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{\title{{\hfill {

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{\bf Propagation of Majorana fermions}
\vskip 0.3cm
{\bf in hot plasma}}

\author{
{\sc Antonio Riotto$^1$}\\
{\sl NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center,}\\
{\sl Fermi National Accelerator laboratory Center,}\\
{\sl Batavia, Illinois 60510-0500, USA}\\
{\sl and}\\
{\sc Iiro Vilja$^{2}$ }\\
{\sl Department of Physics, University of Turku }\\
{\sl FIN-20014 Turku, Finland} \\
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\begin{abstract}
\noindent The properties of Majorana fermions in hot plasma are studied.
One-loop resummed propagator, dispersion relations and their interpretation are
discussed. It is shown  that particle and hole -like solutions appear as in Dirac/chiral
fermion case. The dispersion relations are, however, crucially different. We  find that, in presence of a large zero temperature bare mass,  hole -like excitations posses a negligible effective mass.  As an example of real  application, we consider the neutralinos in the minimal supersymmetric extension of the
 standard model and argue that
 for realistic values of the  soft supersymmetry breaking masses the existence of practically massless hole -like excitations have a considerable effect on the thermal properties, {\it e.g.} the thermalization rate,  of
particles interacting with these Majorana excitations.

\end{abstract}
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{\small$^1$riotto@fnas01.fnal.gov,  $^2$vilja@newton.utu.fi}
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The knowledge of the behaviour of a high temperature plasma is crucial to
explain many puzzles in cosmology, {\it e.g.} the generation of the presently
observed
baryon asymmetry in the Universe during the electroweak phase transition
\cite{ckn}.  It is well-known that the interaction of a  fermion with a plasma
in thermal equilibrium at  temperature $T$  modifies  the fermionic dispersion
relation and the poles of the  fermion propagator with respect to the zero
temperature case \cite{lit1,lit2,lit3}.
For istance, for an exactly  conserving parity gauge theory at finite
temperature (like QCD or QED), it has been shown that dispersion relations for
a Dirac fermion are characterized by  two possible solutions of positive
energy. The addition of a quark to the equilibrium plasma, described by the
incoherent superposition of many states $|\Phi\rangle$,  produces a fermionic
excitation (particle) $b^\dagger ({\bf p},\lambda)|\Phi\rangle$ with momentum
${\bf p}$ and helicity $\lambda$, while  the operator $d (-{\bf p},\lambda)$
does not annihilate the ground state as it does at zero temperature. On the
contrary, the removal of an antiquark $d (-{\bf p},\lambda)|\Phi\rangle$
produces a state
with all the same quantum numbers as the particle and   is referred to as a
hole state (or, more precisely, antiparticle hole state). The energies of
particles and holes is not the same since there is no combination of parity,
charge conjugation and time reversal able to relate them. Moreover, in the
limit of vanishing bare mass $m$ (or $|{\bf p}|\gg m$), particles have  the
helicity equal to their chirality, while holes have the helicity
opposite to their chirality. Consequently the hole solution propagates with the
wrong correlation between chirality and helicity.

Many other different cases have been analyzed  in the literature, but, to  our
knowledge, attention has been devoted only to the study of the  properties of
Dirac/chiral fermions propagating in a thermal background. However,
in  many attractive extensions of the Standard Model (SM) there may appear
Majorana fermions with a non-negligible mass at zero temperature. In some cases
these Majorana fermions have only chiral interactions. A striking
example characterized by these features is provided by the Minimal
Supersymmetric extension of the Standard Model (MSSM) \cite{haber} where the
neutrally charged fermionic superpartners of the boson fields
present in the SM, called neutralinos,  posses a Majorana nature and may have
a nonvanishing  bare mass due to soft sypersymmetry breaking
interactions even in the presence of unbroken gauge symmetry. The purpose of
this Letter is to study the properties of this
kind particles, their resummed propagator, dispersion relation and
interpretation.
This study is strongly motivated by the recent observation that light stops,
charginos and neutralinos may play a crucial role in generating the baryon
asymmetry during the electroweak phase transition \cite{bario}. Since a
detailed calculation of the  final baryon asymmetry  must
incorporate the effects of the  incoherent nature of plasma physics on
$CP$-violating observables \cite{hn},  a careful computation of  the
thermalization rate of supersymmetric particles in the thermal bath by making
use of improved propagators and including resummation of hard thermal loops is
called for.  In this paper we will confine ourselves to the inspection of the
properties of  improved propagators for Majorana fermions having nonvanishing
bare mass and chiral interactions and
the full computation of the thermalization rate of supersymmetric particles   will be presented elsewhere \cite{kari}.

In the MSSM chiral interactions with the surrounding thermal bath produce
corrections to the inverse propagators of Majorana fermions of the general
form\footnote{In this paper we will confine ourself to the case of unbroken
gauge symmetry since the  computation of  the baryon asymmetry is usually made
by making an expansion of  the propagating Higgs bubble configuration $H(z)$
around $H(z)=0$, see M. Carena {\it et al.} in \cite{bario}.}
\be{inverse}
S^{-1}(p) = p_\mu \gamma^\mu + f_\mu \gamma^\mu \gamma^5 - m,
\ee
where $m$ is the zero temperature bare mass. Notice,  the absence of the term
$f'_\mu\gamma^\mu$ which may be traced back to the nature of Majorana particles.

The general form given above is easily shown to be valid  by computing, for
instance, the corrections to the inverse propagators of the $\widetilde{W}^3$-
and $\widetilde{B}$-neutralinos which are
mass eigenstates in the unbroken gauge symmetry case\footnote{The case of
Majorana higgsinos $\widetilde{H}_1^0$ and $\widetilde{H}_2^0$ is more involved
since they mix even in the unbroken gauge symmetry case due to the presence of
the term $\mu H_1 H_2$ in the superpotential. This case will be extensively
considered in \cite{kari}.}.
Corrections come from the quark-scalar quark-neutralino interactions
\begin{eqnarray}
&-&\sqrt{2}\: g_2\:
\sum_i\: \bar{q}_i \:P_R\:\left[ T_{3i}\:\widetilde{W}^3-{\rm
tan}\theta_W\:\left(
T_{3i}-e_i\right)\:\widetilde{B}\right]\:\widetilde{q}_{i L}\nonumber\\
&+&\sqrt{2}\: g_2 \:{\rm tan}\theta_W\:\sum_i\:e_i\:\bar{q}_i
\:P_L\:\widetilde{B}\:\widetilde{q}_{i R} \:+\: {\rm h.c.},
\end{eqnarray}
and the chargino-neutralino-$W^{\pm}$ interaction
\begin{equation}
g\:W^{-}_\mu\:\bar{\widetilde{W}}^3\:\gamma^\mu\:\widetilde{W}.
\end{equation}

At finite temperature the one loop correction function $f_\mu$ is of the form
\be{f}
f_\mu = a(\omega, \vek p) p_\mu + \delta_{0\mu} b(\omega, \vek p)
\ee
with
\be{a}
a(\omega, \vek p) = {m^2(T)\over \vek p^2}\left ( 1 - {\omega\over \vek p}
\ln\left |{\omega + \vek p\over \omega - \vek p}\right | \right )
\ee
and
\be{b}
b(\omega, \vek p) = {m^2(T)\over \vek p}\left [-{\omega\over \vek p} +
\left({\omega^2\over \vek p^2} - 1\right)\frac 12
\ln\left |{\omega + \vek p\over \omega - \vek p}\right | \right ].
\ee
Here $\omega = p_0,\ \vek p = |${\bf p}$|$ and $m(T)\propto T$ is the
finite temperature plasma mass, $m_{\widetilde{W}^3}^2= (3/16) g^2 T^2$ and
$m_{\widetilde{B}}^2= (2/9) g_1^2 T^2$ for the example sketched above.
The  normal fermion mass $m$ is generated
in MSSM by soft supersymmetry breaking terms, usually denoted by $M_2$ and
$M_1$ for $\widetilde{W}^3$ and $\widetilde{B}$, respectively.
Note that possible nonchiral interaction corrections would be easy taken in the
account by replacing $p_\mu$ with $p_\mu +  f'_\mu$ where $f'$ would be
of the same form than $f$ but with different  thermal mass $m(T)$.

To obtain the propagator one has simply to invert eq. (\ref{inverse}). The
propagator can in general be given in the form
\be{prop}
S(p) = F + \tilde F \gamma^5 + F_\mu\gamma^\mu + \tilde F_\mu\gamma^\mu\gamma^5
+ F_{\mu\nu} \sigma^{\mu\nu},
\ee
where the sixteen parameters $F,\ \tilde F,\ F_\mu,\ \tilde F_\mu,\ F_{\mu\nu}$
are to be determined. The calculation of propagator is now somehow more
tedious that in the cases of massless Dirac fermions and/or fermions without
chiral interactions because in these cases some special properties may be used.
In the present case, however, by virtue of tha Lorentz structure of the system
the functions $F_\mu,\ \tilde F_\mu,\ F_{\mu\nu}$ are possible to write in the
form\footnote{Note that inverting $S^{-1}$ one has no need to take care of the
fact that at finite temperature the Lorentz symmetry is actually broken to
simple O(3) symmetry.}
\bea{F's}
F_\mu &=& F_p p_\mu + F_f f_\mu,\\
\tilde F_\mu &=& \tilde F_p p_\mu + \tilde F_f f_\mu,\\
F_{\mu\nu} &=& F_{pf}(p_\mu f_\nu - f_\mu p_\nu) + F_\epsilon
\epsilon_{\mu\nu\alpha\beta}p^\alpha f^\beta,
\eea
where $\epsilon_{\mu\nu\alpha\beta}$ is the usual completely antisymmetric
tensor and coefficients $F_p,\ F_f,\ \tilde F_p$, $\tilde F_f$, $\tilde F_{pf}$
and $F_\epsilon$ are now (pseudo)scalars like $F$ and $\tilde F$. After some
long, but straightforward algebraic manipulations the coefficients read
\bea{coeff}
F &=& - {m(f^2 - m^2 - p^2)\over (p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4},\\
\tilde F &=& 0,\\
F_p &=& {f^2 + m^2 + p^2\over (p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4},\\
F_f &=& - {2(p\cdot f)\over (p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4},\\
\tilde F_p &=& {2(p\cdot f)\over (p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4},\\
\tilde F_f &=& -{ f^2 - m^2 + p^2\over (p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4},\\
F_{pf} &=& 0,\\
F_\epsilon &=& {m\over (p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4}.
\eea
One can establish that in the special cases $m = 0$ and/or $f_\mu = 0$ the
propagator coincides with the known ones.

From the denominator of the propagator one can read out the dispersion
relation (naturally coinciding with $\det S^{-1} = 0$)
\be{dispersion}
(p - f)^2(p + f)^2 - m^4 = 0.
\ee
This equation appears to have two different positive energy solutions
$\omega_\pm(\vek p)$. Even in
massless limit $ m \goto 0$ only two different positive energy solutions exist,
because it is easy to show that  $(p - f)^2 > 0$ for $\omega > 0$. Note that
only
the positive energy solutions are physically independent, because for Majorana
particle the antiparticle, corresponding the negative energy solution coincides
with the particle itself.

The zero momentum limit $ \vek p \goto 0$, however, can be solved exactly. It
appears that the effective masses are given by ($m_\pm > 0$)
\be{effmass}
m_\pm^2 \equiv \omega^2_\pm(0) = \frac 12 \left (\sqrt{ m^4 + 4\, m^4(T)}
\pm m^2\right ).
\ee
Here we make the crucial observation that in the limit of large bare mass,
$m\gg m(T)$, the hole excitation effective mass $m_{-}$ becomes much smaller
than $m(T)$ and the temperature, $m_{-}\ll m(T)< T$.
Expression  (20) could be compared to the corresponding one for the  effective
masses of  pure Dirac case (with nonvanishing bare mass $m$) where
$ f_\mu = 0$, but with a $\tilde f_\mu \gamma^\mu$ -term:  effective masses
are given by $(\omega^{{\rm Dirac}}_\pm (0))^2 = \frac 12 [m^2 + 2 m^2(T) \pm
\sqrt{m^4 + 4 m^2 m^2(T)}]$. The reader should remember that SM Dirac  fermions
do not posses a bare mass in the case in which the $SU(2)_L\otimes U(1)_Y$
gauge symmetry is unbroken and their effective mass at finite temperature
reduces to the the plasma mass $m(T)$. On the contrary, supersymmetric Majorana
fermions receive a bare mass from supersymmetry breaking even in the case of
unbroken gauge symmetry and are characterized by the novel feature
that the hole -like excitation may posses a very small effective mass. This
property will necessarily affect the kinematics involved in the computation of
the thermalization
rate of the degrees of freedom interacting with these hole -like excitations.

It can be also proved that for $m\ne 0$ the derivative of $\omega$ with respect
to spatial momentum is zero, {\it i.e.} ${\partial \omega_\pm(\vek p)\over
\partial \vek p} = 0$.
This is in contrast with the knowledge about the massless Dirac and chiral
fermions, where it is possible to show that ${\partial \omega(\vek p)\over
\partial\vek p} = \pm \frac 13$. It can be, however, shown that this peculiar
property
is not general but is closely related to vanishing of mass $m = 0$. Thus
Majorana case represents  no exemption in this sense. Indeed, at the massless
limit $m = 0$ the solutions of Eq. (\ref{dispersion}) coincides to the known
ones with ${\partial \omega_\pm(\vek p)\over \partial \vek p} = \pm \frac 13$.

Although no simple formula for the solutions can be given, asymptotic formulas
for small and large $\vek p$ are possible to calculate. For small momenta
$\vek p \sim 0$ they read
\be{smallp}
\omega_\pm(\vek p) \simeq m_\pm + K_\pm \vek p^2,
\ee
where
\be{K}
K_\pm \equiv \left.\frac 12 {\partial^2\omega_\pm\over \partial \vek
p^2}\right|_{\vek p
= 0} = {1 + \frac 49 \left ({m(T)\over m_\pm}\right )^4 - \frac 59
\left ({m(T)\over m_\pm}\right )^8\over 2 m_\pm \left [ 1 -
\left ({m(T)\over m_\pm}\right )^8\right ]}.
\ee
From this we can read out that there exists a critical value for the ratio
$m/m(T)$,
\be{crit}
\left.{m\over m(T)}\right|_{{\rm crit}} = \left ({4\over 3\sqrt 5}\right )^{1/2}
\simeq 0.772
\ee
such that for values smaller that it, $\omega_{-}(\vek p)$ has a minimum for
some value of $\vek p$. This phonomenon is similar than occurs in Dirac field
case and can be undestood because at the limit $ m \goto 0$ the solution
of Majorana case tends smoothly towards the Dirac one. However the derivative
of $\omega_\pm$ at $\vek p = 0$ is not continuous at the same limit. This
reflects the fact that free field theory contains naturally the mass term, too.
So from the point of view of naturalness $m = 0$ is a kind of pathological
case. In Figs. 1 and 2 the dispersion relations are schematically given in two
cases $ m/m(T) = 1 > \left.{m\over m(T)}\right|_{{\rm crit}}$ (Fig. 1) and
$ m/m(T) =1/4 < \left. {m\over m(T)}\right|_{{\rm crit}}$ (Fig. 2).

For large $\vek p$ values the functions $\omega_\pm$ are asymptotically given by
\be{largepm}
\omega_{-}(\vek p) \sim \vek p \left( 1 + 2\: {\rm e}^{-1 - {\vek p^2\over
m^2(T)} \sqrt{\left ({m\over m(T)}\right )^4 + 4}}\right)
\ee
and
\be{largepp}
\omega_+(\vek p) \sim \vek p + {\sqrt{m^4 + 4\, m^4(T)}\over 2 \vek p} -
{M^4\over 2 \vek p^3}\ln {4 \:\vek p^2\over \sqrt{m^4 + 4\, m^4(T)}}.
\ee
These relations coincide with the ones known in the literature for the Dirac
fermion case \cite{lit1}
at the limit $m \goto 0$. It should be noted that, for non-zero $m$,
$\omega_{-}$ tends towards the asymptote $\omega = \vek p$ even faster that
the massless case, and therefore these modes also disappears from the spectrum
very fast when momentum increases.

Let us now  discuss the nature of the thermal excitations for the Majorana
fermions. To do so, let us first remind the reader what happens for a Dirac
fermion.  At zero temperature, the ground state is the vacuum. Only four
different excitations may be created from the vacuum: $b^\dagger ({\bf
p},\lambda)|{\rm vac}\rangle$ (fermion) and $d^\dagger ({\bf p},\lambda)|{\rm
vac}\rangle$ (antifermion) each with two values of helicity $\lambda$. At finite
temperature, the ground state of the plasma contains a large number of
fermion-antifermion pairs, which are not the virtual present at $T=0$ because
of quantum fluctuations, but real \cite{lit1}. In such a case there are eight
different operators that are able to create elementary excitations:
$B_p^\dagger({\bf p},\lambda)$ and $B_h^\dagger({\bf p},\lambda)$, which are a
linear combinations of the usual $T=0$ fermion creation operator $b^\dagger(
{\bf p},\lambda)$ and antifermion annihilation operator $d(-{\bf p},\lambda)$,
and $D_p^\dagger(-{\bf p},\lambda)$ and
$D_h^\dagger(-{\bf p},\lambda)$, which are a linear combinations of the usual
$T=0$ antifermion creation operator $d^\dagger(-{\bf p},\lambda)$ and fermion
annihilation operator $b({\bf p},\lambda)$. The features of the hole states
become clear in the massless limit when, for instance, $B_h^\dagger({\bf
p},\lambda)\equiv
d(-{\bf p},\lambda)$. Consider an antifermion in the plasma with momentum $
-{\bf p}$ and spin polarized along the direction $-\lambda \hat{{\bf p}}$. It
has chirality $\lambda$. When applied to the $T\neq 0$ ground state $d(-{\bf
p},\lambda)$ produces the removal of this antifermion and the creation of a
hole with momentum ${\bf p}$ and spin along  $\lambda\hat{{\bf p}}$. The hole
has, therefore, chirality $-\lambda$, but helicity $\lambda$. The hole has the
wrong correlation between chirality and helicity \cite{lit1} and it is referred
to as an antifermion hole.

In the Majorana case, since at $T=0$ particles and antiparticles coincide,  the
operators $b^\dagger({\bf p},\lambda)$
and $d^\dagger(-{\bf p},\lambda)$ have to be identified and there is no longer
any distinction between a fermion and an antifermion. In other words, when
$B_p^\dagger({\bf p},\lambda)\equiv D_p^\dagger(-{\bf p},\lambda)$ is applied
to the ground state, it generates a Majorana fermion with spin along
$\lambda\hat{{\bf p}}$ and helicity $\lambda$, while $B_h^\dagger({\bf
p},\lambda)\equiv D_h^\dagger(-{\bf p},\lambda)$, when   applied to the ground
state, it generates a Majorana hole (or Majorana fermion hole)  with spin along
$-\lambda\hat{{\bf p}}$ and the wrong helicity  $\lambda$. Only
the positive energy solutions associated to the operators $B_{p,h}^\dagger({\bf
p},\lambda)$ are physically independent, because for Majorana
particle the antiparticle, corresponding the negative energy solution coincides
with the particle itself.

In conclusion, in this letter we have studied the structure of Majorana
fermions with chiral
interactions in hot plasma. An example of such theory is provided by the
MSSM where neutralinos are such fields. For them, the value of the
ratio $m/m(T)$ is usually larger than the critical value  $\left.{m\over
m(T)}\right|_{{\rm crit}} \simeq 0.772$,
even though smaller values are not excluded.  We have also found that
for large $m$ the Majorana hole excitation effective mass
$m_{-}$ may be very small,  $m_{-} \ll T$, and
therefore it may have remarkable effect on, {\it e.g.}, the  thermalization rate
(and thus on the coherence length) of particles interacting with them. In MSSM
the usually adopted values of the soft supersymmetry breaking masses  are
larger than the corresponding thermal masses and therefore the smallness of
$m_{-}$ may drastically affect the properties of the other
degrees of freedom present in the hot plasma \cite{kari}.

\vspace{1cm}
{\bf Acknowledgement}

We would like to thank all members of the High Energy Physics group at ICTP for
the kind hospitality and friendly environment when this work was initiated. In
particular, we are grateful to Alexei Yu. Smirnov for enlightening discussions.
AR would also like to thank Eleonora Riotto for entertaining conversations. AR
is supported by the DOE and NASA under Grant NAG5--2788.

\newpage

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Spain welcomes plans to upgrade Quarryvale Park
Sinn Féin Dublin Mid West Representative Joanne Spain has welcomed news that South Dublin County Council plans to upgrade Quarryvale Park in 2007. Ms Spain had received hundreds of complaints from residents about dumping and anti-social behaviour in the park over the last year.
She said:
"There was a railing on a wall around Quarryvale Park until six years
ago, however sections of the railing were being removed and used as
ramps for cars to enter the park and the railing itself was also being
vandalized. As a result the Parks and Landscape Services Department of
the Council were forced to remove these railings.
"Sinn Féin submitted a question to South Dublin County Council last
week concerning the deterioration of the park and the number of
complaints we had received. The Council responded by saying that the
park does require upgrading and it is proposed to begin this process
in 2007 by the improvement of the entrances and the planting of trees.
"I welcome this announcement and I would call on the Council to also
look at the possibility of a playground in the park. Over the next few
months of the Planning Tribunal, we will be hearing how people from
Quarryvale and surrounding areas were robbed of facilities by
politicians and developers in the past. It is time for South Dublin
County Council and the Government to start undoing that wrong by
investing in the area now." ENDS

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Despite Trump's Efforts, the Solar Industry Marches Forward with New Breakthroughs in Technology
By Michael O'Neill | April 12, 2017 | 3:45pm
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New innovations in solar technology seem to arrive daily, and the beneficiaries of these breakthroughs are everyday businesses and consumers. What's becoming most prominent across the solar landscape in recent months, however, is how new applications and technologies are disrupting the industry in the face of President Trump's threatening stance on renewables at large.
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Going It Alone on Solar
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Local businesses, educational facilities and larger municipal buildings are prime real estate for similar peer-to-peer and community-based energy trading, and the financial rewards are not only realized in reduced utility bills but in favorable publicity, an engaged populace and a collective sense of unity and direction.
A new tool from Google is facilitating this type of solar energy transition by equipping a growing number of consumers and businesses with the predictive models and financial estimates they need on hand before committing to such a big decision.
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1307-12. Woqod and Al Fardan towers in West Bay in fog. Doha, Qatar, November 28, 2013
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Nakheel, Al Fardan, and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2013
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Al Fardan and Woqod towers near Al Funduq Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, March 2, 2013
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Twin Al Fardan and Woqod towers in West Bay at morning. Doha, Qatar, April 8, 2011
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Navigation, Al Fardan, and Woqod towers in West Bay from Al Funduq Street. Doha, Qatar, January 21, 2012
Woqod Tower from the foot of Al Fardan Twin towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, August 24, 2015
Woqod and twin Al Fardan towers in West Bay at early morning. Doha, Qatar, March 18, 2011
Al Fardan, Woqod, and Nakheel towers in West Bay from Al Funduq Street. Doha, Qatar, January 21, 2012
Woqod and Al Fardan towers in West Bay from a street behind City Center Mall. Doha, Qatar, April 16, 2011
Al Fardan towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 28, 2013
Al Fardan towers in West Bay in fog. Doha, Qatar, November 28, 2013
Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 28, 2013
Woqod, Al Fardan and Navigation towers in West Bay, view from a street behind City Center Mall. Doha, Qatar, April 8, 2011
Woqod and twin Al Fardan towers in West Bay, view from a street behind City Center Mall. Doha, Qatar, March 18, 2011
Woqod and twin Al Fardan towers in West Bay, view from a street behind City Center Mall. Doha, Qatar, April 8, 2011
Al Fardan Twin towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2013
A pool between Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 21, 2013
Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay at evening. Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2013
Doha Bank, Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 21, 2013
Supreme Education Council, Woqod and Al Fardan towers in West Bay from a balcony of Room 1703 of Dareen Tower. Doha, Qatar, February 3, 2014
Ministry of Economy and Commerce and Al Fardan Twin Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2013
Reflections of Nakheel and Woqod towers in a pool after a rain on a parking lot in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 21, 2013
Ministry of Economy and Commerce and Al Fardan Twin Towers in West Bay at evening. Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2013
Reflections of Nakheel and Woqod towers in a pool after a rain on a parking lot in West Bay at morning. Doha, Qatar, November 21, 2013
Al Fardan twin towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, March 2, 2013
Area of Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 23, 2013
Ministry of Trade and Al Fardan Towers in West Bay at evening. Doha, Qatar, April 8, 2013
Al Fardan twin towers and Ministry of Trade in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, March 2, 2013
Ministry of Business and Al Fardan twin towers near Al Funduq Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, March 2, 2013
Street opposite to Woqod Tower in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 28, 2013
Nakheel from the foot of Woqod Tower in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 28, 2013
Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 21, 2014
Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, August 24, 2015
Woqod and Nakheel towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, August 24, 2015
Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 4, 2012
Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 23, 2012
Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 4, 2012
Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, March 23, 2015
Woqod Tower and Public Works Authority in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 22, 2013
Nakheel, Tornado, and Woqod towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 20, 2012
Al Fardan Twin Towers in West Bay in fog. Doha, Qatar, January 21, 2016
Nakheel and Al Fardan towers in West Bay in fog. Doha, Qatar, February 15, 2014
Al Fardan Twin Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 4, 2012
Al Fardan Twin Towers in West Bay in fog. Doha, Qatar, February 15, 2014
Nakheel and Al Fardan towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, August 24, 2015
Parking of Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 23, 2012
Foot of Al Fardan Towers in West Bay in fog. Doha, Qatar, February 15, 2014
A pool after a rain on a parking lot north from Woqod Tower in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, November 21, 2013
Nakheel and Woqod towers in West Bay from Al Funduq Street. Doha, Qatar, March 23, 2014
Al Fardan Towers in West Bay from Al Funduq Street. Doha, Qatar, March 23, 2014
Al Fardan Towers and Ministry of Commerce in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 4, 2012
Ministry of Commerce and Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, March 23, 2014
Ministry of Commerce and Al Fardan towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 19, 2012
Parking of Al Fardan towers in West Bay in fog at morning. Doha, Qatar, February 15, 2014
Woqod and Nakheel towers in West Bay from Omar Al Mukhtar Street. Doha, Qatar, February 18, 2014
Ministry of Business and Trade and Al Fardan Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 23, 2012
Al Fardan, Ministry of Commerce, and Navigation towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 19, 2012
Al Fardan Towers on Majlis Al Taawon Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 28, 2016
Al Fardan Twin towers in West Bay from Al Funduq Street. Doha, Qatar, March 23, 2014
View from a parking lot of Al Fardan Twin Towers in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, February 4, 2012
Al Fardan and Tornado towers on Majlis Al Taawon Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 28, 2016
Area of Al Fardan Towers in West Bay from Omar Al Mukhtar Street. Doha, Qatar, March 23, 2014
Ministry of Business and Trade and Al Fardan Towers in West Bay at evening. Doha, Qatar, April 26, 2011
Ministry of Commerce and Twin Al Fardan towers at Majlis Al Taawon Street in West Bay. Doha, Qatar, January 6, 2015
Al Fardan and Navigation towers in West Bay, view from a backyard of City Center Mall. Doha, Qatar, April 8, 2011


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The Australian Army: An Aide-Memoire 2014
Coast Guard Outlook 2012
Warriors of the Rising Sun: A History of the Japanese Military
Ramillies 1706: Year of Miracles
I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have To Be Destroyed By Me
Historical dictionary of Georgia
Gallipoli: A Ridge Too Far
Atlante dei luoghi misteriosi. Luoghi sacri, paesaggi simbolici, antiche città scomparse, terre perdute
Tora! Tora! Tora! - Pearl Harbor 1941
Redlegs. The U.S. Artillery From the Civil War to the Spanish-American War, 1861-1898 (G.I. Series 11)
Author: Nicosia, Francis
New York: Cambridge University Press
This book considers the evolving strategic interests and foreign policy intent of the Third Reich toward the Arabic-speaking world, from Hitler's assumption of power in January 1933 to 1944, a year following the final Axis defeat in and expulsion from North Africa in May 1943. It does so within the context of two central, interconnected issues in the larger history of National Socialism and the Third Reich, namely Nazi geopolitical interests and ambitions and the regime's racial ideology and policy. This book defines the relatively limited geopolitical interests of Nazi Germany in the Middle East and North Africa within the context of its relationships with the other European great powers and its policies with regard to the Arabs and Jews who lived in those areas
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3. Germany and the Arab world, 1933-1937 --
4. The coming of war, 1938-1939 --
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6. The Axis and Arab independence, 1941-1942 --
7. Collapse and irrelevance, 1943-1944 --
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Hitler's Uranium Club: The Secret Recordings at Farm Hall
The Air War in the Pacific: Victory in the Air (The Military History of World War II vol.14)
Goering and the Luftwaffe
Armoured Warfare in the North African Campaign (Images of War)
Flying Legends of World War II (Images of War)
Captured French Tanks Under the German Flag
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using System.Collections.Generic;
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    {
        public bool SilentModeEnabled { get; set; }
        public string FileName { get; set; }

        public bool BypassAcl { get; set;  }

        public bool PrintStackTrace { get; set; }

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        /// Defines all arguments and contains the logic to set the correct member with the value given
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        public static readonly Dictionary<string, Action<ParsedCmdLineArgs>> Args = new Dictionary<string, Action<ParsedCmdLineArgs>>(StringComparer.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase)
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            {  "--silentMode", (a) => a.SilentModeEnabled = true },
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La Escala Internacional de Temperatura ITS-90, esta escala fue adoptada por el Comité Internacional de Pesos y Medidas en su reunión de 1989. Las temperaturas son definidas en términos de los estados de equilibrio de fases de sustancias puras los cuales son llamados puntos fijos.

Véase también
Temperatura absoluta

Referencias
NIST Technical Note 1265, Guidelines for Realizing the International Temperature Scale of 1990 (ITS-90).

Enlaces externos
 Tabla de los puntos fijos de la ITS-90

Magnitudes físicas

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'No excuses' for Titans' poor effort
Mitchell Olivey
Sun 16 Mar 2014, 06:06 PM
iSelect Gold Coast Titans coach John Cartwright offered no excuses after his side was outplayed and out-enthused by the Wests Tigers in 35 degree heat at a Cbus Super Stadium, going down 42-12 to the Wests Tigers this afternoon.
Further bad news for the Titans was that co-captain Greg Bird left the field late in the match with a shoulder injury and hopes there is no serious damage. Mark Minichiello missed the match because of a virus and was replaced by Ben Ridge.
It was uncharacteristic error-riddled performance by the Titans at home and they were their own worst enemies in the tough conditions, surrendering the ball in crucial field position too often. They conceded two tries in the first seven minutes to be behind 10-0 and seemed to be off the pace in the heat from very early in the game.
Statistics that emerged that the Titans had only 40 per cent of possession and played the ball only 11 times in the Tigers' quarter.
That allowed the enterprising Tigers attack, led by young halfback Luke Brooks, to make the home side pay dearly, producing four second-half tries to run out eventual 42-12 winner after leading 22-6 at the break.
Cartwright lamented the side's poor performance and labelled it as "uncharacteristic".
"I certainly didn't see that coming, I don't think the players saw it coming; it was a very average performance," Cartwright said.
"It started bad and we sort of got our way back into the game. Then we probably tossed up the worst part just before half-time where we got back into the game and then coughed up two tries on the back of a couple of errors and they pretty much took the game away from us.
"You certainly don't train to do that, you don't plan for it to happen. Things conspired today and that's what we tossed up, I'm not going to sit here and make excuses, it was a bad display by the team, and I can't paint any other picture.
"We've just got to put it to one side it was uncharacteristic for the group and we just got sweep it aside, we'll deal with it tomorrow and then from Tuesday we've just got to look forward to Canberra".
Bird was unsure about the severity of his shoulder injury but is hopeful it was just a 'burner' but his main concern was about the team's performance.
"It's a bit sore, won't really know until tomorrow but hoping it's just a burner, it went dead there for a few minutes. The shoulder hit right on Keith Galloway's hip and had nothing in it," Bird said.
"It was frustrating, usually when we get behind on the board we get together and work our way out if as a team.
"I think everyone probably got a little bit individual out there and everyone tried to do it on their own and then all the individuals made individual mistakes dropped balls and missed tackles, we weren't working together as a group and I think it showed.
"There's no reason why we couldn't of turned it around, I thought when Sezer scored that try we were going to bounce back and get some ball and the tide was going to turn for us but it didn't and we compounded a lot of errors on top of each other.
"We've got to address everything that we did wrong, we can't just brush it off like it didn't happen. We will train hard this week, that's the good thing about rugby league and this early in the season we can make amends quite quickly next week."
Some crafty backline play by the Tigers early on after a Titans error, created space for Pat Richards to score in the left corner after just four minutes, with the winger unable to convert his try the Tigers had to settle for an early 4-0 lead after five minutes of play.
On the back of a Robbie Farah break, the Tigers gained easy metres and they capitalised on the last play when a neat Brooks grubber was collected by fullback James Tedesco who scored untouched under the posts, giving Richards an easy conversion to extend the visitors lead out to 10-0 after ten minutes of play.
The Titans hit-back in the 24th minute when Bird sliced through the defensive line before drawing-and-passing to Sezer to score under the posts before converting his own try to reel the deficit back to 10-6.
On the back of a repeat set the Tigers extended their lead after a crafty cut-out pass by Braith Anasta found Richards who dived over the line to grab his second try before converting from the sideline to take the visitors to a 16-6 lead with just over seven minutes remaining in the half.
In the dying minutes of the half, Brooks and Tedesco combined to get the Tigers some quality field positions and they took full advantage when Bodene Thompson raked in an Anasta kick to score next to the posts, and with Richards converting the Tigers took a 22-6 lead with two minutes remaining.
It was an exciting finish to the half with some scrambling defence by the Titans keeping the razzle-dazzle Tigers at bay.
It was a bad start to the second-half with the Tigers going the length of the field in their opening set before a Brooks bomb bounced astray of the posts before being collected by Cory Patterson who crossed only to be denied by the video-ref for a double knock-on.
There was no stopping the Tigers from the resulting scrum with winger David Nofoaluma barging through four would-be defenders to cross next to the posts to extend the Tigers lead out to 28-6 after 43 minutes of play.
The Titans error count was mounting and the Tigers made them pay when a Farrah wrap-around resulted in prop Martin Taupau barnstorming across the line to gift Richards another easy conversion to extend the Tigers lead out 34-6 with 20 minutes remaining.
Against the run of play, Albert Kelly scooped up a loose ball and ran 90 metres down field to score under the posts and with Sezer converting the Titans reeled the deficit back to 34-12 with under 15 minutes of play remaining.
The Titans suffered a blow minutes later with Bird being forced from the field.
The combination of Brooks and Tedesco again produced some magical play, this time Brooks chipped through for Tedesco who in turn punted the ball forward before Brooks regathered to score out wide, with Richards converting the Tigers lead 40-12 with eight minutes remaining.
The Tigers were rewarded a penalty on the eve of full-time and Richards slotted the 35 metre penalty goal to give the Tigers the 42-12 win.
The Tigers will look to hit-back next week when they take on the Canberra Raiders at GIO stadium.
Wests Tigers 42 (P Richards 2, J Tedesco, B Thompson, D Nofoaluma, M Taupau, L Brooks; P Richards 6 conversions; P Richards 1 penalty-goal) defeated Gold Coast Titans 12 (A Sezer, A Kelly; A Sezer 2 conversions).


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As heatwave temperatures rise, officials warn that air quality levels could suffer.
The European Commission gave nine countries, considered as the EU's main culprits in the sphere of air quality, around ten days to comply with its requirements. They include France, Germany and the United Kingdom – but not yet Belgium. The countries are obliged to lay out new measures to avoid their referral to the European Court of Justice (ECJ).
The nine countries have until "the end of next week to compile comprehensive reports" if they wish to avoid referral to the ECJ. The European Parliament explained the position following a meeting with the nine ministers summoned to Brussels for a "last chance summit".
Air pollution is considered responsible for more than 400,000 premature deaths a year in the EU, excluding European citizens with respiratory and cardiovascular illnesses. The Commission estimates that this problem is costing the EU economy more than €20 billion per year.
The nine countries summoned – being Germany, Spain, France, Hungary, Italy, the Czech Republic, Romania, the United Kingdom and Slovakia – regularly exceed the emission standards intended to protect the deterioration of health of Europeans due to fine particulate matter (PM10) or nitrogen dioxide (NO2), indeed in some cases both of them.
The Commission says that in total 23 out of 28 countries are still exceeding the required air quality standards, when assessed against the presence of these substances. There are currently 16 matters open relating to fine particulate matter, 13 such matters for nitrogen dioxide and one for sulphur dioxide. The problem affects more than 130 towns and cities in Europe.
The organisation for the protection of the environment, Greenpeace, has expressed the view that Belgium could well "be the next to have its wrist slapped." Greenpeace stresses, "Although Belgium has not been summoned to the meeting today, its time is coming, as it is also targeted by such procedures, as much in respect of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) as fine particulate matter (PM10)."


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In many states, divorcing couples are not required to pay college expenses for their kids. The issue is centered on whether or not parents should have to pay child support after the kid reaches age 18. In state's where the answer is no — no need to pay child support after 18 — the state cannot require a parent to pay for college expenses.
However, New Jersey judges have the power to order non-custodial parents to pay for their child's education. Other states that have passed laws allowing judges to include higher education costs in child support orders include: New York, Massachusetts, Indiana, Connecticut, Illinois, Hawaii, Iowa, Missouri, Utah and Oregon.
Some states are quite liberal with their child support laws. For example, in Hawaii, as long as a child is a full-time student at a college, university or vocational school, a judge can require divorced parents to pay for college. There is no age cut off. Other states, such as South Carolina, Mississippi and Alabama, have absolutely no laws that deal with child support for college education. Judges in these states are permitted to order people to pay tuition as part of normal child support arrangements.
Would the parents have contributed if they were still married?
Decide how the payments will be made. The non-custodial parent has the right to request that payments be made directly to the school if they desire.
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10/16/2007 by Ray Waddell
Live Nation president/CEO Michael Rapino confirmed today (Oct. 16) that Madonna has entered into an unprecedented global partnership with the company and will become the founding artist in LN's new Ar
Live Nation president/CEO Michael Rapino confirmed today (Oct. 16) that Madonna has entered into an unprecedented global partnership with the company. She will become the founding artist in LN's new Artist Nation division, led by Rolling Stones tour producer Michael Cohl.
"The idea that an iconic artist like Madonna would pick a promoter to be a long-term partner with truly validates our business model," Rapino tells Billboard.com.
"We put a lot of time and effort into what kind of deals we're going to do [and] how we're going to do them, with certainty that we can execute and maximize on those deals," adds LN global music chairman Arthur Fogel. "We are 100% committed, confident and ecstatic about this deal and about our ability to deliver on the economic model for both her and us as partners."
The 10-year deal encompasses all of Madonna's future music and music-related businesses, including the exploitation of the Madonna brand, new studio albums, touring, merchandising, fan clubs/Web sites, DVDs, music-related television and film projects and associated sponsorship agreements. This model will address all of Madonna's music ventures as a total entity for the first time in her career.
"The real story here is while everyone's talking 360 [degree deals], we were quietly building the services to do it right," Rapino says. "We have spent a considerable amount of resources building this Artist Nation division first and then going after artists second. Madonna would not have done a 360 deal with us just because of our touring capability. We had to prove to her and others that we have been working on and built a very good execution capacity at Artist Nation."
The Madonna deal (which has been valued in published reports as worth $120 milion) has not been without its detractors, but Rapino says Wall Street still needs to be educated on new music business models, particularly the global scale of a deal like this.
"We have been consistent for two years talking about taking our global concert business of 10,000 shows and 1,000 artists [annually] and extending them to the fan through our online ticketing, and [forming] longer and deeper relationships with the artist," says Rapino.
A key broker in the deal was Fogel, producer of Madonna's last three worldwide tours. Asked what contractual obligations Madonna might have to tour and record, Fogel says, "We can't get into that other than to say the history of Madonna is very clear. She is incredibly hard working, determined, competitive and creative, and her entire career has been consistently about delivering on all levels, whether it's live or on her records. That's who she is and that's who she will be going forward."
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Notebook actor Zaheer Iqbal spoke to HT about the film, his preparation for the role and his mentor Salman Khan.
Actor Zaheer Iqbal is all set to make his Bollywood debut with the Salman Khan production, Notebook. The actor will be seen opposite another debutant, Pranutan Bahl, daughter of actor Mohnish Bahl and granddaughter of late legendary actor Nutan. Zaheer is the son of Salman's childhood friend and was handpicked by him for the film. However, the actor considers himself an outsider and has trained for six years for the role.
How does it feel to make a debut under Salman Khan's production?
It's a dream come true to be launched by Salman Khan and my confidence comes from the fact that he saw something in me. It's a great feeling and I am very excited.
How the film is a different love story?
Bhai had said very well that one falls in love with seerat (inner personality) and not surat in this film. Usually everyone falls in love with the person that you are and think that person is the most beautiful person in the world because you love them. So this film is about -- when you like someone's seerat so much, you eventually start liking a person's surat.
You have worked a lot on your fitness, how important it was for the role?
So I have learnt dance, gymnastics, different forms of dancing and acting. This film did not require any body shots, I was just supposed to be fit. There were no prerequisites for the role. We were shooting in Kashmir and therefore, the clothing was layered and body shots weren't required.
Pranutan is a star kid and you have Salman's reference. How helpful it is to not be a complete outsider?
I consider myself an outsider. I don't come from a film background. He and my father have been friends since they were kids. I didn't use to meet him regularly. We used to meet once or twice in a year when I used to ask my dad to take me to meet him at a studio. When he saw me dancing after four or five years, he told me, "you should be an actor in front of the camera." I don't consider myself an industry kid.
Did you face any challenges and had to work on them while shooting for the film?
Everything was a challenge, to outdo ourselves every day is a challenge. Nothing is ever enough for Bhai. He always says, if you dance well, you can always do better.
What do you think about nepotism?
When you have dreamt of acting all you life, you already feel connected to the industry and have a lot of knowledge about it and its a part of life. So why not go ahead and make the most of it. If you have connections in the industry, you probably meet a few people. Those days are gone when people will cast someone only because he is a star kid. Everyone wants an actor who can act. There are lots of people who have made big in the industry without any connections. Its not that people who are not star kids are not getting any opportunity.
Does the film have any similarity with Ryan Gosling's Hollywood film Notebook.
A notebook plays a very important character in this film. This has nothing to do with the Hollywood film by the same name.


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Death Has Lost Its Sting
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O child of God, death hath lost its sting, because the devil's power over it is destroyed. Then cease to fear dying. Ask grace from God the Holy Ghost, that by an intimate knowledge and a firm belief of thy Redeemer's death, thou mayst be strengthened for that dread hour.
Living near the cross of Calvary thou mayst think of death with pleasure, and welcome it when it comes with intense delight. It is sweet to die in the Lord: it is a covenant-blessing to sleep in Jesus. Death is no longer banishment, it is a return from exile, a going home to the many mansions where the loved ones already dwell.
The distance between glorified spirits in heaven and militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home–a moment will bring us there. The sail is spread; the soul is launched upon the deep. How long will be its voyage? How many wearying winds must beat upon the sail ere it shall be reefed in the port of peace? How long shall that soul be tossed upon the waves before it comes to that sea which knows no storm? Listen to the answer, "Absent from the body, present with the Lord."
Yon ship has just departed, but it is already at its haven. It did but spread its sail and it was there. Like that ship of old, upon the Lake of Galilee, a storm had tossed it, but Jesus said, "Peace, be still," and immediately it came to land. Think not that a long period intervenes between the instant of death and the eternity of glory. When the eyes close on earth they open in heaven. The horses of fire are not an instant on the road. Then, O child of God, what is there for thee to fear in death, seeing that through the death of thy Lord its curse and sting are destroyed? and now it is but a Jacob's ladder whose foot is in the dark grave, but its top reaches to glory everlasting.
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Alex Cooper Auctioneers, Inc., one of the largest auction houses in the mid-Atlantic, is excited to present an exquisite collection of beautiful jewelry from two estates on Thursday, April 23 at 3 p.m. The collection of jewelry items include gentlemen and women wristwatches, earrings, rings, bracelets and brooches. Buyers are invited to attend the auction at the Alex Cooper gallery located in Towson, Md. or place bids online. Sample items for the auction include: • A sapphire and diamond ring by Tiffany & Co., approximately 7.46 carats with single-cut circular diamond shoulders, mounted in platinum. • Gentleman's Piaget gold wristwatches. • An emerald and diamond ring, center step-cut emerald, weighing approximately 8 carats, flanked on either side by a trilliant-cut diamond, mounted in 18k gold. • Aquamarine and diamond ring mounted in 18k gold. • Diamond and ruby flower ring mounted in 18k gold. • Stainless steel and diamond Hermes watch with black strap. • An Egyptian Revival micro-mosaic Pharaoh brooch mounted in sterling silver. • A Victorian bracelet, featuring old mine rose cut diamonds and sapphires, set in 14k gold. Buyers are invited to visit the gallery and preview items before the auction during an exhibition on Tuesday, April 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Wednesday, April 22 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.; and Thursday, April 23 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. To view a sampling of items, please view our event brochure .
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The whole cryptocurrency community was expecting for the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) decision on Bitwise Bitcoin exchange-traded fund on April 1, 2019, the Commission has once again turned around and suspended the event to May 16.
The entire crypto community is waiting for the approval of Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Since last year, more than 9 ETFs have been rejected by the United States (U.S) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Several cryptocurrency investors are enthusiastically waiting for the final decision of the U.S. SEC on whether or not a Bitcoin ETF eventually becomes a reality. Since the Bitcoin price is not soaring dramatically, crypto traders are now waiting for the exchange-traded fund (ETF) to recover the entire market. Nonetheless, the senior analyst at Fundstrat Tom Lee, highly believes that Bitcoin - the leading cryptocurrency by market cap doesn't want an ETF to end 2019 vividly higher.
Regardless of the unswerving rejections of Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) applications set forth up to the present time, optimism is still high amongst some cryptocurrency users, that the imminent ETF decision may eventually be the one that is approved. That was until Jay Clayton, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman reassured those hopes again when he presented in a speech at Coindesk's Consensus Invest Conference in New York.
The one-day (24h) period of trading has not registered a vast activity in the digital currency economy. Since the surge on February 8, which saw Bitcoin (BTC) touch the $3700 resistance level, nothing actually momentous has taken place on the BTC markets. However, ETH has finally managed to race past XRP.
The Commissioner of the US Security and Exchange Commission (SEC), Hester Peirce, aims at opening the SEC to innovation, invention and entrepreneurship. Of late, the leaked interviews of Hester gave the crypto industry hope for Bitcoin (BTC) exchange-traded fund (ETF) approval. Hester, also known as the Crypto Mom, calls for an innovative and improved regulatory framework which is more malleable to the cryptocurrency field.
While new digital currency derivatives product such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs) and physically delivered futures are in a precarious situation with an unclear future in the United States, one big United Kingdom store has begun trading a new major financial product that is tied to digital assets.