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People on the Move: H+K Taps Lythgoe for busdev; Pearson Hires GE alum Latour; Cision Adds Vobejda to board
Mon., Nov. 5, 2018
Sam Lythgoe
H+K Strategies has named Sam Lythgoe global head of marketing and business development. Lythgoe has been with the firm for 20 years, serving most recently as managing director/senior VP for new business and marketing in the UK and EMEA. She also started up the consumer tech practice in H+K's London office and has led the agency's work for clients including TomTom and BT. Lythgoe has also led such programs as H+K HER, which is geared toward supporting female employees as they develop throughout their careers. Her appointment comes as H+K centralizes its business development and marketing efforts.
Deirdre Latour
Pearson has brought on former General Electric chief communications officer Deirdre Latour as its chief corporate affairs officer. Latour had been with GE for 14 years before stepping down last March. She is credited with helping to drive the evolution of GE's image from a legacy industrial manufacturing and financial services conglomerate to a focused digital company. Before joining GE, Latour was a VP at Edelman, with responsibility for a variety of corporate communications, brand, cause, consumer and entertainment marketing efforts. She will join Pearson on Jan. 1 and will lead the company's global corporate affairs team, covering such functions as government relations, media & investor relations, employee communications, and brand & social impact.<.p>
Susan Vobejda
Cision has added Susan Vobejda to the company's board of directors. Vobejda has been chief marketing officer at The Trade Desk, a global advertising technology company, since 2017. She was previously executive VP and CMO at global fashion brand Tory Burch, where she led a digital transformation of all brand communications. Vobejda has held several executive roles at Bloomberg, including her work as the founding executive and GM of Bloomberg's media distribution division.


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Virtuous Accomplices in International Criminal Law
Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26/2019
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Miles Jackson
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
Humanitarian actors sometimes have to decide whether to render assistance in situations that put them at risk of liability for aiding and abetting under international criminal law. This is the problem of the virtuous accomplice – the idea that knowingly contributing to the wrongdoing of others might, exceptionally, be the right thing to do. This article explains why the problem arises and clarifies its scope, before turning to criminal law in England and Wales and Germany to assess potential solutions. It argues that the best approach is to accept a defence of necessity – of justified complicity – and shows that such an argument works in international criminal law.
Keywords: complicity, international criminal law, humanitarian assistance, necessity, aiding and abetting
Jackson, Miles, Virtuous Accomplices in International Criminal Law (May 24, 2019). Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 26/2019. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3393347 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3393347
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Q: Problem with compilation (color) I have this code in LaTeX (the .cls file is HERE):
\documentclass[thesis=B,czech]{FITthesis}[2012/06/26]

\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}

\usepackage{graphicx}

\usepackage{dirtree}

\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,amsthm}
\usepackage{comment}
\usepackage{longtable}
\usepackage{booktabs,multirow}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes.geometric,calc,arrows,decorations.markings,decorations.pathmorphing}

\begin{document}
\begin{center}
\begin{tikzpicture}[scale=2]
    \draw (1,0) -- (0,0) -- (0,1);
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{center}
\end{document}

...and I have an error:
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\set@color ...\@pdfcolorstack push{\current@color
                                              }\aftergroup \reset@color
l.65 \begin{document}

How to fix it?

A: On lines 395-399 of FITthesis.cls one finds:
\AtBeginDocument{
    \if@langczech\frontmatter*\else\frontmatter\fi %cislovani stranek pred prvni kapitolou
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \if@langczech{Sem vlo{\v z}te zad{\' a}n{\' i} Va{\v s}{\' i} pr{\' a}ce.}\else{Insert here your thesis' task.}\fi

and this reveals the culprit: code used in \AtBeginDocument is still part of the preamble and the class is using the hook to typeset information (in the fourth line in the code I showed above); this, of course, produces an error. The only remedy I see (perhaps there are better options), is to edit the .cls file and to replace the line
\AtBeginDocument{

with the two lines
\RequirePackage{etoolbox}
\AfterEndPreamble{

so the new lines will look like
\RequirePackage{etoolbox}
\AfterEndPreamble{
    \if@langczech\frontmatter*\else\frontmatter\fi %cislovani stranek pred prvni kapitolou
    \thispagestyle{empty}
    \if@langczech{Sem vlo{\v z}te zad{\' a}n{\' i} Va{\v s}{\' i} pr{\' a}ce.}\else{Insert here your thesis' task.}\fi

the description of \AfterEndPreamble from etoolbox:

\AfterEndPreamble{<code>} This hook differs from \AtBeginDocument in
  that the code is executed at the very end of \begin{document}, after
  any \AtBeginDocument code.

You should contact the author/maintainer of the class and report this bug.

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VRGL's site blockers will allow users to easily block certain websites based on suggestions as well as user input.
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We are all first time Web Developers and users of django. At first, we really pushed for Virgil to be an app since a main source of distraction are cell phones. However, we realized that with the time, resources, and skill set of the group, creating a website would be the easiest way to implement our idea. The adoption of the idea also meant we would be able to add more functionality to the program without overcrowding the service (like it would in an app).
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Antônio Augusto de Moraes Liberato (April 10, 1959 – November 21, 2019), better known as Gugu Liberato or simply Gugu, was a Brazilian television presenter, entrepreneur, actor and singer.

Early life
Liberato was born in São Paulo, Brazil, the son of Portuguese immigrants. He used to write letters to Silvio Santos (who later hired him) suggesting ideas for programs. He started on television at age 14 as program production assistant on Domingo no Parque (Sunday at the Park), presented by Silvio Santos on SBT. He is regarded as one of the most famous entertainers in the history of Brazilian television, standing next to names like Fausto Silva, Silvio Santos, Hebe Camargo and Xuxa Meneghel.

Career
Liberato began studying dentistry at University of Marilia (Unimar) in Marilia, São Paulo, but dropped out when called by Silvio Santos, who invited him to take up a post in front of the cameras. One of his first programs in 1981 was the Sessão Premiada São Paulo – Rio's version was by Paul Barboza. In 1982, Santos asked Argentine director Nelly Raymond to create a program for Saturday night. Viva a Noite was created, which was initially divided into several parts, and also presented by Ademar Dutra, Mariette Detotto and Jair Ogun. Following some format changes, Gugu remained alone in the program, then directed by Homer Salles. While anchoring Viva a Noite, Gugu also directed Domingo no Parque for sometime and acted as the editor for the President's Week (Semana do Presidente) newsletter, which was aired in the commercial breaks between the Program Silvio Santos show.

After the success of the musical group Menudo, which was extensively promoted by Viva a Noite in 1984, Gugu launched Brazilian musical groups of the same style, such as Dominó and Polegar, becoming a successful businessman.

In August 1987, at the height of the success of Viva a noite, Gugu signed a contract with TV station Rede Globo. But on Saturday Carnival 1988, Santos went to meet the owner of the Rede Globo Roberto Marinho personally, in order to release the presenter so he could stay on SBT. Santos was about to undergo a delicate surgery and made a millionaire proposal to Gugu, offering him much of the Sunday's programming schedule. As a comparison, Liberato's wages increased tenfold, besides earnings coming from advertising.

Liberato debuted in SBT Sundays on April 17, 1988, hosting alone programs like Passa ou Repassa and Cidade Contra Cidade. Gugu also co-hosted Roletrando with Santos.

The TV station Rede Globo, however, had already created a program for Gugu, and the program was ready but without a host. Rede Globo hired hastily Fausto Silva, who ran the Saturday late night show Perdidos na Noite (Lost in the Night) at TV Bandeirantes. So the show Domingão do Faustão started, by chance, on Sunday afternoons at Rede Globo, filling a schedule previously occupied by American TV series.

Even though Gugu was responsible for part of the Sunday programming, he remained anchoring shows on Saturday night, especially musical programs like Sabadão Sertanejo. The greatest success, however, came with the show Domingo Legal, which competed with Domingão do Faustão, ironically a program created to be his. The competition in the late 1990s was for a long period favorable to Gugu, which ended the decade with peaks above 40 rating points.

Personal life and death
Liberato had a domestic partnership with physician Rose Miriam di Matteo, with whom he had three children.

On November 20, 2019, Liberato suffered an accident at his home in Windermere, Greater Orlando, while trying to change the filter on his home's air conditioner; he fell from the roof of his home and hit his head. He was admitted to Orlando Health and it was reported that his condition was critical. Rumors of his death were initially denied, but on November 22, it was confirmed that Liberato had died.

Filmography

TV

Movie theater

Discography
 1983 - Gugu
 1984 - Gugu
 1985 - Gugu Liberato
 1986 - Gugu Liberato
 1989 - Gugu
 1989 - Viva a Noite
 1990 - Viva a Noite
 1991 - Gugu Liberato Apresenta: Bailão Sertanejo
 1992 - Gugu Liberato Apresenta: Bailão Sertanejo 2
 1994 - Gugu
 1996 - Parque do Gugu
 1998 - Gugu Cantando Com Você
 2002 - Gugu Para Crianças

References

External links

1959 births
2019 deaths
21st-century Brazilian people
Accidental deaths from falls
Accidental deaths in Florida
Brazilian male television actors
Brazilian people of Portuguese descent
Brazilian television presenters
People from São Paulo

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Facebook Suspends Company That Allegedly Helped Trump Win in 2016
By Eric Lieberman March 17, 2018 at 2:15pm
Facebook announced Friday that it is suspending a data analytics firm that reportedly worked with President Donald Trump's campaign team and utilized the social media platform in the run-up to the 2016 election.
Arguing that Strategic Communication Laboratories, particularly its subsidiary Cambridge Analytica and some others, violated agreement terms, Facebook says the disbarment is necessary for its attempts to ensure people's information is protected and user data isn't being manipulated.
Paul Grewal, Facebook's vice president and deputy general counsel, describes the situation in a blog post:
In 2015, we learned that a psychology professor at the University of Cambridge named Dr. Aleksandr Kogan lied to us and violated our Platform Policies by passing data from an app that was using Facebook Login to SCL/Cambridge Analytica, a firm that does political, government and military work around the globe. He also passed that data to Christopher Wylie of Eunoia Technologies, Inc.
Like all app developers, Kogan requested and gained access to information from people after they chose to download his app. His app, "thisisyourdigitallife," offered a personality prediction, and billed itself on Facebook as "a research app used by psychologists." Approximately 270,000 people downloaded the app. In so doing, they gave their consent for Kogan to access information such as the city they set on their profile, or content they had liked, as well as more limited information about friends who had their privacy settings set to allow it.
But Kogan apparently crossed the line after gaining access to user information in an admittedly "legitimate way and through proper channels" when he passed that data on to SCL — and thus Cambridge Analytica — as well as Wylie.
Kogan's app was eventually removed, and Facebook demanded authentic evidence that it deleted all relevant information as it had been told.
"Several days ago, we received reports that, contrary to the certifications we were given, not all data was deleted," Grewal continued. "We are moving aggressively to determine the accuracy of these claims. If true, this is another unacceptable violation of trust and the commitments they made. We are suspending SCL/Cambridge Analytica, Wylie and Kogan from Facebook, pending further information."
It seems that Facebook allowed Kogan's app to collect data on friends, and based on features such as "likes," because it comported with their efforts to cultivate an environment of increased engagement. But by doing so, Facebook inadvertently gave Kogan powers with unintended consequences, and upon figuring out his tactics and purposes, it barred the aforementioned alleged violators. Kogan was reportedly able to create more than 50 million profiles using the trend and characteristics data before providing them to Cambridge.
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"Rules don't matter for them. For them, this is a war, and it's all fair," Wylie said of Cambridge, according to The New York Times. "They want to fight a culture war in America. Cambridge Analytica was supposed to be the arsenal of weapons to fight that culture war."
Tech companies like Google, Twitter, and especially Facebook, have been hammered with criticism from a large portion of the population — including lawmakers — for purportedly helping Trump win the 2016 election with the platform's inherent offerings.
How much social media campaigns actually had an effect on election results appears dubious, or at least unclear, and may not even be quantifiable. What is more clear is that Facebook's features can help sow seeds of further discord by allowing operators to capitalize on polarization.
"Now is a time of reckoning for all tech and internet companies to truly consider their impact on democracies worldwide," Nuala O'Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology, said in a statement. "While the misuse of data is not new, what we now see is how seemingly insignificant information about individuals can be used to decide what information they see and influence viewpoints in profound ways."
Several reports, including The New York Times' one, are referring to the actions of Cambridge Analytica — which had social media prowess described as the "secret sauce" to Trump's political campaign — as a data "breach."
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But as noted by Grewal in an update made Saturday morning, "the claim that this is a data breach is completely false" because Kogan requested and gained access through permissible, in fact, standard, means. "Everyone involved gave their consent," said Grewal.
Facebook says it is subjecting all apps that seek personal user information to its App Review process, "which requires developers to justify the data they're looking to collect and how they're going to use it – before they're allowed to even ask people for it."
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Apparently I've never got round to posting this poem on here, for which, I hope, kind reader, your kindest considerations will agree was an error.
His wife (that's Mary) in a state.
A dinner so soon at the door.
All bound upon a new-bought dress.
And he must act so perfectly.
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Relations this time, friends perhaps?
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Her house was back to anarchy.
I've only just got back from a week in Stratford upon Avon, and thought I'd just post a minor question that has been bugging me since I first saw it.
I was lucky enough to visit Kenilworth Castle while in Stratford, and spent a while on the brand new metal stairs that allow visitors to enjoy floors of the castle that have been inaccessible for years.
Aside from the amazing parts of the castle that you can now get to, in among the stones dotted with medieval masons marks, there are swathes of 18th and 19th century graffiti, documenting the bygone trips of curious visitors centuries ago. One particular piece of graffiti, written in a style that can't date from long after the start of the 1800s, was an exceptional and all too familiar jotting.
Standing out in the red sandstone was a long-forgotten game of hangman. This is an image of a hanging doodled in a game from a time when public hangings were still common practice, and by someone who may even have seen someone, if not being executed, then perhaps at least hanging in irons and 'keeping the flocks by moonlight'. A hanging figure would not have been an alien site on the English roadside.
But whoever had the misfortune of having to guess this hangman's word, their attempts clearly failed, and a mysterious 'C noc' remains under the completed figure in the noose. Whether there was an 'l' once also part of the word is hard to say, since later graffiti may have further defaced the mystery. The only words beginning with a C and containing 'noc' that are in the dictionary today certainly were not around even a hundred years ago, so what could the word possibly be?
My guess is that the word was mispelt – Chronicle is one of my guesses as to what it could be supposed to say. Since this graffiti may very easilly date to a time before education was commonplace, it is probable that if an uncommon word was chosen for the game then perhaps neither party playing actually knew how to spell it. What an interesting game of hangman that would make!
For now, kind reader, I leave you with that mystery.
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Model S Burns, Tesla Stock Goes Up in Smoke
By Kris Holt
November 8, 2013 12:25 PM PT
The third fire in five weeks in one of Tesla Motor's Model S cars could prompt safety regulators to take a closer look at the electric vehicle.
The blaze occurred when a driver hit a trailer hitch on a highway near Murfreesboro, Tenn, according to press reports. The collision damaged the undercarriage and started the fire. The driver, who pulled the car to the side of the road, was uninjured.
"We have been in contact with the driver, who was not injured and believes the car saved his life," Tesla spokesperson Patrick Jones told TechNewsWorld. "Our team is in Tennessee to learn more about what happened in the accident. We will provide more information when we're able to do so."
Shares Dip
Shares in entrepreneur Elon Musk's car firm sank 7.5 percent to US$139.77 by market close Wednesday, following news of the latest fire. That came just after a 15 percent drop following third-quarter results and a fourth-quarter outlook that failed to excite investors. Shares dipped further on Friday, to a low as $132.32. However, the stock climbed to around $137.50 by afternoon.
It is not yet clear whether the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will investigate the latest incident. The agency "will contact the local authorities who are looking into the incident to determine if there are vehicle safety implications that merit agency action," spokesperson Karen Aldana told TechNewsWorld.
Debris Strikes Battery
In the first Model S fire incident, the car collided with a metal object in the middle of a road near Seattle, Wash., on Oct 1. The vehicle automatically alerted the driver to pull over and the blaze started after he was out of the car Tesla said. The battery pack is in the floor of the car, and the object directly struck one of the battery pack's cells.
The NHTSA found no evidence the Seattle fire was caused by defects or that the vehicle violated any safety standards.
A couple of weeks later, a driver in Mexico reportedly hit a raised pedestrian crossing, which sent the car into the air and into a wall and tree. The driver was able to escape before the fire erupted.
Armor Plate
Tesla has a 6-millimeter thick armor plate on the bottom of the car, Musk pointed out when discussing the Seattle accident. Metal debris was able to puncture that plate and strike the battery pack.
"Because the battery for the Tesla runs underneath the entire car, it makes it more vulnerable to this kind of an accident. It can take damage from the front or rear of the car," Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group, told TechNewsWorld.
"The safety aspect of the Tesla battery really is that steel containment that goes around it. So, if the cell is compromised or fails catastrophically so that it catches fire, the steel containment is supposed to contain the fire and keep it from the rest of the car. But if the containment is damaged, it can't do the job."
Lithium Risk
Lithium-ion batteries are widely used in cars, laptop computers, and other consumer electronic devices like smartphones, because of their energy density and light weight compared to other types of batteries.
However, the batteries are potential fire hazards. An iPhone caught fire, seemingly spontaneously, on a flight in 2011. In 2006, Dell recalled millions of batteries due to fire risk, after six incidents of their overheating and causing property damage.
Earlier this year, the Federal Aviation Administration ordered all U.S.-based airlines to ground their Boeing 787 aircraft pending safety modifications in the wake of a number of electrical fires. The agency required airlines to show the lithium-ion batteries were safe before flights resumed.
Weight Dilemma
"They might have to increase the strength of the containment so it's harder to breach," Enderle said. "They are already adding a lot of weight to it, though. It's largely an aluminum car. The containment vessel is steel, which adds a significant amount of weight to the car. Adding more weight could certainly impact the performance and range of the vehicle."
Still, electric car technology may be safer on the whole than traditional gas-powered engines.
"With gas cars, you can have unusual accidents that can result in fires. Gas tanks are often exposed at the rear of the car and being penetrated by something sharp often results in a gas leak and eventually a fire," Enderle noted.
"Gas fires tend to go up much more spectacularly than batteries. I think [an electric car is] still largely safer than a gas car is, but it's new. We focus on every single fire that occurs, where most of the gas car fires don't even make the paper."
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Renegade's BS: Still Strong, Still True, Still LSU!!!
ARLINGTON, Texas - Change the season.
And if you're an LSU fan, and by proxy a Southeastern Conference fan, it is yet another victory in yet another big non-conference game with BCS implications that sounds just as sweet.
This is the sound that Oregon fans will have ringing in their ears all the way back to the West Coast. It's the same taunt they heard in Glendale, Ariz., eight months ago when their Ducks lost the BCS National Championship Game to Auburn.
New opponent. New places. New names. Old potent weapons in Oregon's high-tech Nike-designed Batman-esque garb like LaMichael James and Darron Thomas, weapons LSU's offense in stodgy old white jerseys didn't possess.
It was like it didn't matter. It was like Oregon's preseason No. 3 ranking didn't happen. It was like the good old times for No. 4 LSU after a bad, bad offseason.
It may be rainy in Baton Rouge. It may have been gloomy for the last month or two.
But with Nike's Phil Knight watching, it was a dark night for Oregon as the Tigers pounded out a 40-27 victory that included a completely cosmetic final touchdown for the Ducks with :13 left.
The Tigers looked at times like a power-hitting outfielder in baseball. There were swings and misses, screwing themselves comically into the ground.
But when Oregon left the ball fat and over the plate, the Tigers knocked it out of Tiger, er, Cowboys Stadium (the place was three-fourths LSU fans), smashing out a few of the massive end zone windows in the process.
How good is Oregon? Won't know for weeks. How good is LSU? There are more tough tests to come.
But this is what good teams do: the Tigers turned four Oregon turnovers into 21 points. One was on a spectacular fumble recovery by Tyrann Mathieu (does he make any other kind of play?) when LSU's offense was struggling. Then the Tigers took two De'Anthony Thomas fumbles and used them as fuel for a 14-0 third-quarter burst.
There was still a quarter to play, but at that point the Ducks were cooked.
Credit Jarrett Lee for doing a credible job at quarterback and for tight end Deangelo Peterson (four catches) for being such an attractive target. Credit Spencer Ware and Michael Ford (combined 195 yards rushing, 3 TDs) for wearing Oregon out.
Credit that gritty LSU defense for keeping a jittery Thomas out of his comfort zone all night.
Before the game, the questions were how would LSU be able to hang without the suspended do of Jordan Jefferson and Russell Shepard.
Then they hung 40 on Oregon. Could LSU have expected to fare any better if they had played?
Change is inevitable and sometimes good. But it hasn't come to college football yet.
Not on this first weekend anyway.
Great game played by two great teams... but the PAC just can't keep up! Man, I sure do love me some roast duck!!!
Now, after a cupcake or two, it's on to the real competition... regular season in the SEC!


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In the social sciences, unintended consequences (sometimes unanticipated consequences or unforeseen consequences) are outcomes of a purposeful action that are not intended or foreseen. The term was popularised in the twentieth century by American sociologist Robert K. Merton and expanded by economist Thomas Sowell and psychologist Stuart Vyse.

Unintended consequences can be grouped into three types:
 Unexpected benefit:  A positive unexpected benefit (also referred to as luck, serendipity or a windfall).
 Unexpected drawback:  An unexpected detriment occurring in addition to the desired effect of the policy (e.g., while irrigation schemes provide people with water for agriculture, they can increase waterborne diseases that have devastating health effects, such as schistosomiasis).
 Perverse result: A perverse effect contrary to what was originally intended (when an intended solution makes a problem worse).

History

John Locke
The idea of unintended consequences dates back at least to John Locke who discussed the unintended consequences of interest rate regulation in his letter to Sir John Somers, Member of Parliament.

Adam Smith
The idea was also discussed by Adam Smith, the Scottish Enlightenment, and consequentialism (judging by results).

The invisible hand theorem is an example of the unintended consequences of agents acting in their self-interest. As Andrew S. Skinner puts it:

"The individual undertaker (entrepreneur), seeking the most efficient allocation of resources, contributes to overall economic efficiency; the merchant's reaction to price signals helps to ensure that the allocation of resources accurately reflects the structure of consumer preferences; and the drive to better our condition contributes to economic growth."

Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels touched on the idea of unintended consequences in his discussion of Ludwig Feuerbach: "The ends of the actions are intended, but the results which actually follow from these actions are not intended; or when they do seem to correspond to the end intended, they ultimately have consequences quite other than those intended."

Robert K. Merton
Sociologist Robert K. Merton popularised this concept in the twentieth century.

In "The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action" (1936), Merton tried to apply a systematic analysis to the problem of unintended consequences of deliberate acts intended to cause social change. He emphasized that his term purposive action, "[was exclusively] concerned with 'conduct' as distinct from 'behavior.' That is, with action that involves motives and consequently a choice between various alternatives". Merton's usage included deviations from what Max Weber defined as rational social action: instrumentally rational and value rational. Merton also stated that "no blanket statement categorically affirming or denying the practical feasibility of all social planning is warranted."

Everyday usage
More recently, the law of unintended consequences has come to be used as an adage or idiomatic warning that an intervention in a complex system tends to create unanticipated and often undesirable outcomes.

Akin to Murphy's law, it is commonly used as a wry or humorous warning against the hubristic belief that humans can fully control the world around them, not to presuppose a belief in predestination or a lack or a disbelief in that of free will.

Causes
Possible causes of unintended consequences include the world's inherent complexity (parts of a system responding to changes in the environment), perverse incentives, human stupidity, self-deception, failure to account for human nature, or other cognitive or emotional biases. As a sub-component of complexity (in the scientific sense), the chaotic nature of the universe—and especially its quality of having small, apparently insignificant changes with far-reaching effects (e.g., the butterfly effect)—applies.

In 1936, Robert K. Merton listed five possible causes of unanticipated consequences:

 Ignorance, making it  impossible to anticipate everything, thereby leading to incomplete analysis.
 Errors in analysis of the problem or following habits that worked in the past but may not apply to the current situation.
 Immediate interests overriding long-term interests.
 Basic values which may require or prohibit certain actions even if the long-term result might be unfavourable (these long-term consequences may eventually cause changes in basic values).
 Self-defeating prophecy, or, the fear of some consequence which drives people to find solutions before the problem occurs, thus the non-occurrence of the problem is not anticipated.

In addition to Merton's causes, psychologist Stuart Vyse has noted that groupthink, described by Irving Janis, has been blamed for some decisions that result in unintended consequences.

Types

Unexpected benefits

The creation of "no-man's lands" during the Cold War, in places such as the border between Eastern and Western Europe, and the Korean Demilitarized Zone, has led to large natural habitats.

The sinking of ships in shallow waters during wartime has created many artificial coral reefs, which can be scientifically valuable and have become an attraction for recreational divers. This led to the deliberately sinking of retired ships for the purpose of replacing coral reefs lost to global warming and other factors.

In medicine, most drugs have unintended consequences ('side effects') associated with their use. However, some are beneficial. For instance, aspirin, a pain reliever, is also an anticoagulant that can help prevent heart attacks and reduce the severity and damage from thrombotic strokes. The existence of beneficial side effects also leads to off-label use—prescription or use of a drug for an unlicensed purpose. Famously, the drug Viagra was developed to lower blood pressure, with its use for treating erectile dysfunction being discovered as a side effect in clinical trials.

Unexpected drawbacks
The implementation of a profanity filter by AOL in 1996 had the unintended consequence of blocking residents of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts because of a false positive. The accidental censorship of innocent language, known as the Scunthorpe problem, has been repeated and widely documented.

In 1990, the Australian state of Victoria made safety helmets mandatory for all bicycle riders. While there was a reduction in the number of head injuries, there was also an unintended reduction in the number of juvenile cyclists—fewer cyclists obviously leads to fewer injuries, all else being equal. The risk of death and serious injury per cyclist seems to have increased, possibly because of risk compensation. Research by Vulcan, et al. found that the reduction in juvenile cyclists was because the youths considered wearing a bicycle helmet unfashionable. A health-benefit model developed at Macquarie University in Sydney suggests that, while helmet use reduces "the risk of head or brain injury by approximately two-thirds or more", the decrease in exercise caused by reduced cycling as a result of helmet laws is counterproductive in terms of net health.

Prohibition in the 1920s United States, originally enacted to suppress the alcohol trade, drove many small-time alcohol suppliers out of business and consolidated the hold of large-scale organized crime over the illegal alcohol industry. Since alcohol was still popular, criminal organisations producing alcohol were well-funded and hence also increased their other activities. Similarly, the War on Drugs, intended to suppress the illegal drug trade, instead increased the power and profitability of drug cartels who became the primary source of the products.

In CIA jargon, "blowback" describes the unintended, undesirable consequences of covert operations, such as the funding of the Afghan Mujahideen and the destabilization of Afghanistan contributing to the rise of the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

The introduction of exotic animals and plants for food, for decorative purposes, or to control unwanted species often leads to more harm than good done by the introduced species.
 The introduction of rabbits in Australia and New Zealand for food was followed by an explosive growth in the rabbit population; rabbits have become a major feral pest in these countries.
 Cane toads, introduced into Australia to control canefield pests, were unsuccessful and have become a major pest in their own right.
 Kudzu, introduced to the US as an ornamental plant in 1876 and later used to prevent erosion in earthworks, has become a major problem in the Southeastern United States. Kudzu has displaced native plants and has effectively taken over significant portions of land.

The protection of the steel industry in the United States reduced production of steel in the United States, increased costs to users, and increased unemployment in associated industries.

Perverse results

In 2003, Barbra Streisand unsuccessfully sued Kenneth Adelman and Pictopia.com for posting a photograph of her home online. Before the lawsuit had been filed, only 6 people had downloaded the file, two of them Streisand's attorneys. The lawsuit drew attention to the image, resulting in 420,000 people visiting the site. The Streisand Effect was named after this incident, describing when an attempt to censor or remove a certain piece of information instead draws attention to the material being suppressed, resulting in the material instead becoming widely known, reported on, and distributed.

Passenger-side airbags in motorcars were intended as a safety feature, but led to an increase in child fatalities in the mid-1990s because small children were being hit by airbags that deployed automatically during collisions. The supposed solution to this problem, moving the child seat to the back of the vehicle, led to an increase in the number of children forgotten in unattended vehicles, some of whom died under extreme temperature conditions.

Risk compensation, or the Peltzman effect, occurs after implementation of safety measures intended to reduce injury or death (e.g. bike helmets, seatbelts, etc.). People may feel safer than they really are and take additional risks which they would not have taken without the safety measures in place. This may result in no change, or even an increase, in morbidity or mortality, rather than a decrease as intended.

According to an anecdote, the British government, concerned about the number of venomous cobra snakes in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. This was a successful strategy as large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, enterprising people began breeding cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, they scrapped the reward program, causing the cobra breeders to set the now-worthless snakes free. As a result, the wild cobra population further increased. The apparent solution for the problem made the situation even worse, becoming known as the Cobra effect.

Theobald Mathew's temperance campaign in 19th-century Ireland resulted in thousands of people vowing never to drink alcohol again. This led to the consumption of diethyl ether, a much more dangerous intoxicant—owing to its high flammability—by those seeking to become intoxicated without breaking the letter of their pledge.

It was thought that adding south-facing conservatories to British houses would reduce energy consumption by providing extra insulation and warmth from the sun. However, people tended to use the conservatories as living areas, installing heating and ultimately increasing overall energy consumption.

A reward for lost nets found along the Normandy coast was offered by the French government between 1980 and 1981. This resulted in people vandalizing nets to collect the reward.

Beginning in the 1940s and continuing into the 1960s, the Canadian federal government gave the Catholic Church in Quebec $2.25 per day per psychiatric patient for their cost of care, but only $0.75 a day per orphan. The perverse result is that the orphan children were diagnosed as mentally ill so the church could receive the larger amount of money. This psychiatric misdiagnosis affected up to 20,000 people, and the children are known as the Duplessis Orphans.

There have been attempts to curb the consumption of sugary beverages by imposing a tax on them. However, a study found that the reduced consumption was only temporary. Also, there was an increase in the consumption of beer among households.

The New Jersey Childproof Handgun Law, which was intended to protect children from accidental discharge of firearms by forcing all future firearms sold in New Jersey to contain "smart" safety features, has delayed, if not stopped entirely, the introduction of such firearms to New Jersey markets. The wording of the law caused significant public backlash, fuelled by gun rights lobbyists, and several shop owners offering such guns received death threats and stopped stocking them. In 2014, 12 years after the law was passed, it was suggested the law be repealed if gun rights lobbyists agree not to resist the introduction of "smart" firearms.

Drug prohibition can lead drug traffickers to prefer stronger, more dangerous substances, that can be more easily smuggled and distributed than other, less concentrated substances.

Televised drug prevention advertisements may lead to increased drug use.

Increasing usage of search engines, also including recent image search features, has contributed in the ease of which media is consumed. Some abnormalities in usage may have shifted preferences for pornographic film actors, as the producers began using common search queries or tags to label the actors in new roles.

The passage of the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act has led to a reported increase in risky behaviors by sex workers as a result of quashing their ability to seek and screen clients online, forcing them back onto the streets or into the dark web. The ads posted were previously an avenue for advocates to reach out to those wanting to escape the trade.

The use of precision guided munitions meant to reduce the rate of civilian casualties encouraged armies to narrow their safety margins, and increase the use of deadly force in densely populated areas. This in turn increased the danger to uninvolved civilians, who in the past would have been out of the line of fire because of armies' aversion of using higher-risk weaponry in densely populated areas. The perceived ability to operate precision weaponry from afar (where in the past heavy munitions or troop deployment would have been needed) also led to the expansion of the list of potential targets. As put by Michael Walzer: "Drones not only make it possible for us to get at our enemies, they may also lead us to broaden the list of enemies, to include presumptively hostile individuals and militant organizations simply because we can get at them–even if they aren't actually involved in attacks against us." This idea is also echoed by Grégoire Chamayou: "In a situation of moral hazard, military action is very likely to be deemed 'necessary' simply because it is possible, and possible at a lower cost."

Other
According to Lynn White, the invention of the horse stirrup enabled new patterns of warfare that eventually led to the development of feudalism (see Stirrup Thesis).

Perverse consequences of environmental intervention

Most modern technologies have negative consequences that are both unavoidable and unpredictable. For example, almost all environmental problems, from chemical pollution to global warming, are the unexpected consequences of the application of modern technologies. Traffic congestion, deaths and injuries from car accidents, air pollution, and global warming are unintended consequences of the invention and large scale adoption of the automobile. Hospital infections are the unexpected side-effect of antibiotic resistance, and even human population growth leading to environmental degradation is the side effect of various technological (i.e., agricultural and industrial) revolutions.

Because of the complexity of ecosystems, deliberate changes to an ecosystem or other environmental interventions will often have (usually negative) unintended consequences. Sometimes, these effects cause permanent irreversible changes. Examples include:
 During the Four Pests Campaign a killing of sparrows was declared. Chinese leaders later realized that sparrows ate a large amount of insects, as well as grains. Rather than being increased, rice yields after the campaign were substantially decreased. (The decision to cull sparrows may itself have been an unintended consequence of silencing intellectuals: "For 3 years after the establishment of the Communist Government, in 1949, Chinese scientists and intellectuals found themselves in the midst of turmoil. Many scientists were humiliated and intimidated during the nationwide program of "thought reform" and political indoctrination".)
 During the Great Plague of London a killing of dogs and cats was ordered. If left untouched, they would have made a significant reduction in the rat population that carried the fleas which transmitted the disease.
 The installation of smokestacks to decrease pollution in local areas, resulting in spread of pollution at a higher altitude, and acid rain on an international scale.
 After about 1900, public demand led the US government to fight forest fires in the American West, and set aside land as national forests and parks to protect them from fires. This policy led to fewer fires, but also led to growth conditions such that, when fires did occur, they were much larger and more damaging. Modern research suggests that this policy was misguided, and that a certain level of wildfires is a natural and important part of forest ecology.
Side effects of climate engineering to counter global warming could involve even further warming as a consequence of reflectivity-reducing afforestation or crop yield reductions and rebound effects after solar dimming measures with even more accelerated warming.
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's and Spread the Net's provision of mosquito nets caused environmental and human destruction, as many of the people provided with these mosquito nets decided they were better used as fishing nets, leading to overfishing and similar unintended consequences.

See also

Notes

References
 The Unanticipated Consequences of Purposive Social Action by Robert K. Merton, American Sociological Review, Vol 1 Issue 6, Dec 1936, pp. 894–904
 Unintended Consequences entry in Concise Encyclopedia of Economics
Unintended Consequences blog
 Unintended Consequences of Green Technologies
 Mica Adriana, Peisert Arkadiusz, Winczorek Jan (eds), (2011), Sociology and the Unintended. Robert Merton Revisited, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main.
 Huesemann, Michael H., and Joyce A. Huesemann (2011). Technofix: Why Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment, Chapter 1, "The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences", Chapter 2, "Some Unintended Consequences of Modern Technology", and Chapter 4, "In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes", New Society Publishers, Gabriola Island, British Columbia, Canada, , 464 pp.
 Edward Tenner, Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the Revenge of Unintended Consequences, Vintage Books, 1997.
 Tomislav V. Kovandzic, John Sloan III, and Lynne M. Vieraitis. Unintended Consequences of Politically Popular Sentencing Policy: The Homicide-Promoting Effects of 'Three Strikes' in U.S. Cities (1980–1999). Criminology & Public Policy Vol 1, Issue 3, July 2002.
 Vulcan, A.P., Cameron, M.H. & Heiman, L., "Evaluation of mandatory bicycle helmet use in Victoria, Australia", 36th Annual Conference Proceedings, Association for the Advancement of Automotive Medicine, October 5–7, 1992.
 Vulcan, A.P., Cameron, M.H. & Watson, W.L., "Mandatory Bicycle Helmet Use: Experience in Victoria, Australia", World Journal of Surgery, Vol. 16, No. 3, (May/June 1992), pp. 389–397.
 "Hidden Costs of Energy: Unpriced Consequences of Energy Production and Use"
 Alan Watts: The Story of the Chinese Farmer

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Five green plays that can't go wrong
Cover story of Shares Magazine on 2 September 2010. Original article here.
Global warning and the likelihood of long-term rises in the cost of fuel mean the case for going green is as strong as ever. Fears over subsidy reductions have hit many fledgling alternative energy stocks hard but, as Jessica Furseth explains, there are firms out there which look set to thrive, whatever the financial market on environmental climate.
The case for going green is clear. We need to get a grip on global warming and secure our energy supply for the day when oil, gas and coal run out, or at least become prohibitely expensive. While subsidies are in place to speed things along, boosting green investment and penalising carbon-sinners, Shares' favourite plays are the 'accidentally green' companies which receive little or no direct support. They not only stand on their own two feet, but also hold their ground against conventional players by offering a competitive return on investment with superior, energy-efficient products.
Our preferred picks are AFC Energy, because it takes a resource which is currently wasted, namely by-product hydrogen, and turns it into energy; Oxford Catalysts, for its breakthrough in utilising flare gas and other deposits previously deemed too small to exploit; hydrogen play ITM Power; environmental consultancy RPS Group, which aids corporations in their efforts to reduce their carbon footprint; and, for international exposure Greenko, a firm making strides with green energy rollout in India.
Blossoming industry
'The BP oil disaster was quite the wake-up call about the risk we are taking when we are drilling offshore,' says Bruce Jenkyn-Jones, managing director of Impax Asset Management Group and co-manager of Impax Environmental Markets fund. During the recession, appetite for risky 'jam tomorrow' stocks such as cleantech plays diminished significantly. Nevertheless, Jenkyn-Jones believes the long-term investment thesis remains the same – namely market-beating growth in cleaner and more efficient goods and services, resulting in superior returns. Political changes have led to uncertainty regarding the support for renewable energy. The US has seen delays due to low prices of traditional power, adds the fund manager, although growth in the Asian market has gone a long way to compensate. 'You need a diversified view. … [You see] phases of popularity and this is an unpopular phase. But that means this is a good time to enter for the longer term as we are seeing a lot of growth.'
The UK is lagging behind its target of generating 15% of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, the new government has admitted. The Confederation of British Industry estimates £150 billion in private investment is needed to reach this goal. The Department of Energy and Climate Change will launch a new business plan following October's spending review, and this could bring much-needed clarity for companies looking for investment. It is well known that energy secretary Chris Huhne wants to speed up the planning processes for renewable energy plants. He has already allowed local councils to start generating energy to sell to the grid and pledged to cut carbon emissions by 30% from 1990 levels by 2020, even floating the concept of a green investment bank.
Picking a green winner
While there is plenty of blue sky potential, it is essential to bear in mind the green journey is a thoroughly long-term one. The boom-or-bust nature of the cleantech sector has made for great share price volatility. Punters should therefore approach in the knowledge many of these technologies are unproven or not yet commercially viable, despite their revolutionary potential. We face decades of transition where old and new technologies and energy sources will continue to co-exist, tinkering away at ideas how to solve our environmental problems. Diversification is key, as well as asking a few key questions.
* Does the technology work?
Investors should look for regular technology updates from the earliest stage companies to ensure progress is being made. The developer of a cutting-edge energy-efficient material known as quantum dots, NanoCo, regularly issues reports on its development agreement with a major Japanese electronics company. Milestone payments are released each time the technology progresses towards the goal of providing back-lighting for TVs.
* Is the technology commercially viable?
Always consider how the company plans to make the technology commercially viable. Superconductor specialist Zenergy Power has experienced order delays but a number of deliveries of the energy-efficient products have been scheduled for this autumn. The company hopes the user experience will act as a catalyst for further orders.
* Is the company running out of money?
You simply must look at a pre-profit company's cash burn, particularly relative to how much money they have left. A quarterly burn rate of A$6 million meant Ceramic Fuel Cells had to turn to the market again last month (19 August), raising A$17.4 million even though it raised A$33 million in April 2009. The company expects this will fund operations 'for at least 12 months', taking it to 'the next stage of commercial development'.
* What is the return on investment?
Would-be green punters should always asses how long it takes before the cost of adopting the new product or technology is recouped from energy savings. The combined heat and power (CHP) unit from Energetix should see payback in four years, says the company, or around two years with the current UK feed-in tariff.
* Who will buy it?
A big player having taken an interest is usually a good sign here. Power giant Centrica owns 9.9% of fuel cell group Ceres Power. The green 'boilers' have been subject to delays, but plans have been made to sell them through the British Gas distribution network.
* Does the company depend on subsidies?
If the company relies on subsidies, it is vital to consider how secure these incentives are. Support for biomass is guaranteed only until 2013, prompting coal station Drax to call for a more stable system before it invests further. Helius Energy was not deterred, however, announcing plans for a 100 megawatt (MW) plant in Southampton (16 August).
Lastly, it is worth remembering that because cleantech development takes time, stocks might rise and fall as they are hyped up and then stumble as investors lose interest in one market darling before moving on to the next big thing. ITM Power's admittance that any notable traction for hydrogen-fuelled cars is at least five years away is unusual, as companies will rarely speak of events further than three years into the future as this is generally too taxing for investors' patience. Even so, delays beyond the initially stipulated timeframes are commonplace with ground-breaking technology. The risk-tolerant, patient cleantech punter should choose stocks he or she genuinely believes in, and then put them away and wait.
International flavour
The UK market for cleantech is relatively small, meaning international diversification comes highly recommended. Bruce Jenkyn-Jones at Impax goes as far as saying the UK is 'not a great place to invest in cleantech', but there are still a number of UK-listed companies with international exposure all the same.
One of these is Dialight, a leading provider of next-generation LED (light-emitting diode) lights for traffic control systems in the US and Europe. The LEDs ensure up to 90% reduction in energy consumption, ensuring a two-year payback period on a traffic light guaranteed to last at least five years. 'We think the LED sector is quite interesting. Costs are falling dramatically, so it is increasingly more competitive with traditional lighting,' says Jenkyn-Jones. LEDs are expected to be able to vie with domestic light bulbs by 2020, but until then growth from industrial applications should continue. July's half-year results from Dialight showed revenues up 33%, to £26.2 million, driven by ongoing strong growth in obstruction lights for wind turbines and mobile phone towers.
Greenko is investing heavily into renewable energy capacity in India, with 430 MW of its total secured capacity of 587 MW already under development. In the year to March, the group increased its turnover by 39%, to €19.3 million, and generated pre-tax profits of €4.9 million. 'Our primary focus is to build out our assets,' says Mahesh Kolli, co-founder and managing director of £165 million cap Greenko. 'Renewable energy is a mainstream energy in India,' the director asserts, because it is quick to build in a country with significant energy deficiency.
Greenko has so far focused mainly on biomass and hydro power, but Kolli confirms the group is now looking at adding wind to its portfolio. 'Hydro is our favourite asset as it is quick to build. We have a lot of [performance] data on hydro, and it is not dependent on subsidies to be profitable,' says Kolli, adding the latter is true also for biomass; 'Government tariffs give good support for wind.'
Long-term play
Last week (26 August) a potentially game-changing carbon capture project was proposed by a consortium of companies including AFC Energy. A 500 MW demonstration plant has been proposed at a Rio Tinto site in Northumberland, where partners B9 Coal, consultants WSP Group and Australia's Linc Energy will work with AFC. Linc's underground coal gasification technology will be used to turn coal into liquid, and the resulting gas will be separated into hydrogen and carbon dioxide. The hydrogen runs AFC Energy's fuel cell, while 90% of the carbon will be stored. The AFC fuel cell can utilise 60% of the energy derived from the coal, compared with the 30% efficiency of traditional coal power stations. The plant will churn out electricity at about 4p per kilowatt hour, according to the consortium's calculations, a level which would make the scheme competitive with conventional energy sources.
While the fuel cell industry has tested investors' patience in its efforts to become commercially relevant, AFC's alkaline technology benefits from being significantly cheaper. AFC's main activity has so far been to utilise waste-product hydrogen from corporations, and is working with chemicals giant AzkoNobel in Germany to turn its 'waste' into electricity.
'AFC Energy's technology is cheap and cheerful. The fuel cell runs at 60 degrees centigrade, it is made of plastic, and the only expensive component is some platinum in the electrodes, which the company is replacing with engineering ceramics,' says Tom McColm, associate research director at Allenby Capital, AFC's house broker. 'There is still a risk until the company starts making money,' adds McColm, a former fuel cell engineer at Ceres Power, 'but the technology fundamentals are tried and tested. It's just a matter of time, although this may be longer than the market currently expects.'
Mixed subsidy blessings
Subsidies have been necessary to shore up the development of industries such as wind and solar power, as the higher cost means they are not yet competitive with conventional energy. But this support can be lumpy; the solar industry is now stabilising following a year of vast over-capacity, which crushed prices after manufacturers ramped up production to meet demand created from a short-lived spell of very favourable incentives in Spain. Italy, Japan and the UK have since increased their incentive for the take-up of solar panels, only for a surprise cut in Germany, the world's biggest market, to curb enthusiasm for solar just as it had begun to recover.
'The reductions in the feed-in tariff encourages the industry to cut prices in the longer term, in order to move us nearer grid parity,' says Iain Dorrity, CEO of PV Crystalox Solar, referring to the point when solar becomes competitive in its own right. 'Our focus is to keep reducing our production costs.'
Set to grow installed capacity by 76% in 2010, the industry is expected to grow only by 14% next year due to the move in Germany. Panmure Gordon analyst Mark Davis expects PVCS will grow more than the overall industry next year as it increases sales into growing markets in Asia. The company expects to ship 320-340 MW worth of product this year, up from 239 MW in 2009, with higher volumes compensating for price cuts.
In the UK, August saw energy regulator Ofgem announce 4,457 solar panels having been installed since the incentive started in April. Volumes are rising month-on-month and should accelerate as awareness spreads. 'The feed-in tariff is the least bureaucratic incentive to boost uptake,' says Dorrity. Service company Eaga is progressing with solar installations on social housing, from which it will collect the feed-in tariff. The group also remains the key player in home insulation, an area noted as a priority by energy secretary Chris Huhne.
Carbon Reduction Commitment countdown
Despite the deadline being only weeks away (30 September), only around 10% of the UK's 4,000 biggest companies have so far submitted their proposals for how they will comply with the mandatory Carbon Reduction Commitment (CRC) energy efficiency scheme. Any company or public sector organisation consuming more than 6,000 megawatt hours (MWh) of energy per year, equivalent to a power bill of around £500,000, will either have to cut their carbon emissions or buy permits to pollute. A 6,000 MWh a year consumption rate would mean paying £38,000 every year in carbon permits if nothing is done.
Sabien Technology CEO Alan O'Brien points out: 'Many organisations already have the structures and processes in place to effectively manage their energy consumption and carbon emissions, and will be well placed to benefit from the CRC.' This includes having installed smart meters, which provide detailed information of energy usage. Bglobal is the main pure-play on smart meter installation in the UK, which has until now been focused on businesses but should eventually be rolled out in private homes. Sabien manufactures a device which, when fitted to a boiler, cuts energy costs by one quarter and slashes carbon dioxide emissions by 35%. A £500,000 contract with Greenwich Borough Council came in after the cut-off for Sabien financial year (30 June) but the group reported a sales pipeline of over £3 million. Last year Sabien's revenues came in at £675,000 although the firm did record a pre-tax loss of £825,000.
Another straightforward way to save on energy costs is a voltage optimiser, available from among others Active Energy, formerly known as Cinpart. The device will control the amount of power drawn from the grid. As what comes through the plug is too much, 10% to 15% is cut off the bill by only taking what is needed. Rising energy costs have now made the devices worthwhile, with a payback time of 18 to 36 months, not to mention the carbon saving credits.
Investors keen to diversify from any specific government incentive might want to consider environmental consultancies such as AEA Technology and RPS. Traditionally a clean energy project developer, Camco saw its advisory business move into profit in the first half of 2010. Scott McGregor tells Shares that Asian countries are particularly interested in green projects, as there are often energy shortages in these growing economies. 'The UK's CRC scheme is a good opportunity for businesses to address energy issues and become more competitive,' says McGregor, adding that most companies can cut their energy usage by 30% without too much investment, by installing energy-saving devices and changing behaviour, such as turning off computers at night and taking fewer flights. McGregor has also observed green issues rising on company agendas: 'Board members now want to know what the company is doing about energy savings.'
Utility-scale efforts
Earlier this year the government announced a £100 billion programme to build 25,000 MW worth of offshore wind capacity over a 12-year period. This is a massive undertaking, which involves developing new seaworthy turbines, infrastructure and grid connections.
SeaEnergy decided earlier this summer to withdraw from wind farm development and focus on the infrastructure side of what its chairman Steve Remp has described as 'the next North Sea adventure'. Last month the £17 million cap announced an agreement with Dutch offshore access solutions group Ampelmann, as it positions itself as a marine services business for the offshore wind industry.
Meanwhile, Scotland's BiFab, part-owned by Scottish and Southern Energy, has turned its hand to making tidal energy turbines for Scottish Power. Like SeaEnergy, the company has leveraged its expertise from the oil and gas exploration sector and applied this to offshore wind.
The high start-up costs mean it is the big utility companies that drive the UK's offshore investment. Scottish and Southern Energy is a key player as it already derives 2,200 MW, or 20% of its power, from renewables. The company has rights to 6,000 MW worth of offshore wind being developed off the Scottish coast – equivalent to six large coal-fired power stations.
Traditional energy companies, on the other hand, appear to be less interested in going green. Jeroen van der Veer, former CEO of Royal Dutch Shell, said shortly before retiring last year the company was planning to drop all new investment in wind, solar and hydrogen energy. The oil major indicated the decision, announced at its annual strategy update in March, had been taken because renewable developments were struggling to compete with other investment opportunities in its portfolio, namely oil, gas and biofuel projects.
In April, not long before the rig explosion that led to the Macondo oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, BP by contrast committed to spend more than $1 billion on alternative energy projects in 2010. It remains to be seen if this investment will be maintained in light of its new financial circumstances. There may be some pressure to do so, given the environmental damage caused by the spill, and in fairness BP spent $1.3 billion on alternative energy in 2009. Still, at around 6% this represents a very small proportion of its overall capital expenditure.
Posted on 12/16/2010 by Jess.	This entry was posted in Business features, Climate change and cleantech, Technology features. Bookmark the permalink.
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Blackpool to London services
Plans to introduce new InterCity services between Blackpool North and London Euston are still firmly on track for introduction in Spring 2020. Due to circumstances beyond our control we have been unable to achieve our original aim of starting these services towards the end of 2019.
Rights to operate these new 'open access' services were sought originally by Alliance Rail Holdings on behalf of Great North Western Railway (GNWR), both of which are Arriva companies. These rights were granted by the Office of Rail and Road in its decision letter dated 7 June 2018.
To ensure successful service introduction the mobilisation project has now been transferred from Alliance Rail and GNWR to Grand Central, Arriva's existing open access operator. This will make best use of a larger pool of expertise and resources, although Alliance Rail will continue to support mobilisation. Please see the news item about Blackpool services on this site or, for more information, visit the Grand Central website at www.grandcentralrail.com/blackpool
Grand Central will be recruiting drivers and on-board crew for its Blackpool traincrew hub. Train driver recruitment will begin soon. More information can be found at www.grandcentralrail.com/careers
To find out more about Grand Central, please visit www.grandcentralrail.com, or follow the railway company on Twitter @GC_Rail, Facebook or LinkedIn.
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Norway is the place to enjoy fjords, landscapes and local cuisine: find out more about Norwegian flavours, ingredients and its food scene.
Of all the excellent reasons for visiting Norway, food hardly gets a mention. Compared to the northern lights or the magnificence of the fiords and their charming fishing villages, cuisine seems to take a back seat. Despite which, the Norwegian food scene can be surprisingly agreeable.
In a country that extends over more than 385,000 square kilometres with a wide variety of climatic conditions and environments, it would be unfair to recap the national cuisine in a brief description. We can give you some travel advices for one of the more frequently visited spots, the Lofoten islands, with a stop-off at Oslo, the capital city and entry point to the country.
Cliffs overhanging the sea, daylight until midnight in the summer months and the play of northern lights in the winter, villages of red wood houses punctuating lush green fields: the Lofoten archipelago situated above the Arctic Polar Circle and consisting of 7 islands is of a wild and overwhelming beauty. The main industry is that of aquatic farming, cod in particular, which features strongly in most of the typical local dishes in the form of tørrfisk – stockfish, hung out to dry in the wind during the winter months – or klippfisk – salted codfish.
The lively town of Svolvær, the capital of the Lofoten islands, makes an excellent departure point for starting to explore the islands and familiarizing with their cuisine.
The BørsenSpiseri, built on a wharf in 1828, serves local specialities such as Stockfish Royal (Steamed stockfish fillet, stewed carrots, egg butter and potatoes), or Cured whale and Stockfish brandade. Dinner ends on a cheerful note at the pub next door with a shot of aquavit, the traditional liqueur made from potatoes and cumin, served with dried cod skin chips (we told you that cod was the unquestioned protagonist, didn't we?).
Just a few dozen kilometres away, we come across the fishing village of Henningsvær, with its 450 inhabitants. To bring home the importance of fishing around here, our guide tells us that, from the early age of 7, children earn their pocket money in the fishing factories, cutting off cod tongues.
At Lofotmat , a tiny yet delicious bistro in Nordic style, it is possible to buy local products such as jam and charcuterie, and enjoy simple comforting dishes like prawn soup.
It is possible to stay at the Hattvika Lodge, whose owners offer an authentic cod fishing experience – sea conditions permitting – which can be great fun. In the evening, food is served in an authentic fisherman's cottage dating back to 1880, which consists of simple yet accurately prepared dishes based on the catch of the day. And for those who fancy it, there is a chance to bathe in an open-air hot tub.
Frokost (breakfast) in Norway is a very important meal. The Thon Hotel chain, which runs over 40 establishments throughout the country, serves the most lavish of breakfasts. On the Lofoten islands, for instance, the Thon Hotel di Svolvær- the tallest building of the archipelago – offers breakfast with a view of the gulf, gladdened by a live piano performance.
The buffet table is laid out with dozens of types of bread, such as Fjellbrod made from rye flour and mixed seeds, with just as many different cheeses and sauces - comprising Kaviar, mackerel roe paté and Brunost, a sweetish dark coloured cheese, staple foods in any Norwegian larder – smoked and marinated fish, yogurt and spanking fresh juices, berry jams and home-made cakes. On request, the chef is willing to prepare omelettes and eggs of any type, as well as Norwegian pancakes, which are finer than the American version. After a breakfast like that, you are ready to face the most rigid temperatures.
Before going any further, you have to be warned: Oslo is an expensive city. Wildly expensive. The average price of a dinner in a restaurant is prohibitive for any tourist travelling on a budget and even a lunchtime sandwich or a simple breakfast in a snack bar can offer unwelcome surprises when it comes to paying the bill.
Then, if we start to talk about alcohol, the situation is even more dramatic, as expat Camilla Bonetti explains to us in her amusing and useful book From A to Å. Norway: instructions for use: "At the supermarket […] nothing has an alcohol content of over 5%. Alcohol can only be sold until 18.00 during the week and until 16.00 on Saturday. To buy wine and spirits you have to go to the Vinmonopolet, the state-owned retailer of alcoholic beverages located in every town. It offers products from all over the world, at prices that make your head ache".
Our advice? The indoor market of Mathallen offers thirty venues comprising hipster cafés, bistros, street food corners and stores selling local and international specialities at – relatively – affordable prices. Here, beer enthusiasts will be in their element at Hopyard and Øltorget, respectively a store and a pub with a selection of Norwegian craft beer that is one of the best in the country. ---If, on the other hand, money is no object, we remind you that Oslo is the home town of Maaemo, the most northerly three Michelin starred restaurant in the world, where a gourmet menu with wine pairings will set you back about 600 Euros.


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Are SUVs Safer Than Cars?
When shopping for a new car, there's a lot to consider. Many customers look at fuel economy, optional safety features, and overall car price. Generally, a smaller car will have better gas mileage, partially because it's made out of lightweight materials and partially because it has a smaller engine. But here's another thing to consider: do smaller cars perform better in crash test ratings compared to other vehicles, namely SUVs? This may bring you to another question: are SUVs safer than cars? Below, the personal injury attorneys at Janicek Law analyze the most recent data available about vehicle fatalities in order to answer that question.
The legal team at Janicek Law in San Antonio, TX is passionate about defending the rights of those injured in motor vehicle accidents. If you or someone you love has suffered major damages from an automobile accident that wasn't your fault, call us today at 210-366-4949 to schedule a free consultation.
How Many Car Accident Deaths Happen Every Year in the U.S.?
According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), nearly 43,000 Americans died in car accidents in 2021 alone. The NHTSA estimates that these driver death rates represent a 10.5% increase in car accident deaths from 2020. Additionally, the fatal crashes in 2021 represent the highest number of driver deaths on the roads since 2005.
Are Bigger Cars More Safe in Car Accidents Than Smaller Cars?
The answer to this question depends on many factors, especially vehicle type and size. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) states that heavier, larger vehicles are generally safer than lighter, smaller vehicles in an automobile accident. That's because the very front of a vehicle – the distance from the end of the hood to the driver – absorbs the full blow during a head-on car accident. Large cars tend to have far larger front ends than smaller cars. Therefore, drivers in small, passenger cars have a higher risk of sustaining serious injuries, especially in head on crashes.
The IIHS also explains that heavier cars tend to keep moving during car accidents, which results in passengers suffering from less force. Lighter vehicles tend to stop and crumple quickly during a crash, especially when they're crashing into a heavy car. This causes passengers in small cars to absorb a lot of force during an accident. Generally speaking, the more force a car driver suffers during an accident, the greater their injuries will be.
Common Car Accident Injuries
People involved in SUV accidents, car accidents, or 18 wheeler accidents can suffer from the following catastrophic injuries:
Concussions and other traumatic brain injuries (TBI)
Neck injuries such as whiplash
Complete or partial paralysis
One or more amputations
Loss of fetus
Injuries to the internal organs
Major scarring or disfigurement
Major burns, lacerations, and bruises
If you have suffered any of the aforementioned serious injuries in an automobile accident that wasn't your fault, you may have grounds to file a claim and receive significant compensation. A San Antonio personal injury attorney at Janicek Law can carefully review the details of your case and help you determine the best course of action. We offer a free consultation to all new clients.
What is an SUV?
For those who aren't very car-savvy, an SUV is a Sport Utility Vehicle. SUVs have a combination of elements from passenger cars and off-road vehicles. The most common characteristic that most SUVs have is four wheel drive. According to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), SUVs were some of the most popular cars worldwide in 2010-2021, accounting for nearly 46% of the world's passenger car market.
Because SUVs are larger, heavier cars compared to compact cars – such as Sedans for example – they are generally considered safer, especially in head-on accidents according to Consumer Reports. A 2013 report from NBC News even claims that SUV drivers are 50% more likely to survive a crash than drivers in regular cars.
But there are so many more factors to consider than just vehicle size and weight. Many times, the type of crash factors into vehicle safety.
Vehicles that are taller have a higher center of gravity. Vehicles with a higher center of gravity are more likely to roll over. Therefore, cars like SUVs and trucks have a higher rollover risk than small cars. As we all know, rollover accidents can be extremely deadly.
According to data from the IIHS, more than 7,000 traffic fatalities in 2020 occurred due to rollover crashes. Additionally, the majority of these rollover deaths were passengers in SUVs (40%) and pickup trucks (41%). For the sake of comparison, only 22% of regular car passenger deaths occurred due to rollovers.
The data also shows that compared to a sedan passenger, an SUV driver or a truck driver is less likely to survive a rollover crash involving a single vehicle. Meanwhile, the data shows that the rollover fatality risk for large vehicle drivers and small vehicle drivers is equal in multi-vehicle crashes.
Sedan safety tends to drop when it comes to SUV head-on crashes. The same data from the IIHS shows that 58% of head-on crash deaths in single vehicle crashes were passenger car drivers. Meanwhile, 54% of head-on crash deaths were SUV drivers and 55% of head-on crash deaths were pickup truck drivers.
SUV Safety Flaws
Yes, generally speaking, SUVs tend to be safer than compact cars due to their size and weight. But size and weight can create a lot of safety flaws as well. Not only do larger vehicles have a higher risk of rolling over, they also have bigger blindspots. Big blindspots can lead to more SUV accidents and more pedestrian accidents. In fact, a 2022 study from Consumer Reports claims that large cars are more likely to injure or kill pedestrians when making left turns compared to small cars. Researchers theorize that this is because drivers in SUVs and pickup trucks have larger blindspots.
Additionally, a truck or SUV driver may have a higher sense of security simply due to the size of their car. This sense of security can certainly influence driver behavior, causing them to take more risks at high speeds on the roads.
Best Car Safety Features To Look For
So with all this information in mind, you may be thinking: what are the best safety features to look for when I'm car shopping?
You definitely want to make sure your car has safety considerations like anti-lock brakes, automatic braking, electronic stability control (ESC), traction control system, and frontal and curtain airbags. Blind spot detection also creates some of the safest midsize and large vehicles on the market. Lastly, you want to look at crash test ratings and car safety tests from Consumer Reports. Tests like these will analyze a specific car's accident avoidance and wet and dry braking.
It's important to remember, though, that the safety standards of most cars are nothing without safe driving practices. Make sure to always wear seat belts, drive sober, and drive without distractions. If you don't, you're basically flirting with a higher mortality risk in a car accident.
Call San Antonio Personal Injury Attorneys at Janicek Law Today
Popular models of SUVs and trucks have some of the best safety features on the market. But even still, many people wonder: are SUVs safer than cars? Recent traffic fatality data from SUV accidents, truck accidents, and sedan accidents seems to say yes. That's why it's so important to keep vehicle type, size, and weight in mind when car shopping.
If you or someone you love has suffered a personal injury, a catastrophic injury, or a wrongful death due to a car accident that's not your fault, you may have grounds to take legal action. For more information, call San Antonio's top car accident attorneys at 210-366-4949 today. We offer a free case evaluation to all new clients.
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