Is the stock market about to totally crash?
On Monday, the Dow Jones Index of the stock market fell 1175 points, the largest one-day point drop in history. This was preceded by a spooky 666 point-drop in the previous trading day. Is the stock market about to totally crash? Fact is that nobody can predict what will happen in the next few days or weeks. However, there are systemic economic variables that point to an immense crisis in the near future. If the fundamentals are fake, all we get from casino capitalism is a house of cards.
Let's start with the start market. Does this chart of S&P 500 index like a bubble? That's 270% growth in just under nine years!
Not having learned the lesson from the housing bubble that crashed the global economy, the elites have created a sequel. Here's the Case Schiller Index for various cities in the U.S. Do they seem frothy?
Then there is a new asset bubble – auto loans, which is up 50%.
Another debt bubble that has reached insanity is the student loan, which now stands at $1.4 trillion (doubled since 2009). The student loan was a desperate scheme by the government to reduce the official unemployment rate after the economy tanked in 2008.
The U.S. non-financial corporate debt ($8.7 trillion) and household debt ($13 trillion) are also at record levels.
Bubbles are always bad because they are illogical and, when they burst, cause a lot of pain. A bubble depends on the "greater fool theory," whereby each person hopes that there will be a bigger idiot who will pay even more for an asset. Bubbles also appeal to the get-rich-quick fantasy.
There are three different types of bubbles.
Irrational bubble: This is the simplest one that's caused by hype, herd mentality, greed and FOMO (Fear of Missing Out). Without any change in the fundamentals, the price of a product keeps going up. Whether it's the Tulip Mania of the 17th century or the BitCoin bubble of the 21st century, the principle driving the irrational exuberance is the same: human psychology. (By the way, Bitcoin has fallen from $20,000 to $7000 in the last few weeks).
Debt-driven bubble: This is worse than a simple bubble, since people get into debts, hoping for a massive return. Mortgage, of course, is the biggest debt for most people. American middle class lost 40% of their wealth after the great financial crisis of 2008, but they forgot all about it a few years later. When the bubble bursts, everyone – families, corporations and governments – are left deeper in the hole (except for the few lucky ones and insiders who make it like bandits).
Bubble fueled by debt, money-printing and loose standards: This is akin to that bartender who seems to have a lot of energy. Then you find out that he had coffee at 9 pm, Redbull at 10 pm, Ecstasy pills at 11, cocaine at midnight and meth at 2 am. The current bubble is fueled by (a) money-printing by the central banks, (b) artificially low interest rates set by the central banks, (c) and loose standards for loans.
Since the 2008 crisis, the big central banks in the U.S., EU and Japan – Fed, ECB and BOJ respectively – have (digitally) printed more than $10 trillion out of thin air. Then the commercial banks turned them into $100 trillion or more, thanks to the fractional reserve system.
The Fed and other central banks also coordinated their actions and reduced the prime interest rates to virtually zero ("ZIRP" policy) and held it there for 8 years.
Easy money meant that big corporations spent trillions of dollars – including massive debts – to buy back their own shares. The ECB has spent billions buying corporate bonds and the BOJ has spent billions buying stocks. Of course, the stock market has tripled.
Financial engineering also created Housing Bubble 2.0 and other newer bubbles. Keep slashing the required down payments, incomes and credit scores, you will get more new buyers for more expensive homes and cars. Creating a bubble is not rocket science.
Wealth versus wealth-effect: Somewhere along the way, we collectively lost the notion of what true wealth is. Earning and saving have been replaced by borrowing, spending and speculating. In this environment, the entire nation has turned into Las Vegas, and Casino Capitalism has become the norm.
Disregard for fundamentals: Since 2008, the U.S. GDP grew by 35% while the stock market grew by 270%. Does that sound reasonable?
Tesla has lost more than $3 billion in the last five years, but its stock price went up 10-fold during the same time. If you invested money in Amazon shares, it will take 250 years to get your money back through its earnings. Australia's housing market is 4 times its GDP. There's no logic when the society is caught up in a frenzy.
This time is not different. All we have done since 2008 is rinse and repeat. We simply replaced the housing bubble with Everything Bubble and perpetuated the boom-bust cycle on a larger scale.
The bubbles will soon start popping all over the world (except for a few countries like Russia that has very low debt). The timing depends on how fast and how much the central banks will raise the interest rates. Even a 2-3% point rate hike is enough to pop the bubble, since bond markets, housing and stock buybacks are all very sensitive to interest rates. The yield on U.S. 10-year treasury has already jumped 80 basis points in the last few months, even without any help from the Fed. And the U.S. dollar has dropped 12% in value against other currencies in the last year.
The debt binge is coming to an end, as households and corporations are close to being maxed out. When there are no more new buyers, there will be a stampede towards the exit door. 2018 might very well turn out to be the year when the house of cards collapses again.


One of the earliest records in the region was that of William Maddox whose 1801 estate listed 100 acres of land adjoining Michael Maddox, William Watt and John Stewart. In 1870, Robert M. Bransford owned a tobacco house and land on Cut Bank Road. The house would have either been a shed or barn, where tobacco was stored.
Throughout the 17th and 18th centuries, tobacco was the principal cash crop of the Virginia Colony, as well as the Carolinas. Large tobacco warehouses filled the areas near the wharves of new, thriving towns such as Dumfries on the Potomac, Richmond and Manchester at the fall line on the James River, and Petersburg on the Appomattox. After the Revolutionary War and the migration of families into the westward regions, the crop continued to be widely grown.


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This website has been developed by the Buninyong Joint Library Trust Inc. as a resource for walkers wanting to enjoy the many rural walks around Buninyong and District.
The concept was proposed and developed by Neil McCracken who supplied the content for the website, and gained initial funding from the Ballarat City Council through its 2011 Community Grants Program. The first website included the GPS-based walking map for the Buninyong-Ballarat Bird World Circuit.
Further Council funding to develop new maps and greatly extend the website was gained in 2105. The new detailed maps were prepared by cartographer Bill Casey.
The website was designed and constructed by local website developer, Liz Lumsdon of UpThere Web Design. All photos, unless otherwise specified, were shot by and copyrighted to Liz Lumsdon.
You can email Neil McCracken at: jenneil@vic.chariot.net.au
The Buninyong Joint Library Trust is based in the Old Buninyong Library
408 Warrenheip St
Buninyong, 3357
Email: bunlibtrust (at) gmail.com
The Old Library houses the Buninyong Information Centre which is open five days a week: 10am – 3pm, Wednesday-Sunday. Visitors are welcome and a volunteer is always on hand to show you our range of maps and other resources if you would like to call in.

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Dramatic is the word used to describe pieces like this and we somehow find the word wanting, unable to properly describe this piece. Imagine listening to your favourite rock album and the feeling you get when the groove drops. Maelstrom. That's better.


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Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the English West Midlands. It is considered by some to be the UK's "second city". It has the largest local authority in the United Kingdom, and is the second largest by urban area population. It is also one of England's core cities.
The City of Birmingham has a population of 991,900 (2003 estimate). Along with Wolverhampton, Solihull and the towns of the Black Country, Birmingham forms the largest part of a large conurbation; the "West Midlands conurbation", which has a population of 2,275,000.
The metropolitan area of which Birmingham is part is defined by the government as the West Midlands county, which also includes the city of Coventry and has a population of 2,575,000, but in practice includes parts of the surrounding counties of Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Shropshire and Worcestershire. Based upon commuting and economic influence, the metropolitan area effecitvely extends over much of the West Midlands region.
The city is commonly known by its nickname Brum (from the local name Brummagem), and its people as Brummies. Birmingham is home to the distinctive Brummie accent and dialect.
Birmingham is an ethnically and culturally diverse city. Around 30% of Birmingham's population is of non-white ethnicity; at the time of the 2001 census, 70.4% of the population was White (including 3.2% Irish), 19.5% Asian or Asian British, 6.1% Black or Black British, 0.5% Chinese, and 3.5% of mixed or other ethnic heritage.
The main article is at History of Birmingham; the following is a summary.
Birmingham has a recorded history going back 1000 years. In this time, it has grown from a tiny Anglo-Saxon farming village into a major industrial and commercial city.
The Birmingham area was occupied in Roman times, with several military roads and a large fort. Birmingham started life as a small Anglo-Saxon hamlet in the Early Middle Ages. It was first recorded in written documents by the Domesday Book of 1086 as a small village, worth only 20 shillings.
In the 12th century, Birmingham was granted a charter to hold a market, which in time became known as the Bull Ring. As a convenient location for trade, Birmingham soon developed into a small but thriving market town.
By the 16th century, Birmingham's access to supplies of iron ore and coal meant that metalworking industries became established. In the 17th century, Birmingham became an important manufacturing town with a reputation for producing small arms. Birmingham manufacturers supplied Oliver Cromwell's forces with much of their weaponry during the English Civil War. Arms manufacture in Birmingham became a staple trade and was concentrated in the area known as the Gun Quarter.
During the Industrial Revolution (from the mid 18th century onwards), Birmingham grew rapidly into a major industrial centre. Unlike many other English industrial cities such as Manchester, industry in Birmingham was based upon small workshops rather than large factories or mills.
The Birmingham Canal Navigations between the International Convention Centre (left) and Brindleyplace (right) in central Birmingham.
From the 1760s onwards, a large network of canals were built across Birmingham and the Black Country, to transport raw materials and finished goods. By the 1820s an extensive canal system had been constructed; Birmingham is often described as having more miles of canals than Venice.
Railways arrived in Birmingham in 1837, with the opening of the Grand Junction Railway and later the London and Birmingham Railway the railways soon linked Birmingham to every corner of Britain. New Street Station was opened as a joint station in 1854. And this was soon followed by the Great Western Railway's Snow Hill station.
During the Victorian era, the population of Birmingham grew rapidly to well over half a million and Birmingham became the second largest population centre in Britain. It became known as the "City of a thousand trades" due to the wide array of industries located there. Birmingham's importance led to it being granted city status by Queen Victoria in 1889.
Birmingham suffered heavy bomb damage during World War II, and partly as a result of this the city centre was extensively re-developed during the 1950s and 1960s, with many concrete office buildings, ring-roads, and now much-derided pedestrian subways. As a result, Birmingham gained a reputation for ugliness and was frequently described as a "concrete jungle".
In recent years however, Birmingham has been transformed, the city centre has been extensively renovated and restored with the construction of new squares, the restoration of old streets, buildings and canals, the removal of much-derided pedestrian subways, and the demolition and subsequent redevelopment of the Bull Ring shopping centre, which now includes the architecturally unique Selfridges building.
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Canon TS-E 24mm/3.5 L Tilt/Shift EF 1991.
Canon TS 35mm/2.8 SSC Tilt/Shift FD 1973.
Zavod Arsenal MC Arsat PC Shift Tilt 2.8/80mm Shift/Tilt Note 2 See Note 1. There may also be 80mm shift lenses without tilt functionality.
Nikon Micro-PC 85mm/2.8 D Tilt/Shift F (AF-D) 1999.
Arsat lenses are often relabelled as Kievusa, B.I.G. or Zenit. Arax may be another name for them.
Arsat lenses are available with Nikon F, Canon EF and FD, Minolta "Dynax" and MD, Contax/Yashica, Olympus OM, Leica R, M42 and Pentax K mounts, according to the brenner catalogue.
The mount information is likely to be wrong, incomplete or misleading. I'm by no means an expert for camera mount types.
The PC-Super Angulon 2,8/28mm may be available with Canon FD and EF, Contax/Yashica, M42 (Pentax Screw), Minolta, Minolta AF, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax (K) and Rollei mounts. The mount of these versions is changable.
There is also a version with Leica-R mount available through Leica.
The PA-Curtagon 35/4mm was available with Alpa, Exakta, M42 and Rollei mounts. There may have been more mount types, and the mount of these lense may have been changeable, too.
Any information presented on this page may be out of date or wrong. Check against other sources before wasting money.
This list deliberately does not include prices and availability information.
Z�rk offers a shift adapter for medium format, which allows, together with a medium to 35mm format adapter, to use a large number of medium format lenses a shift/tilt lenses. It's not really inexpensive. Keep in mind that medium format lenses do not need to have a very good resolution, so that results will in many cases not match that of first class 35mm lenses.
Another possibility is the Horseman View Camera Converter. It isn't exactly cheap, too, and quite heavy (over one KG without lense, IIUC). It uses large format lenses, which do even less need very high resolutions.
One may also find bellows offering shifting and tilting, like the Nikon PB-4.
Written, based on information gathered in the newsgroup de.rec.fotografie (Helmut Faugel, Andreas Schmidt, Frank Schliffke, Oliver Schliffke, Olaf Ulrich, Peter St�cklein), google and Kadlubeks Lens Catalogue.
Updated: Zavod Arsenal is maker of Arsat lenses (thanks to Roman J. Rohleder).
Updated: Meant to write Minolta "MC or MD 35/2.8", not "MC or MC". Included mount information (hopefully right). HTML 4.01 strict.
Updated: Included the Alpa-PA-Curtagon and more information about the Schneider mount types (Ralf C. Kohlrausch, Andreas Schmidt).
Updated: Replaced "EOS" mount with "EF" (many people). Replaced "oder" with "or" (me).
Updated: Added two hartblei lenses, mentioned arax.


YourWeddingInGreece is a network of wedding planners, wedding destinations, hotels and venues that offer wedding facilities, photographers specialised in weddings, catering, as well as all the providers that a couple needs in order to make this special day a unique experience. The network promotes Greece as a wedding destination, and its aim is to help by providing useful information to couples who would like to get married in one of the best wedding destinations on earth.
Selecting the perfect location for your dream day is at the top in your list. In the destinations category you will find suggestions for the ideal place as well as descriptions of the best wedding destinations in Greece. Your wedding dreams and event expectations will come true in one of these destinations.
The hotels, also members of Your Wedding in Greece, will help you with their skilled and experienced personnel in wedding ceremonies, as well as in honeymoon ideas. Many couples from around the world, famous or ordinary, have decided to make their wedding in one of them. Many of these hotels boast wonderful gardens and pools, creating a unique backdrop for your weddings.
In case you need a wedding planner, you will find many suggestions in the relevant category. They will assist you manage all the details to ensure your picture perfect wedding day while you submerge yourself in the romance and glory that surrounds this momentous occasion.
It is also important to hire a professional wedding photographer, opposed to hire a non-wedding photographer or worst to let a friend (even) with a good camera do it.
YourWeddingInGreece project participates in wedding exhibitions around the world and we will update our site with details for future wedding exhibitions. We also publish an elegant brochure. See it on the right column.
Last but not least, we are always at your disposal for any further information or assistance, without any obligation from your side! Feel free to contact us any time.
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Discovering & leveraging your natural strengths.
We begin with you…shaping and populating your natural strength story. The stuff you're hard wired with. The stuff you can't remember learning. The stuff that's just you.
This is your opportunity to begin experiencing fulfillment in life through the inherent value of your strengths – and those of people around you.
By first discovering & leveraging your natural strengths you will bring a fulfillment in your journey of life for yourself and the people around you.


I once read that a French woman will never eat by herself. It is part of an unspoken national creed to never eat a meal alone. For food, at its heart, is an experience which deserves adequate time to be savored, deserves to be shared between at least two people every time. Funny, then, how eating alone in a French cafe across from a French woman provided me one of the happiest food-memories from this year.
The evening had grown dark early when I toppled into Charleston's Gaulart & Maliclet as a last resort. A Cynthia Rowley store clerk had recommended a particular French restaurant to me when she heard that I would be exploring Charleston by myself for the evening. I trust I am not the only one for whom foreign names do not stick the first time they are heard. By the time I had stepped out of Cynthia Rowley I had already forgotten the name of the French restaurant the friendly woman had pointed out. Thus, two hours later I was exhausted from my seven hour drive, dizzy and fairly dehydrated, standing on the chilly street-corner googling "french restaurants" in the darkness. On a list of my favorite things I've done alone, last-ditch effort restaurant googling isn't one of them. Yet even in my moment of faintness, I was determined to not trot the few blocks to a Five Guys Burgers. I'd come this far. I would not turn back yet.
"You should try the cucumber-yogurt, if you like a cold soup."
I grasped at her suggestion like a life-line and clung to it. "Yes, the cucumber-yogurt soup, please." Why was I ordering cucumber soup? Just because a refined French woman told me to? Yes. Yes, that's precisely why. Withhold your judgement, please.
After Suzanne chipped away the social glass wall between us, she and her son proved to me pleasant dinner companions.
"I do not know if you've noticed," she said with a smile, "but I am from France. We come here a lot." She told me about the weather in Lille. Her son chatted Charleston sites, helpful apps, and where he went to college.
"Have you been to Paris?" Suzanne inquired.
"Never - it's on my list."
"Everyone should go to Paris at least once in their life."
I smiled and scooped a spoonful of my cold soup. "It is definitely on my list."
"So are you a fan of French food?" her son asked.
I now spoke the stupidest sentence I hope to ever parent: "I'm just a fan of food in general. I'm a food blogger and recipe developer."
By the time the words had left my lips, I regretted them. The mental wooliness had not passed, evidently. The son's warm hazel eyes laughed at me, but he politely responded to the comment and turned the conversation elsewhere.
"If you're still hungry for dessert," the son suggested as they rose to leave, "they make an amazing chocolate mousse here. I hope you have a good time here."
He and Suzanne drifted behind me out of the restaurant and I was again alone. Or not. I had only been by myself for a few moments when "Emily" offered a smile. She and her companions made three: a softly curved, confident woman and two men, one a lumberjack; the other, her brother, on the sliding edge of drunk already. Just intoxicated enough to make each comment too loud, each laugh a lengthy challenge to sober reason. He giggled now and poured another glass of wine.
Emily fingered the stem of her glass and raised her chin, entering on a point of conversation the waiter had just placed before me: the storied chocolate mousse.
"I don't understand how you can eat that without a glass of wine."
"I've got to drive, that's how." The faintness had begun to ebb, pushed away by a second glass of ice water and the shrimp toasts, slapped into reality by the dark, silky mousse.
Emily pushed her full bottom lip out in sympathy. "Too bad!"
We chatted a bit - I told her I was new to Charleston. She and the lumberjack asked where I was staying and suggested a location with several good bars not far from my Airbnb. Not that I wanted them, but it was an overture of friendship and I received the information with a good will. The lumberjack sounded to be from Australia. He and Emily, very much in love, held hands and shared wine while quizzing me about my plans.
"If you're wanting to see the historical homes," said the lumberjack, drawing the words out and chewing them with his accent, "most of the good ones are North of Broad. Start at the Battery and come South - you can't miss 'em."
They ordered another bottle of wine. The brother's eyes became blearier, his giggles more audible. Emily's attention swirled back to her boyfriend, and our acquaintance drowsed to an end. I paid my ticket, pulled on my coat. Emily gave me a loud, friendly goodbye echoed by her lumberjack boyfriend and her intoxicated, bleary-eyed brother.
I felt bolstered after my meal and not just by the food and water. Before stepping into the gas-lit doorway of Gaulart & Maliclet, I had been a very lone stranger in a very new city. By the time I left, I had been embraced by the culture of Charleston and the north of France, by the friendship of an Australian man and a lively woman. Never eat alone? But eating alone is what gained me these friends in the first place. And then I realized the perfection of the custom - the French so hate to eat alone that even their restaurants where a solo traveler like myself might take refuge defy solitude. You might be a party of one, but you'll not eat alone.
I stepped into the cobbled street. My head had cleared. A brisk wind blew in from the nearby sea. I liked the French custom. I liked Charleston. I even, for the moment, liked traveling alone.


Other fine programs work on the "science" part of STEM, while we are the only program that focuses exclusively on the "TECHNOLOGY". Our instructors bring in tech that the students will not get their hands on anywhere else including Drones, Virtual Reality cameras, VR headsets and access to our 15 3D printers in order to teach not only how they work, but how to master them as tools.
Your child will have the unique opportunity to be exposed to technology that no other program in the nation offers.
It is never too early to foster a love and understanding for learning. Our philosophy is: The stronger the Foundation, the taller the Building. The faster children can become acquainted with technology in a structured and directed manner, the more they will be able to flourish with it. The mission is to introduce young children to today's cutting-edge technology that will frame tomorrow's world.
The rate of technological development in our world is staggering. First, it is necessary to expose kids to as wide a spectrum of technology as possible. Second, we aim to arm students with a foundational understanding of what these tools are built upon and how they work.
"It may sound odd, but Tech can sometimes be too easy to use." Many adults make the mistake of thinking that children know all about technology since they are surrounded by it. They don't. Give a three-year-old an Ipad and they can use it, but they have no idea how it works.
"We pull back the curtain." So many people only have a superficial or surface understanding of Technology. Our classes arm the kids and allow them to see how things really work.
"Our motto really should be 'We trick the kids into learning'." What we do is awesome fun, but our class is NOT playtime. We use the fun to trick the kids into learning incredibly important things.
"We use what we like to call 'Invested Learning'." If we just lectured, the kids would hate us. Instead, we're applying the subject in a way that gives the students a reason to care about what we are doing and create a desire to learn. The Drones are a good example. We use them as a way to "trick" the kids into learning about Networking.
"We're working to empower the kids." Without this knowledge, there is a danger that the students will be cast adrift, subject to the whims and winds of the cosmos. Our goal is to impart this knowledge so the children can masters of their own destinies.
"We teach the kids "If they Wifi goes down in your house and only one person can fix it, who's the most important person in the house? Don't you want to be that person?" This effectively frames the benefits of our classes. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
"We're working to prepare the kids for tomorrow." Any parent is concerned for their child's future. This also frames our class as something necessary and productive, rather than flashy entertainment.
"The world is changing so fast. We want to make sure our students are ready and can thrive." Again, any parent wants to ensure their child's future success. This also lends an air of gravitas to what we do.


Bio (50 words about you) Francesco holds a Master and Bachelor degree in Business Administration. He also worked for 2 years as a researcher and teaching assistant, during the PhD in Business Management.
Francesco started his professional career at General Electric, and thereafter, he worked at Bain & Company. Then, he moved to the Tech industry launching Uber in Turin and working as a Director of Business Development for a Robotic start-up.
Lately, he created Tondo an association in Milan with the aim of supporting the development of the Circular Economy.


On the morning of July 26th, the Institutes of Science and Development of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASISD) held a workshop on "Coordinated Governance of Climate Change and Environmental Pollution under Carbon Market Mechanism". The workshop was chaired by Wang Yi, member of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress and vice president of CASISD. Robert Stavins, professor of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, gave the keynote speech, and experts from government agencies, research institutes and universities participated in the discussion.
First, Robert Stavins gave a keynote speech titled "Carbon Pricing and Carbon Markets: A Summary of Global Experiences over the Past 30 Years". In the speech, Professor Stavins systematically reviewed the application of carbon pricing mechanisms worldwide, and discussed the advantages and disadvantages of carbon tax and carbon market under different social and economic conditions, as well as the co-benefits of carbon pricing on air pollution control. From the international cases, Professor Stavins summarized a series of useful experience for China's carbon market development. In the next three presentations, Professor Ge Chazhong, Director of the Environmental Policy Department of the Institute of Environmental Planning, Ministry of Ecology and Environment, discussed the issue of co-governance of climate change and environmental pollution in the context of government institutional reform. Chai Qimin, Director of the International Department of the National Center for Climate Strategy at the National Development and Reform Commission, discussed the progress and challenges of national carbon market development. Professor Tan Xianchun, deputy director of the Institute of Sustainable Development, CASISD, discussed carbon pricing and China's low carbon technology potentials and cost-benefit assessments.
During the roundtable discussion, participants had heated discussions on the synergies of carbon pricing policies and the opportunities and challenges after institutional reform. Professor Xu Jintao from Peking University and Professor Song Guojun from Renmin University of China compared the feasibility of the carbon market and carbon tax in China's specific contexts, and argued that the policy interaction between carbon emission reduction and air pollution prevention is very complicated and needs to be coordinated in many aspects; Professor Chen Bin from Beijing Normal University pointed out that carbon emissions reduction can not only be synergistic with air pollution control, but also with the management of water resources; Qian Guoqiang from SinoCarbon Innovation & Investment, argued that from the perspective of carbon market service companies, even though it is important to emphasize co-benefits, climate change should not be regarded as a by-product, but should have its own goals and focus; Wu Dongsheng of Shanxi Development and Reform Commission pointed out that the key to addressing climate change is to change energy structure and economic structure, so the NDRC will still play an important role in climate change.
Wang Yi concluded the workshop by pointing out that China currently faces multiple challenges simultaneously: on the one hand, it needs to deepen reforms in social and economic fields; on the other hand, it must firmly win the battle against air pollution. This may create conflicts of policy goals at both micro- and macro- levels. Therefore, the choice between carbon tax and carbon market, and coordination of climate policy and air pollution policy, need to be studied in the context of China's social and economic transformation and institutional reform. As researchers, we do not need to fight for one side, but need to find a solution that is realistic and can provide policy recommendations for the coordinated climate and environmental governance.
This workshop is the sixth in the workshop series of "carbon pricing policy dialogue", jointly sponsored by CASISD, the World Bank, and the Energy Foundation. Since the beginning of the series, researchers and practitioners from both China and abroad have been invited to conduct in-depth discussions on carbon pricing theory, operation, legislation, and collaborative governance. The results of the workshop have played an important role in scientific research and policy making in the field of carbon pricing.


I'm a researcher who works on the politics and policy of immigration and security.
Currently, I'm Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Lincoln, UK (in American terms, an assistant professor). I'm also involved in the project Seeing Illegal Immigrants: State Monitoring and Political Rationality, based at the University of Edinburgh.
I've researched why politicians treat immigration as a security issue, how authorities make policy toward irregular immigration, and the ways the political mainstream responds to right-wing populist demands on immigration. I teach politics and international relations at university level, with emphasis on my areas of expertise in security and immigration politics.
I come to academia from a professional politics background. I was a speechwriter for the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security and the Governor of Arizona.


Apex Legends Can I Run It?
Respawn has proven itself fairly unwilling to mess with a working formula since Apex Legends' February 4th launch, preferring to make tiny tweaks rather than the wholesale weekly changes we see in Fortnite. This has naturally led to worries over stagnation but, content aside, the new Apex Legends patch 1.1.1 makes comfortably the biggest balance changes since launch.
Top of the pile is the hitboxes for the so-called 'Thicc Bois', Gibraltar and Caustic. Both of these big-boned hulks have received the new 'Fortified' passive perk, reducing incoming damage by 10%. Caustic has also had his gas damage quadrupled and canister throw distance increased. Gibraltar now benefits from a 50% improvement to Gun Shield health.
Jump Ship speed has also been increased 50% so late droppers don't find themselves too far behind the curve in terms of loot gathering and storm dodging.
The rest of the changes are all related to specific weapons, including all sorts of assorted buffs and nerfs. I won't go into too much detail myself, it's probably better for you to see it all listed out for yourself. Suffice to say, the Wingman has taken a bit of a battering, as has the Spitfire, while the Longbow and the Havoc have been given some proper loving to try and close the gap.
Anyone else having issues after the update? played 2 games, both times crashed. ( first time game just crashed, second time got kicked out saying "game security violation detected" ) I don't cheat, obviously. Also don't have any programs open except for Discord.. Didn't have any problems before.
I've heard discord causes crashes a lot, I use it on my iPad, but there's tonnes of crash issues in this game regardless.
Crashed for me only once. increased my page file even though i have 16gb ram. Problem solved so far.


Grew Up… as a precocious child. The young Victor Fries showed a fondness for science, especially in the experimental field of cryogenic freezing. He grew up to become a celebrated doctor and won a Nobel Prize in the field of molecular biology.
Profession… former scientist, but Victor has turned to a life of crime. Mr. Freeze, as he's now known, has embarked on a spree of robberies in order to fund his research.
Challenge… finding a cure for his wife's illness. The heartbroken Mr. Freeze is willing to go to any lengths to find funding for his research, even if it means being a criminal. Luckily, it turns out that the former Nobel Prize-winning doctor has a talent for robbery. He just has to be wary of the vigilante hero Batman, who is dead-set on stopping Mr. Freeze's crimes.
Mr. Freeze's popularity ranking on CharacTour is #2193 out of 5,000+ characters. See our top-ranked characters and read their profiles.


Today we are going to learn how to introduce oneself in Navajo. I will not cover basic greeting words as these are already in the course, instead, we will start looking into full but relatively basic sentences.
'Éí' is not the verb "to be", but rather a demonstrative pronoun meaning 'that' or 'those'. In this case however it is merely a filler word. 'Éí' is a very common filler word, often used to separate two words which may other look connected.
'Éiyá' is another common filler, translating roughly to 'umm...'.
Haash yinilyé? = What is your name?
'Haash' is a question word meaning 'how'. Most question words start with 'ha' (in the same way that most English question words start with 'wh'). The alternatives 'haa' and 'haashą'' are also acceptable (no need to worry about the difference as of yet).
Mary yinishyé. = My name is Mary.
Háadi nighan? = Where is your home?
'Háadi' is another question word, whilst 'nighan' is not a verb but a possessed noun. '-ghan' is a stem meaning 'home', however it must take a possessive. This possessive could be the 3rd person 'space' prefix: 'ho-' (as in 'hoghan') however, seeing as we're asking someone, we are using the 2nd person possessive prefix, 'ni'. The possessive prefixes are the same as the independent personal pronouns above, but without high tone on the final vowel.
Tségháhoodzánídi shighan. = My home is in Window Rock.
And of course 'Naat'áaniinééz' (tall boss) = Shiprock, already in the course. The '-di' at the end of the place name is a location prefix meaning 'in' or 'at'. 'Shighan' means 'my home', with 1Sg possessive 'shi-'.
Haa dóone'é nílį́? = What clan are you?
Tódích'íi'nii éí nishłį́. = I am of the Bitterwater clan.
Ha'át'íí bá shínílchíín? = For which clan are you born?
Áshį́į́hí bá shíshchíín. = I was born for the Salt clan.
'-á' is a postposition (Navajo has postpositions which go after the noun, as opposed to English prepositions) meaning 'for' or 'on behalf of'. In this case it is paired with 3rd person 'bi-' (the 'i' is only when preceding a consonant, it is eliminated before vowels), referring to the clan. Navajo kinship is matrilineal, meaning children are born into their mother's clan.
Note that all these terms (as well as the terms in the course) start with 'a-'. This is indefinite possessive prefix. Some Navajo words, including '-ghan' (see above), '-be' (milk) and all kinship terms and body parts, must take a possessive prefix. This is referred to as 'inalienable possession'. However if you want to refer to a general house or mother or foot, you can use the indefinite 'a-'. For example: amá = one's mother (vs. shimá = my mother or nihizhé'é = our father).
To say you have something, you use the possessed noun together with the stative verb 'hólǫ́' which means 'it exists' (plural 'dahólǫ́'). The opposite of this verb is 'ádin' = it does not exist (plural 'ádaadin').
Aoo', shádí hólǫ́. = Yes, I have an older sister.
Ndaga', shádí ádin. = No, I do not have an older sister.
Ninaaíísh hólǫ́? = Do you have an older brother?
Ndaga', shínaaí doo hólǫ́ǫ da. = No, I do not have an older brother.
There is a lot to unpack here. First, let's look at questions. We've already seen a couple of 'ha' question words, however how do you form a Y/N question? There are multiple ways, two of which are demonstrated here. You could use 'da'' at the start of the sentence, or you can suffix '-ísh' to the noun being inquired about. (the -ísh will adopt any vowel it is attached to, giving it high tone in the process).
A third way, corresponding to the English 'is/isn't it', is 'ya'' placed at the end of the sentence.
Nimá dóó nizhé'é ba'áłchíní táá' ya'? = Your mother and father have three children, right?
In the sentence above, there is no need for the stative verb 'hólǫ́' as numerals can essentially serve the function of the stative verb. Therefore 'táá'' can mean 'there are three ...'.
Éí doo shí da. = That isn't mine.
This is a lot of information already so let's wrap it up with a goodbye. You've already learned Hágoónee' from the course, however as a common and shorter alternative you can use the Lą́'ąą interjection which corresponds to 'okay' or 'fine'. 'Jó nizhóní' is also commonly used in conversations, especially to draw them to a close. Jó is another interjection meaning 'well' or 'as you know' and 'nizhóní' is a stative verb meaning 'to be pretty/nice'. The whole thing translates to Well that's nice!
This is very useful information, thank you! How do you know so much about the Navajo language?
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Кора́ловий Кóрінь — ботанічна пам'ятка природи місцевого значення в Україні. Розташована в межах Перегінської селищної громади Калуського району Івано-Франківської області, на захід від села Осмолода.

Площа 0,5 га. Статус — з 1996 року. Перебуває у відання ДП «Осмолодське лісове господарство», Мшанське лісництво.

Створена для захисту великої популяції рідкісної сапрофітної орхідеї — коральковця тричінадрізаного, який занесений до Червоної книги України. Народна назва рослини — «кораловий корінь» — дана завдяки характерному підземному коралоподібному корінню. Типово для вологих лісів, даний вид зростає на периферії долинки потоку там, де до неї підходить смерековий ліс, вкритий у підніжжі зеленим мохом. Популяція є великою — налічує декілька десятків екземплярів, 20 з яких квітують. Цей голарктичний вид має високу життєздатність, зростає в лісових, лісостепових, а іноді й у степових районах (у долинах річок), зрідка зростає у гірському Криму. Для Українських Карпат вид є притаманний для Чивчино-Гринявських гір (Путильський район), в той час як для околиць Осмолоди присутність даного виду не повідомлялась. Дана орхідея ніде в Україні під охороною не перебуває.

У рослинному покриві долинки переважає вологолюбний вид — кремена несправжня, значна зімкнутість широких листків якої обмежує зростання інших видів; в незначній кількості зростає тут кардамінопсис пісковий. Ближче до русла серед рідкісних рослин зростає карпатський ендемік — тоція карпатська.

Догляд
У 2007 році громадською організацією «Карпатські стежки» за сприяння Посольства Королівства Нідерландів в Україні було встановлено охоронний знак. Станом на серпень 2014 р. довкола пам'ятки природи було вирубано ліс, територія пам'ятки збережена у вигляді острова.

Примітки

Джерела
 Кораловий корінь
 Наукова характеристика пам'ятки природи. — Колектив науковців під керівництвом Андрієнко Т. Л., Інститут ботаніки імені М. Г. Холодного НАН України
 Ботанічна пам'ятка природи місцевого значення «Кораловий корінь»

Ботанічні пам'ятки природи Івано-Франківської області
Природно-заповідний фонд Рожнятівського району
Природоохоронні об'єкти, засновані 1996
1996 в Івано-Франківській області
Засновані в Україні 1996
Ґорґани

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Indiana Jones and the Genesis Deluge (1992) – Rob MacGregor
Chicago 1927 Indiana Jones is back in Chicago after his teaching job at the University of London falls through. Still reeling from the death of his wife Deirdre, he heads back to the States where he finds his old friend Jack Shannon still playing jazz, but getting into the Family business. The pair soon find…
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Tod Browning's London After Midnight has been lost, burned in a fire that cleared out a percentage of the MGM vault in 1965. That doesn't stop it from making it into John Landis' brilliantly enjoyable Monsters in the Movies, available from DK Canada. A reconstructed version, created from film stills, and a script was released…
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One of Hitchcock's earliest film, the silent black and white piece, The Lodger is the next title on the What Else to Watch list in DK Canada's The Movie Book, following the viewing recommendation of Murnau's classic Sunrise. You can definitely see hints of what is to come from the master, as he works from…
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It's good stuff in The Twilight Zone this week as my exploration of The Complete Series on blu-ray from Paramount Pictures continues. Nick of Time is up first, and stars William Shatner in a story by Richard Matheson. This episode originally aired on 18 November, 1960. Shatner is Don, one part of a newlywed couple,…
This is a film that I had seen snippets of through my entire life. In fact I remember, as a child, sitting in Mother's Pizza, a now defunct pizza chain, at least in the incarnation that I grew up loving, the decor was all 20s and 30s and they would show clips from Laurel &…


That we are what we think has been pretty universally proven by science over the last few years. If we think negative or destructive thoughts on a regular basis, for long enough, we tend to eventually develop disharmony in our lives or in our bodies. Our external circumstances literally mirror the internal dialogue we have with ourselves. This is both good and bad news. It's GREAT if we feel good about ourselves, maintain healthy boundaries and expect to be treated with love, respect and understanding, when we know our own worth and anticipate good in life.
On the flip side, if we don't think much of ourselves, and we have all dabbled in self-doubt one time or the other, we tend to attract what we expect, which is more negativity. Maybe we don't like our jobs, our relationships may be combative and dysfunctional, we may lose things or fall out with people around us and so on. So…..
Question: Why do some of us sail through life while others don't?
Answer: It depends on the blueprint we have stored in our subconscious mind.
What we are doing, saying and feeling is constantly being recorded and stored in our subconscious mind. We tend to ruminate and do a self assessment of our contributions and if our programming, the blueprint, tells us we're not good enough, the outcome can be brutal. We beat ourselves over the head if we do something wrong, say something we shouldn't have, feel something we are told not to feel or we just compare ourselves to everyone – and never come out on top. This is where affirmations come in handy.
Affirmations, also known as positive declarations, is a method of feeding positive messages to your subconscious mind, replacing negative self-talk, us playing small, with the opposite.
Our subconscious mind is responsible for storing skills, habits, tendencies and our self-image. We may know that we are just as likely to have good things happen to us as anyone else, but in our subconscious we may have a blueprint (often developed in childhood) which believes we are losers, not as smart as other people and that we have to settle for good enough rather than aiming for that which we really want/need. So we don't aim for an amazing relationship – we settle for ok. We don't aim for the amazing career – we settle for boring but safe.
So how do affirmations work?
Example of negative self-talk: I'm stuck in this job/relationship/situation and nothing I do will change it. I am a looser.
Positive affirmation 1: 'I'm powerful and I can change when I am ready to do so. I have a great new job which I love and I am highly appreciated.
your subconscious mind does not understand negative phrasing. Rather than saying 'I don't want to meet another unsuitable partner' say 'I now meet the perfect partner for me and I am very happy' The subconscious mind is very literal and don't know the difference between real and imagined so be clear.
it responds very well to visualisation so add a mental image to your affirmation and really see/feel what that would feel like to have/be the new you.
Repeat several times per day and keep going. Your negative self-talk had many years to take root, it will try to persist with the negativity so be clear what it is you want to replace it with and start a new life with loving and supportive self-talk as your constant companion.
The better we feel about ourselves, the better our lives turn out. Change is always an inside job and making sure you like and support yourself in the process is very important. Self-worth comes from listening to what makes you happy and not settling for that which makes your miserable. It takes strength and persistence to change a lifetime of thinking were not good enough. But it's entirely possible to re-wire our brain and change the negative tape running through our heads on a daily basis. And when you re-wire and change your beliefs life can suddenly start to blossom.


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How do globalization and internationalization impact music education around the world? By acknowledging different cultural values and priorities, Alexandra Kertz-Welzel's vision challenges the current state of international music education and higher education, which has been dominated by English-language scholarship.
Many people see prayer as a religious practice, not a fulfilling pleasure. For this reason, many breakthroughs stay locked up in Heaven. God longs to answer our prayers; He is simply listening for prayers that agree with His will.
Abuse is no laughing matter. It comes in all shapes and forms, and it can be present in more than just romantically inclined relationships. Abuse can be found in any relationship you might find yourself a part of; it could be a romantic relationship or even a relationship with your closest friend. If you have picked this book up, there might be some signs in one of your relationships that has you worried. Maybe you are reading for a friend, and maybe you want to arm yourself with the knowledge that can help you navigate the sticky world of relationships.
On April 18, 1906, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake shook the San Francisco region, igniting fires that burned half the city. The disaster in all its elements - earthquake, fires, and recovery - profoundly disrupted the urban order and challenged San Francisco's perceived permanence. The crisis temporarily broke down spatial divisions of class and race and highlighted the contested terrain of urban nature in an era of widespread class conflict, simmering ethnic tensions, and controversial reform efforts.
This timely audiobook challenges conventional business wisdom about competition, secrecy, motivation, and creativity. Orly Lobel, an internationally acclaimed expert in the law and economics of human capital, warns that a set of counterproductive mentalities are stifling innovation in many regions and companies.
Do you need to be more positive in your life? Are you unsure how encourage your friends and family? Do you want to say more positive things to the people around you? If you answered yes to any of these questions then this book is for you.


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One lesson of the Heartbleed bug is that the U.S. needs to stop running Internet security like a Wikipedia volunteer project.
tech failure, an open invitation to criminal hackers and yet another reason to upgrade our passwords on dozens of websites. But more than anything else, Heartbleed reveals our neglect of Internet security.
The United States spends more than $50 billion a year on spying and intelligence, while the folks who build important defense software — in this case a program called OpenSSL that ensures that your connection to a website is encrypted — are four core programmers, only one of whom calls it a full-time job.
In a typical year, the foundation that supports OpenSSL receives just $2,000 in donations. The programmers have to rely on consulting gigs to pay for their work. "There should be at least a half dozen full time OpenSSL team members, not just one, able to concentrate on the care and feeding of OpenSSL without having to hustle commercial work," says Steve Marquess, who raises money for the project.
Is it any wonder that this Heartbleed bug slipped through the cracks?
Dan Kaminsky, a security researcher who saved the Internet from a similarly fundamental flaw back in 2008, says that Heartbleed shows that it's time to get "serious about figuring out what software has become Critical Infrastructure to the global economy, and dedicating genuine resources to supporting that code."
The Obama Administration has said it is doing just that with its national cybersecurity initiative, which establishes guidelines for strengthening the defense of our technological infrastructure — but it does not provide funding for the implementation of those guidelines.
Instead, the National Security Agency, which has responsibility to protect U.S. infrastructure, has worked to weaken encryption standards. And so private websites — such as Facebook and Google, which were affected by Heartbleed — often use open-source tools such as OpenSSL, where the code is publicly available and can be verified to be free of NSA backdoors.
The federal government spent at least $65 billion between 2006 and 2012 to secure its own networks, according to a February report from the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee. And many critical parts of the private sector — such as nuclear reactors and banking — follow sector-specific cybersecurity regulations.
But private industry has also failed to fund its critical tools. As cryptographer Matthew Green says, "Maybe in the midst of patching their servers, some of the big companies that use OpenSSL will think of tossing them some real no-strings-attached funding so they can keep doing their job."
It's worth noting, however, that the risk of your passwords being stolen is still lower than the risk of your passwords being hacked from a website that failed to protect them properly. Criminals have so many ways to obtain your information these days — by sending you a fake email from your bank or hacking into a retailer's unguarded database — that it's unclear how many would have gone through the trouble of exploiting this encryption flaw.
The problem is that if your passwords were hacked by the Heartbleed bug, the hack would leave no trace. And so, unfortunately, it's still a good idea to assume that your passwords might have been stolen.
So, you need to change them. If you're like me, you have way too many passwords. So I suggest starting with the most important ones — your email passwords. Anyone who gains control of your email can click "forgot password" on your other accounts and get a new password emailed to them. As a result, email passwords are the key to the rest of your accounts. After email, I'd suggest changing banking and social media account passwords.
If the site has been patched, then change your password. If the site has not been patched, wait until it has been patched before you change your password.
A reminder about how to make passwords: Forget all the password advice you've been given about using symbols and not writing down your passwords. There are only two things that matter: Don't reuse passwords across websites and the longer the password, the better.
I suggest using password management software, such as 1Password or LastPass, to generate the vast majority of your passwords. And for email, banking and your password to your password manager, I suggest a method of picking random words from the Dictionary called Diceware. If that seems too hard, just make your password super long — at least 30 or 40 characters long, if possible.


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A new adaptive Packet algorithm based on Discrete Cosine harmonic wavelet transform (DCHWT), (DCAHWP) has been proposed. This is realized by the Discrete Cosine Harmonic Wavelet transform (DCHTWT) which exploits the good properties of DCT viz., energy compaction (low leakage), frequency resolution and computational simplicity due its real nature, compared to those of DFT and its harmonic wavelet version. Hence the proposed wavelet packet is advantageous both in terms of performance and computational efficiency compared to those of existing DFT harmonic wavelet packet. Further, the new DCAHWP also enjoys the desirable properties of a Harmonic wavelet transform over the time domain WT, viz., built in decimation without any explicit antialiasing filtering and easy interpolation by mere concatenation of different scales in frequency (DCT) domain with out any image rejection filter and with out laborious delay compensation required. Further, the compression by the proposed DCAHWP is much better compared to that by adaptive WP based on Daubechies-2 wavelet (DBAWP). For a compression factor (CF) of 1/8, the ratio of the percentage error energy by proposed DCAHWP to that by DBAWP is about 1/8 and 1/5 for considered 1-D signal and speech signal, respectively. Its compression performance is better than that of DCHWT, both for 1-D and 2-D signals. The improvement is more significant for signals with abrupt changes or images with rapid variations (textures). For compression factor of 1/8, the ratio of the percentage error energy by DCAHWP to that by DCHWT, is about 1/3 and 1/2, for the considered 1-D signal and speech signal, respectively. This factor for an image considered is 2/3 and in particular for a textural image it is 1/5.


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Everyone using snapchat has noticed that his account has chosen it self some friends and placed them to his best friends list. Many people have been wondering how the whole process works and that's why they forwarded the question to the snapchat's forum.
You have probably checked that out before visiting this article. Snapchat claims that best friends are chosen by their "magic algorithm". Obviously snapchat team does not want their secret to be leaked and that's exactly why we are here. Before continue reading we have to point out that our conclusion have been made after a lot of research on snapchat's evolution, however this method have never been proved right or confirmed.
Anyway, if you are a long-time snapchat user you got to remember when you could visit someone's profile and very easily see his best friends. Snapchat has already taken care of that and hid that feature. On the screenshot below we can see that next to the best friends name there are some scores.
This means that snapchat has a dedicated ranking method for friends. There's the score which measures the total amount of snaps your account has received and sent till now and then there's that score which is applied to each individual friend of yours. Back in time the user was able to see that score, but not anymore. This feature no longer exists. This is where our theory is based on, the old versions of the platform.
To keep up with, till now we have established one thing. The dedicated score we are studying (Snapchat Friends Score) is responsible for measuring the number of interactions you had with each of your friends. After a lot of reasearch on snapchat's official announcements not only on their site, but on their tweeter account as well we can confirm that the Friends score is updated on a weekly basis.
What does this mean? Well in simple terms, every week all your friends score gets reset all the way back to zero and the measuring starts again. The person you had the more interactions with during the week gets the highest score. This will push him all the way up to to the first place on the best friends list. This is applied to the persons you chatted the most with ensuring that they'll get the highest possible score.
However we have to point out that other factors may play an essential role in influencing the basic algorithm. The score is believed to be the number one factor though. It's not a surprise that snapchat removed the feature of allowing users to see other people's best friends. Even the user himself cannot see the score of his own best friends probably for the same reasons.
Summarizing, the person you chat the most with during the week is gonna go up to the best friends list. Many people may disagree with my theory and I would love to hear their own opinion down in the comments section.


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FIFA Research Institutes formed, with football technology improvements eyed
By Michael Houston
FIFA has launched its Research Institutes, with an aim to continue improving its technology and innovation divisions through analysis from experts.
This will be delivered in three areas - of which one will guarantee a specific amount of technical and human resources made available to relevant research areas within the FIFA Football Technology & Innovation subdivision.
It also looks to benefit other sports by publishing findings in peer-reviewed journals.
Finally, it looks to provide "empirical evidence" to lead discussions within the FIFA Quality Programme's Technical Advisory Groups, which develop testing standards for each product created by the organisation.
The three institutes chosen are Labosport, Sports Labs and Victoria University.
Labosport have worked on the development of football turf with FIFA since 2001, and are now involved in goal-line technology, futsal surfaces and football goals.
Offside technology will be one of the areas where FIFA will look to improve ©Getty Images
Its main contribution to the Research Institutes is to accelerate projects to understand playing surfaces and improve them.
Sports Labs have worked with FIFA since 2005 on testing surfaces and sporting equipment and has since become a core contributor to the research and standards team.
Their collaboration in research will focus on new test methods for technology such as offside and new measurement techniques for the quality of footballs.
Victoria University has worked with FIFA since 2016 to establish the feasibility and accuracy of Electronic Performance Tracking Systems.
Now, 40 different tracking systems have been assessed by FIFA since then.
Tracking has now been expanded to broadcast partners, as has skeletal tracking, due to the work of Victoria University.
Their main focus during this is to work with FIFA to understand how to improve the game.
To become a FIFA Research Institute, an organisation must have at least five years of collaboration within the Football Technology & Innovation subdivision, must allocate a set amount of research resources to agreed FIFA research projects, must have a minimum of five scientific publications with dedicated resources to publish, and to demonstrate interdisciplinary research skills.
The next application period is scheduled from May to August 2024 and is open every two years.
October 2022: MLS joins forces with technology-infused TOCA Football
July 2022: AI technology and 3D replays to be used for offside decisions at FIFA World Cup in Qatar
May 2022: Blockchain technology company becomes first new US sponsor of FIFA since 2011
January 2022: Beckham's Guild Esports signs lease for London corporate headquarters and academy
October 2021: FIFA "excited about the future in gaming and esports" as it looks to expand its presence in the industry
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Michael Houston is a senior reporter at insidethegames.biz. He has worked at several major events, including the cycling at the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games. He also has experience working for the World Curling Federation and British Athletics.
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La història de l'agricultura és el desenvolupament per la humanitat d'aquesta activitat econòmica.

El descobriment durant el neolític de la possibilitat de conrear plantes es considera com una revolució en la història de la humanitat. Les tècniques agrícoles evolucionaren relativament poc durant mil·lennis, encara que gràcies als descobriments dels segles XV a  s'incrementaren els productes disponibles a tot el món.

La segona revolució agrària va coincidir amb la revolució industrial i comportà la mecanització, l'ús de combustibles fòssils i d'agroquímics.

La tercera fase és l'actual on, per una banda es qüestiona l'obtenció de grans rendiments i la destrucció del medi ambient i, de l'altra, l'enginyeria genètica apareix com la possibilitat de canviar radicalment la natura.

Explicacions del sorgiment de l'agricultura
Una de les explicacions més conegudes per explicar el motiu de l'aparició de l'agricultura és la teoria de l'oasi proposada per Raphael Pumpelly el 1908, i popularitzada per Vere Gordon Childe en el seu llibre Man Makes Himself Aquesta teoria manté que a mesura que el clima es feia més sec, les comunitats humanes es concentraven en oasis cosa que va fer que entressin en contacte estret amb animals els quals serien domesticats al mateix temps que es domesticarien els plantes. Tanmateix actualment no es creu que hi hagués un assecament del clima.

Altres teories com la de Robert Braidwood que el 1948, suggerí que l'agricultura sorgí a les muntanyes del Taurus i Zagros i seria derivada de la recol·lecció intensiva de cereals silvestres d'aquella regió.

Una teoria basada en la necessitat d'alimentar-se en una població que s'incrementava va ser proposada per Carl Sauer i adaptada per Lewis Binford i Kent Flannery.

Segons David Rindos l'agricultura seria una adaptació coevolutiva de la humanitat i de les plantes.

Fites en la història de l'Agricultura

L'agricultura en els primers temps
En un primer moment la humanitat la formaven grups nòmades de caçadors i recol·lectors, essent aquesta segona activitat, sovint reservada a dones i nens, la que devia donar els coneixements sobre els tipus de plantes, llocs on creixien, forma de reproducció i mètodes ràpids de recol·lecció que fonamentarien el següent pas: la intervenció humana en el procés biològic natural. Aquest procés sembla que va ser gradual i va representar una millora en l'alimentació que va portar a un creixement demogràfic que a la vegada va fer irreversible el pas definitiu a l'agricultura i la sedentarietat.

La ramaderia, mentre la caça era abundant i la densitat humana baixa, no es devia considerar una necessitat tan imperiosa, en tot cas sembla que la domesticació d'animals és posterior a la de les plantes i el primer va ser el gos que aviat va ser imprescindible per al pastor.

Les primeres proves de la domesticació de plantes, en concret de cereals, es troben en el Pròxim Orient a l'epipaleolític a Síria cap al 9.500 a C.

Els primers conreus van ser el blat, l'espelta, l'ordi, el pèsol, la llentia, el cigró i el lli.

Cap al 6800 aC. va aparèixer l'agricultura a l'Àsia Oriental, en aquest cas basada en l'arròs, un cereal adaptat a zones càlides i humides. Poc després s'establia a l'Amèrica Central i del Sud fonamentada en el blat de moro i la carbassa.

Els primers imperis fonamentats en l'agricultura

Cap al 5500 aC. a Sumer l'agricultura estava ja perfectament estructurada en una organització política que va permetre aixecar el primer imperi de la humanitat.

A Mesopotàmia el regadiu era imprescindible al sud de la regió i calia més obra d'enginyeria (canals, rescloses, etc.) que al Nil. A més ja van experimentar el problema de la salinització. Al sud de Mesopotàmia hi predominaven els dàtils mentre que al centre i nord el sèsam era el principal conreu oleaginós.

Egipte va seguir i eixamplar aquest camí imperial amb la diferència tècnica de dependre totalment del regadiu i de les crescudes naturals del riu Nil, que es produïen entre juliol i octubre i obligaven a mesurar els límits territorials. Els tres conreus principals dels antics egipcis van ser l'espelta, el lli i l'ordi.

L'esclavisme a Grècia i Roma
La mà d'obra en aquestes dues societats era, en els casos de les grans finques, formada per esclaus. Malgrat que en aquells moments es van escriure els primers tractats sobre agricultura, no hi va haver grans innovacions tècniques, excepte en l'arribada des d'Orient de noves espècies de plantes i animals per exemple el gall (que en principi només es feia servir per a sacrificis rituals com es desprèn de les darreres paraules de Sòcrates).

En temps dels romans, els celtes ja havien inventat un carro que facilitava la collita de cereals, però una mà d'obra, esclava, tan barata i abundant va frenar qualsevol innovació tècnica. El comerç marítim tant a Grècia com a Roma va facilitar l'especialitat productiva en uns conreus comercials com el vi i l'oli d'oliva i també l'establiment de grans latifundis.

Els innovadors àrabs

L'ímpetu religiós dels àrabs els va portar des del  a una conquesta ràpida de gran part del Mediterrani i bona part d'Orient, cosa que va permetre que fossin els introductors a Occident de molts tipus de conreus: l'arròs, els cítrics, o la morera (aliment del cuc de la seda) entre molts d'altres.

Fruit de la seva inquietud cultural, van deixar per escrit els primers estudis que es poden qualificar de veritablement agronòmics. A la península Ibèrica, els primers regadius a gran escala daten dels temps dels romans però van ser els àrabs els que els eixamplaren i modernitzaren introduint mecanismes com la sínia que van perdurar fins al .

Els segles d'estancament tècnic
L'edat mitjana va representar un període d'incertesa i inseguretat que va tenir l'expressió culminant en el feudalisme, on els serfs tenien l'obligació de treballar de franc uns determinats dies de l'any en unes condicions de semiesclavitud. La situació política era de submissió a un senyor feudal immobilista que no aspirava a cap canvi. Es va continuar llaurant amb l'arada romana amb la tracció dels bous durant segles. La rotació de conreus era potser l'única novetat.

L'exploració de la pràctica totalitat del món va ser motiu de l'extensió global de tota mena de plantes: La canya de sucre des de l'Índia i el cafè des de l'Àfrica van passar a l'Amèrica tropical i el camí invers va fer el Cacau i el blat de moro entre moltes altres.

El tràfic d'esclaus des de l'Àfrica va fonamentar l'economia i les plantacions americanes, principalment de cotó i canya de sucre.

La segona revolució
A partir del  i en connexió amb la Revolució industrial, es va començar la mecanització de l'agricultura als Estats Units i al Regne Unit. Els primers tractors i recol·lectores van aparèixer en aquests Estats, però aquesta avenços van tardar prop d'un segle a ser aplicats a tot el món.

Els arreus, especialment les arades, moguts per tractors més potents que els animals van poder fer la feina més fonda i més ràpida. Els descobriments en el món de la química i especialment els de nutrició de les plantes de Justus von Liebig van assentar la base d'un adobat racional amb la possibilitat d'incrementar rendiments. A l'adob li van seguir, ja dins del , la resta d'agroquímics.

Tot un conjunt d'avenços científics van ser aplicats a l'agronomia. Les noves tècniques constructives van permetre incrementar el regadiu a tot el món. La revolució verda va ser el nom donat a l'increment en rendiments agrícoles per la introducció de les modernes tècniques agronòmiques als països en desenvolupament, especialment a l'Índia, que durant la segona meitat del  va passar de la fam a l'exportació d'aliments.

La reconsideració del segle XXI
La contaminació de terres i aigua pel continuat ús d'agroquímics ha estat un efecte no desitjat de la intensificació de l'agricultura que ha portat una gran part de la població a reconsiderar si els mètodes de l'agricultura moderna tenen la suficient sostenibilitat

Des de finals de , algunes empreses multinacionals han aconseguit a través de manipulacions i transferència de gens que diverses plantes conreades siguin resistents a plagues, malalties o herbicides, i han passat a conrear-se en milions d'hectàrees en tot el món.

S'han obert diverses vies:

 La liderada per Estats Units i grans països en desenvolupament com la Xina, que opten per fer ús sense limitacions d'aquests organismes modificats genèticament.

 La postura de la Unió Europea, partidària d'una moratòria mentre s'analitza la seguretat d'aquest vegetals transgènics.

 D'altra banda, el corrent de l'agricultura ecològica o agricultura biològica, que rebutja no tan sols als organismes modificats genèticament sinó l'ús agrícola de qualsevol producte de síntesi química, malgrat que el rendiment de les collites sigui menor que en l'agricultura convencional.

 També hi ha una postura no tan estricta en l'anomenada Producció integrada que refusa usar determinats productes autoritzats i procura limitar al màxim l'ús de la resta.

La tecnologia de la mineria de dades començà a posar-se en marxa als Estats Units a l'àmbit de l'agricultura durant la dècada del 2010 a mans de Monsanto, John Deere i DuPont Pioneer. L'empresa Agrian desenvolupà la norma tècnica Open Modus Standard per a la recollida, mesura i presentació de dades en laboratoris agronòmics. Aquestes normes faciliten l'intercanvi de dades massives.

Organismes internacionals
 Organització de les Nacions Unides per a l'Agricultura i l'Alimentació
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Llista d'obres
c 250 aC. Tractat d'agricultura del cartaginès Magó (escriptor).

c 160 aC.  De agricultura (Sobre l'agricultura). Cató el Vell.

 37 aC. De Re Rustica Libri III. Marc Terenci Varró.

c 40 dC. De Re Rustica.  Columel·la.

c 355. Opus agriculturae.  Pal·ladi.
 El darrer llibre és un poema sobre els empelts en versos elegíacs.

 c 544. Qimin Yaoshu.

 505–587. Varahamihira. Brihat Samhita (La gran compilació), una mena d'enciclopèdia sobre tota mena de coneixements de la seva època.

c 950. Geopònica. Cassianus Bassus Scholasticus.
c 1220. Kitab al-Filaha (El llibre de l'agricultura). Abu Zakariya´ Yahya.
 Traducció al castellà del tortosí Josep Banqueri.
c 1280. Le Dite de Hosebondrie. Walter de Henley.

Any 1300

c.1306. Liber ruralium commodorum. Pietro Crescenzi.
 Traducció italiana.
 1385. Ferrer Saiol
 Ferrer Saiol s'encarregà de la traducció de l'obra De re rustica, de Pal·ladi, en l'onada de traduccions que hi havia en la cort del Cerimoniós.

Any 1400
c 1420. Manuscrit anglès amb la traducció de l'obra de Pal·ladi Rutilià.

Any 1500
 1513. Obra de agricultura. Gabriel Alonso de Herrera.
 Edició en italià.

 1554. Praedium rusticum. Charles Estienne.
 1564. L'agriculture et maison rustique. Charles Estienne et Jean Liebault.

 1578. Foure Bookes of Husbandry. Conrad Heresbach.

 1585. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: Together with a Book of Huswifery. Thomas Tusser.

 1593. Le vinti giornate dell'agricoltura. Agostino Gallo.

Any 1600
 1600. Le Theatre d'Agriculture et mesnage des champs. Olivier de Serres.

 1617. Llibre dels secrets d'agricultura, casa rústica i pastoril. Miquel Agustí.

Any 1700
 1708. The whole art of husbandry. John Mortimer.

 1716. A Compleat System of Husbandry and Gardening. John Worlidge.

 1720. Economía general de la casa de Campo. Francisco de la Torre.

 1752. L' Ecole Du Jardin Potager.

 1764. Essays on husbandry. Walter Harte.

 1771. The Complete English Farmer. David Henry.

Any 1800
 1817. Tratado del injerto: en que se explica todo lo correspondiente al arte de injertar. Claudio Boutelou.
 1841. Manuel d'agriculture pratique à l'usage des fermes de trente hectares. Spineux.

 1844. Mémoires sur quelques sujets d'agriculture, et sur la fondation d'une ferme modèle et d'une école d'agriculture dans le Canton de Vaud.

 1852. Tratado sobre huertos.
 1853. Volgarizzamento del trattato di agricoltura di Rutilio Tauro Emiliano Palladio testo di lingua la prima volta pubblicato dall'abate Paolo Zanotti.
 1861. Manuel élémentaire et classique d'Agriculture approprié aux diverses parties de la France. Louis GOSSIN.

 1865. Versuche über Plflanzenhybriden ("Experiments d'hibridació en plantes"). Gregor Mendel.
 Genètica mendeliana
 Experiments sobre la hibridació de les plantes

 1868. Manuale dell'ortolano contenente la coltivazione ordinaria e forzata delle piante d'ortaggio.

 1873. Tratado completo del cultivo de la huerta. Buenaventura Aragó.

 1874. Journal de l'agriculture de la ferme et des maisons de campagnes, de la zootechnie, de la viticulture, de l'horticulture, de l'economie rurale et des interets de la propriete.

Any 2000
 2001. Diccionari dels noms de ceps i raïms: l'ampelonímia catalana. Xavier Favà i Agud.

Notes i referències

Bibliografia

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 Dovring, Folke, ed. Land and labor in Europe in the twentieth century: a comparative survey of recent agrarian history. 1965. 511 pp
 Federico, Giovanni, Feeding the World: An Economic History of Agriculture 1800-2000 (2005) 416pp. highly quantitative
 Gras, Norman. A history of agriculture in Europe and America, (1925). free online edition
 Grew, Raymond. Food in Global History (1999) online edition
 Habib, Irfan. Agrarian System of Mughal India (2nd ed. 1999).
 Heiser, Charles B. Seed to Civilization: The Story of Food (1990)
 Kerridge, Erik. "The Agricultural Revolution Reconsidered." Agricultural History, 1969 43:4, 463-75. in JSTOR in Britain, 1750–1850
 Ludden, David, ed. New Cambridge History of India: An Agrarian History of South Asia (1999). excerpt and online search from Amazon.com; also online edition
 McNeill, William H. "How the Potato Changed the World's History." Social Research 1999 66(1): 67–83. Issn: 0037-783x Fulltext: Ebsco, by a leading historian
 McNeill, William H. "The Introduction of the Potato into Ireland," Journal of Modern History 21 (1948): 218–21. in JSTOR
 Mazoyer, Marcel, and Laurence Roudart' A History of World Agriculture: From the Neolithic Age to the Current Crisis, New York: Monthly Review Press, 2006, , Marxist perspective
 Mintz, Sidney. Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History (1982)
 Murray, Jacqueline. The First European Agriculture (1970)
 Prentice, E. Parmalee. Hunger and history: the influence of hunger on human history (1939). online edition
 Reader, John. Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History (2008), 315pp a standard scholarly history
 Salaman, Redcliffe N. The History and Social Influence of the Potato, (1949)
 Slicher van Bath, B. H. The agrarian history of Western Europe, AD 500-1850
 Tauger, Mark. Agriculture in World History (2008)
 Thirsk, Joan, et al. The Agrarian History of England and Wales (8 vol 1978)
 Williamson, Tom. Transformation Of Rural England: Farming and the Landscape 1700-1870 (2002)


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Why? I haven't read a Morgan Matson book I didn't love so far. Plus there's a wedding and shenanigans and I'm sure there will be a deeper message as well. I can already see myself reading this and rating it high.
Why? Mackenzi Lee's The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue was a solid 5 star read for me. Her new book features Felicity, whom I already adored in the previous book. Plus, I have a feeling this will have some solid ace rep and I am here for that.
Why? It's two of my favorite authors writing a book together. It HAS to be a five star read. I'm just not sure yet if it'll be a smiley 5 star or a sobbing 5 star.
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Why? Vikings, kickass warriors and a hate-to-love romance? Sounds like my kind of 5 star book.
Why? It has a lot of talking about feelings, but through text messages instead of in person. I think this may be the key to my soul, ergo 5 stars!
Why? Victoria Schwab + ghost hunter family + ghost best friend = 5 STARS!
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WHAT ARE SOME 2018 releases You are predicting to be 5 star reads?
"Emergency Contact" is a book only recently on my bookish radar, but it sure sounds fun. Also, like you, I'm anticipating Morgan's book! It sounds amazing, and every time I see that cover, it makes me smile, so I do have high hopes for that one!
Emergency Contact does sound fun, doesn't it? And Morgan Matson's book covers always make me smile too!
Lady's Guide and Leah <3 Eagerly awaiting those as well with the hope of 5 star reads. I am also very curious about City of Ghosts.
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Haha glad to add to your TBR 🙂 They do sound amazing though, hope they'll live up to our expectations!
I hope you adore all of these books! It's always exciting to find something to read that you think you're going to love.
I can't wait to get to City of Ghosts. Looks like you got a lot of good books in your future!
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Ahh I'm so happy to hear you gave I Was Born For This a five star rating! I can't wait to read it. And yay for Emergency Contact, I hope you'll love it!
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I agree that so many of these could be 5 star or 4 star reads!
Great topic this week and I agree with you on so many of these, especially Leah on the Offbeat, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, and What If It's Us. Those are 3 of my most anticipated upcoming reads.
Oh! This was an awesome idea for the top ten! I haven't read any of these yet, and there's a few I haven't heard of, so I'mma have to add them to my TBR. Great list!
I want to read Sky in the Deep also!! Great topic, very different!!
Thanks so much! Hope you'll enjoy Sky in the Deep!
I'm glad you added 4.5 stars to the list. Usually it just has one tiny flaw (like a cliffie) for me to take away that .5 star. Totally get it. You also have several books up there that are on my want list. I really need to get reading!
Ah I hope you'll enjoy Circe! Looking forward to hearing your thoughts on it!
Sky in the Deep was brilliant! I'm looking forward to Circe so much, ! loved The Song of Achilles so I'm hoping this one will be a hit too!
Ah so glad you enjoyed Sky in the Deep! Yes if Circe is even half as good as The Song of Achilles it'll be absolutely amazing!


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package ru.web.moysklad.tests;

import org.testng.Assert;
import org.testng.annotations.Test;

import static org.testng.Assert.assertEquals;

public class HelpThirdStep extends TestBase{

    @Test
    public void testHelpAddmission() throws InterruptedException {
        app.click().help();
        app.tutorial().clickThirdStepHelp();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Для контроля остатков товаров, а также расчета " +
                "себестоимости и прибыли необходимо вести учет поступлений товара на склад.");
        app.tutorial().clickPopupButton();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите на вкладку «Закупки»");
        app.goTo().purchases();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Перейдите в раздел «Приемки»");
        app.goTo().supplies();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Чтобы учесть поступление товара, нажмите кнопку «+ Приемка»");
        app.supply().clickButtonNewSupply();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите на стрелочку, чтобы выбрать контрагента");
        app.click().listOfCounterparty();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Выберите Поставщика");
        app.click().selectCounterparty();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Добавьте товар в приёмку. Вы можете сделать это, введя его наименование и" +
                " выбрав соответствующий товар из списка, либо же выбрав его из Справочника.");
        app.click().addPosition("Ошибка");
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите на товар, чтобы добавить его в приемку");
        app.tutorial().clearAddPosition();
        app.click().listOfCounterparty();
        app.click().selectCounterparty();
        app.click().addPosition("Товар");
        Thread.sleep(1000);
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите на товар, чтобы добавить его в приемку");
        app.click().selectGood();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Укажите кол-во товара - 6");
        app.supply().setGoodCount("6");
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Укажите цену товара - 1000");
        app.supply().setPrice("1000");
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите кнопку «Сохранить»");
        app.click().saveButton();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите кнопку «Закрыть»");
        app.click().closeButton();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getOverThirdStepText(), "Поздравляем!\nВы завершили третий шаг,\nосталось еще три.");
        app.tutorial().clickOverTutorialStepHelp();
        assertEquals(app.tutorial().getHintText(), "Нажмите на вкладку «Склад»");
    }

    @Test
    public void testFindAndAdd() throws InterruptedException {
        app.goTo().purchases();
        app.goTo().supplies();
        Thread.sleep(500);
        app.supply().clickButtonNewSupply();
        app.click().addPosition("FullProduct");
        Assert.assertEquals(app.tutorial().getBubbleText(), "FP001 – fp1 FullProduct");
        app.click().addPosition("FP001");
        Assert.assertEquals(app.tutorial().getBubbleText(), "FP001 – fp1 FullProduct");
        app.click().addPosition("fp1");
        Assert.assertEquals(app.tutorial().getBubbleText(), "FP001 – fp1 FullProduct");
        app.click().addBarcodePosition("2000000999999");
        app.click().catalogButton();
        app.click().addGoodFromCatalog();
        app.click().saveButton();
    }
}

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