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The Federal Reserve began its two-day policy meeting on Tuesday and experts wonder whether damage inflicted by recent hurricanes across parts of the United States could stave off an interest rate hike initially predicted for later this year.
While the Fed is not expected to hike interest rates during the September meeting, officials projected one more raise before the end of the year. However, concerns over billions of dollars' worth of economic damage, and a potential impact on GDP, have caused some to believe the central bank may alter that timetable.
"Harvey and Irma losses are still being determined but it will likely exceed $200 billion which will hurt GDP going forward. This cements, along with declining inflation, no policy action out of the Fed until likely mid-2018," Mary Ann Hurley, Vice President of Fixed Income Trading at D.A. Davidson & Co., said in a statement.
The central bank approved rate hikes in March and June of this year.
On the other hand, some believe the hurricanes won't impact the Fed's decision making, but rather policy decisions – including an expected announcement on Wednesday that the central bank will begin unwinding its massive $4 trillion balance sheet – will continue to be based off of Fed Chair Janet Yellen's clearly communicated mandates and goals.
Yellen, whose term expires in February, has taken painstaking efforts to telegraph the bank's every move so as not to disrupt the markets. Policy decisions have been made in conjunction with the Fed's dual mandate of 2% inflation and maximum sustained employment. While the unemployment level remained relatively stable at 4.4% in August, inflation has remained below the 2% target.
Should investors be concerned about a possible rate hike?
While the Dow Jones Industrial Average notched a fresh, intraday record high on Tuesday, what could rattle the markets – according to one analyst – is any deviation from expectations when it comes to the pacing of both interest rate hikes and the unwinding program.
"What the market will not like and won't like is anything that will give indication that rates will increase too fast and that bonds will be sold off too fast or too much. They don't want to flood the market with bonds which will drive bond prices down and then people will sell out of the market as well if it drops," Melissa Armo, trader and founder of The Stock Swoosh, told FOX Business.
While questions remain about both the full scope of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey – and potentially more strong storms headed toward the mainland – the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration admits it has been "a destructive [hurricane] season." Still, it is worth noting the central bank has some experience with the economic effects of natural disasters.
"The Fed will likely borrow liberally from the statement following Hurricane Katrina in 2005, when it noted that while Katrina increased uncertainty about the economy's near-term performance, the hurricane didn't pose a more persistent threat," Ryan Sweet, Director of Real Time Economics at Moody's Analytics, told FOX Business.


ESCOLAR (CDR W. J. Millican) departed Pearl Harbor on 18 September 1944, to proceed to Midway to top off with fuel. There she joined CROAKER and PERCH and left on 23 September to conduct a coordinated patrol (ESCOLAR's first patrol) in the Yellow Sea north of 30° 00'N. Commander Millican was in command of this coordinated attack group, which was designated "Millican's Marauders."
On 30 September, when ESCOLAR was estimated to be about north of the Bonin Islands, the following partial message was received from her: "This from ESCOLAR X attacked with deck gun boat similar to ex-Italian Peter George five OTYI- - - -". Although no further transmissions have ever been received by bases from ESCOLAR, which was forced to break off the transmission and the engagement with the gunboat at this time, the Commanding Officer of CROAKER has stated that she suffered no damage and was in frequent communication with PERCH and CROAKER until 17 October 1944.
PERCH reported that on 17 October she had received a message from ESCOLAR stating that she was in position 33° 44'N, 127° 33'E, and was heading for Latitude 33° 44'N, Longitude 129° 06'E. Neither PERCH nor CROAKER could raise ESCOLAR by radio after this transmission was received.
Had ESCOLAR left her area on the scheduled date, she would have arrived at Midway about 13 November 1944. All attempts to contact ESCOLAR failed and she was reported on 27 November 1944 as presumed lost. It is assumed that she was lost about 17 October. Information supplied by the Japanese on anti-submarine attacks gives no clue as to the cause of her loss, but the Yellow Sea area is thought to have been mined. A course line plotted between the two positions given above does not cross any known Japanese mine lies, but positions of mines laid before April 1945 are not definitely located. The known minefields in Tsushima Strait were laid in April 1945. However, there were mines in the general area of ESCOLAR's predicted position, and the most likely explanation for her end at present is that she detonated a mine.
See also Ed Howard's Final Patrol page on USS Escolar (external link).


Alternatives to Domestic Violence will establish a Trauma Recovery Center in Hemet using a $750,000 California Victim Compensation Board grant.
The state board ensures that mental health services are available for victims of violent crimes. This will be the first center in Riverside County, joining 12 centers in Long Beach, Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Diego and the San Francisco Bay area.
Trauma clinicians will provide mental health support and advocacy to victims of traumatic violent crimes, such as sexual assault, human trafficking, domestic violence and hate crimes.


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Q: Treating stars and planets as a blackbody determine the temperature of a planet that has EM radiation incident upon it from a star Consider the following question:

Power emitted by the star via the  Stefan Boltzmann law is as follows:
$$4\pi\sigma T_s^4 r_s^2 $$
However the power will drop over distance and so we can say that at the position of the planet we will observe a flux incident upon the planet as
$$   \frac{4\pi\sigma T_s^4 r_s^2}{4\pi d^2}  =   \frac{\sigma T_s^4 r_s^2}{ d^2}     $$
We can equate the above to $$ \sigma T_p^4 $$
Then we can deduce that $$     T_p = T_s \sqrt(\frac{r_s}{d} )  $$
However it seems that a factor of 2 is not present and I am unsure where to get it from or how to justify its existence. ANy help would be appreciated.

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Here, the term $\pi r_p^2$ is the area of cross section through which the radiation from the star actually hits. The flux you calculated for the star's radiation as it travels a distance $d$ ( i.e. $\frac{4\pi r_s^2\sigma T_s^4}{4\pi d^2}$ has to take consideration of that area as well.
The equality is true as the planet is at thermal equilibrium with the radiation from the star such that the energy emitted by the planet is equal to that it absorbs.
In response to your comment:
It's not correct to even take the entire area of a sphere if you possibly could as the radiation only hits the exposed area (the side facing the star - which would literally be half the surface area of the sphere). But the star would likely be far away, not really very close that the radiation hits a majority part of the exposed surface. $\pi r_p^2$ is a reasonable approximation to that exposed surface. Imagine if you were on the star itself looking down on the planet, to see a circle - which you would approximate as being the surface area. Also as the radiation is travelling a long distance, those radiations would be essentially like parallel lines striking the surface.

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Infosys and Roland-Garros will colloborate to develop an advanced digital platform for coaches and players to study and assess their game
Infosys,a global leader in technology services & consulting has announced that it has signed a three-year strategic partnership with Roland-Garros to work on various digitally enabled experiences.
It is aimed at leveraging Infosys' expertise in digital technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), mobility, big data and analytics, virtual reality (VR),augmented reality (AR) and elevating the game of lawn tennis by offering the players, coaches and fans with an entirely new experience.
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Pravin Rao, Chief Operating Officer, Infosys has said that Roland-Garros stands for its rich history and culture and Infosys is proud to become a part of this heritage. They are excited to partner with Roland-Garros to showcase how digital technologies can enhance the boundaries of this tournament by leveraging data, insights and digital experiences.
Bernard Giudicelli, President of the French Tennis Federation has said that they are truly delighted that Infosys has joined them as a partner of Roland-Garros. This partnership centres around digital innovation, a key pillar of the tournament, will offer tennis fans an even richer experience. They are convinced that Infosys will help them to deliver the tournament's digital transformation objectives to ensure Roland-Garros to remain at the cutting edge of technology.
Infosys and Roland-Garros will work on an innovative, intuitive and fun user interface and analytics tool that allows fans to follow live scores, deep match analytics, and also enable to understand the factors which affects match. This will be available on Roland-Garros official website at the time of tournament.
In addition, they will work on the development of an advanced digital platform for coaches and players to study and assess their game all through the tournament. It will be powered by AI-led video analytics and rich data science to support their strategy for upcoming matches and help in decision making.
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Tata Group's electoral arm spends about Rs 600 crore in 2019 Lok Sabha elections, says report
Updated : April 30, 2019 09:04 AM IST
In an official filling made by the Progressive Electoral Trust, the Tata Group's election funding vehicle, it disbursed Rs 25.11 crore to political parties in the financial year 2014-15.
Of the total disbursement, Rs 220 crore came from the Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), the software company had reported in its March quarter results.
It is reported that the biggest chunk of the funding, an estimate of Rs 300-350 crore has been disbursed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Congress received about Rs 50 crore, the report said.
Tata Group's electoral trust is learnt to have spent Rs 500-600 crore in the 17th Lok Sabha elections, a spike of 20 times since the last Lok Sabha elections in 2014, the Business Standard reported.
In an official filling by the Progressive Electoral Trust, the Tata Group's election funding vehicle, it disbursed Rs 25.11 crore to political parties in the financial year 2014-15.
The biggest chunk of the funding, an estimate of Rs 300-350 crore has been disbursed to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), while Congress received about Rs 50 crore, the report said.
The rest of the funds were reported to be divided among Trinamool Congress (TMC), Communist Party of India (CPI), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI-M) and the National Congress Party, Business Standard said.
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British universities are being increasingly captured by arms corporations
By Elliot Murphy• 18 September 2020
People punt along the river beside Cambridge University. (Photo: EPA / Neil Hall)
Many UK universities are increasing their investments in arms companies and acting as their research and development partners. Along with public museums taking sponsorships from arms companies, they risk becoming militarised spaces, losing their public ethos and giving the military industry a humane public face.
Britain's "defence industry" is largely escaping critical headlines by becoming increasingly integrated into public institutions such as universities and museums via sponsorships, research programmes and graduate schemes.
UK arms corporations, many of whom are major exporters to repressive regimes, have even developed something of a humane public face as they partner with public science events such as New Scientist Live, one of Britain's largest annual technology festivals.
In my new book, Arms in Academia: The Political Economy of the Modern UK Defence Industry, I outline how several major UK universities have extensive investment, research and consultancy connections with major military firms such as BAE Systems, QinetiQ and Rolls-Royce.
Many British universities now accept large amounts of money from such contractors to help them develop advanced hardware. As other sources of funding disappear (due to Brexit, as UK institutions lose access to EU science funding, and to government cutbacks) university science and engineering departments are becoming increasingly beholden to the needs of their military sponsors.
Universities minister Michelle Donelan MP. (Photo: UK Parliament)
From 2015–2018, 15 universities with leading engineering departments received nearly £40-million in grants from arms contractors. During 2013–17, Imperial College London, one of the UK's leading science universities, was granted over £9-million from private arms companies. It now invests over £3-million in the arms industry, including a £500,000 investment in Japan's largest arms company, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.
How prestigious research centres like Imperial behave sets clear examples for other universities.
At the University of Bristol, Boeing, which makes the Apache attack helicopter, funds scholarships and internships for students, some of whom work directly on a drone project. The University of York has received over £4-million from arms firms such as BAE, Raytheon and QinetiQ, with the funding going to the computer science and chemistry departments.
BAE, the UK's largest arms corporation which has sold £15-billion worth of arms and services to Saudi Arabia during its five-year bombing of Yemen, contributed £30,000 in 2016 to a project at the University of Portsmouth on "understanding the moral components of conflict".
University College London (UCL) has in the past run a unique degree course for students – an MSc in systems engineering management – which was "a joint development" with BAE "to produce a programme which combines academic rigour and practical experience in the aerospace and defence industry".
BAE currently supports PhD studentships at UCL's Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. The company also sponsors the Centre for Ethics and Law at UCL, where Joanna Talbot, BAE's Chief Counsel, Compliance and Regulation, is on the advisory board.
In 2017, the company announced a "strategic university partnership programme" in which it would "provide particular services" to universities such as Cranfield (for unmanned air vehicles or drones), Birmingham (for quantum sensing, virtual reality and immersive systems), and Southampton (for sound and vibration, artificial intelligence, data fusion and maritime technology).
Colleges at the University of Cambridge have invested over £6.5-million in arms manufacturing firms including BAE, United Technologies and Airbus SE. In November 2018, around 30 student activists staged a peaceful blockade of buildings to protest against the university's arms trade and fossil fuel connections.
While the University of Glasgow says it is "committed to socially responsible investment", by 2016 its £40-million endowment fund had £316,403 invested in QinetiQ, security and defence contractors based in Farnborough, southern England.
In October 2019, the Glasgow University Divestment Coalition protested against the presence of arms firms at a recruitment fair where Leonardo, Rolls-Royce and BAE were present. A university spokesperson said that "only a small proportion of income currently derives from companies involved in the defence sector".
Boris Johnson at a BAE Systems shipyard in Glasgow in 2019, while running to be leader of Britain's Conservative Party. (Photo: EPA / Robert Perry)
Despite being publicly funded institutions, information on arms company funding of universities is very often not in the public domain. Only through Freedom of Information requests can these links usually be uncovered.
What is clear is that some universities are increasingly becoming militarised spaces. Career centres promote arms companies and invite them to career fairs, "advising" students away from applying their skills in more ethical job markets.
BAE is providing inducements to students to join the company in the form of Masters-level apprenticeships at Cranfield University. Around 18% of early recruits came from the most socially deprived areas of the UK, enticing poorer students with secure career promises.
University investments of reserves and endowment funds in arms companies support those firms and give the arms trade something of a "social licence", since universities are typically well-respected quasi-public bodies.
Through research programmes and graduate schemes, which provide arms firms with an additional labour force, university-defence links can in effect help legitimise arms sales to repressive states. These links can also impact research criteria and even modules taught to students.
The Natural History Museum in London. (Photo: EPA / Andy Rain)
Major UK arms firms are often present at events in the country's leading public museums, typically due to their provision of substantial sponsorships.
The London Design Museum has hosted an event for arms firm Leonardo while the Natural History Museum, Science Museum, Imperial War Museum and National Museums Scotland have also played host to arms companies. Boeing has in the past sponsored the Afghanistan Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum.
Associating themselves with universities and museums enables arms firms to more easily market themselves: witness military technology being termed part of the pleasant-sounding "aerospace industry". With their exhibitions on space flight and aeronautics, museums are often obliging with respect to this subtle rebranding.
Recently, the street art collective Protest Stencil withdrew their artwork from an exhibition at the Science Museum in London in protest against its sponsorship by Raytheon, providers of missiles to Saudi Arabia. Protest Stencil claimed that the museum was engaging in "artwashing", whereby corporations involved in human rights abuses or environmental destruction associate themselves with contemporary culture to enhance their social image.
Pride in the arms industry
Other organisations can have connections with the arms trade. Pride, which supports LGBT rights, has allowed its events in Blackpool and Portsmouth to be sponsored by BAE while Pride in Surrey saw the arms firm as its lead sponsor in 2019.
BAE, while marketing itself as LGBT-friendly, has armed and supported some of the world's most abusive and homophobic states, such as Saudi Arabia and Qatar. BAE's chair, Sir Roger Carr has either been silent or recalcitrant when questioned about the ethical issues surrounding arms sales to dictatorships. He has, however, been much more open about issues of diversity and inclusivity at his company, speaking about this issue at the Pride and Prejudice 2018 event hosted by the Economist, for example.
The disconnect between science education, ethical research practices and LGBT identities on the one hand, and contributing to human rights violations on the other, is stark. But it remains little discussed, either in the media or in academic research centres.
Even the smallest amounts of funding can influence university departments to exhibit sympathy for the perspective of funders. There is also considerable academic and professional prestige associated with "winning" any research funding and grants, allowing many researchers to gloss over ethical concerns.
In the current climate, if university staff were to conduct research into the links between academia and the arms trade this could risk alienation from higher-level management and other departments. In the post-Brexit era, as funding sources become scarcer, arms companies are well aware of the financial desperation university departments face.
The links between arms corporations and public bodies need to be more systematically exposed. The creation of a central register of information on such ties, containing data culled via Freedom of Information requests and other research, could be a major force for progress.
Small ethics committees in universities or museums are often not enough to stop such investments. Staff and students at universities and museums should join together more to demand their institutions disinvest from arms firms and instead link more to progressive economic sectors.DM
Elliot Murphy is a campaigner and author based in Houston, Texas, and author of Arms in Academia: The Political Economy of the Modern UK Defence Industry (Routledge, 2020).
Declassified UK is an investigative journalism organisation that covers the UK's role in the world. Follow Declassified on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Sign up to receive Declassified's monthly newsletter here.
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This morning we took a train to Sintra. There are loads of expensive day trips to the town but most of us chose to "backpack" it by making our own way there on the local train from Rossio station.
Let me tell you upfront that I think this was the biggest waste of my whole trip, but more on that later. Sintra was touted as having a Disney World palace and being a beautiful city. Mostly it was a disappointment (perhaps because I didn't pay the entry fee for anything) and a long day of sore legs from walking uphill!
On arrival, we split up. Michael (a 60 year old New Zealand guy, who I think sort of felt like he was "looking after" me, not letting me wander off in a strange city alone) & I walked / hiked up to the Castelo dos Mouros (Castle of the Moors). Let me tell you, from the train station it is freaking far and way high up! We didn't go into the Castle of the Moors (it was a 5 EUR entry fee) instead we walked further along the road to the Pena National Palace, which we didn't go into either (this one was 8 EUR, I think). Let me explain right here that food in Euro's is damn expensive and this was fairly early on in my trip. Who knew if I could spare 5 EUR on some more ruins when I knew the thing I'd mostly come all this way (from Lisbon to Sintra) was still going to cost be about 4.50 EUR in bus fare each way. In the end when I got home and realised how much I had left over from my trip, I do kinda wish I'd gone into the Castle of the Moors, but I don't know if I had gone in if I would've got to do the thing I've already mentioned was number 1 one my list for the day because as it was we only had about an hour to spare which we used to have some lunch.
The view of the Castle and the Palace are pretty useless unless you pay to go into them (they're pretty far from the entrance gates). But the view over Sintra from that high up was pretty spectacular. After that we strolled back down and enjoyed some Spinach quiche for lunch. The walk was long and exhausting!
(Here comes my number 1 bit of the day that made it all worthwhile ... although I do sorta wish I'd just gone straight here after arriving in Sintra by train, but oh well!) After lunch we took a bus out to Cabo da Roca, which forms the Westernmost point of both mainland Europe and mainland Portugal. What a spectacular view of the coast! You might wonder why this would be the highlight of my day, but it is a pretty cool thing to be able to say you've done (especially since I've also been to the Southernmost tip of Continental Asia on Sentosa island in Singapore :) ).
We ended up back in Lisbon after sunset, just before 6pm. A much longer day-trip than I was expecting!
21h00: Just back from dinner out at an Indian / Italian restaurant. Some of the group ate there yesterday and were (oddly) keen to go back. I say oddly because you'd think you'd wanna try somewhere new when you're only spending 2 nights in a city half way around the world from home! But clearly I was not the only one unimpressed by regular Portuguese fare). But, I hadn't tried it so I was keen to tag along. It as expensive by SA standards, my Chicken Makhni cost more than what we normally spend on a meal at Ghazal's for Varen & myself! But it was delish and I topped the evening off with a Capirenhia (can you believe none of the Aussies knew what that was!). I am disappointed to say that I have yet to actually find Trinchado on a menu - it's my favourite "Portuguese" dish from back home. Odd!
Can't believe the Aussies didn't know what a Caipirinha is!
@tamara - well okay that does sound like an acceptable reason for eating at the same place twice ;) but going to an *indian* restaurant two night's running in *portugal* just seems peculiar to moi.


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Is blockchain an overhyped tool for Asia's energy transition?
Blockchain is already used in energy projects from South Africa to Singapore, but questions linger over its significance in the transition to clean energy. What was the final word when six industry experts came together for an animated debate over its potential?
Blockchain could help drive more investments into renewable energy. Image: Martin Abegglen, CC BY-SA 2.0
By Neo Chai Chin
Branded as a revolution when it was launched in the early 1990s, the Apple Newton MessagePad personal digital assistant turned out to be a disappointment, but helped pave the way for the hugely successful iPhone and iPad.
And while smart eyewear could today be said to be overhyped, the technology could prove itself in future.
The same thing could be said about blockchain and its use in the transition of the energy sector from fossil fuels to renewables, a topic that was heatedly debated by industry experts at an event in Singapore in September.
Widely heard of but little understood, blockchain has been hailed by its advocates as a gamechanger for society and the economy, but dismissed as largely unnecessary by sceptics.
Blockchains are special data management systems that record and store information securely using virtual technology called cryptography.
A blockchain is a growing file of data entries that are stored on the computers of participating players instead of a central server. New entries or transactions are added by consensus in an automated approval process among the computers, blockchain governance expert Viktor Peter explained in Blockchain Meets Energy, a report published in June by the German-Mexican Energy Partnership and Florence School of Regulation.
What blockchain won't do
Arguing that the technology is overhyped at Blockchain: The Next Frontier for Green Energy, an event organised by Eco-Business and The Reneum Institute earlier this month, were Martin Lim, chief executive of e-commerce platform for electricity Electrify.Asia, start-up accelerator Engie Factory Asia-Pacific managing director Quentin Vaquette and digital innovation company Build Blocks Group founder Joeri van Geelen.
Speakers entertained and informed during the debate. (From left) Joeri van Geelen, Martin Lim, Quentin Vaquette, moderator Augustine Anthuvan, Vincent Bakker, Yuree Hong and Dorjee Sun. Image: Eco-Business
Cloud systems and databases may be sufficient for the needs of utility companies and other energy players, said Lim.
"If we focus entirely on the outcomes, then we may realise that (it's) not 100 per cent of the time we need blockchain," he said. "Blockchain's a technology… we can't just invent a use for it just because it's there."
While highly useful for tracking and registering transactions, blockchain "really sucks when it comes to things that have to do with physical hardware", said Lim.
Blockchain will not fundamentally resolve barriers to the energy transition from fossil-based to zero-carbon, argued Vaquette. The transition entails having more renewables in the grid, which will require a physical transformation, such as more batteries to store the energy generated.
A lot of engagement with local communities is also needed to get renewable energy projects started, said Vaquette, who has worked on such projects in Mindoro in the Philippines. "Trying to convince someone to replace a polluting 25-year-old power plant on their island with something they don't know (about), you say it's cheaper but they don't believe you—whether you have blockchain here or not is not going to solve the problem," he told about 100 attendees from sectors such as energy, property and telecommunication.
While blockchain can facilitate peer-to-peer transactions, it will take a considerable amount of time before the energy industry enables data transfer and monetary transactions through public blockchains and involves a significant number of its stakeholders, said van Geelen, whose side emerged victorious in an audience vote.
Legitimate and 'inevitable' for the energy transition
Arguing against the motion were Dorjee Sun, co-founder of blockchain company Perlin, Vincent Bakker, co-founder of tech start-up Positive Energy and Yuree Hong, founder of deep tech research and consulting firm Ampliv.io.
Blockchain is already used in places such as South Africa, New York, Bangkok, Australia and Singapore, and global revenue from the technology could exceed US$23 billion in 2023, Hong noted.
Last year, Australian blockchain company Power Ledger and Thai renewable energy firm BCPG launched Asia's first peer-to-peer energy sharing programme in Bangkok.
BCPG installed connections, meters and solar panels in a neighbourhood and Power Ledger connected its blockchain to the meters, which enabled peer-to-peer energy trading and invoicing. The trial involved a shopping centre, a school, an apartment building and a dental hospital. Participants were able to make money from the excess renewable energy generated.
Last October, Singapore energy company SP Group launched a blockchain-powered renewable energy certificate (REC) marketplace, allowing local and international organisations to trade in RECs.
Blockchain could even help tackle haze in the region caused by forest and plantation fires in Indonesia, if land rights and titles are entered into an immutable, uncorruptible database, said Sun.
The uses of blockchain are extensive and legitimate, even if it does not directly make the energy sector greener, argued Bakker. "Fertiliser is not going to feed me; it's disgusting. But I cannot say it's a hyped up tool (in food production because) it's essential to feed seven billion people. And so, blockchain will be inevitable for the energy transition," he said.
Low-hanging fruit
In his keynote address before the debate, Reneum's chief executive Assaad Razzouk said a key frustration is the under-investment in renewable energy needed to limit global warming to no more than 2°C by 2100.
Blockchain can ensure proper tracing of the environmental attributes of renewables, said The Reneum Institute's Assaad Razzouk. Image: Eco-Business
"With some colleagues, I started to think about how blockchain can accelerate investments into green infrastructure and renewable energy worldwide. The answer is not easy because capital is generally resistant to change," said Razzouk, who is also group CEO of Sindicatum Renewable Resources.
A low-hanging fruit is the digitisation of the environmental attributes of renewable energy, he said.
The not-for-profit Reneum operates a digital platform that leverages blockchain to facilitate environmental attribute certification, the issuance of tokens and transactions. Tokens are issued for clean energy generated and can be bought by corporations seeking to meet sustainability targets.
Asked about blockchain's high energy consumption—largely due to Bitcoin mining, which involves intensive computations to prove blocks of transactions—Razzouk said it is not a problem if powered by clean sources, and pointed to findings that Bitcoin mining is more than 74 per cent powered by renewables.
Environmental attribute certification has the potential to boost investments in renewable energy by stimulating investment in unregulated or underserved markets, mitigating investment risk in less mature regions, and increasing financing of new projects, he said. "Today, only 16 per cent of renewable energy can be properly traced… Imagine if you digitise all your energy globally."
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Civil Rights Claims and Quasi-Judicial Immunity; Melton v. Indiana Athletic Trainers Board
Molly Melton is an athletic trainer licensed by the Athletic Trainers Certification Board. The members of the Board are appointed by the governor and can impose disciplinary sanctions.
While working as an athletic trainer at a School, Melton, then twenty-three years old, began a sexual relationship with an eighteen-year-old male athlete (C.J.). C.J.'s parents discovered the relationship and filed a complaint with the school. Melton was fired and let her license lapse.
After Melton's license lapsed, the State filed an administrative complaint against her with the Board. A hearing was held, at which Melton appeared by counsel. But the Board found this appearance insufficient and defaulted Melton, after which it
suspended Melton's license for at least seven years.
Melton filed a complaint alleging that the Board, the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency (IPLA), and the Board's members violated her constitutional rights. The Board was ordered to vacate the suspension and actually hold a hearing. Melton's status was changed from "suspended" to "expired," and the Board held a hearing.
At the hearing, Melton admitted her relationship with C.J., and admitted that it was a mistake. She argued that the three years she had not been able to practice as a trainer was more than enough punishment and introduced opinions from two psychologists opining that she did not pose an unreasonable risk of harm. But the State introduced evidence of arguable improprieties that Melton had previously committed. The Board again found that Melton's conduct was improper and suspended her for at least three years.
Melton then filed in the trial court (1) a petition seeking judicial review of this administrative decision and (2) a complaint alleging civil rights violations under 42 USC § 1983. The two forms of relief were treated separately.
In the judicial review proceeding, Melton admitted that she was not seeking relief against the Board Members and asked for immediate reinstatement. The Board asked the trial court to affirm its decision. The trial court found that the Board's decision was arbitrary and capricious, ordered that Melton's license be reinstated, and awarded attorney's fees.
Meanwhile, the defendants moved for summary judgment in the 1983 action. They argued that they were not "persons" under the statute, that they were immune, and that the claims against the Board Members failed as a matter of law. At a hearing, the Board argued that the judicial review resolved the claims against it, and that the only claims remaining were against the Board Members. The trial court granted summary judgment, finding that the Board Members were immune. Melton appealed.
On appeal, the Court agreed that both the IPLA and the Board are state agencies, so they are not a "person" under § 1983.
Therefore, the trial court properly granted summary judgment for these entities on the 1983 claims.
It is also generally true that state officials acting in their official capacity are also not "persons" for the purposes of § 1983. But they can be "persons" under this statute for the purposes of injunctive relief. And officers sued in their official capacity cannot claim immunity defenses. Thus, Melton's claims for injunctive relief could not be dismissed based on immunity (as the trial court did).
But the Court held that the trial court properly granted summary judgment to Melton on these claims anyway because her request for injunctive relief was directed to the Board, not the Board Members. Thus, the only question was whether the Board
Members could be sued in their individual capacities.
The Board Members argued that they were entitled to absolute quasi-judicial immunity.
Quasi-judicial immunity applies to officers "who perform functions closely associated with the judicial process."
In determining whether a person is entitled to the benefit of absolute immunity, we use the functional approach established by the United States Supreme Court and look to the nature of the function performed rather than the identity of the person who performed it. The touchstone of the functional approach is "performance of the function of resolving disputes between parties, or of authoritatively adjudicating private rights." Therefore, absolute immunity is available to members of a quasi-judicial adjudicatory body when they perform duties functionally comparable to those of judicial officers.
The United States Supreme Court previously found that administrative agencies which include the following safeguards perform a quasi-judicial function: the need to assure that the person can perform their functions without harassment or intimidation; insulation from political influence; the importance of precedent; the adversarial nature of the process; and the correctability of error on appeal. The Court found that the Board met this test because it had a number of these procedural safeguards. Thus, the trial court properly found that the Board Members were absolutely immune from suit.
The opinion spends a considerable amount of time dealing with the Board's cross-appeal from the judicial review, but the issues it dealt with are not notable. In short, it found that the Board did not violate Melton's rights, that it acted within its statutory authority, and that its decision was not arbitrary and capricious. And the Court's discussion expressed a distinct lack of sympathy for a licensed trainer who claimed she was too "young" and "naïve" to avoid a sexual relationship with a high school student.
Melton's claims were dismissed, and the suspension of her license was affirmed.
Lessons:
1. Officials in administrative agencies that perform quasi-judicial functions are protected by absolute immunity from Section 1983 claims.
2. There is an Athletic Trainers Certification Board and it is serious about regulating sexual misconduct by athletic trainers.
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THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS INVALIDATES APPLICATION OF THE RUSSIAN LAW
ON EXTREMISM TO PEACEFUL RELIGIOUS GROUPS
By Patricia Duval
Human Rights Attorney
In a landmark decision, Ibragim Ibragimov and others v. Russia of 28 August 2018, the European Court of Human Rights has de facto invalidated the Russian law on extremism as far as its definition of extremism allows the ban of religious publications even in the absence of any violence or hate speech.
The decision is extremely significant as the Human Rights Court found that any application of the Extremism Law must be based on actual incitement to hatred or violence in order to justify any restriction of freedom of expression of religious beliefs.
It is also significant in that it criticized reliance and wholesale adoption by the national courts of the findings of one-sided experts' reports to rule religious publications extremist, without the possibility for the defendants to adduce counter-evidence in total breach of the equality of arms principle, a practice of Russian courts which has become systematic in the recent years.
The case was referred to the Court by three applicants, a Russian national, a publisher and a religious association, who complained that the Russian courts had ruled in 2007 and 2010 that books by Said Nursi, a well-known Turkish Muslim theologian and commentator of the Qur'an, were extremist and banned their publication and distribution.
The applicants relied both on Article 9 (freedom of religion or belief) and Article 10 (freedom of expression) of the Convention. As the case concerned a ban on the distribution of books, and the books at issue were a commentary on the Qur'an, the Court deemed that it had to be examined under Article 10, interpreted in the light of Article 9.
The Court found that the ban, which amounted to an interference by the Russian State with the right to freedom of expression of Nursi's followers' religious convictions, had not been justified by the Russian courts and was not necessary in a democratic society.
In doing so, the Court detailed its principles and case law on "hate speech" which must be characterized to allow restrictions of freedom of speech.
The Court noted that, under paragraph 2 of Article 10, the exercise of the freedom of expression carries with it duties and responsibilities, and in particular, in the context of religious beliefs, the general requirement to ensure the peaceful enjoyment of the rights guaranteed under Article 9 to the holders of such beliefs, including a duty to "avoid as far as possible expressions that are gratuitously offensive to others and thus an infringement of their rights, and which therefore do not contribute to any form of public debate capable of furthering progress in human affairs".
On the other hand, the Court has also emphasised that those who choose to exercise the freedom to manifest their religion, irrespective of whether they do so as members of a religious majority or a minority, cannot reasonably expect to be exempt from all criticism. They must tolerate and accept the denial by others of their religious beliefs and even the propagation by others of doctrines hostile to their faith.
This reasoning has been developed in its jurisprudence on so-called "blasphemy laws". In this line, the Court issued a decision on 18 July 2018 in the so-called "Pussy Riot" case (Mariya Alekhina and others v. Russia) where it defined clearly what can be considered "hate speech". In this case, the Court referred to the General Policy Recommendation no. 15 on Combating Hate Speech adopted by ECRI (the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance) on 8 December 2015 which defined "hate speech" as follows:
"Considering that hate speech is to be understood for the purpose of the present General Policy Recommendation as the advocacy, promotion or incitement, in any form, of the denigration, hatred or vilification of a person or group of persons, as well as any harassment, insult, negative stereotyping, stigmatization or threat in respect of such a person or group of persons and the justification of all the preceding types of expression, on the ground of « race », colour, descent, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, language, religion or belief, sex, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation and other personal characteristics or status;
Recognising also that forms of expression that offend, shock or disturb will not on that account alone amount to hate speech and that action against the use of hate speech should serve to protect individuals and groups of persons rather than particular beliefs, ideologies or religions;"
In the Pussy Riot case, the feminist applicants had irrupted, wearing flashy clothes and balaclavas, in Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral in Moscow and attempted to perform a song "Punk Prayer – Virgin Mary, Drive Putin Away" from the altar, in order to protest against the Orthodox Patriarch support to Putin's politics. They were put in custody and found guilty by the District Court under Article 213 § 2 of the Russian Criminal Code of hooliganism for reasons of religious hatred and enmity and sentenced each of them to two years' imprisonment. The trial court held that the applicants' choice of venue and their apparent disregard for the cathedral's rules of conduct had demonstrated their enmity towards the feelings of Orthodox believers, and that the religious feelings of those present in the cathedral had therefore been offended.
In contrast, the European Court found that, although certain reactions to the applicants' actions might have been warranted by the demands of protecting the rights of others on account of the breach of the rules of conduct in a religious institution, the applicants' actions neither contained elements of violence, nor stirred up or justified violence, hatred or intolerance of believers.
The Court reiterated that, in principle, peaceful and non-violent forms of expression should not be made subject to the threat of imposition of a custodial sentence or criminal sanctions and concluded to a violation of Article 10 of the Convention since the sanctions were not proportionate to the legitimate aim pursued.
Russian Extremism Law in the Context of Religious Literature
In the Said Nursi's followers' case, the ban of religious books as extremist publications by national courts was based on the Extremism Law, specifically on its definition of extremist activity at Article 1, and in particular incitement of religious discord (Article 1.1.3) and propaganda about people's superiority or deficiency on the basis of their attitude to religion (Article 1.1.4).
The Court underlined from the outset that the Extremism Law did not require any element of violence or incitement to violence for such an activity to constitute "extremist activity" and had been criticized in this regard by the Venice Commission in its 2012 Opinion.
Regarding Article 1.1 point 3 of the Law, the Venice Commission stated that "in order to qualify 'stirring up of social, racial, ethnic or religious discord' as 'extremist activity', the definition should expressly require the element of violence."
Regarding Article 1.1 point 4 of the Law 'propaganda of the exceptional nature, superiority or deficiency of persons on the basis of their social, racial, ethnic, religious or linguistic affiliation or attitude to religion', the Commission found:
"In the view of the Venice Commission, to proclaim as extremist any religious teaching or proselytising activity aimed at proving that a certain worldview is a superior explanation of the universe, may affect the freedom of conscience or religion of many persons and could easily be abused in an effort to suppress a certain church thereby affecting not only the freedom of conscience or religion but also the freedom of association. The ECtHR protects proselytism and the freedom of the members of any religious community or church to 'try to convince' other people through 'teachings'. The freedom of conscience and religion is of an intimate nature and is therefore subject to fewer possible limitations in comparison to other human rights: only manifestations of this freedom can be limited, but not the teachings themselves."
And the Commission concluded:
"It therefore appears that under the extremist activity in point 4, not only religious extremism involving violence but also the protected expressions of freedom of conscience and religion may lead to the application of preventive and corrective measures. This seems to be confirmed by worrying reports of extensive scrutiny measures of religious literature having led, in recent years, to the qualification of numerous religious texts as 'extremist material'."
The European Court actually followed the same line and found that the application of these provisions of the Law to Said Nursi publications violated the right to freedom of expression of religious beliefs of its followers since the Russian authorities had not demonstrated any incitement to violence or hatred.
Systematic Reliance on One-Sided Experts' Reports
The Court first noted and that the national courts merely endorsed the overall findings of one-sided experts' reports to declare the religious books extremist, without making any meaningful assessment of those findings. They instructed linguists and psychologists, who were not expert in religions, to examine the religious texts and to provide the courts with a report on their qualification of extremist publications. This alone was not conform to what experts' reports are supposed to provide. The Court stated:
"Moreover, the relevant expert examinations went far beyond resolving merely language or psychology issues. Rather than restricting themselves to defining the meaning of particular words and expressions or explaining their potential psychological impact, they provided in essence a legal qualification of the texts. Indeed, it is evident from the judgment that it was not the court which made the crucial legal findings as to the extremist nature of the books, but the linguistics and psychology experts. The Court stresses that all legal matters must be resolved exclusively by the courts."
The Court noted that the national courts ignored the fact that Nursi's books belonged to moderate, mainstream Islam. It observed that Said Nursi is a well-known Turkish Muslim theologian and commentator of the Qur'an. Muslim authorities both in Russia and abroad, as well as Islamic studies scholars, all affirm that Said Nursi's texts belong to moderate mainstream Islam, advocate open and tolerant relationships and cooperation between religions, and oppose any use of violence.
However, the national courts denied the applicants the possibility to provide evidence in this regard and rebut their experts' reports. The Court found:
It is also significant that the applicants were unable to contest the findings of the expert reports or to effectively put forward arguments in defence of their position. Indeed, the District Court summarily rejected all evidence submitted by them, including the opinions of Muslim authorities and Islamic studies scholars who explained the historical context in which the books had been written, their place in the body of Islamic religious literature, in particular the fact that they belonged to moderate rather than radical Islam, their importance for the Russian Muslim community and their general message of tolerance, interreligious cooperation and opposition to violence (…). Although the above facts were plainly relevant for the assessment of whether banning the books was justified, the Koptevskiy District Court did not make any meaningful analysis of that material, holding that it should be disregarded because the persons cited by the applicants were not linguists or psychologists and were therefore not competent to establish the meaning of the contested texts. (emphasis added)
The Court noted that it has previously found a violation of Article 10 of the Convention on account of a breach of equality of arms in freedom-of-expression cases, in particular in situations where the applicants had been hindered in adducing evidence in support of their position or where the domestic courts had dismissed all the arguments in the applicant's defence in a summary manner, thereby stripping him of the procedural protection that he had been entitled to enjoy by virtue of his rights under Article 10 of the Convention.
The Court reached the same conclusion in the present case and concluded that the domestic courts did not apply standards which were in conformity with the principles embodied in Article 10.
The Court also found that the national court took terms and expressions out of context to declare the books extremist.
Relying on the experts' reports, the domestic court noted, in particular, that Muslims were described in the book positively as "the faithful" and "the just", while everyone else was described negatively as "the dissolute", "the philosophers", "the idle talkers" and "little men". The book also proclaimed that not to be a Muslim was an "infinitely big crime". The domestic court concluded from those expressions that the book treated non-Muslims as inferior to Muslims.
Although the European Court accepted that some people might be offended by such statements, it reiterated that merely because a remark may be perceived as offensive or insulting by particular individuals or groups does not mean that it constitutes "hate speech".
Whilst such sentiments are understandable, they alone cannot set the limits of freedom of expression. For the Court, the key issue in the present case was thus whether the statements in question, when read as a whole and in their context, could be seen as promoting violence, hatred or intolerance.
The Court found that the domestic court did not assess the statements in question in the light of the book as a whole; it quoted them out of their immediate textual context and failed to examine which idea they sought to impart. In particular, it did not take into account the fact that they were part of a religious text and that, according to the experts, such statements were common in religious texts because any monotheistic religion was "characterised by a psychologically based belief in the superiority of its world-view over all other world-views, which made it necessary to substantiate the choice of that world-view", in particular by claiming that it was better than the others.
Although the impugned statements clearly promoted the idea that it was better to be a Muslim than a non-Muslim, the Court found significant that they did not insult, hold up to ridicule or slander non-Muslims; nor did they use abusive terms in respect of them or of matters regarded as sacred by them.
Furthermore, there was no indication in the judgment that the domestic court perceived those expressions as capable of leading to public disturbances. Neither the domestic courts nor the Government referred to any circumstances indicative of a sensitive background at the material time – such as existence of interreligious tensions or an atmosphere of hostility and hatred between religious communities in Russia – against which the impugned statements could risk unleashing violence, giving rise to serious interreligious frictions or leading to similar harmful consequences.
In view of the above, the Court considered that the above-mentioned statements were not shown to be capable of inciting violence, hatred or intolerance.
Denial of Proselytism Rights
Lastly, the domestic court endorsed the experts' finding that the book in question could influence the reader by making him adopt the author's religious ideology and that that was indeed the author's intention.
In this regard, the European Court reiterated that freedom to manifest one's religion includes the right to try to convince one's neighbour, for example through "teaching", failing which "freedom to change [one's] religion or belief", enshrined in Article 9, would be likely to remain a dead letter, and stressed that the mere fact that the author's intention was to convince the readers to adopt his religious beliefs was insufficient, in the Court's view, to justify banning the book.
In particular, the Court could not discern any element in the domestic courts' analysis which would allow it to conclude that the book in question incited violence, religious hatred or intolerance, that the context in which it had been published was marked by heightened tensions or special social or historical background in Russia or that its circulation had led or could lead to harmful consequences. The Court concluded that it was not necessary, in a democratic society, to ban the book in question.
In conclusion, the Court found that there has been a violation of Article 10 of the Convention.
The findings of the European Court in the Said Nursi case invalidated the provisions of the Russian Extemism Law in the following way.
It found that in order to qualify religious publications as 'extremist activity' on the basis that they were 'stirring up of religious discord', the national courts must demonstrate that the publications in question, when read as a whole and in their context, could be seen as promoting violence, hatred or intolerance.
It also found that the expression of the belief in the superiority of its world-view over all other world-views, which makes it necessary to substantiate the choice of that world-view, in particular by claiming that it was better than the others, is common to all religions and does not suffice for accusing religious publications of being an 'extremist activity' based on 'propaganda about people's superiority or deficiency on the basis of their attitude to religion'.
The same goes with proselytism, which is a right protected by the European Convention. The mere fact that the author's intention was to convince the readers to adopt his religious beliefs is insufficient to justify banning a book.
As long as there is no element which would allow the Court to conclude that the book in question incited violence, religious hatred or intolerance, that the context in which it had been published was marked by heightened tensions or that its circulation had led or could lead to harmful consequences, the Court found that the ban of the book violated Article 10 interpreted in the light of Article 9 of the Convention.
The Court also found that the systematic and wholesale reliance by Russian courts on the findings of one-sided experts' reports, without any possibility for the defendants to bring contradictory evidence, breached the principle of equality of arms and violated the standards which were in conformity with the principles embodied in Article 10.
Those findings should entail further developments since, as the Venice Commission already noted back in 2012, the Russsian authorities have qualified numerous religious texts as 'extremist materials' in recent years and numerous applications are pending at the European Court, filed by various religious groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Evangelicals, Scientologists and others.
Side-event OSCE HDIM 2018 : The Religious Freedom in Eastern OSCE countries :The Denial of Religious Plurality in Russia Synthesis of the voluntary work side event OSCE – HDIM – 2014 OSCE 2017 : side event Freedom of expression and religion rights Struggles and Challenges OSCE HIDM 2018 Working session 6 : The Denial of Religious Plurality in Russia OSCE 2013 : Freedom of Religion and Belief Combating intolerance, negative stereotyping, stigmatization and discrimination based on religion or belief


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A standard Sagrada Familia fast track ticket will gain you entry into the Basilica. Visitors can choose from a number of ticket options such as skip-the-line tickets, Sagrada Familia guided tour tickets, and combo tickets. Access to the towers, however, is not included in these tours unless specifically mentioned. Therefore, visitors need to purchase a ticket with tower access if they wish to visit climb up the Nativity or Passion facades.
Please keep in mind that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, entry into the Sagrada Familia will be restricted. All visitors are encouraged to purchase their tickets online. All visitors are required to arrive on time and wear masks for the entire duration of their visit.
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Sagrada Familia fast track entry tickets offer instant access to visitors, allowing them to bypass queues. Visitors can access the basilica with these tickets. They come with an audio guide whose language you can select at the venue. While the fast track entry tickets do not grant you entry into the Sagrada Familia Towers, you can admire them from the outside. Keep in mind that if you do wish to climb up the towers, you will have to purchase tickets with tower access.
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Visiting Sagrada Familia can prove to be an overwhelming experience due to its popularity. However, here is all the information you'll need for a seamless visit.
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What are the opening hours of Sagrada Familia?
Sagrada Familia opening hours will vary depending on the month of your visit.
November - February from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
March from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
April - September from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM
October from 9:00 AM to 7:00 PM
December 25 & 26 and 1 & 6 January from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
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Saturday and on the eve of holy days of obligation- 8:00 AM
Sunday and on holy days of obligation - 9: 00 AM
How long does it take to tour Sagrada Familia?
It takes at least 1.5 hours to explore Sagrada Familia. If you wish to climb the towers, it is wise to keep aside another hour.
How do I get to Sagrada Familia?
Reaching Sagrada Familia is quite easy as the network of public transport is quite well connected. You can choose to take the bus or the metro depending on your convenience.
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Metro lines L2 and L5 will take you to Sagrada Familia.
Nearest Metro Station: Sagrada Familia.
Can I get to Sagrada Familia by bus?
Yes. You can take buses 19, 33, 34, 43, 44, 50, 51, B20, or B24 to reach Sagrada Familia.
How many entrances does Sagrada Familia have?
Sagrada Familia has two entrances, one near the Nativity facade and one near Carrer de Sardenya road.
Is there a ticket counter at Sagrada Familia?
Yes. If you wish to purchase tickets, head over to the entrance near Carrer de Sardenya road. You will find a ticket counter there. However, if you have a pre-purchased ticket, you can access the attraction through the Nativity facade entrance.
Which entrance is used for Sagrada Familia group tours?
If you have tickets for a group tour, head over to the group entrance at Carrer de la Marina. You will also find a ticket counter there where you can make group bookings.
Explore Sagrada Familia
Read on to find out what makes Sagrada Familia Barcelona's most visited landmark.
Nativity Facade
Through the Nativity facade, Gaudi has beautifully depicted the birth of Christ. Here, one can find elements of Christianity such as the depictions of the Three Wise Men, the Tree of Life, the Holy Trinity and more. Gaudi has also borrowed heavily from nature, with motifs of plants and human figurines carved across the length of the tower. The Nativity facade is a sprawling structure decorated with intricate artworks and carvings, and consists of four towers and three doors.
Passion Facade
If the Nativity facade depicts the birth of Christ, the Passion facade represents the passion and death of Jesus Christ. Considerably simpler in look as compared to the Nativity facade, the Passion facade is nevertheless a sight to behold. Gaudi has made use of plain stones and geometric shapes to enhance its simplicity. Interestingly, the Passion facade consists of four towers, each representing the four Apostles - James, Thomas, Philip, and Bartholomew.
In sync with Gaudi's brand of architecture, the spiral staircase borrows heavily from nature. Fashioned to represent a snail, this staircase consists of 504 stairs and is used while coming down from either one of the towers. These railing-free stairs are extremely safe and a pure testament to Gaudi's architectural brilliance.
The Interior
The interiors of Sagrada Familia draw inspiration from both Christianity and nature. Symbolisms of both these elements can be found throughout the structure, from its tree-like columns and shell-shaped stairs to the Latin cross-shape of the basilica. The architecture of the Sagrada Familia is that of the Gothic style.
The original design of the Sagrada Familia consisted of eighteen spires, one for each of the twelve Apostles, the Virgin Mary, the four Evangelists and Jesus Christ. The tallest spire represents Jesus Christ and stands at a height of 560 feet. Interestingly, since Gaudi believed that no man-made structure should surpass the creations of God, he built the structure in such a way that it would be one-meter shorter than Barcelona's highest point.
Sagrada Familia FAQs
Which Sagrada Familia towers are open to the public?
The Nativity Facade and Passion Facade are open to the public.
Do I need to buy a separate ticket for the Sagrada Familia Towers?
Yes. Towers are not included in the standard admission ticket and must be bought separately.
Is photography allowed inside Sagrada Familia?
Yes. Photography is allowed inside the Basilica.
How long in advance can I purchase my Sagrada Familia tickets?
Sagrada Familia tickets can be bought roughly two months before the visit.
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Achieve fantastic flowers from greenhouse production! A course for commercial cut flower growers who are concerned exclusively with greenhouse production. International trade in cut flowers has grown over recent decades. In most countries, developed or in development, it is now possible to get the most popular types of cut flowers almost any time of the year. Learn how to maximise yield and prolong cut flowers for best results and profit.


When you are ready to hire your first virtual assistant from the Philippines, the process could not be simpler.
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Oh yes please! I'll just have a wee little drop; oh how I love those bubbles! And what better to pair with bubbles than some beautiful spring strawberries. They're a match made in heaven.
Last weekend we went to a rather wonderful wedding; a very very special wedding – one where there were two dapper and dashing grooms, and not a bridezilla in sight.
One of the handsome grooms happens to be my Fella's very good friend. So you can only imagine how proud I was to see The Fella stand up beside his mate on the big day, offering moral support, remembering the rings and delivering a suitably embarrassing speech.
I made these strawberries for the Fella to bring over to the boys house that morning while everyone was getting ready. I thought them rather fitting, given the bow ties; and I knew the guys would enjoy them with a pre-ceremony glass of champers.
I got the idea from the fabulous The Vanilla Bean Diaries. Esté's versions are much tidier (I think she's going to make it as a master confectioner well before me); and she has the in-process shots down pat, something I've never managed.
However in this case, it probably had a lot to do with the fact I spent most of my time trying to scoff the melted chocolate and not concentrating on the whole photo-taking-bit, ops!
Try these today with a glass of bubbles, I'm sure if you think long enough you can come up with a reason. They really are a match made in heaven, much like our wonderful friends Scott and Mike.
You gotta love the love.


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Expression of a RecQ helicase homolog affects progression through crisis in fission yeast lacking telomerase.
Mandell JG, Goodrich KJ, Bähler J, Cech TR
J Biol Chem
PII:
Adenosine Triphosphatases, Amino Acid Sequence, Chromosomes, Fungal, Cloning, Molecular, DNA Helicases, Gene Expression Regulation, Fungal, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Open Reading Frames, Phylogeny, Polyribosomes, RNA, Fungal, RNA, Messenger, RecQ Helicases, Schizosaccharomyces, Schizosaccharomyces pombe Proteins, Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, Telomerase, Telomere
http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M412756200
RecQ helicases play roles in telomere maintenance in cancerous human cells using the alternative lengthening of telomeres mechanism and in budding yeast lacking telomerase. Fission yeast lacking the catalytic subunit of telomerase (trt1(+)) up-regulate the expression of a previously uncharacterized sub-telomeric open reading frame as survivors emerge from crisis. Here we show that this open reading frame encodes a protein with homology to RecQ helicases such as the human Bloom's and Werner's syndrome proteins and that copies of the helicase gene are present on multiple chromosome ends. Characterization of the helicase transcript revealed a 7.6-kilobase RNA that was associated with polyribosomes, suggesting it is translated. A 3.6-kilobase domain of the helicase gene predicted to encode the region with catalytic activity was cloned, and both native and mutant forms of this domain were overexpressed in trt1(-) cells as they progressed through crisis. Overexpression of the native form caused cells to recover from crisis earlier than cells with a vector-only control, whereas overexpression of the mutant form caused delayed recovery from crisis. Taken together, the sequence homology, functional analysis, and site-directed mutagenesis indicate that the protein is likely a second fission yeast RecQ helicase (in addition to Rqh1) that participates in telomere metabolism during crisis. These results strengthen the notion that in multiple organisms RecQ helicases contribute to survival after telomere damage.


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Luke 14 :: New King James Version (NKJV)
A Man with Dropsy Healed on the Sabbath
The Parable of the Great Supper
Luk 14:1
Luk 14:1 - Now it happened, as He went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees to eat bread on the Sabbath, that they watched Him closely.
Luk 14:2 - And behold, there was a certain man before Him who had dropsy.
Luk 14:3 - And Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, "Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?"[fn]
Luk 14:4 - But they kept silent. And He took him and healed him, and let him go.
Luk 14:5 - Then He answered them, saying, "Which of you, having a donkey[fn] or an ox that has fallen into a pit, will not immediately pull him out on the Sabbath day?"
Luk 14:6 - And they could not answer Him regarding these things.
Take the Lowly Place
Luk 14:7 - So He told a parable to those who were invited, when He noted how they chose the best places, saying to them:
Luk 14:8 - "When you are invited by anyone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in the best place, lest one more honorable than you be invited by him;
Luk 14:9 - "and he who invited you and him come and say to you, 'Give place to this man,' and then you begin with shame to take the lowest place.
Luk 14:10
Luk 14:10 - "But when you are invited, go and sit down in the lowest place, so that when he who invited you comes he may say to you, 'Friend, go up higher.' Then you will have glory in the presence of those who sit at the table with you.
Luk 14:11 - "For whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted."
Luk 14:12 - Then He also said to him who invited Him, "When you give a dinner or a supper, do not ask your friends, your brothers, your relatives, nor rich neighbors, lest they also invite you back, and you be repaid.
Luk 14:13 - "But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind.
Luk 14:14 - "And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you; for you shall be repaid at the resurrection of the just."
(Matt. 22:1–14 )
Luk 14:15 - Now when one of those who sat at the table with Him heard these things, he said to Him, "Blessed is he who shall eat bread[fn] in the kingdom of God!"
Luk 14:16 - Then He said to him, "A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,
Luk 14:17 - "and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'
Luk 14:18 - "But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.'
Luk 14:19 - "And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.'
Luk 14:20 - "Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.'
Luk 14:21 - "So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.'
Luk 14:22 - "And the servant said, 'Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.'
Luk 14:23 - "Then the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.
Luk 14:24 - 'For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.' "
Leaving All to Follow Christ
(Matt. 10:34–39 )
Luk 14:25 - Now great multitudes went with Him. And He turned and said to them,
Luk 14:26 - "If anyone comes to Me and does not hate his father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple.
Luk 14:27 - "And whoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple.
Luk 14:28 - "For which of you, intending to build a tower, does not sit down first and count the cost, whether he has enough to finish it—
Luk 14:29 - "lest, after he has laid the foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him,
Luk 14:30 - "saying, 'This man began to build and was not able to finish.'
Luk 14:31 - "Or what king, going to make war against another king, does not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luk 14:32 - "Or else, while the other is still a great way off, he sends a delegation and asks conditions of peace.
Luk 14:33 - "So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.
Tasteless Salt Is Worthless
(Matt. 5:13; Mark 9:50 )
Luk 14:34 - "Salt is good; but if the salt has lost its flavor, how shall it be seasoned?
Luk 14:35 - "It is neither fit for the land nor for the dunghill, but men throw it out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear!"
NKJV Footnotes
NU-Text adds or not.
NU-Text and M-Text read son.
M-Text reads dinner.
New King James Version, © 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.
The text of the New King James Version (NKJV) appearing on or deriving from this or any other web page is for personal use only. Any other use of the NKJV must be in conformity with the Quotation Policy for the New King James Version. For more information about the New King James Version, the Quotation Policy, and for inquiries about permission to use the New King James Version, go to http://www.nelsonbibles.com.


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Q: C Socket Server is unable to terminate connection? I have made a Socket server and client.the client selects the pdf file and sends it to the server.This code runs perfectly on local machine i.e Server and client run on same host,the file is transfered on the server side and opens up with the content but when i run server and client on different hosts i encounter the following problem the Server is unable to quit and file transfered is getting overwritten at the server side,thus unable to show file content,like if i am sending a 240 kb file from client the file received at the server is of 2 GB.
  I am programming in qt creator,and the client is a Gui application that also runs Socket client code while server is a console project.
This is server.cpp
#include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <netinet/in.h>
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#define Size 2048

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
        QCoreApplication a(argc, argv);
        int s, fd, len;
        struct sockaddr_in my_addr;
        struct sockaddr_in remote_addr;
        socklen_t sin_size;
        char buf[BUFSIZ];
        FILE *fp = fopen("/home/D.A.D19/Desktop/Filecopy/Q7Basic_essentials.pdf","a+");
        memset(&my_addr, 0, sizeof(my_addr));
        my_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
        my_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.168.103.128");
        my_addr.sin_port = htons(8000);
        if ((s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
        {
        qWarning("socket");

        return 1;
        }
        if (bind(s,(struct sockaddr *)&my_addr,sizeof(struct sockaddr))<0)
        {
        qWarning("bind");
        return 1;
        }
        listen(s, 5);
        sin_size = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in);
        if ((fd =accept(s,(struct sockaddr *)&remote_addr,&sin_size)) < 0)
        {
        qWarning("accepted client %s\n", inet_ntoa(remote_addr.sin_addr));
        return 1;
        }

        len = send(fd, "Welcome to my server\n", 21, 0);

            while(1)
            {
                len = recv(fd,buf,Size,0);

The problem is here
                 if (strcmp(buf,"quit") == 0){
                    qWarning("Connection terminated");
                    break;

                }

                fwrite(buf,Size,1, fp);
                memset(buf,0,Size);
            }

        fclose(fp);
        close(fd);
        close(s);

        return a.exec();
    }

    This is Client.cpp

    #include "mainwindow.h"
    #include "ui_mainwindow.h"
    #include <QLabel>
    #include <QPushButton>
    #include <QFileDialog>
    #include <QLineEdit>
    #include <QString>
    #include <QtCore/QCoreApplication>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/types.h>
    #include <sys/socket.h>
    #include <netinet/in.h>
    #include <arpa/inet.h>
    #define SIZE 2048

    QString Path;
    MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent) :
        QMainWindow(parent),
        ui(new Ui::MainWindow)
    {
        ui->setupUi(this);

        QLabel *label1 = new QLabel(this);
        label1->setText("FileName");
        label1->setGeometry(15,25,70,30);
        label1->show();

        QPushButton *pushbutton = new QPushButton(this);
        pushbutton->setText("Browse");
        pushbutton->setGeometry(180,28,90,25);
        pushbutton->show();

        QObject::connect(pushbutton,SIGNAL(clicked()),this, SLOT(browse()));

    }

    MainWindow::~MainWindow()
    {
        delete ui;
    }

    void MainWindow::browse()
    {
        int s, len;
            struct sockaddr_in remote_addr;
            char buf[BUFSIZ];
            memset(&remote_addr, 0, sizeof(remote_addr));

            remote_addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
            remote_addr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("192.168.103.128");
            remote_addr.sin_port = htons(8000);

        QLineEdit *line = new  QLineEdit(this);
        line->setGeometry(82,28,90,25);
        QString  filename = QFileDialog::getOpenFileName(this,tr("Find files"),
                                                         "/home/D.A.D19/Desktop");
        line->setText(filename);
        line->show();

        if ((s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) < 0)
        {
            qWarning("socket");
            //return 1;
        }

        if (::connect(s, (struct sockaddr *)&remote_addr, sizeof(struct sockaddr)) < 0)
        {
            qWarning("connect");
            //return 1;
        }

       qWarning("connected to server \n");
       len = recv(s, buf, BUFSIZ, 0);
       qWarning("%s \n",buf);
       buf[len] = '\0';

        sprintf(buf, "%s", qPrintable(filename));

        FILE *fp = fopen(buf,"r");

            while(1)
            {
                if(feof(fp))
                {
                    strcpy(buf,"quit");
                    send(s,buf,SIZE,0);
                    break;
                }
                if(!feof(fp))
                {
                int count = fread(buf,SIZE,1,fp);
                len = send(s, buf,SIZE, 0);
                memset(buf,0,SIZE);
                }

            }

            fclose(fp);
            ::close(s);
            return;

    }

A: When you enter the string quit, it will also have the \n.
So when you compare the string, compare like this:
     if (strcmp(buf,"quit\n") == 0)

And then execute the code. Now the string will be matched and connection will be terminated.


There are a lot of theories out there, but none have yet to be proven. We go by judgment and gut feeling. And if that's still working after a while, we compare our two different personalities and assume we're the perfect combination.
There are always going to be overlapping characteristics and weird similarities between two people. You can't be completely different because then you'd never have anything to agree on.
I've found that successful relationships are ones in which you can enhance certain characteristics of your boyfriend while simultaneously adding your own to the mix. Your boyfriend helps balance out your one extreme side with his or her own extreme side.
There's no filling in the gaps, just balancing the scale. You represent one side of the spectrum, and they represent the other. Those things that make you unique and lovable are the things that make you special and perfect for them.
There are a lot of different combinations that may or may not work with people. So instead of going off personalities, what if we went off the scales? What if the sign of a great relationship was how well you balanced the scale of two extremes?
You keep me safe; I'll keep you wild.
This duo is common in relationships with a difference in years. You two take care of each other in different ways. There's always one who exerts caretaker tendencies and another who promotes the excitability of younger blood.
The younger, wilder one shows you new things, reignites your passions and keeps you young, while the nurturer provides the rebellious one with the right amount of stability and support to keep the wild side under control but never completely locked down.
The nurturers are usually people who crave to feel the irresponsibility of their younger days, and the wild ones are people who've been searching for someone to ground them and keep them guided.
For the rebel, you feel like you have a safe space to unleash your wild side. For the caretaker, you finally have someone to open up your safe arms and expose you to a little bit of danger.
You keep me sane; I'll keep you curious.
One of you is a bit more creative than the other. Maybe there's one who is artistic and the other who's more business savvy. The beauty of this recipe is you make the ultimate team.
You two have the perfect recipe for a collaborative duo. When one partner is constantly coming up with ideas and theories, the other is figuring out how to capitalize on those ideas.
You both crave the same experiences out of life, but your personalities give you the benefit of capitalizing on those experiences. One dreams of places to travel, while the other enjoys looking up hotels and flight prices to actually get you there.
You two really do share a mind -- and it's the one of success.
You keep me down to earth; I'll keep you searching for something more.
Maybe your boyfriend is rational, while you're dreamier. You like to live in other worlds, and he or she likes to dominate the world.
While this seems like opposites, you both have the same core values and goals -- to have a better life. One of you is achieving this through the world you're living in while the other is looking for it in another world.
What's great about this duo is that you both strive for the same type of utopia, even if it's through alternative ways. And when you finally get there, you'll both be ready to settle down and enjoy it -- together.
You keep me calm; I'll keep you nervous.
The beauty of the high strung and relaxed duo is that when both work together, they are able to achieve optimum balance. Someone who has lived in a bubble of calm their whole life will fare well to meet someone who adds some spontaneity and excitement in their life (even if there's the rare occurrence of a panic attack).
When anxiety kicks in for one, the other is able to calm this person down. Finding someone who isn't suffering from anxiety is crucial for an individual who is.
As for the partner who has always had a very calm and easy life, this person is about to realize there's nothing more boring than being calm all the time. When both of you are at your peak, you're enjoying the best of both worlds.


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Sermitsiaq.AG ist ein grönländischer Zeitungsverlag.

Geschichte
Der Verlag wurde am 14. November 2006 als Stiftung gegründet, um fortan die beiden landesweiten grönländischen Zeitungen Atuagagagdliutit/Grønlandsposten (AG) und Sermitsiaq sowie die Lokalzeitung Nuuk Ugeavis herauszugeben. Die Atuagagdliutit wurde 1861 gegründet und 1952 mit der 1942 gegründeten Grønlandsposten fusioniert. Die Sermitsiaq erschien erstmals im Jahr 1958. Zum 1. Januar 2010 wurden sermitsiaq.gl und ag.gl, die beiden Onlineausgaben der Zeitungen unter der Domain sermitsiaq.ag zusammengelegt. Unter der Domain erscheinen meist Kurzversionen der Artikel aus der Sermitsiaq, der AG und dem Nuuk Ugeavis. Als Printversion erscheinen beide Zeitungen weiterhin getrennt.

Einzelnachweise

Zeitungsverlag
Medienunternehmen (Grönland)
Stiftung
Unternehmen (Nuuk)
Gegründet 2006
Verlag (Königreich Dänemark)
Journalismus (Grönland)