Olivine weathering to capture CO2 and counter climate change

Professor Schuiling in front of a huge and very impressive olivine massif in Oman

Olivine weathering to capture CO2 and counter climate change - by R.D. Schuiling


Abstract

CO2 is emitted in large quantities as a consequence of our burning of fossil fuels. It has several unpleasant consequences, because it will probably cause climate change, and there are several reports that high levels of CO2 in offices and schools may impair the quality of thinking of the people that work there. Although higher levels of it in the atmosphere may also have some beneficial effects on vegetation, it should be considered as a possibly dangerous pollutant.

Introduction

Many new technologies are proposed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere, but strangely enough the only process that has always removed the excess of CO2 emitted by volcanoes since the origin of the Earth is barely considered. It is the weathering of minerals by which almost all the CO2 that was emitted during the past by volcanoes was transported as bicarbonate solutions to the oceans where it was sustainably stored as carbonate rocks (limestones and dolomites).

Mg2(SiO4)  + 4 CO2 + 4 H2O ? 2 Mg2+ + 4 HCO_3- + H4(SiO2)

These rocks contain about 1 million times more CO2 than the oceans, the atmosphere and the biosphere combined. It has provided a livable atmosphere, in contrast with Venus, where weathering was impossible due to the lack of liquid water. At present the CO2 evels in the atmosphere are rising, because the anthropogenic emission of CO2 is so large that this weathering process cannot keep pace with it. I propose to use a process of enhanced weathering to regain a new balance between input and output. In order to make this cost-effective, my examples will all represent a combination of CO2 capture with another beneficial effect, by which the total effect is cheaper, and may occasionally even lead to a positive financial result.

Ten cost-effective applications of olivine weathering:

1. Increasing rice production by spreading olivine grains in paddies
2. Olivine spreading on acid soils instead of liming
3. Biogas production with additional methane production
4. Solution of the sick-building syndrome of schools and offices
5. The use of the surf as a huge ball-mill
6. Diatom cultivation for the production of biodiesel
7. Phytomining of nickel from olivine-rich soils
8. Olivine hills to produce healthy mineral water
9. Quenching forest fires with a serpentine slurry
10. Tackling natural emissions in Milos, Greece

1. Increasing rice production by spreading olivine grains in paddies

Rice, like the other �wet grasses� like bamboo and reed needs silica. This is made available by spreading olivine grains over the paddies. It is very easy to measure the effects, by sampling the irrigation water where it enters the paddy, and sample it again where the water leaves the paddy containing olivine. The difference between the two analyses represents the effect of the weathering of the olivine. Rice production is negatively affected by acid conditions (1), and the weathering of olivine makes conditions more alkaline. As rice cultivation occupies 146 million hectares, spreading these annually with 4 ton of olivine per hectare also represents a sizable capture of CO2. The increase of rice production can be measured by spreading for example 1, 3 and 10 ton of olivine over 3 paddies, and compare rice production with the production of a similar paddy without olivine spreading.

2. Olivine spreading on acid soils instead of liming

The approach as sketched above for rice can be extended to other acid agricultural soils as well. Normally acid soils are remediated by liming, but olivine spreading can do the same, and captures CO2 at the same time, whereas liming has a penalty for its CO2 emissions on account of the mining, milling and transporting of lime. Tests at the Agricultural University of Wageningen (2) have shown that olivine application increases productivity. The costs of adding lime or olivine will be rather similar, and soil scientists should decide whether a mixture of the two produces a better soil than using only one of the two.

3. Biogas production with additional methane production

Increasing methane production in biogas installations. In the normal operation of biodigesters, the produced gas contains roughly 2/3 methane, 1/3 CO2 and traces of H2S. Before this gas can be added to the national gas lines, the CO2 content must be drastically reduced by rather expensive operations, and the H2S must be removed. Tests with digesters have shown that the addition of fine-grained olivine has 3 important effects. It creates more alkaline conditions, which make that a larger part of the CO2 is already taken up as bicarbonate in the digestate, and does not have to be removed by expensive technologies. The second effect is that the traces of H2S react with the iron content of the olivine and forms solid iron sulfide particles (olivine is a mixed crystal of Mg2(SiO4) and Fe2(SiO4). The third effect was somewhat unexpected. The methane production increases by the following reaction:

6 Fe2(SiO4) + CO2 + 14 H2O ? Fe3O4 + CH4 + 6 H4(SiO2)

The methane reaction is catalyzed by the tiny magnetite crystals that form in this reaction. In view of the important role of iron in the olivine, it may be worthwhile to look for olivine deposits with a higher Fe-content than the usual olivine. This application will reduce the costs of the digestion, and increase its production.

4. Solution of the sick-building syndrome of schools and offices

It was recently found by research groups in Berkeley and Harvard (3,4) that the high CO2 content of the internal atmosphere of these buildings (rising to 1500 to 1600 ppm in the afternoon compared to 400 ppm in the atmosphere outside) impaired the quality of thinking of the inmates. To avoid this, one can open doors and windows, but in temperate climates this causes serious increases in energy costs, and will often cause dust and noise problems. One can prevent this by installing a so-called CATO-reactor (Clean Air Through Olivine). This is a trough-like basin filled with an emulsion of fine olivine grains. Along the bottom a perforated pipe is installed, through which the internal atmosphere of the building is transported under a slight overpressure. The air bubbles pass through the olivine emulsion, and the CO2 is converted to bicarbonate in solution. This set-up has the additional advantage that it will also trap allergenic particles or pollen, which will make life easier for people who suffer from asthma or hay fever.

5. The use of the surf as a huge ball-mill

The surf as the largest ball-mill on Earth. Milling of olivine (around 2 US$/ton for milling olivine to 100 micron) is a cost that can be avoided if nature provides a zero cost alternative. We have carried out experiments with angular coarse olivine grit in a simulated very modest surf (5). After a few days the grains were rounded and polished grains (Fig. 1). Tiny micron-sized slivers were knocked off by collisions and abrasion. These slivers weathered in a few days.

Fig 1: The surf turns angular coarse olivine grit into rounded and polished grains in a few days

Depositing coarse olivine grit directly on beaches in the surf may well become the cheapest large-scale way to capture CO2 and restore the pH of the oceans.

6. Diatom cultivation for the production of biodiesel

Diatom cultivation for biodiesel production. Biofuels are produced at fairly large scale from oil palms, sorghum, maize and the like. This production occupies large tracts of land, which are withdrawn from the world food production. They consume large volumes of irrigation water, and use expensive fertilizer. Moreover not seldomly reservations for threatened animals, like the orang outan are used for these plantations. Enough reasons to look for different solutions. Diatoms (silica algae) are rich in organic material from which biodiesel can be produced. They are called silica algae, because their exoskeleton is made of silica. They can multiply fast, provided that they have enough silica. This can be provided by the weathering of olivine. One can think of the following solution for diatom cultivation. Create a lagoon along the beach, by surrounding a piece of the sea in front of this beach by a dam. Construct a connection through this dam, through which water can flow into the lagoon at high tide, and flow out of the lagoon at ebb tide. Cover the beach with half a meter thick layer of olivine grains between the high tide line and the low tide line. This beach will alternatively be wetted and drained, by which the silica-rich water will flow into the lagoon, and feed the diatoms. The dead diatoms must be harvested, dried and transported to the biodiesel plant . The diatom production in the lagoon can be boosted by installing an underwater led lighting, which makes that the photosynthesis of the diatoms can continue through the night.

7. Phytomining of nickel from olivine-rich soils

Phytomining of nickel. Olivine contains more nickel than most rocks, but still much lower than nickel ores. There are a number of plant species that have the strange habit that they can extract nickel very well from the soils on olivine rock and store it in their tissues . When you harvest these plants at the end of the growing season, dry them and burn them, the plant ash often contains around 10% of nickel, more than the richest nickel ore. Mining is an energy-intensive affair and has a high CO2 emission. Moreover the mining and the metal extraction from the ore cause a lot of pollution. This makes it tempting to see if you can use these nickel hyperaccumulator plants to do the job of mining without large CO2 emissions (6). Figure 2 shows the flowering Alyssum plants (a well-known nickel hyperaccumulator plant) on the tailings of an asbestos mine in Cyprus.

Fig 2: Yellow blossomed Alyssum nickel hyperaccumulator plants grow on tailings of former asbestos mine on Cyprus

8. Olivine hills to produce healthy mineral water

Olivine hills to produce healthy mineral water. When olivine weathers, it turns the water into a healthy magnesium bicarbonate water. According to the FAO such waters are active against cardiovascular diseases. This makes it interesting to see if we can produce similar mineral waters in places where there is no olivine in the subsoil. This is possible by the use of olivine hills (7). These can be constructed as follows. First make an impermeable layer on the soil in the form of a very flat slightly inclined gutter. Cover this with a hill of olivine grains of several meter thickness. Add soil over this hill, and plant it with shrubs and grasses. Soils are much richer in CO2 than the atmosphere. This is caused by the decay of dead plant material which produces CO2 in the soil, as well as the breathing of animals living in this soil. When it rains, the water will first encounter this CO2-rich soil atmosphere, equilibrate with it and become aggressive. This CO2-rich water will then move into the olivine layer, and react with it, producing a healthy magnesium bicarbonate water. This will trickle through the olivine layer until it meets the impermeable base, where it will slowly trickle to the lowest point of the gutter, where it will be released through a tap, where visitors can collect some of this water and drink it.

9. Quenching forest fires with a serpentine slurry

Quenching forest fires with a serpentine slurry. Forest fires cause the largest emission of CO2 after the emission by burning fossil fuels (8). Large forest fires lead to a number of deaths. Both from the public health side as from the CO2 emission side it would be helpful if we found a better way to quench forest fires rapidly. The following seems to be a promising way to achieve this. Serpentine is the hydrated form of olivine, it is similar to clay minerals. It is well-known that baking clays to make bricks consume a lot of energy. This is an unpleasant property, except where it is important to remove as much heat as possible, like in forest fires. We carried out a number of tests to see whether spreading serpentine slurries over fires would be a more effective way to quench fires than just water. This turned out to be very clearly the case, but not for the reason we thought. Test fires were extinguished in a few seconds when serpentine slurries were sprinkled over them, but the removal of excess heat was only a minor factor in the success. When serpentine slurries are spread over burning wood, the serpentine immediately dissociates, and forms a thin amorphous layer on the burning material. Oxygen can no longer come in contact with the burning wood, and inflammable gases from the burning wood can no longer escape. Test fires were quenched in a few seconds. As serpentinites are very common rocks, it should be easy to introduce this way of quenching to combat forest fires. It is hoped that this will be introduced by the fire brigades in many countries that suffer from forest fires, and thus save unnecessary deaths and destruction of properties. The amorphous product of the serpentine after it has reacted in the fire reacts quite fast with the first rains, faster than olivine, and thus compensates part of the CO2 that was emitted by the fire.

10. Tackling natural emissions in Milos, Greece

CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising, because we are burning in a few hundred years the fossil fuels (coal, oil, gas) that have taken hundreds of millions of years to form. This will probably cause a climate change, with disastrous world problems, because the ice in Greenland and Antarctica will melt and cause a serious sealevel rise. It is important, therefore, to capture as much CO2 as possible and store it in a safe and sustainable manner.

It makes no difference for the climate if we capture anthropogenic CO2 or natural CO2 emissions, because all CO2 molecules are identical. The anthropogenic emissions are much more voluminous, but natural emissions are easier to capture. An excellent example is found on and around the island of Milos, where annually 2.2 million tons of hot CO2 are emitted from a surface area of about 35 km�. The village of Paleochori is the center of this CO2 emission. Most of the CO2 emission is by bubbles rising out of the shallow seafloor, but CO2 is also emitted on land. When you try to dig a hole in the beach with your hands, you have to stop when the hole is elbow-deep, otherwise you burn your hands. The bubbles are so hot, that a local restaurant in Paleochori is even using it for its �volcanic cooking�. They have buried a box in the beach sand, in which they cook a lamb every morning. Delicious to have a juicy lamb for lunch on the terrace of that restaurant, while you look out over the blue Aegean.

It becomes important for the world to capture as much CO2 as possible. When you apply this to the CO2 emissions at Milos, one could do the following. First find a place where the most CO2 bubbles rise from the shallow sea floor. Then make a small artificial island by covering this point with a hill of olivine sand as well as larger olivine pieces. Of course, when bubbles of CO2 rise in the sea, they will assume the same temperature as the sea water, but if they rise in an olivine hill they will cause the temperature inside that olivine hill to rise, because now the hot bubbles release their heat to the surrounding olivine grains. This situation will lead to a small convection system. The warm water inside the hill will start to rise, and cold seawater will be sucked in the hill from the sides. If one constructs a shallow pit on top of the island, it will fill with warm water.

Would it not be an exotic temptation for tourists, to lie even in winter in a warm bath on top of a small island, and look out over a cool blue sea? They will feel even better if they know that these delicious sensations are a small part of our efforts to save the world from climate change, and the seas from acidification. The reaction of the olivine with water + CO2 is exothermic, so that provides some additional heat for the water in the bath.

Additional information:

As said, the weathering reaction of olivine with water and CO2 is as follows:

Mg2(SiO4)  + 4 CO2 + 4 H2O ? 2 Mg2+ + 4 HCO_3- + H4(SiO2)

This means that the greenhouse gas CO2 is converted to a bicarbonate solution, so it is no longer affecting the climate.

Some possible sources of olivine in Greece

Olivine is a very common mineral. The tailings of a magnesite company in northern Greece contain close to ten million tons of crushed olivine. A port is not too far from the location of that magnesite mine. Nearer by, on the island of Naxos, there are quite a few places with olivine rocks at the surface, where the material could be obtained by a small open pit digging operation. Apart from the proposal as a touristic attraction, Greece can present it as one of their attempts to sustainably capture the greenhouse gas CO2.

Conclusion

Removal of CO2 from the atmosphere can be combined in a number of ways with other positive effects, which makes such operations considerably more cost-effective.


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Her representative added: ‘This is nice news for British staff, it’s excellent news for land economy, it shows that, because the Prime Minister has been spoken communication, we will create a hit of going the EU.’
SoftBank hopes the takeover can modify it to capitalise on the expansion of the ‘internet of things’. ARM could be a force during this developing sector wherever devices reminiscent of fridges and laundry machines is connected up and controlled by smartphone.
In a daring effort to induce ministers onside, the japanese firm has bound to double the united kingdom men – making one,500 jobs – within the next 5 years and maintain its headquarters in Cambridge.

SoftBank’s have chairman Masayoshi Son claimed these guarantees had affected each the Prime Minister, whom he spoke to on Sunday morning, and therefore the Chancellor, whom he spoke to yesterday. He aforesaid they each reacted by spoken communication ‘wow’.
Bosses at ARM have counseled the deal to shareholders, UN agency can then vote on whether or not to approve it within the next few weeks.
But Cambridge’s Labour MP Daniel Zeichner raised issues regarding the acquisition and aforesaid the govt required to create certain the guarantees area unit honored.
He said: ‘Within we have a tendency toeks of the ecu vote we area unit seeing the sale of the jewel within the Great Britain school crown, Cambridge’s greatest trendy success story. Analysts can discussion the impact on ARM, however there is little doubt that United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is losing management of 1 of our most innovative and winning firms.’
He added: ‘There has been a chill running through Cambridge since the EU vote on day, and today’s news solely reinforces the sense that the country has taken a wrong flip.’
Five years past Cambridge was home to a minimum of 3 worldbeating UK-owned technology corporations, ARM, Autonomy and Cambridge semiconductor Radio.
Autonomy was bought by yank big H.P. in associate unfortunate deal, and last year North American nation chipmaker Qualcomm bought CSR.
Founded in 1990, ARM was spun out of fruit Computers, that was came upon during a regenerate barn in Cambridge in 1978 and developed the BBC small laptop that was employed in nearly each college within the Great Britain within the Nineteen Eighties.
Sir Vince, UN agency opposed the unsuccessful takeover of British medicine big AstraZeneca by North American nation rival Pfizer 2 years past, urged ministers to scrutinise the takeover closely.
‘I don’t recognize why British firms that do well feel they need to sell out. however this can be the explanation why we have a tendency to don’t turn out our own Googles, Facebooks and Amazons,’ he said.
‘At the terribly least i believe the govt ought to provide this deal a radical going over – rather than dashing bent on welcome it, they must show additional caution.
‘Philip Hammond risks sounding like Saint George playwright, UN agency created a fool of himself once he rush to back the takeover of AstraZeneca.
‘This puts Teresa could in associate embarrassing scenario given the robust stance she took against foreign takeovers last week. She is finding that her ministers don't seem to be taking her issues seriously.’
Bankers area unit set to pocket over £90million of fees from the sale of ARM. The takeover by SoftBank can trigger huge payouts for the advisers, in line with Reuters and freewoman Consulting Services.
Seven corporations can divide the spoils, with either side within the deal – the most important Asian investment within the Great Britain – expected at hand out between £38million and £45million. Emma Goldman Sachs and Lazard can pocket the lion’s share.

ARM microchips area unit utilized by countless folks to attach everyday devices and appliances over the web.
Television
Many trendy televisions modify users to observe programmes and films through apps reminiscent of Netflix, that area unit steam-powered by ARM-based processors. The firm’s technology is additionally often employed in remote controls and set-top boxes.
Smartphones and tablets
ARM technology helps power each smartphones and iPads. E-readers, reminiscent of Kindles, and digital cameras additionally use the merchandise.
Home ‘smart’ systems
Smart social unit appliances typically use chips supported ARM technology to administer householders bigger management.
This can embrace internet-connected thermostats, permitting users to regulate their heating via their smartphone, fridges that alert users after they have run out of groceries, and electricity meters that may facilitate economize on energy bills.
Wearable gadgets
Fitness trackers and sensible watches have become progressively popular shoppers. These gadgets have relied on ARM technology for years.
Internal automobile systems
ARM-based chips area unit often employed in cars to indicate drivers maps, supply voice recognition and to regulate music. they're additionally getting used in prototypes for self-driving cars to power systems that trigger automatic electronic braking, as an instance.
Drones
Drones have become additional well-liked, be it families flying them within the park or photographers capturing aerial shots.
They believe small computers referred to as microcontrollers and ARM estimates that 1 / 4 of the chips created last year used its technology.
Energy-efficient cities
Street lamps that dim themselves and parking meters that find once areas area unit empty area unit samples of sensors getting used by cities to chop prices and facilitate inhabitants.
ARM believes this sector holds nice potential for its business.

Top UK Diplomat Dismisses His Past Insults

With one archaic Latin expression, Boris Johnson on weekday fired his 3 decades' value of exaggeration and occasional insult, demand he was suitable represent Great Britain because it navigates a path out of the ecu Union. In his maiden press conference as foreign secretary, the shocking selection for prime diplomat won cautious support from the U.K.'s most significant ally: the u.  s..

Reading closely from his script, Johnson tempered his typical extemporaneous candor in a very joint press conference with Secretary of State John Kerry. Instead, the previous London politician and key protagonist in last month's "Brexit" drama sought-after to stress the importance of the U.S.-U.K. "special relationship" and also the would like for Great Britain to play an excellent larger role on the globe stage.

But 1st there was history to modify.

After President Barack Obama stepped into Britain's vote discussion in April, lobbying for the "remain" facet, Johnson defendant the U.S. leader of harboring a part-Kenyan's "ancestral dislike of nation empire." He had antecedently compared Sir Edmund Hillary Clinton, a possible successor to Obama, to woman Macbeth and delineate her as somebody with "dyed blonde hair and pouty lips, and a steely blue stare, sort of a sadistic nurse in a very psychiatric hospital."

On Tuesday, Johnson listened to a recitation of his past remarks and aforementioned, "I'm afraid there's such a chic wordbook currently of things that I've aforementioned a way or another through what alchemy I don't recognize, somehow misconstrued that it might extremely take Maine too long to have interaction in any full-blown itinerary of apology to any or all involved."

Johnson, a former journalist UN agency prides himself on provocation, refused to retract his comments on Obama or Clinton, or any of the opposite one-liners that have pissed leaders and nations within the past.

Johnson won a prize in might for a vulgar literary composition concerning Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He has likened the 28-nation EU to Adolf Hitler in making an attempt, "by completely different ways," to make another super-state. As a journalist, he used a derogative term for black kids and joined New Guinea New Guinea to "cannibalism and chief-killings."

But he aforementioned weekday the main focus have to be compelled to get on pressing world crises like Asian nation and Yemen's civil war: "Those to my mind ar way more vital than any obiter dicta that you simply might dig up from thirty years of journalism." Obiter dicta may be a Latin legal term for incidental remarks.

Johnson doubly observed the "crisis in Egypt," once he meant Turkey, that is ill  from a coup try last Friday

Tuesday was Kerry's second trip to London since the June 23 call by British voters to depart the EU. He additionally met new British Prime Minister Mother Theresa might.

Johnson was clearly seeking to begin his tenure while not incident.

Just months past, he advised operating with President Bashar Assad to fight the Moslem State and alternative militant teams in Asian nation. On Tuesday, he adopted Britain's long-standing line that Assad should go.

Unlike Johnson's European allies, still injured by a British "leave" campaign they believed was replete with lies, Kerry backed Johnson — albeit awkwardly.

Recalling a 28-year career within the Senate and his failing 2004 presidential bid, Kerry said: "I have met everybody within the world like Boris Johnson — or not."

"This man may be a terribly good and capable man," Kerry aforementioned he learned from a U.S. ambassador in national capital, a quondam class fellow of Johnson's at Oxford University.

"I will support that," Johnson quipped.

As Kerry continuing, Johnson interjected to laughter: "You will stop there."

Getting the last word, Kerry left his platform to face elbow to elbow with Johnson and leaning over, stage-whispered, "It's referred to as diplomacy, Boris."

Top 9 lines overheard at Republican convention so far today

  North Carolina’s delegation had a awfully full breakfast to initiate Day three of the RNC this morning, as well as remarks from each the state’s U.S. senators – Thom Tillis and Richard Burr – similarly as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.

Here square measure the highest nine overheard lines to this point today:

Today’s Top Supply Chain and Logistics News From WSJ

The surge in e-commerce disbursement is proving terribly profitable for the world’s biggest warehouse operator. Prologis INC. rumored record profits within the second quarter as rental rates jumped whereas demand swamped obtainable house at distribution centers. Hamid Moghadam, the company’s chief government, tells WSJ supplying Report’s Brian Baskin that tight provide helps keep vacancy rates low and rental rates high. Prologis is pushing its construction disbursement forecast up slightly for the year in what seems like AN progressively assured market. Mr. Moghadam says the corporate is seeing sturdy demand for “build-to-suit” warehouses—the sites tailored to the precise wants of outlets and supplying providers—suggesting developers don’t got to rely on speculative building to stay up with the market.

Consumer-goods big Procter & Gamble Co. is making an attempt to chop out the middleman. the corporate that has long relied on retailers is testing new methods to customers, efforts the WSJ’s Sharon Terlep reports embody on-line subscriptions, free shipping and rapid-ordering apps coupled to Tide-branded couriers. The tests area unit a part of a growing move by makers and distributors to achieve households directly instead of searching for house on store shelves. P&G is facing a transparent immediate threat from the dollar Shave Club, the web subscription service that has broken away at the dominance of artificer razors. The response has P&G’s burgeoning research-and-development extending their own “Gillette Shave Club” to incorporate delivery services for alternative goods—notably Tide detergent. P&G might find yourself antagonistic its retailers with new competition, however the larger risk could also be to ignore client demand and therefore the growing direct-sales market.

Some truck manufacturers caught in a very European corporate trust dragnet insist their actions didn’t raise costs for truck customers. the eu Union capped its long-running investigation into collusion on costs and emissions by handing down some $3.3 billion in fines, the WSJ’s Natalia Drozdiak reports. EU Competition Chief Margrethe Vestager says the record penalties area unit “a clear message to firms that cartels aren't accepted.” The makers put aside many legion bucks to pay the fines, however firms as well as Volvo AB and Paccar INC.’s DAF conjointly say the $64000 impact of the collusion was restricted. As Volvo Chief government Martin Lundstedt, put it, “These events haven't compact our customers.” {the firms|the businesses} might got to build that time in a very additional formal approach if some truck companies move forward with their own civil complaints.
The biggest concern at Volvo without delay could also be its dwindling order book. The world’s second-largest truck maker rumored a steep decline in profit within the second quarter and lowered  the outlook for North yankee sales amid declining freight demand and competition from a vigorous used-truck market. The WSJ’s Saint Dominic Chopping reports North yankee truck orders fell twenty ninth year-over-year, serving to push overall international orders down V-E Day in a very depressed truck and construction market. Truck orders usually are in a very deep slide this year. ACT analysis says North yankee orders hit a six-year low in June. The cluster says cancellations reached twenty ninth of the order backlog last year which Martinmas of previous orders were canceled within the 1st 5 months of this year. There’s very little relief in sight: the yankee shipping Associations says its live of shipping demand fell one.5% from might to June.


Time is obtaining short for Sports Authority and its suppliers. The bankrupt distributor is scrambling to shut most or all of its stores by the tip of the month, as the battle between lenders and suppliers over the remaining money remains unresolved. Store managers tell the WSJ’s Peg Brickley they need been educated on procedures for wiping computers, lockup up and walking away, because the dying athletic gear merchandiser prepares for the ultimate stage of its bankruptcy. Sports Authority has paid off its ranking lenders, however lenders say they’re still owed another $240 million. And suppliers that shipped merchandise in recent months area unit on the hook many} $50 million in merchandise because it seems unlikely any stores are open in exactly a few weeks.

The World’s Top Couch Potato Adventures

Travel trends come back and go like cruise ships put off. For a minute it absolutely was yes-it’s-included tours. Then volunteer-as-you-go. the large issue now—hot as come down rope—is journey.

Heli-hiking. Jungle ziplines. Scaling sheets of ice. you wish to induce in on this stuff—you recognize you are doing. however you commute in an exceedingly automotive, work a table. World Health Organization has time to coach before vacation? And if you’re pound pitons, clutching a rock face all week, once does one get to relax, relax?If you’re associate degree brave spirit World Health Organization desires to search out excitement while not breaking a sweat, I hear you, I hear you. Here’s a summation on the world’s high Couch-Potato Adventures—thrilling visits that completely any potato will do. Take it from me: I’ve tackled all of them over the past number of years. All gain, no train, no pain.

Suggest you propose to gather all 5. (But, by all suggests that, take it slow.)

1. Drifting within the lake

If you huff and puff on hikes ditch mountain areas wherever the air is thin. suppose lowlands. suppose all-time low purpose on Earth: the lake in Israel or Jordan. Here the atmosphere is made in easy-to-breathe O, and mobile bromides from the sea’s mineral soup waft into your system and (according to a folder I read) relax your nerves.

Time for a simple activity. however a couple of smart float? Coat yourself within the sea’s chocolaty mud, wade a couple of steps out into the water and take a look at to take a seat down. Boing. you're barely wet. currently strive ducking below. Boing once more. Sproing. you're back on high.

If you're employed at it you'll get your bathing costume slightly damp and scrub off a number of the mud. But, if you’re like American state, you’ll simply drift sort of a kickboard, salty and happy. perhaps it’s that I typically sink sort of a rock. perhaps it’s the wispy sky, the tiger-orange desert sand. or even it’s a straightforward matter of chemistry: I’m positive getting to miss those bromides.
2. Snow-Rafting in Quebec

When you’re wrestling winter, there area unit roughly 2 ways that to come back out on high. you'll escape zero degree days straight to somebody else’s sun. otherwise you will kill the cold by building your own personal hearth athletics canals in Ottawa, sport the Andes, or sledding in associate degree expansive rubber boat.

Did you say rubber boat? At Quebec’s Winter Carnival, command annually in Gregorian calendar month, there area unit continuously new and peculiar ways that to get pleasure from snow. One you don’t need to be in high form to undertake is zooming downhill within a yellow Zodiac raft. “Do you've got a hernia?” warns the sign before you step in at the highest and acquire a shove.I wonder regarding this throughout the wild, slippery ride down a hard-packed slope. we tend to area unit bouncing. Our boat is dropping and, on corners, careening around. however as for medical risk...my medical specialist would, I’m pretty positive, approve. In fact, since you don’t need to tow your raft copy, I keep hernia-free the complete afternoon, snow-boating till a cool blue evenfall closes the put down.
3. Riding Dolphins in Cozumel

A Mexican island off the Yucatan Peninsula, Cozumel is wet with reefs and beaches and called a mecca for snorkelers and different. however let’s say you’re in associate degree ocean mood however too lazy for masks or flippers. There’s one water activity here that produces some other person do most of the work.

Don’t rent a ship. Head for Dolphin Discovery Cozumel, the island’s swim-with-the-dolphins center in Chankanaab National Marine Park. Here a try of well-trained animals can push and pull you around within the sun-bright shallow water. Grab on to a few of shiny fins or look forward to the dolphins to induce up speed and use their soft however super-powered noses to shove you by the soles of your feet.

Unlike some dolphin parks, Cozumel’s doesn’t confine its charges―or its customers―to a pool. I meet my 2 dolphins, Madonna and Michelle, on their turf: a piece of ocean that’s fenced by a wood dock. once some employment (for American state, not them) the 3 people area unit creating a speedboat’s wake. Once I fully relax, I initiate of the water, and lift my arms higher than my head like Neptune. because of these girls, i'm Lord of the ocean.
4. Bar-Lounging in South American nation

Say the word ‘Peru’ recently and listeners can fixate on one issue. Macchu Picchu. The mountaintop “lost town of the Incas” may be a first destination—agreed. however to visualize the lost town you’ve ought to be game for centuries-old stone steps, boot-testing slopes and plenty of clambering around.

If you’re a sloth (and happy with it) pay some period on a barstool within the close city of town ascent into native drinks. Inca drinking begins with Coca tea, a brew that’s purported to provide you with energy however while not the damaging kick of pure hard drug. made of Coca leaves however lots diluted and pleasantly delicate. price a cup a minimum of.Peruvians area unit happy if rather than ordering a cola you are attempting associate degree Inca Kola instead. Inca Kola? The label lists a bunch of mystery stuff. It tastes like Beech-Nut gum. And it pours out yellow-y inexperienced. I graduate quickly to a mug of hubble-bubble, a cidery brew that’s brewed from corn. Not bad! The bars that sell it hang around special flags—broomsticks screw-topped with proud red plastic baggage.

Finally I’m on to a Pisco bitter, the lemony national cocktail made of a kind of spirits, frothy egg whites and a few drops of bitters. Wow. Did somebody recommend ascent to Macchu Picchu at dawn? “Have fun,” I say lifting my glass and sinking down on my soft swivel stool. “When you’re back and prepared for a Pisco hunt for American state here.”
5. Deep-Tissue Massage put off

After easy-chair journey, couch potatoes is lots sore. an excessive amount of floating or sitting around will take its toll. My prescription is to register for a deep tissue massage aboard ship: serious supplemental relaxation to extra service associate degree already quiet cruise.

The deck of my European nation America ship, the Ryndam, is that the place for this, at the Elemis Greenhouse Spa. I’m regular to possess “Brianna” do the task. after I arrive for my appointment I’m told I’ll get “Samantha” instead. however it’s “Kit Lo,” originally from Beijing, World Health Organization greets American state within the soothing, stone-tiled very little area.

I’m unfolded on a towel-covered table, staring down at one thing originated on the ground. what's it? It’s a spa show. Flower petals, small mushrooms and rocks. and shortly the roll of the ship adds angles to Kit Lo’s presses and chops. there's incense. Fountain sounds, and music from somewhere...

Note to self: once massage, take shower, followed by Pisco bitter and long quiet nap.

Then (if I’m feeling up thereto, that is):

Begin designing couch-potato visits for next year

World's top cyclists to race through North Wales for Tour of Britain

This year’s Tour of england, that passes through Denbighshire and Flintshire, can feature ten of the UCI’s prime level World Tour groups for the primary time ever.

Teams from the highest tier of the game frame [*fr1] the sector for the tour, that takes place between Sept four and eleven, starting in urban center and finishing in London.

Tour DE France winner Sir Bradley Wiggins is probably going be among a number of the world’s prime cyclists sport through the region’s roads over 2 consecutive days with thousands of fans expected to line the route.
North Wales can host stage four of this year’s tour with riders beginning in Denbigh before sport 217km through Flintshire and on to Powys, finishing at the Royal Welsh showground outside Builth Wells.

Teams confirmed for the the race ar Team Dimension information, UN agency won the 2015 Tour of england with Edvald Boasson Hagen and currently additionally boast Mark chemist, Team Sky, Movistar Team, BMC sport Team and Team Wiggins with founder Sir Bradley confirming he intends to ride following his bid for a palm at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Tour of england race director Mick airman said: “This may be a first line-up of groups entirely appropriate of the Tour of Britain’s continued growth in stature and importance on the worldwide athletics calendar.

“Half of the groups elect ar presently sport within the Tour DE France, giving British fans a style of the high-level of competition that they'll expect to observance this Sept.”

In total twenty groups can participate within the 2016 Tour of england, that is British Cycling’s premier road athletics event giving athletics fans the chance to check the world’s best groups and riders competitive  on their threshold.
The stage sarts in Denbigh before heading into Flintshire and mildew before going south to Corwen and crossing into Powys and finishing in Builth Wells on the Royal Welsh Showground.Jonny Clay, British athletics director of cycle sport and membership, said: “The proven fact that ten World Tour groups have confirmed their place on the beginning line in urban center at this year’s Tour of england may be a fantastic endorsement associated underlines the sturdy name that the event currently holds at intervals an ever progressively competitive international calendar.

“We ar greatly trying forward to the spectacle of a world category peloton sport on British roads this Sept.”

Only 2 Pakistani universities ranked in world’s top 800 universities

Lahore: the planet University Ranking by Times instruction have shown that no Pakistani University has created its place to high|the highest} five hundred universities of the planet and simply 2 Pakistani universities got stratified in top 800 universities of the planet.

California Institute of Technology (Caltech), USA topped  the ranking list and was succeeded by University of Oxford that secured second position.

From Asian nation, Quaid-i-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad was stratified in 501-600 whereas National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad got stratified in 601-800.
National University of science and Technology (NUST) scored twenty one.4 in teaching whereas Quaid-e-Azam University scored seventeen.9.

Quaid-e-Azam University topped  NUST in terms of International position and scored thirty five.4 as compared to NUST that scored thirty one.3.

Another time in terms of analysis, QAU topped  NUST along side the score of nine.9 as compared to the score of NUST that's seven.0. For certifications, QAU grabbed forty five.6 points whereas NUST scored thirty five.0.
Undoubtedly, us of America (USA) was the most stockholder having 147 universities being stratified on the highest ranking scale. close to sixty three of those universities were within the high two hundred universities.

In the ranking list of high universities by Times instruction seventeen universities from Bharat, thirty seven from China whereas six from Israel, twenty four from Republic of Korea and six from Hong Kong.

Several monotheism countries stratified higher on the dimensions whereas eleven universiti
es from Turkey, eight from Islamic Republic of Iran, three from Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, five from Malaysia created to the highest 800 universities.
According to the QS Ranking issued this year in March virtually six Pakistani universities were within the high 800.

Top HSBC manager 'charged in forex probe'

A senior HSBC govt has reportedly been charged within the North American country for his alleged role in a very conspiracy to rig international currency markets.
Mark Johnson, HSBC's international head of interchange money commerce in London, was in remission at John F. Kennedy International field on weekday, per media reports.
HSBC was one amongst six banks penalised by kingdom and North American country regulators over their traders' tried manipulation of interchange rates in Nov 2014.
HSBC has up to now declined to comment.
Mr Johnson, UN agency joined HSBC in 2010, is predicted to look in a very tribunal in Brooklyn presently Wed, per Bloomberg that initial reported  the news.
HSBC reported  last August that it had put aside $1.3bn for potential settlements to hide prices regarding in progress legal investigations.
About four-hundredth of the world's currency dealing is calculable to travel through commerce rooms in London.
The massive market, within which $5.3 trillion price of currencies square measure listed daily, dwarfs the stock and bond markets.
There is no physical forex marketplace and nearly all commerce takes place on electronic systems operated by the large banks and different suppliers.
Daily "spot benchmarks" referred to as "fixes" square measure employed by a good vary of monetary and non-financial corporations to, parenthetically facilitate price assets or manage currency risk.

Mystery dancing man upstages top BBC presenter and three MPs on live TV

A prime BBC presenter and 3 MPS are upstaged on live TV by a mystery saltation man.

The mirthful spectator did a silent jig behind embattled assistant political editor Norman Smith as he tried to analyse today's Prime Minister's queries.

After studiously ignoring the person, the BBC News Channel cut away to footage of Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu could disapproval Jeremy Corbyn associate "unscrupulous boss".

But he reappeared even as he began interviewing Tory erectile dysfunction Vaizey, Labour's Jo Stevens and SNP MP Eilidh Whiteford.People within the background square measure associate peril for broadcasters UN agency work on school inexperienced, a patch of land reserved for interviews with the Palace of borough within the background.
It came once Mrs could created her debut at the illustrious weekly duel as Britain's second feminine Prime Minister.

Poking fun at his precarious position at the highest of the Labour Party , she skewered Jeremy Corbyn with a jibe concerning "unscrupulous bosses".

She same some folks within the country might need intimate "a boss that does not hear his employees. A boss that needs a number of his employees to double their employment.
"Maybe even a boss that exploits the foundations to additional his own career."

My Corbyn came fireplace by assaultive Boris Johnson's description of black folks as "piccaninnies".

And he blasted David Cameron 's inheritance of six years of unsuccessful asceticism.

"I don't suppose there square measure too several Conservative MPs UN agency have to be compelled to move to a bank to supplement their family table each week", he added.

in an astonishing Bronze Age discovery a 3000-year-old community has been unearthed

British archaeologists performing on the should Farm project in England's Cambridgeshire Fens will hardly restrain themselves.

Their on-line diary effervesces with superlatives -- "truly fantastic pottery," "truly exceptional textiles," "a really unimaginable web site," "the dig of a period."
Typically on prehistoric sites, you're lucky to seek out a couple of pottery shards, a mere hint or shadow of organic remains; typically archaeologists need to contend, need to interpret as best they will.
But this anthropology dig has clad to be utterly, thrillingly totally different.
For the last 10 months -- day by day, week by week -- the excavation has yielded up a wealth of astonishing finds as well as pottery, textiles, metal work and ancient timbers. The dig offers, as web site manager Mark Knight from the Cambridge anthropology Unit place it, "a real snapshot" of a lost world -- a prehistoric settlement from the Bronze Age some 3000 years agone.
The dig is nearly while not precedent the foremost revelatory of its kind in Britain, if not in Europe, and it's already begun to remodel our data of life within the Bronze Age.
The dig has been dole out beneath an oversized rectangular white tent -- a few thousand meters sq.. it is the form of tent you may use for a marriage reception however here it's perked up on the sting of a operating quarry. Far below, an enormous crane is busily extracting clay to create bricks.
READ MORE: Sunken town reveals secrets of a lost Egyptian town
The archaeologists arrived in effect last Sep and, shielded from the wind and rain beneath the tent, they have been forensically excavation away many meters below water level. Interest was 1st aroused in 1999 once a series of wood posts were discovered protruding of the clay. Trial excavations followed in 2004 and 2006 once Bronze Age spearheads and a weapon were found.
All terribly promising however still nobody complete quite what they'd came upon.

The whole world is a playground: Pokemon Go creates new rules of play

It is formally the summer of Pokemon Go, and currently that the microorganism development has come back to Canada it's just about bonded that either you are enjoying, or that somebody else is enjoying — on your front field.
The game uses a phone's GPS to work out wherever within the universe to spawn virtual characters, and so uses the phone's camera and increased reality to form those characters seem on the screen.
Players area unit rewarded for catching Pokemon characters call at their neighbourhoods, at park benches, street corners and native attractions.
How to catch 'em beat Canada: Pokemon Go tips
Toronto children's hospital: No Pokemon Go, please
But in their hot pursuit of a number of the game's rarer virtual creatures, players are migrating to additional and additional unlikely venues, as well as museums, hospitals and even cemeteries, triggering responses that vary from curiosity and amusement to concern and frustration.
​A British Columbia lady was destroyed to be told that the headstone of her baby son was being employed as a destination inside the sport.The Hospital for Sick youngsters in provincial capital had to raise players to refrain from taking part in within the hospital, stating that the sport will "create several difficult problems and safety considerations for our patients."
The queries that arise as Pokemon Go players abstractedly cut you off on the walkway, wander into dashing traffic or congregate around gravestones are not regarding the sport itself, however concerning however we tend to manage our digital interactions in our physical atmosphere, and the way we tend to move, not simply with the smartphones in our hands however with one another.
As the game lures players onto property, new queries arise concerning the expectation of privacy and what areas ought to be off limits. In AN era of selfies and live video streaming, the entire world may be a stage.
Now it is a playground, too.
Pokemon Go is that the 1st huge blockbuster game to bring this sort of hybrid digital play into the streets, therefore inevitably there'll be growing pains.Games ar engineered around rule sets. Those rules inform however you play, however you are rewarded, and ultimately, however you'll be able to win.

When you step onto a court, sit down at a blackjack table, or log into a gambling console, there's associate expectation of getting into what designers decision the game's "magic circle." after we play a game, we have a tendency to step within that circle and prefer into the foundations by that it's contend.

But Pokemon Go does not present itself at intervals a confined house. It takes place go into our cities and our neighbourhoods.

While the sport invitations players to suspend their disbelief as they hunt down rare creatures scattered concerning the town, there aren't any limits to what house is playable. For the foremost half this is often a decent issue, transfer the thrill of the sport into our lives.

But it conjointly suggests that the foundations of the sport will clash with the foundations we have a tendency to live our daily lives by, the wisdom and rule we have a tendency to learn in educational institution and driver's erectile dysfunction, from our oldsters and academics, and thru a full heap of trial and error: Stop at a red lightweight. Knock before coming into. Be kind. Be polite. provide your seat on the bus to the pregnant girl or the older man.

We trust these rules, as people and as a collective. however once there's a prized Pikachu to catch, we have a tendency to appear to simply forget everything we've spent our lives learning.This is simply the start. Play is ready to require over the streets.

And as each game designer within the world rushes to style consequent Pokemon Go, it's up to the remainder folks to work out what we wish the new rules of engagement to be and the way we have a tendency to balance what's non-public and what's public, currently that the entire world has become a playground.

It's easy to know the widespread attract of Pokemon Go. the sport is fun. Players ar having a decent time. they are socialisation and meeting new individuals. they are outside within the sunshine rather than cornered inside behind a pc.

Health consultants have praised the sport for its advantages to people's physical and mental upbeat, and as some have observed, the game's lightweight hearted recreation provides a welcome distraction from the horrors that fill our news feeds on a near-daily basis.

But if a part of the game's attract is as associate throw off atrocities within the headlines, it's vital that within the method of enjoying, we're aware of the individuals and places around North American country, alternatively we have a tendency to risk perpetuating the issues we're escaping from.

The world is in desperate would like of joy right away, and Pokemon Go has come back to the rescue sort of a superhero in a very smartphone. however if play goes to avoid wasting the day, we have a tendency to conjointly have to be compelled to confirm that in pursuit of virtual rewards we're still listening to the individuals and places around North American country.