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Utility360 is a leading energy management consultancy, specialising in helping businesses to control and reduce their energy costs. We are the only business energy management franchise to be a member of the British Franchise Association.
Utility360 franchisees are responsible for managing a business's utility bills, helping them to understand the tariffs they are on, providing them with advice on saving energy, renegotiating and setting up contracts and ensuring that they are billed correctly.
Utility360 has relationships with all major energy suppliers, allowing franchisees to obtain access to the most appropriate tariffs for their customers and best deals on the market.
How much does an Utility360 franchise cost?
* Each territory (available across the UK) will include 4,000 target businesses of between 5 and 200 employees. You can sell our proposition to any business of any size, in addition to public sector outlets such as schools and recreational centres.
Banks may be able to lend up to 70% funding dependent on your financial history.
Why choose a Utility360 franchise?
Utility360 is currently the only energy management franchise to be a member of the British Franchise Association (bfa).
Utility360 has relationships with all major energy suppliers, allowing our franchisees to obtain access to the most appropriate, specially negotiated tariffs for their customers.
Some franchises are seasonal, others are dependent on external factors such as economic growth, inflation and favorable exchange rates; a Utility360 franchise is not subject to such external risks making our proposition recession proof.
As a Utility360 franchisee, you are responsible for arranging initial meetings with businesses in your territory to discuss their energy management needs.
Once you have secured a client, you will be responsible for managing their utility bills, providing them with advice on saving energy, renegotiating and setting up contracts and ensuring that they are billed correctly. Throughout this process you will be liaising with your sales support team, who will provide back up on pricing and setting up the contracts with the suppliers.
The choice of supplier and range of tariffs for businesses has expanded dramatically over recent years; there are now over 20 suppliers of gas and electricity in the UK. In addition, recent deregulation in the water industry and allows businesses to choose their supplier.
The business sector of the Energy Industry is more complex than the domestic market. Comparison websites do not always sufficiently interrogate customer needs and therefore in many cases do not offer a tailored solution for individual businesses.
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Chamonix actually owes a lot to Art. Science may have motivated its first Alpine visitors, but it was the artistic renditions through word or canvas that inspired the urbane citizens of London, Geneva and Paris to make their pilgrimage to the austere and intimidating peaks of Chamonix.
For most this involved simply marvelling at the majesty of the mountains and musing in awe on both the natural and (more eerily) the supernatural – the dragons said to inhabit the ice caves above. The more adventurous dared to venture out onto the Mer de Glace, accompanied by their local 'pirates' – the nautical title the glacier guides had given themselves – and witness the waves of ice in person.
The scientists may have been fascinated, but it was the stories they brought back, tales of immense glaciers and stunning landscapes, that mesmerized the artists. As the melodrama of the Romantic age bit deep, Chamonix became a natural wonder that had to be beheld. Lord Byron and Percy Shelley came here and were intensely affected by the grandeur they saw. Mary Shelley sent her monster-incarnate hero out onto the Chamonix glacier at the end of Frankenstein. As the literary reports and landscape paintings such luminaries sent back home captured the imagination of the British public, so Chamonix became a key fixture on the European Grand Tour and the Alpine tourist industry was borne.
With a tourist legacy stretching back over 250 years, Chamonix is arguably 'the capital' of the Alps. It still attracts swathes of visitors each year and does so the whole year-round. In keeping with its status, it remains a very cosmopolitan place. People from all points of the globe converge on the town and from varieties of life. Here you will see students on the tightest of budget camping underneath the boulders they will spend all day climbing or the 'high society' from Geneva sipping on Champagne at the opening of a local artist's exhibition. Yet the goal is common – to soak up and draw energy from the most stunning and extreme scenery in Europe. Frequented by the rich and famous, poor and infamous, and every tier in-between, it is no wonder why Chamonix is one of the most re-visited places on the planet.
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This is the Dorothy Cuninghame whose ancestry is one of the issues researched on the "Doig" web site referred to below.
This daughter is not identified in the main sources inasmuch as a connection to the house of Ranfurlie is not mentioned whilst connections to the houses of Castlemilk, Porterfield, Eldersley, Auchenames and Newark are. Under sources for Knox of Ranfurlie, this Uchter's wife is identified merely as "daughter of the laird of Craigends". Dates indicate this generation. This could be a second marriage of one of the above daughters. "Doig" identifies other daughters also who married Whitford of Whitford, ?? of Stanley, ? of Dairhome, Crawford of Crowfordland, Sir John Colquhoun of Luss but, although other names reported are certainly of this family, it is not clear if these ones are all of this family - except for Margaret who is cross-referred under BP1934 (Colquhoun).


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We analyzed strontium/calcium ratios (Sr/Ca) in four colonies of the Atlantic coral genus Montastrea with growth rates ranging from 2.3 to 12.6 mm a−1. Derived Sr/Ca–sea surface temperature (SST) calibrations exhibit significant differences among the four colonies that cannot be explained by variations in SST or seawater Sr/Ca. For a single coral Sr/Ca ratio of 8.8 mmol mol−1, the four calibrations predict SSTs ranging from 24.0° to 30.9°C. We find that differences in the Sr/Ca–SST relationships are correlated systematically with the average annual extension rate (ext) of each colony such that Sr/Ca (mmol mol−1) = 11.82 (±0.13) – 0.058 (±0.004) × ext (mm a−1) – 0.092 (±0.005) × SST (°C). This observation is consistent with previous reports of a link between coral Sr/Ca and growth rate. Verification of our growth-dependent Sr/Ca–SST calibration using a coral excluded from the calibration reconstructs the mean and seasonal amplitude of the actual recorded SST to within 0.3°C. Applying a traditional, nongrowth-dependent Sr/Ca–SST calibration derived from a modern Montastrea to the Sr/Ca ratios of a conspecific coral that grew during the early Little Ice Age (LIA) (400 years B.P.) suggests that Caribbean SSTs were >5°C cooler than today. Conversely, application of our growth-dependent Sr/Ca–SST calibration to Sr/Ca ratios derived from the LIA coral indicates that SSTs during the 5-year period analyzed were within error (±1.4°C) of modern values.
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By Jane Desmond, opinion contributor — 12/24/19 05:00 PM EST
Julian Castro Julian CastroBiden says he would consider Castro, O'Rourke for VP, Cabinet positions Joaquin Castro follows brother in backing Warren Deval Patrick knocks lack of diversity in Democratic debate MORE may be struggling to break into the top tier of Democratic presidential candidates, but there is one arena in which he has surged far ahead of the pack.
So far, Castro is the only candidate to present a fully developed plan for animal-related issues as part of his formal campaign platform. His "Protecting Animals and Wildlife" (PAW) plan has sections devoted to wildlife, pets, animal testing, and factory farming.
Other Democratic contenders, like Sens. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersEx-Obama official on Sanders-Warren feud: 'I don't think it played out well for either of them' Former Vermont Governor: Sanders 'will play dirty' Hill.TV's Krystal Ball rips Warren over feud with Sanders MORE (I-Vt.), Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Ann WarrenEx-Obama official on Sanders-Warren feud: 'I don't think it played out well for either of them' Former Vermont Governor: Sanders 'will play dirty' Hill.TV's Krystal Ball rips Warren over feud with Sanders MORE (D-Mass.), Corey Booker (D-N.J.), Amy Klobuchar Amy Jean KlobucharSanders says he's concerned about lost campaign time during impeachment trial Sanders touts vote against Trump trade deal backed by primary rivals New Hampshire state lawmaker switches support from Warren to Klobuchar MORE (D-Minn.) and former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenLev Parnas implicates Rick Perry, says Giuliani had him pressure Ukraine to announce Biden probe Ex-Obama official on Sanders-Warren feud: 'I don't think it played out well for either of them' Parnas says he doesn't think that Joe Biden did anything wrong regarding Ukraine MORE, have strong reputations when it comes to authoring or supporting pro-animal legislation.
The policies include protections for horses, limits on puppy mills, or making malicious animal cruelty into a federal felony, as was the case with the recently passed "Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture Act." But none has gone so far as to develop such a comprehensive animal policy as part of their campaign. Now is the time for them to do so. Far from being a marginal issue, our relations with animals are intertwined with every aspect of our lives
Often, Americans think about their relationships with animals as only about the pets in their homes. But from the food we eat to the drugs we develop to the protection of our wilderness areas and climate change and even to how we wage war, animal lives touch nearly every aspect of human life.
But the political approach to these issues has been mainly through piecemeal legislation, like the debates over whether to restrict the exotic animal trade or whether circuses should be outlawed. We need federal leadership and a robust national conversation about how human and animal lives are intertwined and in need of protection.
Voters are paying attention to these issues. More than 60 percent of Americans think animals deserve legal welfare protections, with a striking nearly one-third arguing that animals should have the same rights to be free from harm and exploitation that humans do.
Support for this belief has grown in the last ten years. While backed by women more than men and Democrats more than Republicans, the view that animals should have a right to be free from exploitation has support among all demographics, indicating that animal welfare is not some niche issue relevant only to one group.
To be sure, the question will arise: why should we care about policies towards animals when there is so much human need in the country and the world? The answer is simple: those needs and lives are intertwined. Our farming methods of intensive animal agriculture, often referred to as "factory farms," contribute dramatically to climate change.
Psychologists and law enforcement have found links between domestic violence and violence toward animals. Meatpacking jobs are among the most dangerous in the country, and those workers, who are often immigrants, need protections. Pets help increase mental health, lower stress, and decrease social isolation, especially for the elderly. And the transmission of diseases across species, both from humans to animals and animals to humans, demands our vigilance and increased knowledge.
The example of Hurricane Katrina, where an estimated 44 percent of the 100,000 people who refused to evacuate did so because they couldn't take their pets to a shelter with them, shows in just one way how deeply humans and animals are interconnected and the significance of that relationship. After Katrina, FEMA changed its policies to include pets, but had disaster planning protocols factored in the importance of human-animal relations in the first place, recovery efforts in New Orleans and elsewhere would have been far more effective. Such an example shows that any animal policies are always about humans too.
As the Democratic race narrows, the debates should ask about the candidates' vision for our relations with animals. This is not a marginal question, but one that touches on fundamental aspects of daily life affecting every segment of society.
The Democratic presidential candidates would do well to make animal welfare policies and protections part of their agenda. One recent study found that both individuals and groups who are likely to be proactive in animal welfare are also more likely than others to be active in protecting the interests of vulnerable populations too. That's a scenario that makes sense for Democratic voters.
For example, people who supported protections for animals also supported LGBT issues, the rights of racial and ethnic minorities, and help for low-income people. And such correlations hold even at the state level. States with reliable records of protecting animals also tended to have strong laws protecting human rights. The unstated principle seems to be those vulnerable populations should have protections, and that sense of obligation and possibility crosses species lines.
Such an expansive sense of compassion, obligation, and vision of a more just future does not mean that we lose the distinction between humans and non-human animals, but that we recognize, not only in our hearts, minds, and laws but explicitly in our political campaigns, that human and animal lives are intertwined at every turn. The conditions of that melding is a profoundly political one deserving of our attention.
Jane Desmond is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the author of Displaying Death and Animating Life: Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life.
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"You know I look forward to mango season every year. Here on the Indian subcontinent, there are so many varieties of this mouth watering fruit. In our home, these fruits come by the baskets. We distribute these mangoes to friends and family, but still end up with so much. So what to do with it? Make mango pulp. It is so easy to make and a great way to preserve the pulp and not have to throw away any of this magical fruit. Since it is freezer friendly you can always defrost to use in your cooking. So next time you have all that mango and not sure what to make with it, make mango pulp!"


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The Samsung Galaxy S11 is the next line smartphone we are expecting to hit the UAE market anytime from now. The Smartphone release date is just a few months ahead and it's expected to come with a beautiful body design that will wow everybody.
One of the lastest and noticeable features on the device is the punch hole that hosts the camera. The camera has also been upgraded as well and it's expected to follow the same line with the Galaxy S10 and the Galaxy S10E.
Samsung Galaxy S11 Release Date UAE
The Samsung Galaxy S11 will be unveiled at the MWC event. Just like the Galaxy S9 that was introduced in February and the Galaxy S10 that was announced in February 2019.
We also expect the phone to make its official appearance in February 2020 as well. As soon as the Galaxy S11 is released, the pre-order will kick off immediately.
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Samsung Galaxy S11 News, Leaks and Rumors
The information here reaching from Onleak has given us tips on what to expect on the new Galaxy S11. It says that the new phone will look exactly like the Galaxy S10 that was announced recently. It will offer a punch hole with an ultrasonic in-display sensor.
Unlike the Galaxy Note 10 that has, it's volume button on the left, the Galaxy S11 will have its own on the right edge. Sadly it will not come with a Bixby assistance. Furthermore, the Samsung Galaxy S11 will come with five large camera modules. The main camera will likely be an impressive 108MP standard wide-angle camera, ultra-wide-angle sensor, telephoto lens, and a time-of-flight 3D sensor.
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Just like its predecessor, the phone will be available in different screen size namely Galaxy S11, Galaxy S11 Plus, and the Galaxy S11E. The display size will consist of 6.3-inch, 6.7-inch, and 6.9-inch. It will surely support the refresh rate of up to 120Hz. It will come with a variant that will feature 5G Network while others will still maintain the regular 4G LTE Network.
Samsung Galaxy S11 Price in UAE And Dubai
Are you looking for the Samsung Galaxy S11 price in UAE and Dubai? We understand that this is everyone's favorite and from the looks of things, the handset won't be that expensive.
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Although it's still unclear whether the phone will sell higher than it's predecessor, however from Note 10 Plus, we can easily guess the price. The Samsung Galaxy S11 will cost around AED 4039 for the Plus version, while the regular S11 is expected to cost about AED 3672.
We just have to wait and see.
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Premium Strava users will soon be handed a two month free trial of online cycle entertainment service Zwift.
Every year, paying Strava users will now receive two consecutive free months of the premier multiplayer online indoor cycling experience. The launch kicks off in early November and users will be able to manage their settings online.
"We want Premium athletes to have the most engaging experience possible – all year long, whether they're indoors or outdoors," says David Lorsch, Strava's VP of Strategy and Business Development. "This makes for a natural and compelling partnership with Zwift. Strava Premium cyclists will now have access to an incredibly engaging indoor platform and will get even more value out of their membership."
Zwift has confirmed its monthly subscription price for the UK will be £8 per month. Strava Premium, for £3.99 per month (£39.99 per year), grants access to Strava's most innovative technology: In addition to two free months of Zwift, Premium athletes will have access to a new suite of indoor cycling features, including customizable indoor training plans, videos and tips from the world's best coaches.
"We're teaming up with Strava to dramatically improve the way that cyclists ride indoors," said Mike McCarthy, Zwift's VP of Partnerships.


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A privately owned, power plant in eastern Canada provides 95%of the electricity for 500,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers across the province. It also has sister plants in the USA and the Caribbean.
The Canadian location produces over 10,000 GW hours of electricity each year with 2,453 MW delivered across 32,000 km of transmission and distribution lines. Customers rely on this power every moment of every day and expect sustainable energy solutions for the future. Fuel sources used to generate the electricity include coal, hydro, wind, biomass, tidal, oil and natural gas. The plant is gradually shifting from primarily coal to a more balanced mix of natural fuels and renewable energy sources.
Some of the challenges were an infrastructure that was 35 to 50 years old yet still functional, a lack of hardwire connections to DCS systems, and spotty availability of AC power around the plant.
The goal was to retrofit the power plant's assets with real-time instrumentation in a cost-effective manner.
Various solution providers were contacted and a mix of wireless and wired solution ready packages (SRPs) were selected. One of the SRPs used an Aspentech Edge Connect to integrate data from remote sensors into OSIsoft PI. The solution also included an Advantech SmartSwarm intelligent gateway with AdvantechWzzard wireless mesh nodes installed at remote locations across the plant. The Wzzard edge nodes supported temperature, ambient temperature, vibration, current and thermocouple sensors.
A solution meeting most all criteria, the Wzzard Wireless Mesh solution from Advantech was selected. Wzzard Intelligent Edge Nodes are rated for industrial environments and run for several years on a single set of batteries. Battery life can be monitored. Installation is quick and non-intrusive. The wireless mesh network simply "overlays" and network-enables legacy equipment such as boiler feed pumps, fans, motors and compressors. Wzzard Intelligent Edge Nodes connect new or existing sensors, read the data and wirelessly transmit it to the SmartSwarmNetwork Gateway. The gateway then provides secure, redundant connections (wired or cellular) to the Internet. Data is transferred to OSIsoft PI via the OSF protocol.
Every node has independent routing capabilities, so they form an extremely reliable, resilient, self-sustaining and scalable wireless mesh network. Individual nodes need not be within wireless range of the gateway - they route/reroute their data across nearby nodes to reach the destination. More nodes, with other sensors, can be added later.
Using the Wzzard™ mesh wireless sensor nodes and a SmartSwarm asset integration gateway, the powerplant can now collect and analyze remote sensor data. Instrument sensor readings flowing directly to OSIsoft PI using the OSF protocol. If conditions divert from pre-determined thresholds, text message notifications report an alarm. Potential equipment failure and outages – and customer disruption – can be anticipated and prevented.
Key benefits of this Solution Ready Package: proprietary industrial interface and devices, CSA or equivalent safety standards, low cost, easy set-up, non-intrusive, small installation footprint, wireless/cellular connectivity integration into an existing network and preferred protocols, reliable powering considering plant conditions, plus scalable at a later date.
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October, 2018. Peakstone served as exclusive M&A advisor to Terri Lynn, Inc. in connection with its recent sale to a diversified, multi-national strategic buyer with operations in the U.S. Terri Lynn is a leading snack food processing and packaging company supplying a wide range of premium nuts, dried fruits and confection products. Terri Lynn sells branded, private label, bulk products …
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October, 2018. Peakstone served as exclusive M&A advisor to Protect-a-Bed in connection with its sale to SureFit Home Décor, a portfolio company of Centre Lane Partners. Based in Wheeling, Illinois, Protect-a-Bed is a worldwide leader in bed protection innovation and offers a premium line of bedding and health protection products including mattress protectors and pillow protectors. Protect-A-Bed products are available …
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October 20, 2016Milica BastaBlog, Data Protection and Privacy, Direct marketing
In mid-October Serbian press widely reported about the direct marketing of breast milk substitutes to women who recently gave birth. The media were abuzz with speculations that somebody must have...
Bosnia: Strict conditions for direct marketing phone calls
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On 15 September 2016, the Personal Data Protection Agency in Bosnia and Herzegovina ("Agency") took a stance that processing of publicly available telephone numbers for the purpose of direct marketing...
EU – US Privacy Shield adopted
July 14, 2016Marko PopovićBlog, Data Protection and Privacy, European Union, Transfer
On 12 July 2016, the European Commission formally adopted a new scheme for trans-Atlantic data flows – the European Union – United States Privacy Shield. The scheme includes some important improvements...
First disclosure of doctors' personal data
July 8, 2016Milica BastaBlog, Data Protection and Privacy, Health
In June 2016, pharmaceutical companies in Serbia belonging to the Association of Manufacturers of Innovative Drugs – INOVIA reported on transfers of value during 2015 to Serbian health-care professionals (HCPs)...
Montenegro: Data from the police records ended up in a newspaper
May 19, 2016Marko PopovićBlog, Data Protection and Privacy, Personal data in the media
The Montenegrin Agency for the Protection of Personal Data and the Free Access to Information ("Agency") published on 22 March 2016 on its website a decision that deals with data leakage from the police...
EU – US Privacy Shield: Successor to the Safe Harbor
February 9, 2016Marko PopovićBlog, Data Protection and Privacy, European Union, Transfer
The European Commission and the US reached a deal on transatlantic transfer of personal data on 2 February 2016. For the time being it is only a political agreement which...
When is video surveillance at workplace too much?
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In October 2015, the Court of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) upheld a ruling of the Personal Data Protection Agency ("Agency") which found unlawful the use of surveillance cameras by the...


I don't generally post anything to do with the '9/11 incident' – as far as I'm concerned, the case for US governmental involvement is PROVEN.
Although I wont persue the cause, I glad that there are millions who continue to.
The following vid gives a good summary of the evidence.
On the morning of September 11, 2001, 19 men armed with boxcutters directed by a man on dialysis in a cave fortress halfway around the world using a satellite phone and a laptop directed the most sophisticated penetration of the most heavily-defended airspace in the world, overpowering the passengers and the military combat-trained pilotson 4 commercial aircraft before flying those planes wildly off course for over an hour without being molested by a single fighter interceptor.


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Webster County is een county in de Amerikaanse staat Georgia.

De county heeft een landoppervlakte van 543 km² en telt 2.390 inwoners (volkstelling 2000). De hoofdplaats is Preston.

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County in Georgia

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U.S. ability to peacefully resolve South China Sea disputes compromised by its non-party status to UNCLOS
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As a signatory to UNCLOS, the PRC occasionally implies that its interpretations should trump those of the United States, which has yet to ratify the convention that Washington nevertheless employs as a bludgeon against Beijing's claims that UNCLOS permits limitations by coastal states on foreign military activities in the EEZ. The message is that even though the United States asserts its compliance with UNCLOS, because it has not undertaken to be formally bound by the convention it has no standing to impose its self- regarding interpretations of the regime on those states that have ratified it.
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Allowing China to prevail in its South China Sea claims would pose a number of risks to U.S. national security and global economy
The differing views held by the United States and China over maritime boundaries has great significance for U.S. national security. The military forces of the United States provide a critical deterrent against foreign aggression that might affect the global flow of commerce. In order for U.S. forces to be a credible deterrent they must have access. In its analysis of the national security implications inherent in the UNCLOS convention, the U.S. Department of Defense emphatically stated that, "Assurance that key sea and air lines of communication will remain open as a matter of international legal right and will not become contingent upon approval by coastal or island nations is an essential requirement for implementing our national security strategy."49 China's policies and actions place this freedom at risk. If they are allowed to prevail in their claims, the negative operational consequences for USPACOM are tremendous.
If China is allowed to prevail in its claims of sovereign jurisdiction over enormous ocean areas, this would seriously degrade the ability of U.S. forces to conduct peacetime operations in a critical region. Not only would the U.S. Air Force and Navy be unable to operate in much of the south-east Asian littoral, but forces responding to contingencies in other regions could be forced to take alternate routes that would significantly restrict the ability of the U.S. to quickly respond to a crisis.50
Second, without U.S. presence, important partners such as Singapore and the Philippines would no longer benefit from the stabilizing influence that the presence of U.S. forces provides. Instead, as the emerging naval power in the region, Chinese ships would be free to exert their influence unchecked.
Lastly, any freedom of navigation operations conducted by U.S. forces take on a new level of risk as the mere presence of U.S. forces in China's claimed EEZ could result in hostilities. U.S. forces and Allies, like Australia, routinely conduct freedom of navigation (FON) operations in order to oppose illegitimate maritime claims. These operations are not intended to be antagonistic. Rather, they are intended to serve as just one element in the discourse between nations.51 However, with China's extreme sensitivity to sovereignty, most U.S. FON operations will almost certainly be viewed as blatantly provocative.52
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Vincent, Steven D. CDR, USN. China and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: Operational Challenges . Naval War College: Newport, RI, May 18, 2005 (30p). [ More (4 quotes) ]
U.S. missing out on opportunity to influence ITLOS over South China Sea dispute
Second, ratifying UNCLOS will allow us to participate in and help shape dispute resolution mechanisms like the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Military officers and Bush administration national security staff have highlighted the importance of shaping norms that define these territorial disputes. The Philippines, in the International Tribunal, has already raised key issues regarding China's 9-dash line and a preliminary decision is expected sometime in 2015. Professor Dutton from the U.S. Naval War College has further emphasized that China's interpretation of key UNCLOS provisions is part of a "coordinated legal campaign to extend maximal security jurisdiction over the East China Sea and the international airspace above it." It is true that some dispute whether ratifying UNCLOS would materially change China's understanding of these territorial rights. However, the U.S. cannot sit on the sidelines as ITLOS creates precedent that will become binding on 166 of the 193 states recognized by the United Nations. Customary international law is, by its very nature, subject to change with developments in state practice and understandings of legal obligation (opinio juris).[1] In a foundational case, the International Court of Justice found that treaty provisions become customary law when they are followed by specially affected states. By not signing UNCLOS, the US, certainly a specially affected state, robs its decisions of any potency as a source of customary law.
Those who assert that America can depend on the strength of its navy and existing customary international law need to face the twin realities that China is increasing its military expenditures and that American forces are overstretched in the face of sharp budget cuts. The U.S. cannot assume that China will adhere to traditional interpretations of customary international law, principles that they had little hand in crafting and do not necessarily serve China's national interest. Indeed, China has already begun to push back against the customary freedom of navigation afforded to military craft (mainly American) in its exclusive economic zone. The U.S. should take an active role in supporting traditional interpretations of customary international law by engaging in a variety of fora, including the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, lest the U.S. cripple itself in this essential debate.
Christopher Mirasola. "Why the US Should Ratify UNCLOS: A View from the South and East China Seas ." Harvard National Security Journal. (March 15, 2015) [ More ]
U.S. strategy for dealing with Chinese aggression in South China Sea must first establish credibility by ratifying UNCLOS
The broader U.S. strategy for the South China Sea must follow three tracks. First, protect the rights of navigation for all through both diplomacy and demonstration. Second, work with the People's Liberation Army Navy to help it recognize that China's long-term interest in freedom of navigation is far more important to its national security than short-term efforts to control navigation in the EEZ. Third, promote regional resolution of jurisdictional claims over islands and seafloor resources of the South China Sea based on the principles of UNCLOS.
To this end, the United States must also recognize that regional influence depends not just on power but on its judicious application, as noted by Professor Barry Posen:
So command of the commons will provide more influence, and prove more militarily lethal, if others can be convinced that the United States is more interested in constraining regional aggressors than in achieving regional dominance.10
It is important to keep in mind that our friends and allies do not want to see the United States have an un- bounded role in the South China Sea. For them, UNCLOS is important in keeping U.S. involvement in balance with regional interests. If the United States fails to accept the convention's obligations and limits as well as its rights, then its reputation, even with its allies, will be diminished.
In spite of President Reagan's endorsement of the provisions related to navigation, the EEZ, and the continental shelf, the credibility of the United States as the champion of international law is weakened by its own failure to join UNCLOS. Joining would strengthen U.S. leadership at sea, and that will serve the interests of all parties in the South China Sea.
U.S. policy is, and should remain, to demonstrate and demand adherence to the rights of navigation and over- flight and promote regional resolution of issues of territorial and resource jurisdiction defined in UNCLOS. An important element of this strategy is for the United States to join the convention and re-establish itself as a champion of the international rule of law at sea while we enjoy the rights recognized by UNCLOS.
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Caitlyn L. Antrim and Captain George Galdorisi, U.S. Navy (Retired). "Creeping Jurisdiction Must Stop ." U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings. (April 1, 2011) [ More ]
UNCLOS is best multilateral forum for U.S. to engage with for resolution of South China Sea dispute
Third, aside from ad hoc diplomacy and negotiations within Association for South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), whose decisions require unanimity, UNCLOS is one of the few multilateral mechanisms that can directly address territorial disputes in the seas. General Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, noted that ratifying UNCLOS, "gives us another tool to effectively resolve conflict at every level." While it is true that ratifying UNCLOS hasn't vindicated Japan, for example, in its dispute with China, the treaty has only enjoyed widespread support for sixteen years. Given this short history, it is almost surprising that the Philippines has already asserted this type of claim against China through UNCLOS to bolster its relatively weak strategic position. UNCLOS, therefore, is useful insofar as it provides another venue through which the U.S. could press its claims in the region. American treaty obligations with both Japan and the Philippines give us a strong interest in legitimizing and shaping these new multilateral dispute resolution mechanisms.
Multilateral cooperation to curb Chinese aggression in South China Seas depends on U.S. adherence to and ratification of UNCLOS
The United States depends on support from ASEAN members to maintain effective operations in the South China Sea, so its responses to China must respect regional interests and concerns. While the United States is seen by the member states as a friend, they also know that U.S. interests are at times different from their own. The United States cannot take their support for granted. To do so may not just weaken joint responses to Chinese aggressiveness; it may put other multilateral maritime initiatives at risk, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative and anti-piracy resolutions in the U.N. Security Council.
ASEAN member states must be assured that the United States will provide a balance to growing power without becoming a threat to their interests. The United States can make this clear by emphasizing that its actions will conform with UNCLOS. As long as U.S. actions are compatible with and in support of the convention, ASEAN states will feel secure in U.S. maritime activities in their region, and China will know that there are limits that bind U.S. activities in the region.
While the credibility of the U.S. commitment to the convention is currently undercut by the country's non- party status, this can be overcome by completing the effort of the previous administration to secure the advice and consent of the Senate to join the convention and then submit its ratification.8
China recoils against U.S. stance on rule of law in South China Seas while U.S. hypocritically remains outside of UNCLOS
Washington's outsider position undercuts its message as it urges China to respect global maritime norms. After all, China ratified UNCLOS in 1996, even if Beijing now says it rejects any judgment by the Permanent Court of Arbitration. In a speech in Washington earlier this month, retired Chinese top diplomat Dai Bingguo accused the U.S. of "heavy-handed intervention" in the South China Sea. "Accidents could happen," said the still influential Chinese Communist Party official, "and the South China Sea might sink into chaos and so might the entirety of Asia." Still, even as Beijing has launched a public-relations blitz ahead of the July 12 ruling, Chinese state media and diplomatic statements have not highlighted America's AWOL status in UNCLOS. Perhaps critiquing the U.S. absence is harder when China itself is distancing itself from one of the treaty's utilized tribunals.
It's true that even if Congress hasn't ratified UNCLOS, the U.S. Navy, which is the world's largest, adheres to its principles. American top brass openly support U.S. ratification. "I think that in the 21st century our moral standing is affected by the fact that we are not a signatory to UNCLOS," said Admiral Harry Harris, head of the U.S. Pacific Command, in testimony to the House Armed Services Committee earlier this year.
In a June speech at the U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. President Barack Obama urged Congress to move ahead on UNCLOS. "If we're truly concerned about China's actions in the South China Sea," he said in his commencement address, "the Senate should help strengthen our case by approving the Law of the Sea convention, as our military leaders have urged." But ratifying the convention will require a two-thirds majority in the Senate, an all but impossibility particularly in this contentious election year. The U.S. Navy will continue to ply the high seas, acting as the world's oceanic policeman by engaging in freedom-of-navigation exercises to ensure open trade routes. But American hypocrisy when it comes to maritime rule of law looks likely to endure.
Hannah Beech. "China Will Never Respect the U.S. Over the South China Sea. Here's Why ." Time. (July 8, 2016) [ More ]
U.S. accession to UNCLOS is a critical first step towards boosting U.S. credibility and leadership in resolving South China Sea dispute
Third, American policy makers must realize that the contest for East Asia is one of both power and law. International law supports and legitimizes the exercise of American power. It ensures that the landscape of domestic and international opinion is favorable to American objectives, policies, and actions. International law of the sea in particular, through its assurances of freedom of navigation for security as well as commercial purposes, supports the continued nature of East Asia as a maritime system. International law regarding the free use of international airspace operates similarly. Accordingly, to ensure its future position in East Asia the United States should take specific actions to defend the international legal architecture pertaining to the maritime and aerial commons. Acceding to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea and once again exercising direct leadership over the development of its rules and norms is the first and most critical step. The Department of State should also re-energize its Limits in the Seas series to publicly and repeatedly reinforce international law related to sea and airspace. A good place to begin the new series would be with a detailed assessment of why international law explicitly rejects China's U-shaped line in the South China Sea as the basis for Chinese jurisdiction there. Others could be written to describe why China's East China Sea continental shelf claim misapplies international law and why China's ADIZ unlawfully asserts jurisdiction in the airspace. My sense is that East Asian states, indeed many states around the world, are desperate for active American leadership over the norms and laws that govern legitimate international action.
Dutton, Peter A. "Testimonty of Peter A. Dutton: On China's Maritime Disputes in the East and South China Seas ." Testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Committee, April 4, 2013. [ More (2 quotes) ]
U.S. failure to ratify UNCLOS has complicated its ability to engage with allies to resolve South China Sea disputes peacefully
Our failure to ratify the treaty also undermines our ability to fully work with our allies and partners in the South China Sea region. If we are not party to UNCLOS, it is difficult for the United States to rely on the treaty to determine the legal entitlements of mid-ocean features, which claims are lawful, and what exactly constitutes the high seas. It's also harder for us to suggest it as the basis for resolving claims and arbitrating disputes — or to rely on EEZs drawn under UNCLOS's auspices. Moreover, a broad set of stakeholders including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, environmental organizations, the military, and industry specific trade groups representing commercial fishing, freight shipping and mineral extraction all support U.S. accession to the treaty. Perhaps most importantly, our military leaders have stated that U.S. participation will help them maintain navigational rights — and with less risk to the men and women they command.
It has been long-standing policy that the United States does not take a position on the ultimate disposition of the competing maritime and territorial claims made by China and other countries in the South China Sea. But we do have a position on how the claims are adjudicated, and on how questions related to the different features — reefs, rocks, shoals and islands — are classified under international law.
Ben Cardin. "The South China Sea Is the Reason the United States Must Ratify UNCLOS ." Foreign Policy. (July 13, 2016) [ More ]
Ratifying UNCLOS would give U.S. stronger argument to pressure China in South China Sea
Supporters of the Convention do not disagree that China's ongoing assertiveness to territory on and beneath the South China Sea is cause for concern, if not a challenge to international norms regarding freedom of the seas, said Caitlyn Antrim, executive director of the Rule of Law Committee for the Oceans, a nonpartisan educational group whose purpose is to inform public discourse regarding U.S. interests in accession to the Convention.
Antrim noted, however, that the United States could better help the situation by acceding to the Law of the Sea Convention, whereby it would have more influence in supporting the coastal states in that region.
An area of 650,000 square miles with a sea floor believed to be rich in deposits of oil and gas, and host to the world's second busiest sea lanes, the South China Sea is an example of "creeping jurisdiction," said Antrim, which is represented, in the case of China, by an attempt to increase its control and extend its authority at the expense of its neighbors in Southeast Asia, as well as the United States, Japan and South Korea.
"The Law of the Sea is our lever," she told Seapower. "We can't go in there and continually force our way. We need to have a legal regime so that everything works smoothly. All of the other countries support the Law of the Sea, and we get to add to that strength, but it's a little difficult when we aren't a party to it."
Daisy R. Khalifa. "A Seat at the Table: Arguments intensify for U.S. to join U.N. Law of the Sea Convention ." Seapower. (May 1, 2012) [ More ]
U.S. accession to UNCLOS necessary to preserve leadership in promoting rules-based approach to governance in South China Sea
In my personal opinion, the United States should join the Convention as a State Party. Legally, accession would enable the nation to enjoy the legal benefits that the Convention affords a party as a matter of conventional law, with more durable certainty. Politically, US accession would further demonstrate to other nations the US commitment to the rules-based and balanced approach of rights and responsibilities that the Convention reflects. More important than what I personally believe, the executive branch of the US Government supports and has long supported US accession to the Convention, in particular when discussing the ongoing situation in the waters of East Asia. In May of this year, President Obama acknowledged this challenge for the United States in his speech before the graduating cadets at the US Military Academy.19 He stated: "You see, American influence is always stronger when we lead by example ... We can't try to resolve problems in the South China Sea when we have refused to make sure that the Law of the Sea Convention is rati ed by our United States Senate, despite the fact that our top military leaders say the treaty advances our national security."
In short, the noticeable absence of the United States in the roll-call of mem- ber-states to the Law of the Sea Convention continues to handicap US efforts in the international community to promote the rules-based approach reflected in the Convention, particularly in the ways it can aid in resolving maritime-related disputes in the South China Sea. Yet, as a US citizen, I fully respect the US Senate's constitutional role in the treaty-making process.
Jonathan, Commander G. Odom. "Committed to the Law of the Sea: In most ways, except for one ." in The Asian Century: What International Norm and Practices?, edited by ,. . French Institute of International Relations: Paris, France, September 12, 2014. [ More (3 quotes) ]
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CDEDI Response To President Chakwera On Cabinet Appointment
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The Centre for Democracy and Economic Development Initiatives (CDEDI) hereby responds thus to President Dr. Lazarus Chakwera's brief remarks prior to the swearing-in ceremony of Cabinet Ministers and Deputy Cabinet Ministers today, Friday, 10th July 2020:
1. The president has deliberately ignored the concerns from some sectors of society on the composition of the cabinet on the pretext that the appointment of the Cabinet Ministers and the Deputy Cabinet Ministers was done on merit. If the issue was about merit, then as CDEDI, we seriously doubt that the families that we believe have been handsomely rewarded with ministerial positions are the only ones in Malawi which are capable of delivering;
2. We are disappointed with the president's response on the exclusion of the ministry of gender from cabinet. Making reference to the non-performance of the previous regime on gender issues should not have been used as a yardstick not to consider including the ministry of gender in the current cabinet. The president should've at least made mention of a ministry under which gender issues are embedded;
3. By giving the current crop of Cabinet Ministers and their deputies a timeframe to deliver, we can confidently construe that the president has conceded that he has goofed and that he is playing some delaying tactics in order to make up for his mistake;
4. We thank all the concerned Malawians who have raised, and continue to raise their voices for a better Malawi;
5. CDEDI is still monitoring the situation, and we will continue to play the role of a watchdog as we have always done
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Three years ago Clinical Nurse Consultant Therese Jepson and Staff Specialist Geriatrician Dr James Hardy set out on a mission to improve care for older patients in northern Sydney.
Therese and James introduced the use of videoconferencing in the Royal North Shore Ryde service Aged Care Rapid Response team (ARRT) to treat patients in their homes.
"Telehealth enabled us to the see the patient straight up and know immediately whether they required to come into hospital or not," James said.
"It also allowed us to take action straight away, rather than having to jump in a car, drive to see the patient and then work out what's going on.
"It speeds up the time where the care can be provided to the patient and it means the patient doesn't unnecessarily need to be transferred to hospital."
Initially the team piloted the initiative with a few aged care facilities, but when the COVID-19 pandemic hit they were able to offer it to all aged care facilities across the district.
Therese said there was a lot of perseverance and hard work to get the project across the line.
It took a lot of persistence and hard work, but it has all paid off
Clinical Nurse Consultant Therese Jepson
"We are now seeing some of the avoidable admissions to hospital start to decrease."
"Initially we rolled this out as a pilot to a few aged care facilities but then COVID hit, where no one could go in and provide care to these patients and the only way was to come to hospital."
'The ARRT of Telehealth' project won a Northern Sydney Local Health District Quality and Improvement Local Solutions Award.
Applications are now open for the 2022 Quality and Improvement Awards. The awards celebrate the excellence of staff and put a spotlight on the hard work and delivery of programs and services which have made a real difference to patients and their families.
Therese and James encourage others to submit an application.
"It's so important to share our successes, so we can learn from one another and make sure we truly are providing the highest quality care to our patients and consumers," James said.
Application forms and further information can be found here or contact nslhd-awards@health.nsw.gov.au


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The Roar of Catastrophes: animals and humans in the face of (not-so-natural) disasters
30 Junho 2021 30 Junho 2021 atsblogue
By: Verónica Policarpo
Breathing in, take one. Inspiring Svetlana.
How can we attune ourselves to the suffering of those caught by catastrophes? How much wonder can we find in their unimaginable capabilities for recovery?
These were the questions that inspired me when I first read Svetlana Alexievich's Voices of Chernobyl, and then all her other books, as it usually happens when I get obsessively caught by an author that speaks to my deepest soul. What is it that triggers a line of restless enquiry that clings to our mind, as much as to our heart, to the point that it seems to have a life of its own? Here, I wish to reflect briefly upon what draws me to the study of catastrophes, and in particular to the experiences and suffering of nonhuman animals caught therein. I depart from Svetlana's words, which was precisely what triggered my interest in the topic. Her books on human-made catastrophes – nuclear incidents, wars – are mainly about humans. But it strikes me how, in her narratives, she weaves the human accounts of disaster together with the non-human. May it be the forests of Ukraine or Belarus, caught in a radioactive peaceful mortal beauty. Or the innumerable animals caught in between the cruelty of such human excesses. At some point, in the preface of one of her books, she poignantly states (in much more beautiful words than those I can now recollect): one day, someone should make the History of all the animals killed in these disasters.
Like all important ideas, its simplicity hit me as fire. How come we have for so long disregarded what happens to animals in catastrophes? I am not an historian. But I am a social scientist and a human-animal studies scholar. And part of what I do is exactly to explore how to bring the non-human animals into our knowledge of social phenomena, including them as legitimate subjects of research, full co-producers of knowledge, accounting for their perspectives and interests. How could I, then, make a contribution?
Photograph taken by Author
Breathing in, take two. A country on fire.
This is how the project Liminal Becomings was born. Two years after I had read Alexievich's work, Portugal underwent one of its most mortal wildfire seasons, during the summer of 2017. Two mega-fires, Pedrogão Grande in June, and Oliveira do Hospital, in October, swept away more than 100 human lives, and more than half a million animals (including farm animals and poultry). In between the two fires, the core ideas of what would later become this project were put together and submitted to a COFUND scholarship in Erfurt, Germany. As it happened, I was kept in a short list, but never got to the interview phase. This is how we make it, in academia as in life: step by step, more often than not, "failing" – or, as I prefer to see it, experimenting our ideas on the spot.
In the course of preparing the project, I came across a journalistic photograph in which a dog is being rescued by an entire crew of fully-equipped firefighters. The dog at the centre, humans focusing on his rescue. As many of you who followed the news back then may recall, there was something unusual in that particular media coverage, regarding animals. Animals seemed to be catching wide attention, from several sectors of civil society, and media as well. But was that actually so? And what was it that the media coverage was not showing?
These were some of the questions I asked in the project I resubmitted in early 2018, to the first CEEC call of FCT. Quite ambitiously, the project proposes an international comparison between three countries, and three types of catastrophes: wildfires in Portugal; floods in the UK; and earthquakes in Italy. The common thread is approaching what happens to nonhuman animals in these different societal contexts and types of disasters, covering the different stages of the disaster cycle: mitigation; preparedness; emergency and rescue; and recovery
Breathing out, take one. How is this project addressing the topic?
Even though literature and art have often given us rich accounts of the history of animal suffering, it was not until recently that social sciences, and sociology in particular, began to dedicate it the necessary attention. Furthermore, it was not until hurricane Katrina, in 2004, that the topic of locating animals' experiences throughout, and following, disasters, began to be properly addressed. Since then, research on the subject has increased significantly, as illustrated by important works on the Chritschurch earthquake, or the Fukushima nuclear incident. Still, much remains to be done. This is where this project is born.
To fully understand how human actions impact the lives of nonhuman animals in this respect, how vulnerability is socially produced, we must then look at the different stages of the disaster management cycle, as well as to the different actors involved in the governance of disasters. The project addresses a polyhedron with six different types of governance actors: veterinary authorities (DGAV, ADS, OMV, local and volunteering veterinaries); political actors (borough mayors, city mayors, city councillors, members of government, members of parliament); firefighters (volunteer and professional); NGOs and civil society associations (victims, animals); police and other regulatory authorities (GNR; SEPNA; ICNF; Nature Vigilantes); civil protection (national and local).
Methodologically, the project unfolds alongside three main strategies: document and policy analysis; media and news analysis; and multispecies ethnography and in-depth interviews with key stakeholders. Because it is an individual project, with no funding of its own, I began by the media analysis, for which I had the collaboration of three other researchers. We presented the first results at the Global Animal Disaster Management Conference, in February 2021, pointing to the effective invisibility of animals in the news coverage of the fires, with only 6% of the pieces mentioning animals (article under preparation). However, the part of the fieldwork which I am absolutely passionate about, multispecies ethnography, had to be postponed, due to the Covid-19 epidemics. Elsewhere, I have written about how the pandemics impacted the team and the fieldwork, and the strategies put forward to turn the hindrances into gains.
Breathing out, take two: how to run the extra mile with the animals
To conclude, I will, once again, call upon Svetlana's beautiful wording as a metaphor for the kind of questions, and answers, I am looking for. The kind of human-animal entanglements that have been made widely invisible, despite their pervasiveness.
"I lived with my mother, two sisters, a little brother, and a chicken. We were left with a chicken, she lived in our house, slept with us. Hid herself with us, from the bombs. She got used to follow us like a dog. As hungry as we were, we were able to save the chicken. (…) Around us, they killed. Killed… people, horses, dogs. Throughout the war they killed all our horses. All the dogs. The cats actually survived."
This is just one of the many life stories told in her book Last Witnesses, in which the intimate connections between humans and animals are portrayed. Who's speaking is a seven-year-old girl from Belarus, Zina, about her experience during Second World War and German occupation. Zina's story, like many others reported by Alexievich, highlights the relational continuum between humans and animals in the experience of survival, built through daily practices, and charged with affective resonances. These are stories that follow catastrophes that, despite having human causes, bear more-than-human, global, consequences, ranging from war (World War II, Afghanistan) to nuclear disasters (Chernobyl).
The goal of this research is, thus, to attune to the multi-vocal experiences of disasters, also paying attention to the hidden or invisible actors, human and nonhuman: who they are, and how they impact on animals' experiences. Focusing on the social conditions that contribute either to build, or to mitigate, human and nonhuman vulnerability to hazards, I also ask how all these actors are making their own stories of resilience, in more-than-human hybrid communities. In the end, the inspiration spot stands right at the core of the catastrophe: to be fully present to, and thus learn from, its extra-ordinary time, that of extreme experiences of survival.
Verónica Policarpo is a research fellow at ICS-ULisboa, where she belongs to research groups LIFE – Lifecourse and inequalities; and GiATS – Environment, Territory and Society.
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Looking Back at LEAP
On September 19, the Southern California sun beamed over the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains as approximately 125 designers, activists, foundation reps and corporate actors gathered to kick off the inaugural LEAP Symposium.
Photo Credit, Alex Aristei
Here at the Hillside Campus of Art Center College of Design, home of one of the country's leading social impact design programs — Designmatters — these movers, shakers and would-be participants in this emergent field were making a critical leap toward establishing a framework for what this type of design work encompasses, and the paths one might take toward making a career doing it. Participants in the three-day symposium, the first of its kind, represented notable ventures, organizations and institutions from across the country, and many have been (and are) involved in social impact projects here at home and around the globe. Although creative deviations were ultimately encouraged, Mariana Amatullo, the LEAP braintrust Allan Chochinov, Lee Davis, William Drenttel, Robert Fabricant, Jocelyn Wyatt, and Karen Hofmann who oversaw the facilitation programming for the symposium with Sherry Hoffman, had laid out an initial roadmap for the event.
First there would be discovery, workshops based on the college's innovative Design Storm methodology, introductions and reconnections, hopes and wants and, of course, questions. Lots of questions. How can a designer make a living doing this? ("The opportunities to do the work are there, but is there a viable economy surrounding it?") How can we demonstrate that the corporate world will benefit from this? ("How can we better document the outcomes we've achieved?") And what exactly IS this? ("You can't get people to understand what this thing is until there's some commonly agreed upon way of describing it." "Doesn't ALL design have some social implication?")
The sub-groups that were assigned to investigate different areas of consideration in this far-reaching exploration went about their business creatively, led by savvy design-thinking facilitators. In the process, participants both crystallized some of their own thoughts and ideas, and confounded everyone with new questions of what, when, where and how social impact design was manifesting itself, and had the promise to manifest itself in corners of the world near and far.
Photo Credit, Dice Yamaguchi
Some common themes were money, opportunity, recognition, desire. Can a designer make money in this field? Is there corporate, institutional, foundation money to support this type of design? Will there be more opportunities to practice in this space if I commit to it? Do or will the commercial and political powers that be recognize the validity of this work? How can social impact design advocates get others interested in working in this space?
If Day One shined a spotlight on innumerable, often unanswerable questions, Day Two brought further refinements and queries about possible courses of action. How can we develop sources of funding for social impact design entrepreneurs? How can we help delineate more traditional career paths ("because not everybody wants to be an entrepreneur")? How can we create a better network of people working in this space? Document our outcomes as evidence of our value? What does the educational trajectory, and the attendant portfolio, look like to get into this space?
There were many elucidating moments shared among the participants, 60% of whom were designers, 40% of whom were not — at least in the traditional sense — with everyone bringing a valuable personal perspective. As in the sponsored projects that are a staple of Art Center's curriculum, participating students got unfiltered access to the real-world drivers of the work they hoped to do after (and during) school, increasing their understanding not just of the work, but also of its perception and impact. Corporate, institutional and foundation partners were as often enlightened as they were enlightening.
Everyone spoke, everyone listened, everyone learned. It was like one massive mind-mapping mind-meld that left everyone with a desire to get out there and do more.
The special presentations, each day, of the real-world impact of people working in this space were especially inspiring. From our own inner cities (Humanim) to the developing world (SHE) and everywhere in between, these were awesome stories of people making a difference in the world, and concretely validating the field everyone was here to buttress.
Illustration by Wendy MacNaughton
Day Three ultimately left the halls of Art Center empty, but not before participants had each made a commitment to do something to further the cause. There were promises to build a bigger community; to raise awareness; to hire interns; to establish fellowships; to forge partnerships and alliances; to carry the flag of this important emerging field back home, wherever home was. Moreover, there was a universal commitment to do this again: to gather, to share, to inquire, to brainstorm. To attend (and even sponsor!) forums, conferences and symposia that promise to move social impact design, and understanding of it, ahead.
LEAP participants left Pasadena knowing that social impact design (and the unfolding career paths within it), if not yet broadly understood, is definitely not an island, but rather a rapidly spreading landmass that might one day buoy us all.
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IT support is there to support you. You rely on them to make sure that you're able to execute all of your tasks in the most efficient way possible with technology that is fast and reliable. However, there is that whole waiting bit. While the best Managed Service providers surpass industry benchmarks for Help Desk response times, this still leaves users with a few minutes of inhibited work time. There's nothing more frustrating for a productive user than a handicapped workflow while tasks continue to pile up. While we never recommend taking support into your own hands, there are definitely a few things you can do to troubleshoot before filing a ticket with your Help Desk.
Sometimes a problem that is happening with your network or server impacts your workstation. When this is the case, it's important that you take a moment to briefly survey your coworkers and team before filing a support ticket. You don't want to bring their productivity to a halt by jumping into their workstation to troubleshoot an issue, but casually asking, "Hey, is our line of business application working properly for you?" or "Is this printer working for you?" can't hurt. If it's a network-wide issue, make sure that a ticket has, indeed been submitted and look to your provider to get back to you or the office manager with an estimated resolution time. This will help you avoid the extra steps you should typically take when encountering issues, since you'll know it's not an issue with your individual workstation while also avoiding the duplicity of multiple tickets for your Help Desk about the same issue.
If you're particularly efficient, odds are that you have multiple open windows at the same time and applications running in the background that you can switch back and forth between. While this is a good thing from a productivity and efficiency perspective, your machine or application can sometimes lock up. If you're having issues with slowness, application bugs or other issues with programs that you use regularly, it's always a good idea before filing a support ticket to save your work and restart those applications. Many times this can clear things up a bit and get you up and running without having to wait for the Help Desk to get back to you.
Ah, yes. The most annoying Help Desk question that exists. "Did you try rebooting?" While it can be cumbersome to go through closing all your applications and rebooting your machine, it really can resolve a lot of the most common issues that users experience on a daily basis. Plus, it takes less time than waiting it out for a response on a support ticket. Don't pretend that you rebooted and tell your Help Desk technician that you did – actually do it. Your machine needs it and it'll help you avoid the additional troubleshooting time and get back to your work day as quickly as possible. Even if you don't do it, your Help Desk technician is going to ask you to. Help out your support team and your coworkers who have open tickets by taking this step and eliminating that possibility as a cause for the issue.
For truly efficient employees and managers like you, time is of the essence. Even the fastest response time from a Help Desk is going to leave you with a few minutes of downtime twiddling your thumbs. Help your support team help you by taking a moment to ask your coworkers if they're experiencing issues, restarting your applications or rebooting your machine. Taking these simple steps could save you a lot of time when you avoid creating a ticket and waiting for your Help Desk technician to contact you.


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Q: How to split vector into subsets? I'm trying to split the vector into subsets based of the number of process I use in my application. I created the pseudo code but I really don't have any clue how can I output the subsets.
The problem:

Read a subset of the address records from residences.dat using
  striping. For n processes, each process evaluates a unique subset of
  records based on every nth record. The number of records in this
  subset should be approximately #-of-residence-records /#-of-processes. Across all the parallel processes used no address should be omitted and none should be processed more than once. Also
  note that only ONE record at a time should be stored in memory by any
  process

My code:
std::vector<Residence> spliteResidenceDaata(vector<Residence> rs,int numProces = 0);
function body

    std::vector<Residence> spliteResidenceDaata(vector<Residence> rs,int numProces)
    {

        std::vector<Residence> residenceSet;
        //get the size of vector
        int res_set_size = rs.size();
        int sizrOfSubSet =res_set_size/numProces;

        //output the arry subsite some "help here"

        return residenceSet;
    }

update
I came up with this pseudo code
1-take the number of line in .dat file  rData
2- get the number of data you want to read for each process sizeofLine  (rData.size()/numProc)
3- read the .dat file from line 0 to  sizeofLine
4-output array

A: i haven't tested this code, but something along the lines of this should work - instead of having your function return one vector, have it return a vector of vectors, like this:
std::vector<std::vector<Residence>> split(std::vector<Residence rs, int num_procs)
this will allow you to split your original vector into num_procs number of vectors, and then push_back() each of those onto your return vector of vectors (kind of like a matrix).
std::vector<std::vector<Residence>> split(const std::vector<Residence> rs, const unsigned num_procs) {
    unsigned j = 0; //position counter
    std::vector<std::vector<Residence>> result; //resulting vector of vectors
    for(unsigned i = 0; i < num_procs; ++i) {   //for each process
        std::vector<Residence> temp;            //create a vector
        for(; j < ((i + 1) * rs.size() / num_procs; ++j)    //iterate
            temp.push_back(rs[j]);              //and populate temporary vector with a 1/num_procs section of original vector
        result.push_back(temp);                 //and push that temporary vector into your result vector of vectors
    }
    for(; j < rs.size(); ++j)                   //finally, if the original vector is not divisible by num_procs
        result[num_procs].push_back(rs[j]);     //push the remainder of elements into the last vector
}

when you call the function, it will look something like this:
std::vector<std::vector<Residence>> vectors = split(original_vector, 4);
which will allow you to get subvectors like this:
vectors[0];   //first quarter
vectors[1];   //second
vectors[2];   //third
vectors[3];   //fourth + remainder

A: you need to read one record at time not pass the all subset as vector think you need this
    while(!residenceFile.eof())
    {
        residenceFile >> res.x >>res.y;
    if ( numLines % numProcs == rank)
    {
        //call the  process
        //populate_distancesVector(res,foodbankData);
        analysis_range(populate_distancesVector(res,foodbankData),count);

    }
    ++numLines;

}

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Somerville declares war on rats
Somerville announces aggressive rodent control
Updated: 11:23 PM EST Nov 15, 2013
It's not difficult to spot a rat scampering across the street near Sullivan Square in Somerville."It skeeves (makes my skin crawl) me out," said Richard Carbone of Somerville. "Absolutely skeeves me out."Watch NewsCenter 5's reportSomerville is launching a war on rats after receiving some 600 complaints a year about the critters.Richard Carbone said he's had enough."Some days I see two dozen rats coming out of the pizza place and Brazilian restaurants," Carbone said. "Absolutely disgusting."The city is proposing a number of strategies including free rodent control and a uniform covered trash barrel program.City officials are also consulting with a fertility expert."I know it has something to do with not eradicating the population totally but controlling the population through means of fertility," said Alderman Maryann Heuston.The city will also start licensing and inspecting dumpsters."It's a nasty problem," said Heuston. "I've seen a rat when I've been behind the wheel of my car and I still felt somehow I was going to be attacked. So it's not a pleasant thing."
It's not difficult to spot a rat scampering across the street near Sullivan Square in Somerville.
"It skeeves (makes my skin crawl) me out," said Richard Carbone of Somerville. "Absolutely skeeves me out."
Somerville is launching a war on rats after receiving some 600 complaints a year about the critters.
Richard Carbone said he's had enough.
"Some days I see two dozen rats coming out of the pizza place and Brazilian restaurants," Carbone said. "Absolutely disgusting."
The city is proposing a number of strategies including free rodent control and a uniform covered trash barrel program.
City officials are also consulting with a fertility expert.
"I know it has something to do with not eradicating the population totally but controlling the population through means of fertility," said Alderman Maryann Heuston.
The city will also start licensing and inspecting dumpsters.
"It's a nasty problem," said Heuston. "I've seen a rat when I've been behind the wheel of my car and I still felt somehow I was going to be attacked. So it's not a pleasant thing."


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Q: Getting/Parsing ShoutCast Metadata I currently making simple music player and would like to stream online radio. I managed to stream ShoutCast radio but the problem is I have no idea how to parse the title and artist from streaming metadata. Here is my code.
Player.cs
    public string[] GetTags(bool streaming)
    {
        if (streaming == true)
        {
            IntPtr tag = Bass.BASS_ChannelGetTags(stream, BASSTag.BASS_TAG_META);
            string[] tags = Utils.IntPtrToArrayNullTermUtf8(tag);
            if (tags != null)
            {
                return tags;
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

Main.cs
  private void btnLoadURL_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        p.LoadURL(tbFile.Text);
        string[] tags = p.GetTags(true);
        if (tags != null)
        {
            foreach (String tag in tags)
            {
                lblStatus.Text = tag;
            }
        }
    }

Currently I need to iterate through the tags to get the metadata in the format StreamTitle='xxx';StreamUrl='xxx';. I would like to parse this into;
Title: xxx
Artist: xxx
and remove StreamUrl entirely.
Thanks!

A: My own approach is to concatenate an array of strings into a string using String.Join method
string conTitle = String.Join("", tags);

then by using regular expression I am able to extract artist and song from the string:
if (tags != null)
            {
                string ConTitle = String.Join("", tags);
                string FullTitle = Regex.Match(ConTitle,
                  "(StreamTitle=')(.*)(';StreamUrl)").Groups[2].Value.Trim();
                string[] Title = Regex.Split(FullTitle, " - ");
                return Title;
            }

In Main.cs I iterate the returned value and assign the variable according to the string[] index
if (tags != null)
        {
            foreach (string tag in tags)
            {
                lblArtist.Text = tags[0];
                lblTitle.Text = tags[1];
            }
        }

Here's the player image since I don't have enough rep yet to upload one

Though I have to look into the regex back since album title also appeared there.
EDIT: Here's the modified regex:
Regex.Match(ConTitle, "(StreamTitle=')(.*)(\\(.*\\)';StreamUrl)").Groups[2].Value.Trim();

Now no more bracket with album title after song title.


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689 inches in millimeters
689 inches is equivalent to 17500.6 millimeters.[1]
How to convert 689 inches to millimeters?
We know (by definition) that: 1in = 25.4mm
We can set up a proportion to solve for the number of millimeters.
1  in 689  in = 25.4  mm x  mm
x  mm = 689  in 1  in * 25.4  mm → x  mm = 17500.6  mm
Conclusion: 689  in = 17500.6  mm
The inverse of the conversion factor is that 1 millimeter is equal to 5.71408980263534e-05 times 689 inches.
It can also be expressed as: 689 inches is equal to 1 5.71408980263534e-05 millimeters.
An approximate numerical result would be: six hundred and eighty-nine inches is about zero millimeters, or alternatively, a millimeter is about zero times six hundred and eighty-nine inches.
The inch (abbreviation: in or ″) is a unit of length in the imperial and United States customary systems of measurement now formally equal to 1⁄36 yard but usually understood as 1⁄12 of a foot. Derived from the Roman uncia (twelfth), inch is also sometimes used to translate related units in other measurement systems, usually understood as deriving from the width of the human thumb. Traditional standards for the exact length of an inch have varied in the past, but since the adoption of the international yard during the 1950s and 1960s it has been based on the metric system and defined as exactly 2.54 cm.
Wikipedia page of inches
Millimeters
The millimetre or millimeter (American spelling) is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one thousandth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length.
Wikipedia page of millimeters
Inches-to-millimeters
689-in-to-mm


Alex & Neil will be at the gallery from 11-3pm for the show opening on Saturday. The gallery will be featuring an evening of interactive painting and wine with Alex & Neil from 6:30-8pm. Exhibition continues until April 27th.
Vance will be doing an outdoor carving demonstration (weather permitting) and his famous 'Name the Bear' contest continues. Bayot will be in attendance accompanied by his beautiful selection of gems. Exhibition continues until May 25th.
Angela Morgan is back for her largest annual solo exhibition. The gallery will be awash in colour and whimsy, with over 50 works on display from both the winter and summer series. Angela will be in attendance from 11-3pm on Saturday the 16th. Join us at the "Morgan style" lemonade stand, wear some attire that fits in with her artwork, and you can be entered to win one of Angelas originals too!