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Demand For Commercial Insurance Up Slightly

Demand for commercial insurance continued to follow a slight upward trend in the first three months of 2017, according to the latest Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ Commercial P/C Market Survey.

A large number of brokers reported an increase in demand for cyber coverage as clients became more familiar with the product and more interested in purchasing stand-alone policies.

The majority of brokers, 68.5 percent, reported that demand for commercial insurance products stayed the same in the first quarter of 2017, compared to the fourth quarter of 2016.

Nearly 30 percent of broker responses saw an increase in demand, while only 2.2 percent saw a decrease.

As for pricing, the soft market continued in Q1 2017, with the average rate decline across all commercial P/C accounts at 2.5 percent, compared to 3.3 percent in Q4 2016.

This is the ninth straight quarter that commercial rates have declined across small, medium and large accounts, The Council said.

Additional I.I.I. facts and statistics on the commercial lines insurance market are available here.

Looking Ahead: Commercial Insurance Pricing

Where are U.S. commercial insurance rates headed in the coming year?

Latest analysis from online insurance exchange MarketScout gives some insight.

This from Richard Kerr, CEO MarketScout:

“We expect more moderate rate reductions for the coming year for all but a few lines of business. If interest rates increase, rate reductions could accelerate.”

December closed out the year at a composite rate reduction of 1 percent, according to MarketScout.

Employment practices liability insurance and crime were the only coverages with rate increases in December, with increases of 1 to 2 percent.

Workers’ compensation rates decreased from down 1 percent to down 2 percent in December. Commercial property rate decreases moderated from down 3 percent to down 2 percent.

The soft market is now 16 months old, but seems longer because the composite rate in 2015 was flat or plus 1 percent for the first eight months before dipping into negative territory.

Kerr noted that generally the soft or hard market cycles last at least three years.

Most industries are cyclical to some extent and the Insurance Information Institute offers further explanation of the property/casualty insurance market cycle here.

Commercial Insurance Rate Declines Continue

The soft market may be limited in length and severity, though that would be surprising, according to the latest analysis of commercial insurance pricing from online insurance exchange MarketScout.

The comments came as MarketScout reported that the composite rate for U.S. commercial property/casualty insurance declined by 2 percent in April, compared to a 3 percent decline in March and minus 4 percent in January and February 2016.

Richard Kerr, CEO of MarketScout observed:

“It seems we may have a reversal of sentiment. Rates are moderating. We are only seven months into a soft market that has so far yielded a maximum composite rate decrease of minus 4 percent.”

Kerr also noted:

“A limited soft market would be a bit surprising noting the current ample market capacity; however, more sophisticated underwriting tools seem to be limiting market swings.”

Rates changed in most coverage classifications with property, business interruption, BOP, inland marine, workers’ compensation, general liability, and fiduciary all moderating by 1 percent as compared to March.

Umbrella, auto, D&O, EPLI, crime, professional and surety were unchanged, according to MarketScout.

By account size, rates for small accounts (under $25,000) were down 1 percent from March to April. All other account sizes were down 2 percent in April 2016, compared to minus 4 percent in March 2016.

By coverage classification, transportation accounts adjusted more than any other industry classification from minus 4 percent in March 2016 to minus 2 percent in April 2016. Manufacturing, habitational, public entity and energy accounts all moderated 1 percent in April, while contracting and service accounts remained unchanged.

Here’s the visual by coverage classification:

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Check out this post over at Artemis blog for more on why the moderation in commercial insurance rates is unlikely to persist.

The Insurance Information Institute has further information with financial results and commentary on the p/c insurance industry here.

P/C Rates: Trending Down, But Not As Steeply

Broker Willis Towers Watson has updated its commercial insurance rate predictions for 2016, and says that price declines are slowing.

A complex commercial insurance marketplace—marked by increased underwriting scrutiny and potential challenges stemming from the changing carrier landscape—is raising the likelihood that companies will experience some price increases in various lines.

Back in October 2015, Willis said 10 lines of insurance could expect decreases and just five lines of insurance could expect increases in 2016.

Now the updated outlook for 2016 is that nine lines of insurance are expecting decreases and eight lines of insurance—auto, cyber, employee benefits, employment practices liability, errors & omissions, fidelity, kidnap & ransom, and trade credit— are expecting increases.

And for lines where it anticipated the largest price hikes—cyber and errors & omissions—those price hikes are accelerating.

With hurricane season approaching, it’s worth noting that property remains among those lines expecting a decrease, but average rate reductions are slowing down.

Non-CAT accounts have enjoyed rate reductions for a longer period and carriers cannot afford to cut rates much further, Willis Towers Watson notes.

For cyber renewals, primary premium increases are 5 percent to 15 percent for most buyers and 15 percent to 30 percent for POS retailers and large health care companies with no losses—with additional increases on excess layers.

Willis Towers Watson notes that excess cyber losses have caused a few markets to stop writing large accounts and others to increase their premiums significantly in upper layers of $75+ million placements.

Despite the reduction in capacity by some carriers, available limits in the marketplace are approximately $350 million to $400 million.

Capital markets are also reviewing cyber to determine if they can provide additional relief.

Meanwhile, insurers are focused on employee training, handling of sensitive data, holistic security practices for outsourced data infrastructure, and internal reporting structure, according to Willis Towers Watson.

IoT and Piracy Increase Risks to Shipping

A hacker causes an oil platform located off the coast of Africa to tilt to one side, forcing it to temporarily shut down. A port’s cyber systems are infiltrated by hackers to locate specific containers loaded with illegal drugs and remove them undetected.

These are just a few of the cyber attacks on the shipping industry reported to date, according to Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE’s (AGCS) fourth annual Safety and Shipping Review 2016.

But such attacks are often under-reported as companies opt to deal with breaches internally for fear of worrying stakeholders, AGCS notes.

“When reports of attacks do surface, details are usually vague, making it extremely difficult to gauge the headway the industry has made in strengthening online security.”

The shipping industry’s reliance on interconnected technology also poses risks. Cyber risk exposure is growing beyond data loss.

Technological advances including the Internet of Things (IoT) and electronic navigation means the industry may have less than five years to prepare for the risk of a vessel loss, AGCS warns.

There has already been one known incidence of Somali pirates having infiltrated a shipping company’s systems to identify vessels passing through the Gulf of Aden with valuable cargoes and minimal on-board security, leading to the hijacking of a vessel.

In the words of Captain Andrew Kinsey, senior marine risk consultant AGCS:

“Pirates are already abusing holes in cyber security to target the theft of specific cargoes. The cyber impact cannot be overstated. The simple fact is you can’t hack a sextant.”

The industry needs more robust cyber technology in order to monitor the movement of stolen cargoes, according to Kinsey.

For the first time in five years piracy attacks at sea failed to decline in 2015. International Maritime Bureau statistics show there were 246 piracy attacks worldwide in 2015, up from 245 in 2014.

Attacks in South East Asia continue to increase, with the region accounting for 60 percent of global incidents and Vietnam a new hotspot, AGCS reports.

The Insurance Information Institute offers facts and statistics on marine accidents here.

Commercial Insurance Barometer Shows Competitive Market

Commercial property/casualty insurance rates in the United States continued to register a decline  in February, but showed little movement across  sectors, according to online insurance exchange MarketScout.

The composite rate remains at minus 4 percent.

Richard Kerr, CEO of MarketScout noted that traditionally February has always been a slow insurance month, so the lack of activity in rates is not surprising.

By coverage classification, commercial property saw the largest decrease at  5 percent, while business interruption, inland marine and commercial auto were all priced more competitively in February as compared to January. The rates for other coverages remained steady.

Large and jumbo accounts were also down more in February, with large ($250,001 to $1 million) down from minus 4 percent in January 2016, to minus 5 percent in February 2016. Jumbo accounts (over $1 million), declined from minus 3 percent to minus 4 percent in the same period. All other account sizes matched the same composite rate from the prior month.

By industry classification, manufacturing had a significant rate decrease from minus 2 percent in January to minus 5 percent in February. Habitational was down another 1 percent in February for a total of minus 6 percent. All other industry rates remained the same as in January, MarketScout said.

Here’s the visual on the average P/C rate changes for 2016 compared to a year ago:

Commercial Insurance Market: Generally Favorable For Buyers

Ample capacity and continued competition are expected to continue to put near term downward pressure on insurance rates in major classes of commercial property/casualty business, according to Marsh.

However, industry developments including recent earnings announcements, senior management changes and re-underwriting at several companies bear watching, said Marsh in its just-released U.S. Insurance Market Report.

Marsh’s analysis put average rate decreases in the fourth quarter of 2015 at between 5 percent and 10 percent for non-catastrophe exposed risks and by between 5 percent and 15 percent for moderately catastrophe-exposed risks.

Likewise, U.S. public company directors and officers (D&O) insurance rates were on average flat to down 10 percent in the fourth quarter, while U.S. commercial general liability rates on average renewed at between 10 percent rate decreases and 5 percent increases.

Amid the rate decreases across most classes of business, cyber insurance bucked the trend.

Typical cyber rate increases in the first half of 2015 were 10 percent to 15 percent over the prior year.

However, the retail and healthcare sectors, which have seen some of the costliest data breach events, saw increases ranging from 45 percent to 55 percent and 15 percent to 25 percent, respectively.

Marsh noted that demand for cyber insurance rose in 2015–a trend expected to continue in 2016.

Despite the overall pattern of soft pricing, amid ample capacity, competition and relatively low catastrophe losses, Robert Bentley, president of Marsh’s U.S. and Canada division warned that now is not the time to be complacent:

Organizations need to stay abreast of the ever-changing marketplace and risk landscape, where new and emerging risks can quickly escalate if not properly managed.”

More information on the cyber insurance market can be found in the Insurance Information Institute  white paper Cyber Risks: Threat and Opportunities.

Latest on Commercial P/C Insurance Pricing in 2016

Two separate market surveys point to a continuing decline in commercial property/casualty insurance rates.

Online insurance exchange MarketScout reported that the composite rate for p/c  business placed in the United States declined by 4 percent in January 2016.

Richard Kerr, CEO of MarketScout, noted that commercial property rates dropped from minus 2 percent in December 2015 to minus 5 percent in January 2016.

Commercial property insurers are getting ready to scratch each other’s eyes out as they fight for market share. We see nothing to prevent commercial property rates from dropping further.”

Business interruption, BOPs, professional liability and D&O coverages were also more competitively priced in January 2016 versus December 2015, MarketScout said.

By account size, large and jumbo accounts (over $250,001) were assessed rates slightly higher in January 2016 than in the prior month–bucking the usual trend, while rates for small and medium sized accounts (all under $250,000) were more competitive.

Meanwhile, the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers’ (The Council) fourth quarter Commercial P/C Market Index Survey showed that 2015 closed as it began–with continued decreases in commercial p/c rates.

All size accounts experienced decreases in the fourth quarter of 2015, consistent with the downward trend seen in the prior three quarters. Large accounts saw the biggest decrease at 3.7 percent, followed by medium-sized accounts at 3 percent, and small accounts at 1.5 percent, The Council said.

By line, the largest decreases were seen in commercial property, down 3.5 percent, and general liability, down 3.4 percent. Umbrella policy rates declined an average of 2.8 percent while workers compensation rates were down an average of 2.6 percent.

Ken A. Crerar, president/CEO of The Council noted:

This soft market presents both challenges and opportunities for brokers. Lower rates meant less revenue but as the economy improved, policyholders were seeking increased limits and additional lines of coverage. This gave our members a chance to be creative and provide added value to their clients beyond just negotiating lower rates.”

The Council will continue to monitor how trends and advancements like industry consolidation, the burgeoning cyber insurance market and the use of technology in modeling and underwriting impact rates and capacity in the insurance market in 2016.

Insurance Information Institute  commentary on the p/c industry financial results can be found here.

Broker Survey: Insurers Writing More For Less

Business interruption, commercial property, general liability, umbrella, and workers’ compensation were the lines brokers most often noted  had a decline in rates in the third quarter of 2015, according to the latest Commercial P/C Market Index Survey from the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers.

Broker comments came as The Council survey found rates decreased across all lines by an average of 3.1 percent in the third quarter, compared with a 3.3 percent decline in the second quarter of 2015.

Large accounts saw the largest decreases at 4.1 percent, followed by medium-sized accounts at 3.8 percent, and small accounts at 1.4 percent.

The ongoing buyers’ market was consistent across most lines of business, The Council noted, with a few exceptions, including commercial auto and flood both of which saw a slight uptick in rates. Flood continued to be viewed as a troubled peril, brokers said.

Flood insurance rates increased, especially in the Southeast and Pacific Northwest regions, as rate increases, assessments and surcharges continued to be implemented by the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and Write Your Own Carriers.

Ken Crerar, president and CEO of The Council observed that while rates seemed stable and competition plentiful, the brokerage industry is keeping an eye on many factors that may have an impact on insurance placements going forward.

We heard from our brokers about the growing cyber insurance market, consolidation in the industry, and attracting and retaining talent.

These are long-term, macro-level issues that have been percolating for years.”

Check out latest I.I.I. information on  industry financial results  here.

Bucking the Rating Trend

Broker Willis has just published its commercial insurance rate predictions for 2016.

What’s the outlook for insurance buyers?

Overall, the property/casualty insurance market continues to soften and Willis predicts further softening ahead, fueled by relatively benign losses and an oversupply of capacity from traditional and non-traditional sources.

For 2016, 10 lines of insurance–property, casualty, aviation, energy, health care professional, marine, political risks, surety, terrorism and trade credit–are expecting decreases.

In contrast, just five lines of insurance–cyber, employee benefits, errors & omissions (E&O), fidelity and kidnap & ransom–are expecting increases.

The main exception to the overall softening trend is in cyber and E&O insurance, Willis reports, where the growing threat of cyber intrusion and data theft is sending rates upward.

By how much?

For retailers with POS (point-of-sale) exposures and large health care companies, rate increases are up to an eye-opening 150 percent at renewal, with additional increases on excess layers.

In fact most buyers of cyber insurance are seeing primary premium increases of up to 15 percent, Willis says. For smaller organizations (with revenues less than $1 billion) lower premium increases are typical.

What about terms and conditions?

Willis observes that underwriting requirements continue to rise and cyber insurers are also increasing retentions, reducing capacity and exiting certain sectors.

Despite the reduction in capacity by some carriers, available limits in the cyber marketplace are around $350 million to $400 million.

Willis also predicts the marketplace for first-time buyers of cyber insurance (except for POS retailers and large healthcare organizations) will continue with relatively favorable terms, conditions and pricing.

Willis offers this single piece of advice to buyers of cyber insurance:

In approaching the markets, be ready to identify key investments in security and privacy protections over the past policy year that will help differentiate you from your peers.”

The I.I.I.’s new paper Cyber Risks: Threat and Opportunities sheds more light on the rapidly evolving market for cyber insurance.

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I read with interest the transcript of today’s oral argument in the highly anticipated American Express v. Italian Colors Restaurant case, No. 12-133. As I suspected, though, following oral argument, it would seem unlikely that the Court will decide in the merchants’ favor. Instead, the likely outcome is that the Court will hold that merhcants in this case will have great difficulty showing, pre-arbitration, that bilateral arbitration, as opposed to a class process, precludes them from vindicating their statutory rights. While Justices Kagan and Ginsburg repeatedly identified problems with bilateral arbitration clauses that effectively preclude plaintiffs from financing their own litigation due to the costs of proceeding in arbitration, Justices Breyer, Scalia, Roberts and Kennedy’s questions all suggested that they would vote in favor of American Express. Justice Scalia emphasized that, for the first forty years the Sherman Antitrust Act was in place, no class actions could proceed and yet that was not viewed as problematic. Justice Kennedy suggested that one of the benefits of the arbitration is that a claimant could select an expert arbitrator, such as an antitrust professor, instruct him or her to keep costs down, and have an arbitration process that was cheaper than a class action in court. The Justices also expressed keen interest in the idea that the merchants in the litigation could band together and hire a single expert to prepare a report (which is what the merchants alleged would cost $300,000 per arbitration) that could be shared among all the plaintiffs thus reducing overall costs per plaintiff. While there might be confidentiality objections to that approach (it was unclear whether confidentiality agreements between American Express and the plaintiff merchants precluded this type of sharing), the Justices seemed enamored with finding ways to make the arbitration process more streamline and less expensive, thus avoiding having to rule that the process was simply too expensive to preclude the plaintiffs from vindicating their statutory rights. Rather than focus on the benefits or drawbacks of class arbitration or the need for a class process, the Justices focused instead on ways to ensure that the arbitration process would proceed at a reasonable cost to the prospective claimants. Justice Breyer seemed concerned about courts getting into the business of analyzing the costs of arbitration on a case-by-case basis, noting that it would be “an odd doctrine that just says, plaintiff by plaintiff, you an ignore an arbitration clause if you can get a case that’s expensive enough.” Ultimately, I believe, based on the oral arguments and in light of other recent Supreme Court holdings, that the Justices will emphasize that the claimants’ alleged costs are too speculative (i.e. arbitration would not be that expensive even in an antitrust case) and hold that plaintiffs do not need the ability to bring their claims in a judicial class action in order to vindicate their statutory rights under the Sherman Antitrust Act.

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  1. Counsel for AmEx said in argument that the unconscionability doctrine still existed to control abusive arbitration provisions. What did he have in mind? I don’t see how there is anything left of unconscionability as a way to block arbitration clauses, particularly if a clever drafter delegates to the arbitrator the task of deciding whether the agreement is unconscionable.

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The Martinsville Phillies were a short season minor league baseball team located in Martinsville, Virginia. Affiliated with the Philadelphia Phillies, they existed from 1988 to 1998, playing in the Appalachian League. They played their home games at Hooker Field. Martinsville was also home to the Martinsville Astros (1999-2003), Martinsville A's (1945-1949) and the Martinsville Manufacturers(1934-1941).

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Mega-talented punk rock singer Angel Garcia, with his smoldering ebony eyes, tight leather pants and unstoppable stage presence, is a man who is used to getting what he wants. He has his eyes set on Tommy Blade as his new lead guitarist, and as his life partner.

Jessi Blade, sympathetic to her husband's bisexual needs, loves him enough to share him, but she never counted on Angel Garcia to test the threshold of her marriage. He makes her life hell . . . and heaven. He’s her damnation and her salvation. She wants to hate him. She wants to despise him. But his charm and raw sex appeal are impossible to resist. Without warning, she finds herself falling in love with her husband's gay lover.

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Men flocked around him as soon as he walked through the door. They always did. A guy once told him that it was the mixture of his rugged jaw and strong upper body, offset by the innocence of his big blue eyes that made him so attractive. The ladies always said it was his long blond hair and the guitar.

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When he finds out will he accept our bond or use me as a pawn? When he decides to hold me in his territory, I know it is as a way to provoke my Alpha. I know one thing, if my Alpha doesn’t have vengeance, she will use my kidnapping as the excuse she needed to start a long, bloody pack war. Is there any way I can stop it? How can I mate my enemy and stay loyal to my pack?

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Does it matter where wod comes from?  I know i would prefer Irish wood, but we are European and i dont think we should be so against the wood that comes from our neighbours in our community.
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« Reply #1 on: 31 May, 2005, 14:10 »

Personally, I am not opposed to using wood from any source, be it from within Europe or further afield, but there are a few things that make me prefer to use Irish woods where possible:

- The traceability of the wood is important to me, where it is offered. I am happier using wood that I know comes from a sustainable resource rather than wood that may have come from illegal (or immoral) deforestation. I think that traceability of local wood is easier to confirm (and therefore trust) than that of wood delivered from abroad (where you have any doubts/concerns about the supplier that is).

- The environmental impact of the transport of wood from further afield concerns me. Given a choice between comparable wood, I'd choose the wood which I believe has resulted in the least amount of pollution to get to me - in most cases I would expect this to be local wood, which is likely to have travelled a shorter distance.

- I am happy to support local employment, where possible. In the case of Lisnavagh Timber Project in particular, I think that it is great to see such a venture succeed so I plan to look there for my wood first. I have found the people at Lisnavagh to be very helpful too, which is surprisingly rare in many industries these days.

- I think that certain objects just look and "feel" better when made from raw material which is local to the country or area, whether that material is wood, metal, stone, or whatever.

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another interesting point is the finished products marketability. as a woodturner of large bowls i hand pick the trees that i turn my bowls from mostly from local and interesting trees. my bowls are then turned and are sold with a label telling the customer which town and tree the bowl came from. you will find people choosing to buy the product because of its 'history' rather that the look of it. often people will know the tree that the bowl came from - strange but true.
in the same way a piece of furniture for sale with a 'history' will sell much easier and probably for a higher price than a standard one.
so in that way local timber gets my vote
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I could not agree more. The main attraction of Irish wood is not because it is Irish. It is because it is local and traceable and has travelled the shortest distance to get here. The lisnavagh project is extremely usefull to any woodworker dealing with hardwoods in Ireland. Particularly in my own case, I can say that without lisnavagh I would not have completed my first project (a carved rocking horse). I arrived at Williams doorstep with a cutting list. I was unfamilier with standard sizes widths etc. I received remarkable personal advice and assistence from William to the extent of wood being cut down to fit in the boot of my car.
It is also surprising the effect on people when you can show them the tree that the horse was carved from.
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Only Three People Cared to Hear About Africa

Since returning to Dubuque from Africa I have had the opportunity to tell a number of people, maybe close to 100 by now a little of my adventure. However, only three people so far have been interested in more than a very superficial overview. That is an oversimplification, the only presentation I did was to a group of high school students and they asked more questions than anyone else, but due to time constraints we didn't have time for a long discussion.

The point is, most adults are so comfortable in their lives here that the thought of a difficult life in a far away land makes people uncomfortable. Besides, we worked hard for our 2500 square foot house and new cars, we deserve these things. No, we do not deserve to be born in the USA. We do not deserve to have the opportunity to go to college, even if that means taking out massive loans. We do not deserve any sort of government social safety net. Yet for some reason, we can afford these luxuries. Do these safety nets become a privilege we are now responsible for maintaining? Yes, with great power (wealth) comes great responsibility. We do not like to hear that when it means we are the rich one with the responsibility. Yet often the uncomfortable truths are the ones we need to hear the most.

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Joel Davis posted on March 26, 2013 16:23

The Political Demography and Geography (PDG) section of ISA, in conjunction with the Collegium Civitas, will be hosting a summer 2014 conference in Warsaw, Poland. The theme of the conference will be "Eurasia – Defining and Crossing Barriers."

All paper, roundtable and panel proposals will need to be submitted via the ISA conference submission system. Submissions open Fall 2013. The deadline for proposal submissions is Tuesday, October 15, 2013.

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For more on this conference, see ISA PDG-Collegium Civitas Joint Eurasia Conference, Warsaw.

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ISA Headquarters posted on February 16, 2017 14:34

On February 28th, the International Studies Association and United Nations Academic Impact will sponsor a UNAI-ISA Forum on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction. This event will be an open, Chatham House Rules-style discussion between ISA members and UN personnel on the law of the sea and biological diversity. It will take place at 10am – Noon at the United Nations Building.

Confirmed participants are:

Swadesh Rana
Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute. Former Chief, Conventional Arms Branch, United Nations.

Charlotte Salpin

Legal Officer, Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea.

Rachel Tiller

Áslaug Ásgeirsdóttir
Professor, Department of Politics, Bates College

Dr. Elizabeth Nyman
Assistant Professor of Political Science and, Coordinator, Maritime Studies Program, Texas A&M University at Galveston

Other UN participants will be there as well.

To join us, please send your name by Wednesday, February 22 to Antje Kristin Watermann (,  or Vikas Sharma (, with "ISA-UNAI Forum Confirmation" in the subject line. For those without a United Nations pass, please be at the Visitor's Entrance to the United Nations at 9.30 am on February 28. The Visitor's Entrance is on the east side of First Avenue between 45 and 46 Streets. Please have a photo ID with you.

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Last week, Island Lake was hit hard by winter storm Stella for 2 full days. She left our favorite land of Starrucca with over 30 inches of snow! Don’t worry, it will for sure all melt away soon enough; well before our campers arrive at the end of June. In the meantime, enjoy these wild photos of Island Lake.    ILCUTHERE!

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After a leak of one gallon of oil in Terrebonne Bay, Royal Dutch Shell Plc shut a 170,000-barrel-a-day pipeline that moves Gulf of Mexico crude to Houma, LA.

Shell shut the 16-inch (41-centimeter) pipeline, which starts on Caillou Island, at 5 p.m. March 23 after workers observed a light oil sheen near a pump station, said Kim Windon, a Houston-based spokeswoman for Shell.

Less than a gallon of crude released based in initial information, she said.

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Shell plans to inspect and repair the pipeline as soon as possible, weather permitting, and is investigating the cause of the leak, Windon said.

The Caillou-to-Houma pipeline connects with a 20-inch pipeline that brings crude from producers in Eugene Island, Ship Shoal, Green Canyon and other Gulf formations to Caillou Island.

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Ruzzini Palace

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Locanda Ca' Le Vele

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Ca' Sagredo

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Ca' Nigra Lagoon Resort

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La Villeggiatura

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Hotel Bellini

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The Baron Giorgio Franchetti, who purchased and restored the building at the end of the 1800's, donated the Ca' d'Oro and its art collections to the State in 1915. Among the many works to be admired, one finds paintings by Giovanni Bellini, Carpaccio, Mantegna's "San Sebastiano" and canvases by Titian, Giorgione, Tintoretto, Guardi, Van Eyck and other Flemish and German artists; within the Cà d'Oro there is also an impressive exhibition of Venetian ceramics, marble work from the Renaissance period, a collection of Bronzes, rare medals, frescoes, and a number of Greek and Roman exhibits. The well curb with allegories of the virtues by B.Bon is quite fascinating.

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The Ithaka Institute

The Ithaka Institute is an international open source network for carbon strategies. It is a non-profit research foundation with the Headquarter in Europe having independent offices in the USA, Nepal and Australia. In the last decade, Ithaka became a leading research collaboration for carbon sequestration and cycling through agronomic methods. The Institute is known for its expertise in production, post-production treatment and use of biochar. Ithaka established the European Biochar Certificate and developed numerous biochar based products. We are engaged in several food security, soil fertility and reforestation projects in Eastern Asia.

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How to secure an IT job in Australia

Completing study and finding employment is a challenge to new migrants seeking a new life in Australia. It can take you 5 to 6 years to complete your degree commencing at a language school, then proceeding to university, and then undertaking postgraduate studies. Following this, you are required to spend several years and of course a lot of money to obtain a Permanent Residency (PR) in Australia.

Most people would think that after obtaining the PR it would be easy to find a satisfying job in Australia given they have a university degree. In reality most people end up working as labourers in places such as factories, restaurants and gas stations. If one then looks back at their working life it may seem as a waste of many years without achieving anything substantial.

The Australian social system has narrowed the gap between the rich and the poor. Therefore it’s easy to make a living but it can be very difficult to earn a high salary in Australia. It’s still many people’s dream to obtain a highly paid job in Australia. The IT industry is one field that gives you the opportunity to fulfil such a dream. If one takes a look at job advertisements online in positions such as Network Engineering, Senior System Support, Database Administrator and IT Specialist with salaries ranging from $100K to over $150K offered.

ITIC has helped hundreds of international students to obtain highly paid positions in the IT industry. Some have obtained employment in International firms such as IBM, Telstra, HP, EDS, Cisco, Fujitsu and Westpac Bank. Our goal is to continue to help more and more students find highly paid jobs.

Getting into the IT industry is the challenge we face. Although an IT Degree and Industry Certifications will open doors for you, the key to success is finding the right direction and gaining real hands-on experience. In Australia local work experience is essential and this is particularly true for the IT industry. ITIC will act as your professional career consultant providing you with local work experience, creating job opportunities to reach your IT dream career.

A high-salary IT job is not just something you do for a living, it also allows you utilise your professional skill and to create a solid foundation for future career development even if you decide to go back to your home country. Obtaining a degree is not sufficient to build a fine career either here, or in your home country. Practical work experience in Australia with qualifications will help you build a successful career anywhere in the world.

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Constructing a hotel to last for all four seasons

The new Four Seasons Hotel in Doha’s upmarket West Bay Complex is now set to open during the first quarter of 2005. To get the structures completed on time the contractor had to achieve seven-day floor cycles. Construction Week learns how it was done.

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Constructing a hotel to last for all four seasons|~||~||~|Construction Development Company (CDC), a Qatar-based contractor, achieved seven-day floor cycles with Doka Table forms during the construction of the Four Seasons West Bay complex in Doha. The system helped the contractor on the construction of the major complex, which includes high-rise hotel, office and apartment buildings surrounded by luxury facilities. CDC has used a wide range of Doka equipment to form all of the slabs, beams, columns, shafts and rafts within the towers and associated buildings. The development stands on a 55.4 hectare site in a prime development area of Doha. CDC began its US $137 million contract in July 2001 and work is now nearing completion, providing a dramatic new focus for the West Bay skyline. There are both Islamic and Qatari influences in the design of the complex. The concept is based on the Alhambra, the Moorish palace-citadel in Granada, Spain, which brings together elements of a fortress, residential area and palace into a single complex. Just like the Moorish palace, the Four Seasons West Bay project combines many roles. It includes townhouses, a marina, health club and spa as well as the four focal towers containing the hotel, offices and apartments. CDC has carried out the work in parallel across all sections of the site and Doka equipment has been central to ensuring that the operation has kept to schedule. “From the initial supply negotiations, sealing the order, timely delivery of materials, down to technical assistance and site supervision, Doka has been efficient and solid in their support,” said a spokesperson for the project. The Four Seasons Hotel stands at the centre of the complex, set in landscaped grounds and flanked by a pair of 22-level apartment blocks and the tallest building, the 28-floor office tower. The hotel will have 230 guest rooms as well as suites and other facilities such as restaurants, a tea lounge, cigar bar and lounge, a grand ballroom and meeting rooms. The inclusion of five presidential suites and a Royal suite emphasises the hotel’s prestige as one of the world’s most luxurious places to stay. Completing the development are 20 three-storey townhouses, a hundred-berth marina and the other splendid leisure facilities. The contractor ensured optimum economy by taking advantage of Doka’s flexible arrangements, which enabled it to rent some of the equipment while buying other items. CDC purchased the Doka systems that have been used as formwork for the main bodies of the towers. Rental arrangements were used for the formwork for beams and slabs in the lower and plaza levels within the tower footprints. Rented formwork was also used for many other one-off areas. Each tower had its own sets of Doka formwork, with the exception of that needed for the raft foundations. This was reused in each of the main buildings. The Four Seasons Hotel, the central feature of the complex, has 18 floors, plus lower and plaza levels, giving a gross floor area of 46,340 m2. Doka formwork has been in use throughout the structure, including the Dokaflex Table system, which has made its Qatar debut on the project. Dokaflex is one of Doka’s most important innovations of recent years. It makes for highly efficient forming of floor slabs, because the tables are pre-assembled and can be repositioned very quickly using a shifting trolley. Doka supplied 1568 m2 of the Dokaflex Table formwork plus one set of shifting equipment for the forming of the hotel’s beams and 300 mm-thick slabs. Doka Top 50 Large Area wall formwork has been used for casting the walls and columns. Top 50 is made-to-measure formwork from a modular system, which can cater for a vast range of applications. Shape, size, anchor pattern and sheeting of the panels can be adapted to suit any set of requirements. Column and wall formwork had form heights of 3.4 m and 3 m, to suit the building’s 3.35 m floor-to-floor heights. CDC bought sufficient quantities to form half of a typical floor in the hotel - 14 columns, using 366 m2 of wall formwork. This proved sufficient to meet the seven day floor cycle demanded by the tight schedule. However, CDC bought sufficient beam and slab formwork for the entire floor area of the hotel, as well as enough of the Eco 20 300 floor prop system for re-propping. The hotel’s shafts were formed using Top 50, which was climbed ahead using telescopic shaft beam internally and the 150 F climbing brackets externally. CDC bought a sufficient quantity for one and a half times the two typical floor shafts. Both apartment blocks stand on 22 levels and each has a gross floor area of 19,052 m2. One has been designated primarily for single businessmen and the other for families. The apartments each used the same Doka Table and Top 50 systems as the hotel, and the floor-to-floor heights are the same, 3.5 m. As in the hotel, sufficient column formwork was bought to form 50% of the typical floor, while the other systems were bought in sufficient quantities for an entire level. Beam depths are 700 mm and the slab depths vary between 200 mm and 300 mm. The apartments have needed a greater quantity of shaft formwork than the hotel, though the amount of floor area formwork needed was smaller, at 1024m22 per tower against the hotel’s 1568 m2. Tallest building on the site is the office tower, which has 28 storeys as well as lower and plaza levels. As elsewhere, Doka Top 50 Large Area wall formwork has been used for columns, though in this case CDC bought enough for 100% of the columns in a typical floor, instead of the 50% in the other structures. The shaft construction is much bigger in this building, with 2976 m2 of formwork supplied. This was designed with a form height of 4.6 m, to create the higher floor-to-floor height of 4.25 m needed in an office building. The shaft uses the same Top 50 climbed-ahead Doka system as in the development’s other towers. The office building’s beam and slab formwork was made up of Dokaflex 20 for the internal work and Dokaflex Table for the external drop beams. One set of shifting equipment was supplied. Doka also provided the Eco 20 300 floor prop system for the office building for re-propping. Lower and plaza levels under all four buildings have been cast using Doka d2 tower and timber beam H20 equipment. The proven d2 load-bearing tower combines with all Doka floor-system superstructures. Its characteristics include easy erection and enormous versatility. This equipment was all rented, and between 1024 m2 and 1568 m2 needed for each of the four towers. Slab thicknesses varied. A 300 mm depth was adopted in three of the buildings, while the office block uses depths of between 130 mm and 200 mm. Beam depths are between 500 mm and 1.25 m deep depending on the location, and the floor-to-floor heights range from 5 m in the apartment block lower levels to 9 m in the office tower. The d2 tower system was also used in other areas. It was adopted in combination with Dokaflex 20 for the forming of beams and slabs in the ballroom and many of the recreational areas, as well as for the podiums outside the towers’ footprints. For the towers’ rafts, Doka supplied 1500 m2 of Top 50 large area formwork, which was sufficient to cover half of the hotel’s foundation. This was reused for the other towers, further aiding the efficiency of this massive and successful formwork operation.||**||

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Scurvy Jane decided that she was going to decide to do it. She had thought about applying for the position for one week and three weeks and 2 days. It was a management position that included vacation, uniforms and meals. The only thing she was hesitant about was the salary:

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Designed to integrate non-technical writers into the documentation process, IXIASOFT’s new web platform fully taps into an organization’s collective knowledge and know-how.

Montreal, Canada IXIASOFT, a global leader in the Component Content Management Systems (CCMS) marketplace, announced today the availability of a new, intuitive web platform which extends the reach of DITA CMS to non-technical writers. Integrating these users into the documentation process and fully leveraging their knowledge will result in increased content accuracy and overall team productivity.

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Optimizing user experience was a key driver when designing the new IXIASOFT DITA CMS web platform. It truly connects employees together and enables them to easily engage in the documentation process.

“Gaz Métro has many contributors that need to be included in the documentation process. These people fall into a number of categories including trainers, managers, engineers and consultants. One thing they all have in common: they don’t know DITA and never will! They really need a tool that is easy to use and intuitive” said Raymond Bissonnette, Senior Advisor, Learning & Training.  “We are currently testing IXIASOFT’s new web platform which we believe fits the bill! From what we’ve seen so far: it’s a slick product and will be a valuable addition to our toolchain.”

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