth in the U.S. economy could slow to around zero and contract in 2013.
Most analysts do not expect Congress to act to soften the blow until after the congressional and presidential elections in November.
Mr. Milesi-Ferretti said it was unclear whether the slowdown in U.S. growth in the second quarter was just a temporary blip or a sign of a more protracted downturn.
"We think in the latter case there is clearly more scope for additional action" by the Federal Reserve, he said.
The IMF board of member countries said in a statement it agreed with the staff assessment that monetary policy in the United States needs to remain highly accommodative for "quite some time".
While most of the board directors agreed there is room for further easing of U.S. interest rates if global conditions worsen, a number of directors said the effectiveness of additional easing could be limited given already very low interest rates.
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We are the Navigators, a research team on distributed systems, their architectures, their algorithms, in their several skins: fault tolerance, real-time, security, and combinations thereof.
We also pursue the quest for the right balance between science and technology. Some people say that Informatics (a.k.a. computer science and engineering) belongs to a new breed, of what are called techno-sciences. We believe that techno-scientists should accompany theoretical mastery with a deep knowledge of their environment — computer technology — as well as astro-physicists know the sky, or marine biologists know the sea.
We study new theories to explain distributed systems, and new algorithms to take advantage from them. But we also like to do proof-of-concept experiments about the theory we work on. We try that our papers and theses tell a good story as clearly as possible. We work hard for our demonstrations to be convincing and captivating. Because we believe science is made for others.
Our greatest riches are our culture, and our researchers and students. If you believe in the former, you can become one of the latter. Welcome!
- (1/Sep/2016) A H2020 research project lead by the Navigators group has started. The project is called: DiSIEM - Diversity enhancements for SIEMs
- (1/July/2016) We have initiated a new FCT research project. The project is called: IRCoC - Intelligent Resilience for Cloud-of-Clouds Services
- (1/Jan/2016) We have started a collaboration project with colleagues from Brasil, which is supported by CAPES-FCT. The project is called: Resilient Supervision and Control in Smart Grids
Latest publications
- João de Sousa Alves, José Rufino, "Comparing the inaccessibility characteristics of CAN and CAN FD protocols", in Atas do 9º Simpósio de Informática (INForum 2017), Aveiro, Portugal, Oct. 2017.
- Vinicius Vielmo Cogo, Alysson Bessani, Francisco M. Couto, Margarida Gama-Carvalho, Maria Fernandes, Paulo Esteves-Verissimo, "How can photo sharing inspire sharing genomes?", in Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB'17), Porto, Portugal, Jun. 2017.
- António Casimiro, Inês Gouveia, José Rufino, "Enforcing Timeliness and Safety in Mission-Critical Systems", in Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies, Ada-Europe 2017, Vienna, Austria, Jun. 2017.
- Pedro Costa, Fernando Ramos, Miguel Correia, "Chrysaor: Fine-Grained, Fault-Tolerant Cloud-of-Clouds MapReduce", in IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid), May 2017. Best student paper award
- Max Alaluna, Eric Vial, Nuno Ferreira Neves, Fernando Ramos, "Secure and Dependable Multi-Cloud Network Virtualization", in 1st International Workshop on Security and Dependability of Multi-Domain Infrastructures (XDOM0), Apr. 2017.
- André Nogueira, António Casimiro, Alysson Bessani, "Elastic State Machine Replication", IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Mar. 2017.
- Pedro Costa, Miguel Correia, Fernando Ramos, "On the Design of Resilient Multicloud MapReduce", IEEE Cloud Computing, 2017.
- Inês Gouveia, José Rufino, "Enforcing safety and security through non-intrusive runtime verification", in Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Security and Dependability of Critical Embedded Real-Time Systems (CERTS), Porto, Portugal, Dec. 2016, pp. 19–24.
- Tiago Oliveira, Ricardo Mendes, Alysson Bessani, "Exploring Key-Value Stores in Multi-Writer Byzantine-Resilient Register Emulations", in Proceedings of the 20th International Conference On Principles Of DIstributed Systems (OPODIS'16), Dec. 2016.
- Nuno Ferreira, "Preventing DoS attacks in multi-domain optical SDN", Master's thesis, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, Departamento de Informática, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Nov. 2016.
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday 2017-Jun-28, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Regivaldo Costa
|A Software-Defined Netwoking approach to enhance BGP security
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday 2017-Jun-14, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Ibéria Medeiros
|Demonstrating a Tool for Injection Attack Prevention in MySQL
|Fernando Ramos
|uPVN: User-centric Programmable Virtual Networks
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday 2017-May-31, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Miguel Correia
|Detecting Malicious Hosts Using Traffic Flows
|Sileshi Demesi Yalew
|Mobile Device Security with ARM TrustZone
What: NavTalk, When: Friday 2017-May-19, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|João Silva
|Distributed implementation of evolutionary algorithms
|Diogo Pinto
|(to be rescheduled)
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-May-03, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Rui Miguel
|P4: Programming Protocol-Independent Packet Processors (Bosshart et al., SIGCOMM'14)
|Fabio Pereria
|Network Monitoring in a Secure and Efficient Way
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Apr-19, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Bruno Nunes
|Live Migration of Networks
|Pedro Alves
|Smarter Routing for a Smarter Grid
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Apr-05, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Antonio Casimiro
|Enforcing Timeliness and Safety in Mission-Critical Systems
|Eunice Branco
|Cyberthreat Discovery in Open Source Intelligence using Deep Learning Techniques
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Mar-08, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Miguel Falé
|Protecting WAP from infinite recursion
|Henrique Mendes
|Securing DLMS/COSEM implementations for use in the smart grid
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Mar-08, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Adriano Serckumecka
|Collection and monitoring of security events to feed SIEMs
| Eric Vial, Max Alaluna,
Fernando Ramos
|Demonstration of Sirius, a Multi-Cloud Network Virtualization Platform
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Feb-22, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Nuno Neves
|Intrusion Tolerant Eclipse SCADA
|Bruno Vavala
|Secure Tera-scale Data Crunching with a Small TCB
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Feb-08, 12pm-2pm, Where: room 6.3.38
|Tiago Oliveira
|Exploring Key-Value Stores in Multi-Writer Byzantine-Resilient Register Emulations
|Max Alanuna
|Sehen: Secure Yet Efficient Virtual Network Embedding in a Multi-Cloud Environment
What: NavTalk, When: Wednesday, 2017-Jan-25, 12pm-2pm,
Where: (exceptionally) room 6.2.46
| Altair Santin
(guest speaker)
| Segurança para ambiente de Smart Grid
(Security for Smart Grid Environments)
|João Sousa
|Practical experiences with a BFT middleware database
[13] What: NavTalk, When: Thursday, 2017-Jan-13, 12pm-2pm,
Where: (exceptionally) room 6.1.25
|José Rufino
|The (Hidden) Potential of Non-Intrusive Runtime Verification
|Inês Gouveia
|Enforcing Safety and Security Through Non-Intrusive Runtime Verification
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