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About BombshelltoeLovely Umayam2020-12-29T23:44:53+00:00
ABOUT BOMBSHELLTOE
(Bomb shelter x "shelltoe" Adidas shoes)
Cultural collisions and community collaborations that
encourage nuanced understanding and responsible stewardship of our nuclear world.
Founded in 2013 after receiving the U.S. State Department Arms Control Verification Award, Bombshelltoe started as an educational website that uses iconic pop-culture references in film and television (Godzilla! The Simpsons! Practically every superhero movie!) to demystify technical concepts used in the nuclear policy field. It has since evolved into in-person and web-based projects featuring nuclear engineers, activists, historians, artists, designers, and other expertise to explore how nuclear issues touch our every day lives and intersect with urgent social issues.
Today, it is known within the nuclear policy field as an experimental playground that brings policy thinkers, creatives, and community advisers together to produce rigorously researched, multi-disciplinary works addressing the threat of nuclear weapons. Going beyond traditional policy reports and expert panels, Bombshelltoe presents arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament topics through creative writing, visual arts, and interactive media.
In 2020, Bombshelltoe assumed non-profit status and is fiscally sponsored by Fulcrum Arts.
Illustration credit: Lovely Umayam (2020), digital collage with creative commons / public domain images
Bombshelltoe is supported by nuclear security grants, art grants, and individual donations. Projects have received funding from:
Beyond Going Viral:
Finding Social Responsibility for the Atom
The word "nuclear" is – for better or for worse – back in vogue.
Over the past several years, news about the successes of North Korean missile testing, the precarious fate of U.S. – Russia arms control agreements, talk about #WWIII between the U.S. and Iran, and anxiety over who has access to the "red button" has elevated nuclear policy into the public consciousness in a way not seen since the Cold War. Given the turn of the tide, academia and civil society are rushing to use this swell of information to make nuclear awareness go "viral." However, attracting attention is not the same as capturing public imagination.
Grassroots anti-nuclear activism in the United States during the 60s and 70s – marches, teach-ins, and Congressional calls to action – stemmed from a palpable sense of impending destruction unique to that time. But in today's "post-truth" era, the public is steeped in a relentless information cycle that makes nuclear issues more undecipherable and unrelatable than ever.
The emergence of interactive news platforms offers new and compelling ways for the public to access information about the nuclear field. But even these videos, infographics and blogs assume that the audience has a base understanding and interest in these issues. Topics that are on the forefront of mainstream conversations – from racial equity to climate change to feminism – share a relationship with nuclear concerns too. It takes effort to illustrate these connections and argue why nuclear issues are worth fighting for, whether it be disarmament or safer nuclear technologies.
Bombshelltoe contextualizes and humanizes rigid historical and political information about nuclear issues in order to make genuine connections with real people – those who will inevitably shoulder the burden and suffer the consequences of a world that continue to value the existence of nuclear weapons.
How does the threat of nuclear weapons intersect with some of today's urgent issues?
Feminism:
While there are more women working in the nuclear field than ever before, it is still difficult to fully eradicate the deep entanglement between nuclear weapons and the patriarchy, and the problematic gender norms that the field has historically adopted and continue to perpetuate, even subconsciously. Bombshelltoe is committed to practicing feminist foreign policy, as well as rooting out overt and subtle exclusionary practices that discourage, disenfranchise, and devalue women and gender non-conforming individuals who contribute their expertise in the field. It is not just about meeting the quota to achieve inclusion or diversity, but about changing expectations and culture within the workplace and among collaborations.
Anti-Racism:
Through the activism and writings of W.E.B Du Bois, Richard Wright, Malcolm X and the King family, civil rights and nuclear disarmament overlap as essential components of global human rights and peace. Furthermore, the threat of nuclear weapons has always intersected with the fight against racism and colonialism, since the production and maintenance of nuclear weapons has historically harmed and exploited black and brown bodies. Bombshelltoe is committed to an anti-racist approach in nuclear policy, beginning with full recognition of the harm done to people of color, and passing the mic to BIPOC experts who are best positioned to talk about the intersection of racism and nuclear politics.
Climate Change:
Rising sea levels are driving out Bikini Atoll islanders – the same people who were once displaced by U.S. nuclear tests. And there are many more groups around the world who are burdened by the lion's share of consequences inflicted by nuclear weapons and environmental injustice. Bombshelltoe is committed to reaching out and learning from frontline communities who suffer from the twin calamities of nuclear weapons legacy and climate change in order to find genuinely sustainable ways to protect the planet. Bombshelltoe does not believe in an "either/or" scenario between these two issues; they *both* must be addressed head-on in order to avoid apocalypse.
Bombshelltoe is a proud supporter of the Gender Champions in Nuclear Policy, as well as the Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security (WCAPS) Statement Against Racism and Discrimination.
Growth as a Collective
In 2017, Bombshelltoe began developing projects with collaborators from the nuclear policy, science, grassroots, and artistic fields. These projects often begin as a seed of curiosity: what if we tried to understand the history and impact of nuclear weapons from a different angle using a creative medium?
Project arrangements are flexible and depend on the objectives and the group's expected level of effort / time-commitment. Sometimes a project calls for short consultancies / commissions, while others entail multi-year effort with equal ownership to the creative output. Some projects are super experimental and pursued on a one-time, volunteer basis or self-funded by Bombshelltoe, while others are fully-matured to require funding (note: Bombshelltoe will always work with collaborators on finding financial or in-kind support for labor and supplies). Different projects can flourish within the collective, but they all have one thing in common: projects are designed to follow a transmedia model, which allows the project narrative to manifest in various forms and reach different target audiences, ideally engaging people who do not know much about nuclear policy, as well as experts who are already knee-deep in the scholarship or policy-making. In other words, an existing project can continue to evolve in multiple forms, with new collaborators adding new types of art pieces or research.
As such, Bombshelltoe projects are not just about the end-product, but the process itself — fostering a positive co-existence where different types of expertise can mingle, respect, and learn from one another, with the unified goal of elevating the human understanding of our nuclear world.
For inquiries or to discuss a specific idea, get in touch with Lovely directly:
lovely[at]bombshelltoe.com
CURRENT / PAST COLLABORATORS
Adriel Luis
Community Advisor / Creative Advisor / Producer
Sunny Dooley
Cultural Advisor / Producer
Carmille Garcia
Kayla Briët
Jessica Wagner
Technical Advisor
Karen Hogue
Tubik Studios
Bookmaker (Passenger Pigeon Press)
Co-creator - The Color Curtain Project
Christian Ciobanu
Nuclear Disarmament Advocacy
Danielle Samler
Foreign National
Combing Cotton Co.
Erica Shimizu-Banks
"Bombshelltoe aims to incite curiosity and foster empathy, so that nuclear issues are perceived with universal understanding and collective responsibility."
Lovely Umayam (Founder)
Founder Statement


Flower order and delivery isn't a realm known for brand loyalty or innovation. But two California startups, the Bouqs Company and Bloom2Bloom, want to change that.
To plant their brands in consumers' minds, they have to do things differently than FTD and 1-800-Flowers.
"You look at the landscape and there are tens of thousands of florists and websites and order gatherers out there, but there isn't a single emotionally driven flower brand that's big and national," said Bouqs co-founder John Tabis, a veteran of Disney corporate brand development. "I found it fascinating that you have this category that is so emotionally driven, but with no emotionally driven brand. That felt like a really big miss."
Bloom2Bloom, founded by Whitney Port from the MTV show "The Hills" and business partner Laurenne Resnik, counts on a growing consumer consciousness about local sourcing, in addition to Port's social media following, for advancing the Bloom2Bloom cause. Bloom2Bloom has committed to working only with U.S. growers; the bulk of the blooms are from California.
Bouqs similarly emphasizes branding, but not local sourcing. Tabis' co-founder, Juan Pablo Montúfar, runs a flower farm in Quito, Ecuador, and began scrutinizing the supply chain to reduce flower waste.
From 33 to 50 percent of flowers are lost, thrown away in that supply chain, whereas in Bouqs' supply chain it's less than 2 percent, according to Tabis.
After Montúfar called Tabis proposing his tech-enabled tweaks, the two agreed to partner on Bouqs.
"What got me excited about it is it's rare you find an industry with such a broken supply chain, and no one ever trying to deploy technology to fix it," Tabis said.
There's tremendous upside for those who stem the losses. Wholesale flower sales reach $3 billion annually, plus $13 billion retail, in the U.S. Globally the numbers exceed $50 billion, according to Tabis.
A more efficient supply chain could lower costs, helping to make flowers less of a luxury and more of a regular pleasure. That change in mindset is one Bloom2Bloom very much advocates.
"Bloom2Bloom is excited to be focused on the everyday flowers—flowers you buy for yourself just because—as well as those you buy for special occasions," Resnik said. "We are very much focused on bringing a brand of flowers that fits in with the everyday lifestyle."
California's weather means about 75 percent of what is grown in the U.S. is grown in-state, Resnik said, which abets Bloom2Bloom's commitment to local sourcing.
U.S. sourcing doesn't limit creativity, Resnik said. Bloom2Bloom is becoming known for layering succulents into arrangements and bouqets that don't shy away from bold mixes of color and texture.
Port's social media following is key to the partners' marketing strategy. Her posts on Instagram and other channels have driven much of Bloom2Bloom's sales growth.
The founders differentiate Bloom2Bloom further by directing a portion of each purchase to Wish Upon a Teen, a nonprofit organization that helps seriously ill teens appoint their hospital rooms with décor they love. That partnership is consistent with how Port and Resnik want to position their flowers.
When Tabis and Montúfar launched the Bouqs Company in 2012, they implemented Montúfar's plan to deliver flowers faster from eco-friendly, sustainable farms internationally.
Temperature and hydration are critical during transport of flowers.
Bouqs also leverages technology in its communication with more than 100 farms around the world, which grow 1.8 million stems each year.
However, Bouqs doesn't oversee farm operations.
Bouqs is investing in its tech stack to make it smarter, Tabis said, layering on artificial intelligence.
Bouqs' formula isn't based just on technology but also relationships. Today Bouqs has a wait list of farms seeking partnerships, Tabis said.
In return, Bouqs expects its partner farms to use sustainable methods, including natural predators against nuisance insects, and to treat land and labor with respect, versus defaulting to cheaper workers and toxic chemicals. Bouqs deploys third-party verification organizations such as the Rainforest Alliance and Fairtrade, in addition to deploying its own teams, including six people in Ecuador, to monitor farms' methods.
To some extent, Tabis hopes that Bouqs' model inspires imitation.
Not to mention for the recipient.


Osteoarthritis (OA) is a common musculoskeletal disease occurring worldwide in all populations. In addition to deterioration of the quality of individuals' life, OA also entail significant costs to society by the forms of lost working ability and costs of treatment. In this study, we establish the 3D histopathological grading of OA using cutting-edge CT technologies in vitro, and finally test the established grading with clinical CT scanner in vivo. Human osteochondral samples (>200) from patients undergoing total knee arthroplasty will be imaged with nano/micro-CT devices, as well as with clinical high-end CT device. Tissue molecular composition and high-resolution structure will quantified in 3D from the data. From this information, a novel 3D histopathological grade is developed by using statistical classification algorithms. Finally, the developed novel 3D histopathological grading of OA will be applied clinically in vivo.


The Z016 (845) is U.L. listed (3 hours) for use on the inactive leaf of a pair of metal doors, and fits the standard ANSI preparation. The units are supplied in pairs, consisting of a self-latching top bolt for the top of the door, and a standard automatic flush bolt for the bottom of the door (this bottom bolt is exactly the same as the bottom bolt in the Z004/842 opposite). The bolts are fully automatic and require no power or electricity.
Both bolts are fitted in the first closing door (inactive leaf). At the top of the door the self-latching flush bolt has a bevel shaped bolt and will engage the curved lip strike in the head of the frame as the first closing door (inactive leaf) closes, locking it at the top. The bottom bolt, an automatic flush bolt, will engage the sill and frame strike only when the second closing door (active leaf) is closed. Therefore, when both door leaves are closed, both top and bottom bolts are engaged.
The bottom bolt will be released when the active door is opened. The top bolt will remain locked until the circular plunger is manually depressed on the face of the bolt, and then it will be possible to open the inactive leaf.
The patented non-handed free floating cam triggering device is at the heart of this smooth easy-acting mechanism; a low closing force of only 5 lbs of the active door is required to extend both top and bottom bolts. An override feature prevents damage to doors or frame, should the bolt heads and strikes be misaligned i.e. the bolts be prevented from penetrating either the top or bottom strikes. Bolts can be vertically adjusted 38mm for unusual clearances, floor or head conditions.
Reversible, non-handed. It is not necessary to reverse either top or bottom bolt.


Award-winning writer, producer and speaker Craig Havighurst is passionate about tunes you won't find on popular radio. The senior producer and show journalist for Music City Roots is well-aware that musical history and theory isn't packaged in the most appealing of ways. So with his latest one-man show String Theory, based on themes taken from his eponymous blog, Havighurst brings high-level knowledge down to planet earth. It is his way of rebelling against the modern-century institutions of MTV, mega branding, and Youtube. Music is Havighurst's form of connection in an overly crowded world.
Has your hearing always been so refined?
People assume that some are born with gifted ears. That's just not true. We're all born with the same circuitry.
How do you cultivate your active listening skills?
Sit quietly in a room and listen to everything that you can. While listening to a record pinpoint the pitch, pace, or timbre. I dare you to question, why does the flute sounds so different from the oboe?
Like anything, the more you spend time thinking about it the better your hearing becomes?
Exactly! I love listening to recordings before and after they've been mastered. A good mastering engineer can take a recording that sounds flat and make it three-dimensional. It's a polishing process similar to editing, color correcting and balancing a photograph. The great musicians and conductors are always figuring out new ways to listen more deeply.
Does this translate to being a good listener in real life?
I can feel more so than ever if I'm halfway there or really present. In a chaotic, twitchy world it's no question why people crave that sense of mindfulness. Music has become more of an anchor for me than ever because the world has gotten so crazy. It's one of my ways of figuring out how to live sanely in a Twitter-ized world, which I can feel changing my brain chemistry for the worse. Listening to a six-minute jazz tune or 20-30 minute symphony is a great form of meditation.
You are a walking music encyclopedia. What initially made you fall down the rabbit hole?
I think everyone is born with an inherent interest in music, which is why I hate snobbery—the attitudes with which classical, jazz and art music have been championed keep those genres suppressed. As part of a well-rounded education my parents signed me up for violin lessons at age seven. Similar to dating, I had to play the field to find my voice.
Which is when you found guitar?
Actually, my parents bought me a drum set in 7th grade. I've always been a rhythmic person— drumming on chicken buckets and looking for things to tap on. To have their support was awesome.
Are you ever able to turn off your critical brain when listening to music?
At this point, I feel like I'm just wired to hear complexities. The whole premise of String Theory is that you can train your brain to listen to music in a deeper way without having to consciously think about it. Being taught to hear just the baseline in a song was a really great gift.
How does your study on sound relate to your career as a writer?
To see the bigger picture as well as the small details is journalism. My father taught me to hold two opposing views and see the value in both without being attached to either. I need a lot of information before I can make a decision.
Does being a history buff and having so many facts in your head ever hinder you creatively?
You gotta know something before you can spin it. It's really important for me to know where my craft comes from. Facts, dates and historical chapters have to be in your mental rolodex if you want to reshuffle them. Learning music history was a natural process: what is that song? Who inspired that artist? It's an endless cycle of celebrating those that came before.
Do you think that appreciation is lost on my generation?
I think it's lost on the culture aside from the obligatory Grammy tribute. If I could rewrite the educational system I would teach the great chapters of American history with a musical component. You cannot properly talk about the Civil Rights era without bringing Stax records, Billy Holiday and Louis Armstrong into the picture. To not teach it in the classroom is a travesty. Music tells a story in a way people are more likely to remember.
As a parent do you feel a responsibility to ingrain this interest in your daughter?
I figure the musical part of her upbringing will happen by osmosis. If I can tell her a fact or story about a song I'll slip it in.
What do you think of the current state of music journalism?
What's your personal approach to interviewing your fellow musicians?
You and I are both huge Studs Terkel fans. The way he was able to illuminate some aspect of what people do is amazing. It's about allowing the subject to talk about what they know in the manner they can best explain it.
I love that. You, like Studs and I, never lost your childlike curiosity. Why?
Curiosity is the highest virtue after honesty and decency. I'm a dilettante and have been so lucky to dabble in different worlds through journalism. To lose my sense of curiosity would be as debilitating as going deaf.
Why did you choose the one-man show as your format?
I like public speaking, live interviews and storytelling as an extension of the written word. I love the idea of people exchanging ideas and having a thoughtful time. Also, I come from a long line of teachers and preachers so I'm genetically predisposed to deliver information. As a freelance writer, you are constantly trying to find your niche. The multimedia format seemed unusual enough that it might actually work. I hope String Theory gives a motivational poke to other music lovers.
And it's pragmatic rather than esoteric.
Exactly. The term "music theory" sends people running in the other direction. This is about getting a deeper, richer pleasure from music. Not to become a scholar or analyze scales but rather enhance your experience of listening to music. I can't wait for the conversations that ensue afterwards.
Get your tickets to String Theory, held at the City Winery on Monday June 20, here.
Hire Lily for an interview or to write your bio here.


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Q: Insert Information to MySQL from multiple related excel files So i have this huge DB schema from a vehicle board cards, this data is actually stored in multiple excel files, my job was to create a database scheema to dump all this data into a MySql, but now i need to create the process to insert data into the DB.
This is an example of how is the excel tables sorted:

The thing is that all this excel files are not well tagged.
My question is, what do i need to do in order to create a script to dump all this data from the excel to the DB?
I'm also using ids, Foreign keys, Primary Keys, joins, etc.

I've thought about this so far:
1.-Normalize the structure of the tables in Excel in a good way so that data can be inserted with SQL language.
2.-Create a script in python to insert the data of each table.
Can you help out where should i start and how? what topics i should google?

A: With pandas you can easily read from excel (both csv and xlsx) and dump the data into any database
import pandas as pd
df = pd.read_excel('file.xlsx')
df.to_sql(sql_table)

If you have performance issues dumping to MySQL, you can find another way of doing the dump here
python pandas to_sql with sqlalchemy : how to speed up exporting to MS SQL?

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The result view displays the list of sent messages and files. Each message is highlighted in a different color according to its type: Personal messages are default color (usually white), group messages — in green, news messages — in blue, and file transfers are highlighted in gray.
The list shows messages and file transfers for the period you can specify on the Interface tab of the Options dialog box. The following periods are available for showing messages and transfers: last 1 day (today), last 3 days, last 7 days, last 15 days, last 30 days, last 45 days, last 60 days and for all time.
Click a message or file transfer in the list to display it in the Preview pane at the bottom of the result view. Press and hold down the Ctrl key to select multiple messages/file transfers from the list.
To save the selected messages and file transfers currently displayed in the Preview pane, select File\Save As... from the main menu. Browse or type a name of the text file to which the save messages.
To print the selected messages and file transfers currently displayed in the Preview pane, select File\Print... from the main menu.
By default, the result list shows personal (user-to-user), group (Messaging Groups) and news (News Messages) messages and all file transfers that can be personal, group and distribution tasks (File Distribution). You may exclude group and/or news messages from the list. Right-click the list and clear the Show group messages" and "Show news messages" checkbox items respectively in the pop-up menu.
In order to show only deleted or declined File Transfers use appropriate checkboxes in the pop-up menu in the list. Please note that those menu items are available only in the Deleted & Declined result view.
You can manually move messages and file transfers to the Deleted view in the Pending result view if you decide that they should not be delivered to their recipients as offline messages and files. Right-click such a data and select Move to deleted items from the pop-up menu.


REPORTER AT LARGE about Lisa Foster, the widow of former deputy White House counsel Vince Foster. This is Lisa's first interview since her husband's suicide two years ago. Vince and Bill Clinton were childhood friends from Hope, Arkansas. He and Lisa were part of the inner circle of Arkansans celebrating Clinton's victory on Election Night 1992 at the Governor's Mansion. Vince joined Clinton in Washington as the deputy White House counsel; Lisa and their three children joined them later. By the time Lisa arrived in Washington, Vince realized that he should have stayed in Little Rock; everything in the Clinton administration seemed to go wrong and much of it was souring under Foster's watch (i.e. Zoe Baird, Kimba Wood, Lani Guinier, etc.). Vince took most of these failures very personally and he began to have trouble sleeping at night.
Things worsened with Travelgate, and the publication of three Wall Street Journal editorials that were critical of Foster. Vince realized that he was suffering from depression and began taking antidepressants. On July 20th, Vince committed suicide and Lisa was informed about his death by the Park Police.
Lisa immediately left Washington and went back to Arkansas. She was angry at everyone in Washington, the city she believed was responsible for her husband's depression. Shortly after Vince's death, wild speculations began circulating in Washington about the reasons he died.
Many subscribed to conspiracy theories linking Vince to Whitewater, the C.I.A., an affair with Hillary Clinton, etc. Lisa doesn't believe Vince had anything to do with Whitewater or Hillary Clinton, and has conducted her own investigation into his suicide. She believes his depression, resulting largely from a sense of failure at work, ultimately drove him to suicide. Now, Lisa has decided to remarry a Little Rock lawyer named Jim Moody, who was just appointed to the federal bench. They will marry at the end of this year.
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Stay with your old man.
Let's consider our future
And forget the past.
"Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" opens the album "Together Through Life" from 2009, which I suppose is a joke because there's plenty that lies beyond this song, and all of it is good. "Together Through Life" is a variation on the snaky blues-song readymades that Bob Dylan has been assembling from other songs perhaps as much as writing since 1997. While "Time Out of Mind," "Love and Theft," "Modern Times," "Together Through Life" and "Tempest" all have their own differences in sound and production, they feel almost like pastiches from the great American blues, folk and country-and-western songbooks. That's fine with me because it couches the starry sky of Dylan's meanderings in easy-to-understand chords and melodies rather than challenging the listener to take heed of musical innovations at the same time as the poetry. "Beyond Here Lies Nothin'" is also of a piece with many of these songs: Dylan's an old man, he's singing songs of love to a woman, whether she's the same one who has so often abandoned him or whether she's someone new. Either way, he's old, mistrustful, bitter and reminiscing, while at the same time new vistas for life open up. Whether she's with him or without him in this song, is up to the listener to guess.
The video for this song is unaccountably violent and not suitable for work vieweing, and it didn't sit well with me at all. It's a short film of mutual domestic abuse in which the woman, who has been tied to a bed by the man, frees herself. They go at one another with punches, frying pans knives and a big car, and if there's a metaphor here about the passion of relationships among people who really really really love each other, then it's diminished by the graphic violence in the scenes. Having said that, I've heard people say more violent things to each other than what these two do.
You might prefer this live performance from Tucson, Arizona.
Labels: 2009, Beyond Here Lies Nothin', Together Through Life
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You know summer has arrived when Wimbledon starts. I have so many memories of watching tennis on hot sunny days, unfortunately hot sunny days seem to be nothing but a distant memory this year but I'm still hopeful that things will improve. We haven't even had one really hot day yet, we actually lit our fire last week as it's been so cold in the house. And I'm seriously considering unpacking all my winter clothes but I guess that's summer in the UK for you!
I just wanted to post here and let you know that I have created a couple of Wimbledon themed garlands for the Christy Towels blog, the tutorial shows you how to make a felt strawberry garland and a tennis racket garland. They are both really simple and would make great decorations for any parties or BBQs you are having during the Wimbledon season.
If you would like to see the full tutorial then you can find it HERE.


Dry pork and season with salt and pepper. Toss lightly in flour. Brown pork in 2 T. Chipotle Olive Oil in an oven safe pot. Remove Pork and de-glaze pan with wine/chicken broth. Add cut up vegetables and cook till they begin to soften. Add pork and pineapple back to pot and drizzle with Dark Chocolate Balsamic. Cover and bake at 300 degrees for 1 ½ hours.


The purpose of the proposal is to create a Touristic centre on the Klekovaca Mountain which will offer the facilities for both winter and summer mountain breaks. The proposal aim is to maintain to the maximum the natural environment as well as to highlight its beauty. The proposal is also going to reflect the mixture of traditional urban grids with contemporary quiet buildings which have as an aim to create a homely environment for the visitor, and to accomplish synergy of the visual quality of the landscape, open spaces and architecture.
Our proposal is an experimental hybrid between urbanism and landscape design: City and Nature overlapped in the simultaneous coexistence of a recreational open landscape of urban stripes superimposed on an urban neighborhood of walkable streets, plazas and Parks.
The concept of the propasal reflects the most striking features of the neighboring territories, allowing to combine the characteristic elements of local architecture with existng lanscape, thus creating a hybrid landscape and the connection between the urban structure and nature.
We propose a design contextually sensitive in order to integrate local cultures (traditional urban grid) and nature and create new artistic value on all spatial levels and relations. Taking on account the spatial and visual quality of integration of the urban zone of the Tourist Centre into the environment, quality of harmonisation between different zone units within the Complex, and visual quality of individual spaces and facilities.
The project is planned to respect the key values of the context, especially of untouched nature, and to create an innovative and advanced model of organization and operation of a tourist resort, and also to emphasize visual qualities of architecture, open public spaces and landscapes.
The proposed Touristic complex includes a ring and different separated stripes which consist of series of different shaped buildings integrated in an urban grid related to the traditional towns of the area. The design result is like a small city´s urban grid housed inside abstract stripes creating a landmark villa.
The complex is organized along a circular building of retail, entertainment and facility programs. Over the ring building bicycles, peatons and sikiers, among and electric public transport bring visitors quickly around. The vast accessible roof features gentle sloping surface allowing visitors to experience the panoramic views of the Mountain landscape.
The proposal is an urban form combining dense city inside the stripes with open landscape and will become a touristic gathering point for the surrounding cities and countries. Like a city that is carved and sculpted into the landscape, the entire facility is linked by an accessible ring with a green roof which includes recreational areas and facilities.


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Professor Shah is the Chief of Cardiology at King's College Hospital and King's Health Partners as well as the Director of the King's College London British Heart Foundation Centre of Excellence. He is also the overall lead for the King's Health Partners Cardiovascular Programme which is integrating the clinical cardiovascular services of King's College Hospital and Guys & St Thomas' Hospital.
His major clinical expertise lies in the areas of interventional cardiology and heart failure, including difficult-to-diagnose and manage conditions.
Professor Shah is a graduate of the University of Wales College of Medicine and also undertook training in the USA. He is an elected Fellow of the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology and the International Society for Heart Research.
Interventional cardiology; Heart failure; Cardiomyopathy; Hypertension; Ischaemic heart disease; endomyocardial biopsy; valve disease; cardiac catheterisation; coronary angioplasty and stent implantation
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James Black Centre King's College Hospital 125 Coldharbour Lane LONDON SE5 9NU
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import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringUtils;

import java.util.Collection;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

/**
 * Registry of all RegisteredServices.
 *
 * @author Scott Battaglia
 * @author Dmitriy Kopylenko
 * @since 3.1
 */
public interface ServiceRegistry {

    /**
     * Persist the service in the data store.
     *
     * @param registeredService the service to persist.
     * @return the updated RegisteredService.
     */
    RegisteredService save(RegisteredService registeredService);

    /**
     * Remove the service from the data store.
     *
     * @param registeredService the service to remove.
     * @return true if it was removed, false otherwise.
     */
    boolean delete(RegisteredService registeredService);

    /**
     * Retrieve the services from the data store.
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     * @return the collection of services.
     */
    Collection<RegisteredService> load();

    /**
     * Gets services stream.
     * <p>
     * The returning stream may be bound to an IO channel (such as database connection),
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     * @return the services stream
     */
    default Stream<? extends RegisteredService> getServicesStream() {
        return load().stream();
    }

    /**
     * Find service by the numeric id.
     *
     * @param id the id
     * @return the registered service
     */
    RegisteredService findServiceById(long id);

    /**
     * Find a service by an exact match of the service id.
     *
     * @param id the id
     * @return the registered service
     */
    default RegisteredService findServiceByExactServiceId(final String id) {
        return load()
            .stream()
            .filter(r -> StringUtils.isNotBlank(r.getServiceId()) && r.getServiceId().equals(id))
            .findFirst()
            .orElse(null);
    }

    /**
     * Find a service by an exact match of the service name.
     *
     * @param name the name
     * @return the registered service
     */
    default RegisteredService findServiceByExactServiceName(final String name) {
        return load()
            .stream()
            .filter(r -> r.getName().equals(name))
            .findFirst()
            .orElse(null);
    }

    /**
     * Find service predicate registered service.
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        return load()
            .stream()
            .filter(predicate)
            .findFirst()
            .orElse(null);
    }

    /**
     * Return number of records held in this service registry. Provides default implementation so that implementations
     * needed this new functionality could override it and other implementations not caring for it could be left alone.
     *
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     * @since 5.0.0
     */
    default long size() {
        return load().size();
    }

    /**
     * Returns the friendly name of this registry.
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     * @return the name.
     * @since 5.2.0
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}

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Social Responsibility in Extractive Industries
1.1 Companies and Society
1.2 The Predatory Potential of Extractives
2 THE ABCs OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
2.1 Corporate Social Responsibility
2.2 Different Approaches
2.3 Oil and Gas
2.4 Mining
3 CASE STUDIES
3.1 The Incident with Anvil Mining Ltd.
3.2 Oil Exploitation in Nigeria
4 MAJOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY FRAMEWORKS
4.1 United Nations Global Compact
4.2 Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI)
4.3 Benefit Corporations and Certified B Corporations
4.4 Social Responsibility through 'Social Licence to Operate.'
Social responsibility is about identifying and managing business impacts, both positive and negative, on people. The quality of an organisation's relationships and commitment to its stakeholders is critical. For instance, extractive companies affect what happens to employees, workers in the value chain, customers, local communities, and minorities, and it becomes imperative to manage impacts proactively.
From the encounter between companies and local communities, social responsibility emerges as something mediated and contested amongst the business and its stakeholders. In these encounters, two preeminent matters are intersecting: a company's ambition of profit, and the local community's desire for prosperity, human development, and governance over its own resources. Simultaneously, there exist two main concessions: the company has a need for credibility and recognition in the culture in which it works (licence to operate), and the community has a need for further private economic projects and support. This complex relation leads us to an important question: does an extractive corporation behave in the same manner when it moves into another social order?
To support their commitment to ethical behaviour, multinational firms usually claim that they implement the same rules in every location. However, they behave differently in practice, as "the same institutions work differently in different circumstances, particularly in the absence or presence of open access" [1]. So how do extractive industries adapt their behaviour to their institutional environment? Concerning the international social order, a mix of national and international regulations governs industries' operations (including between its headquarters and subsidiaries, or with other partners). These regulations stem from central banks, regional organisations like the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) or the European Union (EU), or international organisations like the World Trade Organization (WTO).
The following table specifies four cases (a, b, c and d) depending on the home and host social orders.
Figure 1. Source: Figure 1. Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-030-10816-8
Some natural resources, such as wood, oil, or minerals, can foster social tensions. The clear majority of companies handling these products also display significant economic power. When economic power is important, it is likely to build strong impersonal and personalised relationships with its home social order. This section will analyse some determinants that will foster predatory tendencies; whilst a part of these factors are intrinsic, others are related to its home social order. This section will present some predatory behaviour commonly observed in extractive activities.
An actor's predatory capacity refers to his propensity to develop predatory behaviours; that is, to move and settle in another social order through the existence of business opportunities, the ability to mobilise resources for this development, and incentives offered by the host social order [2]. From an institutional perspective, a corporation in the extractive industry based only in its own country is mainly subject to national regulation. Once settled in an additional political territory, it is subject to three regulatory systems: (i) its home social order; (ii) the host social order; and (iii) the international social order, which is an international order of predation as revealed above.
Some products and services have destructive attributes due to the production process, or their use generates high social costs. One of the most obvious predatory characteristics is pollution. Such products include hydrocarbons, heavy metals, phytosanitary products, etc. Other are less obvious as they affect lifestyles and institutions within a host social order. Some examples of predatory behaviours are detailed below:
Corruption of government officials;
Tax avoidance;
Intimidation or violence against local stakeholders;
Use of production techniques, processes, or raw materials that are obsolete or prohibited in their home social orders.
Waste discharges without treatment, or natural environment destruction without repair;
Development of transactions with co-contractors, subcontractors, suppliers, or customers who maintain predatory behaviours in their own value chains.
Complicity in destabilising institutions of host social orders, through fueling of militias or coups.
Large philanthropic actions as a corruptive approach to divert attention.
More broadly, the violation or complicity of violation of human rights in the company's sphere of influence.
Finally, as infrastructure and exploration investments required for oil, gas and mining ventures are substantial, they often mean that exploitation of natural resources in developing countries cannot carry on without the foreign enterprises taking part. For many emergent nations, multinationals' extractive operations are a vital source of revenue, giving the local authorities a vested interest in protecting those operations against protesters, uncooperative landholders, bandits, or insurgents.
Social responsibility aims to identify and manage business impacts on the people either positively or neutrally [3]. Company engagement with stakeholders is a critical aspect of socially responsible business practices. Extractive industries need to manage their business impact proactively, including employees, workers in the supply chain, customers, and local communities. Extractive activities' social license to operate largely depends on their efforts towards social sustainability. From an emphasis on the natural environment, the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative has gradually extended its attention to all dimensions of human and social life. Today, CSR discusses human rights abuses in general and fights predation, aiming to transform predatory practices into responsible behaviours.
Figure 1. Corporate social responsibility embraces dual objectives—pursuing benefits for the business and society. Source: https://www.mckinsey.com/featured-insights/leadership/making-the-most-of-corporate-social-responsibility
CSR is a concept that means different things to different specialists. In a nutshell, it acknowledges that corporations have a range of obligations that consumers, society, law and other stakeholders have entrusted to them. Even though companies' primary target is to maximise the returns to investors, it has been recognised that their acts impact individuals and local institutions well beyond their transactions. They are therefore supposed to share their returns with society.
As consumers, workforces, and suppliers place increasing importance on CSR, some leaders have begun to look at it as an innovative opportunity to improve their companies while contributing to society radically. They view CSR as fundamental to their overall strategies, helping them to address critical business issues ingeniously. Cultivating an approach that can truly deliver on these lofty ambitions is a big challenge for executives. Some creative businesses have managed to overcome this contest, with intelligent collaboration emerging as one way of simultaneously creating value for both business and society. Smart partnering centres on critical areas of impact between society and business and develops original solutions that draw on both to address main challenges that affect each partner.
We can find (at least) four modes of social responsibility and benefit sharing approaches [4]. This classification divides all strategies into paternalistic, company centred social responsibility (CCSR), partnership, and shareholder modes. While we present these "ideal" forms and include their formalised explanations using real examples, it should be noted that in reality, we see a mix of several modes.
Paternalistic mode
In this mode, the state generally dominates: it determines, controls, and intervenes in the policies and practices of companies. In Russia, for instance, it represents both sides of stakeholders: a regional government and a state-run company. The company either (partially) takes the state's role or contributes significantly to some elements of state support to local populations and Indigenous peoples. The latter parties have a minimal capability of controlling the nature, forms, and delivery of aids. In Russia, this style is rooted in the Soviet legacy and often results in the Native people's dependency on energy companies, which can be exemplified with the oil industry in the Nenets Autonomous District [5] or the North Slope Borough of Alaska.
A significant flaw of social policies based on the paternalistic model is their inability to ensure residents' satisfaction. Public policies are typically associated with relatively weak municipal institutions that do not provide fertile community development conditions. Under paternalistic mode, both technical and distributional equities generally are low.
Company centred social responsibility (CCSR) mode
This mode refers to a "narrowly defined" corporate social responsibility approach where an extractive company plays a central role in setting social benefits arrangements by adopting internationally developed standards or standards imposed by various funding agencies or legislation. Recurrently, the CCSR-based schemes are intended to satisfy investors and shareholders while meeting local communities' needs only to the degree possible for earning the 'social license' to operate.
This is the case of a Norwegian shipping company operating in Indonesia as a provider of maritime Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) transportation and regasification services [6]. They realise that their engagement is short-termed, and therefore, they stay away from deep interaction with the local community. They would instead save adherence to government requirements while trying to avoid entering into encounters with locals. Since they have no long term interest in the area where they do seismic operations, the only strategic factor is compensation to the fishermen (required by law) for removing their equipment during seismic mapping.
Figure 3. Tribal members pay tribute to whaling crews in the town of Nuiqsut, the heart of Alaska's North Slope. Source: https://nativeamericatoday.com/wendy-red-star-gets-the-last-laugh/
Partnership mode
This type of social approach builds tripartite partnerships among the extractive companies, government, and civil society. In theory, this model is better positioned for promoting development and autonomy in the communities. Although partnerships lead to more desirable participation processes and benefit sharing outcomes, they are not devoid of considerable problems, such as internal tensions among beneficiaries.
Such partnerships have been a characteristic of oil extraction on Russia's Sakhalin Island. Exxon Neftegaz Limited and other operators in the area developed partnerships with the regional state and Indigenous peoples through multilateral agreements, which set up procedures for distributing funds to traditional organisations and family enterprises.
Shareholder mode
Shareholder mode consists of dividend funds as shares from village corporations. Despite rising tensions, it is important to acknowledge that income from oil extraction is shared between companies and host communities, and minorities have broadened economic development opportunities. The shareholder mode may not improve distributional equity but does lead to elevated procedural equity [4].
There are multiple "layers" of social benefits under the shareholder mode in certain spots of the North Slope of Alaska. The Indigenous people are shareholders of the for-profit Arctic Slope Regional Corporation (ARSC), for example. ASRC establishes bonds with many oil companies and receives royalties from oil extraction on Native-owned land. Community associations own the land's surface title, obtain royalties through surface-use agreements, and contract oil field services from foreign companies.
Oil and gas — especially midstream — have faced social pressures earlier, but these pressures have intensified in recent times. Although larger O&G players have sophisticated practices in these areas, governance issues are back in the spotlight since many smaller businesses have joined the shale and unconventional oil sector in the past decade, mainly in North America.
Investors and consumers are pressuring companies to incorporate social responsibility practices into their culture and operations. Social responsibility has gone from a nice-to-have feature to a must-have prerequisite as it encourages investments and will be, in the long run, a deciding factor in winners and losers in the market. The pressure of social responsibility is perceived throughout the oil and gas value chain, with upstream facing most environmental controls and midstream being placed under the microscope for its social impact and governance structure.
For example, building new pipelines in socially sensitive areas, such as those owned by indigenous people, is challenging. Local and international pushback has been a wakeup call to many midstream operators who often checked compliance boxes but did not seek to recognise their projects' social consequences. Interest in small-scale LNG plants is growing because of escalating public opposition to new pipelines in some regions, such as the US Northeast. Obtaining approval for extra peak shaving capacity has become simpler than building new pipelines [7].
Global advances in normative have had a profound effect on major mining companies. By the mid-2000s, sustainable development had been accepted as a normative structure for their CSR policies and practices [8]. However, there is significant variation between firms in terms of the timing, degree of commitment, and the willingness to assume a leadership role in promoting global standards for the mining industry. However, there is a considerable difference between companies in terms of the timing, degree of commitment, and the readiness to assume a leadership role.
More recently, mining to supply electrification, digitalisation, and renewable energy technologies occurs in many countries, but a reduced number of them dominate production. China, Chile, the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Africa and Russia have large production shares for metals used in lithium-ion batteries, rare earth metals, and other metals used in solar PV and wind technologies [9]. Although poorly documented, there have been ongoing negative social, environmental impacts in China, which produces 85-90% of the worlds' supply.
Like the ones mentioned, countries with existing mining are more likely to have the social licence to operate. However, this does not always mean that they have the principal reserves or resources available. Otherwise, countries with large reserves of several metals for which they only mine small volumes — e.g. Australia, Brazil, Peru, and Bolivia —have the potential to be long term sources alongside existing producers. Many other considerations will affect where mining expands, or new mining takes place, including social and environmental factors.
If managed inappropriately, there are significant social impacts associated with the mining and processing of metals used for renewable energy and clean technologies. These include pollution of water and agricultural soils through the release of wastewater and the triggering of erosion processes, the risk of tailings dam catastrophes, and health impacts from workers and neighbouring communities. But mining can also bring positive economic benefits; nickel mining, for example, is New Caledonia's largest employer and makes a significant contribution to the GDP of the country.
The transition to a high-penetration renewable energy (RE) system is urgently needed to meet the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement and increase the chance of keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees. Recent investment in new RE infrastructure globally has been double that of fossil fuels and nuclear. These technologies, together with electric vehicles and battery storage, require high volumes of environmentally sensitive materials. To avoid creating new adverse social and environmental impacts, the supply chains for these products and technologies need to be adequately controlled.
A wider RE contribution may lead to fewer impacts from coal mining, which is responsible for the greatest number of fatalities and health issues worldwide. With the growing demand for metals from the scaleup in RE, responsible mining practices are necessary to avoid harmful environmental impacts, ensure the respect of human rights, and guarantee an equitable allocation of benefits.
Many extractive operations are established in areas of serious political instability or even conflict zones, assuming that the option of moving to a safer location is simply not available when the intended resources remain firmly in the ground. In reality, lucrative extractive industries will intensify situations of conflict, as opposing factions seek to regulate rents from the operation to finance their own struggles.
In October 2004 Anvil Mining Ltd provided transportation and other logistical support to the Democratic Republic of Congo's armed forces while they were fighting an armed insurgency in the town of Kilwa. During the conflict, the armed forces committed severe human rights violations against the local civilian population, including summary execution, torture, and rape [10]. Later, some army and Anvil personnel were prosecuted and acquitted in the DCR, with subsequent class actions being aborted in Australia (the company's home country) and Canada (where its headquarters are located). All cases were dismissed in favour of Anvil Mining, except for a complaint before the African Commission on Human and People's Rights, which ordered the DRC to "prosecute and punish" the company.
Beyond the "hard law" pathways, both civil and criminal, two "soft law" options have also been appealed for seeking accountability for the human rights abuses in the Kilwa incident. Responsibility procedures of the OECD Guidelines and the World Bank's Compliance Advisor were both pursued following pressure from several civil society groups. This was an attempt to understand the damage caused to the victims of Kilwa and seek some remedy beyond the civil and criminal legal process.
It is undeniable that the Congolese military's atrocities in Kilwa could not have been carried out in the manner that they were without the assistance delivered by Anvil, even if that assistance was willingly provided or commandeered by the military. The reports from the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) and some non-government organisations implicitly suggest that Anvil may have had some prior knowledge of the imminent military operation or volunteered to support a military reaction to the revolt [11].
This case study should sound a warning over the disjointed nature of state-based regulation of transnational commerce. Despite the possibility for multiple national and international bodies to assert jurisdiction over such an event, the fact remains that political and corporate will to account for responsibilities is at least as necessary as the legal capacity to claim that jurisdiction.
In Nigeria's history, oil exploitation impacts have affected the natural environment and the social network. The first oil well was discovered in 1956 in the Niger Delta and was put into operation in 1958 by Shell-BP. Since then, oil activity has generated exceptional revenues in the country, to the point of representing more than two-thirds of the state budget on average over the past decade. It has also generated high costs of an environmental, social, economic or political nature, making Nigeria a fascinating school case illustrating the struggle to address the negative impacts of business activities on society.
At first, the circumstances derived from the country's independence led to the balancing of forces, which in turn catalysed the assumption of the social costs of oil operations and the economic development around production areas. Second, with the rise of oil activity, the balance of power became highly biased, favouring a dominant elite coalition that exposed populations to social costs. Third, the mobilisation of non-elite organisations exhausted the last military regime, opening political and economic access to more Nigerians. The authorities that took over from 1999 became more politically open and turned into international sustainable development and corporate social responsibility movements [12].
Companies operating next to communities (onshore) such as Total, Shell, and Nigerian Agip Oil Co. are gradually implementing Memorandums of Understanding (MoU), i.e. non-binding commitments signed for three to five years with representatives of local communities to define expectations on both sides. Consequently, businesses expect an uninterrupted production cycle, while people ask for the social costs of activity and local development projects to be covered. Commitments taken by the companies consist of projects of transport infrastructure (roads, bridges, berths, etc.), health (health centres, sanitary facilities), education (classrooms, vocational training centres, teacher housing, teaching materials), social (party rooms, community homes, sports fields), water supply (wells, water bores, etc.).
Figure 4. Signs of oil spills in the waters of the Niger Delta, Nigeria. Source: https://cdn.cfr.org/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_xl/public/image/2020/09/niger-delta-oil-spill.jpg
All this also encompasses targets in local jobs, permanent payments to landowners who have given over resource-holding lands, scholarships and training for small trades, entrepreneurship support, periodic health campaigns, and support for cultural, sporting, educational or professional events. For Shell, Nigeria's largest oil producer, such a commitment reached US$112 million in 2014, excluding the direct cost of pollution and accident management.
The path to open political and economic access to all Nigerians depends on the changing dynamics of power balance between elites and non-elites. The social responsibility of oil and gas corporations and other significant organisations is also part of these dynamics. Such an approach does not stand in the way of the conventional normative system. Still, it supports the hypothesis that an analysis of the dynamics of power relations and, if necessary, an adjustment of power imbalances between parties are required to create the conditions conducive to the well-being shared among all stakeholders.
The UN Global Compact is the self-proclaimed world's largest corporate sustainability initiative. It is a call to companies to take actions that foster societal goals by means of aligning strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment, and anti-corruption [13]. In other words, the UN is helping partner companies to do business in ways that benefit society and protect people. Beyond respecting rights, adherents businesses are expected to take additional steps towards improving the lives of the people they affect, such as by creating quality jobs, products and services that help meet basic needs, and more inclusive supply chains. Firms within the program are also likely to make strategic social investments that support social sustainability and partner with other local businesses, merging strengths to create a more significant positive impact.
Further, the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) emphasise women's empowerment as an essential development objective, in and of itself. Extractive companies that focus on women's empowerment experience better business performance. Investing in women and girls can increase organisational effectiveness, productivity, return on investment and higher consumer satisfaction. Similar principles embroil children and Indigenous peoples to help ensure that current and future projects enjoy conditions to make stable and productive societies.
Sakhalin Energy programs on the preservation of indigenous culture in Russia and Al Baraka Banking Group actions for patronage and sponsorship of educational and social projects [14] are two featured cases of successfully implementing the Global Compact initiative.
EITI is the global standard to bolster the open and accountable management of extractive resources, namely oil, gas and mineral resources. The standard requires the disclosure of information from the point of extraction along the extractive industry supply chain, how revenues flow on the government and how they benefit the public. Guided by the belief that natural resources from a territory belong to its citizens, EITI combats poor natural resource governance that often leads to corruption and conflict.
The latest EITI Standard 2019 consists of two chapters and 12 sections [15]. It outlines the requirements applicable to countries implementing the standard and the Articles of Association governing the EITI. Eight conditions form the core of the EITI Standard. We are highlighting the most relevant in the following bullet points:
Oversight by the multi-stakeholder group;
Transparency in information about exploration activities, production data, and export data;
Social and economic spending;
Outcomes and impact seeking to ensure that stakeholders are engaged in dialogue.
The EITI Requirement 3 calls for disclosures of information related to exploration and production and is one of the document's key sections. Moreover, it covers artisanal and small-scale mining. Guidance on Requirement 3 tells implementing countries to disclose significant exploration activities, production volumes and values by commodity. This data should be further disaggregated by region, company or project.
Figure 5. Overview on how countries are progressing towards meeting the EITI Standard: Yet to be assessed against the Standard (blue), Satisfactory progress (dark green), Meaningful progress (light green) Inadequate progress / suspended (yellow). Source: https://eiti.org/countries
These two kinds are often confused. They have a lot in common and complement each other, but they have a few major differences.
The B Corp Certification is a third-party certification issued by the non-profit B Lab, based in part on a company's proved performance on the B Impact Assessment [16]. A B Corp is subjected to this independent assessment of its impact on communities, people, and the environment. That independent assessment is rigorous, it may comprise over 400 questions, and it takes a long process to get there. Just to give an idea of some of the topics that the assessment covers: they have sections on anti-corruption within the target company; questions about its supply chain and ethical sources; questions about how it pays employees and the diversity of its staff; questions about customer stewardship, warranties and customer satisfaction.
The benefit corporation is a legal structure for a business, like an LLC, and is officially empowered to pursue positive stakeholder impact alongside profit [17]. Benefits corporations result from a new generation of value-driven consumers and shareholders demanding that corporations deliver benefit to their communities. There are ten essential characteristics of a benefit corporation [2]. Among them, a core commitment to a social purpose which is rooted in the organisational philosophy and structure; equitable compensation of all stakeholders in proportion to their contribution and risk; pledge to create net positive social and environmental impacts; and commitment to open assessments and reporting of social, environmental, and financial indicators.
Combio Energia in Brazil, Urban Mining in Florida (US), and Cerco Construction Company in Chile are some examples associated with oil, gas, energy, and mining within this initiative. Some companies are both Certified B Corporations and benefit corporations, and the benefit corporation structure fulfils the legal accountability requirement of B Corp Certification. The two types are both the classic examples of seeking benefits not only for shareholders but also for all stakeholders.
Figure 6. Differences and coincidences between B Corp and Benefit Corporations. Source: https://www.corpgov.net/2018/02/benefit-corporation-accountability-matters/
The concept of a 'social licence to operate' (SLO) emerged in the 1990s to alleviate conflicts between local communities and businesses in the mining industry [18]. It gained popularity as one way in which ''social'' considerations and demands from the local population, such as a greater share of benefits and more involvement of local representatives in the decision-making process, can be addressed. Increased stress on 'Sustainable Development' where non-state actors are perceived to have an essential role in governance decision-making contributed to the adoption of SLO. Recently, SLO has grown in notoriety within different business segments, including manufacturing, agriculture, transport, pharmaceutical, energy, and telecommunication.
The core of SLO is the concept of social recognition of business in that it emphasises the need to change the relationship between the economy and society. The economic process is regarded as consisting of social relations, shared rules, and beliefs, businesses developing as an embodiment of social purpose. For that reason, an industry must receive social recognition to establish legitimacy. This concept is not aligned with the demand for business self-regulation. One should interpret laws on public health, work conditions, union rights, social insurance, and public utilities as countervailing measures to control industries' power over society.
Through SLO, collective dimensions in governance received increase focus to catch a balance between local expectations and companies' budgets. In fact, some countries have assimilated these concepts in corporate legislation, including developing countries such as India. Some states — e.g. United Kingdom, Australia — incorporate details of directors' responsibility that were traditionally enforced under common-law and fiduciary duties. This happens because, under the lens of social license, directors must protect the larger community's interests, which is also incorporated into corporate policies and affirmed by various jurisdictions worldwide. Benefit Corporations Model in the United States (see Section 4.3) are another example of SLO.
In search of conditions for successful development of social responsibility practices for extractive industries, this article's ambition was to analyse the behavioural dynamics of oil and gas, mining, and other extractive corporations concerning the social, cultural, and institutional environments in which they operate. Effective regulations for responsible actions depend not only on intrinsic traits but also on the host environment where they are applied. This scenario is exacerbated for natural resource extracting transnational corporations and developing countries.
Large extractive projects can and do make a positive contribution to human rights, particularly facilitating employment and income for local communities, with all the associated benefits for economic and social rights that such wealth brings. Extractive industries recurrently strengthen human rights by providing infrastructure and other social programs in the local community. However, participation in human rights abuses is also well documented.
We assume that a global social responsibility standard on extractive activities would consist of mechanisms to combat predation based on the Sustainable Developments Goals and Corporate Social Responsibility standards, strategies, and tools. Some of the now existing standards, like the Global Compact, the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, or third-party certifications for extractive industries, have paved the way towards more effective and operational tools.
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Reuse and Recycling of Produced Water – Obstacles and Opportunities The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP)


"Keeping God in the Small Stuff" (with more than 100,000 copies sold) has been specially repackaged for the graduate, offering practical, accessible, and always biblical wisdom for every day of the year. Beautifully bound, it makes a perfect gift!
- Publisher Bruce and Stan's Keeping God in the Small Stuff has sold nearly 100,000 copies since its October 2000 release...now that popular daily devotional has been repackaged as the perfect graduation gift! The practical, accessible, and always biblical wisdom of Keeping God in the Small Stuff is ideal for young adults launching out into the world. Following in the footsteps of the God Is in the Small Stuff Graduate's Edition, this special graduate's edition features a handsome new binding, a presentation page, and a brand-new section just for the graduate.
About "Keeping God in the Small Stuff (Graduate's Edition)"
Bruce and Stan's Keeping God in the Small Stuff has sold nearly 100,000 copies since its October 2000 release...now that popular daily devotional has been repackaged as the perfect graduation gift! The practical, accessible, and always biblical wisdom of Keeping God in the Small Stuff is ideal for young adults launching out into the world. Following in the footsteps of the God Is in the Small Stuff Graduate's Edition, this special graduate's edition features a handsome new binding, a presentation page, and a brand-new section just for the graduate.
Bruce Bickel (JD., Univ. Of California) is an attorney, a corporate motivational speaker, and a frequent guest speaker at Christian conferences. His previous books with Stan Jantz include Knowing the Bible 101, Knowing God 101, and God Is in the Small Stuff. Over the past fifteen years, Bruce has filled that time-void by writing more than 50 books. More than 3 million copies of his books are in print, and several of his titles have achieved "bestseller" status.
Stan Jantz is a marketing consultant and a partner in a community,building software company. Stan Jantz and Bruce Bickel are co-authors of over 50 books including Bruce and Stan Search for the Meaning of Life, Creation and Evolution 101, and the Christianity 101 Bible Studies. As a writing team, their goal is to present God's truth in a correct, clear, and casual manner.- Publisher.


Spills are always accidents — which, by definition, means that you can't control when and where they're going to happen. If spills are bound to happen wherever you go, wouldn't it be nice to have a berm handy wherever you go, too?
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Scenario one: You need a small containment berm for an emergency fuel spill, or to contain liquids during short-term projects. For this, you may want to try Portable Spill Containment Berms, which are lightweight, easy to set up, and come in a variety of sizes for any spill, or Emergency Pop Up Pools, which are lightweight, convenient, and resistant to chemicals.
Scenario two: You need a large containment berm for a truck. It must be able to be rapidly assembled by a single person. You're probably looking for the Drive-Through Secondary Spill Containment Berm, which can be set up in minutes, is easily accessed by driving the vehicle into the berm, and whose walls rise automatically as the berm fills. Another great option is the Throw N' Go Secondary Spill Containment Berm, which requires no assembly — simply unfold it, and it's ready for use! This berm's walls also rise automatically as it fills.
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We understand: No one wants to deal with a spill when they're on the go. But having portable spill containment berms on hand can save you from a big mess — and even bigger consequences.
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This week's Friday Price Drop selection is now live on zavvi.com, and it features a couple of absolute gems from last year. SEGA's superb mob drama Yakuza 4 – a Playstation 3 exclusive – is now available for £9.95, and the Anarchy Edition of id Software's underrated post-apocalyptic shooter Rage is now available on Xbox 360 and PS3 for just £12.95, with the PC version hitting £9.95 today.
To find our what's so great about this week's dynamic duo, check out our Yakuza 4 review here, and our Rage review here.


Pangos All American Camp Was CRAZY This Year! AMAZING Talent!!
The 2016 Pangos All American Camp was arguably the best camp we've ever been to as far as amount of talent across 4 classes at a single event. The camp featured Michael Porter Jr, DeAndre Ayton, Charles Bassey, Gary Trent Jr, Billy Preston, Hamidou Diallo, Jarred Vanderbilt, Trevon Duval, Javonte Smart, PJ Washington, Trae Young, Jaylen Hands, Isaiah Washington, Brandon WIlliams, Ethan THompson, Quade Green, Ira Lee and many, many more!
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If you're after a phone with some gaming prowess but don't want to spend the big bucks, this Honor Play deal is for you.
The likes of PUBG and Fortnite have made gaming on your smartphone something to take seriously. If you're looking for a pocket powerhouse that won't break the bank, the Honor Play is down to just £199.99 and the lowest price it's ever been from Amazon. But you'll have to act fast as this deal only lasts one day.
We were seriously impressed by the Honor Play when we reviewed it at its full £279 price. We awarded it 4/5 in our original review. We were most impressed by the phone's performance, which is important for a gaming phone. All of that power comes courtesy of a Kirin 970 processor.
This is the lowest price Amazon has ever sold the Honor Play.
Our review concluded, "The Kirin 970 processor is a great choice for the Play, giving the phone the power to run the latest games without issue, granting the chipset a new home for the next year or so as it takes a step back behind its successor.
Considering you can now pick up the Honor Play for a penny under £200, it's incredibly good value. But you'll have to be quick if you want to bag it for this low price as this deal lasts one day only.


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FTX CEO Updates Crypto Community, Sunsets Alameda Trading, Addresses a Specific 'Sparring Partner'
On Nov. 10, 2022, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) addressed the crypto community in a thread posted to Twitter. SBF noted that he messed up and "should have done better" and also detailed that at some point he "might have more to say about a particular sparring partner."
SBF Says He Messed Up, Claims 'Hands Were Tied During the Duration of the Possible Binance Deal'
Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has discussed some updates concerning FTX in an apologetic Twitter thread published on Thursday. The FTX CEO said he "should have been communicating more very recently," and further claimed his "hands were tied during the duration of the possible Binance deal." In the update, SBF insisted that the update only concerned FTX International and not FTX US, and he further stressed that "FTX US users are fine."
"FTX International currently has a total market value of assets/collateral higher than client deposits. But that's different from liquidity for delivery–as you can tell from the state of withdrawals. The liquidity varies widely, from very to very little," SBF detailed in his Twitter thread.
The FTX CEO added:
The full story here is one I'm still fleshing out every detail of, but as a very high level, I f***ed up twice. The first time, a poor internal labeling of bank-related accounts meant that I was substantially off on my sense of users' margin. I thought it was way lower.
FTX Sees $5 Billion in Withdrawals on Sunday, SBF Shuts Down Alameda Research Trading, Bankman-Fried Talks About a Certain 'Sparring Partner'
SBF also said that when it rains, it pours and on Sunday, the company saw $5 billion in withdrawals looking to be processed. He added that while he cannot make any promises, the company is "spending the week doing everything we can to raise liquidity."
"There are a number of players who we are in talks with, LOIs, term sheets, etc," SBF said. "We'll see how that ends up," he added. The FTX CEO also told the community that his quantitative trading platform Alameda Research was ending operations. "Alameda Research is winding down trading," SBF remarked. "They aren't doing any of the weird things that I see on Twitter–and nothing large at all. And one way or another, soon they won't be trading on FTX anymore."
While the thread was full of apologies and SBF saying many times that he messed up, the FTX CEO tweeted about a so-called sparring partner. "At some point I might have more to say about a particular sparring partner, so to speak," the FTX executive stated. But you know, glass houses. So for now, all I'll say is: well played; you won."
According to a report published by Axios, two people familiar with the matter say FTX has attempted to engage with Kraken in a bid for rescue funding. Moreover, Japan's Financial Services Agency (FSA) has ordered FTX to suspend operations immediately, citing that the regulator wants to protect creditors and investors from harm.
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