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Beyond petroleum
Authors: Vera Häggblom, Ama Lorenz, Itai Lahat, FairPlanet Editorial Team, Vanessa Ellingham, Jan van de Nes
Editors: Vanessa Ellingham, Ama Lorenz
In 2000, the oil giant BP rebranded itself, claiming its two letters now stood for "Beyond Petroleum". It was a nod to the renewable energy sources of the future, but one that backfired spectacularly when the company continued to be responsible for oil spill disasters.
In this fairplanet dossier we explore the fossil fuel industry and ask what we need to do to move beyond the use of oil, gas and coal in order to halt climate change before it's too late.
The Peak Oil Preacher
by Vera Häggblom
With an oil price that stands at about USD 50 per barrel, it may be easy to dismiss Peak Oil as a myth. But author and Peak Oil expert Johan Landgren argues that we have to prepare now for an era in which cheap oil will be a part of [...]
The Shell-Nigeria verdict
by Ama Lorenz
"So just try to put yourself into somebody else's gills/ You're killing my ecosystem with fishing and oil spills/ Thank you BP/ Thank you BP/ The [...]
The Change is Economic, Not Ideological
by Itai Lahat
The fossil fuel industry released some well-timed attacks on the divestment movement.
Keep it in the ground!
by FairPlanet Editorial Team
As the Paris COP 21 UN climate change conference approaches, Keep it in the ground, the Guardian's climate campaign that launched in March, is making a [...]
The People Who Already Live at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels
by Vanessa Ellingham
We might look towards a low-carbon future, but in the meantime, indigenous peoples continue to suffer some of the highest costs of the industries driving climate change.
Holland's Energy Future Looks Set To Be A Huge Struggle
by Jan van de Nes
In the North Sea, more gas is available but new fields are small and production will cost more than is now called 'responsible'. This is because oil [...]
Divestment Campaign Leading the Way Forward
Since 2012 the campaign for divestment from fossil fuels has gained traction: we track its continual rise.
With an oil price that stands at about USD 50 per barrel, it may be easy to dismiss Peak Oil as a myth. But author and Peak Oil expert Johan Landgren argues that we have to prepare now for an era in which cheap oil will be a part of history. If not, the transition will be harsh.
"This has nothing to do with apocalyptic thoughts. These are just facts that we have to relate to," Johan Landgren says.
According to the Oxford Dictionary, Peak Oil is The hypothetical point in time when the global production of oil reaches its maximum rate, after which production will gradually decline.
"It is important to stress that we will not suddenly run out of oil, which is a common misconception. That will actually never happen, because it will take more energy to extract the oil than the energy the oil will give back long before that scenario becomes a reality," Mr. Landgren says.
Johan Landgren's interest in the Peak Oil debate started off in 2010 when he visited a conference in Washington DC. Since then he has written the book Olja för Blåbär (Oil for Blueberries) on the topic, authored several articles and runs an active blog on the subject (www.peak-oil.se).
Johan Landgren
One can tell he is passionate about Peak Oil, and Mr. Landgren has chosen a lifestyle in which he lives what he preaches, trying to minimize his own dependence on fossil fuels. He is one of the first owners of the electric car Tesla Model S in Sweden, he has left the university town of Uppsala for a rural part of the country, and he is a beekeeper since a few years back.
"No one would be happier than me if the Peak Oil happens in 15 years instead of 5, because that would give us more time for the transition. But it is better to use the time that we have now to adapt our lifestyles, instead of sitting back and wait for technological solutions that will provide cheap energy - because that will not happen", he says.
Conventional vs. unconventional oil
Critics of the Peak Oil phenomenon argue that new techniques, such as the extraction of shale oil - which has increased the oil production dramatically in the United States during the last years - if needed could be exported to the rest of the world. But Johan Landgren argues that it is crucial to make a distinction between conventional oil – that is petroleum extracted through traditional oil well methods - and unconventional oil, such as shale oil and oil sand: "Any geologist in the world knows that the unconventional oil is a completely different thing. It costs much more in terms of both energy and investments to extract. In order to replace the conventional oil with the unconventional oil, we need a brand new kind of economy which is not fueled by cheap energy, but on expensive energy."
Mr. Landgren believes that the shale oil findings have bought the US some time, but that the conventional oil production – which according to him constitutes 85 percent of the total crude oil production in the world – is likely to peak within the next few years, and thereafter decrease by approximately 6 percent each year.
But if fossil fuels are not a sustainable option for keeping the wheels of our cars, economies and lifestyles spinning, what about alternative energy sources such as wind power and solar energy?
Johan Landgren argues that the oil is harder to substitute than some may think, due to its unique qualities, such as the incredible energy content and the fact that oil is liquid and therefore suitable for the production of plastics, medicines and so on.
"People tend to forget this when they talk about renewable energy. Sure, we should invest a lot in renewable energy sources, but it is not equivalent to liquid fuel. Renewable energy sources lack some important qualities of the oil, which are qualities that we have built our economy upon."
He continues: "We can't become naïve and believe that if we just set up a large amount of wind turbines and solar cells the issue of peak oil will be solved. I sometimes think that people have become so used to advanced technology that they forget that the prerequisite of the fast technological development has been the availability of cheap energy."
Instead, in order to cope with a decreased access to cheap, fossil fuels, Johan Landgren puts his hopes to a system which is less dependent on transportations by being more locally based and where more people are involved in the food production.
Oil Dependence around the World
While the industrial countries have reaped the benefits of the fossil fuels during the last couple of centuries, there is a different story in other parts of the world.
Is it fair to say that some countries won't be able to experience the same development as the West since the resources are limited?
"That is a really difficult question. Countries like China or Nigeria won't buy the argument that they shouldn't consume a lot of oil now, because it may lead to a bad scenario in the future. But China has actually already prepared their infrastructure for a future in which the access to oil is more restricted, so they will probably cope with the situation better than many other countries, so Landgren.
He also believes that so called developing countries in Africa and Asia have the advantage of being less dependent on food import than the West, which will make their transition easier.
"The western countries have a lot to learn from other countries in the future. Just because we have been able to make our economies grow due to the access to cheap energy for the last 200 years, our system may not necessarily be the way forward."
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"So just try to put yourself into somebody else's gills/ You're killing my ecosystem with fishing and oil spills/ Thank you BP/ Thank you BP/ The British are spilling, oil is killing/ Now I can't see [...] Oceans are browning/ I think I'm drowning/ Thanks to BP"
Whether you have children, or know the Disney classic "The Little Mermaid" from your own childhood, you will most certainly remember the film's feature song "Under the Sea", sung by Sebastian the Jamaican crab. A couple of weeks ago, a talented young film student from the U.S. called Jon Cozart, aka Paint, uploaded his - let's call it a more realistic 21st century-take of the iconic song on YouTube (see lyrics above). The painstakingly planned and edited video "After Ever After" instantly went viral, counting more than 52 million views to date.
More importantly, the Youtube-hit managed to highlight some of today's most pressing issues, among them that of environmental protection. In particular, oil spills and the lack of responsibility displayed by international behemoths such as BP or Shell in recent years.
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH: CLEAN UP YOUR MESS, SHELL! The fairplanet petition
As fairplanet reported previously, Shell made headlines in early 2013 when several Nigerian farmers took the multinational to court in what was an unprecedented lawsuit. Four farmers from the Niger Delta accused the oil giant of poisoning fish ponds and farmlands in three different cities after an oil spill from one of Shell's pipelines. The destruction of the main source of income for the farmers and fishermen of Goi, Oruma and Ikot Ada Udo in Nigeria's Niger Delta region threatened their livelihoods and future. Many people moved away, since there were no fish left to be caught and no fertile soil left to farm.
Read on fairplanet: NIGERIAN FARMERS BRINGING SHELL TO JUSTICE
The verdict was delivered in a Dutch court on 30th January 2013, with the court rejecting four out of five allegations against Shell over oil pollution. However, still finding the subsidiary firm Shell Nigeria partly responsible for pollution in one case, and ordering it to pay compensation because it failed in its "duty of care" Even though the environmental organisation Friends of the Earth, who helped to bring forward the case, said they were disappointed and intended to appeal, the simple fact that the lawsuit did proceed - after Shell's continued effort to block it for years - is a triumph in itself, as Spiegel Online noted just days before the verdict:
"No matter how the case turns out, the fact that a major corporation is being sued for the first time in a European court for environmental damage in a developing country will have consequences." (Spiegel Online, 01/29/2013)
Shell's defense was based mostly on the claim that sabotage was the root cause for the pollution of the ponds and farmland. The tapping of oil pipelines and misappropriation of the valuable natural resource remains a problem in Nigeria and other parts of the world for that matter. Devastating oil spills can be one consequence of this. The problem is, however, that Shell itself is investigating these incidents, which creates an undeniable conflict of interest. Research by Amnesty International revealed major flaws in these oil spill investigations in Nigeria.
Needless to say, there is a lot to be done. The problem is that some changes may come too late for some of Nigeria's farmers, fishers and residents.
Finally, 2014 in one of the five cases, Shell's Nigerian subsidiary company has been found guilty for failing to live up to its "duty of care", which requires the company to protect the land and its people from the damage caused by sabotage. The court ruled that this was not the case in the village of Ikot Ada Udo. In the broadest sense, the "duty of care" statue stands for the legal obligation of a person or an organisation to avoid acts or omissions, which may be harmful to others. In environmental law, this extends to the handling of waste in particular. Anyone who produces, imports, keeps, stores, transports, treats or disposes of waste must ensure that it is managed properly.
The court case serves as a warning for other international oil companies, seeing that it is now possible to hold them accountable for their actions overseas. For Nigerians, many of which lack faith in their country's justice system, this landmark court case signifies a beacon of hope. They now know that a court case against a major multinational in a European court is a very real possibility.
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Paul Klein, founder and president, Impakt, published an article in Forbes magazine. In that article, Klein, a crusader helping organizations solve social problems by improving the value of investments in social change, painted a fictional rosy scenario:
January 1, 2025, Irving, Texas: Exxon Mobil is proud to announce that its exit from the extraction and production of nonrenewable resources is now complete. Back in 2015 the company began its 10-year journey out of fossil fuels by committing itself to a bold set of changes that have transformed the company and indeed the world.
Klein writes that while this scenario sounds far-fetched, new research he and his organization conducted with Microsoft, Nestlé, Pfizer and Telus International revealed that announcements like this one may not be that unusual in 2025.
To this Klein added a quote from one of his business partners, Jeffrey Puritt, president of TELUS International, a giant of business process outsourcing. "An intersection is coming where society will expect corporations to fill the void in the face of government cuts, and, likewise, corporations will expect their societal influence to increase as their social capital becomes the force of change in communities, countries and even entire global industries," said Purrit.
I hate being the cynic critic here, but both the rosy fiction of Klein and the frightening prediction of Purrit are absurd. The scenario in which society will expect corporations to fill the void of government, is scary, to say the least. And sadly Exxon Mobil has actually backed away in the last year from its promises for a greener energy production. No, I'm sorry; corporations should not wear the shoes of public. If there is one thing we learned from two centuries of capitalism is that corporations move in one direction – maximizing profits for their shareholders, not for society.
Exxon Mobil has actually backed away in the last year from its promises for a greener energy production.
But that doesn't mean that these scenarios cannot happen.
The simple thing is that the driving force behind the change will come purely from economic reasons. And Exxon Mobil and it's sector is a good example to demonstrate it.
The fossil fuel industry released some well-timed attacks on the divestment movement. Coinciding with Global Divestment Day, a series of videos and reports made the case that divestment is nothing less than turning our backs on progress. What this industry is just starting to internalize is that the growing pressure to rethink our energy habits is not about going back. It is the result of a huge, world-altering shift in how we generate, use and conserve energy. A transition that is already underway. Here are just a few stories that demonstrate this shift:
2014 closed with some good news: Some economies are seeing a beautiful drop in their energy consumption and as a result their emissions drop too! If this trend continues, fossil fuel companies will find it harder and harder to make a profit. One of the many reasons this is happening is the sharp growth of renewable energy and it's dropping price.
In Latin American solar grew 370% last year, and is expected to triple in 2015. At the same time, solar prices have plummeted, and are expected to fall 40% more in the next two years. Chinese coal production is falling, and Wind and solar are now the cheapest option for China's energy growth. China's neighbor, India, is investing huge amounts in solar power and Norway just abandoned many of its coal and tar-sands investments.
I can go on and on but you get the idea – we are witnessing demand destruction in the fossil fuel industry. Demand destruction occurs when you eliminate or substantially reduce the need for the resource on a near-permanent basis. Somebody trading in a Chevrolet Malibu for a Nissan Leaf won't be buying any gasoline for the next 10 years. Electric car sales are growing dramatically in many markets (comparing January 2014 with January 2015, plug-in hybrid sales jumped 1000% in the UK). And when you put the whole puzzle together, the future is clear and cleaner.
But companies like Exxon or Shell will not go down without a fight. Get ready to watch them lose.
Since its launch more than 140,000 of you have signed the Guardian's petition calling on the Wellcome Trust and the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation to divest from fossil fuels. Photograph: The Guardian
As the Paris COP 21 UN climate change conference approaches, Keep it in the ground, the Guardian's climate campaign that launched in March, is making a shift in direction to tap into a rare commodity in the climate debate - hope.
Everything you need to know about the Paris climate summit and UN talks (Guardian)
In particular, they are aiming to give a fresh focus on the solar revolution already underway and transforming the global energy system. The campaign wants to show that the transition to a world run on clean energy is possible and indeed already happening outside the doors of the UN. Keep it in the ground is also a platform to the people impacted by the decisions being made in Paris and to showcase the energy and creative actions that our readers can get involved in. So far The Keep it in the ground campaign has surpassed 210,000 supporters from more than 170 countries.
Read more about Keep it in the ground!
For indigenous peoples, climate change is not only a matter of environmental challenges, but also threatens their human rights and cultural survival
These peoples bear the brunt of climate change for two reasons: they depend on natural resources for their livelihoods and, at the same time, they are among the world's most marginalised, impoverished peoples.
When it comes to making decisions about the use of land, indigenous peoples sovereignty over their ancestral lands can often be ignored in favour of big business or governmental greed. From the Arctic to the Pacific, indigenous peoples are suffering the health effects of environmental contamination, and a lack of representation on the global level. With thousands of years of precise ecosystem knowledge, they have plenty to offer the climate change discourse, but tend to go unheard.
As the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development at the end of September, indigenous leaders called for world leaders to ensure their peoples won't be left behind.
The 2030 goals, which build on the Millennium Development Goals set in 2000 as a 15-year agenda to tackle inequality, poverty and climate change, carry very few direct references to indigenous peoples. And yet the framework will determine the course of indigenous peoples' living conditions over the next 15 years and beyond.
The impact of climate change, as well as the effect of extractive industries, poses a direct threat to indigenous peoples all over the world, from the Arctic Circle to the Pacific Ocean. They are some of the most vulnerable to the effects of both these forces, and yet they lack the political power to overcome it without significant support.
Indigenous representative Joan Carling, who addressed the UN the same weekend the new agenda was adopted, explicitly stated: "The Millennium Development Goals [from 2000] did not overcome the discrimination of indigenous peoples. If we should not again be left behind, we need concrete actions."
Carling asked that the new goals respect indigenous peoples self-governing institutions, sustainable resource management systems and their right to free, prior and informed consent.
"We nourish the forests, deserts, rivers and fields that form part of our culture," she said. "Our traditional knowledge is built through centuries of symbiotic interaction and co-dependence with our natural environment. We are governed by our customary institutions that provide for social cohesion, cooperation and collective resilience; access to justice; sustainable resource management systems for the common good, and; solidarity relations with other peoples. We are self-governing peoples and rights holders, and our institutions uphold sustainable development as part of our wellbeing."
"Why then are we being evicted to give way to hydro‐power dams, to mono-plantations and extractive industries? These destroy our lands, villages, livelihoods, sacred sites and our customary institutions and our wellbeing. This is the question of thousands of indigenous peoples who continue to be discriminated and marginalized as an effect of the economic growth in many states."
Carling said that, in order for the new development goals to adequately care for the rights and interests of indigenous peoples, they would need to recognise and respect their customary institutions and already established sustainable resource management systems.
The goals would need to ensure that effected indigenous peoples could give their free prior and informed consent to development projects and programmes before they go ahead, instead of leaving them as an afterthought.
Further, she argued, "universal access to justice means ensuring the effective protection of our collective rights against land grabbing, displacements and destruction of our cultural heritage by states, corporations, investors and business enterprises. It means going beyond social or environmental safeguards to fully ensure respect for human rights, equitable benefit sharing and accountability."
So how well are governments doing at ensuring these rights are upheld? So far, not so good.
Just how difficult it is to hold extractive industries accountable for their impact on indigenous peoples has become evident in Peru.
Indigenous communities in Loreto, an Amazon region, have had their land heavily contaminated by the oil industry for the last 40 years. When James Anaya, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Indigenous Rights, visited the site in 2013, he reported that the communities had suffered "devastating consequences" at the hands of the industry.
"I have been able to personally confirm the serious environmental problems that exist in this zone due to the oil industry," Anaya said. "This includes the contamination of the body of waters and the soil used by the indigenous people in this region, which has affected their food sources and their health."
Anaya's job is to report back to the UN on issues affecting indigenous peoples. Just before Anaya's visit to Peru, the Peruvian environmental regulator OEFA fined oil and gas company Pluspetrol $7.2 million for contaminating a lake to the extent that it effectively disappeared.
The company tried to blame the previous operators, Occidental Petroleum, for causing the contamination. But they already owed millions of dollars in unpaid fines for similar incidents, and even caused an environmental emergency further up the Amazon, polluting the area where Achuar and Kichwa indigenous people live.
"The indigenous leaders repeatedly made clear to me that they do not oppose development, but that the development must be in keeping with their rights, including their rights over their lands, natural resources and their own aspirations and priorities for development," said Anaya at the time.
Although the Peruvian government approved a law enshrining the prior consultation of indigenous peoples on development projects in 2011, implementation remains slow and uncertain. For example, the proposed extension of part of the Camisea gas fields, which the UN has asked to be "immediately suspended", is going ahead, despite its intention to further intrude on the Nahua-Nanti Reserve. These indigenous peoples comprise several uncontacted groups who would be put at serious risk of disease or death if not approached safely – they do not have any resistance to diseases tolerated in modern society.
Read more: Peru approves gas project, spells disaster for uncontacted tribes
"The challenge now," says Anaya, "is to ensure that prior consultation is implemented according to the relevant international standards."
Organisations like First Peoples Worldwide conduct research in an attempt to hold companies to account. Their Indigenous Rights Risk Report analyses 370 US-based oil, gas and mining sites operating on or near indigenous land. The results show 92 percent of these sites posing a medium to high risk to stakeholders (including indigenous peoples). "Yet only five of the companies have indigenous peoples policies to guide the company for how to positively engage and work with indigenous peoples," according to the report.
While initiatives like this help spread the word about the impact of extractive industries on indigenous peoples, it is international policy enshrining the rights of indigenous peoples in law, and actions to ensure these laws are abided by, that will make all the difference.
A long time ago Holland's inhabitants heated their houses with wood and peat. Then, in the late 19th century, coal came up as a heating source. The mines in the province of Limburg (part of the Ardennes region) delivered enough coal for the large cities and for the new steel industries that were constructed in the small town of Ijmuiden (near the North Sea, nowadays Tata Steel). If there was a shortage of coal, mines in Germany (Ruhr Gebiet) and Belgium (Ardennes) were close by. Trains brought the coal to cities like Amsterdam, Utrecht, Rotterdam, The Hague and to harbours like Den Helder (Navy harbor) and Flushing.
Coal remained the top fuel source for ships until the 1950s, then Diesel took over. For houses and industrial buildings in The Netherlands coal remained important until the 60's when natural gas was found in the Dutch province of Groningen. This huge gas field is the main heating and cooking source upon today. For the heavy industries (steel and electric power) coal is still the number one fuel. But there is a change coming up.
Since some 30 years gas (and some oil) has been found in the Dutch part of the North Sea. About 140 platforms are producing natural gas which is transported by pipe lines to the shore nearby the city of Den Helder. There the North Sea gas is mixed with the Groningen gas and transported to the distribution centres all over the country as well to pipe lines towards Germany, Belgium, France and even Italy. Nowadays, extra gas is imported from Russia (transported through Ukraine) and also mixed with the Groningen and North Sea gas to get the preferred quality.
But importing gas has a political problem because the relationship with either Russia as Ukraine is not stable. And pumping away from the gas stock in the Groningen field brings more and more tiny earthquakes, which lead to damage to the houses and other buildings around. Therefore and because of the need to downsize the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, Holland is forced to change its energy policy.
There still is enough gas for a period of 25 years in both the Groningen field as the North Sea.
There still is enough gas for a period of 25 years in both the Groningen field as the North Sea. In the North Sea is more gas available but new fields are small and production will cost more than now is called 'responsible'. Because oil prices (gas prices are coupled) are too low to invest in new gas fields.
That's the reason the minister of Energy – Mr. Kamp – suggested earlier this year to support oil companies to start drilling in those minor fields, so being able to stop using Groningen gas (which would stop the earthquakes) and being less dependent from Russian gas. But the oil companies are not much willing to open up new gas fields in the North Sea.
An alternative is more wind force as power supply. Already three large windmill farms have been positioned in the Dutch part of the North Sea but it's not enough to shut down all seven coal using power plants. And – switching to electricity as the main source of heating and cooking apart from lighting – the production of electricity should be expanded. But wind farms are not the most reliable systems. Wind is not always available and the generators in the mills produce small amounts of power. This power has to be transported to the shore (or, with wind farms on land to the distribution centres) and this transportation mean loss of power in the channel. Therefore another idea is the use of solar panels.
The Dutch government likes to support citizens to buy solar panels to produce their own electricity but there is not enough money available for subsidizing. Now owners of large groups of rental houses are subsidizing their tenants to provide these houses with solar panels. But not because of a changed government-policy... It's more because of a win-win situation between renters and tenants. Another alternative is tidal energy. Already three experimental sites are supplied with this kind of energy production. The generators in the seawaters are working because of the streaming of the tide. They might be able to supply the nation with possibly 50 percent of its power needs in the years ahead. The forecasts are promising.
Coal will not be forbidden in The Netherlands. It will remain in use for the steel industry and the power plants as long as alternative kinds of energy are not strong enough to provide all buildings in the country with power (and heat). And blacksmiths will use coal. But not in open fire places in houses or on barbeques.
Divestment means getting rid of investments, in this case unethical ones.
The fossil fuel divestment movement has gained traction over the last five years thanks to a strong campaign by activist group 350.org that asks investors to commit to selling off coal, oil and gas investments over a period of five years.
The idea is to reverse the current trend of increasing carbon emissions. Fossil fuel companies have already found more than three times the quantity of fossil fuels that governments know can be safely burned without causing permanent, damaging climate change. And yet they continue to invest vast sums hunting for more to burn.
The aim of divestment is not to bankrupt fossil fuel companies financially but morally.
The aim of divestment is not to bankrupt fossil fuel companies financially but morally. By undermining the influence of these companies, smaller investors pave the way for politicians to create stronger carbon-cutting policies. If there are to be financial consequences, it will most likely be from these policies, rather than the original divestment.
Historically successful divestment campaigns have targeted apartheid in South Africa, the tobacco industry and Darfur: in all cases public pressure for divestment led governing bodies to write stronger policies against immoral practices.
If investors are able to move their investments to the clean energy sector, even better. These are the firms that will help drive our transition to a new, low-carbon world.
Who's done it?
In March Oslo became the first capital city to commit to selling off its investments in fossil fuel companies, following 40 other (non-capital) cities who had led the way, including Oxford and San Francisco.
And in May Syracuse University committed to divest the largest sum so far: its $1.18bn endowment would be reinvested in clean energy technologies. A year earlier, Stanford agreed to move its investments out of the coal industry.
Already in 2013, research from Oxford University showed that the fossil fuel divestment campaign had become the fastest-growing in history.
September 2014 saw a significant boon for the movement, when the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, named after John D Rockefeller who made his fortune in the oil industry, withdrew all fossil fuel investments from their $860 million fund.
"We are quite convinced that if he were alive today, as an astute businessman looking out to the future, he would be moving out of fossil fuels and investing in clean, renewable energy," said president Stephen Heintz as the fund joined with 800 global investors pledging to divest from fossil fuels ahead of a UN summit on climate change.
The fund's Chair, Valerie Rockefeller Wayne, said at the time that it just seemed wrong to be funding projects fighting climate change while continuing to invest in the companies who caused it. "We had investments that were undermining our grants."
It is definitely organisations less interested in profits that are leading the divestment charge. But they also tend to be places where the public seek moral direction: universities, philanthropic organisations and faith groups. The World Council of Churches, representing half a billion Christians, ruled out all fossil fuel investments last year, and was followed by the Church of England this April when it moved its 9 billion GBP fund out of thermal coal and tar sands. Yes, churches need to make money, too. But it seems they are keen to be among the first to push for investments that are morally stable.
"The church has a moral responsibility to speak and act on both environmental stewardship and justice for the world's poor," said Rev Canon Prof Richard Burridge, deputy chair of the Church of England's ethical investment advisory group.
The Guardian's 'Keep it in the Ground' campaign is lobbying the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust, the world's largest charitable foundations and funders of medical research, to join the cause and divest.
Update June 2016: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation sold its holding in BP, after huge encouragement from 350.org campaigners. A no-brainer for the foundation which has spent billions of dollars improving global health, it sold its $187m stake in BP between September and December 2015. It had previously dumped its entire $824m holding in ExxonMobil.
Even before the foundation's divestment was revealed, it was determined in September 2015 that the divestment campaign now represents $2.6 trillion in investments moved away from fossil fuel industry.
What about my money?
One major argument for fossil fuel divestment is that it's just good business. Of course, if climate change is countered and we create a low-carbon society, investments in fossil fuels will be virtually worthless.
But divestment in the meantime still makes sound financial sense. Those who have divested from coal in recent years have already avoided losses, as coal stocks have continued to plummet in value. And major financial institutions including HSBC, Goldman Sachs, Standard and Poor's and Citi have all warned of the volatility of fossil fuel investments and the risks they involve.
At the same time, if divestment does not happen gradually, investors stand to lose trillions if the carbon bubble bursts.
What about the developing world?
Fossil fuel supporters often argue that coal, oil and gas are necessary for improving the lives of the world's poorest people, by developing their nations and industries to pull them out of poverty and reach the same standards as the developed world.
But won't climate change extend the reach of poverty?
Exactly, says the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. In its most recent report, approved by 195 countries after being written and reviewed by thousands of top climate experts, the IPCC concluded that climate change "is a threat to sustainable development", and this is driven by the burning of fossil fuels.
Global warming, the report said, will be damaging to humans and "limiting its effects is necessary to achieve sustainable development and equity, including poverty eradication".
Just to make it clear: the impacts of climate change are set to "prolong existing and create new poverty traps".
So there goes that theory.
Divestment is the most sure-footed first step to creating the conditions for reducing climate change and the irreversible, damaging impact it will have on human beings.
How we can channel clean energy to developing countries remains to be seen, but arguing that fossil fuels are necessary for development is pointless: any development achieved in poorer countries will be diminished if people continue to be subjected to the effects of climate change.
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Health Benefits of White fringetree
White fringetree Quick Facts
Name: White fringetree
Scientific Name: Chionanthus virginicus
Origin Eastern United States and ranges from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana, eastward to Florida and northward to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Colors Ovoid dark blue to purple drupe
Shapes Egg-shaped, 1.5 to 2 centimetres (0.59 to 0.79 in) long
The species is native in the eastern United States, from Pennsylvania to the Gulf of Mexico. A shrub or small tree of the Oleaceae, or olive, family. The plants are 10–30 ft. high, possess oval, smooth, entire leaves, and bear snow-white flowers which hang down like a fringe, hence the common name and synonyms. Fruit fleshy, purple, ovoid drupe. They form an attractive feature in garden shrubbery, growing well on river banks and on elevated places, presenting clusters of snow-white flowers in May and June. Root about ⅛ in. thick, dull brown with irregular concave scales on outer surface, inside smooth, yellowish brown. The inner layer shows projecting bundles of stone cells. Very bitter taste.
White fringetree is a deciduous shrub or small tree which grows 10-20 feet tall x 10-20 feet wide. Bark is scaly and brown tinged with red. Shoots are light green and downy at first turning to light brown or orange. Buds are acute, ovate, light brown and 3 millimeters long. Leaves are simple, opposite, ovate or oblong, 7.5 to 20 centimetres (3.0 to 7.9 in) long and 2.5 to 10 centimetres (0.98 to 3.94 in) broad. Flowers are richly scented, pure white and deeply four lobed corolla, 1.5 to 2.5 centimeters long and 3 millimeters broad. It is produced in drooping axillary panicles 10 to 25 centimetres (3.9 to 9.8 in) long which contains single seed. Usually it is dioecious though occasional plants bear flowers of both sexes. Fruits are ovoid dark blue to purple drupe and about 1.5 to 2 centimeters long that contains a single seed that matures in late summer to mid fall.
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Facts About White fringetree
White fringetree
Scientific Name Chionanthus virginicus
Native Eastern United States and ranges from Oklahoma, Arkansas, Texas and Louisiana, eastward to Florida and northward to Pennsylvania and New Jersey
Common/English Name Old Man's Beard, White Fringe, Snowdrop Tree, Poison Ash, Fringe Tree, Old Man's Beard, White fringetree, Fringe Tree, Flowering ash, Snowflower-tree, Graybeard-tree, Sunflower-tree
Plant Growth Habit Large shrub or slender tree
Plant Size 10-20 feet tall x 10-20 feet wide
Bark Thin, scaly, brown tinged
Leaf Ovate or oblong, 7.5 to 20 centimetres (3.0 to 7.9 in) long and 2.5 to 10 centimetres (0.98 to 3.94 in) broad
Medicinal part Root bark
Flowering Season Spring
Buds Light brown, ovate, acute, 3 millimetres (0.12 in) long
Flower White, 6 to 8 inches long
Fruit shape & size Egg-shaped, 1.5 to 2 centimetres (0.59 to 0.79 in) long
Fruit color Ovoid dark blue to purple drupe
Fruit Season Late summer
Leaves are simple, thick, opposite which grows 3 to 8 inches long and half as wide. They are narrow-elliptic to oblong or obovate-oblong having medium to dark green and waxy appearance. Leaves form very late in spring and turn dull yellow in fall before dropping.
Blossoms are fragrant which blooms late spring. They form in drooping clusters at the ends of branches in May to June. Flower has four long and narrow petals. Flowers are wispy, pure white and cloudlike. Flowers are pollinated by insects. Trees are dioecious with male and female flowers on separate plants. Male plants are impressive in bloom due to longer petals but female plants bear blue and plum like fruits which attracts wildlife.
Female plants forms a cluster of ½ to 2/3 inch long, fleshy, dark blue and plum like drupes in August to September. The fleshy drupe contains a single large seed.
Bark is pale gray or brown and smooth on young branches. Mature trunks and branches are furrowed, ridged and develops an attractive craggy like with age.
Generally useful in stomach and liver disorders and in poor digestive functions, by slightly influencing all the organs engaged in digestion and blood making. A specific in spleen malfunction, and for congestion of the liver when failure to excrete the residue from food, thus resulting in constipation (one of the reasons for gall-stone, jaundice and stomach inefficiency). In some, the involuntary muscles of the heart will also be impaired by the inactivity of the above mentioned.
In pregnancy, when indications of yellow skin, the white of the eyes are of a yellow colour, bilious colic, heartburn, etc., 5–10 drops in water before meals is indicated. Useful in malignant tumours of the stomach or bowels, and in uterine tumours, also in most chronic conditions of the liver and spleen.
Combine:
Tincture of Golden seal (Hydrastis canadensis), 7–10 drops.
Tincture of Fringe tree (Chionanthus virginica), 3–7 drops.
10–20 drops in water before meals and at bedtime has proven effective.
In bilious colic it is best to first evacuate the stomach by giving an emetic dose of Lobelia and then to administer the above. The powdered root bark is used professionally; however, the cut root bark can be infused in hot water for ½ hr. and taken in small amounts throughout the day. Pulsatilla (Anemone) is also used in conjunction with Fringe tree.
The skin will respond to the application of an infusion of 1 oz. to 1 pint of water, when other attempts have failed. Also as an injection.
Homoeopathic Clinical
Tincture of the bark (which is the part employed and which contains saponin)—Constipation, Debility, Emaciation with liver disorder, Gall-stone colic, Headache, Jaundice, Liver (disease of, hypertrophy of), Malaria, Neurasthenia, Nursing women (complaints of).
Native Americans use the bark and dried roots for treating skin inflammations.
Use the crushed bark for treating sores and wounds.
Consume bark tea for reducing fever, relieve dyspepsia, fever, gallstones, jaundice, stimulate vomiting, treat colic, hepatitis, migraines, headache and malaria.
Native Americans use the bark poultice for cleaning wounds, sores and skin irritations.
Use the tincture made from bark and grain alcohol for jaundice.
Apply the tea made from boiled bark topically for cuts, skin irritations and infections.
Use the poultice made from bark for cuts, bruises and ulcers.
It is used for treating oral ulcers and spongy gums and eye inflammations.
Use tea as a herbal wash for bed sores, inflammation and various infections.
It is used to stimulate appetite, digestion and chronic illness.
Overdose causes frontal headaches, vomiting and slow pulse rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chionanthus_virginicus
https://plants.usda.gov/core/profile?symbol=CHVI3
https://medicinalgarden.trekbirmingham.com/chionanthus-virginicus/
https://bernheim.org/learn/trees-plants/bernheim-select-urban-trees/fringe-tree/
http://www.naturalmedicinalherbs.net/herbs/c/chionanthus-virginicus=fringe-tree.php
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White fringetree Scientific Classification
Order Lamiales
Family Oleaceae (Olives)
Genus Chionanthus L. (Fringetree)
Species Chionanthus virginicus L. (Fringetree, white fringetree)
Chionanthus angustifolius Raf.
Chionanthus cotinifolius Willd.
Chionanthus fragrans Edwards
Chionanthus fragrans Edwards ex Steud.
Chionanthus heterophyla Raf.
Chionanthus latifolius Aiton
Chionanthus latifolius Aiton ex Steud.
Chionanthus longifolius Raf.
Chionanthus luteus Lavallée
Chionanthus maritimus (Pursh) Sweet
Chionanthus montanus (Pursh) Raf.
Chionanthus obovatus Raf.
Chionanthus roseus Barton
Chionanthus trifidus Moench
Chionanthus triflorus Stokes
Chionanthus vernalis Salisb.
Chionanthus vernus Baill.
Chionanthus virginicus subsp. maritimus (Pursh) A.E.Murray
Chionanthus virginicus var. angustifolius Aiton
Chionanthus virginicus var. latifolius Aiton
Chionanthus virginicus var. maritimus Pursh
Chionanthus virginicus var. montanus Pursh
Chionanthus virginicus var. virginicus L.
Chionanthus zeylanicus Lam.
Ligustrum cotinifolium (Willd.) Jacques
Linociera cotinifolia (Willd.) Vahl
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Q: How to make only the .text of a div clickable to trigger an event? I have some DIVs with an eventListener for clicks. For design reasons, these DIVs have margins assigned with CSS and some have line breaks. However, somehow the area around the words is also clickable and triggers the event (of the nearest word) -- what I don't want. So how can I prevent anything but the shown text of the DIV itself to be clickable, e.g. "trends"?

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  var wb = document.querySelectorAll("#wordbox > div");
  Array.from(wb).forEach(function(element, index) {
      element.addEventListener("click", function() {
        alert(element.id);
      });
  });

#ai{
    margin-left: 2.5%;
    margin-right: 1.0%;
}

A: You are adding the click event to div which takes its own space so if you want to add click event to the inside text element then you should use element.children[0] like,
  element.children[0].addEventListener("click", function() {
    alert(element.id);
  });

And snippet as follows,

var wb = document.querySelectorAll("#wordbox > div");
  Array.from(wb).forEach(function(element, index) {
      element.children[0].addEventListener("click", function() {
        alert(element.id);
      });
  });
#ai{
    margin-left: 2.5%;
    margin-right: 1.0%;
}

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A: Same idea, but changing the css a little bit

var wb = document.querySelectorAll("#wordbox > div");
Array.from(wb).forEach(function (element, index) {
  element.children[0].addEventListener("click", function () {
  alert(element.id);
 });
});
#ai{
    margin-left: 2.5%;
    margin-right: 1.0%;
}

/* Make the texts not occupying the whole width */
#wordbox h2,
#wordbox h3,
#wordbox h4 {
  display: inline-block;
  cursor: pointer;
}

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A: I'd first replace the divs with spans. A div will always take the width of the container element. Without arbitrarily shrinking the div, using spans is much more succinct. Then slightly modify you event listener function and it should work fine.

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var wb = document.querySelectorAll("span");
wb.forEach(function(element) {
    element.addEventListener("click", function() {
      alert("clicked!!!");
    });
});

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"I've been rearing myself on the street for a very long time. I've had a very hard life. It hasn't been easy at all. But I got through it".
Paula comes from a town in Co. Kerry. She tells the story of her pathway to the Cork Simon Community and how she became homeless.
"I left home when I was 16. I've a beautiful mother and grandmother. But my father was a violent alcoholic. To this day I don't speak to that man. I had to get away and do my own thing. So I've been on the street and in hostels ever since (over25 years).
I went to a house for homeless girls. I was there a long, long time. I've been institutionalised all my life. I wouldn't know what it is like to live independently on my own. I dunno what it's like to live out in the real world.
I've been a psychiatric patient for 15 years. I had a nervous breakdown in my twenties. I was kept in a psychiatric hospital for two years without getting out. I got ten electro-shock treatments to my brain to bring me back. All over a man. My husband did that to me. I stuck by him for 18 years. He put me through torture. He put me through hell and back.
I couldn't see the light at all, thought I'd never see the end of the tunnel. But I did though – I got through it.
I'd a hard old life. I've been through the wars and back. I'm after doing so many things to my body I dunno how I'm here – but I'm here.
I've lived in squats. You just find a place – you know where they are. Anywhere to have a roof and be out of the cold – out of the winter. Waking up at 5 in the morning in a squat. Just trying to look after yourself. I've slept on the streets hail, rain or snow and I've survived it. It is horrible though just me there on my own. You feel so lonesome. Tears come to my eyes sometimes. It's not nice being homeless.
Since I lived in a residential centre for girls for a long time I really only became homeless when it closed. That led me into my first contact with Cork Simon about 14 years ago or so. I've been coming here (Cork Simon Community) since my twenties. I've no choice only to be here; if I didn't have this place where would I go? I'd be out on the street. You have to make your room in here as homely as possible. I like picking up bits and pieces for my room every week. It is my home and it is where I sleep and I try to keep it clean and comfortable. I'm nearly a part of the furniture around here.
"My own daughter lives with my mother. She's a beautiful child. Every Wednesday we meet and do girlie things. We go for a coffee or a McDonald's. We go to the shops. Outside of being mother and daughter we're like two best friends. She is a good girl, a very good girl. She has grown up to be a beautiful looking woman. She is lovely, stunning and gifted. She will be 18 soon and we are going to live together then. Next year. I'd love to see her come back to me and the two of us live together in one place. There is always a 'but' in that – for what reasons I don't know. That is my aim. I would love to have a corporation house just me and my daughter together. I think I deserve it. I really think I deserve my own keys to my own home.
I reared myself up on the street. It was tough going but you have to have small bit of toughness in there as well. I wasted 43 years of my life. I don't want to waste anymore of my life. I want to do something with it. Positive things".


Moore was checked into the boards behind the Devils net by Washington forward Tom Wilson early in the first period. Moore crumpled to the ice, medical staff rushed to his aid and teammates gathered around him.
He was strapped to a board and several Devils steadied the stretcher as Moore was lowered onto it 3:10 into the game.
"I wouldn't necessarily say it was a dirty play," Hynes said. "It looked like a hit from behind, his back was turned on the glass, and he was hit pretty hard into the glass. It looked like it was a penalty."
Wilson said he was not trying to injure a vulnerable opponent.
"It's probably one of the worst things in hockey to see a guy down like that," Wilson said. "I'm going in to forecheck. His back is to me. I tried to let up a little bit. I wasn't trying to finish my check. I kind of rubbed him out. I wasn't aware that he had gone down until I looked back.
"I don't know if he couldn't get his hands up to protect himself. Obviously it was not my intent. I'm wishing him the best."


There's enough historical empirical evidence to update the definition of socialism. I've posted Merriam-Websters definition then included two more for consideration at the end.
4 : a small group of elite wealthy and powerful people ruling, extorting, and oppressing a many times larger group of people into poverty until one or more or all of the following occur; mass famine, genocide, economic collapse, war, revolution.


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Q: Get a kable output from an R function I have an Rmd script where I want to display tables for different attributes of a dataset. I wrote this (here shorted) function to save some work:
attr_table <- function(name, attr) {
   table_attr <- table(attr)

   kable(table_attr,
         caption = name,
         col.names = "Frequency")
   barplot(table_attr, horiz = TRUE)
}

When I now call it like attr_table("Name", vector) an knit the file, the barplot is there, but not the table.
So the question is: Can I use kable() inside a function or does it have to be on itself every time?

A: This is a bit odd, but you can try something like this:
attr_table <- function(name, attr) {
   table_attr <- table(attr)
   print(knitr::kable(table_attr,
         caption = name,
         col.names = c("Name","Frequency")))
   barplot(table_attr, horiz = TRUE)
}

Notice that a function returns the last evaluated statement and also that you were missing one col.name.


hs-bibutils is library with Haskell bindings to Chris Putnam's bibutils, a library that interconverts between various bibliography formats using a common MODS-format XML intermediate.
This is an early, "alpha" release. It carries no warranties of any kind.
This is a patch release fixing MacOS X compilation.
Patched few minor warnings in imported Bibutils source.
Implemented Travis-CI builds through Cabal and Stack.
This release has removed wordout_dropkey because the corresponding constant in Bibutils has also been removed.


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Q: NgMap module and MarkerClusterer function I have data from external API and I wanna group markers in my GoogleMap.
I'm using NgMap directives:
ng-map center="[21.18, 27.71]" style='margin: 10px 0; height: 500px;' zoom='6'
        marker position="{{item.latitude}}, {{item.longitude}}" ng-repeat="item in items"

So how to set MarkerClusterer in AngularJS (1.5x) Controller.
https://jsfiddle.net/7nqg7f7f/6/ -> I'm doing it in that way.

A: ng-map library covers Google Maps API, MarkerClusterer on the contrary is a separate library for the Google Maps JavaScript API v3 which is not supported by ng-map (at least at the moment)
The following example demonstrates how to utilize MarkerClusterer with ng-map:

angular.module('mapApp', ['ngMap'])
    .controller('mapController', function ($scope, NgMap) {

        NgMap.getMap().then(function (map) {
            $scope.map = map;
            $scope.initMarkerClusterer();
        });

        $scope.cities = [
            { id: 1, name: 'Oslo', pos: [59.923043, 10.752839] },
            { id: 2, name: 'Stockholm', pos: [59.339025, 18.065818] },
            { id: 3, name: 'Copenhagen', pos: [55.675507, 12.574227] },
            { id: 4, name: 'Berlin', pos: [52.521248, 13.399038] },
            { id: 5, name: 'Paris', pos: [48.856127, 2.346525] }
        ];

        $scope.initMarkerClusterer = function () {
            var markers = $scope.cities.map(function (city) {
                return $scope.createMarkerForCity(city);
            });
            var mcOptions = { imagePath: 'https://cdn.rawgit.com/googlemaps/js-marker-clusterer/gh-pages/images/m' };
            return new MarkerClusterer($scope.map, markers, mcOptions);
        };

        $scope.createMarkerForCity = function (city) {
            var marker = new google.maps.Marker({
                position: new google.maps.LatLng(city.pos[0], city.pos[1]),
                title: city.name
            });
            google.maps.event.addListener(marker, 'click', function () {
                $scope.selectedCity = city;
                $scope.map.showInfoWindow('myInfoWindow', this);
            });
            return marker;
        }

    });

        <ng-map default-style="true" zoom="3" center="59.339025, 18.065818">
            <info-window id="myInfoWindow">

{{selectedCity.name}}

            </info-window>

        </ng-map>

Modified fiddle


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Home Video Hovel- The Devil's Needle, by Scott Nye
by · July 3, 2012
On the long road towards making cinema "respectable," a recurring stop has been the social problem film, in which some concern over the contemporary state of society is woven into the narrative. Usually a greater emphasis is placed on the former than the latter, and the ending will often point to some way in which we can solve these ills. More recently, one could look at a film like Paul Haggis' Crash as a social problem film, but they needn't all be so bad. Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend examines alcoholism using a very familiar "social problem" structure, as does The Best Years of Our Lives and, overseas, Diary of a Lost Girl. Warner Brothers almost made a specialty of them in the 1930s, usually as an excuse to roll out gangster movies, along the way creating stuff as fine as Angels with Dirty Faces and, to a lesser extent, Dead End, which was at least entertaining about its didacticism.
But the social problem genre was never quite as hot as it was in the 1910s, or so you'd think from looking through the list of titles. Divorce and the Daughter, Traffic in Souls, and Where Are My Children? all illustrate that bids for respectability in the form of "big issue" dramas is hardly the mid-century invention it's sometimes made out to be, and the invaluable new set of films from Kino, under the title The Devil's Needle and Other Tales of Vice and Redemption, provide even further evidence. The films therein – aside from the foremost title (made in 1916), we also get The Inside of the White Slave Traffic (1913) and Children of Eve (1915) – might not be the best examples of art or drama in their era, but they provide an important window into then-contemporary modes and mores.
The Inside of the White Slave Traffic is both the most straightforward and, perhaps because of it, morally complex. It's more of a docu-drama than a narrative, only the latter insofar as it follows a couple of people through the inner workings of forced prostitution. You'll learn everything from how the traffickers procure women to keep them to alert each other to potential heat – an elaborate code system is employed and explained to the audience – without a shred of hope. As much as Kino's set hints at it, in fact, there's little redemption to be found here. Certainly not in Children of Eve, a much more compelling look at the truly awful working conditions of the time, during which people of all ages (the title isn't metaphorical) were crammed into factories with poor ventilation and dangerous materials for entire days (the film was released the year before the Adamson Act guaranteed an eight-hour day, and over twenty years before the more comprehensive Fair Labor Standards Act). It focuses primarily on one woman who goes undercover in such a factory to expose the working conditions to garner public sympathy, and her ensuing, rather convoluted fate. The climax, a fire at the factory, is a sort of nightmare scenario in any workplace, and effectively shows how quickly so much can go so wrong in these death traps.
The main attraction, The Devil's Needle, is a little bit more incendiary in its portrait of addiction to an unspecified injection-based drug. Tully Marshall, as an artist intrigued and then imprisoned by the promise of "ready-made inspiration," certainly isn't afraid to take his performance all the way, and more compelling cinema we get for it. Add to that a dash of the fantastic – the image of young women dancing in the radio is a winner – and it easily overcomes the shackles of its otherwise moralizing tone, never mind the casual sexism inherent to its time (the artist's wife considers it her duty to stick by her husband, despite his deplorable behavior, until he allows her to leave).
I'll let Kino have the first word with regard to the state of these films. From their packaging and booklet:
"Derived from the only known surviving copies, some of the films presented here suffer significant wear and nitrate decomposition. This collection is a sobering reminder of the importance of film preservation…Kino Classics believes that these historically important films be preserved and circulated in spite of their flaws, lest they be allowed to disappear entirely from the cultural rader."
Needless to say, I am entirely in agreement. I won't lie, these are not in terrific condition. The Devil's Needle looks on the verge of total collapse, particularly at the very end, when most frames start resembling a Stan Brakhage experiment more than a narrative film. The other two are in considerably better condition. Children of Eve is a tad faded and soft, but when it's sharp it's easily the best of the bunch. The Inside of the White Slave Traffic is the most consistent, bearing heavy damage across nearly every frame, but one quickly becomes accustomed to it. I noticed some occasional ghosting in the transfer of The Devil's Needle, but otherwise Kino has done a remarkable job bringing these films to life as best they can. Utilizing prints from the Library of Congress, they're nice and crisp, excellently representing what is available for the eye to take in.
Accompanying the films is a pamphlet with a piece by film historian Richard Koszarski, out-take footage from Children of Eve, and the raw surviving footage of The Inside of the White Slave Traffic.
As noted above, these films aren't exactly going to knock your socks off with either their drama or their outlandish portraits of their chosen subject, but their notability extends far beyond their individual achievements, and Kino has done something of a public service by guaranteeing at least their digital archival and making those copies available to the public. After all, we've already lost so much – The Film Foundation has famously estimated that ninety percent of films made before 1929 are gone forever – and so little of what remains has made its way to DVD, let alone Blu-ray, that every release such as this constitutes a victory. For anyone interested in the history of cinema, these are some of the earliest films available on Blu-ray, and remain important social records.
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Le borophène est un matériau bidimensionnel cristallin d'épaisseur monoatomique constituant l'une des formes allotropiques du bore. Il fut théorisé au milieu des années 1990, mais ce n'est qu'à partir de 2015 que l'observation de différentes structures de borophène fut confirmée expérimentalement.

Structure

Plusieurs structures cristallines et métalliques de borophène d'épaisseur monoatomique ont été synthétisées sur des surfaces métalliques sous ultravide. Leur structure atomique est constituée de motifs triangulaires et hexagonaux mixtes tels que ceux représentés ci-dessus. Cette structure résulte des interactions entre liaisons planaires à deux centres et à plusieurs centres, typiques des éléments à configuration électronique déficitaire tels que le bore.

La géométrie planaire des clusters de bore a été calculée et confirmée expérimentalement en 2003, puis le cluster de bore  a été modélisé en 2014 comme le plus petit cluster ayant une symétrie d'ordre 6 et une lacune parfaitement hexagonale, pouvant par ailleurs servir de base pour l'extension en feuillets de bore à deux dimensions.

À la suite de la synthèse du silicène, plusieurs équipes avaient prédit que le borophène pourrait être produit sur une surface métallique. En particulier, on a pu montrer que la structure cristalline du borophène dépend de la surface métallique sur laquelle il est déposé, et ce sans rapport avec sa structure à l'état libre.

Les premières synthèses de borophène ont été publiées en 2015, faisant état de phases de borophène obtenues dans l'ultravide sur des surfaces (111) d'argent. Parmi ces phases, le , ou , avait été théorisé à l'état fondamental sur une surface d'Ag(111), tandis que le  avait été théorisé en 2012.

Propriétés

Les borophènes présentent, dans le plan de leur structure, une élasticité et une résistance qui peuvent être très élevées. Dans certaines configurations, ils peuvent être plus résistants et plus flexibles que le graphène. Les nanotubes de bore ont ainsi un module d'Young 2D plus élevé que toutes les autres nanostructures connues, qu'elles soient en carbone ou à base d'autres éléments. Soumis à un essai de traction dans leur plan, les borophènes présentent une transition de phase structurale en raison de la fluidité de leurs liaisons à plusieurs centres.

Applications

Le borophène offre un potentiel de développement comme matériau d'anode pour les batteries en raison de sa capacité à transporter les ions et de sa conductivité électrique qui permettent d'envisager des capacités théoriques de stockage spécifique élevées ; l'hydrogène est facilement adsorbé sur le borophène jusqu'à 15 % massique de ce dernier, ce qui ouvre des perspectives de développement d'applications en stockage de l'hydrogène ; le borophène peut également catalyser la décomposition de l'hydrogène en ions H et de décomposer l'eau en ions oxyde O et hydrogène H. Les propriétés particulières de ce matériaux laissent entrevoir tout un ensemble d'applications dans des domaines de pointe. Fin 2020, on n'avait pu produire des borophènes que sur des substrats métalliques : l'étape suivante consiste à adapter cette technologie aux matériaux utilisés en microélectronique pour la transposer aux circuits intégrés.

Recherches

Les premières simulations numériques réalisées dans les années 1990 montrèrent que les petits clusters de bore comme le  n'adoptent pas une géométrie icosaédrique comme les boranes mais s'avèrent être quasiment planaires. Ceci permit de théoriser l'existence de feuillets de bore d'épaisseur monoatomique (borophène), d'analogues borés des fullerènes (borosphérènes) et de nanotubes de bore.

Des études complémentaires montrèrent que le borophène triangulaire étendu est de nature métallique et adopte une géométrie plissée non planaire, tandis que d'autres calculs, lancés à partir de la prédiction d'un fullerène de bore  stable, montrèrent que des feuillets de borophène étendus, avec une structure en nid d'abeilles et des trous hexagonaux partiellement remplis, sont également stables. Ces calculs indiquaient que ces borophènes devraient être de nature métallique. La structure en feuillet γ, également appelée borophène β ou feuillet υ, est représentée en (a) dans la section « Structure ».

Notes et références

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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 1 decade ago
Graham Greene?
What themes/events in Graham Greene's writing have actually been influenced by events/things that have occured in his own life?
Please be specific if you can.
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Probably the event that had the biggest influence on his work was Greene's conversion to Catholicism in 1926 and this greatly influenced this the themes of his fiction: guilt and redemption, good and evil and alienation and despair.
He also did some work for British Intelligence:
"The Heart of the Matter"
The scene of this novel, considered among his best, is in West Africa, where Mr. Greene did intelligence work for the British Government during World War II. The protagonist is Maj. Henry Scobie, an essentially commonplace man capable of pity to the point of obsession. It is pity that does the major in. Although a Roman Catholic, his sympathy for, and understanding of, his wife and his mistress lead him to commit suicide to keep from hurting their feelings."
Source(s): http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/20/specials/gre...
Most reports and reviews of Greene's life refer to this Russian roulette "rumour". In fact it is pruported that the essay "The Revolver in the Corner Cupboard" is about his experimentation with this "game". It seems like a lot of the information is based on Greene's claims he did this. I could not find any confirmed verifications by anyone else who had actually witnessed it. Opinions vary as to why he was motivated to do this - depression, boredom, experimentation. However, Michael Sheldens biography discredits Greene's own claims that he did play Russian Roulette though so it is quite difficult to answer your question.
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The headline consumer confidence fell 1.9% last week partly reversing the previous week's gain. This dragged the index back down below its long run average.
The performance of the sub-indices was largely negative with only one of the five sub- indices recording a rise. Households' expectations for economic conditions next year fell 1.9%, while expectations for economic conditions over the next five years dropped a sharp 4.1%, to be at its lowest level since September 2015.
Households' views towards their current finances fell a modest 0.7%, while views about future finances improved 2.7%, to the highest level since February.
The 'good time to buy a household item' index registered a sharp 5.1% drop, following five consecutive weekly gains.
"The drop in headline consumer confidence comes despite the strong labour market report released last week and ongoing strength in the housing market. Rising geopolitical risks, however, have impacted the local share market and are likely feeding through to households' concerns about the economic outlook.
Moreover, the RBA's focus and the associated media spotlight on the exuberance in house prices in Sydney and Melbourne as well as high levels of household debt is possibly feeding into concerns about the outlook. For some time, we have worried that households could decide to rein in consumption growth in response to the combination of low wage growth and rising household debt. The recent decline in confidence and the weakness in retail sales suggest this may be occurring.


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The technology consulting firm has integrated Asintec, with one of the most used professional management softwares in Spain (CheckingPlan), and Sofistic, a leader in cybersecurity in the banking sector in Central America, to add a business volume of 5 million euros and a team of 80 people. The operation was completed with a financing round and the entry of prominent investors to fulfil its strategic plan and go to MAB in 2020.
Cuatroochenta has closed the acquisition of two leading technology companies, Asintec and Sofistic, accompanied by a financing round with the incorporation of new partners, in compliance with its strategic plan after a year of work. Inorganic growth means increasing its turnover to 5 million euros, EBITDA to 1 million, and the workforce to 80 people. The goal is to complete preparations to go out to the Alternative Stock Market (MAB).
Asintec Gestión SL, a company with more than 20 years' experience and headquartered in Burgos, has a mobility task management system, CheckingPlan, used by large facility service managers in cleaning, waste collection and maintenance for work plans, task registration, time control, geolocation and electronic invoicing. A tool that, on a daily basis, helps to improve the productivity of hundreds of thousands of professionals throughout the country, with use cases such as real estate assets, where several portfolios of more than 50,000 assets and hundreds of mobile users are managed.
On the other hand, Sofistic SA is a Panamanian company specialised in cybersecurity with headquarters and commercial teams in five countries, which offers services to more than 20 banks in Central America, as well as critical infrastructure companies, being the main distributor in Latin America of the DarkTrace solution, which autonomously fights threats through artificial intelligence.
The Cuatroochenta team, in front of its central office in Espaitec, the technology park of Jaume I University (Castelló, Spain).
With the integration of both firms, Cuatroochenta takes a qualitative leap, entering strategic sectors and reinforcing its position as a 100% technology company oriented towards business optimisation, with the ability to provide consulting, advanced software development and implementation. Starting from its origins as an app developer, it has now become a top-level technology partner undertaking digital transformation with the most powerful cloud management and cybersecurity solutions, an omnichannel service that adapts to the needs of each client and with a focus always on the results.
Alfredo R. Cebrián, CEO of Cuatroochenta, on the Madrid Stock Exchange after participating in the MedCap forum.
The technology consultancy now faces its IPO, after three years of preparation in the Pre-Market Environment programme promoted by the Bolsas y Mercados Españoles (BME) society and the Big Ban angels association to facilitate access to private investment for emerging companies, complying with the same standards of accountability and transparency as when accessing the MAB, foreseeably in 2020.
New partners supporting the project
This corporate operation, which has relied on the advice of the Broseta law firm and the Tax Technical Office, has been accompanied by a round of financing that has made it possible to carry out acquisitions, with the entry of new investment partners, and also through bank financing. Among the new partners are Pavasal, Vicente Beltrán (Repol), and José Michavila. Entities, companies and entrepreneurs with an established trajectory are supporting the project, together with a series of private minority shareholders who have taken the opportunity to join Cuatroochenta.
In addition, the founders of the two acquired firms, Javier Casero (Asintec) and Ángel López (Sofistic), have also become partners of Cuatroochenta and will continue to lead the different business units and their corresponding teams; in the case of Ángel López, leading the development of business in cybersecurity at a global level. The founders, Alfredo R. Cebrián (CEO) and Sergio Aguado (CTO), remain as majority shareholders at the helm of Cuatroochenta, with Vicente Montesinos as chairman of the board of directors, established this year after the conversion to SA.
New Cuatroochenta headquarters in Castelló (Spain).
In the same way, the Asintec offices and teams will be maintained in Burgos and Sofistic in Panama City, Bogotá (Colombia), Santiago de Chile, and Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic). Thus, Cuatroochenta will further progress its aims of operational excellence through internationalisation, drawing on the talent of its young multidisciplinary team, with offices with its own staff in Milan, Madrid, and Barcelona, in addition to the company's headquarters in the technology park of Universitat Jaume I, Espaitec, in Castelló (Spain), where the offices have been recently remodelled.
At the same time, Cuatroochenta continues to strengthen its own ecosystem of innovation and technological dissemination. Some of the start-ups owned by the company through its driving force, Blast Off Partners, such as Rithmi (algorithm for the prevention of stroke through smart bracelets), GraphenGlass (new material for architecture based on graphene), and Sefici (app for incident management), are already valued at more than one million euros. In addition, the company has established the smart city solutions society Ciudadanos Digitales and maintains its participation in educational and training projects, such as Mit4, Hackathon Castellón, and the #EnModoAvión talks.
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As voting approaches, mayoral candidate Fred Harding is the first to admit he doesn't know enough about weed, but that won't stop him from taking on the city's dispensary issue if elected.
"I have an issue with drugs in general, it's just an issue for me. But I am not going to turn around and tell businesses that are just trying to make a living they're not allowed to," he says over the phone to the Georgia Straight.
Harding retired last year, ending an 18-year-long career with the West Vancouver Police Department. Prior to that he was a detective with the Metropolitan Police Service in London, from 1984 to 1997.
Now he has set his sights on municipal politics, running under the banner of the Vancouver 1st party. The party has made a concerted effort to show a willingness to modernize with the younger voter demographic, announcing plans to build an NBA stadium in south Vancouver and make the nightlife-friendly Granville strip pedestrian-only.
In a policy announcement sent to the Straight, the party announced it now has plans to develop a strategy to combat opioid addiction, the fentanyl overdose crisis, and questions surrounding Vancouver's cannabis dispensaries, currently in limbo as a result of the new regulations. In light of the federal legalization of cannabis, municipalities, including Vancouver, were handed the reins when it came to regulating existing and future pot shops. Many tightened operational requirements. The new laws for Vancouver effectively label compassion clubs and dispensaries that have been operating in the industry for years black market, forcing most to either close or attempt a jump to the regulated market.
"We have a crisis. We have to tackle it. The idea is that we go and get the best information possible to help us deal with it," he says.
He approach to this new policy is reflective of a shift in thinking across the country following the federal legalization on October 17.
Harding says, if elected, he will appoint a cannabis lawyer and drug policy expert Robert Laurie, as special advisor to the Office of the Mayor on Drug and Community Health Policy.
"It's not my wheelhouse. I'm not going to pretend it is. I'm not going to say I am an expert. But that's why we have somebody like Rob coming on board," says Harding.
Fred Harding says if he gets elected and takes office on November 5, he wants cannabis lawyer Rob Laurie in his office on November 6. "There isn't a second to loose," he says.
Laurie has counselled and represented a number of clients, ranging from a variety of sectors in of the cannabis industry, from activists to major corporations.
He is currently representing 40 local dispensaries in a test case against the B.C. Supreme Court, alongside cannabis lawyers John Conroy and Jack Lloyd. Earlier this year, the city of Vancouver filed a petition to shut down stores that have traditionally operated in the grey area of the unregulated cannabis market.
Laurie says that the test case argument rests on the fact that Vancouver did not have the right to license dispensaries in the first place, therefore has been aiding and abetting organized crime, or is, at least, profiting from it for years. The case is awaiting final decision, but if the dispensaries win, he says it could set a precedent from which other jurisdictions could build on.
Laurie states "I am positioned in the epicentre of this industry. I've earned my spurs within the cannabis community in that when I take a project on, I finish it. This has always been about patient medical access," says Laurie over the phone.
Laurie says he is confident that his insight gained from years working within the cannabis community will help educate the decisions on cannabis regulation in Vancouver.
"I know who the good, bad, and ugly are. I'm hoping by providing my insight it will help the government address proper cannabis and dispensary regulations," he says.
Laurie says, as it stands, the municipal government is painting all of the city's dispensaries with the black market brush. He says he can help policy makers understand that the landscape is closer to what he calls "50 shades of green," in that a one-size-fits-all approach won't settle the current problems.
Harding says the aggressive approach to tackling the dispensary regulations is likely not to go over well with some of his supporters.
"I have a lot of people come through my campaign who are utterly opposed to this," he says.
Specifically, he refers to constituents living in Chinatown, a neighbourhood that has traditionally been very vocal in their opposition of cannabis dispensaries.
"We have to make sure that certain sections of the community are respected in their abhorrence of dispensaries, and others are respected in terms of their desire to see dispensaries," he says.
Harding wants to be clear—he is not approaching the issues from the perspective of a former officer, but rather someone who has lived through poverty.
Harding says he has spoken to local law enforcement and first responders dealing firsthand with the city's overdose crisis. "They're saying they just want to be able to do their job," he says, adding that most officers feel there are too many barriers and too little support, which prevents them from making an impact.
While Harding declined to elaborate on exactly what this new initiative will actually look like until he consults further with Laurie, he did say the city needs a solution for recovering addicts coming out of rehab.
"We can't have people coming from rehab, after going through a program and dealing with their trauma, and the only place left for them to go to is the Downtown Eastside," he says.
He also says he intends to revisit the salaries of outreach workers dealing firsthand with the overdose crisis.
"My goal is to make sure they are paid commensurate with a salary of a nurse, and not of an outreach worker. The work they're doing is saving lives," he says.
Harm reduction and the overdose crisis is a major issue on several candidates' platforms.
Independent candidate Sarah Blyth, founder of the Overdose Prevention Site, is also vying for a spot in city council and says she the city's fentanyl crisis is her top priority.
With voting date coming up on Saturday (October 20), the Green Party, OneCity Vancouver, and Vision Vancouver are also amongst the parties to come out strong with plans to tackle overdose prevention.


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Куперовское орнитологическое общество () — некоммерческая организация, которая объединяет более 2000 учёных и любителей-орнитологов со всего мира. Одно из крупнейших и самых влиятельных орнитологических обществ.

Организация была основана 22 июня 1893 года в городе Сан-Хосе в Калифорнии, США, небольшой группой лиц и организаций, которые были заинтересованы в изучении птиц, как Куперовский орнитологический клуб (). Общество было названо в честь американского хирурга и натуралиста, биолога, доктора . В мае 1952 года клуб был переименован в Куперовское орнитологическое общество, чтобы точно отразить академическую и научную направленность организации. 11 октября 2016 года Куперовское орнитологическое общество слилось с другой крупной организацией — Американским орнитологическим союзом. Таким образом было создано Американское орнитологическое общество.

Куперовское орнитологическое общество ставило целью поощрять и поддерживать научные исследования птиц, распространять в обществе интерес к орнитологии, поощрять и поддерживать охрану и сохранение птиц и диких животных в целом, способствовать распространению научных знаний по орнитологии посредством публикаций, конференций и прямого общения между учёными-орнитологами.
С 1899 года издавало орнитологический журнал The Condor. Общество проводило ежегодную награду , которая выдавалась учёным за их вклад в орнитологические исследования. Американское орнитологическое общество продолжило издавать журнал The Condor и вручать премию Миллеров.

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Организации, основанные в 1893 году
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A Sydney és Max (eredeti cím: Sydney to the Max) 2019 és 2021 között vetített amerikai televíziós vígjátéksorozat, amelynek alkotója Mark Reisman. A főbb szerepekben Ruth Righi, Ava Kolker, Jackson Dollinger, Christian J. Simon, Ian Reed Kesler és Caroline Rhea látható.

Amerikában 2019. január 25-én, Magyarországon 2020. február 24-én mutatta be a Disney Channel.

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Sydney Reynolds egy 12 éves lány, aki Portland-ben él apjával, Max-szel és nagymamájával, Judy-val. A legjobb barátnőjével, Olive-val általános iskolába járnak. Közben 1992-ben a 12 éves Max és barátja, Leo, a bevásárlóközpont árkádjában dolgoznak.

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Magyar változat
 Felolvasó: Endrédi Máté
Magyar szöveg: Jánosi Emese
 Hangmérnök: Weichinger Kálmán
 Vágó: Pilipár Éva
 Gyártásvezető: Derzsi-Kovács Éva
 Szinkronrendező: Dezsőffy Rajz Katalin
 Produkciós vezető: Orosz Katalin

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A sorozat készítése
A Disney Channel 2018. szeptember 6-án jelentette be a sorozatot. A sorozatot Mark Reisman készítette. A sorozat főszereplője Ruth Righi, Ian Reed Kesler, Christian J. Simon, Ava Kolker, Caroline Rhea, és Jackson Dollinger. A sorozatot a It's a Laugh Productions gyártja. A sorozat premierje 2019. január 25-én volt. 2019. május 23-án jelentették be, hogy megújíták egy második évadra. A második évad előtt berendelték a harmadik évadot.

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2019-ben bemutatott amerikai televíziós sorozatok
Televíziós vígjátéksorozatok
A Disney Channel saját gyártású műsorai
2021-ben befejezett amerikai televíziós sorozatok