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Bajo Andarax
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We present you the most interesting places to visit in the Levante of Almeria. Do not miss the places of interest in this region of Almeria.
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The Parish Church is one of the places most frequented by locals and tourists, especially during Holy Week.
It was built in the 16th century, more specifically in the year 1505, as the main church of the town.
It is a construction that was originally very simple and classic, with a bell tower attached to the facade, which is also adorned by a clock.
Undoubtedly the site is of great religious importance, but also historical. It was this that led the council and the church to sign agreements in 2012 and 2017 to carry out a project to recover these spaces.
Like other restorations, it sought to interfere as little as possible with the original structure, improving any aspect that was necessary without affecting the integrity of the historic building.
The works were limited to reinforce the bases of the main nave and the chapel, the cleaning of the walls, the replacement of the roof, the replacement of some pieces of ceramic and marble, and the painting of the building.
El Real Aqueduct
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It is a structure of almost 300 meters, built in 1902 with the intention of leading the water to the crops of the area.
In addition to already being a historical construction by its time of completion, its importance lies is also because it is an aqueduct that was an unique for the time, being an example of innovative industrial architecture.
On the other hand, the aqueduct was made up of the construction itself, a steam engine, and an accumulation pond. The motor propelled the water to the raft, where it was then distributed to the crops through the aqueduct.
When visiting the aqueduct you can see how impressive its structure is, as well as the vestiges of damage that the passage of time has left on its walls.
The Argar and the Gerundia
These are two archaeological sites in which important discoveries have been made from different eras of history.
Although they are two different sites, they have been declared a unique archaeological zone due to their proximity.
Both are located side by side, on a hill near the river Antas, separated only by a small trough.
Although they are two different sites, they have been declared a unique archaeological zone due to their proximity. Both are located side by side, on a hill near the river Antas, separated only by a small trough.
In the Argar, archaeological samples have been found dating from the Bronze Age, while the Gerundia dates from the end of the Neolithic to the Chalcolithic, which makes it deeply interesting, since there are not many samples from this period.
These deposits have been considered some of the most important and essential in the research that is carried out to decipher the details of prehistory in the Iberian Peninsula.
Church of Saint Mary
It was commissioned by Bishop Antonio Carrionero around 1558-1570.
It is a church that looks like a fortress, and that is because the structure was designed to withstand possible attacks during the time when invasions and attacks were common.
It attracts attention long before reaching it, because the structure of the bell tower stands above the houses of Bedar.
It was commissioned by Bishop Antonio Carrionero around 1558-1570. It is a church that looks like a fortress, and that is because the structure was designed to withstand possible attacks during the time when invasions and attacks were common.
Although the church has undergone several modifications and repairs over the years, the square structure of the tower and the construction of red bricks remain as in the building's infancy, although visibly affected by the ravages of time.
Virgin of the Head Hermitage
Located on the hill of Bedar, the hermitage of the Virgin of the Head is a small building of great sentimental and religious value for its inhabitants. They are responsible for keeping it in excellent condition for devotion to the patron saint, but also to receive tourists and visitors from nearby towns, who attend the festivities in honour of the Virgin, in which the hermitage has a privileged position.
Of square plant, this hermitage has a triangular roof and a small bell, emulating to a church in smaller scale.
It is estimated that this hermitage was built in 1507, as a result of an agreement reached with the neighbouring town of Antas. Formerly, both towns were one, and in this homage was paid to the Virgin of the Head.
When the villages separated and the question arose which of the two would remain with the original hermitage, the image of the Virgin, and of course the festivities in her honour, the Solomonic decision was made to make two hermitages, one for each town, with their respective images and establish different dates of the parties, so that they did not coincide.
Hermitage of Serena
It is a hermitage that has been recently built, and houses Saint Santiago throughout the year, celebrating a party in honour of this saint.
Nasrid Mosque of Serena
The Church of Serena, nowadays in ruins, dates from the Moorish era and everything suggests that it is an old mosque from the Nazari era, converted into a church from the forced conversion to Christianity of the Muslims of the Kingdom of Granada.
It is still standing thanks to the fact that in the past it was used as an oil press.
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On the road that leads from Bedar to Los Gallardos is this peculiar building that immediately attracts the attention of those who travel in the area.
This is the "Tres Amigos" Loading Station, the starting point of the mining routes that Bedar used to have and that attest to its mining culture.
The loading station is the most striking point of the route, but not the only one.
This is the "Tres Amigos" Loading Station, the starting point of the mining routes that Bedar used to have and that attest to its mining culture. The loading station is the most striking point of the route, but not the only one.
In the area you can find the hopper or funnel that allowed the loading of minerals to the railroad cars, a beautiful house known as "Casa Rosada", which is the house where the executives, chiefs, and engineers involved in the mine lived, as well as the regulatory hoppers.
These mines were active with the extraction of iron from 1525 and closed their operations in the year 1970. These mines represent evidence of the economic activity that for a long time sustained Bedar, but also an enclosure loaded with industrial history, in which parts, materials, and equipment that are considered historical and have been sheltered to preserve them.
Temprana Fountain
The Temprana Fountain is not the only water source that exists in Bedar, but it is considered the most important, because it is located in the heart of the town, next to the public laundry.
Formerly, when the town was in the hands of the Arabs, the source was called "Albaquira Alfaguara".
At present it has been reformed by the authorities, who for quite some time have been looking to renovate the old structures that are part of the historical, cultural, architectural, and social heritage of the towns of Almeria.
The fountain, like the laundry room next to it, still flows with water and is one of the most characteristic sites of Bedar and its Arab-Spanish culture.
Saint Joseph Church
One of the most important sites of the town, for its religious value, but also because, as in other towns of Almeria, the parish church is directly linked to many of the traditional celebrations.
The parish was formed in the year 1900, still without a church, which was finally built in 1929.
The church, which was dedicated to Saint Joseph, was in a state of disrepair and was restored in 2008.
The Roman Villa
One of the sites that has made the town of Los Gallardos famous is the Forgotten Roman Villa of Cadima. Very little remains of what was the village. All that has survived are some walls, part of the pavement, and many of the tiles that, in another time, had to adorn the roofs of the houses.
Until a few years ago, there was still evidence of Roman culture and daily life on the site, but it has now all been looted or recovered by the authorities to be exhibited at the Museum of Almeria. Here you can find one of the most important pieces found in the place, a stone carved in Latin with the inscription VR CO / EMIN / ORVMIN / XXV.
One of the sites that has made the town of Los Gallardos famous is the Forgotten Roman Villa of Cadima.
Very little remains of what was the village. All that has survived are some walls, part of the pavement, and many of the tiles that, in another time, had to adorn the roofs of the houses.
The spa of Alfaix
The spa was operated between 1924 and 1950, when a flood caused great destruction and it had to close. It had been in operation since 1914 and was frequented by bathers from nearby towns.
At that time the spa were privately owned.
The spa is located in the affluence of the Aguas river and the Jauto river.
Originally, in this spa you could enjoy natural hot wáter that was carbonated and loaded with minerals, such as calcium and iron. It is said that the greed of the owner, who sought to expand supply beyond what was posible, made it dry up.
However, shortly thereafter, a source of natural cold sulfur and calcium water was found, which people began to promote as the cure of skin diseases.
Currently there are only the ruins of what was once a prosperous business.
Saint Michael Hermitage
It is located in Alfaix, a neighborhood belonging to Los Gallardos.
The construction of the chapel was carried out with the collaboration of all residents of the neighborhood, each of them contributing what he had or could: either hard work or money.
The Mills
The Aguas River Mills not only stand out for their historical importance, but because they represent the technology of the time and the footprint left by their ancient inhabitants, proving how they achieved their use of water.
These mills are different from the many that are found throughout Spain, because they were designed, built and installed so that their driving force was the water of the river.
Along the river bank you can find several of these mills, which are undoubtedly worth visiting.
The "La Cueva" Mill is the first one that is found during the tour and is located in the well-known "Puente Vaquero". This mill is considered a piece of historical and artistic interest, and it is presumed that it was built during the Arab period with ashlar masonry.
Following the route is the "La Higuera" Mill, located just before the "Puente Vaquero". In front of this mill there is also a beautiful spring.
On the same route is the New Mill, named for being the last discovered, although it is assumed that the construction date is the same as the others. This last il, although it is in a quite advanced state of deterioration, still has the infrastructure that allowed people to study the way in which this innovative technology worked at the time.
It is a relatively new building, built in the 19th century, dedicated to the patroness saint of the town: Our Lady of the Rosary, which shares its patronage with Saint Sebastian.
It is estimated that its construction was ordered by Bishop Jose Maria Orbera in the year 1880. This church is characteristic due to its construction date. Amongst its materials you will find items that were not commonly seen in the religious architecture of other Almerian municipalities, like iron.
It is estimated that its construction was ordered by Bishop Jose Maria Orbera in the year 1880.
This church is characteristic due to its construction date. Amongst its materials you will find items that were not commonly seen in the religious architecture of other Almerian municipalities, like iron.
In this case, the architect decided to include it, along with the traditional red brick, achieving a structure representative of 19th-century architecture, with a Latin cross plan and three naves.
Saint Sebastian Square
The Saint Sebastian Square, dedicated to the patron saint of the town, is right in the center of the town and is a source of pride for its inhabitants.
In it there is a fountain and a marble image, perfectly carved, elegantly installed and surrounded by flowers.
It is one of the most important contemporary tourist elements of Lubrin, surrounded by historic streets and houses with an Arab influence.
In it there is a fountain and a marble image, perfectly carved, elegantly installed and surrounded by flowers. It is one of the most important contemporary tourist elements of Lubrin, surrounded by historic streets and houses with an Arab influence.
The Clock Tower
The clock tower is located on the hill where formerly was the Castle, an Arab fortress of 1488 which unfortunately today no remains.
Church of Saint Sebastian
It is located in the neighborhood of El Marchal.
The "cañico"
It is one of the oldest public services of the town, the fountain called the "cañico" that once gave service to the laundry of the district, at the same time it served as a water source.
Saint Mary Church
It is one of the most peculiar churches in all Almeria, and without a doubt it is worth visiting and getting to know. It has attracted the attention of many specialists in history and architecture and even connoisseurs of religious structures, as it has a unique combination.
The church, built in the 18th century, has undergone several interventions, reconstructions and remodeling throughout its history. They have ended up turning it into a hybrid building, combining the Mudejar, historical and baroque style.
It is one of the most peculiar churches in all Almeria, and without a doubt it is worth visiting and getting to know.
It has attracted the attention of many specialists in history and architecture and even connoisseurs of religious structures, as it has a unique combination.
Like other churches in the province of Almeria, its history begins on the ruins of an old mosque, where a structure with a rectangular base was erected. A plant in the form of a Latin cross was imposed with three naves, separated by columns and arches. Its facade is quite simple and was built with lime and stone.
The Constitution Square is where the most representative buildings of Sorbas are located: the Church of Saint Mary, the Town Hall and the Duke of Alba House.
The Town Hall is a manor house that has 2 floors and large windows, while the House of the Duke of Alba stands out as a stately home with its entrance painted. Together with its 6 balconies, the building has a great uniqueness.
In one of the corners of the square is a small sculpture of "Peneque el Valiente", a puppet of the 50s that made many children laugh in Spain.
Afa Ravine
Sorbas is known as the "Little Cuenca" because of the hanging houses that it has, which hang from the Afa Ravine.
We can get fantastic views of the Afa Ravine in the different viewpoints that Sorbas has, such as the "El Porche", the "El Castillo" and the "El Calvario", all of which let you see different perspectives of hanging houses.
Saint Roque Hermitage
It is a small temple located in the neighborhood of the "Alfareros".
Its entrance is notable for its 3 bulrush, of which only the center has a bell. Its cover is of a semicircular arch.
Fatima Hermitage
It is a temple of small dimensions that is at the entrance of the town.
Sorbas Plaster Karst
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Undoubtedly one of the favorite places for tourists visiting Sorbas, are the plaster Karst found in this town.
The Karst are caves or formations that are made after the rivers penetrate and excavate a formation of stone, lime or a similar material.
In the case of the Plaster Karst of Sorbas, the Aguas river was commissioned to excavate a plaster cave that is located south of the town, forming sinkholes, caves, canyons and geodes.
Because the dissolved mineral re-crystallized, drained and re-dissolved, some stalagmites and stalactites also formed within these caves. This made the cave a unique place, whose formations even continue to change over the years.
The caves, which are themselves an attractive tourist place, also have a visitor center, where you can understand a the entire Karst formation process a little better. This natural space has been named heritage of Andalusia and is considered a place of Spanish and international geological interest.
Los Yesares Visitors Center
In its interior we can find 4 rooms that show and teach us the terrestrial, underground and fluvial environment of this fantastic and unique place.
Through this we can understand with the utmost clarity that they are the Plaster Karst of Sorbas.
Pottery is one of the great attractions of Sorbas. It is not common pottery, but one that dates back to the Hispano-Muslim era.
You can find pieces of pottery that were handmade with clay, obtained in the nearby lands, specifically in the "Cañada Siscar" (white clay) and "La Mojonera" (from which the blond and red clay is extracted).
The beautiful pieces that adorn the entrance of the pottery is an instant invitation to enter and be delighted with the pieces found there. You can see vases, dishes and all kinds of objects made of clay from the area.
Sorbas pottery pieces are very appreciated, especially because each piece is unique: the process of sculpting and baking is done manually and is completely handmade.
Arab oven
In the middle of town, visitors can take pleasure in seeing one of the few Arab ovens that is still in operation. It is a formation made mainly of stone, dating from the time when the Muslims were in the area, and when clay pieces are still being baked.
The oven is a magnificent and rustic piece of stone, inside which there are two levels: the lowest level is where the firewood is placed, while the upper level is where the clay pieces are baked.
In the middle of town, visitors can take pleasure in seeing one of the few Arab ovens that is still in operation.
It is a formation made mainly of stone, dating from the time when the Muslims were in the area, and when clay pieces are still being baked.
The piece that separates both levels has holes that allow heat to pass through better to cook the pieces as required.
The truth is that this oven is a real artistic and historical relic, and is one of the sites that tourists like to visit when they are in Sorbas. This makes sense given its tradition of pottery which dates back centuries.
Wool Museum
This museum is located in an old flour and wool factory and was opened to the public in 2004.
It has three rooms where you can learn the process of transformation of wool into yarn, and observe the machines used.
The Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception was built during the 16th century. In 1859, the roof, which was in a state of deterioration, collapsed, so it began its reconstruction that was completed at the end of the 19th century. It was finished in the year 1863.
It is a neo-Gothic structure combined with Mudejar, with a Latin cross plan (like most churches of the time in Almeria), which has three naves and an octagonal dome that gives it an air of elegance.
The Parish Church of the Immaculate Conception was built during the 16th century.
In 1859, the roof, which was in a state of deterioration, collapsed, so it began its reconstruction that was completed at the end of the 19th century. It was finished in the year 1863.
The tower of the Church can be seen from far away, which is also a new Mudejar bell tower, and is very striking.
Inside are the images of Our Lady of Sorrows, Father Jesus Nazareno and Saint John the Evangelist.
Moorish Fountain
In 2015, the Moorish Fountain and several of its surroundings were recovered by the Municipality of Turre. This was done part of the policies they carry out to protect the historic heritages of the area and to boost tourism.
The fountain, dating from the period when the Arabs were settled in the area, had been partially collapsed by businessmen looking to build a parking lot there. However, in 1988 a group of inhabitants of Turre were organized in order to protect this heritage of the city, and they succeeded.
Thanks to this, this historic place still exists: a place where the old settlers were supplied with water for consumption, the irrigation of planting was completed, and it was a place for the consumption of animals.
The reconstruction carried out by the City Council allowed for another face to be given to the source and even to the general area in which it is located. This has been a bonus to this old construction and is currently visited by many of the tourist.
Immaculate Conception Hermitage (La Carrasca)
This hermitage was constructed in 1889, by initiative and financing of the inhabitants of the town, which makes it of great importance and sentimental value.
Depopulated of Teresa
In the middle of Sierra Cabrera, is the Depopulated of Teresa. It is one of the historical heritage jewels of Turre, as it is an area where it is believed that the Muslims lived in the 16th century.
In this uninhabited area you can find many elements of great archaeological and historical interest, such as the remains of an old church which is survived by some walls and was built on an old mosque.
The remains of what was once a mechanism for the collection, storage and distribution of water (especially to nourish the crops of the area), are also found in the surroundings of this depopulated area.
In this old uninhabited area there are the remains of two old mills, a natural water tank and two water tanks, where the change was made for all the inhabitants.


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Berthold Pürstinger (auch Berthold von Chiemsee; Bertoldus Chiemensis; * 1465 in Salzburg; † 19. Juli 1543 in Saalfelden) war ein theologischer Schriftsteller sowie 1508–1526 Bischof von Chiemsee.

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Bertholds Vater Wilhelm Pürstinger war Hofschreiber in Salzburg, wo er 1472 das Bürgerrecht erwarb. Berthold besuchte vermutlich die Salzburger Domschule und studierte ab 1481 in Wien und 1489 Kirchenrecht in Perugia. Das Studium schloss er mit dem Magisterexamen und dem Lizentiat beider Rechte ab. Nach der 1491 erfolgten Priesterweihe wirkte er einige Zeit als Generalprokurator des Salzburger Konsistoriums. 1495 fungierte er bei der Wahl des Salzburger Erzbischofs Leonhard von Keutschach als einer der vier Kompromissare. Um 1500 besaß er die Pfarreien Schnaitsee in Oberbayern und Hallein, deren seelsorgliche Aufgaben er an Vikare übertrug.

Nach dem Tod des Chiemseer Bischofs Christoph Mendel von Steinfels ernannte Erzbischof Keutschach am 8. Mai 1508 Berthold Pürstinger zu dessen Nachfolger. Die Bischofsweihe durch den Erzbischof erfolgte am 8. oder 9. Juli desselben Jahres. Wie seine Vorgänger wirkte Pürstinger auch als Weihbischof in Salzburg und fungierte während der Abwesenheit des Erzbischofs als dessen Stellvertreter. Als Folge eines von seinem Vorgänger geführten Prozesses erging erst 1510 ein Urteil, mit dem Berthold Pürstinger als Nachfolger des Bischofs Mendel von Steinfels die Zahlung einer Geldstrafe an den Herrenchiemseer Archidiakon auferlegt wurde. Die nachfolgend mit den Erben von Mendel von Steinfels geführten Auseinandersetzungen zogen sich bis 1519 hin.

Während seiner Amtszeit veranlasste Pürstinger 1509 die Herausgabe eines Breviers für das Bistum Chiemsee, das erst 1515/16 in Venedig erschien. 1511 und 1512 nahm er an den Provinzialkonzilien teil, die mit der Vorbereitung des Fünften Laterankonzils befasst waren. 1513 weihte er die Herrenchiemseer Kathedrale. 1522 beteiligte er sich an den Mühldorfer Reformberatungen.

Wegen der damals herrschenden schwierigen kirchlichen Zustände soll sich Pürstinger bereits 1516 mit Resignationsabsichten getragen haben. Nachdem er wegen einer gegenreformatorischen Predigt 1523 in Kitzbühel, wo sich ein beträchtlicher Anteil der Bevölkerung zum Luthertum bekannte, bedroht wurde und es im Erzstift Salzburg wiederholt zu Bauernaufständen kam, verzichtete er am 6. Mai 1526 auf sein Bistum und zog sich in das Zisterzienserkloster Raitenhaslach zurück. Dort widmete er sich der schriftstellerischen Tätigkeit und vollendete 1527 sein Hauptwerk, die "Tewtsche Theologey", die eine umfassende katholische Glaubenslehre enthielt. 1528 ließ sich Pürstinger in Saalfelden nieder, das zum Erzstift Salzburg gehörte. Dort übersetzte er die "Tewtsche Theologey" ins Lateinische, die unter dem Titel "Theologia germanica" 1531 in Augsburg gedruckt wurde. Die bereits 1524 erschienene Flugschrift "Onus ecclesiae", die mehrmals herausgegeben wurde, stammte höchstwahrscheinlich ebenfalls von Berthold Pürstinger.

1532 stiftete Pürstinger in Saalfelden die "Priesterbruderschaft St. Johannes", der auch Laien angehören durften. Zehn Jahre später stiftete er dort ein Spital für arme, alte und kranke Priester sowie Laien. Obwohl ihm Erzbischof Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, der Pürstinger in theologischen Fragen wiederholt zu Rate zog, 1535 das Bistum Chiemsee nochmals antrug, lehnte dieser ab. Mit seinem kurz vor seinem Tod errichteten Testament bestimmte er seinen gesamten Besitz dem von ihm gestifteten Armenspital. Nach seinem Tod wurde er in der Heilig-Kreuz-Kapelle in Saalfelden bestattet. Das dort errichtete Grabmal wurde beim Großbrand am 29. Juli 1811 zerstört. Das Armenspital wurde bereits 1655 aufgelöst und der Besitz dem Salzburger Priesterseminar übertragen.

Schriften
 Breuiarium kiemen[se]. Venedig (1515/16)
 Onus ecclesiae. Landshut (1524); Augsburg (1531); Köln (1620)
 Tewtsche Theologey. (1528); München (1531); München (1852)
 Theologia germanica. Augsburg (1531)
 Tewtsch Rational, über das Ambt heiliger meß. Augsburg (1535)

Literatur
 Christian Greinz: Berthold Pürstinger. Bischof von Chiemsee (1465–1543). Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Salzburger Landeskunde 54, Salzburg 1904, S. 273–328. Digitalisat.
 Ernst Walter Zeeden: Berthold von Chiemsee (1465–1543). In: Erwin Iserloh (Hrsg.): Katholische Theologen der Reformationszeit. (KLK : Vereinsschriften der Gesellschaft zur Herausgabe des Corpus Catholicorum, 3) Münster 1987, S. 65–75.

 Erwin Naimer: Pürstinger, Berthold (um 1465–1543). In: Erwin Gatz: Die Bischöfe des Heiligen Römischen Reiches 1448–1648. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08422-5, S. 557–558.
 Dietmar W. Winkler: Weihbischof Berthold Pürstinger im Kontext seiner Zeit. Kirchenkritik und erste deutschsprachige Systematische Theologie. In: Peter F. Kramml / Thomas Mitterecker (Hrsg.): Zeit des Umbruchs. Salzburg unter Leonhard von Keut-schach und Matthäus Lang (1495–1540). Salzburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-900213-48-0, S. 519–539.

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One of the questions was "name two countries that were our enemies during World War II." Thankfully sixty-nine percent of respondents correctly identified Germany and Japan. Among the incorrect answers were Britain, China, Russia, Canada, Mexico and Spain.


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В 1994 году окончил с отличием Полтавский государственный медицинский стоматологический институт, продолжил научную работу в аспирантуре на кафедре нормальной физиологии.

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В 1999 году защитил докторскую диссертацию та тему: «Регуляторный природный пептидный комплекс почек: получение, физико-химические свойства, связь с главным комплексом гистосовместимости, иммунобиологические эффекты и разработка фармакологического вещества» по специальности «иммунология и аллергология».

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С февраля 2010 года — проректор по научной работе ВГУЗУ «УМСА».

Научная деятельность

И. П. Кайдашеву принадлежит весомый вклад в изучение невыясненных вопросов диагностики, лечения и профилактики аутоиммунных и аллергических заболеваний. Работы по изучению молекул главного комплекса гистосовместимости, физиологической и фармакологической активности пептидных экстрактов внутренних органов впервые им выполнены и получили высокую оценку в научных кругах, в том числе — в США, Польше, Германии, Италии. Пионерские исследования апоптоза лимфоидных клеток получили широкую известность за пределами Украины. Его научные труды и многолетняя деятельность является значительным вкладом в медико-иммунофизиологические исследования, которые внедрены в практику здравоохранения, и носят новаторский характер. И. П. Кайдашев является автором и соавтором более 600 научных и научно-методических трудов, из них 101 статья - в журналах, индексируемых базой данных "Scopus", h-индекс: 12 . Имеет 64 авторских свидетельств и патентов на изобретения. Под его участием созданы первые на Украине учебники для студентов стоматологических факультетов «Пропедевтика внутренних болезней» и «Внутренние болезни».

И. П. Кайдашев создал современную школу иммунофизиологии. Значительное внимание уделяет воспитанию научных кадров. Под научным руководством И. П. Кайдашева выполнены 1 докторская и 20 кандидатских диссертаций. При его активном участии создан и возглавленный им Научно-исследовательский институт генетических и иммунологических основ развития патологии и фармакогенетики. Руководил с 1996 года 25 научно-исследовательскими работами МОЗ Украины, в частности, «Изучение иммунологического аппарата мягких тканей полости рта при генерализованном пародонтите и ортопедических вмешательствах для разработки современных методов иммунокоррекции». Особое место работы, которые являются задачами Государственных целевых программ «Сахарный диабет» и «Артериальная гипертензия». В рамках выполнения НИР по сделкам с МОЗ Украины сформирована концепция перманентной активации ядерного фактора NF-KB как основы системного воспаления, инсулинорезистентности и липотоксичности. Доказано, что вещества, которые подавляют активность NF-KB, ингибируют продукцию провоспалительных циктокинов (ИЛ-1, ИЛ-6, ИЛ-8, ФНО-α), осуществляют инсулинсенситайзерный эффект.
Один из первых на Украине И. П. Кайдашев начал широкомасштабные исследования в области фармакогенетики. Проведены новаторские исследования роли полиморфизма генов PPAR-γ, рецепторов ангиотензина III 1 типа, ангиотензинпревращающего фермента, генов обмена холестерина в патогенезе артериальной гипертензии, разработанные фармакогенетические направления терапии. Отдельное место занимают исследования роли полиморфизма генов Toll-подобных рецепторов 2 и 4 в обеспечении естественной резистентности и чувствительности к инфекционным агентам и аллергенов. Кроме того, изучены иммунотропные аспекты действия наночастиц углерода (фуллерена С60) направлены на модификацию аллергенных и иммуногенных свойств веществ и возможность практического использования направленной противовоспалительного действия по условий иммунного воспаления. Изучено влияние фуллерена С60 на первичную и вторичную иммунный ответ на ало- и гетероантигены.

Международная деятельность

И. П. Кайдашев — член Европейской академии аллергологии и клинической иммунологии (The European Academy of Allergy and Clinical Immunology), Всемирной организации аллергии (World Allergy Organization), Федерации обществ по клинической иммунологии.

В 1994 году был приглашен на стажировку в Немецкий центр исследований рака (г. Гейдельберг) в лабораторию иммунологии туморогенных вирусов. Изучал вопросы строения эндогенных пептидов, связанных с молекулами главного комплекса гистосовместимости I класса. В 2001 году получил исследовательскую стипендию Европейской академии аллергологии и иммунологии для проведения исследований в Университете г. Лодзь (Польша).

Проф. И.П. Кайдашев выступает в роли академического координатора Европейских Консорциумов в рамках международных проектов "Erasmus Mundus" (MEDEA: 2013-2017 гг.) и "Erasmus+" (International Credit Mobility Programme — с 2015 года). И. П. Кайдашев является членом редколлегии ряда профессиональных изданий «Украинский стоматологический альманах», «Иммунология и аллергология» (Украина), «Astma. Alergologia. Imunologia» (Польша).

Награды и почётные звания

Награждён дипломами АМН Украины, Грамотой Министерства образования и науки Украины. В 2004 году в Соответствии с Распоряжением Президента Украины для поддержки научных исследований молодых ученых предназначен грант профессору И. П. Кайдашеву. В 2012 году Указом Президента Украины И. П. Кайдашев был отмечен почётным званием «Заслуженный деятель науки и техники Украины». В 2017 году избран академиком Академии наук Высшей школы Украины по отделению фундаментальных проблем медицины. Указом Президента Украины № 110/2019 «О присуждении Государственных премий Украины в области науки и техники 2018 г.» удостоен Государственной премии Украины в области науки и техники 2018 г.

Монографии

2003 — «Тканевые регуляторные пептиды»;

2004 — «Регуляция активности мембраны и процессов апоптоза лимфоидных клеток тканевыми пептидами»;

2005 — «Физиологическая активность пептического экстракта поджелудочной железы»;

2008 — «Очерки иммунобиологии слизистой оболочки полости рта»;

2011 — «Односеансовий метод лікування пульпіту»;

2016 — «Гиперчувствительность к лекарственным препаратам. Руководство для врачей».

Учебно-методические пособия

 Шинкевич В.І., Кайдашев І.П. Карієс зубів / Навчальний посібник. — Полтава: ТОВ «АСМІ», 2011. — 100 с.

 Ждан В. М., Кайдашев І.П., Невойт Г. В. Психосоматичні розлади в практиці лікаря-інтерніста: навчально-методичний посібник. — Полтава, 2011. — 344 с.

 Кайдашев І.П., Борзих О. А. Основи геронтології. Навчальний посібник: Частина перша. — Полтава, 2011. — 162 с.

 Кайдашев І.П., Борзих О. А. Основи геронтології. Навчальний посібник: Частина друга. — Полтава, 2011. — 165 с.

Важнейшие научные публикации
* Hellings PW, Fokkens W, Bachert C, (...) Kaidashev I. et al. Positioning the principles of precision medicine in care pathways for allergic rhinitis and chronic rhinosinusitis − A EUFOREA-ARIA- EPOS-AIRWAYS ICP statement. Allergy. 2017 Sep;72(9):1297-1305. doi: 10.1111/all.13162

* Bousquet J, Bewick M, Cano A, (...) Kaidashev I. et al.  Building Bridges for Innovation in Ageing: Synergies between Action Groups of the EIP on AHA. J Nutr Health Aging. 2017;21(1):92-104. doi: 10.1007/s12603-016-0803-1.

* Bousquet J, Farrell J, (…) Kaidashev I, et al. Scaling up strategies of the chronic respiratory disease programme of the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing (Action Plan B3: Area 5). Clin Transl Allergy. 2016; 6: 29. doi: 10.1186/s13601-016-0116-9.

* Bousquet J, Schunemann HJ, (…) Kaidashev IP, et al. MACVIA clinical decision algorithm in adolescents and adults with allergic rhinitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2016; 38(2): 367-374. doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.03.025.

* Bousquet J, Schunemann HJ, (…) Kaidashev I, et al. MACVIA-ARIA Sentinel NetworK for allergic rhinitis (MASK-rhinitis): The new generation guideline implementation. Allergy: European Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. 2015; Volume 70, Issue 11: 1372-1392

* Mamontova TV, Mykytiuk MV, Bobrova NO, Kutsenko LO, Vesnina LE, Kaidashev IP. The anti-inflammatory effect of fullerene C60 on adjuvant arthritis in rats. Fiziolohichnyi zhurnal. 2013; Volume 59, Issue 3: 102-110

* Lavrenko AV, Shlykova OA, Kutsenko LA, Mamontova TV, Kaidashev IP. Pharmacogenetic features of the effect of metformin in patients with coronary heart disease in the presence of metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes mellitus in terms of PPAR-г2 gene polymorphism. Terapevticheskii Arkhiv. 2012; Volume 84, Issue 9: 35-40

* Vesnina LE, Mamontova TV, Mykytiuk MV, Kutsenko LO, Bobrova NO, Kutsenko NL, Kaidashev IP. The condition of lipid peroxidation in mice and the effect of fullerene C60 during immune response. Fiziolohichnyi zhurnal. 2012; Volume 58, Issue 3: 19-26

* Bobrova NA, Mikitiuk MV, Kutsenko LA, Kaidashev IP. Effect of fullerene C60 on free-radical induced lipid peroxidation processes in bronchial asthma. Patologicheskaia fiziologiia i eksperimental'naia terapiia. 2012; Issue 3: 109-114

* Kutsenko NL, Izmailova OV, Vesnina LE, Kaidashev IP. Role of toll-like receptor 2 and 4 gene polymorphisms in the development of allergic diseases with increased IgE levels. Cytology and Genetics. 2012; Volume 46, Issue 6: 379-383

* File TM, Low DE, (…), Kaydashev IP. FOCUS 1: a randomized, double-blinded, multicentre, Phase III trial of the efficacy and safety of ceftaroline fosamil versus ceftriaxone in community-acquired pneumonia. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 2011; Volume 66, Issue suppl 3: iii19-iii32

* Vinnik NI, Kutsenko LA, Kutsenko NL, Solokhina IL, Mikitiuk MV, Mamontova TV, Kaidashev IP. The effectiveness of pioglitazone in the treatment of patients with coronary heart disease on the background of metabolic syndrome. Likars'ka sprava. 2011; Issue 3-4: 71-78

* Vesnina LE, Mamontova TV, Mikityuk MV, Kutsenko NL, Kutsenko LA, Bobrova NA, Berkalo LV, Kaidashev IP. Effect of fullerene C60 on functional activity of phagocytic cells. Eksperimental'naya i Klinicheskaya Farmakologiya. 2011; Volume 74, Issue 6: 26-29

Примечания

Ссылки

 Полтавские ученые создают генетическую карту области: 15 % полтавчан на генном уровне предрасположены к гипертонии
 Наномир полтавских ученых
 Кайдашев И. П. Эволюция понятия «метаболический синдром» и его современное значение

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i'm watching fargo (which i've thankfully seen before) on cable. i love all the minnesota references: brainerd, white bear lake, and the shot of the twin cities skyline at the beginning of the film. all the "oh yeah"s and "you betcha"s and "don't ya knows" are quite humorous. trust me, everyone in minnesota talks like that. we certainly do, you betcha.
this winter's too long. it's never grated on me like this before, but there's so much snow on the ground and more on the way. i just need some kind of distraction, something to take my mind off of it for a while. maybe a new book to read since writing isn't going so well for me right now. or maybe a new hobby. i could teach myself how to juggle or something - wait, no hand-eye coordination. crap. guess that's one of the reasons i started writing in the first place.
earlier this week i had a free consultation at the whiting clinic in st. louis park. i got the go-ahead for lasik eye surgery, and am scheduled to get zapped at the end of january. i've worn glasses/contacts since the sixth grade (aka: a long time). i'm very excited to wake up in the middle of the night and actually be able to see my alarm clock. oh yeah, you betcha.


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Starlit Night: 2018 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Favorite, An Inn In Tokyo, 1935
I think it's safe to say that Yasujirō Ozu is one of my favorite film directors. At one point some years back I binged on all the Ozu films I could find, focusing mostly on his midcentury classics, but I really love almost all of his movies that I've had the pleasure of seeing. So it's nice to see that this year's edition of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival is including one of his later black-and-white silents, An Inn In Tokyo (1935), as part of its lineup.
The film follows a down on his luck widower and his two young sons as the father tries to find a job in prewar Tokyo. With the paltry income they scrape together catching stray dogs the trio has a daily choice of sleeping in an inn or eating, while the father searches in vain for employment. In their travails they cross paths with a young mother and her daughter who are in similar dire straits.
Geometric, An Inn In Tokyo, 1935
Although relatively early on in Ozu's career the film still has many of the hallmarks of his aesthetic including a deeply humanistic and empathetic worldview, focusing on the gentle and deep bonding among family members. Severel of Ozu's formal tics are already in evidence as well including his geometric compositions and his use of full-face camera address. The film utilizes more camera movement than his later movies, primarily using a gliding pan that follows the action of his characters through the landscape.
Ozu also draws out sympathetic, effective performances from his cast, from both the adult and child actors, and captures several beautiful interplays between them. A particularly nice scene early on in the film features the food-deprived father and sons miming eating and drinking their favorite dishes and beverages, including sake, in the middle of the field. The playful longing in their actions coupled with the sweetness of their family bonding creates a charming and sad moment.
Queen, The Saga Of Gösta Berling, 1924
In addition to the Ozu, as usual this year's Silent Film Festival includes several other gems. These include another Japanese silent film that sounds very different from An Inn In Tokyo, Tomu Uchida's crime film Policeman (1933), Piel Jutzi's Mother Krause's Journey To Happiness (1929), which looks at life in a seedy Weimar Republic- tenement, and the epic 200-minute long The Saga Of Gösta Berling (1924, dir. Mauritz Stiller), which was queen Greta Garbo's first starring role. As usual all screenings include live musical accompaniment.
Brilliant, Battling Butler, 1926
Closing out the festival on June 3 is Battling Butler (1926), by another one of my favorite directors, Buster Keaton. The film features The Great Stoneface's brilliant physical comedy combined with his typical underdog fish-out-of-water lead character. Seeing Keaton on the big screen is always a treat so this one is not to be missed.
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Ruffneck: Keaton, Laurel, and Hardy at the SF Silent Film Festival
A boy and his log, The General, 1926
Buster Keaton's The General is one of those movies that are on every cinephile's best-of list, and with good reason. Elegantly structured, coolly executed, and funny as hell, the film was Keaton's own favorite, although it was the movie that almost ruined his reputation when it first came out. It took a long time to shoot, was prohibitively expensive, and absolutely did not make bank when it was released—Keaton's rep as a comedic star took a big hit and his studio reined him in after The General's box office failure. The movie was anything but well-received when it was released in 1926, although it's now considered a classic.
The storyline follows a railroad engineer and wannabe Confederate soldier during the Civil War (nimbly played by the diminutive Keaton) who traces the theft of his beloved railroad engine, named The General, behind Union lines. The movie features some of the most beautifully choreographed stunts of the silent era, involving huge piles of rolling logs, steam engines on collision course, and the spectacular demise of a full-size locomotive. The sight of an actual train engine falling many dozens of feet from a bridge to a riverbed is still amazingly impressive, even in this age of CGI and digitally created special effects. The film is Keaton at his best, with its stripped down, symmetrically structured narrative, its large-scale, dangerous, and perfectly executed stunts, and its underdog hero struggling within a vastly unsympathetic world.
Tearing it up, Two Tars, 1926
Silent film comedy of an entirely different sort are the Laurel and Hardy two-reeler short films, Two Tars (1928) and Big Business (1929). Two Tars follows a day in the life of a couple of sailors on leave in Los Angeles as they go joy-riding among the California chaparral with a couple of dames. Although Stan and Ollie play sailors, all of the action in the twenty-minute movie takes place on a pair of landlocked Southern California roadways. Featuring Laurel and Hardy's signature physicality and escalation of destruction, the short also includes some very suggestive digital manipulation of a gumball machine as well as several excellent Stan Laurel pratfalls. The short concludes with an epic traffic jam that would make Godard proud that illustrates the primal allure of large-vehicle destruction, the weaponization of cow pies and rotten tomatoes, and a gal getting a faceful of black ink.
Up at the plate, Big Business, 1929
Big Business is even more of a felon's wet dream, as a small misunderstanding rapidly escalates into complete mayhem, resulting in an entire house vandalized down to its spinet piano and brick chimney. L&H play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen plying their wares in the sunny, overexposed 1920s Southern California suburbs, which were about as sparsely populated as the high desert at the time. The two get into a scrap with a feisty homeowner and soon the axes are out and windows, doors, and a Model T fall victim to the OTT belligerence of the battling adversaries. The humor derives from the extreme reactions of both Stan and Ollie as well as their antagonist, played with righteous fury by L&H regular James Finlayson.
All three of these comedy classics are screening as part of Silent Autumn, the San Francisco Silent Film Festival's one-day event on Sept. 20 at the glorious Castro Theater. Also notable are screenings of new restorations of The Son of the Sheik, starring the beautiful Rudolph Valentino, and the German expressionist classic, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. As per usual with all SFSFF events, each program includes live accompaniment, by silent film score maestro Donald Sosin as well as the always innovative Alloy Orchestra. Go here for complete schedule and ticket info.
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It's All In The Movies: Film festival roundup
A dame and her gat, Dragnet Girl, 1933
It's been a crazy past couple of months so I haven't had time to update my posts recently, but I've finally got a bit of down time, so following are some highlights from some notable film festivals here in Cali.
Down the I-5 I stopped in for a couple screenings at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, which is one of my favorite jams of the year. I was only in the Southland for about 72 hours but I managed to see an outstanding double-bill of two recent Asian genre films at the CGV Cinema in Koreatown, one of the best movie-going venues in LA. CGV is part of a Seoul-based theater chain and its LA outpost usually screens a combination of South Korean movies with English subs and Hollywood movies with Korean subs in its three big state-of-the-art digital theaters. Add to that the cinema's close proximity to the best of K-town's nightlife, including dozens of noraebangs, soon dobu houses, Korean fried chicken joints, and soju bars and it all equals a great time in central LA.
Dustin Nguyen, poly-hyphenate, Once Upon A TIme in Vietnam, 2013
First up was Once Upon A Time In Vietnam (2013), directed, written by, and starring Dustin Nguyen, most famously seen in the U.S. opposite a very young Johnny Depp in the classic late-80s cop show 21 Jump Street. A Western/martial arts/steampunk mashup, OUATIV looks pretty, but ultimately is pretty clichéd. Dustin Nguyen gives himself the leading role as Dao, a mystery man who rides into to town (on a souped-up motorbike instead of a palamino) and stirs up the village's heretofore placid existence, unearthing a past romance with the kindly local baker's pretty wife Anh (Thanh Van Ngo) and continuing his vendetta with the gang of toughs who are tailing him. Although Nguyen's Dao is a cool dude, the most truly badass character is Long, the ostensible villain, who is Dao's archnemesis and romantic rival, played by veteran stuntman Roger Yuan. Despite the film's good-looking cinematography, the movie is still a bit choppy and rough, with inconsistent art direction that showed its flaws on CGV's thirty-foot tall, crystal-clear digital screen. The movie's many gratuitous ass shots and Thanh Van Ngo's peek-a-booby fighting costume were also pretty silly, though I'm sure some of the film's target demographic appreciated them.
Andy being Andy, Firestorm, 2013
The second half of the double-bill was the hit Hong Kong action flick Firestorm (2013), starring the evergreen Andy Lau as a conflicted cop hunting down bad guys in the streets of Central. The movie subscribes to the tenet of bigger, faster, and louder, with more explosions, more gunfire, and more bleeding head wounds, and harkens back to the fine old tradition of Hong Kong movie excess, where anything worth doing is worth doing ten times as much. As with any action blockbuster it's probably better not to be too critical of the gaping plot holes and odd character motivations and just go along for the ride, which is pretty spectacular by the end of the movie. Interestingly, the film's most harrowing moments are not during the high-powered CGI explosions at the story's climax but during a quieter though no less tension-filled moment earlier on. The sight of a small child trembling with terror as she tries to silence her screams provides a much more visceral impact than the many later shots of breaking glass and rupturing concrete. Owing a debt to Dante Lam's emotionally shattered characters and John Woo's angsty adversaries, first-time director Alan Yuan works in a bit more psychological complexity than the genre demands, which adds to the overall impact of the film. But the movie is also about things blowing up, which it does splendidly, and which I completely enjoyed seeing on the big screen at CGV.
Chinese ingenuity, American Dreams in China, 2013
Back home in the Bay I caught a few shows at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Peter Chan's latest Hong Kong/China co-production, American Dreams in China, was one of the biggest box office hits in the PRC in 2013. The comedy, which follows three friends across the span of several years and two continents, is a slick and engaging rags to riches tale that includes an underlying social commentary about the lives of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. and their tenuous relationship with the American Dream. Tong Dawei, Huang Xiaoming, and Deng Chao play school buddies whose lives and careers entwine as they struggle to make their fortune. All three pull off great performances, convincingly aging from their early twenties to mid-forties, and the interplay between them is authentic and believable, with coverboy Huang Xiaoming hiding his essential hotness behind several pairs of nerd-chic glasses. The movie also includes beautiful cinematography by Christopher Doyle, though it's much more naturalistic and less self-consciously flashy than his renowned work with Wong Kar-wai, and the movie's snappy editing keeps the story moving along briskly. Although the climax of the film is a strange paean to copyright infringement and intellectual property theft which perhaps reveals something about the state of China's hypercompetitive market-based economy, director Chan overall makes astute observations about the characters' relationship to each other and to the rapidly shifting state of Chinese culture in the PRC and the U.S. Especially revealing is a passage in which one of the characters, then a Chinese grad student in a U.S. college, is reduced to a humiliating, low-status job in a campus lab. The film thus belies the myth of the American dream that lures so many immigrants to the U.S.
Languid, Tamako In Moratorium, 2013
Tamako In Moratorium, an extremely droll and low-key Japanese comedy, is anchored by lead actress Atsuko Maeda as the titular character, a recent college graduate who's moved back in with her divorced dad somewhere in a sleepy city in Japan. Dad runs a modest sporting goods store. Tamako spends most of her time sleeping, eating, and procrastinating, although this description makes it seem like she engages in activity, which mostly she doesn't. Instead she eats microwaved vegetables from a plastic tub, grunts nonverbally at her dad's attempts at conversation, and sleeps into the afternoon on her disheveled futon in her cluttered childhood bedroom. The film's freeze frame moments capture the three seasons that Tamako aimlessly passes in her dad's small house. The movie's very slight and subtle dramatic tension is a nice antidote to the bombast of much commercial narrative cinema and, as the brilliant Maggie Lee at Variety points out, the movie's style owes a lot to the great Yasujiro Ozu in its gentle, non-judgmental look at family dynamics.
Surreality, Norte: The End of History, 2013
I also witnessed the four-hour Filipino opus Norte: The End of History, by long-form specialist Lav Diaz (his 2004 film Evolution of a Filipino Family was 10 hours long). Advance reviews called the film a masterpiece, which I think is a bit of an overstatement, but it held my attention for most of its running time. As I've noted in the past, most movies over 90 minutes long put me to sleep unless Hrithik Roshan is singing and dancing in them, but this once kept my interest, aided in no small part by its excellent wide-screen digital cinematography and an episodic structure that allows the narrative to unwind unhurriedly. This is not to say that the movie is slow, although much of it is shot in single master shots. But the action within the frame is always dynamic and, although the film opens with a ten-minute static shot of a group of armchair revolutionaries discussing morality, ethics, and politics, the movie becomes much more cinematic and less chatty as it goes along.
As Noel Vera notes in Film Comment, Norte is a continuation of director Diaz's interest in themes and motifs from Dostoevsky, and the film has some of the epic feel of a Russian novel. The story revolves around several individuals involved in a murder case, including the actual killer, the man framed for the deed, the patsy's wife, and their assorted friends and relatives. Like Dostoevsky's work, the film touches on themes of fate and free will, the moral and ethical responsibilities of the individual, and injustice within a stratified social system. The performances are uniformly strong, including Sid Lucero as an unbalanced intellectual, Archie Alemania as the man wrongly accused of murder, and Angeli Bayani (who played the stoic maid in Ilo Ilo) as his longsuffering wife. Diaz's use of long takes that incrementally zoom in or pan across the action allow the viewer to perceive the startlingly close relationship between cruelty and kindness. Although most of the film's violence feels appropriate to the narrative, I was a bit bothered that the killing of a dog got at least twice as much screen time as a violent and disturbing rape.
Smoking, Dragnet Girl, 1933
Lastly, I saw Dragnet Girl, an early Yasujiro Ozu joint, at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival. I saw my very first Ozu film, Woman of Tokyo, (also a silent gangster movie) a couple years ago at the Port Townsend Film Festival. That movie set me off on an Ozu kick and I spent the better part of early 2013 watching every Ozu movie I could get my hands on, almost all on DVD. It was a treat for me, then, to see Dragnet Girl on the big screen with live accompaniment at the Silent Film Festival. Although the film's title implies gats, dames, and rat-a-tat action, the movie is more of a character study in line with Ozu's later and more famous oeuvre, with long stretches of the film devoted to character relationships rather than shootouts. Guns do make an appearance, however, as well as heists, boxing rings, and small-time gangsters, along with the titular character, a secretary/gangster's moll played by legendary actress and film director (and Kenji Mizoguchi muse) Kinuyo Tanaka. It was great to see the movie as it was meant to be viewed, on the big screen at the Castro Theater, and once again the Silent Film Festival proved its status as one of the premiere film fests in the Bay Area.
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Enjoy The Silence: 2013 Silent Film Festival
Workers and Geese, Unite! The House On Trubnaya Square, 1928
It's July, the fog has swamped the city, and the Silent Film Festival (SFF) returns this week to San Francisco. Spanning an action-packed four days, the lineup includes classics, gems, and newly restored discoveries from locales around the world including Bali, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, England, Russia, and the United States. This year's festival features legendary stars such as Louise Brooks (Prix de Beaute), Greta Garbo (The Joyless Street), Harold Lloyd (Safety Last!) and Douglas Fairbanks (The Half-Breed) and famed directors including G.W. Pabst and Yasujiro Ozu.
In contrast to the high-tone glamor found in the movies above, The House on Trubnaya Square is a sprightly little Soviet comedy that follows the misadventures of a cleaning lady in Moscow. As the cleaning lady rises through the ranks of the workers' movement, the film satirically exposes the foibles of feudalism, capitalism, and socialism alike. As to be expected from the land of Eisenstein, the movie features great editing, along with excellent camerawork, choreography, and story structure, as well as a cheeky performance by Vera Maretskaya as the cleaning lady swept up in the social movements of the time.
Stop the presses! The Last Edition, 1924
Another notable program is the premiere of the recent restoration of The Last Edition, an entertaining yarn shot in San Francisco in 1924. The movie looks at corruption in the newspaper publishing business, in which an unscrupulous publisher takes advantage of an overly trusting pressman. The populist film sides with the workingman against the corrupt bosses, reflecting the sentiments of the Wobblies and other early 20th-century labor organizations. The movie is especially fun for its local flava, as much of it is shot at the Chronicle Building at 5th and Mission Street and concludes with an exciting chase through the streets of San Francisco, passing by recognizable landmarks including the newly rebuilt City Hall. The film also features huge mechanical presses, typesetting trays, switchboards and rotary phones, and other industrial age machinery that will gun the engines of your inner steampunk.
Ouch!, How A Mosquito Operates, 1912
Also part of the festival is a presentation by John Canemaker on well-known newspaper cartoonist Winsor McKay that includes of illustrations from Canemaker's bio on McKay as well as a screening of several of McKay's brilliant animated films. Best known for his long-running comic strip Little Nemo, McKay's animations are masterful, deft, and magical, ranging from the whimsical Little Nemo and Gertie the Dinosaur through the dramatic, realistic Sinking of the Lusitania. My personal favorite is How A Mosquito Operates, in which a prodigious bug repeatedly sinks its very sharp stinger into a sleeping man's nose, its protuberant abdomen swelling with blood after each bite.
The Silent Film Festival is a rare opportunity to see these movies in all their big-screen glory, and it's markedly more fun than watching DVDs by yourself at home. As per usual, all SFF screenings (at the gloriously appropriate Castro Theater) include live accompaniment.
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Wonderwall: 2012 San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Come hither, Clara Bow, Mantrap, 1926
I love a good film festival and this year's San Francisco Silent Film Festival was one of the best. Held at the legendary Castro Theater, the festival showcased several brand new or recently restored prints of classic and obscure films from Germany, China, the U.S., Sweden, and beyond. Probably due to the popularity of The Artist, winner of last year's Best Picture Oscar, the festival was packed morning, noon, and night.
In this age of DVDs and online streaming the SFSFF understands the need to offer a value-added film viewing experience. All of the shows at the fest had live accompaniment, ranging from glorious piano and Wurlitzer stylings to full-on ensemble performances from crack film orchestras. Wings, the opening night film, was screened not only with live music but with a live foley setup providing sound effects in the theater as the film unspooled. The screening of Georges Melies' classic short, A Trip To The Moon (recently featured in Martin Scorsese's Hugo), included live narration by Paul McCann from the director's notes on the film, adding a droll note to the whimsical film.
Ruan Lingyu, flowery, Little Toys, 1933
I started my long weekend o' film viewing with Little Toys (1933), starring the legendary Chinese performer Ruan Lingyu, who died by her own hand at the tender age of 24. Between 1927 to her death in 1934 Ruan appeared in nearly 30 films during the golden age of Chinese filmmaking, famously playing lovelorn prostitutes, and other down-and-out characters. In Little Toys she's a toymaker in rural China who is swept up by the events of the day, including the Sino-Japanese War, the advent of capitalism, and the urbanization of China. The film, by left-leaning director Sun Yu (who ironically was later denounced by Mao Zedong), is an interesting critique of the inhumanity of war and the ways in which ordinary people are harmed by violent political conflict.
The festival also included films featuring two very different silent era actresses. Mantrap (1926), starring the awesome Clara Bow, screened with impeccable live accompaniment by Stephen Horne on piano, flute and accordion. I'd never seen Clara Bow in action before and, as directed by her then-inamorato Victor Fleming (The Wizard of Oz; Gone With The Wind) she's fun and charismatic, with darting eyes and a sly, impish grin. The pre-code storyline of a notorious flirt who dazzles her husband and his friend, as well as most of the other men in the movie, is refreshingly non-judgmental—as Michael Sragow observes in the program notes, "the film doesn't punish the character for her sexual independence, it salutes her for it."
Louise Brooks schwag, San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Saturday night's centerpiece film featured another silent-screen goddess, the ever-stunning Louise Brooks starring in Pandora's Box. The festival screened a gorgeous new restoration that confirmed director G.W. Pabst's mastery of light and shadow, emphasizing the moody chiaroscuro that makes this film a classic. We'd meant to attend the 10pm show of The Overcoat immediately following Pandora's Box, with music by the surprise-a-minute Alloy Orchestra, but delays in loading in the Mattie Bye Orchestra for the Pabst film pushed The Overcoat's start time past 11pm. With plans to see the 10am show the next day we regretfully took a pass on the Russian expressionist movie and headed for home.
Sunday morning bright and early, less than ten hours after the late-night screening of The Overcoat, a full house turned out to see Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro (1920), as the mild-mannered Don Diego who turns into the sexy crime-fighting Zorro. As noted by Fairbanks biographer Jeffrey Vance, Zorro's underground hideout, his dual identity, and his form-fitting all-black outfit, cape and mask were a clear influence on Batman creator Bob Kane. In Zorro, Fairbanks of course flaunts his toned booty, fencing chops and parkour skills—more surprising are his well-honed comic chops as the foppish Don Diego. The film isn't very cinematically innovative but once Fairbanks gets going the movie picks up steam. The climatic chase scene, with Fairbanks running, jumping and climbing his way across the scenery, is a lot of fun.
Sidecar, Buster Keaton, The Cameraman, 1928
Capping the weekend's screenings was Buster Keaton's The Cameraman (1928), his last great feature film and his first as an MGM contract player. As a UCLA undergrad I was crazy for Buster Keaton, seeing all of his independent features and several shorts. I even watched The Navigator on a flatbed at the UCLA film archives since, back then at the dawn of time, Keaton's movies weren't available on home video. I'd never seen The Cameraman, though, so I was happy to that it was part of this year's festival. Although MGM's dictatorial studio brass was already on its way to fatally hampering his career, Keaton turned out a near-perfect movie in The Cameraman, which follows a callow young photographer in his attempts to break into the newsreel business. Along the way he woos a pretty girl, shatters many windows, leaps effortlessly onto moving vehicles, and gets caught in the middle of a full-scale tong war. Unlike many movies from the era, the film's portrayal of Chinatown and its habitués is fairly unsensational, though I wonder if the tongs really would have had several full-on machine guns to go with their machetes and six-shooters.
All in all the festival was quite fun and invigorating. It's always a treat when vintage movies get the royal treatment, and the SFSFF displays the utmost care and sensitivity in presenting its programs. In an age when media is often made to be watched on a cell phone, it's great to see films produced for and projected on the all-mighty big screen.
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David Feherty once said, "It's how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success". Many startups (and people in general) find themselves over-burdened with the thought of failure. And that fear of losing out can often be quite damaging. We have all fallen in this trap, but it's what we do to get out of is what really shows our character.
"Fail fast" seems to be the Silicon Valley motto for startups, but why would we want to fail fast? Well, because if you're going to fail, you may as well do it fast. Failing fast and learning from your mistakes determines how successful you are going to be in your next venture. So whether is fails, or not, is not the issue, letting it get you down is. Don't let it get you down! Fail fast, fail strong, and get on with it.


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Commission commitments may force Whincup out of Supercars Eseries
Thursday 21st May, 2020 - 1:57pm
Jamie Whincup may step away from the BP Supercars All Stars Eseries as the real-world season restart approaches
Jamie Whincup says his commitments to the Supercars Commission may mean he has to step back from the All Stars Eseries.
Late last year the seven-time Virgin Australia Supercars Championship winner was announced to join the Commission.
Tim Edwards (Tickford Racing), Ryan Story (DJR Team Penske), and Brad Jones (Brad Jones Racing) are all members of the Commission.
With the release of the 2020/21 calendar, Whincup said his priorities may shift as the resumption of the Supercars season approaches.
"Now we've announced the revised calendar, my role within the Supercars Commission has been extremely busy," said Whincup.
"So I'm not going to have a huge amount of time to e-race in the coming weeks.
"I might call around and lean on one of the other lads to fill my spot for car #88.
"We'll no doubt make a decision in the coming days."
The Red Bull Holden Racing Team has fielded wildcard entries throughout the online competition with Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen the most high profile of all.
Seven-time Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 winner Craig Lowndes and 2007 Supercars champion Garth Tander have both raced in the Eseries recently.
Whincup has had a mixed run of results in the BP Supercars All Stars Eseries to date with the team.
He was in contention during the opening race of Round 7 at Charlotte Motor Speedway but was taken out late in the piece.
He went on to finish 24th before recording 12th place and 16th place finishes at Daytona International Speedway on the road course.
Whincup said he battled with technical dramas that stifled his progress throughout the night.
"I had quite a good time on the sim last night – it was a bit of fun," said Whincup.
"I didn't get a huge amount of time beforehand to practice, so I was a little bit nervous going into the races, but I was excited to qualify P6 in Charlotte.
"The biggest issue I had with my sim last night was braking again.
"Usually I would lean on the engineers to help resolve this problem, but they've been too busy getting the real race cars ready back at the workshop.
"So we just haven't had time to fix those slight problems.
"I started P6 and was leading the race with six or seven laps to go.
"I got a good restart under the Safety Car then started getting passed by a couple of cars and then boom, got caught in an accident and finished almost last, again.
"Race 2 was reasonable, I ended up P12 which was an improvement considering the laps.
"Unfortunately, in the last race I got involved in an incident where I couldn't pull up in time and that was that. All in all, it was a reasonable night."
Round 8 of the BP Supercars All Stars Eseries takes place at Interlagos and Imola on May 27 at 18:00 AEST.


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Rare non-bar/restaurant business coming to Short North
No monkey business – popular online clothing retailer Bonobos is bringing a brick-and-mortar shop to the Short North.
In a press release issued Monday, The Pizzuti Companies announced that national men's clothing brand has signed a lease at the firm's upcoming mixed-use development in the Short North, located at 875 North High Street.
Described as "the largest apparel brand ever built online in the United States," Bonobos will occupy 1,500 square feet along High Street on the development's ground floor.
Starting as an online-only retailer in 2007, Bonobos began opening brick-and-mortar locations in 2012. The brand claims to provide "better-fitting men's clothing." This lease marks their first location in Columbus and third in Ohio.
"We're honored to continue to bring Bonobos to life for our existing customers and excited to make our better-fitting clothes and exceptional service accessible to more new customers in the Midwest," Bonobos' Chief Experience Officer Andrew Wingrove said via the release.
The building is scheduled to open in July. To find out what's in store when Bonobos comes to town, visit them online at Bonobos.com.
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How does a well-liked, 19-year-old, small town girl wind up dead in a Columbus garage? Unfortunately, even after nearly 60 years, no one knows.
The lifeless body of Mary Margaret "Peggy" Andrews was found in a garage near the Ohio State campus on September 20, 1962. She was shot three times in the face and—judging by the condition of her clothing when investigators arrived—sexually assaulted.
Peggy moved out of her parents' home almost immediately after graduating from her Catholic high school near Steubenville, Ohio in 1961. Along with two other young women, Peggy lived in a boarding house on 18th Avenue near Buckeye Donuts. She enrolled in night classes at the Columbus Business University (now Bradford School) and worked full time as an accountant's secretary.
She was smart, well-liked, and deeply religious. People close to her described her as "carefree" and "lighthearted," reports Columbus Monthly.
It was a Thursday at 5:00 PM when Peggy left her downtown workplace before heading to class. She met up with her two roommates, Carol Maxwell and Carol Eick, and two male classmates outside her office. Typically, Peggy would've taken the bus with her roommates, but she wasn't feeling well that day. Instead, she caught a ride with her friend and classmate Ron Negutt to avoid the uncomfortable bus commute.
He pulled up to Peggy's boarding house and watch her walk to her door under the streetlamp light. Negutt took off before she had gotten inside, eager to meet his buddies at the 7-11 Club. He arrived at the bar around 9:30 PM, reports Columbus Monthly.
This was also the time Maxwell and Eick say they arrived back at the boarding house. Both women, along with the housemothers, waited for Peggy's signature high-heeled entrance through the back door, but she never came.
Meanwhile, Columbus Business University student Gary Ontko was moving into his new apartment on Woodruff Avenue. Around 11:30 PM, Ontko volunteered to help out his roommate who had forgotten to roll up his car windows.
He approached the garage cautiously as he was new to his surroundings. As he grew closer, that's when he saw them: a pair of human legs illuminating in the moonlight.
Peggy's purse contents were strewn about, her long red coat was covered in dirt, but the small black bow remained pinned to her curly brown hair. Her school books were discovered neatly stacked on the ground behind her boarding house.
Everybody in Peggy's life, including Negutt who was the last known person to see her alive, were cleared as suspects. Police expanded their search to registered sex offenders in the area, which garnered a possible link. A .22-caliber pistol found in a university district drain spout in 1963 supported the link, but did not cement it.
Another break in the case occurred decades later in 2000. Forensic scientists extracted DNA from a stain on the back of Peggy's shirt and tested it against DNA samples obtained at local, state, and federal crime scenes. The tests garnered no results.
This stain just may be the key that unlocks the entire mystery. Now, if they could only find a match.
Anyone with additional information or questions regarding this case should submit a tip.
Over the weekend, the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium announced the death of one of its beloved creatures.
Kinshasa, the male mandrill, passed away at the ripe age of 22 years old, surpassing the median life expectancy of his breed by nearly a year. Animal Care and Animal Health staff made the difficult decision to humanely euthanize him after this health declined rapidly due to several age-related disease processes.
Kinshasa came to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in 2017 where he became an "amazing" stepdad and best friend to Mosi.
In a post on Facebook, the Columbus Zoo remembered Kinshasa for his "colorful looks," "gentle nature," and active lifestyle.
"Although our time with him was short, he had a lasting impact on all who knew him and was an amazing individual," they wrote.
Kinshasa, we hope you are playing with your blue barrel and water-based, tempura paint that you loved so much.
Today we are celebrating and remembering the life of Kinshasa, the male mandrill. Animal Care and Animal Health staff…
Posted by Columbus Zoo and Aquarium on Saturday, July 13, 2019
Update: Killer's blood-soaked car leads to arrest in July 4th slaying of young woman
Update: Court documents filed in Delaware County detailed 24-year-old John Bartholomew's statement to deputies, in which he admitted to killing 28-year-old Brittany McDowell and disposing of her remains in a shallow grave in Alum Creek State Park on July 4.
Brittany McDowell
Bartholomew told deputies he picked up McDowell on Sullivant Avenue, and that he paid her $60 for sex acts. He went on to say that McDowell demanded more money, and threatened him with a taser.
Bartholomew told deputies he then pulled out a gun from under his seat and shot McDowell in the side of the head before using a different gun to fire a second shot, which struck McDowell on top of her head, killing her.
Bartholomew stated he then dug a shallow grave near Alum Creek State Park, where he disposed of the body.
Deputies said it was a person who Bartholomew hired to clean blood from his vehicle who called in a tip to Police, leading to his arrest.
Bartholomew was not required to enter a plea and is being held on a $1.5 million bond.
Authorities made a grisly discovery over the holiday weekend when an officer stumbled upon a shallow grave containing the body of a young woman.
At about 6:30 p.m. on July 4, an officer with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources discovered a shallow grave near the pull-off area in the 6400 block of State Route 37 near Alum Creek State Park while on foot patrol.
Deputies responded to the scene and found the body of a white female in her late 20s. The body was later identified as as 28-year-old Brittany D. McDowell of Columbus.
Due to injuries observed on the body, Delaware County deputies say they are investigating the case as a possible homicide.
Deputies ask anyone who may have information regarding this case to contact the Delaware County Sheriff's Office at 740-833-230 to leave a message, or call 740-833-2800 to speak to a live person.
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Distance education: Learning in non-traditional settings
December 2, 2015 NCES Blog Editor Findings, General
By Lauren Musu-Gillette
Distance education courses and programs provide students with flexible learning opportunities. Distance education has become increasingly common at the postsecondary level. Many postsecondary institutions offer at least some online courses, while other institutions exclusively offer online programs and courses taught exclusively online. NCES collects data on distance education through the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) and the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS).
IPEDS data on distance education provides information on the number and percentage of students participating in distance education at different types of institutions. In fall 2013, about 4.6 million undergraduate students participated in distance education, with 2.0 million students (11 percent of total undergraduate enrollment) exclusively taking distance education courses. Of the 2.0 million undergraduate students who exclusively took distance education courses, 1.1 million students (6 percent of total undergraduate enrollment) were enrolled in programs located in the same state in which they resided, and 0.8 million (4 percent of total undergraduate enrollment) were enrolled in a different state.
At the postbaccalaureate level, some 895,000 students (31 percent of total postbaccalaureate enrollment) participated in distance education in fall 2013, with 677,000 students (23 percent of total postbaccalaureate enrollment) exclusively taking distance education courses. Of the students who exclusively took distance education courses, 273,000 students (9 percent of total postbaccalaureate enrollment) were enrolled in programs located in the same state in which they resided, and 362,000 students (12 percent of total postbaccalaureate enrollment) were enrolled in a different state.
Percentage of undergraduate students at degree-granting postsecondary institutions who participated exclusively in distance education courses, by control and level of institution: Fall 2013
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). See Digest of Education Statistics 2014, table 311.15.
The percentage of undergraduate students participating exclusively in distance education programs differed by institutional control. In fall 2013, a higher percentage of students at private for-profit 4-year institutions exclusively took distance education courses (58 percent) than did students at any other control and level of institution. Similarly, at the postbaccalaureate level, the percentage of students who exclusively took distance education courses in fall 2013 was higher for those enrolled at private for-profit institutions (79 percent) than for those at private nonprofit (19 percent) and public institutions (16 percent).
Data on distance education in IPEDS is at the institution level, and therefore does not provide data on how distance education may differ by student characteristics. However, NPSAS contains both institution- and student-level data and can therefore be used to examine whether participation in distance education differs based on student's demographic characteristics. For example, findings from NPSAS show that a higher percentage of older adults enrolled in distance education classes than younger adults. In 2011–12, a higher percentage of undergraduates 30 years old and over took distance education classes or their entire degree program through distance education (41 percent and 13 percent, respectively) than undergraduates 24 to 29 years of age (36 percent and 8 percent, respectively) or undergraduates 15 to 23 years of age (26 percent and 3 percent, respectively).
Findings from NPSAS also show that enrollment in distance education was higher in 2011-12 than in previous years in which these data were collected. A higher percentage of undergraduates took distance education classes in 2011–12 (32 percent) than in 2007–08 (21 percent) or in 2003–04 (16 percent). Also, a higher percentage of undergraduates took their entire degree program through distance education in 2011–12 (6 percent) than in 2007–08 (4 percent) or in 2003–04 (5 percent).
Enrollment in distance education will likely continue to grow as additional institutions offer individual courses, or even entire degree programs, online. Drawing on new technologies, the scope of distance education activities have expanded to reach millions of students. Current and future NCES data collections will continue to monitor this trend.


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Amsterdam University Press, een uitgever gelieerd aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam.
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Work during August and September focused on building the Australian Rail Track Corporation (ARTC) yard located beside the stone cottage near the per-way siding at Wallerawang. This yard is accessed off Pipers Flat Rd and backs on to the Mudgee branch line as it swings away from the main line. The yard has a collection of simple buildings and is used by the ARTC as a works depot.
Previously the yard had been scenicked with basic 'burnt grass' groundcover to make it presentable at exhibitions. First step was to remove the green scenery from the yard and temporarily remove the surrounding fences to allow for construction work in the yard to proceed. Next, certain sections of the yard were levelled to allow for placement of each of the individual buildings.
Before: The yard with basic groundcover - ribbed styrene walls and roof are cut out on the board, along with windows and doors from the spare parts box, ready to assemble into one of the structures on the site.
The buildings were made from styrene sheet in a variety of styles including ribbed, corrugated and flat, to represent the buildings actually on site. Building construction including dimensions, materials and colours were based on site photographs. Suitable windows and doors from the spares box were glued into holes cut into the walls. Roof gutters were made from 1.5mm styrene C-channel, and downpipes from rectangular styrene strip. Strips of balsa were added under the buildings to assist with levelling them, and when painted represent the visible edges of concrete slabs, or in the case of the white building, left unpainted to represent the real timber slabs used under the prototype building.
During: Fences and groundcover have been removed and parts of the site leveled for the 4 individual buildings, shown here being placed for checking before final fixing.
After the buildings were glued in place the gravel surface of the yard was made by gluing down a layer of fine white ballast from the Chucks ballast range. The side (timber paling) and rear (wire mesh) fences were reinstated and some basic detailing around the area done with the addition of weeds, grass clumps and debris.
After: The four completed buildings glued in place on the graveled site. The front fence is still to be completed along with additional detailing.
A wheel-less Mini Cooper from the spares box was glued onto timber blocks and fixed in the yard of the blue house. The red roofed backyard dunny also from the spares box sits in the back corner next door.


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http://www.24pakistan.com/technology/russian-north-american-astronauts-return-to-earth/21338-news
Russian, North American astronauts return to earth
DZHEZKAZGAN, Kazakhstan (AFP) - The first crew to blast off to the International Space Station following a launch accident that deepened doubts over Russia's space programme returned to earth safely on Tuesday.
NASA astronaut Anne McClain, veteran cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos, and Canadian Space Agency record-holder David Saint-Jacques emerged from the space craft to applause from support crews, after touching down near the Kazakh city of Dzhezkazgan.
Live footage from the landing site broadcast on NASA television showed the three sitting in chairs smiling as they were attended to by staff ahead of a journey back to Moscow for Kononenko and Houston for McClain and Saint-Jacques.
Arriving at 0247 GMT to warm conditions, Kononenko joked that he was "happy to see any kind of weather" after coming back from space.
The trio's launch on December 3 was the first after a Soyuz rocket carrying Russia's Aleksey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague failed in October just minutes after blast-off, forcing the pair to make an emergency landing.
They escaped unharmed but the failed launch was the first such incident in Russia's post-Soviet history and a new setback for the country's once proud space industry.
Record-breakers and space tourism
McClain, Kononenko and Saint-Jacques had been optimistic ahead of their successful launch and remained upbeat throughout their time aboard the orbital lab which is seen as a rare example of cooperation between Russia and the West.
"A beautiful night pass over Africa on my last night on @Space_Station," tweeted 40-year-old McClain, who completed two spacewalks during her virgin mission to the ISS.
Fellow first-time flyer Saint-Jacques broke the record for the longest single spaceflight by a Canadian astronaut, previously held by Robert Thirsk.
Thirsk clocked 187 days at the ISS in 2009 during a typical six-month mission, while 49-year-old Saint-Jacques' mission will stand at 204 days.
The record was helped along by the fact that the launch was moved forward to December 3 from December 20 for operational reasons -- possibly as a confidence booster after the accident.
The returning trio were given a ceremonial send off Monday as they exited the ISS by Ovchinin, Hague and NASA astronaut Christina Koch, who arrived at the lab in March on a fresh mission.
Russians dominate the rankings for cumulative days spent in space, with the Kononenko reaching 737 days.
That leaves the 55-year-old sixth in the all-time standings and just a typical ISS mission short of beating the 879-day record set by 60-year-old Roscosmos colleague Gennady Padalka in 2015.
Since 2011, Russia is the only country to oversee manned launches to the ISS.
But last year's failed launch, multi-billion dollar corruption scandals at Roscosmos and the emergence of private sector competitors like Elon Musk's SpaceX have combined to put into question Moscow's future dominance.
NASA said earlier this month that it will be opening the ISS up to space tourists for the first time next year with 30-day visits expedited by SpaceX and Boeing expected to cost around $58 million per person.
Russia has flown seven tourists to the ISS but is set to increase that number beginning in 2021, according to Roscosmos, which struck a deal with American company Space Adventures earlier this year.
US businessman Dennis Tito was the first space tourist to the ISS, paying Russia around $20 million for the trip.
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Q: Problem connection to FTP server using FluentFTP from Ubuntu I am using this code to attempt to establish a FTP connection to a Windows FTP Service
FtpClient client = new FtpClient(ip, user, password);
client.ConnectTimeout = 600000;
client.ReadTimeout = 60000;
client.EncryptionMode = FtpEncryptionMode.Implicit;
client.SslProtocols = System.Security.Authentication.SslProtocols.Tls;
client.DataConnectionType = FluentFTP.FtpDataConnectionType.PASV;
client.ValidateAnyCertificate = true;

client.Connect();

In a windows machine, the connection is stablished correctly, but from my Ubuntu machine it cannot be established, i always get the error
"error:141E70BF:SSL routines:tls_construct_client_hello:no protocols available"

How can i make this work ?
============= UPDATE
I tried the AutoDetect method of the FTPClient but the method does not retrieve any profile
Also the AutoConnect method seems to connect but when i try to get the listing of a folder an error arises that the profiles requires SSL
When i enable the tracing for the client i get this output in the log:
# Connect()
Status:   Connecting to server:21
Response: 220-Microsoft FTP Service
Response: 220 ************************************************************
Status:   Detected FTP server: WindowsServerIIS
Command:  AUTH TLS
Response: 234 AUTH command ok. Expecting TLS Negotiation.
Status:   Disposing FtpSocketStream...
Error:    FTPS Authentication Failed

A: I just figured out how to make this work following instructions from this post:
OpenSSL v1.1.1 Ubuntu 20 TLSv1 - no protocols available
and this other one
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1233186/ubuntu-20-04-how-to-set-lower-ssl-security-level
in my case, the server i am targeting seems to be very old, the nmap output is something like this:
21/tcp open  ftp
| ssl-enum-ciphers:
|   SSLv3:
|     ciphers:
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - C
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA (rsa 2048) - C
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 (rsa 2048) - C
|     compressors:
|       NULL
|     cipher preference: server
|   TLSv1.0:
|     ciphers:
|       TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (secp256r1) - A
|       TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (secp256r1) - A
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - A
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - A
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA (rsa 2048) - C
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA (rsa 2048) - C
|       TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 (rsa 2048) - C
|     compressors:
|       NULL
|     cipher preference: server
|     warnings:
|       64-bit block cipher 3DES vulnerable to SWEET32 attack
|       Broken cipher RC4 is deprecated by RFC 7465
|       Ciphersuite uses MD5 for message integrity
|       Weak certificate signature: SHA1
|_  least strength: C

I had to configure openssl to use TLSv1 which is pretty much deprecated now

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Key point: The B-21 is being engineered to carry existing weapons as well as nuclear bombs and emerging and future weapons, Air Force officials explained.
The Air Force has completed a substantial technical "critical design review of its next-generation B-21 Raider bomber, an aircraft said by developers to mark a new "generation" in stealth technology able to elude the most advanced air defenses in the world.
"The B-21 program has completed preliminary design review. The next step is critical design review. The Air Force remains confident in the B-21's progress and in delivering this new capability as planned in the mid-2020s," senior Air Force public affairs director Anne Stefanek, told Warrior Maven.