State Sovereignty Commission Materials in the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers in the Archives of the University of Southern Mississippi

As Lieutenant Governor and Governor of the state, Paul B. Johnson received copies of regular reports prepared by the director of the Sovereignty Commission. These reports comprise nine boxes of the Paul B. Johnson Family Papers and cover the period from 1964 to 1968. The reports were clearly identified but scattered throughout the Johnson Family Papers in no order. There is much overlap between materials in the Sovereignty Commission series and those in the Highway Patrol series, since the two organizations worked together to monitor Civil Rights activities in the state from 1960 to 1968. The collection number is M 191. Reports are arranged by date; other materials by subject

Does Section 329 Grant Exclusive Jurisdiction to Bankruptcy Courts?

(Excerpt) Fee agreements between bankruptcy debtors and their counsel must often be settled in court. In which court those fee disputes can be heard is a question that is not yet settled. One court has looked to section 329 of the Bankruptcy Code for the answer. Section 329 states that if the compensation agreed upon by the debtor and attorney exceeds a reasonable value for the services rendered, “the court” may cancel the agreement or return some of the payment. In re Piccinini is the first case to hold that the phrase “the court” in section 329 confers exclusive jurisdiction to bankruptcy courts over attorney-debtor fee agreements, but the lack of legislative intent and supportive case could cause this case to be disregarded by future courts deciding the same issue. In In re Piccinini, the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan rejected arguments that state courts had concurrent jurisdiction over bankruptcy cases. Instead, the Piccinini court held section 329 of the Bankruptcy Code grants exclusive jurisdiction to bankruptcy courts to resolve fee disputes between debtors and their counsel. The court relied on the well-settled interpretation of section 523(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code and policy arguments supporting a similar interpretation of section 329. Piccinini stayed the state suit filed by the debtor’s original counsel for collection of his fees until the bankruptcy court resolved the section 329 motion filed by the debtor. Part I of this memorandum discusses the statutory provisions relevant to the issue of jurisdiction and section 329. Part II of this memorandum analyzes the holding in In re Piccinini. Part III of this memorandum discusses arguments that litigants may make in future section 329 jurisdiction disputes. The memorandum concludes that In re Piccinini lacks support and that the issue of jurisdiction over section 329 fee disputes is still open for debate

DNS++: Dynamic Name Resolution with Homomorphic Encryption Based Privacy

This paper presents DNS++, a re-design of the Internet's name resolution system that addresses dynamic information and privacy. DNS++ uses a pub/sub overlay to send updates about a given service to interested clients, allowing them to (re)select between replicas according to their requirements, as updates about services and their features dynamically change. Since third-party brokers in the overlay are not always trusted for the confidentiality of the content flowing through them, clients' privacy is preserved in DNS++ through homomorphic encryption. Brokers are prevented from accessing encrypted service information but can perform homomorphic match and forward service updates to relevant clients through the overlay accordingly. Assuming that forwarding tables in each broker are implemented via ordered data structures, the time required for adding a new client's subscription, and to perform homomorphic match between existing subscriptions and service updates, would grow logarithmically with the number of entries within a table. This is shown by our performance evaluation, which confirms that DNS++ is feasible to be deployed with an acceptable performance overhead

Private Routing in the Internet

Despite the breakthroughs in end-to-end encryption that keeps the content of Internet data confidential, the fact that packet headers contain source and IP addresses remains a strong violation of users' privacy. This paper describes a routing mechanism that allows for connections to be established where no provider, including the final destination, knows who is connecting to whom. The system makes use of inter-domain source routing with public key cryptography to establish connections and simple private symmetric encryption in the data path that allows for fully stateless packet transmission. We discuss the potential implications of real deployment of our routing mechanism in the Internet

DNS++: Dynamic Name Resolution with Homomorphic Encryption Based Privacy

This paper presents DNS++, a re-design of the Internet's name resolution system that addresses dynamic information and privacy. DNS++ uses a pub/sub overlay to send updates about a given service to interested clients, allowing them to (re)select between replicas according to their requirements, as updates about services and their features dynamically change. Since third-party brokers in the overlay are not always trusted for the confidentiality of the content flowing through them, clients' privacy is preserved in DNS++ through homomorphic encryption. Brokers are prevented from accessing encrypted service information but can perform homomorphic match and forward service updates to relevant clients through the overlay accordingly. Assuming that forwarding tables in each broker are implemented via ordered data structures, the time required for adding a new client's subscription, and to perform homomorphic match between existing subscriptions and service updates, would grow logarithmically with the number of entries within a table. This is shown by our performance evaluation, which confirms that DNS++ is feasible to be deployed with an acceptable performance overhead

Rethinking the social impacts of the arts

The paper presents a critical discussion of the current debate over the social impacts of the arts in the UK. It argues that the accepted understanding of the terms of the debate is rooted in a number of assumptions and beliefs that are rarely questioned. The paper goes on to present the interim findings of a three‐year research project, which aims to rethink the social impact of the arts, with a view to determining how these impacts might be better understood. The desirability of a historical approach is articulated, and a classification of the claims made within the Western intellectual tradition for what the arts “do” to people is presented and discussed

Inter-areal coordination of columnar architectures during visual cortical development

The occurrence of a critical period of plasticity in the visual cortex has long been established, yet its function in normal development is not fully understood. Here we show that as the late phase of the critical period unfolds, different areas of cat visual cortex develop in a coordinated manner. Orientation columns in areas V1 and V2 become matched in size in regions that are mutually connected. The same age trend is found for such regions in the left and right brain hemisphere. Our results indicate that a function of critical period plasticity is to progressively coordinate the functional architectures of different cortical areas - even across hemispheres.Comment: 30 pages, 1 table, 6 figure

Effect of the Orbital Level Difference in Doped Spin-1 Chains

Doping of a two-orbital chain with mobile S=1/2 Fermions and strong Hund's rule couplings stabilizing the S=1 spins strongly depends on the presence of a level difference among these orbitals. By DMRG methods we find a finite spin gap upon doping and dominant pairing correlations without level-difference, whereas the presence of a level difference leads to dominant charge density wave (CDW) correlations with gapless spin-excitations. The string correlation function also shows qualitative differences between the two models.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure

VIRTUAL DIVING IN THE UNDERWATER ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF CALA MINNOLA

The paper presents the application of the technologies and methods defined in the VISAS project for the case study of the underwater archaeological site of Cala Minnola located in the island of Levanzo, in the archipelago of the Aegadian Islands (Sicily, Italy). The VISAS project (http://visas-project.eu) aims to improve the responsible and sustainable exploitation of the Underwater Cultural Heritage by means the development of new methods and technologies including an innovative virtual tour of the submerged archaeological sites. In particular, the paper describes the 3D reconstruction of the underwater archaeological site of Cala Minnola and focus on the development of the virtual scene for its visualization and exploitation. The virtual dive of the underwater archaeological site allows users to live a recreational and educational experience by receiving historical, archaeological and biological information about the submerged exhibits, the flora and fauna of the place

Nueva contribución a la cronología absoluta del foso-trinchera monumental de Stretto- Partanna (Trapani, Sicilia)

This article presents a decisive contribution to the absolute chronology of one of the most spectacular constructions of the Neolithic societies of the Central Mediterranean, the ditch-trench of Stretto di Partanna (Trapani, Sicily). This structure, excavated in a calcareous bedrock to a depth of 13 m was, according to some authors, part of a complex hydraulic system, where cultural and symbolic features could have played an important role. The five radiocarbon dates presented in this article correspond to the last 2 m of stratification and indicate that the ditch-trench began to be filled in the early centuries of the 5th millennium cal BC, between 4950 and 4800 cal BC. Consequently, we infer it was excavated and used immediately before this time.Este trabajo constituye una contribución decisiva a la cronología absoluta del foso-trinchera de Contrada Stretto, en Partanna (Trapani, Sicilia), una de las más espectaculares construcciones realizadas por sociedades neolíticas del Mediterráneo Central. Esta estructura, excavada en el banco natural calcáreo hasta alcanzar una profundidad de 13 m, a juicio de algunos autores, formó parte de un complejo sistema hidráulico en el cual pudieron desempeñar un papel importante ciertos aspectos simbólicos o cultuales. Las cinco dataciones radiocarbónicas presentadas en este trabajo corresponden a los últimos 2 m de estratificación. Éstas apuntan a un inicio del proceso de colmatación a comienzos del V milenio cal AC, entre el 4950 y el 4800 cal AC. Defendemos como probable su construcción en un momento inmediatamente anterior, considerando el periodo de uso previo a su condena definitiva