There are 85 types of IPL in 12 groups
The working day is divided in morning (AM), the activities before 13:30 and afternoon (PM), the activities after 13:30.
If the interpreter has different IPLs from the same group in the same part of the day, it is only one counted. But if the Interpreter has IPLs from different groups, in the same part of the day, then, for each activity, there is counted another IPLs.
confiscating the gold of American citizens. he debased the US Dollar overnight by 40% by changing the official exchange ratio of the USD to gold from $20.67 per ounce to $35.00 per troy ounce.
China gets their oil from Libya. Why isn’t Chinainvolved? Tey’re going out spending billions of dollars a day on trying to take over the world eco-nomically. And we’re spending billions and billionsand billions of dollars on policing the world. Why isn’t China involved with Libya?...we don’t get oilfrom Libya, China does. ”
pyhagoan ho: 24 wods
Lord’s prayer: 66 wordsArchimedes’ Principle: 67 wordsTen Commandments: 179 wordsGeysburg address: 286 wordsUS Declaraon of Independence: 1,300 wordsUS Constuon with all 27 Amendments: 7,818 wordsEU regulaons on the sale of cabbage: 26,911 word
business of managing an economy and aempng to controlinaon while simultaneously prinng as much money as one can get away with, to be able to pointto a falling oil price as evidence that the dreaded spectre of inaon is not an immediate concern
n 1776, one book, written in complex language, sold over 120,000 copies in Colonial America.
First convert 120,000 into a fraction of the U.S. population in 1776: compared to the population at the time of 2.5 million, 120,000 is roughly 1 in 20, or 5%. Today’s U.S. population is about 300 million—of which 5% is 15 million.
only 13% of adults attained this level. Thus, the proportion of Americans today who are able to understand Common Sense (13%) is smaller than the proportion that bought Common Sense in 1776 (20%). Are we a nation in decline?
niforms have a positive influence on student attendance in secondary grades. Attendance rates in grades 6 through 12 increase by 0.3 to 0.4 percentage points after a school adopts uniforms. On the other hand, we find little evidence that uniforms have lasting impacts on achievement, grade retention, or the likelihood of students switching schools or leaving the district for all genders and grade levels.
aviation pioneer achieves world's first untethered, manned electric helicopter flight
he MIT technology uses microscopic hydrogel particles around 200 micrometers in length, each one studded with literally millions of identical DNA snippets. (Hydrogels are cross-linked, water-absorbing polymers that have an affinity for nucleic acids, the building blocks of both RNA and DNA). Attached to every piece of DNA is a short sequence that will bind to a fluorescent probe, which is added later in the process.
To perform a blood serum assay, a mixture of particles are added to a 25 microliter droplet. If there's any microRNA present, it binds to its complementary DNA strand. The fluorescent probe is then added and the researchers employ a custom-made microfluidic scanner to measure each particle's fluorescence. Individual particles are also imprinted with a chemical "barcode" that identifies the strand of microRNA being detected. From start to finish, a sample can be assessed in less than three hours.
"This approach is 100 times more sensitive than other particle technologies for detecting microRNA," Doyle notes.
In fact, with its ability to sense as few as 10,000 strands of a specific microRNA, this new hydrogel technique yields more reliable results than other currently available procedures which utilize fluorescent probes as labels. That's good news, especially since speed and accuracy are both valuable traits in the realm of cancer detection. The company Doyle co-founded, Firefly Bioworks is working to perfect a device for commercial use.
August jobs data pointed to a labor market teetering on the edge of recession, and investors are looking for the Fed to take some sort of action in September -- probably an additional further effort to push down long-term interest rates.
The economic data arriving during the last week have been deeply discouraging, though are slightly less grim than some may have been concluding.
GDP grew in the second quarter at an anemic 1.3% annual rat
And my prediction for the second half remains where it has been-- another 6 months of disappointingly slow growth
Finally, in a recession we would see more than a 3% drop in industrial production over a 6-month period, in contrast to the 1.5% gain since February.
nother thing we'd expect to see if we were already in a recession is a steep rise in the unemployment rate. Leamer suggested that a rise of 0.8 percentage points over the space of 6 months would be a recession signal. We've seen a bump up since February, but it's only 0.2 percentage points so far.
Another recession indicator we could look for would be a 0.4% drop over 6 months in the household employment measure. With today's report, this measure is up very slightly from where it stood in February.
Germany's constitutional court will announce its verdict on September 7 on whether the government broke the law with last year's euro zone and Greek bailout packages,
tr-un scenariu alternativ, el se asteapta la o evolutie descendenta, cotatia BET-FI urmand sa se deprecieze si sa inregistreze o inchidere sub nivelul de 15.000 de puncte, generand astfel un semnal negativ de continuare a trendului descendent.
The Federal Reserve will respond to Friday’s brutal jobs report by announcing a so-called Operation Twist—the purchase of longer-dated Treasurys and simultaneous sale of short-dated Treasurys—after its next policy meeting, economists from Goldman Sachs and other firms said.
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is likely still off the table for the two-day meeting ending Sept 21, but a ‘QE3’ could be put in place in November
is likely still off the table for the two-day meeting ending Sept 21, but a ‘QE3’ could be put in place in NovemberThe Fed would purchase Treasurys with maturities of 10 years or greater in an attempt to keep longer-term rates lower. The thinking behind the maneuver is to give investors and corporations longer-term certainty and hit directly at the rates linked to consumer loans like mortgages
would purchase Treasurys with maturities of 10 years or greater in an attempt to keep longer-term rates lower. The thinking behind the maneuver is to give investors and corporations longer-term certainty and hit directly at the rates linked to consumer loans like mortgagesThe move dates back to 1961 when it was put into action by President Kennedy and then-Fed Chief William Martin in order to stop a massive outflow of money out of the U.S. to Europe.
Fed’s balance sheet because it uses the proceeds from selling the short-dated securities to buy the long one
f Ben Bernanke cannot convince committee members to take action on September 21, we may have to wait for the November 1-2 meeting for ‘QE3
Another Crushing Regional Election Defeat For Merkel, As Ruling CDU Gets Record Low Vote
The last time the country went into recession in 2008, the price of oil plunged from $140 a barrel to $30 a barrel in the space of six months
The Chinese continue to fill their strategic petroleum reserve, Japan is still relying on diesel generators for electricity post-tsunami, and the Middle East is developing a love affair with the air conditioner.
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China is now consuming over 9 million barrels per day. This is up from an average of 7 million barrels per day in 2006. Platts, a global energy analyst, put China’s 2010 figures at 8.5 million barrels per day, up 11.43% from the previous year. The forecast for China’s crude throughput in 2011 is an average of 9.24 million barrels per day up 8.5% from 2010. In the first seven months of this year, total crude throughput stood at average of 8.95 million barrels per day.
by the year 2020, China will overtake all of Europe as the second largest consumer of oil in the world, and should catch up to the U.S. by the year 2030 as China’s demand continues to rise while U.S. demand is expected to be flat. Chinese crude imports grew 17.5% in 2010 to 4.79 million barrels per day. China is importing 55% of its oil today versus 40% in 2004.
increase demand
peak of production 2012
, gold is, to China at least, nothing but the opportunity cost of destroying the dollar's reserve status.Ch ina's increased gold reserves will thus act as a model and lead other countries towards reserving more gold. Large gold reserves are also beneficial in promoting the internationalization of the RMB.
the typical pension fund holds about 0.15% of its assets in gold
that commodities represent about 3% of the total assets in the average pension fund. And of that 3%, about 5% is devoted to gold.
If they doubled their exposure to gold and gold stocks – which would still represent only 0.6% of their total assets – it would amount to $93.3 billion in new purchases.
The assets of GLD total $55.2 billion, so this amount of money is 1.7 times bigger than the largest gold ETF. SLV, the largest silver ETF, has net assets of $9.3 billion, a mere one-tenth of that extra allocation.
If these funds allocate just 5% of their assets to gold – which would amount to $1.5 trillion – it would overwhelm the system and rocket prices skyward.
I expect a hard default definitely before March, maybe this year, and it could come with this program review," said a senior IMF economist
he chances for a second program are slim." It is not only Greece - Italy a
Interest rates on one-year paper blew out past 70% and two-year yields rose close to 50%.
For the next 6 months gold will rather decline than go up – faber
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stock markets plummeted in August, one thing that was noceable was the resilience of both ‘the oil price’ (in the shape of Brent Crude, of course) and that of copper - two bellwetherindicators of any slowdown in growth that can be relied upon to ash signals when a recession is nigh
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signs are clear: Inaon is not only thepreferred opon to soothe the pain of a worlddrowning in debt, but (semancs about which ‘oilprice’ to use aside) prey much the only bullet lein the guns of central bankers and, unl somebodystamps a ‘sell-by date’ on such things as copper, oil orour old friends gold and silver, the Chinese will con-nue to swap their paper for hard assets and, realis-cally, the price is of secondary importance to them.
CB begin to moneze their own problems via Euro-bonds and rate cuts
Wingsuit flying
China (which accounts for 14 percent of global GDP) and India (6 percent of global GDP) will deliver enough growth to counterbalance weakness in the world’s main developed economies.
hina will deliver GDP growth of about 9 percent this year and will support the rest of Asia’s economies. South Korea’s 27.1 percent year-over-year export growth in August is another indication that Asian economies are on the right track in 201
mining companies, including Goldcorp [GG 54.71 
1.36 (+2.55%) ], BHP Billiton, and Freeport-McMoran [FCX 44.94 -1.52 (-3.27%) ]
1.36 (+2.55%) ], BHP Billiton, and Freeport-McMoran [FCX 44.94 -1.52 (-3.27%) ]uring the last six decades, September has been the cruelest month of the year for the bulls. The Dow industrial average is down an average of 0.9 percent for the month since 1950. The worst September for the Dow industrials was 2002, with a loss of 12.4 percent.
History of bond, stocks, commodities from 1770
evolutie indice preturi belg:
1914 – 1
36- 7.27
53-30
66-39
71-46
74-63
81-98
88-133
96-166
2004-187
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