The UK and the rest of the world is in the grip of an obesity crisis. What is interesting is that if you were to go on to the streets of any city in the UK and ask people how they could lose weight and get healthier they would be able to give you a fairly good answer. A quick Google search on 'diet and weight loss' throws up 622 million hits so there is no shortage of information. Every week there is some celebrity pushing their latest miracle cure. Yet for all these diets with their quick fixes we still have an obesity crisis.
Some of our biggest health challenges at the moment are heart disease and diabetes. Both of these respond very well to an increase in exercise/activity and an improvement in diet. Yet despite all the misery that these conditions come with we are still seeing increases in both.
Why is this a conundrum, well consider this. If I could do a survey on the high street and ask people what is healthy eating most people would be able to give me a fairly close approximation of what this entails. I dare say they would say things like, reduce junk food, eat more fruit and vegetables, cut down of caffeine and alcohol and increase my water intake. All of these would be correct, and all would certainly improve their health. If I was to ask what they should be doing exercise/activity wise in conjunction with these, they most probably would come up with some good ideas. The question has to be, if people know all this information "why don't they do something about it". It is this very question that generally the government and public health organisations don't want to ask. The reason for this is that all of the above require a change in lifestyle and that is the difficult bit.
My favourite mantra when working with clients is "It's your lifestyle that got you fat and only changing that lifestyle will reduce the body fat and get you healthier". Sounds obvious but it is not so easy to do. Any client who is overweight and/or unfit has generally not got to this point overnight. It is usually a whole host of factors that have contributed to the problem. Why people think that a quick fix is the answer is baffling. Its short-term reward but with very little, if any, long-term benefit. If you think of any diet you have tried in the past what tends to happen is you make a whole raft of changes and for the first few weeks these work and you see results. Now over time your everyday life gets in the way and bit by bit you give up on the changes. Ultimately you end up back with your old lifestyle habits and you are back to square one. Think of it as a pyramid, this has a wide base, that represents all the changes you initially make. Now over time (as you go up the pyramid) these get less and less (the pyramid gets narrower) until ultimately you reach the top and there are no changes remaining. What we need to do from a lifestyle change perspective is turn this on its head (turn the pyramid upside down). We are going to start out with a few small changes and see how we go.
One of the problems with this approach is that you don't see spectacular results quickly. You have to buy in to the fact that if the weight has gone on over years it is most probably going to take a few years to get it off. When I work with clients the first thing I do is explore their reasons for wanting to lose weight. Once these are clear I can work on small steps that they feel are achievable. I use Motivational Interviewing (MI) when working with clients. This client centred way of working allows people to explore their true feeling and beliefs about weight loss. It is very important that people truly believe they can achieve a healthy weight loss. That may sound obvious but very often when people talk about weight loss this is their conscious desire we are hearing. If the underlying belief is that it is difficult and won't work for them they will always regress back to that true belief. In my research I used psychometric testing to test whether men entering a weight loss programme were actually ready to change. What was interesting was that the psychometric tests showed that some of these men were not ready to change. Even more importantly, I could predict which men would fail to lose weight and drop out of the programme. Unless an individual is psychologically ready to lose weight, they will generally fail. By assessing someone's readiness to change you can help them make progress. The big advantage of MI is that you can work with a client who is ambivalent about change and help them move forward so they are psychologically ready to change.
In my behaviour change workshops (details here: http://stagesofchange.co.uk/one-day-behaviour-change-workshop/ ) I explore the techniques that you can use for successful lifestyle change. Including a number that you can take-away and implement straightaway. These techniques can be used for your personal life or even your business growth. At the end of the day lifestyle change is the key to long-term success in whatever you do.


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Energy Lecture Part 1 Fossil Fuels
January 15, 2020 Shane Orn
Get away from me
no No get back! Oh, Oh, Hi Students! Hi, this is Dr. Angley and you might be
wondering why I am in this field full of vicious hungry dinosaurs? and that's because I'm here to talk to you
about fossil fuels oh! but wait I have to come back… one
second Hi, okay I'm actually back now in the
primordial swamp where actually millions have years before
the dinosaurs roamed the earth
and this, in this area is where we actually start to form fossil fuels
fossil fuels are formed from decaying
plant material and animals mostly phytoplankton
and they were buried under thousands of feet of soil which turned into
rock and were compressed over time and we
form things like coal and oil and natural gas. So our lecture today is
going to be about the environmental consequences of extracting these fossil fuels
and using them to power our modern society if you will.
So take care. I hope you enjoy the lecture and I'll see you in class in a few days Hi Students,
This is Dr. Joe Angley. We are now getting ready to start our study of Energy. Because there is a lot of material in this
chapter, I have broken it up into three lecture videos. This first lecture covers fossil fuels. The
second lecture will cover nuclear power and hydro power. The third lecture video will
cover what are termed renewable energy sources. This slide presents the learning objectives
for this lecture. You should review these objectives on your own. Also note that as
you proceed through the lecture, you will be asked to answer various questions. It may
take additional research and independent thinking to answer these questions, so please be on
the lookout for them. In addition, there are questions to be answered at the end of the
lecture. Please bring your answers to all the questions to class, and be prepared to
discuss and present some of your results. The former Saudi oil minister, Sheik Yamani
noted that the stone age did not end because we ran out of stones. In the same way, the
fossil fuel age, will not end because we run out of fossil fuels. In fact, as we will learn
in this lecture, we have thousands of years of fossil fuels left to exploit. With so many
years of fossil fuels available, why do you think we shouldn't use them?
Stop the video now, and write down some ideas on why this might happen. Oil, coal, and natural gas, are the fossil
fuels that we typically think of when we consider energy sources. But fossil fuels also include
less conventional sources such as tar sands and oil shales.
Fossil fuels are formed from fossilized plant material preserved by burial in sediments
and compacted and condensed by geological forces into carbon-rich fuel. Most fossil fuels were laid down during the
Carboniferous period some 286 to 360 million years ago.
Because these fossil fuels took so long to form, we consider them to be nonrenewable
resources. The fossil fuels— coal, oil, and natural
gas—that have powered the industrial age have brought us many benefits, but have also
caused huge social, political, and environmental problems. As we learned in our discussions
of climate change, perhaps the most threatening of these problems is that the burning of fossil
fuels emits carbon dioxide (CO2), which is changing our global climate. We now get nearly
90 percent of all commercial energy from fossil fuels. How we'll end our dependence on—some
would say addiction to—fossil fuels is one of the most important problems that face us
today. In this chapter we'll look at the costs and consequences of various energy sources
as well as our options for the future. In this lecture we'll start with the fossil
fuels. In later lectures we will cover nuclear and hydro power and then turn to renewable
sources that could supply all the energy we will need in the not-too-distant future. To understand the magnitude of energy use,
it is helpful to know the units used to measure it. Work is the application of force over
distance, and we measure work in joules. Energy is the capacity to do work. Power is the rate
of energy flow or the rate of work done: for example, one watt (W) equals one joule per
second. If you use a 100-watt light bulb for 10 hours, you have used 1,000 watt-hours,
or one kilowatt-hour (kWh). Most American households use about 11,000 kWh per year. This table shows the energy consumption of
some common household items. Based on this table, what appliance uses the greatest amount
of energy in your home? Stop the presentation, and go find out how
much power your cell phone uses in one year? How much money do you think it costs to charge
your cell phone for a whole year? Like most industrialized nations, the United
States gets a vast majority of its energy from fossil fuels. According to the U.S. Energy
Information Agency, oil currently provides 37 percent of this supply, followed by natural
gas (25 percent) and coal (21 percent). Renewables (hydro, wind, solar, biomass) provide 11 percent
and nuclear power supplies 9 percent. In the twentieth century, the rich countries of the
world, although they made up less than 5 percent of the total population, consumed more than
half the commercial energy. That situation is now changing, however. Rising incomes in
China are leading to more energy consumption. China now consumes as much primary energy
as all of Europe, and 85 percent as much as the United States, and because so much of
China's energy comes from coal, it has now passed the United States in total carbon dioxide
production. The so called renewable energy resources make
up approximately 11% of our generating capacity. This is expected to change over the next century.
Why do you think this may happen? This slide shows the distribution of the worlds
mineral fuels. Reviewing this map, what parts of the world have the greatest abundance of
coal? What parts seem to have a great abundance of Oil? What continent has the fewest mineral
fuel resources? The largest share of the energy used in the
United States is consumed by industry. Mining, milling, smelting, and forging of primary
metals consume about one-quarter of that industrial energy share. The chemical industry is the
second largest industrial user of fossil fuels, but only half of that use is for energy generation.
The remainder is raw material for plastics, fertilizers, solvents, lubricants, and hundreds
of thousands of organic chemicals in commercial use. Residential and commercial customers
use roughly 41 percent of the primary energy consumed in the United States, mostly for
space heating, air conditioning, lighting, and water heating. Transportation requires
about 28 percent of all energy used in the United States each year, almost all of that
comes from petroleum. About three-quarters of all transport energy is used by motor vehicles. World coal deposits are enormous, ten times
greater than conventional oil and gas resources combined.
Coal seams can be 100 m thick and can extend across tens of thousands of square kilometers
that were vast, swampy forests in prehistoric times. The total resource is estimated to
be 10 trillion metric tons. If all this coal could be extracted, and we could find environmentally
benign ways to use it, this would amount to several thousand years' supply. But do we
really want to use all that coal? Almost all the world's coal is in North
America, Europe, and Asia, and just three countries, the United States, Russia, and
China, account for two-thirds of all proven reserves.
Coal is mined in two ways – underground mines and surface mines. Surface mining
is used for deposits that lie within 100 to 200 feet of the earth's surface. ================
Coal mining is a dirty, dangerous activity. Underground mines are notorious for cave-ins,
explosions, and lung diseases, such as black lung suffered by miners. Underground mining involves more human labor
than surface mining. Historically, coal was dug by hand by the coal miners. Today, underground
mines are highly mechanized, with machines doing the digging, loading and hauling in
nearly all the mines. Even so, underground mines need more laborers than surface mines. Between 1870 and 1950, more than 30,000 American
coal miners died of accidents and injuries in Pennsylvania alone.
Thousands have died of respiratory diseases. Black Lung Disease, an inflammation and fibrosis
caused by accumulation of coal dust in the lungs or airways is a common disease found
in miners worldwide. China currently has the most dangerous mines,
with 91,172 killed in mining accidents in 2008. Surface mines (called strip mines, where large
machines scrape off overlying sediment to expose coal seams) are cheaper and generally
safer for workers than tunneling, but leave huge holes where coal has been removed and
vast piles of discarded rock and soil. Strip mining is cheaper and safer than underground
mining. However, it makes land unfit for other uses.
A common environmental issue associated with coal mining is acid mine drainage. Acid drainage damages streams.
Mountaintop removal, practiced in Appalachia, causes streams, farms and even whole towns
to be buried under hundreds of meters of toxic rubble. An especially damaging technique employed
in Appalachia is called mountaintop removal. Typically, the whole top of a mountain ridge
is scraped off to access buried coal. Mountaintop removal, practiced in Appalachia,
causes streams, farms and even whole towns to be buried under hundreds of meters of toxic
rubble. In 2010 the EPA announced it would ban "valley
fill," in which waste rock is pushed into nearby valleys, but existing operations are
"grandfathered in". Mine reclamation is now mandated in the United States, but efforts
often are only partially successful. Coal burning releases huge amounts of air
pollution. Every year the roughly 1 billion tons of coal burned in the United States (83
percent for electric power generation) releases close to a trillion metric tons of Carbon
dioxide. This is about half of the industrial carbon dioxide released by the United States
each year. Coal also contains toxic impurities, such
as mercury, arsenic, chromium, lead, and uranium, which are released into the air during combustion.
The coal burned every year in the United States releases 18 million metric tons of sulfur
dioxide (SO2), 5 million metric tons of nitrogen oxides (NOx), 4 million metric tons of airborne
particulates, 600,000 metric tons of hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide, and 40 tons of mercury.
This is about three-quarters of the sulfur dioxide and one-third of the nitrogen oxides
released by the United States each year. Sulfur and nitrogen oxides combine with water in
the air to form sulfuric and nitric acids, making coal burning the largest single source
of acid rain in many areas. Most people aren't aware of it, but coal-burning
plants emit radioactivity from uranium and thorium. You'd get more radioactivity living
70 years next to a coal power plant than next to a nuclear plant—assuming no accidents
at the nuclear plant. It's possible to make either gas or liquid fuels out of coal, but
these processes are even dirtier and more expensive than burning the coal directly.
Both coal-to-liquid and coal-to-gas are environmentally disastrous. In 2010 the U.S. Energy Information Agency
predicted that coal would drop to 44 percent of America's electrical generation by 2035.
Actually, we reached that level in 2011. Currently the government is projecting that coal will
provide only 39 percent of our electricity by 2035, but that estimate appears to be still
far too high. In reality, coal is fading quickly from our energy picture. Only half a dozen
new coal-fired power plants are now under construction or in the planning stage. When
the last of those plants is finished about five years from now, no other new projects
are proposed for the foreseeable future. Federal regulations are part of this decline.
The Mercury and Air Toxics Standards announced by the Environmental Protection Agency in
2012 will slash the allowable mercury emissions from coal-fired power plants. This was required
by the 1970 Clean Air Act, but it was delayed for decades by owners of old power plants,
who argued that their facilities are about to be closed anyway and so they shouldn't
have to install expensive pollution control equipment. Forty years later, many of those
plants are still in operation and still emitting dangerous pollutants. The EPA estimates the
new rules will cost utilities about $9 billion, but will save $90 billion in health care costs
by 2016 by reducing our exposure to mercury, arsenic, chromium, and fine particulates that
cause mental retardation, cardiovascular diseases, asthma, and other disorders. In 2012 the EPA also proposed limiting carbon
emissions from power plants. If this rule goes into effect, new facilities will be allowed
to emit no more than 1,000 lbs (454 kg) of carbon dioxide per megawatt hour of electricity
produced. Natural gas plants can easily meet that standard, but it's about half the amount
released by the average coal-fired power plant. The only way to meet this limit with coal
is to install expensive carbon capture and storage equipment. As of Spring 2015, the
United States. Supreme Court is still hearing cases that may invalidate or modify the EPA
carbon emissions regulations. Another problem related to coal is the problem
of ash disposal. When coal is burned it produces ash. In the U.S. this amounts to approximately
140 million tons of waste. Coal ash contains a number of highly toxic chemicals including
lead, mercury, arsenic, selenium, and chromium. Most of the material is stored in aging ponds
that are largely unregulated by the government. In 2013, a retired Duke Energy coal plant
in Eden, North Carolina leaked 82,000 tons of toxic coal ash into the nearby Dan River.
The contaminated fluid traveled through a broken pipe underneath an unlined storage
pit, sending 27 million gallons of water from a 27-acre storage pond into the river. Petroleum is formed in a similar way to coal.
This organic material was buried in sediment and subjected to high pressure and temperature.
An "Oil pool" is usually composed of individual droplets or a thin film permeating spaces
in porous sandstone (like water in a sponge) We recover about 30-40% of oil in a formation
before it becomes uneconomical to continue. In the 1940s Dr. M. King Hubbert, a Shell
Oil geophysicist, predicted that oil production in the United States would peak in the 1970s,
based on estimates of U.S. reserves at the time. Hubbert's predicted peak was correct,
and subsequent calculations have estimated a similar peak in global oil production in
about 2005–2010. Global production has not yet slowed significantly, but many oil experts
expect that we will pass this peak in the next few years. About half of the world's
original 4 trillion bbl (600 billion metric tons) of liquid oil are thought to be ultimately
recoverable. (The rest is too diffuse, too tightly bound in rock formations, or too deep
to be extracted.) Of the 2 trillion recoverable barrels, roughly 1.26 trillion bbl are in
proven reserves (commercially extractable using currently available technology). We
have already used more than 0.5 trillion bbl—almost half of proven reserves—and the remainder
is expected to last 41 years at current consumption rates of 30.7 billion bbl per year. Middle
Eastern countries have more than half of the proven world supplies. Concern about environmental damage from drilling,
and oil spills like that of the Exxon Valdez in Alaska's Prince William Sound, and the
Gulf Oil Spill of 2010 make many observers worry about exploitation in such sensitive
areas. Proven oil reserves. Twelve countries (7 of
them in the Middle East) account for 89 percent of all known, economically recoverable oil.
Numbers add to more than 100 percent due to rounding. This chart, from the U.S. Department of Energy,
provides an outlook for total U.S. oil production. Notwithstanding the idea that we may have
reached peak oil, in recent years, we continue to discover and utilize new oil sources. Since the 1970s, U.S. consumers have feared
that there won't be enough energy to meet consumer demand. That has changed. We now
know we can recover significant amounts of oil to meet the needs of current and future
generations. The U.S. now ranks as the world's top natural gas producer and the second-largest
oil producer – and may soon pass Saudi Arabia as the top producer. The U.S. Energy Information Administration
estimates that U.S. total crude oil production averaged 8.9 million barrels per day in September
2014, driven largely by growth in tight oil production. To put that in perspective, U.S.
total crude oil production averaged 7.5 million barrels per day in 2013 and 6.55 million barrels
per day in 2012. Recent increases in U.S. oil production due to tight oil are the largest
since Colonel Edwin Drake drilled the first oil well in Pennsylvania in 1859. We've known for years that shale rock contains
oil and natural gas that was too "tight" (or impermeable) to allow commercial production.
Ongoing research and development optimized two key innovations. The first was hydraulic
fracturing also known as "fracking" – injecting water under high pressure to create narrow
micro-fissures in the rock. Since the late 1940s it has been used in more than a million
wells. Separate research during the 1980s made it possible to drill wells that curve
out laterally, thus gaining exposure to more potentially productive rock than was possible
with conventional vertical wells. Hydraulic fracturing and horizontal wells were first
combined in shale wells in the late 1990s, enabling commercial production of unconventional
reservoirs. Most of us hadn't thought much about the
dangers of deep ocean oil wells in remote places until the 2010 explosion and sinking
of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 5 million barrels of oil were spilled
during the four months it took to plug the leak. The well was being drilled in about
1 mi deep water, but that isn't very deep by current standards. For the Gulf of Mexico,
the current record is held by the Perdido Spar rig, which is drilling in more than 3,000
meters of water and then to a depth of more than 6 km below the seafloor. Brazil is drilling
at a similar depth about 186 mi offshore. This ultradeep deposit, which Brazil estimates
could hold 50 to 100 billion barrels, could make that country fifth or sixth in the world
in oil resources. By some estimates, Venezuela could have more
than 300 billion barrels of oil (more than even Saudi Arabia) accessible with current
technology, but much of Canada's and Venezuela's new oil resources are from tar sands.
Canadian deposits in northern Alberta are estimated to be equivalent to 1.7 trillion
bbl of oil, and Venezuela has nearly as much. Together these deposits are three times as
large as all conventional liquid oil reserves. Tar sands are composed of sand and shale particles
coated with bitumen, a viscous mixture of long-chain hydrocarbons. Shallow tar sands
are excavated and mixed with hot water and steam to extract the bitumen. For deeper deposits,
superheated steam can be injected to melt the bitumen, which is then pumped to the surface
like liquid crude. Once the oil has been retrieved, it still must be cleaned and refined to be
useful. The United States also has large supplies
of unconventional oil. Oil shales are fine-grained sedimentary rock rich in solid organic material
called kerogen. Like tar sands, the kerogen can be heated, liquefied, and pumped out like
liquid crude oil. Oil shale beds up to 600 m thick underlie much of Colorado, Utah, and
Wyoming. If these deposits could be extracted at a reasonable price and with acceptable
environmental impacts, they might yield the equivalent of several trillion barrels of
oil. Mining and extraction of oil shale and tar
sands uses vast amounts of water (a scarce resource in the arid western United States),
releases much more carbon dioxide than burning an equivalent amount of coal, and creates
enormous quantities of waste and wastewater, contaminates rivers and streams and destroys
the boreal forest; however, with rapidly rising crude oil prices in recent years, interest
in this resource has rekindled. This is a photo of a Canadian tar sands extraction
site. This activity takes place on a huge scale, that can be seen from space. Copy and
view the link for more information on the environmental issues related extraction of
tar sands. More than half of all the world's proven
natural gas reserves are in the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. Both eastern
and western Europe are highly dependent on imported gas. The total ultimately recoverable
natural gas resources are thought to be 10,000 trillion cubic feet, corresponding to about
80 percent as much energy as the estimated recoverable reserves of crude oil. The proven
world reserves of natural gas are 6,200 trillion cubic feet. Because gas consumption rates
are only about half of those for oil, current gas proven reserves represent roughly a 60-year
supply at present usage rates. Given the awareness among consumers of the
impact of greenhouse gases, Natural gas companies are emphasizing the advantages of this clearer
burning fuel. This table shows the amount of carbon dioxide produced per kilowatt hour
of energy used. As you can see from these data, combustion of natural gas produces about
37% less carbon dioxide than combustion of coal. This graphic presents the proven natural gas
reserves by region, 2011. Note that while the middle east has extensive natural gas
resources, their use is limited by problems related to the transportation of the gas to
market. To ship natural gas by ship requires it to be cooled and condensed into Liquified
Natural Gas or LNG. However, the amount of energy stored in a tanker filled with LNG
is equivalent to a medium size nuclear bomb, so most major coastal cities do not allow
LNG tankers to enter. Specialized ports were constructed for the import of LNG to the United
States. Recently, because of the boom in production of natural gas from shale deposits, these
LNG ports have been converted to export LNG. Here we see natural gas wells dotting the
landscape of the Upper Green River Basin. Drilling for natural gas in tight formations
has resulted in an economic boom in many rural cities and towns across the U.S. The United States has 3% of world reserves,
or about a 10 year supply but it is estimated that there is twice as much that could ultimately
be tapped. These are locations of major natural gas resources in the United States. The Marcellus and Devonian Shales, which underlie
much of the Appalachian Mountain chain, contain a "supergiant" gas field.
Current estimates of the volume of gas in the Marcellus shale range from 168 to 516
trillion cubic feet. Of this total, about 10% is considered recoverable given the current
economic climate and available technology. Rising natural gas prices during the turn
of the current century coupled with technological advances spurred interest in the Marcellus
shale in northeastern Pennsylvania. Although the thickness of the Marcellus shale
is greater in eastern Pennsylvania, the depth to the shale is also greater. Most of the
exploratory and development gas wells in eastern Pennsylvania are drilled to depths ranging
between 5,000 to 8,000 ft. Shale deposits are generally "tight" formations
through which gas doesn't flow easily. To boost well output, mining companies rely
on hydraulic fracturing or "fracking". Wells are drilled vertically to depth, and
then turned to be drilled horizontally. Once the well is constructed, explosive charges
are set to create perforations, a process called perking. Wells are drilled vertically to depth, and
are set to create perforations (a process called perking). A mixture of water, sand, and various chemicals
is pumped into the well, and into the ground and rock formations, through the perforations,
at extremely high pressure. The pressurized fluid cracks sediments and releases the gas.
Fracturing rock formations often disrupts aquifers, however, and contaminates water
wells. Drilling companies generally refuse to reveal the chemical composition of the
fluids used in fracking. They claim it's proprietary secret, but it's well known
that a number of petroleum distillates, such as diesel fuel, benzene, toluene, xylene,
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, glycol ethers, as well as hydrochloric acid or sodium hydroxide,
might be used. Many of these chemicals are known to be toxic to humans and wildlife.
The U.S. EPA recently forced mining companies to reveal the contents, but not specific fractional
composition, of their fracking fluids used on public land. These are various videos that can provide
some pros and cons about fracking. Fracking has created a "Natural Gas" revolution,
and has allowed the U.S. to become the worlds top natural gas producer. However, there is
an environmental and social cost. Fracking is associated with air pollution,
water pollution, earthquakes, releases of greenhouse gases, contamination of drinking
water, damage to livestock and crops, and accidents relating to transportation of toxic
fracking fluids. New York state has banned fracking. In this lecture we have learned about energy,
and how we measure it. We have also learned about fossil fuels, and
the environmental impact of their use. Fossil fuels remain our dominant energy source, but
coal use is declining rapidly, owing to problems with the extraction, use and disposal of ash
residues. Oil is an important resource, but easily available
oil is not sufficient to provide out needs, and thus exploration and development continues,
but in environmentally sensitive areas, and by development of shale oil deposits and tar
sands, at greater cost. A new natural gas renaissance is underway,
but with significant affects on residents and the environment near fracking wells. Again,
fracking of tight formations provides access to previously unavailable gas and petroleum
resources. In this graph we can see the amount of anthropogenic
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels, cement and flaring over the last 160 years.
Because the combustion of fossil fuels leads to the release of greenhouse gases, like carbon
dioxide, as well as heavy metals and radioactivity, the age of fossil fuels is likely to end,
sooner than later. Copy and paste the link to view a short movie
about fossil fuels and the post-carbon era. Answer these questions and bring them to class
for discussion.
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The characters were created by Nick Park in the 1980s, when he was a student at the University of Animation in England. He originally created them as part of a short film called A Grand Day Out, which followed the duo as they attempted to go to the moon on a homemade rocket ship. The film was a hit, and Wallace & Gromit soon became popular characters in England.
In 1989, Park released another short film featuring the duo, called The Wrong Trousers. This film introduced a new character, a villainous penguin named Feathers McGraw, who tries to rob a bank with Wallace's help. The film was another success, and won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Following the release of The Wrong Trousers, Park began working on a feature-length Wallace & Gromit film. The film, called Curse of the Were-Rabbit, was released in 2005 and follows the duo as they attempt to stop a giant rabbit from terrorizing their town. The film was a critical and commercial success, grossing over $250 million worldwide.
Today, Wallace & Gromit remain popular characters. They continue to delight audiences of all ages with their hijinks and inventive spirit, cementing their place as one of the most iconic duos in animation history.
The Popularity of Wallace & Gromit
Wallace & Gromit are one of the most popular duos in history. Their hilarious antics have won them legions of fans all over the world.
People love Wallace & Gromit because they are always up to something funny. Whether they are racing around in their car, or building crazy contraptions, these two never fail to make people laugh.
Their popularity is also due to the fact that they are relatable. Many people can identify with Wallace, who is always getting himself into trouble, or Gromit, who is always trying to keep him out of it!
No matter what they are doing, Wallace & Gromit always manage to entertain. It's no wonder they are one of the most popular duos in history!
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Bangkok, Ryanair and China are leaders in winter 2014; global seat capacity up 4.7% this November
Bangkok's "old" Don Mueang Airport is the fastest-growing in the world this winter as measured by additional weekly seats compared with last winter. Helping the airport achieve this, have been route launches during the last 12 months from Thai AirAsia X, Nok Air and Thai AirAsia.
With the Northern Winter season (W14) having commenced on Sunday 26 October, anna.aero this week takes a detailed look at which airports, airlines and countries have seen the biggest year-on-year change in available seat capacity (in absolute terms not percentage terms) at the start of the winter season, compared with the same period a year ago. Airlines are constantly adjusting their planned capacity so this analysis is really only a snapshot, and a similar analysis done for the first week of December or January would produce different figures, though the rankings are likely to be broadly similar.
Bangkok wins … and loses
The decision of the Thai authorities to allow the controlled redevelopment of Bangkok's old Don Mueang airport has resulted in that airport seeing the biggest volume increase in seat capacity this winter. Over 90,000 more weekly seats will be departing the downtown airport this November than a year ago, representing a 44% increase in weekly capacity. Eight of the top 10 fastest-growing airports by this measure are in Asia, with the notable exceptions being Dubai and Istanbul Atatürk, home to two of the world's biggest global carriers Emirates and Turkish Airlines respectively. With the exception of Bangkok Don Mueang, none of the other airports are growing by more than 20% in percentage terms.
Bogota, ranked 11th, is the fastest-growing airport in the Americas, while Rome Fiumicino in 12th place is the fastest-growing European airport thanks to the rapid expansion of both Ryanair and Vueling at the airport during the course of the year. Doha, in 13th place, is growing faster than Dubai in percentage terms, but is still not growing its seat capacity in volume terms as rapidly as its Middle East rival.
Source: Innovata / Diio Mi for w/c 3 November 2014 and w/c 4 November 2013.
Helping Dubai to be the world's third fastest-growing airport (and #1 outside of Asia) in terms of additional weekly seats, are route launches in 2014 by Emirates to Chicago, Oslo and Boston. During the last year, Dubai overtook London Heathrow to be the world's #1 airport as measured by ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres).
At the other end of this ranking are the airports with the biggest decrease in weekly seat capacity. Bangkok Suvarnabhumi has seen a reduction of almost 60,000 weekly seats, almost twice as many as its nearest rival, Tripoli. However, Suvarnabhumi's capacity reduction is only 8.5%, whereas in Tripoli the changes represent a 78% reduction in seats. Also among the airports with a weekly reduction of between 10,000 and 25,000 departing seats, are some major Asian-Australian airports; Brisbane, Seoul Gimpo, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo Narita.
Ryanair and China Southern Airlines are growing fastest organically
A similar analysis of airlines reveals which carriers have added the most weekly seat capacity at the beginning of the winter season, compared with the same period one year ago. Here we see a mixture of organic growth and artificial growth. Southwest Airlines continues to absorb and re-allocate operations from its AirTran Airways subsidiary resulting in an almost 9% increase in Southwest ("WN") flown seat capacity, representing some 270,000 weekly seats. Avianca is close behind. The close to 70% growth can be attributed to the almost complete phasing out of flights operated under TACA's "TA" code, nearly all of which now come under Avianca's "AV" code. Aeroflot, in third place, has grown quickly as a result of taking over all Rossiya operations from St Petersburg, while sixth ranked germanwings has benefited massively from the decision by Lufthansa to hand over its non-hub operations from German regional airports to its in-house LCC. As a result the four fastest-shrinking airlines in terms of weekly seat capacity are AirTran, Lufthansa, TACA and Rossiya.
In terms of organic growth the fastest-growing airlines are Ryanair and China Southern Airlines. Ryanair is celebrating the start of the winter season with the launch of three new bases (Cologne Bonn, Glasgow and Warsaw Modlin) and the introduction of over 40 new airport pairs. Emirates is still adding more weekly seat capacity than its regional rival Qatar Airways, helped by the launch of a new Budapest service this week. Apart from China Southern, two other Chinese airlines make the top 15 with Shenzhen Airlines and Air China, both offering over 100,000 more weekly seats this November than last year.
Delta Air Lines, the world's largest by weekly seat capacity (ahead of Southwest Airlines, United Airlines and American Airlines) only reports a modest 2.2% increase in seat capacity this winter. However, that still equates to almost 87,000 additional weekly seats, enabling it to just make it into the top 15 at #14.
Ryanair had a fairly quiet summer by its standards with regard to route/base launches, but the start of the winter season sees the ULCC launch not one, not two, but three new bases. One of these is Cologne Bonn in Germany, where it will base one aircraft and operate a total of eight routes, of which five (Dublin, London Stansted, Madrid, Riga and Rome Ciampino) are new. Alicante and Barcelona services will be added at the end of March 2015.
China affirms its position as fastest-growing air transport market
In case anyone was in any doubt about where civil air transport was growing fastest, the analysis by country market makes it clear. Airports across China have seen the addition of almost three times as many more seats compared to last November, as at airports across the US. While the US is still the bigger market overall, its winter growth is just 2.0% while China is maintaining double-digit growth. All other country markets are a long way behind the US and China with Indonesia just beating Turkey and Japan for third place. Japan, Brazil and India, all make the top 15 in terms of seat volume growth despite percentage growth of less than 5%. Colombia (+13.8%), Saudi Arabia (+13.6%) and the Philippines (+10.1%) all achieve their volume growth thanks to double-digit percentage growth in seat capacity.
Overall, global seat capacity in November is up 4.7% though the number of flights has increased by just 2.1% confirming a trend globally towards the use of larger aircraft. In terms of ASKs (Available Seat Kilometres), which takes into account sector length, capacity is up 5.8%, indicating an increase in average sector length from 1,724 kilometres to 1,742 kilometres.
Increasing seat capacity between China and the US (the two fastest-growing country markets in volume terms) is Hainan Airlines, which launched four times weekly flights between Beijing and Boston on 20 June, using its new 787-8s. Last November, seat capacity at China's airports was 54% of that at US airports; this November that figure has risen to 58%. If that trend were to continue, China's air travel market would overtake that of the US in around 2025.
AirTran Airways BKK China China Southern Airlines DMK DXB Emirates IST PVG Ryanair Southwest Airlines Turkish Airlines


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Wilbur Ross, U.S. commerce secretary, reacts during a Bloomberg Television interview at the 53rd International Paris Air Show at Le Bourget in Paris, France. (Photographer: Jasper Juinen/Bloomberg)
U.S. May Not Need to Put Tariffs on European Cars, Ross Says
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The Trump administration may not need to put tariffs on imported automobiles later this month after holding "good conversations" with automakers in the European Union, Japan and elsewhere, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said.
In May, the White House agreed to delay new tariffs on imported vehicles and parts for six months as Washington engaged in negotiations with the European Union and Japan. While the U.S. struck a deal with Japan last month that averted the tariffs, the EU has yet to reach an agreement with the Trump administration as the deadline nears.
"Our hope is that the negotiations we've been having with individual companies about their capital investment plans will bear enough fruit that it may not be necessary to put the 232 fully into effect, may not even be necessary to put it partly in effect," Ross told Bloomberg Television on Sunday, referring to the investigation under Section 232 of a 1962 trade law.
"We've had very good conversations with our European friends, with our Japanese friends, with our Korean friends, and those are the major auto producing sectors," Ross said in Bangkok, where he's attending a regional summit. South Korea was earlier exempted from any future tariffs because it renegotiated the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement, or KORUS, last year.
The EU has maintained that cars made in the 28-country bloc don't pose a threat to U.S. national security and shouldn't be targets of American tariffs. In September, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom told Bloomberg that she hoped the deadline would be extended.
Washington has already hit the EU with duties on its steel and aluminum exports using the same national-security justification. Talks on a trade deal have stalled in part to the EU's refusal to include agricultural products.
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Intimately linked to Vasarely and to the great geometric abstraction artists of the second half of the twentieth century, the editions of the Griffon reactivate a catalog of legendary books, long unavailable, except in limited circles, and now out of the archives, intact.
Martial Raysse's reference monograph: a comprehensive, luxurious and lavishly illustrated publication recounting Raysse's multiple pictorial metamorphosis since 1957.
Reference monograph, with an original engraving, numbered and signed.
The 3 volumes of the Vasarelyptiques: the ultimate original portfolios conceived by Vasarely himself—some high quality prints made between 1971 and 1977—and a set of original documents (1954-2013), gathered in an exclusive and ultra-luxurious box, with an additional book containing translations into four languages.
The ultimate original portfolios conceived by Vasarely himself—some high quality prints made in 1975—and a set of original documents (1963-1975), gathered in an exclusive and luxurious box whose design falls within the vein of the artist's work.
The ultimate original portfolios conceived by Vasarely himself—some high quality prints made in 1971—and a set of original documents (1954-1968), gathered in an exclusive and luxurious box whose design falls within the vein of the artist's work.
The ultimate original portfolios conceived by Vasarely himself—some high quality prints made in 1977—and a set of original documents (1954-2013), gathered in an exclusive and luxurious box whose design falls within the vein of the artist's work.
Artist's book conceived as a family album with prints of drop shadows, produced by Lourdes Castro in 1972. The second edition features 17 plates of silksreen prints, collages, and photographs, numbered and signed.
The use of concrete in visual arts, from 1976 to 1987.
Special ioffer for the purchase of the two volumes of Marcel Joray's book.
Reference monograph edited by the artist, with introductions by Octavio Paz and John Golding.
Reference monograph, with introductions by Marcel Joray, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, and a text by the artist.
The use of concrete in visual arts, until the late 1970s.
Reference monograph, with an introduction by Max B�cher and texts by the artist and architect.
Reference monograph, with an essay by Nadir Afonso.
The great reference monograph conceived and designed by the artist.
Reference monograph, with an introduction by Michel Tapi� de Celeyrant and an essay by Howard Morley Sachar.
Reference monograph, with an introduction by Jean Clay and photographs by Pierre Joly and Vera Cardot.
Reference monograph, with an introduction by Marcel Brion.
Reference monograph, with an introduction by Marcel Brion, and with an original engraving from 1966, numbered and signed.
Original lithograph on paper, numbered and signed by the artist.
The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record.
Limited edition of the legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record, and with an original lithograph, dated, numbered and signed.
Reference monograph, with texts, sketches, and scores by the artistes, and some musical exemples on a 45RPM vinyl record included.
Reference monograph, with an introduction by Giulio Carlo Argan.


President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said Bengaluru's residents should come up with solutions to growing problems of the city due to rapid urbanisation.
Speaking after inaugurating the Kempegowda Rashtriya Utsava here, he said like any other city, Bengaluru too was facing problems due to urbanisation. Visionary founder of Bengaluru, Kempegowda, had taken steps to build Bengaluru as a better city including providing drinking water by digging several lakes in and around the city, he said.


Well, it's real. And… it's kind of nuts.
Proud of my brother and his hard work… paying off… literally.
And then see some more pictures here.
Of course, there's much more to this story than just an entrepreneur buying a sports car… there's heart, pain, tears, hustle, and the grind of putting in the hours to make all of this happen.
I'm sure he'll end up sharing more of the larger and more important story in the coming days. Really proud of his work. Keep going.
Some more pictures of The Bitcoin Lamborghini!


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Rick is working hard digging the soil and driving the lorry as the dump truck. The new store will be completed by end of May. It is part of the plan to segregate different grains as premiums are establishing.


By now your child must be sitting up without support. He/she might be babbling incoherently to try and get your attention whenever you pass by. Keep talking to him/her as often as you can. You can play music or read him/her a book as well; this will help him/her develop good language skills. Your kid might be pretty noisy and bang his/her toys on the ground. This is normal at this age and everyone in your family will be thoroughly entertained by his/her 'music'.
You should prepare your house and get rid of anything that could be endangering your baby's safety, as he/she will soon be crawling all over the place, if he/she hasn't started already. Don't be unduly worried if he/she has not yet started crawling. Every baby is different and he/she will start crawling pretty soon. If you notice anything that concerns you always discuss it frankly with your pediatrician. Never hesitate about an issue that concerns your baby.
Growth evaluation of an infant is not just restricted to weight gain alone, but includes other measures. There is no definite, normal value for any of these parameters but only a range. Your pediatrician will measure these every month, plot your baby's growth chart, and let you know if your baby's growth is normal.
The three parameters measured are height, weight, and head circumference.
Each baby will have a different growth rate. So don't worry if your baby is smaller as long as your pediatrician says he/she is growing normally.
It is important to have your baby's growth monitored regularly as you can pick up any growth problems at the earliest.


I have a 4.5 inches res turtle from last 2.5 years but from last 3 4 days her behaviour is different she haven't eaten anything from last 3 days and always sleeping inside out. I have checked all the other symptoms but she doesn't have any I am worried what to do please help..
What do you mean by sleeping inside out? What do you normally feed her? Can you answer some of the questions in the link found in my signature?
she is 4.5 inches and she liked to be free and play in my room so I let her do that. I am having a 15 liters of water in her tank, water temperature is 70-80 around and I don't put a heater because it's summer in India, I used to feed her a pellets usually and give her a treat of lettuce, sweet, and the seasonal fruit as well whatever she likes to eat and I don't have a basking area because daily she goes to the natural sunlight by my windows as I leave her free in my room.
From last 4 days her behaviour is not normal as before and she ignore the food and always sleeping and I have checked the other symptoms of infection she doesn't have any of them BT today morning I have notice lamps near her tail what is that I don't know.
What kind of pellets? Was she a hatchling when you got her? Have you tried any live prey?
I would try some live prey. Can you answer some of these questions?
I have answered all the questions the best way I can I know I didn't have proper settled environment.
she doesn't like to be in water all day long so the water tank has a way to go in and out of the tank so she roam in my room as she always like to be around me. She only goes in the water to eat and drink. Then she comes out and play around me with some small things in my room but from last 4 days she is not eaten anything not even her favourite food and always in rest mode or sleeping.
I'd try some different foods. Boiled white chicken meat? Carrots? Does she attempt to eat, like does she go to it and smell it? Does she still bask?
Can you point out where you are seeing these lumps?


Getting together with friends should be fun. But oftentimes we let household to-do's and entertaining "shoulds" get in the way of being with people. Inspired by online articles about "scruffy" and "crappy" entertaining, in Episode 59, Christine and Asha share 8 tips for how to simplify entertaining and lower the expectations in a way where the goal is not necessarily to be crappy but to simply enjoy the company of loved ones. + + + + + Christine Koh and Asha Dornfest are the co-authors of MINIMALIST PARENTING and the award-winning bloggers behind BostonMamas.com (CK) and ParentHacks.com (AD). You'll find the show notes for this episode, including links to resources we've mentioned, at http://edityourlifeshow.com. Do you have a question, comment, or show topic idea for us? Would you like to sponsor an upcoming episode? We'd love to hear from you. Send an email to edityourlifeshow@gmail.com, or leave a comment at facebook.com/edityourlifeshow.


Tesco Bank Football Challenge takes Scotland and Hull City footballer Andy Robertson back to his primary school St Joseph's in Clarkston, Glasgow to inspire the pupils. P2 pupils also had a coaching session from the Scottish FA. The program is designed to give children the opportunity to express themselves in a safe and fun environment while forming positive habits. The video is introduced by Alison Walker.


London, UK, November 5, 2014: In a calculated move towards its strategic growth plan, Dorset based Colocation, Connectivity, Cloud and Communications providers C4L have announced two further director level appointments, with Paul Hughes joining as Marketing Director and Richard Mathewson becoming Sales Director today.
In line with extensive market growth and newly launched Connectivity and Cloud Products, CEO Simon Mewett, renowned for his skills in rapidly growing companies, took the decision to appoint two new directors to lead the delivery of C4L's new products.
Paul Hughes has a wealth of experience leading marketing teams and boosting product development in the international enterprise-class IT services sector, and will work on the annual strategy with the Marketing Manager to significantly increase the customer base. Paul is a highly professional, dynamic and hands-on Marketing Director renowned in the industry, with significant international business development experience; and with a proven track record of achievement in complex product and service environments.
Richard Mathewson is an experienced leader with extensive knowledge of international markets. Richard has helped IT infrastructure companies achieve 48% year on year growth in tough economic periods which is attributed to his deep understanding of direct sales, channels and alliances. Richard will work with the Sales Manager and support the sales team at a time of two significant new product and service launches.


Marjorie Jackson (Nelson) was Inducted into The Sport Australia Hall of Fame in 1985 as an Athlete Member for her contribution to the sport of athletics and was Elevated to "Legend of Australian Sport" in 1995.
Jackson first gained fame when she defeated reigning Olympic 100m and 200m champion Fanny Blankers-Koen a number of times in 1949, earning her the nickname 'the Lithgow Flash', after the New South Wales town where she lived. Jackson won two Olympic gold medals and seven Commonwealth Games gold medals. Between 1950 and 1954 she won every state and Australian title she contested for the 100yds, 100m, 220yds and 200m sprints (six in total). During her athletic career she broke world sprint records on ten occasions.
Jackson became the first Australian female runner to break a world record and the first Australian woman to win an Olympic athletics gold medal. In fact she was the first of either gender to win gold on the track since Edwin Flack in 1896.
Jackson won four gold medals at the 1950 Auckland British Empire Games, the 100yds (10.8 seconds), the 220yds (24.3), the 440yds medley relay (47.9), and the 660yds medley relay (1:13.4).
But it was her performance at the 1952 Helsinki Olympic Games that entranced the nation. She won both the 100m (11.5) and 200m (23.7) gold medals, equalling a world record in the 100m and setting two in the 200m. It was confidently expected that she would collect another gold medal, along with other members of the women's sprint relay team, Shirley Strickland, Winsome Cripps and Verna Johnston. They won their heat easily, setting a world record - but at the last change in the final, the baton was dropped.
At the 1954 Vancouver British Empire and Commonwealth Games, Jackson won three gold medals, in the 100yds (10.7), the 220yds (24.0), as well as the 4x110yds relay (46.8).
In 1952 the prestigious Helms Foundation in the United States awarded her the title of Outstanding Athlete 1952. Jackson was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1953 for her services to women's athletics, a Companion of the Order of Australia (AC) in 2001 as Governor of South Australia, and was appointed a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (CVO) by Her Majesty The Queen on the occasion of the Royal Visit to Adelaide in February 2002.
Jackson-Nelson was one of the eight torch-bearers of the Olympic torch at the opening ceremony of the 2000 Sydney Olympics and in 2006, was one of the final four runners who carried the Queen's Baton around the Melbourne Cricket Ground during the 2006 Melbourne Commonwealth Games opening ceremony.


Cranberry Orange Cupcakes with Orange Cream Cheese Frosting and A Cranberry Orange Drizzle seems very tasty. Interesting flavor combo of the orange and cranberries sound great, and cream cheese frosting, also orange flavored, pair so good with the moist cake.
These cupcakes are bursting with citrus flavor, and drizzled cranberry orange sauce over the creamy frosting look so mouthwatering.


Is your money in Standard Life's GARS fund? If the answer is yes, it's time to review your investment strategy – and the advice you're getting.
The Global Absolute Return Strategies fund has been a favourite for Irish financial advisers and brokers in recent years. We're wondering why.
Got money stuck in GARS and wondering if you could do better? Moneycube can offer you alternatives.
Tell us your requirements and we'll get to work.
Fact is, its recent performance has been woeful. Through the last two years of the stock market bull run, global stocks have risen something like 40%.
You might think, then, that GARS investors would be seeing the benefits of this.
As the chart above shows, €50,000 invested in GARS in January 2016 is worth something like €48,880 now – and that's before any advisor charges you'll have paid on top. (Please note this post was originally published in January 2018. We've kept the original figures, and you'll find updated figures for Feb 2019 below).
Although some of 2016's losses were recovered in the last 12 months, the fund is still down 2.2% compared with two years ago. Not much in the way of Absolute Return there.
Had you taken the plunge and simply grabbed a bunch of stocks, you'd be sitting on something in the region of €70,000. Ouch.
Here's a chart starting from the same date (1 Jan 2016) as our original article. It updates performance to 22 Feb 2019, and compares GARS to the world index from MSCI.
GARS is now down 4.2% compared to January 2016! The world index is up 19.6%.
It wasn't supposed to be like this. One reason GARS was favoured by so many investors is because they hoped it could make a return above bank interest rates, whatever the market conditions.
To be fair, Standard Life itself only promises returns over an average 3-year period. The performance could certainly turn around.
But having missed out so badly in the last two years, investors need something close to a miracle to deliver on that aim of 5% plus.
There are several options. Selling out – in full or in part – is certainly one of them.
But tread carefully – and talk to Moneycube first.
For instance, if you have invested via a life insurance policy, you don't want to trigger an exit tax charge by selling up.
Instead, we could help you move the money into some of Standard Life's other funds – many of which are top performers, as the table in last week's blog shows. You could probably cut your advisor fees at the same time.
Depending on your circumstances, other fund providers may be more suitable for you – they could offer simpler funds, cheaper charges, and more transparency. (Here's one idea, for example).
So if you're thinking of moving your money from Standard Life GARS or another investment, talk to Moneycube first.


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Gravimeters
Gravimeters are instruments to measure the the Earth's gravity (g) which is a function of the
geographic position of the observation site and a function of time as well.
A distinction is drawn between Absolute Gravimeters, which measure the local and
instantaneous gravity, and Relative Gravimeters, measuring local variations of gravity in time
or gravity differences between observation sites.
The major time depending gravity effects in an observation site are the periodic earth tides
caused by the gravitational attraction of sun and moon which changes due to the Earth's
rotation and the revolution of sun and moon.
The present state-of-the-art allows for a signal resolution up to 0.00001ppm (parts per
million); for illustration: this corresponds 0.1mm in relation to the distance of 10 000km from
the equator to the earth pole.
Why determine gravity g ?
In Geophysics we determine gravity g for:
Determination of the Geoid (represents the mean sea level of the oceans and the extrapolation of this surface under the continents)
Tectonics & Post-glacial rebound
Influence of atmosphere, cryosphere & hydrosphere on the Earth
Structure of the Earth's interior
Geology & mineral resource exploration
In Metrology we determine g for
Calibration of relative gravimeters
Force standards: e.g. pressure transducers
Watt balance: to relate the kilogram to a natural constant
The Absolute Gravimeter FG5
The absolute gravimeter FG5 is installed in the Walferdange Underground Laboratory.
The FG5 operates by using the free-fall method. An object is dropped inside a vacuum chamber (called the dropping chamber). The descent of the freely-falling object is monitored very accurately using a laser interferometer. The free-fall trajectory of the dropped object is referenced to a very stable active-spring system called a Superspring. The Superspring provides seismic-isolation for the reference optic to improve the noise performance of the FG5.
The optical fringes generated in the interferometer provide a very accurate distance measuremen t system that can be traced to absolute wavelength standards. Very accurate and precise timing of the occurence of these optical fringes is done using an atomic rubidium clock that is also referenced to absolute standards.
The fact that the measurement is directly tied to absolute standards kept at all of the national and international laboratories around the world is the reason why the FG5 is an ABSOLUTE GRAVIMETER. Absolute standards of length and time provide the means to achieve a calibrated gravity value that does not drift over time.
To get more information please visit Micro-g Solutions Inc.
The Superconducting Gravimeter GWR
The Superconducting Gravimeter (SG) is installed in the Walferdange Underground Laboratory to measure gravity g at very high resolution. The SG uses persistent supercurrents, which are trapped in superconducting magnets, to produce an ultra-stable magnetic field which levitates a superconducting test mass (sphere). The magnetic field is generated by persistent currents in two niobium coils that are superconducting below a temperature of 9.3 K (or -263.85 ° Celsius)
The GWR Superconducting Gravimeter records gravity changes due to the deformation of the Earth from tidal forcing, tidal loading, atmospheric pressure loading, and seasonal changes in water storage.
Changes in gravity result from changes in the Earth's mass and or vertical deformations of the Earth's crust.
What do we learn about the Earth from these observations? The amplitude of the tides tells us about what the Earth is made of and how the tides of the ocean circulate. We learn how continental water moves around the planet and learn about climate change (how ice mass varies with time).
Data is acquired by ECGS developed data acquisition systems and remotely transfered to our office.
For more information on principles and product infos, please visit GWR Instruments Inc., USA webpage
Superconducting Gravimeter's Gravity Sensor Unit (GSU)
A magnetic field produced by two superconducting coils levitates a 2.54 cm diameter spherical proof mass weighing 4-8 grams. The sphere tries to move up or down in response to changes in gravity. A voltage is applied to keep the sphere at it's equilibrium position. This voltage is proportional to changes in gravity.
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Cover art: Jazz Musicians, by Norman Lewis.
The Best American Poetry is not just a poetry collection; it's an eagerly anticipated event. Like its predecessors, The Best American Poetry 2003 is a definitive "who's who" and "what's happening" in American verse, spotlighting the most talented poets at work today in the United States.
"Poetry encourages us to have dialogue through the observed, the felt, and the imaginary," writes editor Yusef Komunyakaa in his thought-provoking introduction. As a black child of the American South and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, Komunyakaa brings his singular vision to this outstanding volume. Included here is a diverse mix of senior masters (Richard Wilbur, the late Kenneth Koch), crowd-pleasing bards (Billy Collins, Rita Dove), rising stars (Catherine Bowman, Tony Hoagland) and the fresh voices of an emerging generation (Natasha Trethewey, Daniel Nester).
With comments from the poets elucidating their work and series editor David Lehman's eloquent foreword assessing the state of the art, The Best American Poetry 2003 is a must-have for readers of contemporary poetry.


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Q: Get the first number in a string in script This script returns a value like 33 | 4 and I need only the the first whole number, in this case 33.
Can I use .replace( /[^\d].*/, '' ) and where/how to put this? Or is there better solutions?
You are all very helpful, but i'm in a stage where I need to see my full script or a line from it with you solutions implemented ;-)
Thanks
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    // that which was entered in #input_1_1
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A: You can use parseInt() or split your string with | and get the first result

console.log(parseInt("33 | 4"))
// or
console.log("33 | 4".split(" | ")[0])

In your case you can do
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
  $("#input_1_1").blur(function() {
    $("#input_1_8").val(parseInt($("#input_1_1").val()));
  });
});

A: Try this,
var str = "33 | 4";
var res = str.split("|");//split with '|' it will return array
console.log(res[0].trim());//33

You can do trim on it or parseInt, whatever you want to get your task done.

A: With split you can split a string with any character, my example:
<script>

var stringexample="45.89 | 65";
alert(takefirst(sting));
}

function takefirst(){
var a=string.split("|");
return a[0]
}
</script>

Also you can use split for separete character for character like this
var a=stringexample.split("");
for(var i=0;i<a.lenght;i++){
alert(a[i]);
}

Alerts:
4
5
.
8

Etc..

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Provide training for a solid and enduring foundation that is the basis of all growth and outreach. "… for the equipping of the saints for the work of service, to the building up of the body of Christ" (Ephesians 4:12).
Provide an opportunity and a place to express worship of and praise unto God both corporately and individually. "But the hour is coming, and is now here, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father is seeking such people to worship him. God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth" (John 4:23-24).
Participate in honest, trusting and encouraging relationships that provide a basis for tangible growth and support in all areas of our Christian walk. "And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near" (Hebrews 10:24-25).
Demonstrate God's love corporately and individually by engaging in service and outreach for His glory. "Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven" (Matthew 5:14-16). "But the greatest among you shall be your servant" (Matthew 23:11).


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Mega Millions results for 09/10/19; jackpot worth $154 million
The Mega Millions numbers for Sept. 10: 34-47-48-50-55. The Gold Mega Ball: 24. The Megaplier: 2. (Courtesy Michigan Lottery)
By Matt Durr | mattdurr@mlive.com
LANSING, MI – The Mega Millions jackpot continues to approach $200 million as there was no winner of the $154 million jackpot for the drawing held on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
That means the drawing on Friday, Sept. 13 will be worth $172 million with a cash option of $120.3 million.
The Mega Millions numbers for Sept. 10: 34-47-48-50-55
The Gold Mega Ball: 24
The Megaplier: 2
Mega Millions winners for Sept. 10:
· Along with no grand prize winner, no one matched all five white numbers drawn to win $1 million.
· In Michigan, one ticket sold won $1,000. That was the largest prize won in the state.
· There were 217,789 tickets sold that won at least $4 in the drawing. In Michigan, 7,810 tickets sold won at least $4 in the drawing.
Mega Millions drawings are held Tuesday and Friday at 11 p.m. Five balls are drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 70; the Mega ball is drawn from a set of balls numbered 1 through 25. The odds of winning the jackpot is 1 in 302 million.
Mega Millions is played in 44 states, plus the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each.
In other Michigan Lottery news:
· The next Powerball drawing is Wednesday night, Sept. 11 with an estimated jackpot of $50 million and a cash option of 35.6 million.
· The next Lotto 47 drawing is also Wednesday night, Sept. 11 at 7:29 p.m. with a jackpot of $1.2 million. Deadline is 7:08 p.m. that day.
· Wednesday's Fantasy 5 jackpot is an estimated $144,000. The drawing is at 7:29 p.m. Deadline is 7:08 p.m.
For the latest on Michigan Lottery, check out the official Michigan Lottery site, which also offers more information on instant tickets, raffles and other lottery games.
The drawing comes during a string of huge wins in the state. During the last Mega Millions drawing, a lucky player in Kalamazoo won $1 million. The win was so shocking to the woman's husband, that he started "bawling" when they won.
Last week an Ogemaw County man claimed a $17 million Lotto 47 win after nearly missing the deadline to play the game.
A Macomb County man also came forward this week to claim a $1 million prize. The man said he started jumping up and down and dancing when he realized he'd won.
Three weeks ago a Wayne County man won a $4 million lottery jackpot. When he realized he'd won his big prize, the lucky winner said he "felt sick," because he couldn't believe he'd won so much money.
The last players from Michigan to win a Mega Millions or Powerball jackpot were Kevin and Stephanie Blake of Waterford who $21 million after splitting a $42 million jackpot on Oct. 13, 2017. Kevin picked the winning numbers by using a combination of family birthdays. After winning, the couple said they would not retire and would continue working.
And while they were lucky winners, it's smart for players to check their tickets immediately as a winner worth $1 million sold in Ypsilanti last year went unclaimed. The ticket was purchased at the CVS in Ypsilanti, but the winner never came forward to claim the prize. The money instead went to the state's School Aid Fund.
If you'd like to be the next player from Michigan to win a huge lottery prize, take a look at these tips from lottery expert Richard Lustig. The author of "Learn How To Increase Your Chances Of Winning The Lottery" has won more than $1 million in Florida by winning top jackpot prizes in smaller games.


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India's Market Report
India is one of the largest public cloud markets in the APAC region, and one of the fastest growing, projected to grow from US$2.6 billion to US$8 billion with a CAGR of 25% between 2018 and 2023 (See Exhibit 14). The potential for deeper penetration of public cloud in India becomes all the more evident given that the market is still in an early stage in terms of public cloud and IT spending.
Even so, India has set global benchmarks in public cloud usage. Hotstar, an Internet streaming service provider, had 18.6 million simultaneous viewers for a live streaming of a cricket match in May 2019, the global record for viewership of a live program on streaming media. That kind of surge in viewership can be accommodated reliably only with the public cloud's scalable architecture.
The SaaS model has been key to growth, with companies adopting public cloud to make basic functions such as collaboration, accounting, and human resources data analysis more efficient. SaaS currently accounts for just over 50% of the market, but as more companies seek to run their own systems, applications and platforms over the cloud, PaaS and IaaS use is picking up. IaaS is expected to be the fastest growing segment, with growth expected to be about 30% annually over the next five years.
Digital natives and media companies are driving public cloud adoption in India, with interest growing among retailers, financial services institutions, manufacturers, and large enterprises across industries.
Industry adoption
Digital native businesses have embraced the public cloud as a core enabler for a reliable, scalable infrastructure that allows them to expand rapidly within both domestic and international markets, all with lower upfront costs than they would otherwise have. India has over 20 tech startups that have achieved unicorn status, valued at US$1 billion or more by investors, and more than 80% of them have found IaaS and PaaS platforms integral to their success. Most are deploying some form of advanced application such as artificial intelligence or machine learning to embed such tools as market analytics, product recommendations and customer loyalty programs within their offerings. Unicorns in a range of businesses including transportation, food delivery, mobile learning, online grocery shopping, hotel booking, and mobile restaurant reservations are partnering with public cloud providers to deploy advanced analytics and grow their customer base through personalization.
The online travel company Ibibo Group used the public cloud to improve its service quality for travelers while at the same time developing faster collaboration tools for its nearly 500 employees (See Ibibo Group case study).
Another digital native business, a delivery platform, moved to the public cloud because its previous logistics system was not able to keep pace with the rapid growth in orders being placed, causing a negative impact to its customer experience and reputation. With an IaaS platform on the public cloud they were able to scale up instantly from zero orders to a million orders.
In the media industry, conventional print and broadcast companies are using the public cloud to engage their online customers in new ways such as targeted real-time news delivery. The cloud also enhances their internal productivity by transforming the editorial process.
However, it is the newer companies delivering streaming content that find the public cloud critical to their growth. Major streaming media players are using the cloud for content delivery and consumer research to enhance their customer experience. Most large content providers have scaled rapidly on the back of the public cloud infrastructure, using AI and ML to target audience programming.
Retail and consumer goods players are also increasingly exploring opportunities to digitalize and develop capabilities in AI and ML, enabled by the public cloud. While deployment of public cloud services is in its initial phases here, the retail industry offers significant growth potential. Traditional retailers looking to venture into e-commerce observe that they need heavy investments to create on-premise data centers, and hence the public cloud becomes an attractive option that also gives them the ability to scale up quickly to handle erratic loads during special campaigns or sales.
"We ran some campaigns that caused traffic to spike up to five times above the normal pattern. The public cloud supported these peaks with no reduction in performance or availability to our customers."
—CTO, Traditional fashion retail company
Others in the retail industry say that having data on the public cloud and leveraging tools has improved their overall decision making process.
In other large industry verticals such as manufacturing and financial services, the migration is slower. Manufacturing companies and many of India's large enterprises tend to use the cloud for team collaboration and basic applications, partly because migrating legacy data would be cumbersome.
Financial services institutions are not yet migrating core applications onto the public cloud and have some concerns about government regulations and how they could impact their security configurations. Nevertheless, some segments of the industry, notably insurance, lending, and fintech, have taken steps to make the public cloud an important tool to adopt. L&T Financial Services, which has developed a base among rural customers who may be in remote areas, for example, has greatly accelerated the time it takes to process a loan by using the public cloud (See L&T Financial Services case study).
The Indian government has issued a cloud-first initiative aimed at requesting that government agencies adopt a government cloud for all new projects, the GI Cloud (MeghRaj), which is supported by various cloud service providers. The initiative is expected to help build awareness of cloud computing and how it can accelerate the delivery of e-services to citizens while increasing efficiency, scalability and standardization.
The key benefits identified by users of public cloud include:
Higher team productivity. As a CTO of a mass media company told us, the public cloud "allows developers to focus on what they need to do, which increases agility of team and makes them more productive." Productivity tools have been the most common use cases of the public cloud; users appreciate the internal and external collaboration using such features as document sharing tools and communication apps, as well as the standardized platform for code development. The efficiencies the cloud brings allow the organization to focus on its core business issues.
Faster launch of new products and services. Digital native businesses need to test and launch new products and services quickly to stay competitive, and have seen that the public cloud gives them the ability to move fast in testing and fine-tuning prototypes and getting something new out to their markets quickly. The cloud also gives them easy access to analytics tools that they can use to broaden their geographic scope and cultivate international markets. When a business is selecting a cloud provider, a vendor with a global footprint is an important consideration if the business is expanding its own global reach.
Better security. Large enterprises are particularly aware of the security advantages of the public cloud, noting that hyper-scale cloud service providers can invest in security at a scale that isn't available to even large multi-national corporations. Also, the providers can continually access the latest security technology and capabilities. Continuing education of users is needed, however, to strengthen the understanding of the security features of the public cloud among all users.
The key challenges identified by users of public cloud include:
Lack of clear understanding of data privacy features. While some of India's businesses are recognizing that cloud service providers can enhance security, data privacy and security remain a concern across most industry verticals because users are not always familiar with the security measures that cloud service providers offer them. This concern is especially prevalent among public sector organizations and financial services institutions. Clearer guidelines on data classification that is interoperable with international standards would help mitigate this challenge. Some enterprises are starting cautiously, by moving smaller or non-critical applications onto the public cloud to test its security and build their own confidence in the way it works, and also to cushion themselves against any risk of having critical applications on the public cloud in the event of a sudden adverse change in regulations.
Lack of robust network infrastructure and understanding of product performance. India is expanding its telecom network coverage to connect more of its mobile network towers to fiber networks, to provide fast and reliable connectivity across the country. The slow connectivity of legacy networks often result in latency issues, thus raising concerns among businesses about the performance and reliability of the service, especially for critical applications.
A well-designed deployment of the public cloud can actually be helpful in mitigating these problems. Users can design architecture that minimizes the network load, with more processing handled by the cloud. For this reason, users look for vendors and partners that have a track record for reliability of performance.
"Most cloud players are very competitive on their offerings and pricing. While prices are important, we are also interested in the level of product and service reliability."
—CTO, Retail company
Legacy migration cost and risk. While DNBs have been able to start using the public cloud early on, and are benefitting from the way it enables them to scale up quickly, large enterprises across verticals have only recently started migrating. For the most part they have moved only their peripheral applications onto the public cloud because they struggle to transfer historical data and integrate their existing IT systems with public cloud systems. The process is complex and consumes a great deal of time and money, all of which is a further deterrent in a market where IT and cloud spend is already low.
The economic impact
The overall cumulative impact from direct, indirect and induced sources between 2019 and 2023 is expected to be US$102 billion, if CSPs continue to launch new products and services, there is high traction in adoption in the market, and policymakers keep their existing stance on public cloud deployment (See Exhibit 15). When annualized, this is a sum equivalent to 0.6% of the annual GDP, similar to about 25% of the annual impact that now comes from the textile industry and 15% of the annual impact from the IT industry.
Approximately 85% of the impact will come from the gains to industry verticals such as digital natives, media, retail, and financial services, with only about 15% coming from the cloud service providers themselves.
Of the direct gains to industry, a major percentage will come from enhanced business revenues. A total of US$14 billion revenue uplift could be generated, while a further US$1.7 billion may emerge from productivity benefits, with US$1.4 billion value achieved as a result of IT-related cost reduction and avoidance.
Public cloud usage stands to create 240,000 direct jobs over the next five years, which is equivalent to 0.7% of all new jobs created in the previous five years. Though many of these jobs will require a certain amount of digital upskilling, about 83,000 of the direct jobs will be in non-digital roles such as sales, marketing, human resources, finance, logistics and operations. Another 157,000 will be jobs for digital and IT specialists, with around 121,000 roles within cloud service and IT system providers and another 36,000 with industry verticals, representing 3.8% of the current information and communications technology workforce.
The second order effects are expected to influence another 743,000 indirect and induced jobs, bringing the total potential jobs impacted due to public cloud deployment to nearly one million, which is 0.4% of the current workforce. A large proportion of these jobs will likely be taken up by members of the existing workforce who have been retrained and upskilled. Training the workforce on data science, artificial intelligence and machine learning will provide lasting benefits to the country's economy.
Two alternate scenarios
The economic impact we have assessed above is the Baseline Scenario, but we have drawn up two additional scenarios. The Big Bang Growth Scenario and the Sluggish Growth Scenario show the economic impact that would occur if the forces that shape the public cloud market cause growth to either speed up or slow down. If either of these scenarios were to unfold, the full cumulative economic impact of the public cloud could vary by a difference of US$40 billion between 2019 and 2023 (See Exhibit 16).
The Big Bang Growth Scenario. Faster growth is likely to ensue if industry and government step up their efforts to take advantage of the benefits of public cloud use. Traditional large enterprises would increase their use of the cloud as part of a complete digital transformation journey, while regulators would recognize the strong case for enacting cloud adoption and data policies aligned to international best practices. A collaborative effort on the part of organizations, service providers and government to boost the supply of digital talent would ensure that India has the expertise it needs for its rapid growth in public cloud deployment.
If these factors come together, a CAGR of 36% would boost the cumulative economic impact to as much as US$130 billion between 2019 and 2023, or 0.7% of GDP. About 425,000 jobs would result from the direct impact with another 1.25 million influenced by the second order effects.
The Sluggish Growth Scenario. A slowdown in growth would most likely stem from more protectionist policies that lead to cross border data flow laws that are less cloud-friendly. Less clarity on security standards, or standards that diverge from international practices, would also inhibit the ability of companies to migrate data and applications to the public cloud. Either of these would result in a more limited launch of new cloud products and slower traction among industries.
In this slower-growth scenario, we have estimated that the cumulative economic impact would be no more than US$90 billion, or 0.5% of annual GDP. At this level, the jobs that arise directly from public cloud usage would amount to around 143,000, with another 376,000 influenced from the indirect and induced impact, for a total of around 520,000 jobs—about half the total jobs that are expected to result from the Baseline Scenario and less than a third of the number that a Big Bang Growth Scenario could produce.
With digital native businesses and new media companies leading the way, India's nascent public cloud market shows tremendous growth potential. As the connectivity infrastructure in the country improves, and government data and digital policies evolve, some of the existing challenges the users face can be mitigated which would drive higher engagement and adoption from many more businesses as they embark on their digital transformation journey and adopt advanced technologies. The impact of a more public cloud-centric approach would be dramatic, particularly as an influence for more than 1.6 million jobs in total.
Continue reading the main report
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Audi Ambassador Sir Steve Hansen's secrets to sustained performance
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The MySQL sys schema is a set of objects that provides convenient access to data collected by the Performance Schema. The sys schema is installed by default. For usage instructions, see Chapter 27, MySQL sys Schema.