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Obama's "Bad Negotiating" is Actually Shrewd Negotiating
Why Do We Assume Obama's Actually Trying to Enact a Progressive Agenda?
In December, President Obama signed legislation to extend hundreds of billions of dollars in Bush tax cuts, benefiting the wealthiest Americans. Last week, Obama agreed to billions of dollars in cuts that will impose the greatest burden on the poorest Americans. And now, virtually everyone in Washington believes, the President is about to embark on a path that will ultimately lead to some type of reductions in Social Security, Medicare and/or Medicaid benefits under the banner of "reform." Tax cuts for the rich -- budget cuts for the poor -- "reform" of the Democratic Party's signature safety net programs -- a continuation of Bush/Cheney Terrorism policies and a new Middle East war launched without Congressional approval. That's quite a legacy combination for a Democratic President.
All of that has led to a spate of negotiation advice from the liberal punditocracy advising the President how he can better defend progressive policy aims -- as though the Obama White House deeply wishes for different results but just can't figure out how to achieve them. Jon Chait, Josh Marshall, and Matt Yglesias all insist that the President is "losing" on these battles because of bad negotiating strategy, and will continue to lose unless it improves. Ezra Klein says "it makes absolutely no sense" that Democrats didn't just raise the debt ceiling in December, when they had the majority and could have done it with no budget cuts. Once it became clear that the White House was not following their recommended action of demanding a "clean" vote on raising the debt ceiling -- thus ensuring there will be another, probably larger round of budget cuts -- Yglesias lamented that the White House had "flunked bargaining 101." Their assumption is that Obama loathes these outcomes but is the victim of his own weak negotiating strategy.
I don't understand that assumption at all. Does anyone believe that Obama and his army of veteran Washington advisers are incapable of discovering these tactics on their own or devising better strategies for trying to avoid these outcomes if that's what they really wanted to do? What evidence is there that Obama has some inner, intense desire for more progressive outcomes? These are the results they're getting because these are the results they want -- for reasons that make perfectly rational political sense.
Conventional D.C. wisdom -- that which Obama vowed to subvert but has done as much as any President to bolster -- has held for decades that Democratic Presidents succeed politically by being as "centrist" or even as conservative as possible. That attracts independents, diffuses GOP enthusiasm, casts the President as a triangulating conciliator, and generates raves from the DC press corps -- all while keeping more than enough Democrats and progressives in line through a combination of anti-GOP fear-mongering and partisan loyalty.
Isn't that exactly the winning combination that will maximize the President's re-election chances? Just consider the polling data on last week's budget cuts, which most liberal commentators scorned. Americans support the "compromise" by a margin of 58-38%; that support includes a majority of independents, substantial GOP factions, and 2/3 of Democrats. Why would Democrats overwhelmingly support domestic budget cuts that burden the poor? Because, as Yglesias correctly observed, "just about anything Barack Obama does will be met with approval by most Democrats." In other words, once Obama lends his support to a policy -- no matter how much of a departure it is from ostensible Democratic beliefs -- then most self-identified Democrats will support it because Obama supports it, because it then becomes the "Democratic policy," by definition. Adopting "centrist" or even right-wing policies will always produce the same combination -- approval of independents, dilution of GOP anger, media raves, and continued Democratic voter loyalty -- that is ideal for the President's re-election prospects.
That tactic in the context of economic policy has the added benefit of keeping corporate and banking money on Obama's side (where it overwhelmingly was in 2008), or at least preventing a massive influx to GOP coffers. And just look at the team of economic advisers surrounding Obama from the start: does anyone think that Bill Daley, Tim Geithner and his army of Rubin acolytes and former Goldman Sachs executives are sitting around in rooms desperately trying to prevent budget cuts and entitlement "reforms"?
Why would Obama possibly want to do anything different? Why would he possibly want a major political war over the debt ceiling where he looks like a divisive figure and looks to be opposing budget cuts? Why would he possibly want to draw a line in the sand defending Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security from any "reforms"? There would be only two reasons to do any of that: (1) fear that he would lose too much of his base if he compromised with the GOP in these areas, or (2) a genuine conviction that such compromises are morally or economically intolerable. Since he so plainly lacks both -- a fear of losing the base or genuine convictions about this or anything else -- there's simply nothing to drive him to fight for those outcomes.
Like most first-term Presidents after two years, Obama is preoccupied with his re-election, and perceives -- not unreasonably -- that that goal is best accomplished by adopting GOP policies. The only factor that could subvert that political calculation -- fear that he could go too far and cause Democratic voters not to support him -- is a fear that he simply does not have: probably for good reason. In fact, not only does Obama not fear alienating progressive supporters, the White House seems to view that alienation as a positive, as it only serves to bolster Obama's above-it-all, centrist credentials. Here's what CNN's White House Correspondent Ed Henry and Gloria Borger said last night about the upcoming fight over entitlements and the debt ceiling:
Henry: I was talking to a senior Democrat who advises the White House, outside the White House today who was saying look, every time this president sits down with Speaker Boehner, to Gloria's point about negotiating skills, the president seems to give up another 5 billion dollars, 10 billion dollars, 20 billions dollars. It' s like the spending cuts keep going up. If you think about where the congressional Democrats started a couple of months ago they were talking about no spending cuts on the table. It keeps going up.
But this president has a much different reality than congressional Democrats.
Borger (sagely): Right.
Henry: He's going for re-election, him going to the middle and having liberal Democrats mad at him is not a bad thing.
Borger: Exactly.
That's why I experience such cognitive dissonance when I read all of these laments from liberal pundits that Obama isn't pursuing the right negotiating tactics, that he's not being as shrewd as he should be. He's pursuing exactly the right negotiating tactics and is being extremely shrewd -- he just doesn't want the same results that these liberal pundits want and which they like to imagine the President wants, too. He's not trying to prevent budget cuts or entitlement reforms; he wants exactly those things because of how politically beneficial they are to him -- to say nothing of whether he agrees with them on the merits.
When I first began blogging five years ago, I used to write posts like that all the time. I'd lament that Democrats weren't more effectively opposing Bush/Cheney National Security State policies or defending civil liberties. I'd attribute those failures to poor strategizing or a lack of political courage and write post after post urging them to adopt better tactics to enable better outcomes or be more politically "strong." But then I realized that they weren't poor tacticians getting stuck with results they hated. They simply weren't interested in generating the same outcomes as the ones I wanted.
It wasn't that they eagerly wished to defeat these Bush policies but just couldn't figure out how to do it. The opposite was true: they were content to acquiesce to those policies, if not outright supportive of them, because they perceived no political advantage in doing anything else. Many of them supported those policies on the merits while many others were perfectly content with their continuation. So I stopped trying to give them tactical advice on how to achieve outcomes they didn't really want to achieve, and stopped attributing their failures to oppose these policies to bad strategizing or political cowardice. Instead, I simply accepted that these were the outcomes they most wanted, that Democratic Party officials on the whole -- obviously with some exceptions -- weren't working toward the outcomes I had originally assumed (and which they often claimed). Once you accept that reality, events in Washington make far more sense.
Read the full article at Salon.com
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Glenn Greenwald is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, constitutional lawyer, commentator, author of three New York Times best-selling books on politics and law, and a staff writer and editor at First Look media. His fifth and latest book is, No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State, about the U.S. surveillance state and his experiences reporting on the Snowden documents around the world. Prior to his collaboration with Pierre Omidyar, Glenn's column was featured at Guardian US and Salon. His previous books include: With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful, Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, and How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism, a George Polk Award, and was on The Guardian team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public interest journalism in 2014.
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They shall be designated by the certified association where it represents all the workers of the establishment.
Where several certified associations represent all the workers of the establishment, they may, by agreement, designate the workers' representatives. If they do not agree, the designation of the representatives is determined in accordance with the terms and conditions prescribed by regulation.
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The SIP Forum is an industry association with members from the leading IP communications companies. Its mission: To advance the adoption and interoperability of IP communications products and services based on SIP.
The Forum promotes SIP as the technology of choice for the control of real-time multimedia communication sessions throughout the Internet, corporate networks, and wireless networks.
The Forum directs technical activities aimed at achieving high levels of product interoperability, provides information on the benefits and capabilities of SIP, and highlights successful applications and deployments.
Each of our Working Groups and Task Groups has their own mailing list, many of which are open to individual, "Participant" members. Please feel free to join them, or to join the general "discussion" mailing list.
The SIP Forum is currently engaged in the following technical activities – each of which has its own Task Group that includes a unique mailing list, chairperson(s) and group of contributors:
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The Forum is open to individual "Participant" members, Academic/Institutional Members, and to corporate "Full Members". Individual "Participant" and Academic/Institutional membership is free.
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SIPNOC 2019 Early-Bird Registration and Call For Presentation is Officially Open!
The ninth annual SIP Network Operators Conference — SIPNOC 2019 — will be held in Herndon, VA, December 3-5, 2019.
SIPNOC 2019 will expand its focus on the SHAKEN Call Authentication Framework and the expanding efforts to combat the Robocall epidemic and is being specifically developed for industry stakeholders in the Robocall elimination/mitigation ecosystem, including service providers seeking to deploy new solutions, governmental regulators and agencies, equipment manufacturers, enterprise and government agency contact centers, application providers and data analytics firms.
Read the SIPNOC 2019 "Save the Date" Announcement here!
Read the SIPNOC 2019 CFP and Registration Opens Announcement here!
The SIPNOC conferences attract leading technical and operations personnel from the global carrier community and have earned high praise from attendees for their educational, non-commercial and technical content that focuses on the real-world challenges operators face when deploying SIP services in global IP networks. SIPNOC attendees include telecommunications providers, major backbone operators, interconnect and wholesale solution providers, ISPs, cable operators, wireless network operators as well as large enterprises deploying major SIP initiatives.
The three-day conference has attracted technical leadership from MSOs and carriers from North America, South America and Europe including Accent Communications, ADP, Airespring, Allstream, AT&T, Approved Networks, Armstrong Utilities, babyTel, Baltimore-Washington Telephonone Company, Bandwidth, Bell Canada, Bluetone Communications, Brighthouse Networks, British Telecom, Broadvox, CableOne, Cablevision, Centracom, CDK Global, Centurylink, Cincinnati Bell, Cinchcast, Charter Communications, Cologix, Comcast, Consolidated Telecom, COX Communications, Deutsch Telecom, Dialpad, E Street Communications, Evolve IP, Frontier Communications, Global Crossing, GRUPO GTD, Hargray Communications, iBasis, IDT, IntelliVerse, Lanck Telecom, Level 3, Livevox, LINX America, LogMeIn, Lumos Networks, MarcaTel, Megapath, MTS Allstream, Nextel, Optimum Lightpath, One Access Networks, Orange, Purple Communications, RingCentral, Rogers, SDN Communications, Shentel, Socket Telecom, Soleo Communications, Somos, Sorenson Communications, Sprint, Swisscom, Telefonica, Telmex, TelNet Worldwide, Time Warner Cable, TDS Telecom, Telefonica International Wholesale Services, XConnect Networks, XO Communications, Uni-tel, Verizon, Videotron, Vonage, Voxbone, Vocalocity, WDT, Windstream, and Ziggo.
In addition to carrier participants, SIPNOC has also attracted a myriad of SIP community stakeholders from vendors, governments and research organizations such as Alorica, Amazon, Apple, ATIS, AudioCodes, Avaya, BlueAlly, Broadsoft, CableLabs, California State University, Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), CaptionCall, Cequint, Cisco Systems, Columbia University, Commetrex, CounterPath, CTIA, Democon, Dialogic Corporation, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Dialog Technology, DISA (U.S. Defense Information Services Agency), ECG, Edgewater Networks, EGH, Equinox Information Systems, Ericsson, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, First Orion, Frequentis AG, GENBAND, Georgetown University, Hiya, Huawei Technologies, iconectiv, Illinois Institute of Technology, Ingate Systems, ISOC, LogMeIn, LucidTech, Metaswitch, Microsoft, MITRE, Neustar, Netmaker Communications, New York Department of State, NICE Incontact, Noble Systems, Nuance Communications, Numeracle, Penn State University, Polycom, Professional Association for Customer Engagement (PACE), Oracle, Redshift Networks, REVE Systems, Ribbon Communications, Sangoma Technologies, Sansay, SecureLogix, Siemens, snom, Sonus Networks, TelcoBridges, TeleStax, Teraquant, TNSI, Unify, University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory, University of Virginia, U.S. Dept of Transportation, U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), USTelecom Association, and Vigilsec.
For detailed archived event information, please visit the SIPNOC 2019 event webpage.
To view the Agenda, as well as access links to the SIPNOC 2018 presentations, please visit the SIPNOC 2018 Conference Agenda page.
Two New ATIS/SIP Forum NNI Task Force Resources Available
ATIS and the SIP Forum have released two new technical reports advancing industry efforts to mitigate unwanted robocalling.
The Technical Report on a Framework for Display of Verified Caller ID provides a framework for signaling verified Caller ID information from the network to a User Equipment (UE), and displaying the information on the UE in a uniform manner, independent of technology. The goal is to produce display guidelines that help meet the goals of regulators and consumer protection agencies for empowering consumers with simple and effective information on the displayed Caller ID. This will help consumers know if a call is from who it says it is from so they can make an informed decision on whether to answer.
The Technical Report on SHAKEN API for a Centralized Signing and Signature Validation Server provides additional detail on one possible implementation of the SHAKEN specification in service provider networks. It defines a RESTful interface (API) that can be used in the SHAKEN framework to interface with a centralized server to sign and verify telephony identity for multiple nodes within a network. Implementing SHAKEN authentication and verification functions in a centralized server that can be accessed via an API supports cloud-based implementations and is designed to enable a more cost-effective network deployment.
All SHAKEN resources are available on the SIP Forum site here.
Federal Communications Commission Approves Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on the SHAKEN Call Authentication Framework Developed by the SIP Forum/ATIS NNI Task Force and the Publication of New Joint ATIS/SIP Forum SHAKEN Standard
ATIS and the SIP Forum have announced the publication of a new Joint ATIS/SIP Forum Standard, Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs (SHAKEN): Governance Model and Certificate Management that expands the SHAKEN framework, introducing a governance model and defining X.509 certificate management procedures. Certificate management provides mechanisms for validation of a certificate and verification of the associated digital signature, allowing for the identification of illegitimate use of national telecommunications infrastructure.
We have also announced that the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has officially approved a Notice of Inquiry (NOI) on this new standard.
Read the full text of this announcement.
The SHAKEN (Signature-based Handling of Asserted information using toKENs) specification is a major advancement in industry efforts to mitigate unwanted robocalls and caller ID spoofing. Developed to efficiently implement the IETF's STIR (Secure Telephony Identity Revisited) standard, SHAKEN defines a signature to verify the calling number and specifies how it will be transported in SIP "on the wire." The SHAKEN framework provides guidance for service providers to implement STIR. Together, STIR/SHAKEN will offer a practical mechanism to provide verified information about the calling party as well as the origin of the call — what is known as "attestation" — for the first time in the network. Giving service providers the tools needed to sign and verify calling numbers makes it possible for consumers to know, before answering, that the calls they receive are from legitimate parties.
Read the full text of the earlier SHAKEN announcement.
The ATIS/SIP Forum NNI Task Force previously completed the first standardized IP-based network-to-network interconnection (NNI) with consensus across North American Service providers. This accomplishment enables a major objective identified in the United States National Broadband Plan, to ensure that all service connections between providers occur at the Internet Protocol (IP) level. It also helps the industry advance a major business objective of achieving the interconnection needed to reliably deliver a range of exciting new IP-based services. This work is the product of the ATIS/SIP Forum Joint Task Force, which is at the forefront of conducting an industry effort to evaluate the current state of IP-IP interconnection, identify problem areas, and provide detailed protocol-level specifications to advance solutions.
Those completed documents provide a detailed, protocol-level IP-NNI specification for one service – voice. From this initial profile, further specifications can more easily be developed. The two new ratified documents are (1) IP Interconnection Profile, which describes a reference architecture and specifications for both the protocol and media as it appears "on-the-wire" at interconnect points; and (2) IP Interconnection Routing Report, which documents mechanisms for identifying the preferred IP interconnection point for a given phone number.
Read the full text of the ATIS and SIP Forum IP-NNI Task Force announcement.
For more information about the NNI Task Force and Charter, and to obtain copies of the completed, ratified specifications, please visit the NNI Task Force Introduction Page.
SIP Forum Ratifies the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 2.0!
The SIP Forum reached an important milestone by formally ratifying Version 2.0 of the SIPconnect Technical Recommendation on November 28, 2016, with the unanimous approval of the SIP Forum Board of Directors.
The formal adoption by the SIP Forum Board of the SIPconnect 2.0 Technical Recommendation is based on recognition that the recommendation has been through credible peer review, including broad membership and significant community review, that it is stable and is well-understood, and that it is believed to have resolved known design choices.
The SIPconnect 2.0 Technical Recommendation is a profile of the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and related media aspects that enables direct connectivity between a SIP-enabled Service Provider Network and a SIP-enabled Enterprise Network. It specifies the minimal set of IETF and ITU-T standards that must be supported, provides precise guidance in the areas where the standards leave multiple implementation options, and specifies a minimal set of capabilities that should be supported by the Service Provider and Enterprise Networks.
SIPconnect 2.0 effectively extends SIPconnect 1.1. Where SIPconnect 1.0, and 1.1 focused primarily on basic network registration, identity/privacy management, call originations, call terminations, and advanced services, the 2.0 version adds additional guidance on Security, Emergency Calling, and IPv6.
Where appropriate, recommendations from SIPconnect 1.1 have been left unchanged, although some modifications to prior recommendations have been made based on experience and feedback gathered through adoption of SIPconnect 1.1 in the industry.
View the full text of the SIP connect 2.0 announcement.
View or download the ratified SIPconnect Technical Recommendation Version 2.0.
View more information about the SIPconnect 2.0 Task Group charter.
SIP Forum Launches SIPconnect Certification Testing Program
We are proud to announce the launch of the SIPconnect Certification Testing Program, a unique certification testing program that includes a new certification test suite and test platform, as well as an associated "SIPconnect Certified" logo program that will serve as the official "seal of certification" for companies products and services that have successfully passed the certification test and officially achieved conformance with the SIPconnect specification.
The result of three years of planning and development, the new SIPconnect Certification Testing Program will be hosted by the UNH-IOL, a well-known independent, third-party laboratory dedicated to broad-based testing and standards conformance services for networking industries. The program will be available to IP communications equipment vendors, including IP-PBX and SBC vendors, and service providers who are offering SIP trunking services.
For more information, please read SIPconnect Certification Program Overview webpage.
SIP Forum 2018 Annual General Meeting
The SIP Forum 2018 General Meeting was held on Thursday, 14 March 2019.
In the meeting, a review of the financial operations was conducted, as well as a review of the operational and technical activities that have occurred over the past 12 months since the last General Meeting. In addition, votes were cast for new board members and for one other voting issue.
View more information about the meeting, including the full text of the 2018 Annual General Meeting Notice.
SIP Forum's SIP over IPv6 Task Group Achieves Milestone with the Publication of "Interoperability Impacts of IPv6 Interworking with Existing IPv4 SIP Implementations"
The continued proliferation of IPv6 infrastructure deployments has resulted in more IPv6 Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) User Agents (UAs) being turned up on networks around the world. Considering the large installed base of IPv4 SIP UAs deployed prior to the deployment of IPv6, it is a well-known fact that not all IPv4 SIP UAs have taken into account all possible IPv4 SIP-to-IPv6 SIP interoperability considerations at the time of their development.
The SIP Forum has announced that the SIP over IPv6 Task Group has achieved a significant milestone in its mission to improve the interoperability of IPv6 Interworking with IPv4 implementations with the publication of a new document entitled "Interoperability Impacts of IPv6 Interworking with Existing IPv4 SIP Implementations".
View the full text of the announcement.
The SIP Forum's SIP over IPv6 Task Group (IPv6) was formed to address key deployment and interoperability issues in the telecommunications industry's migration to SIP over IPv6. The task group, which includes key stakeholders from the service provider, application developer and equipment communities, has developed and ratified a charter with the mandate to identify issues with SIP over IPv6 and assess the impact of transition technologies and dual stack devices on existing SIP networks.
For more information, please visit the SIP over IPv6 Task Group Charter webpage.
SIPit 32 Post-Event Info
SIPit 32 was held at the University of New Hampshire Interoperability Laboratory September 12-16, 2016. A Summary of test results from the event will be available soon.
In addition to the usual thorough testing, SIPit 32 focused on new evolutions in SIP Security such as the mechanisms defined in the STIR working group. The event also conducted tests designed to inform the new SIPBRANDY effort in the IETF.
Read the full SIPit 32 announcement.
View the results of past SIPit events in the SIPit section of the SIP Forum website.
SIP Forum and BITKOM Partner in the Ongoing Development of SIPconnect
The SIP Forum announced an ongoing alliance with BITKOM, the Federal Association for Information Technology, Telecommunications and New Media in Germany, in the development of updates to the SIP Forum's SIPconnect Technical Specification (currently SIPconnect 2.0).
The formal endorsement of SIPconnect by BITKOM provides valuable technical input and peer review by one of the European Union's most prominent technical associations, and will help ensure that the next versions of SIPconnect meet the requirements of BITKOM members. As part of the agreement, the two organizations will pool requirements as they work towards an update of their respective SIP trunking specifications.
Read the full text of the SIP Forum and BITKOM Announcement.
SIP Forum's Fax over IP Task Group Achieves Milestone with the Publication of IETF RFC 6913
The SIP Forum announced its Fax over IP (FoIP) Task Group has achieved a significant milestone in its mission to improve international IP fax transport services with the publication of RFC 6913 – a new Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) RFC that introduces a new "sip.fax" media feature tag that aims to enable the intelligent routing of International faxes and greatly improve the reliability of International faxing services.
RFC 6913, co-authored by David Hanes, Kevin Fleming and Gonzalo Salgueiro, defines and registers with IANA a new "fax" media feature tag for use with the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Currently, fax calls are indistinguishable from voice calls at call initiation. Consequently, fax calls can be routed to SIP user agents that are not fax capable. A "fax" media feature tag implemented in conjunction with caller preferences allows for early advertisement of fax capabilities and consequently, more intelligent fax call routing.
See the full text of the RFC 6913 announcement.
As part of the work leading up to this new RFC, the Fax-over-IP Interoperability Task Group published a T.38 SIP-SDP subgroup Problem Statement that details a number of SDP offer/answer interoperability issues found while implementing and connecting T.38 compliant endpoints together, primarily over the SIP signaling mechanism. View or download this document.
In addition, the Forum previously published an official task group problem statement, a document that details the various interoperability issues that currently plague FoIP services. This document is available for download.
The FoIP Task Group has developed a task group charter for viewing.
To view task group documents and other related materials, please visit the FoIP Task Group document repository.
SIP Forum UA Configuration Recommendation Ratified and Published as RFC 6011 by the IETF
The SIP Forum's User Agent Configuration Recommendation for the locating, retrieving and maintaining of SIP User Agents has been ratified and published as RFC 6011 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
The publishing of the recommendation as RFC 6011 marked a significant milestone for the SIP Forum and its UA Configuration Task Group, at the time led by Chairman John Elwell, former Head of Standardization Strategy at Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH. The UA Configuration Task Group had been working on the procedure since 2009, and designed the standard in a manner that addressed the needs of end users and services providers, as well as both small businesses and large enterprises deploying SIP-enabled endpoints.
Now published as RFC 6011 by the IETF's Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) after a public review process by the IETF community, the User Agent Configuration Recommendation (UA Config) sets a standard procedure for how a SIP User Agent locates, retrieves and maintains current configuration information for a given SIP Service Provider. It requires that each User Agent, the configuration agent at the service provider and network infrastructure meet such requirements to ensure communication.
To view the published text of RFC 6011, please visit http://tools.ietf.org/search/rfc6011.
The SIP Forum Opens Call for Presentations and Early-Bird Registration for SIPNOC 2019, December 3 – 5, 2019
The SIP Forum Announces Dates for SIPNOC 2019 — the Ninth Annual SIP Network Operators Conference
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Research Article: The difference between horizontal-to-vertical spectra ratio and empirical transfer function as revealed by vertical arrays
Author(s): Mianshui Rong, Hongguang Li, Yan Yu, Hao Sun.
The horizontal-to-vertical spectral ratio (HVSR) and empirical transfer function analyses were performed on the S-wave recordings from two vertical borehole strong motion arrays: the Garner Valley Downhole Array in southern California, and the KiK-net Ichinoseki-Nishi Vertical Array in West Ichinoseki, Japan. The results show that the discrepancy between the HVSR and the transfer function is mainly caused by the significant site response of the vertical component, thus, vertical incident P-waves are proposed to play an important role in the vertical amplification. The P-wave amplification is frequency-dependent. In the low-frequency range within f0 (the fundamental frequency of the site), the effect of the vertical P-wave amplification is slight, this is why HVSR and transfer function match in this frequency range. In the high-frequency range near 2 f0 or larger, the P-wave amplification is obvious, which maybe explain the discrepancy between the HVSR and the transfer function.
The evaluation of site-effects due to local geology or topography has become a standard requirement in microzonation studies or site evaluation for important facilities [1]. Many empirical methods such as the standard spectral ratio method [2],the linear inversion method [3],the reference event method [4],and the HVSR method [5] are used to identify site characteristics.Among these methods, the HVSR is the spectral ratio technique using records of only one station. So it is an attractive low-cost method.
The increase in the number of borehole instruments provided a significant step forward in directly measuring the effects of surface geology and critical constraints on our methods for interpreting surface observations [15]. Borehole measurements provided direct in situ evidence for the research of the seismic response theory, method and applicability of this geotechnical model. In recent years, many downhole arrays have been built all over the world, and seismic records of two vertical arrays, GVDA and the IWTH25, were incorporated in our dataset.
HVSRs can be obtained through strong motions recorded by the sensors located at different depths for every seismic event. Fig 3 presents an example of observations at different depths for the three components of ground acceleration from IWTH25 site. When the seismic waves propagate from the bedrock through the soil column, the surface to bedrock amplification is significant. The HVSR curves are determined using spectral ratio of S-wave part of horizontal and vertical components. The TF curves are determined using spectral ratio of S-wave part of components at surface over incident upgoing S-wave at borehole site. A more than 10s window beginning 0.5–1 sec before the onset of the S-wave is taken from each records. A 5% Hanning taper was applied to all time windows. All the S-wave Fourier spectra are smoothed by using the logarithmic smoothing function proposed for this correction [25]. Once the spectral ratio for each station and each earthquake was obtained, the logarithmic average and the ±1 standard deviation or the 95% confidence limits of the mean were calculated.
In order to interpret the amplitude discrepancy between the HVSR and the TF for different arrays, the ratio of the average TF to the average HVSR is introduced, as shown in Fig 5. According to the definition of the HVSR and TF, the ratio can be written as (HS/HB)/(HS/VS) = VS/HB. Under the assumption that the HVSR in the firm substrate could be regarded as a constant, the shape of the ratio VS/HB is consistent with the vertical TF, which is denoted by the ratio VS/VB. The TFs of the GVDA and IWTH25 are also shown in Fig 5. As shown in Fig 5, we see the ratios of the average TFs to the average HVSRs are in good agreement with the average vertical TF, indicating that the spectral discrepancy between the TF and HVSR is mainly controlled by the site response of the vertical component.
According to analysis in previous section, based on observation, it is clear that we cannot always assume a borehole sensor located below the soil column in competent granite rock as a suitable reference site, as defined by Steidl et al. [18], with a flat amplitude response in the frequencies of engineering interest. The HVSRs revealed by instruments located on 260m (soft sandstone with Vs 1810m/s) of the IWTH25 site indicates that at this depth, the site may undergo amplification that cannot be ignored. It also appears that one of the principle assumptions that H/V is equal to unity on the bedrock does not necessarily apply in all circumstances.
The observations of ground motion in two vertical arrays presented and analyzed here have provided fundamental data for the comparison of HVSR and TF. The discrepancy between HVSRs and TFs has been explored and interpreted by comparing vertical site response to theoretical and synthetic borehole or outcrop response. In addition, the applicability and conditions of using HVSR as TF have been studied. From what we have discussed above, we can come to the conclusion that the HVSRs from observed earthquakes resemble the TFs for horizontal components, the HVSR method can be used to determine predominant frequency. But discrepancy still exists in absolute amplitudes of HVSRs and TFs. The consistency of them depends on the vertical seismic response of the site, which is also frequency-dependent. The vertical site response can be explained by the P-wave amplification.Commonly, in the low-frequency range within f0, the level of the vertical P-wave amplification is slight, while in high-frequency range near 2 f0 or larger, the P-wave amplification is obvious. Otherwise, the HVSRs and TFs are compared considering the site nonlinearity under severe earthquakes, the results show that in the frequency range in which the P-wave amplification can be ignored, the HVSRs and TFs are in good agreement in amplitude and spectrum.


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BACH, J.S.: French Suites Nos. 3-6, BWV 814-817 (Rübsam)
French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814
Rübsam, Wolfgang, piano
1. I. Allemande 00:04:22
2. II. Courante 00:02:17
3. III. Sarabande 00:02:49
4. IV. Anglaise 00:01:28
5. V. Menuets I and II 00:03:20
6. VI. Gigue 00:02:28
French Suite No. 4 in E-Flat Major, BWV 815
10. IV. Gavotte 00:01:16
11. V. Menuet 00:00:53
12. VI. Air 00:01:53
13. VII. Gigue 00:02:32
French Suite No. 5 in G Major, BWV 816
14. I. Allemande 00:04:00
15. II. Courante 00:02:07
16. III. Sarabande 00:03:48
18. V. Bourree 00:01:30
19. VI. Loure 00:02:54
French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817
25. V. Menuet polonais 00:01:13
26. VI. Petit Menuet 00:01:11
27. VII. Bourree 00:01:52
28. VIII. Gigue 00:02:33
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Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre
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Part One: Boys' Love and Global Publishing
Donovan, Hope. Gift versus capitalist economies: Exchanging anime and manga in the U.S. (pp. 11-22).
Malone, Paul M. From BRAVO to Animexx.de to export: Capitalizing on German Boys' Love fandom, culturally, socially and economically (pp. 23-42).
Abraham, Yamila. Boys' Love thrives in conservative Indonesia (pp. 44-55).
Part Two: Genre and Readership
Pagliassotti, Dru. Better than romance? Japanese BL manga and the subgenre of male/male Romantic Fiction (pp. 59-84).
Isola, Mark John. Yaoi and slash fiction: Women writing, reading, and getting off? (pp. 84-98).
Stanely, Marni. 101 uses for boys: Communing with the reader in yaoi and slash (pp. 99-109).
Blair, M. M. "She should just die in a ditch": Fan reactions to female characters in Boys' Love manga (pp. 110-125).
Kee, Tan Bee. Rewriting gender and sexuality in English-language yaoi fanfiction (pp. 126-156).
Part Three: Boys' Love and Perceptions of the Queer
Akatsuka, Neal K. Uttering the absurd, revaluing the abject: Femininity and the disavowal of homosexuality in transnational Boys' Love manga (pp. 159-176).
McHarry, Mark. Boys in love in Boys' Love: Discourses West/East and the abject in subject formation (pp. 177-189).
Vicars, Mark, & Senior, Kim. Queering the quotidian: Yaoi, narrative pleasures and reader response (pp. 190-210).
Hall, Alexis. Gay or gei? Reading "realness" in Japanese yaoi manga (pp. 211-220).
Williams, Alan. Raping Apollo: Sexual difference and the yaoi phenomenon (pp. 221-231).
Meyer, Uli. Hidden in straight sight: Trans*gressing gender and sexuality via BL (pp. 232-256).
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Debates, Government, Movements, Politics, Right watch
Insurgent Ambedkar and a New Moment in Politics
28/03/2016 Aditya Nigam Leave a comment
Both the Hyderabad Central University (HCU) and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) events were "ultra-Left movements" also involving a small section of "jihadis", Finance Minister Arun Jaitley contended on Sunday.
In the case of JNU, the predominant section of those involved in the agitation was "ultra-Left" barring a small section of "jihadis", who had their faces masked during a demonstration on the campus on February 9 in which anti-national slogans were raised, Mr. Jaitley said.
The name of Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was "unfairly used" in the case of HCU, where protests erupted after the suicide by research scholar Rohith Vemula, he told PTI. (emphasis added. See full report in The Hindu here)
Ambedkar at the barricades, Express photo, courtesy Tashi Tobgyal
Ambedkar has become an insurgent figure today, breaking out of all the pre-set molds in which he was sought to be confined all these decades. He is no longer neither a mere Dalit leader, nor is he simply the Constitution-maker and constitutionalist who taught us to have faith in the law – the two comfortable and domesticated roles in which he has been presented to us so far by all interested parties and the powers-that-be. In the face of the new Sanghist/ fascist assault, he has broken his chains to come out on the streets, as universities and colleges across the country begin to reverberate with his spirit of rebellion. Ambedkar, the name and the face, is ubiquitous by his presence in all the struggles that mark this moment. Even as the struggle of the HCU students for justice for Rohith Vemula continues and the news of the first victory – their release on bail – trickles in, the figure of Ambedkar at the barricades gives the lie to Finance Minister Arun Jaitley's claim above: that HCU and JNU movements were 'ultra-Left movements' and 'jihadis', and that "the name of Dr Ambedkar was 'unfairly used' in the case of HCU. How easy it would be, Mr Jaitley, to thus pronounce the dog mad and go about your business, and how embarrassing to have to confront Ambedkar facing your police and lathis, your courts and prisons. Continue reading Insurgent Ambedkar and a New Moment in Politics →
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Bad ideas, Culture, Debates, Government, Right watch, Violence-Conflict
Really Mr Jaitley, so you've won the first round of the nationalism debate?
27/03/2016 Aditya Nigam 3 Comments
Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley Saturday said the BJP has won the "first round of the nationalism debate" in the country as, according to him, "people who raised anti-India slogans till now have been forced to say Jai Hind, if not Bharat Mata ki Jai" – See full report in the Indian Express here.
Nationalism in Action, image courtesy Rahman Abbas
So, Mr Jaitley,what exactly have you won or lost? Let's take count.
(a) First, there has been no 'debate", for a debate is conducted in a free environment, not with threats of sedition charges, arrests, killings and lynch mobs on the rampage. So, here is an open challenge for round two: Join any of us in an open debate – without any of your repressive props. Field literally anyone, the best you can produce on your side, including your party president who thinks the medieval Ahomiya king, Sukapha defeated the Mughals "satrah satrah baar" when Sukapha died in 1268 and Mughal rule was established only in 1526. Watch Amit Shah in action here:
Continue reading Really Mr Jaitley, so you've won the first round of the nationalism debate? →
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Right watch, Violence-Conflict
What's wrong with these headlines? (Answer – It's Election time, Stupid)
"Another disputed mosque sparks Ballabgarh riots" (The Hindu)
"Ballabhgarh Communal tension: At heart of dispute lie a temple and half-built mosque" (The Indian Express)
Muslim families at Ballabhgarh city police station on Wednesday night after fleeing riots in their village.(Express Photo by: Gajendra Yadav)
This one image should be issued as a ceremonial postage stamp to commemorate one year of Modi's rule. We have said it many times already, but here it is, once more, with feeling – this is a bloody, violent Hindutvavaadi regime, with a cool headed, coldly vicious master-mind at its head – he of the Swarovski eye glasses, the 10 Lakh Rupee Suit, the diamond Movado watch – he of the infinite silences on All That Matters.
Continue reading What's wrong with these headlines? (Answer – It's Election time, Stupid) →
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"Those Backward People" – Arun Jaitley and a Long Ugly History
10/04/2015 Sunalini Kumar 3 Comments
Two days ago, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley sought to make a special mention of "poor, dalits, tribals, backwards, those who are landless." The occasion was the the Land Acquisition Bill, which,
"we are bringing, as per that the industrial corridors which would be set up in the country, those backward people, the 300 million landless people would get employment opportunities,"
First, Mr Jaitley, what exactly is the mechanism your government proposes by which the "backwards" released from the land will be absorbed into industry? Is there a guarantee by the industry owners? Is there a provision for skill training in the same industrial corridors? Are there ITI institutes being set up? Forget these, is even primary or secondary education going to be expanded so that farmers' children, at some point in the distant future can take advantage of the supposed industrial boom? Continue reading "Those Backward People" – Arun Jaitley and a Long Ugly History →
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Feminism, Sex
Politicians Say the Darndest Things: The Ladies Finger
16/03/2015 Nivedita Menon 1 Comment
THE LADIES FINGER gives the finger to politicians and their charming attitudes towards women.
Yesterday in Parliament, Sharad Yadav, head of the Janata Dal (United) and member of the Rajya Sabha, tried to prove he was cool. During a debate on the Insurance Bill, he broke off to talk about south Indian women. What this had to do with the matter at hand is questionable, but here's what the Indian Express reported from Parliament:
The women of the south are dark but they are… their bodies…"
At this point members sitting around him tried to bring him back to the topic at hand with cries of "Sharadji Bill". But, Yadav was not finished yet and talked about the "dancing skills" of south India women.
Soon, Trinamool Congress's Derek O'Brien frantically waved at Yadav to stop.
Want to bet that when he spoke of "dancing skills", this is what he had in mind?
But it didn't end there.
Read the rest of this devastating take down at The Ladies Finger.
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Capitalism, Government
Lobbying for a tax-free banana republic: Aditya Velivelli
Guest Post by ADITYA VELIVELLI
POST-BUDGET UPDATE ADDED AT THE END OF THE POST (JULY 12, 2014)
Consider that an individual bought a house in 1992, made a few modifications, added a garden etc. and rented it out for the next 15 years. This would have brought the individual a steady stream of income over that 15 year period. In 2007, the individual decides to sell the house and it fetches a much larger sum than it was bought for (considering real estate prices went up quite a bit during 1992-2007). The income tax department sends a bill for 20% of the sale price. This is the long term capital gains tax and applies to both residents of India as well as non-residents.
Now consider this.
In 1992 the Hutchison Group of Hong Kong invested in the Indian mobile telecom industry through a joint venture later named Hutchison Essar Ltd or HEL. By 2006, Hutchison expanded its presence into 23 mobile telecom circles.
In 2007, the Hutchison Group's 67% controlling interest in HEL was indirectly sold to Vodafone for an amount of USD 10.8 billion. This transaction occurred through Vodafone's purchase of shares in a Cayman Islands (offshore) entity. It was a calculated attempt by Hutchison and Vodafone to avoid paying tax on capital gains. Continue reading Lobbying for a tax-free banana republic: Aditya Velivelli →
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Bad ideas, Empire, Law
Freedom of speech in India is for the rich and the powerful
14/02/2013 Shivam Vij 11 Comments
While freedom of speech and expression in India is under attack from all sides, have you noticed how the rich and the powerful can say what they like without getting arrested, facing FIRs and courts, hiring lawyers and so on?
While an innocuous tweet or Facebook status update can land you in police lock-up on a Saturday night or Sunday morning 5 am, a Digvijaya Singh can say sexist crap against Rakhi Sawant and get away with it.
Here's another example from Twitter recently. Lalit Modi of IPL infamy, who wants us to believe his coming to India and facing the law is a security threat to him, tweeted that the BJP's Arun Jaitley would lose his deposit if he contested the Lok Sabha seat from Jaipur. (Lalit Modi thinks he's the Maharaja of Rajasthan.) In response to that, one Ankush Jain replied… Continue reading Freedom of speech in India is for the rich and the powerful →
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China's southern Guangdong province plans to develop a new port area at Bohe, Maoming city to improve cargo handling capacity for the west area of Guangdong.
CMA CGM has penned letters of intent to establish a new joint venture with Ethiopian company MACCFA and to manage Ethiopia's Modjo Dry Port.
Manila-headquartered International Container Terminal Services, Inc. (ICTSI) has handled increased box volumes for 2018 over the previous year, thanks to higher trade activities.
Malaysia's Sabah ports are set to play a bigger role to cater to future needs and to drive the economy as the state government announced its commitment to develop port infrastructure and attract trades, reports said.
The US Port of Savannah is looking to expand its capacity to simultaneously handle six 14,000 teu containerships by 2024 under a plan unveiled by Georgia Port Authority's (GPA) Big Berth/Big Ship program.


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Leaked draft agreement opens possibility for US base in Maldives
The United States has confirmed it is in discussion with the Maldivian government over the signing of a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), an unauthenticated draft version of which outlines conditions for the potential establishment of a US military base in the country.
The draft agreement, obtained by Maldivian current affairs blog DhivehiSitee, "incorporates the principal provisions and necessary authorisations for the temporary presence and activities of United States forces in the Republic of Maldives and, in the specific situations indicated herein, the presence and activities of United States contractors in the Republic of Maldives."
A spokesperson for the US Embassy in Colombo was unable to verify the authenticity of the leaked draft, "as the agreement has not been finalised."
"There are no plans for a permanent US military presence in Maldives," the spokesperson stated.
"SOFAs are normal practice wherever the Unites States cooperates closely with a country's national security forces. SOFAs generally establish the framework under which US personnel operate in a country when supporting security-related activities and the United States is currently party to more than 100 agreements that may be considered a SOFA," the spokesperson added.
Senior Maldivian government officials were meanwhile recently invited aboard a United States aircraft carrier (March 27) as it passed by the Maldives.
Tourism Minister Ahmed Adheeb, Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim, Home Minister Mohamed Jameel Ahmed, Police Commissioner Abdulla Riyaz and Vice President Mohamed Waheed Deen were flown to the USS John C Stennis aircraft carrier as part of an arrangement between the US embassy and Maldives Defence Ministry.
The visit was followed by the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Maldives and the US government to install a free border control system.
President's Office Spokesperson Masood Imad said today that he had texted President Dr Mohamed Waheed who had no knowledge of any agreement. The Defence Ministry also had no information on the matter, he said.
Imad would not comment on whether the government would be open to such a proposal.
Spokesperson for the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), MP Hamid Abdul Ghafoor, said the party had heard of the proposal – supposedly concerning Laamu Atoll and the site of the former British airbase on Seenu Gan in the south of the country.
"We are wondering what our other international partners – India, Australia, etc – think of this idea," Ghafoor said.
The party's parliamentary group leader, MP Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, said he had heard about the proposal "a few days ago", and believed the matter would eventually be taken to parliament's national security committee.
Draft proposal
Under the proposed 10 year agreement outlined in the draft, the Maldives would "furnish, without charge" to the United States unspecified "Agreed Facilities and Areas", and "such other facilities and areas in the territory and territorial seas of the Republic of Maldives as may be provided by the Republic of Maldives in the future."
"The Republic of the Maldives authorizes United States forces to exercise all rights and authorities with Agreed Facilities and Areas that are necessary for their use, operation, defense or control, including the right to undertake new construction works and make alterations and improvements," the document states.
The US would be authorised to "control entry" to areas provided for its "exclusive use", and would be permitted to operate its own telecommunications system and use the radio spectrum "free of cost to the United States".
The US would also be granted access to and use of "aerial ports, sea ports and agreed facilities for transit, support and related activities; bunkering of ships, refueling of aircraft, maintenance of vessels, aircraft, vehicles and equipment, accommodation of personnel, communications, ship visits, training, exercises, humanitarian activities."
US personnel would be be authorised to wear uniforms while performing official duties "and to carry arms while on duty if authorised to do so by their orders."
US personnel (and civilian staff) would furthermore "be accorded the privileges, exemptions and immunities equivalent to those accorded to the administrative and technical staff of a diplomatic mission under the Vienna Convention", and be subject to the criminal jurisdiction of the United States.
US personnel and contractors would moreover be permitted to import and export personal property, equipment, supplies and technology without license, restriction or inspection, or the payment of any taxes, charges or customs duties.
Vessels and vehicles operated by, and for, US forces would be permitted to enter and move freely within the territorial seas of the Maldives, free from boarding, inspection or the payment of landing, parking, port or harbour fees.
Disputes would be resolved without recourse to "any national or international court, tribunal or similar body, or to a third party for settlement, unless otherwise mutually agreed."
At the conclusion of the lease, "the parties shall consult regarding the terms of return of any Agreed Facility and Area, including possible compensation for improvements or construction."
Each party would furthermore waive claims (other than contractual) concerning "damage to, loss of, or destruction of its property or injury or death to personnel of either party's armed forces or their civilian personnel arising out he performance of their official duties in connection with activities under this agreement."
The proposed agreement would supersede an earlier agreement between the US and Maldives regarding "Military and Department of Defense Civilian Personnel", effected on December 31, 2004.
Diego Garcia and the 2016 lease extension
The US Navy currently operates one of its largest bases outside the US at Diego Garcia, approximately 740 kilometres south of Addu Atoll, the lease for which is due to expire in 2016.
The site includes multiple landing strips for heavy bombers, pier and port facilities for the largest vessels in both the US and UK fleets, and accommodation for thousands of navy personnel.
Part of the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT), the site was leased to the US by the UK following its forcible eviction of the local inhabitants – the Chagos – after its purchase from Mauritius for UK£3 million at the time in 1965. Then-Mauritian Prime Minister, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, received a knighthood from the Queen the same year.
In 1966, the UK granted the US a 50-year lease of the archipelago in exchange for favours including a US$14 million discount on submarine-launched Polaris missiles.
The lease is due to expire in 2016 with both parties required to end, modify or extend it by December 2014. However, the feasibility of an extension is uncertain as the UK has been engaged in a series of long-running and politically embarrassing court battles with Chagos islanders seeking to return to the archipelago.
The Chagos won a high court victory in the UK in 2000 enabling them to return, but the decision was extraordinarily overruled by the Queen's royal prerogative. In 2008, the House of Lords overturned the high court verdict, forcing the Chagos to appeal in the European court of human rights.
In April 2010, the UK declared the Chagos Archipelago a marine reserve – theoretically making it the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). Funds to manage the MPA for the next five years were provided by Swiss-Italian billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli.
A leaked US embassy cable dated May 5, 2009 and marked 'NOFORN', or 'No foreigners', subsequently suggested the marine park was a calculated attempt by the UK Foreign Office to scuttle the resettlement claims of the 3,000 Chagos islanders.
In the leaked US cable, Colin Roberts, the then UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Director of Overseas Territories, is quoted as saying that the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) has "served its role very well".
"'We do not regret the removal of the population,' since removal was necessary for the BIOT to fulfill its strategic purpose,' he said. Removal of the population is the reason that the BIOT's uninhabited islands and the surrounding waters are in 'pristine' condition," the cable read.
"Establishing a marine reserve might, indeed, as the FCO's Roberts stated, be the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands' former inhabitants or their descendants from resettling in the BIOT," it adds.
In the cable, Roberts emphasised that the establishment of the marine park would ensure it was reserved for military use and "would have no impact on how Diego Garcia is administered as a base."
"[Roberts] noted that the establishment of a marine reserve would require permitting scientists to visit BIOT, but that creating a park would help restrict access for non-scientific purposes. For example, he continued, the rules governing the park could strictly limit access to BIOT by yachts, which Roberts referred to as 'sea gypsies'."
As a result of the British government's "current thinking" on the reserve, there would be "no human footprints" or "Man Fridays" on the uninhabited islands of the archipelago, Roberts stated in the cable.
In response to concerns from US Political Counsellor Richard Mills that advocates of Chagossian resettlement might continue "to vigorously press their case", Roberts replied that the UK's "environmental lobby is far more powerful than the Chagossians' advocates."
However, the escalating Chagos case in the UK suffered a setback as recently as last week – April 18, 2013 – after a UK court ruled that the leaked cable was inadmissible as evidence.
Posted on April 24, 2013 April 24, 2013 Author JJ RobinsonCategories Business & Tourism, Politics, Society & CultureTags base, chagos, Diego Garcia, maldives, maldives news, military cooperation, minivan, minivan news, MNDF, us, us airbase21 Comments on Leaked draft agreement opens possibility for US base in Maldives
Maldives to face UN committee over continental shelf extension
The Maldives will today claim an extension of its continental shelf before a UN committee in New York.
The claim for an additional 168,000 square kilometres of exclusive economic zone (EEZ), is expected to be opposed by the UK and Sri Lanka. The claim overlaps with one made by Sri Lanka, while the UK will likely want to preserve the integrity of the Britain Indian Ocean Territory.
The UK is likely to vigoroursly oppose the Maldives' claim given its interest in the US-run Diego Garcia airbase south of the Maldives.
Following a Wikileak US diplomatic cable on the topic, the UK's creation of the BIOT, the world's largest marine park in the Indian Ocean was been exposed as less of an ecological project than a means to "put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents" and retain the area for military use.
In the leaked US embassy cable, Colin Roberts, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Director of Overseas Territories, is quoted as saying that the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) has "served its role very well".
"Establishing a marine reserve might, indeed, as the FCO's Roberts stated, be the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands' former inhabitants or their descendants from resettling in the BIOT," the cable read.
National Security Advisor Ameen Faizal, Attorney General Abdulla Muizzu, Deputy Foreign Minister Haula Ahmed Didi, Brigadier General Abdulla Shamal and Major Mohamed Ibrahim from the Maldives National Defence Force (MNDF) are part of a delegation now in New York to argue the case.
Posted on March 31, 2011 March 31, 2011 Author Minivan NewsCategories News in BriefTags chagos, maldives, maldives news
Marine reserve a plan to keep out 'Man Fridays' and 'sea gypsies', reveals leaked US cable
The UK's creation of the world's largest marine park in the Indian Ocean has been exposed as less of an ecological project than a means to "put paid to resettlement claims of the archipelago's former residents" and retain the area for military use.
The Chagos were forcibly evicted from the archipelago after the British bought it from Mauritius for £3 million (US$476,000) in 1965, with then-Mauritian Prime Minister, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, receiving a knighthood the same year.
The island is presently occupied by the US base at Diego Garcia due to an agreement made in 1966 whereby the UK received favours, including a US$14 million discount on submarine-launched Polaris missiles, in exchange for use of the island until 2016.
The Chagos won a high court victory in the UK in 2000 enabling them to return to archipelago, but the decision was extraordinarily overruled by the Queen's royal prerogative. In 2008, the House of Lords overturned the high court verdict, forcing the Chagos to appeal in the European court of human rights.
In April 2010, the UK declared the Chagos Archipelago a marine reserve – an area larger than France – theoretically making it the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). Funds to manage the MPA for the next five years have been provided by Swiss-Italian billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli.
However, a leaked US Embassy cable dated May 5, 2009 and marked 'NOFORN', or 'No foreigners', the highest level of security among the 250,000 leaked cables, suggests the marine park was a calculated attempt by the UK Foreign Office to scuttle the resettlement claims of 3000 Chagos islanders in the European Court of human rights.
In the leaked US cable, Colin Roberts, the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's (FCO) Director of Overseas Territories, is quoted as saying that the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) has "served its role very well".
"Establishing a marine reserve might, indeed, as the FCO's Roberts stated, be the most effective long-term way to prevent any of the Chagos Islands' former inhabitants or their descendants from resettling in the BIOT."
"'We need to make sure the US government is comfortable with the idea. We would need to present this proposal very clearly to the American administration… All we do should enhance base security or leave it unchanged,"' the leaked cable reports Roberts as saying.
'Man Friday' is the disparaging nickname given to a cannibalistic 'black savage' by castaway Robinson Crusoe, in the 1719 Daniel Defoe novel of the same name.
Prior to their eviction, the Chagos were known to Maldivians in the southern atoll of Addu as they occasionally rescued a stranded fishermen who had strayed too far south. The islands themselves were never settled by Maldivians, although they retained the Dhivehi name of Feyhandheebu.
Second Secretary at the British High Commission in Colombo, Dominic Williams, told Minivan News in September that the UK believed a Marine Protected Area (MPA) "is the right way ahead for furthering the environmental protection of the Territory."
The decision to establish the MPA was, he added, "without prejudice to the current pending proceedings at the European Court of Human Rights. As such, there is no need to wait for a decision from the European Court of Human Rights before implementing the MPA."
"The establishment of this MPA has doubled the global coverage of the world's oceans benefiting from protection and gives the UK the opportunity to preserve an area of outstanding natural beauty containing islands and reef systems rich in biodiversity."
Both the US and UK have said they will not be discussing or verifying specific information contained in the leaked cables.
The Gibraltar Chronicle has meanwhile reported that Mauritius has summoned the UK's top diplomat in the country to explain the marine park "smoke screen".
Posted on December 7, 2010 Author JJ RobinsonCategories PoliticsTags BIOT, chagos, maldives, maldives news, uk9 Comments on Marine reserve a plan to keep out 'Man Fridays' and 'sea gypsies', reveals leaked US cable
Maldives takes on UK in high seas legal drama
The Maldives government looks set to lock horns with the UK Foreign Office over the Maldives' long-running claim to 160,000 square kilometres of British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT).
The Maldives wants an extension of its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) which impedes on a 200 nautical mile EEZ that the UK claims extends from the island of Diego Garcia.
The island is presently occupied by a US naval base, under an agreement in 1966 whereby the UK received favours including a US$14 million discount on submarine-launched Polaris missiles in exchange for use of the island until 2016. The base is now among the largest US naval bases outside the country, and has reportedly been used as a stop-off point for the CIA's highly-controversial 'extraordinary rendition' flights to Morocco and Guantanamo Bay.
More recently, the UK has declared the Chagos Archipelago in the BIOT a marine reserve – an area larger than France – theoretically making it the world's largest marine protected area (MPA). Funds to manage the MPA for the next five years have been provided by Swiss-Italian billionaire Ernesto Bertarelli.
The matter is further complicated by the existence of an indigenous population, the Chagos, who were forcibly evicted after the British bought the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius for £3 million (US$476,000) in 1965. The then-Mauritian Prime Minister Seewoosagur Ramgoolam subsequently received a knighthood that same year.
The British attempted to resettle 1000-odd Chagos in the Seychelles and Mauritius, which demanded an additional £650,000 (US$1 million) to settle the refugees.
The Chagos were known to Maldivians in the southern atoll of Addu, as they occasionally rescued a stranded fishermen who had strayed too far south and sent him home. The islands themselves were never settled by the Maldivians, although they retained the Dhivehi name of Feyhandheebu.
Dispossession and the courtroom
The Chagos won a high court victory in the UK in 2000 enabling them to return to archipeligo, but the decision was extraordinarily overruled by the Queen's royal prerogative. In 2008 the House of Lords overturned the high court verdict, forcing the Chagos to appeal in the European court of human rights.
The Maldives contends that as the islands are uninhabited, according to the Law of the Sea Convention the UK had no right to claim a 200 nautical mile EEZ.
"We will send a delegation to the UN in February and the UN will question us as to our claim, which we believe we have according to the Law of the Sea Convention," said State Minister for Foreign Affairs Ahmed Naseem.
"Sri Lanka has also filed claims, and we need clarification of them," he added.
The Maldives' interest in the area extends to fishing and potential exploitation of mineral resources, Naseem explained.
"We are saying that since there is no population benefiting from the area, the British government cannot claim it as their territory. We feel the [original] claim made by the British is not legally valid [under the Law of the Sea Convention]," Naseem said.
Were the Maldives – or any other country – to succeed in its claim, it would be indirectly benefiting from the homelessness of the Chagos by claiming the territory from which they were forcibly evicted.
"That's not our issue – the fact of the matter is that there is no native population on the island," Naseem explained.
On Tuesday the Chagos community in the UK, who live in Crawley next to their arrival point of Gatwick airport, expressed surprise at the UK Foreign Office's apparent opposition to the Maldives' claims on their homeland.
In an interview with the UK's Guardian newspaper, Roch Evenor, chairman of the UK Chagos Support Association, said the Foreign Office "seems to be more interested in defending the seabed than the interests of Chagossians. Why did [politicians] give us all that sweet-talking before the elections and then afterwards we are back to square zero? We feel emotionally drained."
Second Secretary at the British High Commission in Colombo, Dominic Williams, insisted on Wednesday that the UK was not protesting the submission by the Maldives to extend its territorial waters, but was rather making "an observation" to the UN's Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS).
"The UK observed that the Maldives' submission had not taken into full account the 200 nautical mile Fisheries and Environment Zones of the British Indian Ocean Territory," he said. "We are satisfied that the CLCS will be able to consider the Maldivian submission without prejudice to the position of the United Kingdom."
Williams said that the UK believed that a Marine Protected Area (MPA) "is the right way ahead for furthering the environmental protection of the Territory."
He noted that once the area was no longer needed for defence purposes, "the UK is committed to cede the British Indian Ocean Territory to Mauritius."
Posted on September 30, 2010 September 30, 2010 Author JJ RobinsonCategories Politics, Society & CultureTags britain, chagos, eez clcs news, maldives, Mauritius, Seewoosagur Ramgoolam, seychelles8 Comments on Maldives takes on UK in high seas legal drama


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Navadni sklač (znanstveno ime Squatina squatina) je vrsta morskega psa iz družine sklačev (Squatinidae).

Opis
Navadni sklač je talna, bentoška vrsta, ki jo ogroža intenzivno kočarjenje.

Po zgornji strani telesa je navadni sklač enotne rjave barve z majhnimi nepravilnimi pegami, po spodnji strani pa je svetle, skoraj bele barve. Zraste laho do 1,5 metra in doseže težo tudi preko 27 kg.

Samica navadnega sklača skoti od 9 do 20 živih mladičev, vrsta pa se prehranjuje z drugimi ribami, skati, deseteronožci in školjkami.

Razširjenost
Ta vrsta je razširjena v severnem Atlantiku od obal južne Norveške in Švedske in Šetlandskih otokov pa vse do Maroka, Zahodne Sahare in Kanarskih otokov. Najdemo jo tudi v Sredozemskem morju z vsemi morji. Na splošno se navadni sklač zadržuje do globine 150 metrov na blatnem dnu, kjer se zakoplje v blato. Tam leži in čaka na plen, iz blata pa gledajo samo njegove oči.

Sklici

Viri

 Opazovanje navadnega sklača na otoku Gran Canaria, Krupskaya Narváez et al, BIOGES Centro de Investigación en Biodiversidad y Gestión Ambiental, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. España December 2007
 DEFRA izjava za medije  aprila 2008 je bila vrsta zaščitena

Ribe Jadranskega morja
Ribe Sredozemskega morja
Ribe Atlantskega oceana
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Taksoni, opisani leta 1936

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On October 5th – 8th in the Hamilton International Village, the iconic Black Forest Inn will host their first ever Oktoberfest.
Sponsored by Erdinger, the Black Forest Inn's Oktoberfest will be a traditional Bavarian festival complete with classic German eats (like schnitzel on a bun, pretzels, and bratwurst), drinks and lots of fun!
On top of all the original Munich customs (like dirndl-wearing servers, and the tapping of the keg), there will be local bands playing live music such as an authentic accordion player, Last Exit band, Hamilton favourites, Powerhouse and much more! In addition to Black Forest Inn's delicious eats, you can also enjoy dishes from local restaurants like Forbidden City, Bonanza Bakery and The Fizz Sodas and Sandwiches.
Want to enjoy all of this for yourself? The admission is free (as are all of the musical performances!). Food and drink tickets will be available at the event. Ein Prosit!
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Most of us know that in modern world, autocracy is out – and inspiration is in. As a leader we need to be collaborative and involving. We need to cultivate passion and purpose in each of our people in order to build a high performance culture at every level.
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Ribera del Jiloca is a Spanish geographical indication for Vino de la Tierra wines located in the wine-producing area of the Jiloca Valley, in the provinces of Teruel and Zaragoza, in the autonomous region of Aragon, Spain. Vino de la Tierra is one step below the mainstream Denominación de Origen indication on the Spanish wine quality ladder.

The area covered by this geographical indication comprises 7 municipalities in the province of Teruel and 14 in the province of Zaragoza (Aragon, Spain).

It acquired its Vino de la Tierra status in 2005.

Grape varieties
 White: Macabeo, Chardonnay and Garnacha blanca
 Red: Robal, Moristel, Monastrell, Bobal, Mazuela, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, Graciano, Tempranillo, Garnacha tinta and Syrah

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