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So far, the Principality of Andorra has signed the following fiscal conventions according to OCDE rules:
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Valentí Martí. More than 30 years of experiences in the legal, fiscal and business fields.
He Graduated on Law at the Navarra University and in parallel he reached the Economic Bachelor degree.
During 12 years he has been The General Secretary of the Andorra Parliament and was a Parliamentarist, «Conseller General», for 17 years 1995-2012.
Those were the years when the Principality of Andorra initiated the Constitution and started opening the Principality to more International Relations. It added associations to the centenarian relations of its Co-princes (France President and Bishop Seu Urgell-Vatican) and its friendly neighbours (Spain and Portugal).
Valentí co-led the legal framework of other countries by sitting as a Permanent Secretary in the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, at the Malta Mediterranean Association and at the LatinAmerica Summits held during those 12 years of his Secretariat.
In addition to his international legal expertise, since 2012 he actively participates at the andorran political environment by being the Secretary of International Affairs at the Liberal party (current opposition party of the 2012-2020 Government). During those years, he promoted the new keynesian economics to be ideally implemented in a country like Andorra. It is not by coincidence that the signature of a renewed Keneysian Manifest of the Liberal Parties around the world took place in Andorra in 2017.
Since 2012, Valentí holds his law firm in Andorra, where he advices international clients on fiscal and mercantile activities. He helps foreigners on their introduction and easy immersion to the Andorra benefits.
Amongst his international profile, may we underline that he has strong fiscal and legal knowledge on Spain, Russia, United Arab Emirates, France, Portugal and Panama.
Giannina Tacca. Launching businesses & Improving revenues and operations since 1997.
More than 20 years of experiences in Paris, Mexico, Milan, New York, Kuala Lumpur, Cuba, London, Geneva, Madrid, Barcelona, A Coruña, Lisboa, Athenes, Stockholm, Roma and now in Andorra.
MBA from ESADE with an International Finance specialization at Cornell University Johnson School and a Bachelor Degree on Business Administration of Public & Private companies from ITAM Mexico. She has also a degree on Negotiation from IESE; on Blue Ocean Strategy from the BOSInstitute; on Prescription Drug Regulations from Harvard
Started on the business strategic consulting at Cluster Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) in 1997. After one year she moved to Gemini Consulting, where she worked during 8 years as Director of the Telecom Media Practice Strategic Business Consulting.
During 1997-2004 the Telecom Industry lived its international and diversification expansion, while 2004-2007 represented the financial crisis of that Industry. Giannina held Senior Officer Positions at top multinationals, where she had the unique opportunity to led their growth and their resizing.
In parallel, in 2003 she developed and pioneered the Networking in Action Theories. Supported by ESADE alumni and the Major of the City of Barcelona, she held conferences in more than 30 cities around the world. That period helped her to expand her professional relations and networks to diverse industries and management functions.
Early 2000s were the years when the Brand Barcelona started the international growth and attracted talents to the city. Giannina´s conferences were supported by the Barcelona Mon and Do it in Barcelona initiatives.
In 2014 she started working as Chief Officer at Andorra Telecom, an Andorra public held company that monopolizes the Telecom infrastructure. She led during 3 full years the diversification strategy, the innovation, the competitive intelligence team and started designing, with a refreshed customer-oriented marketing team, a customized catalogue for andorran users. During those years the company made the first move to internationalization by acquiring a percentage at MasMovil and by Financing the MIT Media Lab initiative for the Andorra Smart Country. The company also started the innovation activities by implementing the Internal Innovation Awards and the non-monopoly services such as The Cloud building, The Niu incubator, The e-health and e-home services… The bases for a big data infrastructure were ensured by signing alliances for Encryptation services and Cloud services.
Since august 2017, Giannina is developing her Philanthropy skills on Health, Internet, Economy and Education. She is Member of
Eje&Con.org (the Spanish Association for CxO Women) ; Economic Ambassador for Mexico and Italy at CEA.ad (The Andorra Employers and Business Confederation); Wiwiw.org (The Internet Pioneers, Interesting People); AIC.ad (Association of Information Technologies and Communications based in Andorra); Covidwariors.org (The Association that has quickly interconnected Human Intelligence to fight against Covid19 in March 2020).
There is no doubt that from her business international background, Giannina has strong relations to leverage on Mexico, Italy, Spain, France and USA with the Principality of Andorra.
It was pleasure to meet and work together with Giannina during the Andorra Living Lab project, a collaboration between MIT Media Lab and ActuaTech/Andorra. I always enjoyed her professional and experienced ways of handling challenging and sophisticated project tasks with ease and smile. She was always full with energy and brightness that continuously helped everyone in the project to move ahead quicker. Giannina masters a set of powerful skills, self-determination and leadership among them, to name a few.
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Giannina is a smart, tenacious, multinational and multilingual professional. We worked both alongside and together over the course of 3 years, during which time I observed how she consistently set high standards of excellence for both herself and her teams and always strove for high client satisfaction.
She has a rare mix of rigorous analytical skills, strategic vision, and hands-on operational drive. It has been a pleasure working with her and I hope to have the opportunity to do so again in the future.
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After suffering years of losses on domestic and regional networks, Europe's big three full service air carriers are extending their networks by introducing hybrid, or low-cost carriers, for their short haul flights. This is a dramatic change that will reshape the competitive landscape in Europe and significantly affect both corporate travel buyers and their TMCs.
It's no secret that all of Europe's big legacy carriers have cost saving programs in place to help curtail long-standing losses on their short haul business. Examples include, SCORE (Lufthansa), Transform 2015 (Air France-KLM) or simply Transformation (Iberia). All three of these turnaround plans are trying to off-load their domestic and regional operations, while retaining a level of integration with their parent carrier.
How are they doing it?
As has been widely reported, Lufthansa is taking a phased approach to transfer all of its domestic and regional European services that do not operate to/from Frankfurt or Munich to its low-cost carrier Germanwings. With 52 aircraft moving across from the Lufthansa fleet, Germanwings plans to carry 16 million passengers a year, a not insignificant 20% of Lufthansa passenger volume. Germanwings unit costs, while still significantly higher than the pure low-cost European carriers, are around 20% lower than Lufthansa's equivalent short haul unit costs.
Meanwhile Air France has combined three of its regional subsidiary airlines to form Hop!, which will operate 30% of Air France's domestic and regional services. Unlike Germanwings, Hop! will also operate services to and from its parent carrier hubs in Paris. And over at International Airlines Group (IAG), British Airways and Iberia have completed the full acquisition of Vueling, their low-cost carrier based in Barcelona. Together with Iberia Express, IAG now has extensive low-cost carrier operations at both its Madrid and Barcelona hubs.
The common theme of all these new ventures is a strategy to reduce liabilities and losses, compete with pure low-cost carrier operators, and still retain a level of service and network integrity with the subsidiary carrier. The positioning of new bundled fare products highlights this strategy. For Germanwings 'Basic' (budget) fares are their pure low-cost concept – with catering, baggage and seating as additional charge options. The 'Smart' (standard) fare is a conventional economy fare product – changes for a fee, reserved seating, checked bag, snack catering and frequent flyer miles are included, while the 'Best' (comfort) fare are similar to business class type fares with preferred seating, lounge access, and priority check-in/boarding. Over at Hop!, the fare concept is very similar with Basic, Basic Plus and Maxi Flex, while Vueling opts for Basic, Optima and Excellence. You see the trend.
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The arrival of these hybrid carriers presents some challenges for buyers and their TMCs. While you may see lower fares on some routes, it is by no means a certainty. With discrepancies between the web and GDS (Germanwings basic fares are only available on the website), fare bundling and optional pay for extras, identifying the true lowest logical fare can be more challenging and potentially more costly. You may need to adjust current contracts and check how the changes will affect your targets and volume-based incentives. Consider your approach and sourcing strategies as the things you are used to with the legacy carriers – structured discounting and incentives, account management support and interaction – will be limited or even absent with the hybrid carriers.
The new hybrid carriers in Europe mark a significant structural change in the market. If this change proves successful, we predict that the carriers will extend to business-focused routes to bring more traffic to the parent carrier hubs. As you may recall, in the U.S., the 'airline within an airline' hybrid model failed to take off for the legacy carriers. But the European carriers have refined the approach by taking existing but separately managed subsidiary carriers with a genuine and pre-established lower operating cost base. The outcome has the potential to be somewhat different too.


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- 1 lb. shrimp, peeled and deveined
- 1 cup red bell pepper, cut in 1-in. strips
- 1 cup green peas
- 1 cup green onions, cut in 1 in. length
- 3 dried red chilies
- 1/2 teaspoon fenugreek seeds
- 1 teaspoon turmeric
- 3 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 in. ginger, minced
- 5 fresh red chilies, julienned
- 4 tablespoons clarified butter for stir-frying
- 1/2 teaspoon ground black pepper
- Salt to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon Garam Masala
- 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro
- Marination:
- 2 tablespoons musturd oil for marination
- 1 tablespoon cumin powder
- 1 tablespoon corinder powder
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon yogurt
- 1 teaspoon cracked black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon timur (szchwan pepper)
- Salt to taste
- In a large bowl combine shrimps, lemon juice, soy sauce, yogurt, two
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Paramavatar Shri Krishna 6th August 2018 Written Episode Update: Mata kamdhenu rains milk over vrindavan.
Paramavatar Shri Krishna 6th August 2018 Written Episode, Written Update on TellyUpdates.com
The episode starts with kanha and radha going to vrindavan to mata kamdhenu's idol that they made. Kanha says radha, now we have only one option, we have to take the help of mata kamdhenu to save all people of vrindavan. Radha says yes kanha, we should pray to mata kamdhenu. Radha and kanha starts praying to mata kamdhenu.
In Mathura, kansa calls bhadraksh. Bhadraksh appears laughing and says yes bhagwan, what work can I do for you? kansa says bhadraksh, dhenukasura has been killed by that Vishnu again, but his powers are still working on the people and they are heading towards Mathura, you go and check if that kanha or his brother balram try to stop the people. Bhadraksh goes.
There all people are saying bhagwan kansa ki jai! They head towards Mathura. As they walk, balram comes with a rope and he puts it around all people together and then ties them to a tree. people struggle to get out of the ties and say leave us! Our bhagwan is calling us. Balram is angry and says I hope kanha does something quickly, everyone has turned into demons. Bhadraksh appears and says bal ke dham balram, how dare you tie the disciples of bhagwan kansa? Nand and all people get happy and say yes bhadraksh, kill him, kill balram. Balram is angry and says you demon, have you forgotten your past beatings? You want to die? Bhadraksh uses his power and ties balram to the tree with a spell. Balram screams in anger and says bhadraksh you evil demon, I will kill you with my mudgal. Bhadraksh laughs.
There kanha and radha pray and kanha says mata kamdhenu, today my mother, father, damu kaka and all people of vrindavan have gotten into trouble because of dhenukasura, please help me mata kamdhenu and save the people from dhenukasura's mayavi powers. Mata kemdhenu appears and says prabhu you have called me for your help, I will be honored to help you as you want. Mata kamdhenu blesses over vrindavan. Suddenly holy milk of mata kamdhenu starts raining all over vrindavan. Kanha and radha open their eyes and radha says milk is raining, mata kamdhenu heard our prayers. Kanha says yes, it is the holy milk of mata kamdhenu, it will cleanse all evil in vrindavan.
There the milk falls on bhadraksh and he screams in pain and says I have to go from here before this milk kills me. Bhadraksh goes. All people become normal. Kanha and radha come and kanha frees all people from the ties. Yashoda hugs kanha and nand says what had happened here? kanha says dhenukasura had turned all of you evil and you were going to Mathura to take blessing of kansa but mata kamdhenu's milk cleaned all evil from vrindavan. Balram says finally everyone is back. kanha says brother you are strong, you can easily break your tie. Balram says oh yes kanha, balram breaks the ties with his strength and frees himself. they all go back to vrindavan.
Bhadraksh goes to kansa and says bhagwan please kill me, I don't want to be a disciple who can in no way help his bhagwan, again that Vishnu hurt me and from somewhere that milk rained, I had to come back. kansa says I will not kill you bhadraksh, you shall stay alive till I want you to be alive. Bhadraksh says then bhagwan, I have a suggestion, you have sent many powerful demons to kill that vishnu's avatar but this time send such a demon who puts your name, bhagwan kansa! As a god in the minds of all people of vrindavan. Kansa laughs and says that is nice, that is good!
Precap: sudhama's mother says to him, son these people wont believe you until you are educated, you don't have any education and you are saying this child is Narayana! You first learn and become a great Brahmin.
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Friday, December 29, 2006
Sunrise or Sunset?
I'm a left-coast person. When I look at the ocean, I see "west." This internal compass is part of me, but at times can wreck havoc. Huh? Well, consider that I grew up in San Diego, a nice, west-facing ocean-front city. So, this picture to me is sunset. Sunrise is that rarely-glimpsed phenomenon that occurs over deserts or mountain ranges. When I moved to Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara has a south-facing beach), instead of adjusting to the new location of the ocean, I simply embraced the reality that in Santa Barbara the sun sets in the north. As you face the ocean at dusk, the orangey-pinky sunset residue floating in the sky is on your right. If you're facing the ocean and the ocean is west, then clearly the sun sets in the north.
Traveling to the east coast has its accompanying perils. For example, you're driving to the coast. You see the freeway sign, with arrows indicating that east is one direction, west is the opposite. You want to go to the coast. The ocean is west. You turn on the freeway going west and discover a few miles down the road that you're actually going inland.
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Thursday, December 14, 2006
Getting Into the Christmas Spirit
Turn on the Christmas Tree lights and take a moment to reflect. Wacky ornaments are definitely appreciated in our house. This poor ski bear lost half of one ski, but that doesn't get him down; he smirks down the slope regardless.
One of a pair of choral-singing rag dolls.
Eek! This ornament is almost 10 years old! How did that happen?
Way back when I coached a girls' soccer team. They kicked some . . . great goals!
Merry Christmas.
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Thursday, December 07, 2006
Shut Up and Sing
Fine. The Dixie Chicks plodded along and stuck to their guns. They have not backed down, and sisters Robison and Maguire have not wavered in their loyalty to Maines. They have lost revenue and CD sales, concerts have been cancelled, and the Dixie Chicks, while losing much of their country base, have cultivated new fans.
Last week I saw the movie Shut Up and Sing, playing only one place in San Diego, at the Ken Theatre, in culturally hip and inclusive Kensington. The documentary details the Chicks' story of "the incident" (you get to actually see it in all its, well, informality). So, the real question is, do famous people have less civil rights than you or me? You can criticize the Chicks for saying what they said, but you cannot claim that they don't have the right to express their opinion (even a negative opinion) of our government or our president. To say that they are disloyal to the troops, who are fighting for our freedom (it is questionable that the Iraq invasion has anything to do with my freedom), and then deny a citizen's right to exercise her freedom doesn't make sense.
Time to go buy "Taking the Long Way," their latest CD, as well as figuring out who the hell Earl is (was).
Update: I bought the CD. I love it . . . Dixie Chicks garnered 5 Grammy Nominations! New fan base is a-comin'.
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Wednesday, December 06, 2006
Moonset at Moonlight Beach
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Iron Mountain Hike
The previously hiked Mt. Woodson (2894 ft.) is a sister hike to San Diego County's Iron Mountain (2696 ft.), known for its "rough terrain, spring wildflower shows, diverse plant communities, rattlesnakes, hot summer days, and large boulders." (Poway Trails Guide.) But in November there are no spring wildflowers, hot days (warm, but not hot), nor rattlesnakes. Iron Mountain is an easier hike, being both shorter (6 miles instead of 8) and less of an elevation gain. Its views, especially looking east towards Cuyamaca Peak (6512 ft.) are spectacular. The following photo shows our destination: Iron Mountain taken from about half-way up the trail.
This next shot shows our starting point: Highway 67 and Poway Road.
Vegetation along the hike is fairly uniform. It is still in recovery from the devastating 2003 Cedar Fire so new growth is all about the same age and size. Here is a prickly pear cactus with fruit.
Finally, we reach the summit, where a picnic bench affords a luxurious lunch spot.
Next Entry: Moonset at Moonlight Beach
Friday, November 24, 2006
Turkey Day
When Thanksgiving rolls around, we typically start preparing for the Thanksgiving feast about a week ahead. Buy the turkey, decide on the recipes and menu, and plan our day-by-day attack. In this case "we" means my brother Scott, who many years visits us from the Boston area for Thanksgiving, and I. Both of us are eating in accordance with The China Study, but we will chuck vegan for the day on Thanksgiving. Interspersed with the shopping, chopping, shredding, grinding, blending (and other pulverizing-type verbs found on my food processor machine) are time slots for hiking and enjoying the warm San Diego November. A favorite hike this year was the approximately 7 to 8 mile round trip hike to Mt. Woodson Peak from Lake Poway. This trail, located in the Mount Woodson Wilderness Area in northeastern San Diego County, is fairly rugged terrain, steep at parts, and provides beautiful views. The chaparral-type vegetation (manzanita, wild sage, yucca plants, oak trees) gives way to pine trees at the Mt. Woodson peak, the perfect spot for the mid-hike lunch and rest.
This year we provided support for my daughter Sara who ran the Silver Strand Half-Marathon on November 19th. Its ending point at the Imperial Beach Pier is a wonderful place to observe water life: surfers, sea birds, gulls, and occasionally dolphin!
On Thanksgiving Day we hosted the cousins, grandmothers, sisters-in-law, and brothers of the local Anderson clan. I was so excited to get the Cousins Shot (oft sought-after, but seldom manifested photo of all the cousins together in one place). Happy Thanksgiving!
Next Entry: Iron Mountain Hike
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Fall from Grace and Carolina Fall
Returning home to California from North Carolina, I leaned back in my airline seat, closed my eyes, and listened to Neil Young's Southern Man remind me of where I'd been. Well, sort of. I didn't see Neil Young's South, I saw WNC (that is, Western North Carolina) and its gentle land. Throughout the day of November 8th, the day following the midterms, I joined company with my Aunt Laura and Fiki, her friend and helper, as we celebrated as each seat was won, as the count tipped to the Democratic majority. We three women—a woman in her 80's, a woman in her 20's, and I—somewhere in between—we all celebrated the promise of change.
The irony is that the party of "Family Values" is being chastised to clean up its act. The people are tired of corruption! The people are tired of lies! The people are tired of hypocrisy. The people are unhappy with Iraq! And now, a new mandate has been issued: Get us out of this mess! Maybe the war in Iraq is finally being viewed as the fiasco it has always been. Lives are being lost, and we don't really know why. Maybe we realize that you cannot fight an ideology. We cheered the exit stage left of Rumsfeld, we cheered for the House, and we cheered for the Senate. The Audacity of Hope. You will hear this again. Now we can hope that the 110th Congress can move forward and act. Now we can hope that the 109th Lame Duck does not do anything too lame in the last throes of its sad, sad life. Long live Hope!
Next Entry: Turkey Day
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
A Funny Thing Happened on Bill Maher . . .
HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher is a topical issue show hosted by Bill Maher, a political comedian. His show has a predictable format which sometimes yields humor (no one can be serious when Robin Williams is on the panel), sometimes rancor, and sometimes serious, thoughtful discussion. You may not agree with all of Bill Maher's views, but, if nothing else, he's mostly logical and extremely open to let people that he disagrees with present their far-flung fringe views, such as Sandy Rios, who was a Bill Maher guest on the September 22 show and stated that Americans have "earned the right to create military bases in Iraq" or Stephen Moore, a guest on the October 20 show, also here, who desperately tried to defend America's right to torture.
Maher's most recent show included
- Andrew Sullivan a gay conservative blogger who has angrily denounced the Bush Administration for the Iraq War and resents Bush's "Family Values" that excludes gays;
- Singer, entertainer, and activist Harry Belafonte, who mesmerized the other panelists with his stories of conversations with Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King;
- Christine Todd Whitman, former Republican governor of New Jersey;
- Harold Ford, Jr., a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee. His platform is against the war in Iraq ("We need to be honest about the war."), he wants to help the middle class with health insurance and education, and he's against tax cuts for the rich. He is against gay marriage, abortion, and gun control. He labels himself as a Tennessee Democrat;
- Arianna Huffington, a blogger and liberal advocate. She was hawking her new book and explaining its title "On Becoming Fearless." She confesses, "I was terrified [throughout her life]." She explains that the book is not about the absence of fear, but the mastery of fear.
Consensus. Consensus. Consensus. Dare I hope this portends a change?
Next Entry: Fall from Grace and Carolina Fall
Saturday, October 21, 2006
A New Moon, An Old Tune—Making Tracks with Jack
Aaah, the cosmic alignment of moon, tides, weather, and day of the week has brought me a Saturday afternoon low tide, new moon (meaning low, low tides), and a mild Santana condition (meaning sparkling sun, low humidity, and summer-like temperatures). The confluence of these conditions means I cannot resist a run on "my" beach. Although the weather says summer, I know that it's really fall because the life guard tower, present all summer long, is now gone. And, I can easily park near the beach even though it's Saturday afternoon. The warm weather has brought out more than the normal beach lovers, but nowhere near the numbers that summer Saturdays produce. The wide beach means more sand for all of us: frisbee players, sunbathers, walkers, and runners.
I've started taking my Nano along and today it's In Between Dreams (Jack Johnson). Jack's good to run to. His percussion is prominent but not overpowering. It gives you your own metronome and lets you ease into your pace with the rhythm feeding your head. Plus, Jack's music is just damn happy. Even when he's singing about death (If I Could) "They say that new life makes losing life easier to understand" and being burned out (Breakdown) "I hope this old train breaks down then I could take a walk around," his guitar and his voice are hopeful and up.
Hey, how do you spot the tourists on the beach? (This is a summer question, no doubt, but it feels like summer today.) My favorite summertime beach game is "Watch the Clueless Beach Loungers Get Inundated by the Incoming Tide." I know this sounds rather elitist, but hey, it's not elitist, it's just local knowledge taking advantage of, well, non-local knowledge. I can't tell you how many times I've watched groups laying on their towels or sitting in their beach chairs totally unaware that, yes, Martha, the waves do seem to becoming closer as time goes by. Oh, but the sand here is dry, and, well, it was dry when we got here, and wha? Martha! My towel! It's wet! Did you see that wave? It came up to my towel? Quick, Johnny, grab the towel and the camera and the food and the chair, let's move everything back one whole foot!
Oh, I am bad, so bad. Happy Trails to You.
Next Entry: A Funny Thing Happened on Bill Maher . . .
Friday, October 20, 2006
Load Up Yer Plates: Update on the China Study
Breakfast had the most changes for me, since my usual meal included cereal and milk and coffee with cream. I fix myself oatmeal most mornings. (I still drink coffee, but now I drink it black and only drink one cup, since I don't like the taste as much as coffee with half and half.)
What do I miss? I don't miss any one thing terribly. But I love to cook and some of my most favorite dishes are on the avoid list: lasagna, mashed potatoes, oven roasted whole chicken, a dessert or two (homemade pies, breads).
So, I think I'll still fix these wonderful dishes every once in a while. I figure if I eat vegan most of the time, that a slip into the world of the forbidden is still a significant improvement over how I was eating before.
I've been spreading this resource—The China Study—and am getting feedback from friends of friends and relatives of relatives (and friends of relatives and relatives of friends) that this is definitely an embraceable life style. People feel empowered when they can ignore TV ads that make up diseases and symptoms just to sell you a drug that will make you take yet another drug to counteract side effects.
Thanksgiving is coming up and I plan on serving turkey. But hey, cranberries, squash, fresh green beans are all doable within the framework of the China Study guidelines.
Recipe: Mexican Squash Stew
Friday, October 13, 2006
And You Look Back At Me
Dave's guitar playing last night at Humphrey's was memorable. Here's Paul's comments.
Well, there's not much more to say about how great Dave Mason's guitar playing was last night. But he is often overlooked for his lyrics. This morning I remembered a story from long ago.
When my daughter Sara was about twelve, she had a creative writing project to do at school. She could write about anything she wanted. It was the teacher's attempt for them to write poetry or lyrics. Sara didn't know where to start, so she asked me for advice.
Here's what I said.
Lookin all around me,
What do I see
Lots of changing faces
Lots of things to be
Lord I'm happy just to be
A part of all I see
As I turn around to look at you
And you look back at me
Sara said "Dad, that was incredible, did you write that? That was just the best group of words."
Don't worry, I didn't take the credit.
Next Entry: Load Up Yer Plates: Update on the China Study
Thursday, October 12, 2006
The Black Hole That Isn't Quite
"Gail, this is Ronnie Wise. I just got through reading your blog on the internet and I wanted to call and thank you for your kind thoughts and I'd like to talk to you for a couple of minutes. My cell phone is [. . . ]. Look forward to talking to you."And so I returned his call. He told me a bit more about the article; said that J.R. (Moehringer, the author) had been working on it for five years and had made numerous trips to Cleveland, Mississippi. The original article was 15,000 words, but Moehringer was forced to pare it down to the 5,000 words as published (the organizational changes at the LA Times affected page space allotted to this project).
We spoke about J.R.'s accomplishments as a writer (2000 Pulitzer Prize recipient in feature writing for his multi-part work about Gee's Bend, Alabama, published in 1999 in the LA Times). Moehringer has also written a well-received memoir (Tender Bar), which I am currently reading. J.R.'s article on Ronnie Wise's literacy campaign is a current movie project (so I am not the only one that sees the big screen possibilities in this story).
Ronnie also said that, although the article was generally well-received, a few people in the Cleveland area did not take too kindly to Moehringer's portrayal of their community. Wise is therefore somewhat of a target instead of a hero in these misguided people's eyes. They're only a small percentage, he says, but they tend to have the power, the money, and the land.
Thanks, Ronnie, for the phone call. Good luck to you. And I look forward to the movie.
Next Entry: And You Look Back At Me
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
The Librarian and the Liberator
What do Simon Bolívar, Cleveland, Mississippi, and Fredericksburg, Virginia have in common? For those of you who are familiar with Fredericksburg, you might offer that Bolívar is known as the George Washington of South America and Fredericksburg was the home of George Washington. In fact, popular tourist attractions in Fredericksburg include Kenmore, the home of Colonel Fielding Lewis and George Washington's sister, the Mary Washington House (George's mother), and a George Washington boyhood home close by. That's the obvious connection, but it leaves out Cleveland, Mississippi. The connection I see has a bit more of a story to it, a story that caught my attention, and subsequent connections that are gratifying to follow.
The story starts with a Column One article in the Los Angeles Times that colorfully chronicles the life of Ronnie Wise, a librarian in the Delta region of Mississippi (For Delta Librarian, The End, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2006 by J.R. Moehringer, Times Staff Writer). The article caught my eye because my father grew up in rural Mississippi and stories about Mississippi are usually interesting to me. The article reads like a movie plot and here's the pitch (let's call the movie The Depot):
The train depot is a metaphor for escaping a life filled with ignorance and poverty. The story creates parallel threads that build a tapestry from the lives of people trying to escape their hovels of despair. The main character, Ronnie Wise, is the director of libraries for Bolivar County, Mississippi. The main library is in Cleveland, Mississippi, and it was moved (and expanded) to the abandoned train depot. For 30 years Ronnie Wise has been on a personal crusade to stamp out illiteracy in this county and bring book-reading to a populace that could not afford the luxury of reading fiction. Ironically, he is as stuck as the people he is trying to help. He's not particularly personable, he tends to be a loner, and he buries himself in the books that provide the escape route for those he helps. He is a victim of what he does best: get buried in the wonderful, fantastic world of reading.
But, fantastically, while providing assistance to a researcher, whom he meets after corresponding with her for two years through emails and phone calls, he falls in love with said researcher, retires from his librarian post, marries, and moves to Los Angeles. And so his role as liberator ends and a new liberator takes over his work.
The article is filled with peoples' stories on how their lives improved through literacy—people who are able to now find a job, start their own businesses, get their high school equivalency, and send their own children to college. And so we see that Ronnie Wise is a liberator, like Simon Bolívar. He is a general, and leads the fight against illiteracy and, by extension, some of the trappings that feed illiteracy: poverty, racism, and the legacy of slavery. Wise is passionate.
"Reading, Wise believes, is life. Illiteracy, therefore, is death."Further along in the article, Moehringer quotes Wise:
"The source of illiteracy is slavery, he says, plain and simple: Before the Civil War, Bolivar County had more slaveholding plantations than any county in the South. Slavery begat illiteracy, he argues, illiteracy perpetuates economic slavery, and the cycle simply remains unbroken."So, Ronnie Wise is the Liberator of Bolivar County (named for the Simon Bolívar), a county named for a liberator, that ironically, enslaves its people in illiteracy and poverty. Bolivar County, where 41% of its 40,000 residents can't read.
I was shocked at that number. No child left behind? How does a child learn to read if its parents don't read? Legacy of slavery? That also was a wakeup call to me. I thought slavery was something in the past. I learned about slavery in school. I read about slavery though history books and literature and Black History Month. But to understand how its effects are still so powerfully felt even today was enlightening and frightening.
This brings me to the Fredericksburg connection. Washington D.C. has the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to educate and remember the Nazi atrocities of World War II. Fredericksburg is building the United States Slavery Museum to open in 2008, which will educate and remember our legacy of slavery. Its mission is "To vitalize and interpret more completely the human drama and toll of slavery in America. The museum will educate some, re-educate others by presenting slavery in a larger and more balanced economic and political context."
It's not just the illiterate residents of Bolivar County Mississippi that need educating. It's all of us.
So now you know: the connection that links Simon Bolívar, Cleveland, Mississippi, and Fredericksburg, Virginia is the legacy of slavery. I'll write more on Fredericksburg and Washington D.C. soon, as I have just returned from traveling to these cities.
Tuesday, September 19, 2006
Eating Right: Why We Should Care
The China Study by T. Colin Campbell, PhD and Thomas M. Campbell II: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health. Benbella Books, Dallas, Texas, 2005.
It's difficult to summarize in a blog entry the scientific base, the global implications for health, and the exciting conclusions of this absorbing text. So, I'll truncate the premise (most Americans are subject to diseases of affluence, including high blood cholesterol, heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, stroke, high blood pressure, Alzheimer's) and the conclusions (avoid these diseases and even reverse them by changing your diet to be plant-based and whole grain) and leave it to any interested reader to take the next step: Check out the reviews on Amazon for this book. You'll read how other people have read this book and embraced its findings. People are excited that their lives have improved in just a short time.
If that gets you interested at all, then buy the book so you can explain your new dietary decisions to skeptical friends and family, or perhaps gain support from these newly indoctrinated allies. And, if you feel like you have "bad genes"—that you're doomed to get breast cancer or a heart attack—this book will take weight off your shoulders (and other places) and help you confront your family history by trumping any genetic predisposition to these diseases with diet.
Chapter 12 culminates the pages and pages of study data and analysis and simply tells you how to eat. Good bye cheese, eggs, milk (all dairy) and meat. Hello all fruits and vegetables and whole grain foods. The challenge here is to find new recipes so that your eating is varied and satisfying. For people who have suffered through counting calories or weighing food portions, there's none of that. Eat all you want of the plant-based foods. There's no "empty calories" here. You'll be satisfied and you'll undoubtedly lose weight. But, this isn't about losing weight. This is about feeling good, increasing blood flow, lowering cholesterol, and avoiding all the diseases mentioned above.
I've taken the plunge myself and embraced this way to eat. I'll repost in a month (I've never made a promise in my blog before) to report on how I'm doing and feeling. I'll leave you with a delicious recipe for Roasted Yellow Pepper Soup that uses the ingredients shown in the photo above.
Recipe: Roasted Yellow Pepper Soup
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Civic Duty
In high school, I applied to participate in the American Field Service (AFS) student exchange program. The application process included interviews with several teachers and school administrators about everything from how I got along with my siblings and my family life to my general awareness of civics and local government. Since I would essentially be representing my family, my school, my city, and even my country, "they" wanted to make sure that I was up to the task. One of the questions was "How would you answer if someone asked you if you would speak out against the policies of an elected government official if you didn't agree with those policies?" I was pretty apolitical at that time and enthusiastically replied "I would support an elected government official. If we elect someone to office, then we should support that person." That evening as I was sharing the interview process with my parents, my father chastised me, saying that it was my civic duty to speak out against an elected official if I did not agree with that person's policies. This conversation took place in 1968. My father is no longer living. But if ever there was a time to act on his advice to me, that time is now.
I went on to live for two months with a family that summer in Hasselt, Belgium. I studied Flemish (Vlaams) before I left (it turns out that my high school German teacher was Dutch and Flemish is very close to Dutch). While my vocabulary was pretty limited, my Belgian family bragged to all their friends that I could speak Vlaams fluently (ha! they were kind at best). I formed a life-long friendship with my Belgian sister Zus and then later with her own family. All three of her daughters have, at various times over the years, traveled to California to stay with us. Our family has stayed in Belgium several times as well. But that's not the real story here. The real story is the admonishment my father left me. I still remember it. True, it has remained dormant for many years. But I am moved to revisit his take on government by the people, for the people, and follow through with my civic duty. So, I ask you:
- Are you pleased with the policies of your country?
- Are you proud of America?
- What do you think about alleged prisoner tortures in Guantanamo Bay and Abu Ghraib as well as secret prisons in unnamed countries?
- Why do you think that we're in Iraq? When do you think we're leaving Iraq?
- Why does your government emphasize fear?
- Why haven't we signed the Kyoto (Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions) Initiative?
Side note: I am proud to be a Californian: "On August 31 2006, the California Legislature reached an agreement with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to reduce the state's greenhouse-gas emissions, which rank at 12th-largest in the world, by 25 percent by the year 2020. This agreement effectively puts California in line with the Kyoto initiative." (en.wikipedia.org "Kyoto Protocol".)
- Why don't we have affordable health care for more people?
- Why is our trade deficit and our national debt so high?
I wish I had more answers. Please vote Responsibly.Next Entry: Eating Right: Why We Should Care
Monday, September 11, 2006
What If?
Fighting terrorism is like that. Because we haven't been attacked yet (again), means that we have been safe up to now, up to this moment. Detecting terrorism is hard work and a little like screening for cancer. You're looking for disease that has already presented itself.
What if, instead of putting all our energies into detecting terrorist activities, we put more into understanding the root of the problem? Did anyone else wonder what we (Western society) did to piss off the perpetrators of 9/11 to make them hate us so much? Here are some questions to ponder:
- What if we hadn't invaded Iraq? Yes, we know that Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks, but invading Iraq has everything to do with terrorism. Invading Iraq is like performing cancer surgery without getting it all, allowing the cancer to metastasize and spread. The country of Iraq is all but destroyed, embroiled in a civil war whose side effects create terrorists and grow terrorism.
- What if we instead had put our war machine money (Iraq invasion) into addressing the needs of developing nations, helping to stamp out hunger, improving other people's lives?
- What if we had used diplomacy to harvest world sympathy thrown our way after 9/11 instead of alienating other countries?
- What if we had created a true coalition of terrorist-fighting countries that includes Pakistan or Saudi Arabia, for example?
- What if we put more energy into educating Americans to be world citizens, to appreciate other cultures, to learn other languages, to learn about and understand other religions? (Nothing was more ridiculous, in my opinion, than the Freedom Fries frenzy of 2003.) (It is commonly known outside the U.S., in both France and Belgium, that French fries originated in Belgium, not France, anyway. My reference is both personal experience and this article. Oh, and here is even more corroborating evidence at this local Belgian Fries restaurant!)
The number of civilian deaths from terrorism in 2005, as defined by the institute [National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (which maintains an exhaustive database)] swelled to more than 8,000, mostly because of sectarian violence in Iraq. (Los Angeles Times, "Is the U.S. Winning This War?" by Doyle McManus, Times Staff Writer, September 10, 2006.)Anyone who claims we are winning the war on terrorism is simply ignoring deaths that are not American, an extremely ethnocentric (and bad) viewpoint. We allow this misguided war on terrorism only because we haven't been attacked since 9/11, and because for many of us, our lives are not affected. ("Remarkably, though, the day-to-day lives of most Americans have changed very little. We have found it easy, perhaps startlingly easy, to stick to routines and habits and mind-sets forged before we could have conceived of planes as missiles." - Los Angles Times, "9/11 Has Changed Few Lives" by Stephanie Simon, Times Staff Writer, September 11, 2006.)
I hope that Americans will educate themselves politically. Don't let fear guide you. Don't let someone else tell you what you should fear. Educate yourself. Know your representatives at all levels of the government, especially the national level. Please vote RESPONSIBLY.
Next Entry: Civic Duty
Thursday, September 07, 2006
Tsunami Warning Signs
Next Entry: What If?
Saturday, September 02, 2006
Happy To Be in North Carolina
There's plenty of reading material. Laura and Joop's library includes a floor-to-ceiling bookcase filled with books on art, dance, philosophy, books in Dutch, many classics, music, history, and science. There's months of listening material. They have an impressive classical music CD collection (and some vinyl, too). But most important to me is that Laura gives me connection to my family, meaning to the faces in old family photographs, unknown relatives that had personalities, histories, and connections to me. My brother Scott and I spent hours with Laura going through the family albums and she told me about her life as a girl, and my father's life as a boy. So precious.
Thaïs, Laura's kitty, uses the abundant vegetation to warily watch and sometimes hunt.
The front yard has a wonderful butterfly bush that attracts tons of ... butterflies. Beyond the backyard is a pathway fortified with strategically placed wooden berms. It snakes down the hillside through the dense woods thick with cat claw vines, to the creek, a lazy running waterway that babbles and whispers, but can roar if swollen with rain water.
Days are still warm, but it cools off at night. In the night's coolness is a steady roll of cicadas accompanied by the high-pitch shrill of crickets. From inside it sounds distant, but you go outside and it becomes a night-time symphony. Indeed, night time is louder than days.
Many of the wildflowers are passed blooming, but we still saw a few.
Next Entry: Tsunami Warning Signs
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Trolley Dodgers at PetCo Park
Here's Big Mike's take on the evening:
A good time was had by all!
Especially the Padres.
Of course, our hearts go out to the poor poor Angelenos and their Trolley Dodgers, who failed to dodge the San Diego FREIGHT TRAIN.
After the Padres built their picket fence (one run in four consecutive innings), closure came in the form of Trevor Time, savored by Padre fans lucky enough to be in the park when it happens!
Next Entry: Happy To Be in North Carolina
Sunday, August 20, 2006
Mystical Transformation; or, Life Begins at Ninety
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.And so begins our Book Club selection for this month. I must admit, as a product of a more egalitarian society than that described by Gabriel Garcia Marquez in his novella Memories of My Melancholy Whores, I was a bit put off by this opening sentence. Is this a tale of child abuse couched within the fantasy of literature? Perhaps. However, we are privileged to witness the lyrically orchestrated self-discovery of the narrator ("the Scholar"), a ninety-year-old newspaper columnist. Whatever you think of old age, this story tells us that people of any age have the ability to find love, even those whose previous intimacies are paid for liaisons. Here is a man with no family and whose only friends seem to be women whose love he has bought. He is certainly loveless. He has squandered his life. Somehow, in spite of himself, in his ninety-first year he finds love. The fact that physical love in this new-found relationship remains unconsummated makes his adoration not unlike a religious veneration. It is with religious zeal of his new love that he transforms his life:
The house rose from its ashes and I sailed on my love of Delgadina with an intensity and happiness I had never known in my former life. Thanks to her I confronted my inner self for the first time as my ninetieth year went by. (p. 64-65)Besides his own transformation, the Scholar offers up pearls of wisdom on aging, such as
. . . you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside (p. 7)And,
On the other hand, it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things, though memory does not often fail with regard to things that are of real interest to us. (p. 10)Although a translation (by Edith Grossman), the words flow, the prose is rhythmic, and the language is uncomplicated.
We think that this will be about the many women the narrator has known. Yet, really, the story is about the narrator himself: his transformation from loveless to one who loves and is loved, from one who begins life at ninety. He must deal with and overcome adversity. He triumphs. This transformation is his own deflowering. At the end, he leaves us with this forward-looking farewell:
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday. (p. 115)And Delgadina, the child? We never know what she thinks. Indeed, she is always asleep. She never loses her purity. In the fantasy world of fiction, she loves her Scholar in return. After he and Rosa Carbacas, his loyal procuress, make lasting financial arrangements with each other to secure Delgadina's future, Rosa tells him
"Ah, my sad scholar, . . . That poor creature's head over heels in love with you." (p. 114-115)
Next Entry: Trolley Dodgers at PetCo Park
Saturday, August 12, 2006
Ogunquit Offering
Ogunquit, Maine is a glorious summertime destination. My brother and I visited this coastal community in June, had a lobster lunch at Barnacle Billy's, and hiked the Marginal Way, a paved walking path from Perkins Cove to Ogunquit Beach. Upon our return, we ran into a couple of ex-presidents who have been hanging out of late, fund raising for causes such as Tsunami Relief and Hurricane Katrina victims. Their lunch spot, Barnacle Billy's, allowed us to take some photos and meet President Clinton. If nothing else, these two obviously get along.
Next Entry: Mystical Transformation; or, Life Begins at Ninety
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Killer Combo
Summer brings out the most delicious vegetable garden combo: tomato and basil. I'm not an expert gardener by any means, but am blessed with year-round mild climate. I am able to grow many herbs and lettuce all year; summer time, however, brings luscious tomatoes and delicate basil. Sweet and aromatic. Growing edibles makes you more attentive in the kitchen. The best use, by far, for this killer combo is sliced tomatoes (not to be confused with Attack of the Killer Tomatoes), fresh slivered basil, a bit of olive oil, and fresh ground pepper.
Next Entry: Ogunquit Offering
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Meet the Skimboarder
Water temp: 70. Air temp: 70. Surf: choppy and surging. A shore break develops as high tide approaches. Two kids are romping in the shallow soup and I'm watching a lone skimboarder who looks like he's training for the X-Games. I'm thinking of speed-dialing my chiropractor in sympathetic pain.
The skimboarder has a routine, timed with the cyclic wave action. He stands on the beach and times his run as the wave recedes, throwing down the skimboard in front and chasing after it in a short sprint. He jumps on the board as it skims in what seems like a quarter-inch of water, just enough to hydroplane the board.
The real drama unfolds at the end of the ride. The ebbing water and skimboarder collide with the incoming wave as the shore break shoots the board skyward. Board and boarder fly up; arms, legs, and torso contort in an effort to survive. He crashes into a foot of swirling foam, but like a cat with nine lives, somehow lands on his feet. And then he does it again. Sunday at the beach.
Next Entry: Killer Combo
Saturday, August 05, 2006
An Inconvenient Truth
If you haven't seen Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" do yourself and your (future/current/even if you're not even seeing anybody right now) children|grandchildren|the neighbor's kids a favor and see this movie. Be sure to stay for the credits. Learn more at climitecrisis.net. Tell your friends. And go get that hybrid car you've been thinking about. Oh yeah, and recycle. It's a serious topic, but believe it or not, wooden Al has loosened up a bit and even cracks a few jokes. He inspires and finishes with encouragement and hope. I'll leave you with one last[ing] vision, courtesy of NASA . . .
Next Entry: Meet the Skimboarder
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Summer Beach Days
This is D Street Beach in Encinitas taken in late afternoon from the beach access stairs. It's low tide in March. I purchase a Tide Calendar every year and use its blue line sine wave to check the daily tide. In short, is there enough beach to run?
The beach changes constantly. Not just the twice daily high tide-low tide, but the daily changes of storm surf, rocks, sea weed, sand movement, currents, red tide, wind direction and strength, and the erosion of the cliffs. The rollers, source of great (and cheap!) fun, are affected by the bottom, the tides, and the wind. This summer has produced uncommonly high water temperatures (mid-70's for all of July).
Low tide unveils otherwise hidden treasures. This is Swami's Beach here at low tide exposing algae-covered rocks.
Cliff erosion is a constant threat to cliff-based homes and naive cliff climbers who tempt fate. Cliff collapses are not infrequent and have closed beach access stairways more than once. This particular stretch of cliff has beautiful erosion-produced caves carved by water in the fragile sandstone. And my favorite beach, Stone Steps, has warning signs advising people to keep back from the bluffs.
Next Entry: An Inconvenient Truth


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A VTN could be used as the underlay for one or a group of VPN+ services. I-D.dong-idr-bgpls-sr-enhanced-vpn defines the BGP-LS extensions to distribute the information of Segment Routing (SR) based VTNs to external entities, such as the network controllers. This document describes a simplified mechanism to distribute the information of SR based VTNs using BGP-LS with Multi-Topology. The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119. Enhanced VPN (VPN+) is an enhancement to VPN services to support the needs of new applications, particularly including the applications that are associated with 5G services. These applications require enhanced isolation and have more stringent performance requirements than that can be provided with traditional overlay VPNs. These properties cannot be met with pure overlay networks, as they require integration between the underlay and the overlay networks. specifies the framework of enhanced VPN and describes the candidate component technologies in different network planes and layers. An enhanced VPN can be used for 5G transport network slicing, and will also be of use in more generic scenarios. To meet the requirement of enhanced VPN services, a number of Virtual Transport Networks (VTNs) need to be created, each with a subset of the underlay network topology and a set of network resources allocated to meet the requirement of a specific VPN+ service or a group of VPN+ services. specifies how segment routing (SR) can be used to build virtual transport networks (VTNs) with the required network topology and network resources, which could be used as the underlay of enhanced VPN services. and specifies the IGP mechanism and extensions to build a set of SR based VTNs. When a VTN spans multiple IGP areas or multiple Autonomous Systems (ASes), BGP-LS is needed to advertise the VTN information in each IGP area or AS to the network controller, so that the controller could use the collected information to build the inter-area or inter-AS SR VTNs. defines the BGP-LS extensions to distribute the information of Segment Routing (SR) based VTNs to external entities, such as the network controllers, which allows flexible combination of the topology and resource attribute to build customized VTNs. While in some network scenarios, it is assumed that each VTN has an independent topology and a set of dedicated network resources. For such scenarios, this document describes a simplified mechanism to distribute the information of SR based VTNs using BGP-LS with Multi-Topology. describes the ISIS Multi-topology mechanisms to distribute the topology attributes of SR based VTNs. This section describes the corresponding BGP-LS mechanism to distribute both the intra-domain and inter-domain topology attributes of SR based VTNs. In section 18.104.22.168 of , Multi-Topology Identifier (MT-ID) TLV is defined, which can contain one or more IS-IS or OSPF Multi-Topology IDs. The MT-ID TLV MAY be present in a Link Descriptor, a Prefix Descriptor, or the BGP-LS Attribute of a Node NLRI. defines the BGP-LS extensions to carry the segment routing information using TLVs of BGP-LS Attribute. When MTR is used with SR-MPLS data plane, topology-specific prefix-SIDs and topology-specific Adj-SIDs can be carried in the BGP-LS Attribute associated with the prefix NLRI and link NLRI respectively, the MT-ID TLV is carried in the prefix descriptor and link descriptor to identify the corresponding topology of the SIDs. defines the BGP-LS extensions to advertise SRv6 segments along with their functions and attributes. When MTR is used with SRv6 data plane, the SRv6 Locator TLV is carried in the BGP-LS Attribute associated with the prefix-NLRI, the MT-ID TLV can be carried in the prefix descriptor to identify the corresponding topology of the SRv6 Locator. The SRv6 End.X SIDs are carried in the BGP-LS Attribute associated with the link NLRI, the MT-ID TLV can be carried in the link descriptor to identify the corresponding topology of the End.X SIDs. The SRv6 SID NLRI is defined to advertise other types of SRv6 SIDs, in which the SRv6 SID Descriptors can include the MT-ID TLV so as to advertise topology-specific SRv6 SIDs. also defines the rules of the usage of MT-ID TLV: "In a Link or Prefix Descriptor, only a single MT-ID TLV containing the MT-ID of the topology where the link or the prefix is reachable is allowed. In case one wants to advertise multiple topologies for a given Link Descriptor or Prefix Descriptor, multiple NLRIs need to be generated where each NLRI contains an unique MT-ID. In the BGP-LS attribute of a Node NLRI, one MT-ID TLV containing the array of MT-IDs of all topologies where the node is reachable is allowed." Editor's note: the above rules indicates that only one MT-ID is allowed to be carried the Link or Prefix descriptors. When a link or prefix participates in multiple topologies, multiple NLRIs needs to be generated to report all the topologies a link or prefix participates in, together with the topology-specific segment routing information. This would increase the number of BGP Updates and may introduce additional processing burden to both the sending BGP speaker and the receiving network controller. When the number of topologies in a network is not a small number, some optimization may be introduced for the reporting of multi-topology information and the associated segment routing information in BGP-LS. Based on the WG's opinion, this will be elaborated in a future version. and defines the BGP-LS extensions for advertisement of BGP topology information between ASes and the BGP Peering Segment Identifiers. Such information could be used by a network controller for the computation and instantiation of inter-AS traffic engineering SR paths. In some network scenarios, there are needs to create VTNs which span multiple ASes. The inter-domain VTNs could have different inter-domain connectivity, and may be associated with different set of network resources in each domain and also on the inter-domain links. In order to build the multi-domain VTNs using segment routing, it is necessary to advertise the topology and resource attribute of VTN on the inter-domain links and the associated BGP Peering SIDs. Depending on the requirement of inter-domain VTNs, different mechanism can be used on the inter-domain connection: One EBGP session between two ASes can be established over multiple underlying links. In this case, different underlying links can be used for different inter-domain VTNs which requires link isolation between each other. In another similar case, the EBGP session is established over a single link, while the network resource (e.g. bandwidth) on this link can be partitioned into several pieces, each of which can be considered as a virtual member link. In both cases, different BGP Peer-Adj-SIDs SHOULD be allocated to each underlying physical or virtual member link, and ASBRs SHOULD advertise the VTN identifier associated with each BGP Peer-Adj-SID. For inter-domain connection between two ASes, multiple EBGP sessions can be established between different set of peering ASBRs. It is possible that some of these BGP sessions are used for one multi-domain VTN, while some other BGP sessions are used for another multi-domain VTN. In this case, different BGP peer-node-SIDs are allocated to each BGP session, and ASBRs SHOULD advertise the VTN identifier associated with each BGP Peer-node-SIDs. At the AS-level topology, different multi-domain VTNs may have different inter-domain connectivity. Different BGP Peer-Set-SIDs can be allocated to represent the groups of BGP peers which can be used for load-balancing in each multi-domain VTN. When MT-ID is used consistently in multiple ASes covered by a VTN, the topology-specific BGP peering SIDs can be advertised with the MT-ID carried in the corresponding Link NLRI. This can be achieved with the existing mechanisms as defined in and . In network scenarios where consistent usage of MT-ID among multiple ASes can not be expected, then a global-significant VTN ID needs to be introduced to define the AS level topologies. Within each domain, the MT based mechanism could be used for intra-domain topology advertisement. The detailed mechanism is specified in . specifies the mechanism to advertise the resource information associated with each VTN. This section describes the corresponding BGP-LS mechanisms. The information of the network resources associated with a VTN can be specified by carrying the Link TE attribute TLVs in BGP-LS Attribute, with the associated MT-ID carried in the corresponding Link NLRI. When Maximum Link Bandwidth sub-TLV is carried in the MT-ISN TLV, it indicates the amount of link bandwidth allocated to the corresponding VTN. The bandwidth allocated to a VTN can be exclusive for services carried in the corresponding VTN. The usage of other TE attribute TLVs in topology-specific TLVs is for further study. The mechanism described in this document requires that each VTN has an independent topology, and for inter-domain VTNs, the MT-ID used in each involved domain is consistent. While this brings the benefits of simplicity, it also has some limitations. For example, it means that even if multiple VTNs may have the same topology attribute, they would still need to be identified using different MT-IDs in the control plane. This requires that for each VTN, independent path computation would be executed. The number of VTNs supported in a network may be dependent on the number of topologies supported, which is related to the control plane computation overhead. This document introduces no additional security vulnerabilities to BGP-LS. The mechanism proposed in this document is subject to the same vulnerabilities as any other protocol that relies on BGP-LS. This document does not request any IANA actions. The authors would like to thank Shunwan Zhuang for the review and discussion of this document. Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels In many standards track documents several words are used to signify the requirements in the specification. These words are often capitalized. This document defines these words as they should be interpreted in IETF documents. This document specifies an Internet Best Current Practices for the Internet Community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements.


text: Wireless & IoT Internet slows down following Asian undersea cable trouble Sumner Lemon @itworldca Published: August 12th, 2009A segment of the Asia-Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2) undersea cable network between China and Taiwan suffered a serious cable fault on Wednesday, causing Internet traffic to be rerouted onto other undersea cables and slowing Internet access for some users in Southeast Asia.At about 10:50 a.m. on Wednesday, local time, an alarm signaled a cable fault on Segment 7 of APCN2, which connects Hong Kong and Shantou, China. The disruption caused a temporary loss of service on the undersea link but all customers that use the cable were soon shifted to capacity on other cables, according to a source familiar with the situation.Internet and telephone traffic between Europe and the Middle East and Asia was hampered in December last year after three major underwater data lines were cut. Efforts to restore normal communications between Europe and Asia suffered a setback after an important undersea cable broke for a second time, later that same month. The APCN2 cable is owned by a consortium of 26 telecom operators from 14 different countries. The cable links Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Taiwan, China, South Korea and Japan.The exact cause of the APCN2 fault was not immediately known. The alarm indicated the disruption was caused by a "single point of failure," which suggests a variety of possibilities, including a technical failure or a cable cut, the source said. One cause can apparently be ruled out: Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau did not record signs of seismic activity around the time that the alarm was received.The incident was likely the main reason that Internet access appeared slower for some users in Singapore on Wednesday, the source said.Undersea cables are used to transport much of the world's Internet traffic and can be easily damaged by natural disasters or other causes. In 2006, a powerful earthquake off the southern coast of Taiwan damaged several cables and slowed Internet access to a crawl for users in Southeast Asia.Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel), which is an investor APCN2, said its users may experience slower Internet access than normal to some U.S. Web sites, blaming the APCN2 fault on damage caused by Typhoon Morakot."The [APCN2] consortium members have started restoration works, and our engineers are in the process of diverting Internet traffic to other cable systems. We expect the situation to return to acceptable levels within the next 24 hours," SingTel spokesman Chia Boon Chong, said in an e-mail statement.A spokesman for StarHub another Singapore ISP that holds a stake in the cable, did not return a phone call seeking comment.The fault that hit APCN2 on Wednesday follows two other service disruptions that recently hit the network. One disruption affected APCN2 Segment 7, between Hong Kong and Taiwan, and the other affected APCN2 Segment 1, which connects Singapore and Malaysia. However, both of these disruptions were deemed to be "relatively minor" compared to the disruption that took place Wednesday morning, the source said.The cause of the two earlier faults on APCN2 was not immediately clear.APCN2 isn't the only Asian undersea cable currently suffering from a service disruption."The Cable & Wireless Real Time Operations Team have logged multiple cable breaks on APCN2, APCN, EAC and SMW3 in Asia Pacific — specifically, near Taiwan. Network traffic flow has been adversely affected in and out of the region as a result," said Gavin Tait, director of Asia network planning and implementation at Cable & Wireless, in an e-mail statement provided by the company.None of Cable & Wireless' customers were affected by these failures, he said.Efforts are currently underway to repair the East Asia Crossing (EAC) undersea cable after it experienced "double faults" off the coast of Taiwan last weekend, according to Roland Lim, a spokesman for Pacnet, which owns EAC.The first sign of damage to the EAC cable off the coast of Taiwan came on Aug. 9 at 1:37 a.m., local time, when an alarm signalled that service on EAC Segment D, which links Taiwan and Hong Kong, had been disrupted, Pacnet said in an Aug. 10 Network Event Notification that was obtained by IDG News Service. At the time, traffic on Segment D was transferred to EAC Segment C. However, Segment C suffered a second disruption roughly twelve hours later.The cause of the faults that hit the EAC cable between Hong Kong and Taiwan is not yet known, but the damage happened at about the same time the southern part of the island and China's southern coast was being pummeled by one of the most powerful typhoons to strike in recent memory. There were no earthquakes recorded by Taiwan's Central Weather Bureau at the time when the disruptions took place.Would you recommend this article?00 Thanks for taking the time to let us know what you think of this article! We'd love to hear your opinion about this or any other story you read in our publication. Click this link to send me a note →Jim Love, Chief Content Officer, IT World Canada Wireless & IoT cables, carriers, Internet, service providers, Taiwan


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Justice Chukwujekwu Aneke of the Federal High Court, Lagos, yesterday issued a bench warrant for the arrest and production in court of former director-general of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Amb. Ayodele Oke, and his wife, Folashade, charged with $205 million concealment.
The accused were charged before the court by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on counts of money laundering, fraud, concealment of crime proceeds and criminal breach of trust.
The order of the court was sequel to an application moved by the EFCC prosecutor, Rotimi Oyedepo, after the inability of the commission to arraign the defendants on February 1 and 6. Besides, the case was not listed in the case list for those days.
On Wednesday, when Oyedepo appeared before the court for the case, he tried to make an oral application, praying the court to order the arrest of the defendants. The judge declined to make any pronouncement on the ground that he was yet to study the case file.
Justice Aneke adjourned the case until Thursday for the prosecution counsel, Oyedepo, to make necessary applications.
Yesterday, Oyedepo informed the court that the defendants were not in court, adding that there had been several attempts at serving the charge on the defendants, to no avail.
"My lord, the defendants are not in court, are not represented, and have not been served with the charge.
"In the course of investigation, the defendants gave us an address; we have gone to that address and did not find the defendants.
"We have also made repeated calls to the phone of the defendants; it rang and was not picked.
"The security confirmed to us that they were living there, but said they were not around.
"I will, therefore, be praying the court for an instrument, a warrant, to arrest these defendants for the purpose of compelling their attendance to stand trial.
"Section 114 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act (ACJA) empowers the court to do so.
"When we had this challenge, we wanted to declare them wanted but I was mindful of the pronouncement of your brother judge, Justice Dimgba, who held that, for a defendant to be declared wanted, it has to be by an order of court," he said.
In response, Aneke said that he agreed with the decision of Dimgba, but added that he would not declare the defendants wanted, but would issue a bench warrant.
According to Aneke, if the warrant fails, the defendants could then be declared wanted.
Aneke said: "Having carefully listened to the oral submission of counsel, praying the court for a warrant against the two defendants, Mr. Ayodele Oke and Mrs. Folashade Ayodele, consequent upon difficulty to compel their attendance, I am convinced that the application is not without merit.
"I hereby order a warrant for the arrest of the defendants in accordance with the provisions of Sections 114 of the ACJA.
"This case is adjourned until March 18 for report of compliance."


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We never hear much about Nicaragua or what is happening in Nicaragua these days in the U.S. news media. But some important things are happening in that country. China more than ever is investing in that country on a large scale. Not only is Chinese business and Chinese money pouring into Nicaragua, but the Chinese government is also working in cooperation with the Nicaraguan government in building a canal similar to the one in Panama to allow cargo ships to cross from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. There is no question that China has a major interest in Nicaragua, and is trying to "buy" Nicaragua's loyalty.
If this is the case, then why does the Nicaraguan government recognize China's rival Taiwan officially? This sounds especially odd given the fact that the Sandinista Party, which is very left wing, favors socialist and Communist regimes and is on especially good terms with those Latin American countries with leftist governments like Venezuela, Bolivia, El Salvador and Ecuador. Given this, why does it recognize a multi-party democracy like Taiwan and not a one-party state like China? The answer is that the Nicaraguan government is playing off China and Taiwan for what money and investments they can get out of both. Doesn't this sound very capitalist? Yes it is, but then the Sandinistas are not the totally hardcore socialists they used to be. They have learned to love capitalism and free enterprise as long as it lines the Sandinista Party's pockets. They work in cooperation with the Catholic Church to help keep the population under control.
For the Sandinistas, control is everything, and you cannot succeed if you have not cooped everyone from small businesses to unions to church organizations and yes those countries that want to invest and do business in your country. As in the case of Venezuela, the Sandinistas do not want to lose power and will even go as far as rig elections to stay in control. But unlike the Venezuelan government, which is increasingly under siege from its own people, the Nicaraguan government is making sure it makes as many people happy as possible. Those who object they repress, but by and large the stability and control they have brought to Nicaragua will assure them that the Sandinistas will not be gotten rid of anytime soon. And so Nicaragua will keep playing China and Taiwan off.


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HAMDEN >> North Carolina-born bluegrass guitar ace Bryan Sutton will bring his prodigious flatpicking guitar skills to the Ballroom at The Outer Space Friday. The GuitartownCT show will mark Sutton's third visit to the area in recent years but his first as a band leader.
Sutton, a member of the all-time great bluegrass band Hot Rize since 2000, previously played GuitartownCT shows locally with Hot Rize and as a duo with Hot Rize mandolin and fiddle player Tim O'Brien. This show is billed as The Bryan Sutton Bluegrass Band.
Tickets are $40 for reserved front table seats and $30 for row seats, and are available at http://guitartownct.com or by contacting Chris Wuerth at 203-430-6020. Showtime is 7:30 p.m. The Ballroom is open for dinner at 6 p.m.
In addition to his work on his own and with Hot Rize, Sutton previously played with Ricky Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder, performing on two Grammy Award-winning albums after joining in 1995. As one of Nashville's top session guitarists, Sutton also has played with Dolly Parton, Doc Watson, the Dixie Chicks, Garth Brooks, Keith Urban and Taylor Swift. He has toured with Bela Fleck, Noam Pikelny, Chris Thile and many others.
Sutton has been voted the International Bluegrass Music Association's "Guitarist of the Year" nine times. He received a Grammy in 2007 for "Best Country Instrumental Performance" for his duet recording with Watson. He also is an in-demand producer whose recent work includes Della Mae's Grammy-nominated "This World Oft Can Be." In 2014, Sutton released his fourth solo album, "Into My Own," which was nominated for a Grammy in 2015. His latest album, "The More I Learn," is due to be released, coincidentally, on Friday.
The Bryan Sutton Band includes Sam Grisman on bass, Mike Barnett on fiddle and Casey Campbell on mandolin.
Sam Grisman is the son David "Dawg" Grisman, one of the leading mandolin players in the world. Sam Grisman was the founding bass player for The Deadly Gentlemen, and has worked with Dominick Leslie, Alex Hargreaves and Nat Smith, among others.
Fiddle player Barnett grew up in Nashville. Over the course of his young career, he has worked with Jesse McReynolds, Tony Trischka, Bela Fleck, David Grisman, Sierra Hull, Steve Martin and many others. He lives in Boston, where he studies at Berklee College of Music. Barnett previously played at a Guitartown show in 2014 at the Tony Rice benefit concert.
Multi-instrumentalist Casey Campbell was raised on bluegrass. His dad played fiddle with Bill Monroe. He graduated from Belmont University's bluegrass program in 2014, and has played with Del McCoury, the Nashville Bluegrass Band, Vince Gill, the Infamous Stringdusters, Dale Ann Bradley and others.


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The priorities of the Dialogue of Civilizations Research Institute (DOC) were discussed during the final panel – 'Reflections of a Think Tank' – of the 15th Rhodes Forum, which took place from 6 to 7 October,
Alexey Malashenko, Chief Researcher and expert on Islam, mentioned that just as analysing the DOC's past and present productivity are important, forecasting for the future is also vital.
Vladimir Popov, Research Director in Economics & Political Science, warned that the reversal of the trend in most countries towards the decline in income inequalities over the last three decades has created favourable grounds for the rise of nationalist and anti-globalisation feelings. When globalisation is properly managed, it is good for growth and income distribution and does not lead to ethno-populism and nationalism. But if it is accompanied by a decline in real incomes for a large mass of people, nationalist political forces gain additional arguments for instigating anti-globalisation and isolationist sentiments. The rise in income inequalities within major countries since the 1980s poses a threat not only to social stability but also to globalisation and the growth of the world economy.
Such issues are interconnected and will accentuate global migration flows. Challenges and opportunities need to be evaluated on a daily basis, and models for the integration of migrants need to be developed accordingly.
The issue of migration is definitely something that Raffaele Marchetti, Assistant Professor in International Relations at the Faculty of Political Science and the School of Government of LUISS, viewed as a major topic for the DOC Research Institute. In cooperation with the DOC, he launched the World Politics and Dialogue of Civilizations series – this first issue of which is Debating Migration to Europe – shortly before the Rhodes Forum.
This year's Rhodes Forum attracted more than 300 participants from 30 countries. The scientific conclusions will be released soon and published on the DOC Research Institute website.


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By opening your own business you mean to be the only person who determines how the business runs. There are no rules that must be obeyed, there are no superiors, so there is no working hour schedule that must be carried out. All of us determine ourselves.
With this, opening one's own business has the advantage of flexible dividing time and more flexibility in running it. If you want to produce large and unlimited profits, then we ourselves can work optimally, diligently, consistently and seriously.
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Although there is the lure of large income and unlimited, do not think running your own business is easy to run. From the very beginning of running a business, we can be faced with several difficulties, such as the need for capital availability, experienced resources, to the place of business that has it.
Not to mention that after the business runs we also have a big responsibility. If you run it lazily it is not impossible that business can be difficult to grow and lead to bankruptcy.
In the long run, an entrepreneur also needs to think about how to prepare costs for old age when our energy and thoughts are no longer maximally used for activities in the company.
All of the above depends on your decision. Do not let the decisions you choose make you regret it because this will have a direct impact on your life. Ask the people you trust for advice to help you choose to do business or work as an employee.


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Please refer OM F.No. 19024/1/2009-E.IV dated 16.09.2010, wherein at (i) of para 3 it has been clarified that under Relaxation to travel by Private Airline to visit J&k while availing LTC is availableble to all the categories of Govt employees, including those entitled to travel by air but what about travel to NER, which is also governed by Relaxation.....
Whether private airline is allowed to entitled officers for visit to NER as per OM dated 02.05.2008, 14.05.2008 and 23.04.2010.
I had posted a query dated 05.07.2010, whether travel by Pvt air line while visit to NER is allowed as per OM dated 02.05.2008, but no one has commented for this or gave any suggestion or commented on the topic.
Now I don't know whether you are aware or not that DOEXP has clarified vide OM dated 16.09.2010 that visit J&K (Relaxation in LTC Rule) by PVT airline is clarified in afirmative. What about NER (North East Region).
PAO in our Commissionerate has refused to sanction the Claim regarding visit to NER by PVT air line.
As per recent OM 19024/1/2009-E.IV dated 16-09-2010, DOEXP has clarified for "Relaxation in LTC Rule..... to visit J&K" saying that Pvt Air Line is allowed.
Therefore I just want to know that in any Central Excise and Customs Commissionerate , visit by Pvt Airlines to NER is allowed or otherwise.
I think this time some one will comment on this.
Please let me know that is there any instruction or circular which clearly states that Superintendent of Customs and Central Excise is entitle to travel by ecnonomical class by any pvt Airline to LTC to North East Region.