"One who travels to a familiar place does not worry about arriving in the dark"
A new law in Russia, which came into effect on 1 January 2013, restricts the amount of beer stalls and kiosks can sell and bans sales between the hours of 11 p.m. and 8 a.m. in an attempt to curb alcoholism.
Young Russian environmentalist Vera Kalinina was announced as the Panda Champions for Global Goals by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) on 5 January 2017. The aim of the recognition is to build a team of enthusiastic individuals from around the world to achieve the UN sustainable development goals by 2030.
Russian physicist Evgeny Velikhov was awarded China's International Cooperation Award in Science and Technology on 8 January 2016.
Russian film Leviathan by renowned director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the Golden Globe award for best foreign language film on 11 January 2015.
Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev won the 2018 Sydney International Tennis singles tittle beating Australian Alex De Minaur 1-6 6-4 7-5 in a thrilling final.
The discovery of a prehistoric mammoth carcass in the Siberian Arctic with signs of weapon-inflicted injuries suggested that humans were present in the Arctic 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to a study published on 15 January 2016 by Russian scientists.
On 15 January 1973 "Luna 21", an unmanned space mission of Russia, landed on the Moon. The aims of the mission were to collect images and data of the lunar surface. Luna 21 was launched on January 8, 1973.
Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia won gold in the Ladies Short Program followed by teammates Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya at the 2016 ISU European Figure Skating Championships.
The Progress 46, a robotic Russian cargo ship, successfully docked at the International Space Station on 27 January 2012, delivering tons of fresh fruit, clothing and other vital supplies for the orbiting lab's six-men crew. It was Russia's first space mission of 2012.
Russia's first stealth fighter jet, a "fifth generation" fighter jet, made its maiden test flight on January 29, 2010. The Sukhoi T-50, also called the PAK FA, made the flight in Russia's far east.
Russian and Canadian researchers have discovered the oldest, 7,000 to 8,000 years old, set of confirmed human twins during a field research in a Siberian cemetery. The researchers' findings were published in the journal Antiquity on 30 January 2015.
Russia on 1 February 2018 successfully launched 11 satellites, including nine American and German satellites, from its Vostochny cosmodrome, in the third rocket liftoff from the new spaceport.
Russian fashion brand Outlaw was named as the winner of SHOWStudio's inaugural Fashion Film Awards on 3 February 2016 in London.
Russia won the 2013 Bandy World Championship on 3 February 2013 beating Sweden 4–3 in the final.
Russian scientists along with an international team have identified brain chemicals that allow seals to sleep with half of their brain at a time, according to a study published on 6 February 2013 in the Journal of Neuroscience. The discovery may help millions — including an estimated 40 percent of North Americans — who suffer from insomnia or other sleep disorders.
The 22nd Winter Olympics was officially opened on 7 February 2014 in Sochi, Russia. It was the first ever Winter Olympics held in Russia.
Russian scientists became the first ever to reach a massive lake located under the Antarctic glacier shield, as revealed on 8 February 2012, after spending a decade drilling through more than two miles of solid ice. Scientists believe the lake could be home to cold-loving microbial life adapted to living in total darkness.
Russia won the first gold medal of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics in team figure skating ahead of teams from Canada and the United States.
The 1896 World Figure Skating Championships, an annual figure skating competition governed by the International Skating Union, took place on February 9, 1896 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was the first ever World Figure Skating Championships to be held. Only men competed in that championship.
Russian photographer Sergei Ilnitsky won the first and second places at the World Press Photo awards in the General News and Sports categories respectively on 12 February 2015.
Researcher from Russia and Kazakhstan have discovered a well-preserved fossilized skull of a long-extinct animal known as the Siberian unicorn — which was actually a long-horned rhinoceros — in Kazakhstan. The animal, Elasmotherium sibiricum, may have went extinct 29,000 years ago instead of 350,000 years as previously thought, according to a study published in the American Journal of Applied Sciences on 15 February 2016.
Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov beat the Deep Blue supercomputer, a chess-playing computer from IBM, in a chess match in Philadelphia on February 17, 1996. It was the first match of the six games played between them and Kasparov won three matches while losing one and drawing the other match.
Mir, a Russian space station, was launched in 1986. Mir was launched as the world's biggest space station on February 19, 1986.
Adelina Sotnikova of Russia won Gold in Ladies Free Skating at the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games.
Russia on 22 February 2017 successfully launched the Progress MS-05 space freighter to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
Russia took Gold in the Men's Team Relay at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.
Russian photojournalist Sergey Ponomarev won the third prize at the 2016 Days Japan photo contest for his image series named Europe Refugees.
World's first Generation 3+ nuclear power reactor started commercial operation on 27 February 2017 in Russia. It was installed in the number one unit of Russia's Novovoronezh Nuclear Power Project (NPP) 2.
Russia and Georgia reopened their only border crossing on 1 March 2010, after more than three years it was closed, in a rare gesture of goodwill between the former Soviet republics to rekindle their diplomatic relations after the 2008 war.
Scientists from Russia and France announced the discovery of pithovirus, the largest giant virus yet known, according to their study published on 3 March 2014. It was found frozen in a deep layer of the Siberian permafrost, but after it thawed it became infectious once again.
The Sochi Winter Paralympics in Russia was opened on 7 March 2014 in a spectacular ceremony.
Russian journalist Elena Milashina was honored with the 2013 International Women of Courage Award by the United States Department of State at a presentation ceremony in Washington for her courageous investigative work on drug-trafficking, counterterrorism operations, kidnappings and the murder of journalists.
Russia's Andrey Smirnov was named the Allianz Athlete of the Month for February 2016 following his team's success at the World Wheelchair Curling Championships 2016.
Scientists from Russia and Japan have successfully revived the cells of a 28,000-year-old woolly mammoth in a new research published in the journal Scientific Reports on 11 March 2019.
Russian Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft successfully blasted off to the International Space Station carrying a Russian-American crew of three on 14 March 2019.
A Russian-European mission ExoMars to search for life on Mars was successfully lifted off on a Proton-M rocket operated by Russia's Roscosmos on 14 March 2016. It is the beginning of a seven-month journey to the Red Planet, where it will address unsolved mysteries of the planet's atmosphere that could indicate present-day geological – or even biological – activity.
A study, by Russian researchers and their international colleagues, of a newly discovered 90-million-year-old dinosaur fossil have revealed how Tyrannosaurus rex became one of Earth's top predators. Their study, published on 14 March 2016 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggested its ears and brain helped establish its dominance.
A Russian Soyuz MS-08 rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 21 March 2018, carrying with it two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut bound for the International Space Station.
Russian figure skating star Alina Zagitova won the 2019 ISU World Figure Skating title in Saitama on 22 March 2019, added the only missing world title to her impressive resume.
Vladislav Kolesnikov and Anna Isakovich from Russia won gold medal at the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF) World Standard Championship Junior II competition on 24 March 2012.
Russian photographer Sergey Ponomarev won the first prize at the 2016 China International Press Photo Contest (CHIPP) in the News category with his work on refugees ferrying to Europe.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft was successfully launched on 26 March 2014 to the International Space Station carrying one American and two Russian astronauts who are expected to work on the station for several months.
Russian director Nikita Mikhalkov's film Burnt by the Sun won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 67th Academy Awards held in California on March 27,1995.
Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station crew of US astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko blasted off on 28 March 2015 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
A crew of two Russians and an American blasted off on 28 March 2013 on a Russian rocket for the International Space Station, in a trip scheduled to be the fastest ever manned journey to the facility. The trio successfully launched from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached the destination in approximately six hours compared with the previous time of over two day.
Russian journalist Zhanna Nemtsova, a champion for democracy, education, and freedom of information in her native Russia, was awarded the 2016 International Women of Courage Award at a ceremony on 29 March 2016 by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
Evgenia Medvedeva of Russia jumped and spinned to her second consecutive World title and set new record scores in the woman's Free Skating event at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Helsinki on 31 March 2017. Medvedeva achieved a new highest score of 154.40 points, surpassing her previous record score set at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final last year.
Dmitry Lisitsyn from Russia won the 2011 Goldman Environmental Prize, considered as the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism, on 11 April 2011. Dmitry was awarded for his fight to protect Sakhalin Island's critical endangered ecosystems while also demanding safety measures from one of the world's largest petroleum development projects.
Russian paleontologists and their international colleagues have uncovered 245-million-year-old fossils belonging to one of the earliest relatives of dinosaurs, named Teleocrater rhadinus. The discovery, published in Nature on 12 April 2017, filled a critical gap in the fossil record of dinosaur cousins and suggesting that some features thought to characterise dinosaurs evolved much earlier than previously thought.
Russia on 12 April 2013 unveiled a new US$50 billion drive to preserve its status as a top space power, including the construction of a brand new cosmodrome from where humans will fly to space by the end of the decade.
On April 12, 1961 Russia (Soviet Union) had launched cosmonaut (a Russian or Soviet astronaut) Yuri Gagarin into space and brought him safely back to Earth. He was the first human to journey into outer space. The flight by Gagarin lasted only 108 minutes, but its impact on space exploration and the Soviet and Russian people will never be forgotten.
Russian classical pianist and composer Vladimir Horowitz won the Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Soloist Performance at the seventh Grammy Awards in the United States on 13 April 1965.
Evgenia Chirikova from Russia won the 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize, considered as the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism, on 16 April 2012. Evgenia was awarded for her efforts in mobilizing Russian citizens to demand the rerouting of a highway that would bisect Khimki Forest, known as the "green lungs of Moscow".
Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov became the world's oldest spacewalker on 19 April 2013 at the age of 59 as he appeared for a little maintenance work outside the International Space Station.
Russian scientist Olga Speranskaya won the 2009 Goldman Environmental Prize, considered as the Nobel Prize for grassroots environmentalism, on 19 April 2009. Olga was awarded for transforming the NGO community in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia into a potent, participatory force working to identify and eliminate the Soviet legacy of toxic chemicals in the environment.
The Soviet Union (Russia) launched the world's first space station, Salyut 1, on April 19, 1971. A space station is an artificial architecture designed for humans to work in outer space for a period of time. Salyut 1 was launched to conduct scientific research and experiments in space.
Russia on 20 April 2017 successfully launched its Soyuz MS-04 spacecraft carrying two astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Mikhail Gorbachev, former President of Soviet Union, was named one of the recipients of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of the Earth on 21 April 2006. Mr. Gorbachev was awarded for his significant contribution in the field of international environmental politics and for conflict prevention on global waterways.
By sequencing the DNA of nearly 40 ancient skeletons found in the Mitelelbe Saale region of Germany, Russian scientists along with their international colleagues have suggested that the foundations of the modern European gene pool were laid down in the Neolithic era, between 4,000 and 2,000 BC. Their findings were published on 23 April 2013 in the journal Nature Communications.
A Russian Soyuz 2.1a rocket carrying Lomonosov, Aist-2D and SamSat-218 satellites was successfully launched from the new Vostochny cosmodrome on 28 April 2016.
Suren Gazaryan of Russia won the 2014 Goldman Environmental Prize for leading multiple campaigns exposing corruption and illegal exploitation of federally protected forestland along Russia's Black Sea coast.
Russia and China signed trade contracts worth 15 billion U.S. dollars on 28 April 2012 in order to expand their cooperation in various fields, including finance, direct investment, energy, mechanical and electronic products.
Russia has scrapped about 25,000 tons of chemical weapons or about 62% of its chemical arsenal by 29 April 2012, which marks the 15th anniversary of the international Chemical Weapons Convention, an arms control agreement which outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons.
Russian Space Agency (Roskosmos) signed a $424 million extension to its contract with NASA on 30 April 2013 for full transportation services for the U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station in 2016 with return and rescue services extending through June 2017.
Russian scientist Dr. Olga Speranskaya was awarded the prestigious 2011 Champions of the Earth Award by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on May 10, 2011. She was awarded for successfully mobilizing civil society in eliminating obsolete pesticides and toxic chemicals in the former Soviet region.
Russia's Maria Sharapova won her first Mutua Madrid Open tennis title on 11 May 2014 beating Romania's Simona Halep 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.
In the spirit of sportsmanship, Russia scraped visa requirements for athletes, coaches and other staff attending international sporting events in Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the decree on 14 May 2013 that went into effect immediately.
Two Russians and an American on 15 May 2012 blasted off for the International Space Station (ISS) on a Soyuz rocket in Russia's first manned space launch for almost five months.
Russian professional tennis player Maria Sharapova defended her Italian Open title on 20 May 2012, beating China's Li Na 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (5) in a rain interrupted final.
Russia and China signed a $400-billion 30-year gas supply deal on 21 May 2014, securing China a major source of cleaner fuel and opening up a new market for Russia.
Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev won the award for Best Screenplay at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival for his film Leviathan.
Russia won the 2014 Men's World Ice Hockey Championships defeating Finland 5-2 in the final.
Russia and Costa Rica on 28 May 2018 signed an intergovernmental agreement on the visa-free travel, scraping visa formalities for the mutual visits of Russian and Costa Rican citizens.
Russia carried out the maiden flight of its new MS-21 medium-range passenger plane on 28 May 2017. The aircraft completed a 30-minute flight at a height of 1,000 meters and traveling at 300 km an hour.
Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev's film NELYUBOV (Loveless) won the Jury Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Russian Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft carried three new crew members from Russia, the USA and Germany on an express trip to the International Space Station on 28 May 2014. They are scheduled to stay in orbit for six months.
Russia successfully launched a Glonass-M navigation satellite aboard a Soyuz 2-1B rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome on 29 July 2016.
Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus signed a historic treaty on 29 May 2014 forming a new trading bloc known as the Eurasian Economic Union. The Eurasian Economic Union – which follows years of tense and difficult negotiations – guarantees the free transit of goods, services, capital and workforces and coordinates policy for the members' financial systems.
Alexei A. Starobinsky of Russia jointly with two other American scientists won the prestigious 2014 Kavli Prize in Astrophysics for pioneering the theory of cosmic inflation.
Three new crew members, including Russian Fyodor Yurchikhin, arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) on 29 May 2013 in just under six hours aboard the Russian Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft after launching from Kazakhstan. The crew members are expected to remain on the space station for the next six months and perform more than 100 science experiments.
Russian scientists uncovered a well-preserved carcass of a female woolly mammoth with liquid blood on a remote island in the Arctic Ocean, according to an official announcement on 29 May 2013, raising hope of cloning the prehistoric animal.
A law banning smoking in cafes, bars, restaurants, hotels, shops, markets, shopping centers and long-distance journeys on ships and trains came into effect in Russia on 1 June 2014.
Ban on smoking in certain public places came into effect in Russia on 1 June 2013. The new legislation will see smoking prohibited within 15 meters of entrances to stations, airports, metro stations and ports, workplaces and entrances to apartment blocks, children's playgrounds and beaches.
Alexey Sitev, Sukhrob Kamolov and Alexander Smoleevskiy from Russia joined the project MARS-500 along with two Europeans and one Chinese. Under the project MARS-500 all six men were locked away from the outside world inside a sealed facility for the next 18 months, starting from 3 June 2010, in an unprecedented simulation of a manned mission to Mars.
Russia on 5 June 2015 successfully launched a military satellite into space by a Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center in northern Russia.
Russian Maria Sharapova won her second French Open tennis title beating Simona Halep 6-4, 6-7, 6-4 on 7 June 2014.
Russian superstar Maria Sharapova completed career grand slam after storming to French Open Women's singles title on 9 June 2012 with a straight-sets 6-3 6-2 triumph over Italian Sara Errani. Sharapova became the 10th woman in history to win all four major titles.
On 12 June 1991 Boris Yeltsin became the first democratically elected President of Russia.
Russia successfully launched a supply ship, Progress MS-06 cargo ship, to the International Space Station (ISS) on 14 June 2017 carried by a Soyuz-2.1a rocket.
Russian duo Valeriya Filenkova and Daria Kulagina won gold in the Synchronised Swimming duets free routine at the 2015 European Games.
Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova, a Soviet (Russian-Belarusian) cosmonaut, was the first woman to travel in space. She was on the Vostok 5 mission which launched on June 16, 1963, and orbited the Earth 48 times.
Russia on 17 June 2018 successfully launched a Glonass-M positioning satellite using a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket.
Alexander Georgiev from Russia won the Draughts World Championship on 19 June 2013. It was his sixth world title.
Bolgar Historical and Archaeological Complex in Russia, contains evidence of the medieval city of Bolgar, was inscribed in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)'s World Heritage List on 23 June 2014.
The first atomic power station in the world began production, at Obninsk, near Moscow on June 27, 1954. The power plant was graphite moderated, water cooled and had a capacity of only 5 MW.
Russia won the Beach Soccer gold medal at the 2015 European Games beating Italy 3-2 in the final.
A rare Roman coin dating back to the fourth century AD has been unearthed at an excavation site in the Russian city of Veliky Novgorod located some 550 kilometers (340 miles) northwest of Moscow, as revealed on 30 June 2014.
Russia successfully launched an unmanned cargo ship, Progress 60, to the International Space Station (ISS) atop a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 3 July 2015.
The UNESCO World Heritage Committee on 9 July 2017 inscribed the Assumption Cathedral and Monastery of the town-island of Sviyazhsk in Russia as the World Heritage site.
Russia's Angara rocket, the first space rocket developed in the post-Soviet Russia, successfully completed its maiden suborbital test flight on 9 July 2014.
Russia and Argentina on 13 July 2014 signed a nuclear energy deal whereby the Russian atomic energy corporation Rosatom will help Buenos Aires expand its nuclear energy production.
Russian students won three gold and three silver medals in the prestigious 2014 International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) held in Cape Town, South Africa.
A Russian Soyuz-2.1a launch vehicle successfully delivered 73 satellites into three different orbits on 14 July 2017, including an Earth observation satellite Kanopus-V-IK.
Russian Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina claimed their first Wimbledon ladies' doubles tennis title beating Hao-Ching Chan and Monica Niculescu 6-0, 6-0 in the final on 15 July 2017.
A Russian rocket carrying an international crew of three successfully blasted off on 15 July 2012 for the International Space Station in the first manned mission in two months, where they will quickly start preparing for a frenzy of incoming traffic.
The first mobile solar-powered ATM in Russia has been installed in the Siberian region of Tuva, according to an official statement by the Kyzyl branch of Sberbank on 16 July 2012. The solar-powered ATM looks like a regular cash dispenser; the only difference is that it draws energy from 16 solar batteries fixed on its roof.
Russia (Soviet Union) was the proud organizer of the 1980 Summer Olympic Games. The games were held in Moscow from 19 July to 3 August 1980.
A Russian Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian, an American and a Japanese astronauts successfully docked with the International Space Station on 23 July 2015. The Soyuz TMA-17M capsule carried Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA's Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui of Japan.
The first ever example of a plant-eating dinosaur with feathers and scales, named Kulindradromeus zabaikalicus, has been discovered in Russia. The finding could mean that feathered dinosaurs were widespread than previously thought, as Russian scientists reported in the journal Science on 25 July 2014 in collaboration with a team of international researchers.
Russian scientists have discovered a new type of mineral, named uakitite, in a meteorite in Siberia, as revealed on 27 July 2018 at the Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society in the Russian capital of Moscow.
Russian swimmer Yuliya Efimova won the women's 200m breaststroke title at the 2017 world championships in Budapest.
A three-man space crew from Russia, Italy and the United States on 28 July 2017 arrived at the International Space Station in just 6 hours for a five-month mission.
Team Russia was announced as the winner in the Games category at the 2014 Microsoft Imagine Cup for their game TurnOn, an adventure game in which the user plays as an electrical spark which is trying to restore power to a city.
Russian researchers have detected subatomic particles Neutrinos in earth's mantle using the Borexino detector at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy. Their findings are expected to yield insights into what radioactive elements lie deep inside the earth and were detailed in the journal Physical Review D on 7 August 2015.
Khasan Khalmurzaev of Russia won the men's 81kg judo gold at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games in Brazil.
Russia won synchronized swimming team gold at London Olympics on 10 August 2012, giving the country its fourth consecutive gold medal in the event.
Russia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan signed an agreement on 12 August 2018 for collective use of the Caspian sea after two decades of negotiations.
Russian high jumper Maria Lasitskene won gold at the 2017 World Athletics Championships in London.
Russian Yelena Isinbayeva won her third world pole vault title at the World Athletics Championships on 13 August 2013. Five years after her last major outdoor pole vault victory, the Russian won the gold with a leap of 4.89 metres.
Russian women's team represented by Grandmasters Alexandra Kosteniuk, Olga Girya, Valentina Gunina, Natalia Pogonina and Yekaterina Lagno won gold at the 2014 Chess Olympiad in Norway's Tromso, grabbing the title of the world's champions for the third consecutive time.
Russia and China launched their first-ever joint military exercises, named "Peace Mission 2005", on 18 August 2005 — an eight-day event that symbolizes the two countries' bolstered ties.
Russian archeologists have found an exceptionally rare 'beard kopek' - a coin that men had to buy under the ruler of Russian Empire Peter the Great if they wanted to remain unshaven. The newly found coin was discovered in a ruined 17th Century building in the Russian city of Pskov alongside a haul of 5,000 other ancient coins, as revealed on 25 August 2018.
Russia (former Soviet Union) conducted its first nuclear test on August 29, 1949. Russia was the second country in the world to successfully develop and test nuclear weapon.
A Russian Soyuz-FG rocket, carrying three new International Space Station (ISS) crew members aboard a Russian Soyuz TMA-18M spacecraft, was successfully lifted off on 2 September 2015.
Russia's Saint Petersburg was recognised as Europe's Leading Destination for the second year in succession at the 2016 World Travel Awards.
Russian director Andrej Koncalovskij won the Silver Lion award for his film The Postman's White Nights at the 2014 Venice Film Festival.
Russian and French scientists have unearthed a 30,000-year-old giant virus in the frozen wastelands of Siberia, and have warned climate change in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions could awaken dangerous microscopic pathogens thought to be eradicated, as published on 8 September 2015.
The 24th summit of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), a forum of Economic Leaders' of the Pacific Rim countries, was held in Vladivostok, Russia on September 8-9, 2012.
Russia won gold medal in the Men's Football 7-a-side at the London Paralympics on 9 September 2012 beating Ukraine 1-0 in the final.
An international team of scientists have discovered well-preserved frozen woolly mammoth fragments deep in Siberia that may contain living cells, edging a tad closer to the "Jurassic Park" possibility of cloning a prehistoric animal, the mission's organizer said on 11 September 2012.
Russian Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft carrying two NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut successfully launched toward the International Space Station (ISS) 12 September 2017.
Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka broke the record for the longest amount of time spent in space as he returned from the International Space Station on 12 September 2015. Padalka totaled 879 days in space over five trips.
Russia successfully launched a Proton-M rocket, carrying the Russian Ekspress-AM8 communications satellite, on 14 September 2015 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
On 15 September 2010, Russia and Norway signed a treaty establishing the maritime boundary between the two countries in the Barents Sea and the Arctic Ocean which ended a bitter 40-year dispute over their maritime borders.
A team of international scientists, including researcher from Russia, has carried out the first DNA analysis of the tiger, lion and snow leopard in an effort to help critically-endangered cats to survive. The research, published on 17 September 2013 in the journal Nature Communications, gives clues to how big cats evolved to become top predators with superior muscle strength and a carnivorous diet.
Russian, German and Australian scientists have discovered molecules of fat in an ancient fossil to reveal the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived on Earth 558 million years ago. The fossil of the mysterious creature, called Dickinsonia, was detailed in the journal Science on 21 September 2018.
Russia launched three members of the International Space Station (ISS) crew, including Yelena Serova - first Russian woman in ISS for the first time in 17 years, on 25 September 2014. Yelena and two male colleagues, an American and a Russian, docked with the ISS six hours after blasting off from Kazakhstan in a Soyuz spacecraft.
Two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off on 26 September 2013 for the International Space Station (ISS) atop a Soyuz rocket that successfully docked with the ISS in less than six hours.
Alexandra Kosteniuk (also known as The Chess Queen), 2008 Women's World Chess Champion, from Russia became Woman Grandmaster at the age of 14. She scored all necessary norms for Woman Grandmaster by early 1998 at the age of 13 years and 10 months but the Grandmaster title was officially given to her at the 33rd Chess Olympiad, took place between September 26 and October 13, 1998. [Source (Book): How I became Grandmaster at age 14 by Alexandra Kosteniuk].
Russian professional tennis player Nadia Petrova stunned Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland in the 2012 Pan Pacific Open tournament final in Tokyo winning in three sets 6-0 1-6 6-3.
Russian human rights group Joint Mobile Group won the 2013 Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders on 8 October 2013 for its dedicated effort to defend human rights in Chechnya. The award - is given by an association among ten of the world's leading human rights NGOs - is granted annually to someone who has demonstrated an exceptional record of combating human rights violations by courageous and innovative means.
Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov from Russia won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 for his struggle for human rights, disarmament and international peace cooperation.
Physicist Zhores I. Alferov from A.F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia jointly won the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics.
Marina Potoker of Russia was included in the BBC global list of 100 inspirational and innovative women for 2017 for her personal development programmes for staffs at Rockwool Russia.
Russia and China on 13 October 2014 signed bilateral agreements covering economy, trade, investment, energy, finance, high-tech and a Local Currency Swap Agreement worth 150 billion Yuan/815 billion Ruble for the purpose of facilitating bilateral trade and direct investment and promoting economic development in the two countries.
An unmanned cargo ship carrying supplies to the International Space Station (ISS) was launched by Russia from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 14 October 2017.
Former world number one Maria Sharapova of Russia won her first WTA title since 2015, outlasting Aryna Sabalenka in two tough sets 7-5 7-6 (10-8) to claim the 2018 Tianjin Open tennis title.
Dmitry Moiseenko of Russia won the 2015 EPSON International Pano Awards in the VR/360 category for his breathtaking interactive aerial image of the Klyuchevskaya Sopka volcano.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, former president of the Soviet Union, was awarded the 1990 Nobel Peace Prize for his leading role in various peace processes and attempts to reform old Soviet policies.
Divers in Russia manage to recover a half-tonne chunk of the space rock from Chebarkul Lake on 16 October 2013 that exploded over Chelyabinsk earlier this year. It is one of the largest meteorite fragments found to date.
Russian Soyuz MS-02 spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American successfully blasted off for the International Space Station on 19 October 2016.
Russian journalist Ilya Barabanov was awarded the 2010 Peter Mackler Award by Global Media Forum and the US branch of Reporters Without Borders for his work to expose official corruption on October 22, 2010.
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft with US-Russian crew blasted off successfully on 23 October 2012 to deliver NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Russians Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin to the International Space Station.
Ms. Valentina Tereshkova of Russia, the first woman in space, was awarded the inaugural UNESCO Medal on Space Science at the UNESCO Headquarters on 27 October 2017.
Russian director Alexei Popogrebsky's psychological Arctic drama How I Ended this Summer received the best film award at the 2010 London Film Festival.
The historic Bolshoi Theatre, considered as one of the world's greatest theatres, in Moscow reopened on 28 October 2011 after a six-year renovation program that has returned the cultural icon to its pre-Soviet glory.
Russia reached an agreement with Georgia on a bilateral deal on 2 November 2011 that paves the way for its much-anticipated entry into the World Trade Organization. Russian entry would come after 18 years of negotiations and represent the biggest step in world trade liberalization since China joined a decade ago.
Russia successfully launched two telecommunications satellites into space on 3 November 2012. A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying both the satellites blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
Laika, a female Russian breed dog, was launched into space by the Russian scientists on 3 November 1957. Laika was the first ever living creature into space.
A three-man crew successfully blasted off into space on 6 November 2013 with the Olympic torch for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket. The torch is on its way to the International Space Station (ISS), where it will be taken into space on the Olympic flame's first spacewalk in history.
After 13 years of planning and two years of construction Russia started commercial natural gas deliveries to Central Europe via the Nord Stream, an offshore natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, on 8 November 2011.
Russia on 11 November 2014 signed a deal with Iran to build two new nuclear reactors in Iran aimed at peaceful use of atomic energy.
Russian skier Roman Petushkov won Best Male Athlete Award at the 2015 Paralympic Awards after becoming the first athlete in history to win six gold medals (four biathlon races and two mixed relay cross-country events) at a single Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014.
An unmanned Russian cargo rocket successfully blasted off toward the International Space Station (ISS) on 16 November 2018 carrying essential supplies to the ISS.
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying an American and a French astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut was successfully launched to the International Space Station on 17 November 2016 for a six-month mission.
The Blue Stream gas pipeline, for the transport of gas from Russia to Turkey, was officially inaugurated on November 17, 2005. It was opened as the deepest underwater pipeline in the world.
European Space Agency (ESA)'s three-satellite Swarm constellation was lofted into a near-polar orbit by a Russian Rockot launcher on 22 November 2013. For four years, it will monitor Earth's magnetic field, from the depth of our planet's core to the heights of its upper atmosphere.
Russian national chess men's and women's teams won the 2015 European Team Chess Championships in Iceland.
Nadira Isayeva, editor-in-chief of Chernovik in Russia, was one of the recipients of the Committee to Protect Journalists' 20th Annual International Press Freedom Awards. Nadira was awarded at a ceremony on 23 November 2010 for her brave reporting on the misconducts of the regional authorities.
A Russian Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts from Russia, the United States and Italy successfully docked with the International Space Station on 24 November 2014, in less than six hours after it was launched from Kazakhstan.
Russian singer Polina Bogusevich won the Junior Eurovision song contest with the song Wings in Georgia on 26 November 2017.
Russian students secured the seventh place at the global maths and science ranking, according to the International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) released on 29 November 2016.
Russian weightlifter Aleksei Lovchev won the gold medal at the 2015 IWF World Weightlifting Championship in Houston, TX, in the +105 kg weight class.
A Russian-made Soyuz rocket blasted off from French Guiana on 1 December 2012 and placed into orbit an Earth observation satellite for France. It is the fourth time that Soyuz, which first flew in 1966 and traces its roots back even further to the earliest Cold War intercontinental ballistic missiles, has been launched from outside its former Soviet bases.
Russia on 3 December 2018 successfully launched three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) on the first manned Soyuz rocket launch since a dramatic failure in October 2018.
Dr. Yury Darman is a champion of the Russian conservation movement who has devoted 40 years of professional service to the Amur River − one of the ten greatest rivers in the world was awarded the 2016 MIDORI Prize for Biodiversity by the United Nations.
Denis Yuskov of Russia won the men's 1,500 meters gold at the Speedskating World Cup on 4 December 2017 in Calgary.
Russia's first domestically designed smartphone, the YotaPhone, was unveiled in Moscow on 4 December 2013 by Yota Devices, featuring an always-on second screen as a unique feature. The screen on the back mirrors the information on the main screen, without wasting energy.
Vadim Balakin of Russia won the first place at the 2016 National Geographic Nature Photographer of the Year contest in Environmental Issues category for his image Life and Death.
Russia and Egypt signed a 30-billion-dollar contract on 11 December 2017 for the building of Egypt's first nuclear power plant, during a visit to Cairo by President Vladimir Putin.
Russian wrestler Ramazan Abacharaev won gold medal in the men's 80kg category at the 2016 World Championships finale in Budapest.
Russian duo Ksenia Stolbova and Fedor Klimov claimed gold in the International Skating Union (ISU) Grand Prix Final of figure skating on 11 December 2015.
Ulyanovsk of Russia was declared as the member of the 2015 UNESCO Creative Cities Network in the Literature category.
Russia and India signed series of cooperation agreements at the 15th annual Indo-Russian bilateral summit on 11 December 2014, including two concerning the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.
Russian film Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza won the Best Animated Feature Film award at the seventh annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards, the region's highest accolade in film, announced at a ceremony in Brisbane, Australia on 12 December 2013.
Julia Kourotchkina from Russia won the 42nd Miss World pageant at the age of 18. The event was held on December 12, 1992 in Sun City Entertainment Center, Sun City, South Africa.
Russia and Belarus on 13 December 2013 signed an intergovernmental agreement on cooperation in the use and development of the Russian global satellite navigation system (GLONASS).
Ksenia Sukhinova from the Russia won the 2008 Miss World title on December 13, 2008 at the age of 21. She was the second Russian beauty pageant to win the title.
Russia and Cyprus signed a customs agreement on 14 December 2012 setting out mechanisms to tackle customs offences in commercial relations between the two countries. The aim of the agreement is to promote cooperation between the two countries' customs authorities, and provide mechanisms to investigate customs offences that are in violation of customs laws and regulations.
Russian built first hybrid car was unveiled on December 14, 2010 by Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. The hybrid car operates on a combination of electricity and gasoline.
Russian Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft successfully delivered a Russian, an American and a Briton to the International Space Station on 15 December 2015 to begin a six-month science mission on the laboratory in orbit.
Russia joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), an organization commenced to deal with the rules of trade between nations, on 16 December 2011, after 18 years negotiating its membership.
A Russian capsule carrying three astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States was successfully launched for a two-day trip to the International Space Station on 17 December 2017 from Russia's manned space-launch complex in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
The United Arab Emirates and Russia on 17 December 2012 signed a bilateral cooperation agreement in the field of peaceful nuclear energy. The agreement comes in line with the UAE policy on the development of a national nuclear energy program.
The most complete sequence to date of the Neanderthal genome, using DNA extracted from a woman's toe bone found in Denisova Cave, Siberia that dates back 50,000 years, reveals a long history of interbreeding among at least four different types of early humans living in Europe and Asia at that time, according to a study published on 18 December 2013 by researchers from Russia and their international colleagues.
A team of Russian and American scientists has discovered a previously-unknown dwarf galaxy KKs3 located about 7 million light years away from the Milky Way. Their findings were reported on 19 December 2014 in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Scientists from Russia, France and the USA have created a map of the distribution of water vapor in Mars' atmosphere. Their research, reported on 19 December 2014, includes observations of seasonal variations in atmospheric concentrations using data collected over ten years by the Russian-French SPICAM spectrometer aboard the Mars Express orbiter.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft carrying a Russian, an American and a Canadian blasted off on 19 December 2012 to the International Space Station (ISS), where the men are to spend half a year in orbit.
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko was launched to space aboard the Soyuz TMA-3M spacecraft on 21 December 2011 from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Oleg is destined to perform his duty at the International Space Station.
Russia successfully tested a new, heavy load space rocket Angara -A5 on 23 December 2014. Angara is built to replace the Soyuz, a rocket of the Soviet and then Russian space program, designed more than four decades ago.
Russia and Pakistan on 23 December 2014 signed an energy deal worth USD 1.7 billion to lay a gas pipeline from Karachi to Lahore.
Russia and India sealed defence deals, to buy 71 Russian military helicopters worth $1.3 billion and Russian kits to assemble 42 Sukhoi fighter jets worth $1.6 billion, on 24 December 2012 in a move to modernize India's armed forces.
Russia's 4,740-kilometre-long East Asia oil pipeline went officially into service on 25 December 2012, with the completion of the section which runs between the Siberian city of Skovorodino and the Pacific port of Kosmino.
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Rolling through Jackson Hole on the way into Grand Teton National Park for the first time, I spotted a boy on the cycle path alongside the road.
His family was a few yards behind him, and the Tetons were off to his left, their ragged, snowy peaks jutting above the Snake River and miles of meadow. The boy was taking it all in, his helmeted head tilted back. His legs were pumping. And his arms were off the handlebars, thrown out in scarecrow fashion. He was the King of the World, astride a shiny bike instead of a doomed ocean liner.
That's why, on some summer days, 35,000 visitors or more can be found prowling the 50-mile-long valley known as Jackson Hole: They want to be that boy.
The aspens and cottonwoods along the Snake River, the prospect of a meandering moose around every bend, the Teton peaks rising beyond 12,000 feet — this landscape demands that you climb a mountain, cross a creek, ride a horse, raft the river, then maybe leap from one of these serrated peaks in a paraglider, screaming with glee.
It helps, of course, if you're rich. Even in the current slump, some fancy travelers spend $695 a night to sleep at the Four Seasons resort here, and others drop $875 for a suite at the Amangani resort. Even at the national park's Jackson Lake Lodge — an ugly, brown box with a grand location — rates start at a daunting $224 for a room with no view, no TV and no air-conditioning.
From LAX, United offers nonstop service and Delta and United offering connecting (change of planes) service to the Jackson Hole, Wyo., airport.
But I'm here to say there's room for the rest of us too, especially if you book well in advance. Even in the peak of summer, a family can snag a room or cabins for well south of $200 a night. Serious penny-pinchers can grab basic rooms at the centrally located Kudar Motel for $89 (no pool, though). Those with higher style and green sensibilities can book the Hotel Terra Jackson Hole in nearby Teton Village at $199 and up. Traveling in late June with my wife, Mary Frances, and our 6-year-old, Grace, I split the difference and paid $142 (with auto club discount) for a snug, playground-adjacent cabin at the Cowboy Village Resort, about six blocks from Jackson's town square.
If we had waited two months, we might have cut costs even more. Around Labor Day, prices fall dramatically, and they keep falling as temperatures sink, the aspens and cottonwoods go golden, and furry beasts creep down from the mountains to their winter haven in the National Elk Refuge just outside of town. This year, those $695 rooms at the Four Seasons fall to $183 if you book a three-night stay between Sept. 29 and Dec. 12.
But you have to do some homework. Afternoon highs sink from near 80 in July to the mid-50s in October, and many businesses close for the season.
In Teton Village, for instance, the Aerial Tram runs May 29-Sept. 25. Couloir, the fancy restaurant at the top of Teton Village's Bridger Gondola, runs June 27-Sept. 10. The Bar T 5 Covered Wagon Cookout, which carries customers by horse-drawn carriage to a cowboy dinner and entertainment in Cache Creek Canyon outside Jackson, runs May 12-Sept. 30.
Inside the park, the Jenny Lake Lodge operates May 30-Oct. 10, and the lake's shuttle boat and canoe and kayak rental operation run May 15-Sept. 30. The Jackson Lake Lodge, cabins and restaurants operate May 21-Oct. 3. (At Yellowstone National Park, which begins eight miles north of Grand Teton National Park, many lodgings and restaurants end their seasons even sooner.) The Jackson Hole Fall Arts Festival, which brings artists, music and cowboy poetry to town, runs Sept. 9-19.
We started in the town of Jackson (about 9,000), which was laid out in the 1890s. From the beginning, the town was a looker, its little grid of log cabins cradled by curvaceous hills. By day in summer, those steep hills gleam neon green. By night, they stand in theatrical silhouette under skies that stay blue well beyond 9 p.m.
The place looks so much like a movie set that it's no surprise to learn that by the 1930s, John Wayne had shot one of his first Westerns here ("The Big Trail"). And the stagecraft has never stopped.
These days, Jackson is where the Old West meets new wealth, where (as Don Pitcher puts it in his Moon guidebook to the area) locals say billionaires are buying up so much land, they're driving out the millionaires.
Stick your head into one of those century-old log cabins near the square and you may find a tony restaurant that opened just this year (Café Genevieve on Broadway) or a slightly pricier one that's in its third decade (Sweetwater on King Street). In either restaurant, you'll find $20 entrees and drinks served in mason jars.
A few miles farther north, Jackson Hole Airport (inside the boundaries of Grand Teton National Park) is in the final months of a two-year expansion project.
On Wednesday and Saturday nights from late May through early September, the Jackson Hole Rodeo takes over the Teton County Fairgrounds.
Meanwhile, in town, Jackson's Center for the Arts (completed in late 2004) hosts concerts in a 500-seat theater. Alongside all the cowboy ritz, a Ripley's Believe It or Not! gallery has stood near the town square for more than a decade — a reminder that plenty of middle-class families pass through this town too.
As long as you're in western Wyoming, step outside now and again. One place to start is the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort's Teton Village, 12 miles north of Jackson, where they're working hard to attract summer travelers.
We rode the Jackson Hole Aerial Tram, which (since completion of a major upgrade in 2008) takes just nine minutes to whisk you from the valley floor (about 6,200 feet above sea level) to the top of Rendezvous Mountain (above 10,000 feet).
The round-trip costs $25 per adult. Here's how rich and generous some Jackson Hole tourists are: As we pulled into the parking lot, another family was getting ready to leave. Casually, the dad offered us two extra tram tickets free. Enjoy, he said.
From up top, we gazed down upon all creation (or so it seemed) and gorged (after a too-long wait) on waffles in Corbet's Cabin. Down below again, we rented bikes ($15 an hour).
Somewhere in there, we also strapped Grace into a bungee trampoline contraption ($12 for six minutes) and watched her giggle and bounce high into that big sky, making the same euphoric face as that boy on the bike. And then we came back later to the Teton Village stables for an hour-long trail ride ($35 per adult) on a tree-lined path used by cross-country skiers in winter.
The thing about the outdoors, though, is that you don't get that giddy, boy-on-bike result every time. While we were on top of Rendezvous Mountain, Jerry Moseley, a taxidermist from Georgia, decided to try a tandem paraglider ride. Somehow, his takeoff went haywire, and instead of running downhill and launching into the clear, blue yonder, the sixtyish Moseley and his guide staggered and bellyflopped onto the pebble-strewn snow.
It hurt just to be standing nearby. But give Moseley credit. He rose to his feet, scrambled back upslope, hollered, "Take 2!" and relaunched flawlessly with the same guide a few minutes later.
Once we were inside Grand Teton National Park, less than two miles north of Teton Village, we came across more staggering landscapes and another guy I didn't envy: the young man assigned to hold a stop sign to protect the workers upgrading the main road through the park.
I hope that road-crew job comes with a health plan.
Fortunately, the storm was brief. The park was otherwise in fine form, offering not only natural wonders but also good values. First, there was the entrance fee: $25 per vehicle, good for seven days in Grand Teton or Yellowstone to the north.
Then there was the boat ride across Jenny Lake — a mere $10 per person , and it gave us a chance to make the little hike to Hidden Falls and spot a marmot on the way. (The trail was crowded, but nobody was in a hurry and everybody was happy.) At the Jackson Lake stables, Grace was too young for a trail ride (you have to be 8), but just right for one of the $5 pony rides offered between 9 and 10 a.m. and again between 2 and 2:30 p.m.
At $224 nightly, the Jackson Lake Lodge wasn't a great value, if you measure by service and amenities, and I have to agree with those who say it could be the ugliest building in Wyoming. But the trees hide it pretty well. And when you're inside, looking out, you see only the greenery of Willow Flat, Jackson Lake and the Tetons.
In the evening, we sat on the terrace of the hotel's Blue Heron Lounge and watched clouds tumble past the peaks while a bunch of brown dots lounged in the distance (a herd of elk). Down in front of us, meanwhile, a bird-watching woman stared so intently through her binoculars that she never noticed the interloper creeping out of the nearby brush, strolling up the path, then brushing right past her ankles: a red fox.
The next morning, I crept out of our room about 6 a.m., grabbed coffee in the lobby, and climbed a gentle hill next to the lodge as the sun slowly rose. The light was coming from behind me now, and while I waited on the hilltop, the day's first rays shot across the valley and struck the Tetons at their peaks.
So maybe the hotel was worth it. Also, with all respect to the happy boy on the bike, that made two Wyoming euphoria moments within 16 hours. Doesn't that make me King of the World?


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A lot of people are looking to buy appliances that have low to moderate energy consumption. Not only will these appliances allow you to save on your electricity bill, but it will also benefit the environment. When it comes to a water heaters energy star rating, efficiency is an important consideration. Especially, seeing that these heaters are one of the top energy-consuming appliances.
Because of this, plumbing professionals and contractors are often consulted when a customer is looking to find a high-efficiency water heater. To help in this regard, the Environmental Protection Agency, also known as the EPA, developed the Energy Star Program. This helps to aid customers in pinpointing high-efficiency water heaters and other appliances. In this post, we look into the water heaters energy star rating in detail.
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Not all appliances are created equally. Various models' output relative to their energy requirements can differ quite a bit when comparing all of the models on the market. How does one know which appliances will require less energy?
The answer lies in the Energy Star label. When a water heater is Energy Star certified, it means that it is more energy-efficient than heaters that are not certified.
There are various factors that can qualify a water heater to become Energy Star certified. First, Energy Star appliances should be able to provide a customer with significant energy savings without performing poorly. When it comes to water heaters, acquiring an Energy Star label is difficult. The energy efficiency standards that qualify the product are very high in this category.
Among other things, certain requirements have to be met for the appliance to become eligible for the Energy Star Program.
Second, if the product meets these requirements, then it is classified as eligible. Then, the product would also have to meet the criteria set forth by the EPA to earn the Energy Star Label.
The EPA criteria can also vary depending on the type of water heater. The standards of the Energy Star Program are also not set in stone and subject to change.
As previously mentioned, a water heater must meet certain requirements for it to be eligible for the Energy Star program. These requirements vary depending on the type of heater you are trying to qualify for the program. Storage, tank, and tankless water heaters all have different requirements.
High-efficiency gas storage water heaters must comply with the following:
Have an input of 75,000 Btu per hour or less.
Store between 20-100 gallons of water
Electric water heaters heat pump storage models must comply with the following:
A maximum current rating of 24 amperes
An input lower or equal to 250 volts
Store a maximum of 120 gallons of water.
Tank water heaters or storage tanks must comply with the following:
Store and regulate the water's temperature up to a maximum of 180 F, no matter how the appliance is powered.
The production of heat must be activated when water flow is detected in the tank.
When it comes to capacity, the water tank must be able to contain 1 gallon of water per 4,000 Btu per hour of input.
An input of 50,000-200,000 Btu per hour is required
Only when an appliance meets all of the above requirements can it be considered eligible for water heaters Energy Star certification.
After reviewing a water heaters Energy Star program requirements and finding that it is indeed eligible for the program, it must then meet the EPA criteria for both safety and efficiency. If the product meets the EPA criteria, it will then be qualified to earn the Energy Star label.
As with the program requirements, the EPA criteria also differs based on the type of tank you have.
If you have an electric tank water heater you will have to make sure that the energy factor (EF) rating is at least 2.0 for tanks with a 55-gallon capacity. If your tank can hold more than 55 gallons, your EF rating will have to 2,2 at minimum to ensure high efficiency.
Furthermore, the first-hour rating (FHR), which is a rough estimation of how much water a unit will heat within the first hour of the heater reaching its top temperature, needs to be at least 50 gallons or more.
Another important criterion to meet is the manufacturer's warranty requirements. The appliance must be covered for a minimum of six years on sealed systems.
Electric tank appliances must also meet UL 174 and UL 1995 requirements to fully ensure the unit's safety. Lastly, the unit should be able to report the ambient temperature at which it operates.
With a high-efficiency gas tank water heater, it needs to ensure that the energy factor rating is at least 0.67 for heaters with a 55-gallon capacity or smaller. If the tank has a storage capacity of 55 gallons or more, the EF rating will have to be 0.77 or more. When it comes to the first-hour rating, the unit will need a rating of 67 gallons per hour minimum.
As with the electric tank model, the manufacturer's warranty on a high-efficiency gas tank water heater must be valid for 6 years or more. The appliance must also meet the requirements of ANSI Z21.10.1/CSA 4.1. to ensure the safety of the unit.
Tankless water heaters must have an energy factor rating of .90 or higher and be able to supply 2.5 GPM of water over a temperature of 77°F.
As in the case with all the other water tank heaters, the manufacturer's warranty should cover the unit for a minimum of 6 years, with a 5-year cover for the unit's individual parts. Lastly, the unit should meet the safety spec requirements of ANSI Z21.10.3/CSA 4.3.
When trying to understand the test benchmark, one should remember that the water heaters energy Star Rating is based on the energy input that is necessary to raise the temperature of 200 liters of water from about 60 to 140°F.
If your appliance is 100% efficient, then your energy input would be roughly 13761 MJ per year.
However, this is rarely the case since no application is 100% efficient. So in essence, the Star Rating Test calculates the actual amount of megajoules the appliance consumes to produce 200L of water at 140°F.
The maximum temperature in the test is set to 140°F because that is the minimum temperature setting required for the storage of water systems to prevent the build-up of bacterial growth or any other pathogens that could be harmful to humans.
One example of an Energy Star rated water heater is the Rheem Performance Platinum. This energy-efficient water heater has a temperature range between 37-145 °F.
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Tankless water heaters that continuously flow do not allow for the build-up of bacterial growth so they typically only go up to about 122 °F, which means they are even more energy-efficient.
If you're wondering what exactly determines the difference between each star in the water heaters Energy Star Program, the answer is pretty straight forward. In order to get a 1-Star rating, the base energy consumption of the appliance should be 28900 MJ maximum per year.
To get a star increase, it should increase in energy efficiency. More specifically, a one-star increase requires a 7% increase in efficiency which roughly translates into an energy input reduction of 2023 MJ per year.
The more stars a heater has, the more reductions in energy it needs to have. For example, 5-Star and 6-Star ratings require 28% and 35% energy reductions, respectively. As technology advances, some appliances claim to be nearing 7 Stars, which means that if we continue on this energy reducing trend, customers will definitely be able to use electricity more sparingly in the future.
It is important to remember that Star Ratings encapsulates both the start-up heating factor and the combustion efficiency into consideration when it comes to water heaters.
Based on the specific Star Rating you choose, you will have a good idea of the combustion efficiency of your appliance. Products that earn a 4-star rating have a combustion efficiency of 73%. However, 5-star heaters have 80% efficiency. While products that earn 6- and 7-star ratings will definitely be a bit more expensive, they can provide you with a combustion efficiency of 87% and 94%, respectively.
So, that's everything you need to know about water heaters Energy Star Rating. With energy efficiency becoming a really hot topic, knowing exactly what you can expect from your residential appliances is important to save on your monthly electric bill.
Whilst some Star Ratings indicate a higher level of energy efficiency, even just investing in an appliance with the lowest Star Rating will still be able to save you money in the long run. You don't need the highest efficiency model to save some money!
Apart from saving hot water heating costs, the Energy Star Program also enables you to have a smaller overall carbon footprint. This contributes to a more sustainable way of living.
Our advice is that you thoroughly research each tank's capacity and the water heaters energy star rating and efficiency before making your choice.
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Tim Tradder is a commercial and advertising photographer from South California, he works as a photojournalist with the newspaper company before he turned to be a commercial photographer. Today we have added the beautiful photography of Tim Tradder on the Dead of the Day which is represented as Las Muertas series meaning that the decoration of dead. The following photography in our showcase each represents one of the spring, autumn, summer and winter. This was make-up by the traditional person who were famous in this art. As the remembrance of all the dead souls who helps to live and guide us. We took this opportunity to thank them and also on behalf of you.


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Team 211 participated in the Li'l Stories Lab: Elephant Stories, where they researched elephants and created fictional elephant stories incorporating the facts they had learned. Students studied elephants, learned new vocabulary, and practiced collaborating with friends.
Team 406 participated in a week-long Li'l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. They retold the The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen and had a lot of fun creating their own fairy tales. Students practiced critical thinking, communication and collaborating.
Team 204 participated in a 4 day long Li'l Stories Lab, where they had a lot of fun retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and creating original stories based on the character of the book. Students learned about the basic insect life-cycle, story elements and sequencing, and shared their stories with their friends.
Team 211 participated in a 4 day long Li'l Stories Lab, where they had a lot of fun retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and creating original stories based on the character of the book. Students learned about the basic insect life-cycle, story elements and sequencing, and practiced collaborating with friends.
Team 303 participated in a 1 week long Li'l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. They retold the Ojibwa Legend "How the Beaver got his tale" and had a lot of fun creating their own pourquoi tales. Students practiced critical thinking, communication and collaborating.
Team 211 participated in a 3 day long Li'l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. They had a lot of fun practicing sight words or high frequency words in the context of story creation. Students captured their stories and shared their stories with their friends.
Team 211 participated in a 1 week long Li'l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. Students researched an animal (Elephant, Lion, and Monkey) and created animal stories incorporating the facts they had gathered from their research. Students captured their stories through image and audio and shared their stories with their friends in class.
Team 211 participated in a 6 week long Li'l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. Students retold a story by Eric Carle (The Tiny Seed, The Hungry Caterpillar, and The Greedy Python) and created original stories inspired by the book's characters or events. They captured their stories using our Li'l Stories app and presented their stories to the class.
Team 211 tested our Li'l Stories app. Students learned that if they wanted to share their drawings and other artifacts with friends online, they had to turn them into digital artifacts first. They used the Li'l Stories app to capture the weekend news stories they "wrote" earlier in the week: they took a photo of their drawing and then recorded their story. They were very excited to share their weekend news stories with their parents.
Li'l Stories has been collaborating with P.S. 43 since 2017. 1st and 2nd Grade classes have been using Li'l Stories for different curriculum units and learning goals.
2nd graders participated in a week-long Li'l Stories Lab, where they created, captured, and shared stories. They retold the The Ugly Duckling by Hans Christian Andersen and had a lot of fun creating their own fairy tales. Students practiced critical thinking, communication and working together with friends.
1st grade classes participated in a week-long Li'l Stories Lab, where they had a lot of fun creating fictional elephant stories while incorporating real facts they had learned. Students engaged in the collaborative process of researching a topic, and creating and sharing a narrative. They learned new vocabulary and practiced collaborating with friends.
1st Graders at P.S. 43 participated in a 1 week long Li'l Stories Lab, where they had a lot of fun retelling The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle and creating original stories based on the character of the book. Students learned about story elements and sequencing, practiced critical thinking, communication and collaborating with friends.
2nd Graders at P.S. 43 participated in a 1 week long Li'l Stories Lab, where they collaborated, created, captured, and shared stories. They had a lot of fun researching an animal and creating animal stories incorporating the facts they had gathered from their research. Students studied elephants, lions, meerkats, or monkeys.
Li'l Stories has been collaborating with CMA since early 2015. CMA is using the Li'l Stories tools in different ways—as brainstorming and planning tools in various art classes as well as custom activities.
"Art Stories" is a visual storytelling project that allows children to create their own stories inspired by artworks on view at CMA, and share them with friends, family, and the public. Children will look at artwork on view at the museum; make their own visual storyboards to tell a tale inspired by what they see; capture their stories through image and audio in the Media Lab and share their creations through presentations of selected stories on social media and documentation online.
Emily Collins, the teacher of Girl Stories—a free program for girls ages 12-15, who are interested in telling their stories through filmmaking, animation, and comics—used a custom version of the Li'l Stories storyboard for the brainstorming and planning phase of a collaborative animation project. The girls created an "I remember …" poem, consisting of 12 sentences with each girl contributing one "I remember …" line. They used the boards to plan their scenes and materials. Then they created animations of their poems based on their storyboards.
In the art colony Puppets on Film, Katya Buslo used the Li'l Stories framework to introduce her students to collaborative storytelling. Students brainstormed and planned in groups of 3-4 kids the story of their puppet films.
More about the Puppets on Film art colony on CMA's blog.
Li'l Stories runs labs throughout the year at conferences and in schools. We collaborate with teachers and create custom materials for their specific curriculum needs.
On March 10th, 2017, Li'l Stories participated in P.S. 261's Arts Day, a day-long, school-wide celebration of the arts with hands-on workshops presented by a working artist, arts assemblies and a school-wide arts project. We worked with 1st grade class 210: in groups of two, students created original stories inspired by the characters of the book Lulu and the Brontosaurus by Judith Viorst and shared their stories with the class.
Li'l Stories collaborated with teaching artist Rima Fand, who is using a custom version of the Li'l Stories storyboards as part of BRIDGES, an ArtsConnection residency exploring literacy through puppetry with early childhood in 2nd grade classes at PS 153Q.
On June 5th, 2016, Li'l Stories facilitated one of the activity tables at the Play and Learn Children's Festival—an interactive event with a wide range of engaging learning experiences and playful activities for kids attending the Brooklyn School Alternatives Conference. Children had lots of fun creating and sharing stories inspired by their favorite characters.


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VCA Inc. to Acquire Reference Laboratory Division (AVRL) from Abaxis, Inc.
by Jennifer Levin |
UNION CITY, Calif., March 19, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Abaxis, Inc. (NasdaqGS: ABAX), a medical products company manufacturing point-of-care blood analysis systems, and VCA Inc. (NasdaqGS: WOOF), a leading animal healthcare company in the United States and Canada, today jointly announced Antech Diagnostics, Inc., VCA's laboratory division, has agreed to acquire the assets of AVRL (Abaxis Veterinary Reference Laboratory) from Abaxis for $21 million in cash. The parties anticipate the transaction will close by the end of March. Abaxis, Inc. estimates that this activity will result in total pre-tax charges of approximately $10.0 to $12.0 million. This includes cash payments for employee-related costs, including costs for severance, contract termination and other associated costs, and a non-cash charge for the impairment of assets and other assets.
Through the sale of AVRL to Antech Diagnostics, Abaxis will be able to increase its focus on its core product offerings and bolster its co-marketing relationship with Antech Diagnostics. Representatives from Abaxis and Antech Diagnostics will continue to work together, in conjunction with our distribution partners, to market a complete diagnostic solution consisting of Abaxis point-of-care diagnostic products and Antech Diagnostic's reference lab services.
Clint Severson, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Abaxis, said, "AVRL was an exciting venture for Abaxis, and we are pleased that we had the opportunity to enter the reference lab market. We are proud of our accomplishments with AVRL, and we thank the many loyal customers that used our service. This transaction will allow us to return our focus to our state of the art point-of-care analyzers and with our Antech relationship, now enhanced by distribution, to offer a complete laboratory solution to customers. Antech has a national network of laboratories and a strong technology platform and we believe our customers will be well served."
Dr. Craig Tockman, Vice President of Sales and Marketing added, "The Abaxis – Antech co-marketing relationship has proven to be extremely effective for both companies, particularly in larger competitive accounts. Over the past year, and with the recent significant changes in the veterinary distribution landscape, this transaction strengthens the excellent partnership we have established by combining our joint marketing efforts with the relationships and capabilities of our distributors. Antech provides superior reference lab proximity and service, and we are proud to be their partner."
Josh Drake, President of Antech commented, "We see great benefit in the relationship between two demonstrated leaders in veterinary diagnostics and this only strengthens the respective sales and marketing capabilities of Antech Diagnostics and Abaxis. We are confident that this relationship will further the goals of both companies in providing a complete diagnostic solution offered through our extensive distribution partners to the veterinary community. Abaxis has proven to be a great partner for us and we look forward to working with Abaxis for many years to come."
About Abaxis
Abaxis develops, manufactures, markets and sells portable blood analysis systems for use in any veterinary or human patient-care setting to provide clinicians with rapid blood constituent measurements. The system consists of a compact, 5.1 kilogram (11.2 pounds), portable analyzer and a series of single-use plastic discs, called reagent discs, which contain all the chemicals required to perform a panel of up to 13 tests on veterinary patients and 14 tests on human patients. The system can be operated with minimal training and performs multiple routine tests on whole blood, serum or plasma samples. The system provides test results in less than 12 minutes with the precision and accuracy equivalent to a clinical laboratory analyzer. The veterinary business also provides to the animal health and research market a line of hematology instruments for point-of-care complete blood counts (CBC), a specialty instrument to screen for and detect clotting disorders and to measure equine fibrinogen levels, a handheld instrument for the rapid assessment of certain critical care tests and rapid point-of-care tests for Heartworm infections, Parvovirus, Giardia, Lyme disease, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, and FeLV-FIV. For more information, visit http://www.abaxis.com.
About VCA/Antech Diagnostics
VCA owns, operates and manages the largest networks of freestanding veterinary hospitals and veterinary-exclusive clinical laboratories in the country, is the largest provider of online communication, professional education and marketing solutions to the veterinary community, and supplies diagnostic imaging equipment to the veterinary industry. For further information on VCA, visit its website at www.vca.com.
Antech Diagnostic services more than 16,000 animal hospitals throughout North America through its network of more than 50 reference laboratories in the United States and Canada. Antech Diagnostic offers over 300 different tests in chemistry, pathology, endocrinology, serology, hematology, and microbiology and provides its clients with expert telemedicine with access to more than 400 board-certified specialists 24/7. For further information on Antech Diagnostics, visit its website at www.antechdiagnostics.com.
This press release includes, and our conference call will include, statements that constitute "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (the "Reform Act"), including but not limited to statements related to the closing and timing of closing of the transaction, Abaxis' cash position, financial resources and potential for future growth, market acceptance and penetration of new or planned product offerings, and future recurring revenues and results of operations. Abaxis claims the protection of the safe-harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Reform Act. These forward-looking statements are often characterized by the terms "may," "believes," "projects," "expects," "anticipates," or words of similar import, and do not reflect historical facts. Specific forward-looking statements contained in this press release or in Abaxis' conference call may be affected by risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, those related to risks related to the transition of its U.S. medical sales to Abbott, potential excess inventory levels and inventory imbalances at the company's distributors, losses or system failures with respect to Abaxis' facilities or manufacturing operations, fluctuations in quarterly operating results, dependence on sole suppliers, the market acceptance of Abaxis' products and services, the continuing development of its products, required United States Food and Drug Administration clearance and other government approvals, risks associated with manufacturing and distributing its products on a commercial scale free of defects, risks related to the introduction of new instruments manufactured by third parties, risks associated with competing in the human diagnostic market, risks related to the protection of Abaxis' intellectual property or claims of infringement of intellectual property asserted by third parties and risks related to condition of the United States economy. Readers should also refer to the section entitled "Risk Factors" in Abaxis' annual report on Form 10-K, recent quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and Abaxis' other periodic reports filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date the statements were made. Abaxis does not undertake and specifically disclaims any obligation to update any forward-looking statements.
Abaxis Inc.
VCA Inc.
Tom Fuller
Vice President, Business Development
& Investor Relations
Chief Financial Officer and Vice President
Lytham Partners, LLC
Joe Dorame, Robert Blum and Joe Diaz
Jennifer Levin