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Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Winston Peters has lauded former Prime Minister Mike Moore as "one of the great New Zealanders".
"Mike spent every day of his life trying to make things better for New Zealand and New Zealanders," Mr Peters said.
"From the time he was elected to Parliament at the age of 23, to his final year on this earth, he was constantly thinking about how to advance New Zealand's interests.
"Mike will be very sorely missed by everyone who knew him. He was a warm, passionate, funny, mischievous man, and my condolences go out to his wife Yvonne and the rest of his family.
"Mike was the rare politician whose outlook was improved by his life in politics. Mike seriously grew in the job. He took to heart the idea that it was his job to learn more about the issues, and evolve his views over time. He never stopped learning, which is rare in politics.
"Many New Zealanders will have fond memories of his political career – whether his championing of lamb burgers, his witty turn of phrase, his restless energy, or his passion for helping New Zealanders of all walks of life.
"By the time he left Parliament, Mike was a champion of the role that trade can play in lifting people out of poverty and improving living standards.
"As Foreign Minister, it's important to acknowledge Mike's role on the international stage: as the only New Zealander to lead the World Trade Organisation, and then as New Zealand's Ambassador to the United States.
"Everywhere he went, people saw the passion Mike had for New Zealand and connecting it to the world," Mr Peters said.
"The following quote which Mike loved was typical of his worldview: 'Well it works in practice, let's see if it works in theory!'"
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On Saturday 19th January, theclubandspa, located in Birmingham's iconic landmark, The Cube, is hosting an action-packed event to celebrate the launch of its new class timetable.
Taking place in Canalside – The Cube's very own events venue on level six – visitors can take part in a free programme of activities, between 9.30am and 2pm. With New Year's resolutions and getting active high on the agenda this January, theclubandspa is motivating people to keep to their health and fitness goals by encouraging them to try new activities in 2019.
There will be an opportunity for visitors to experience a variety of classes, including a nutrition seminar, relaxing yoga and high energy body attack, as well as food tastings and smoothies from The Cube's canal-side, Italian restaurant, Bardolino.
Visitors can secure a slot by registering through Eventbrite, searching for 'theclubandspa'. For more information on the event, visit www.thecube.co.uk or follow The Cube on social @thecubebirmingham on Facebook and Instagram, and @thecubebham on Twitter.


This is an artisan/hobby operation. We make quality concrete lawn and garden decorative casts and statuary for fun. Everything we do is superior to what can be found at garden centers and chain stores. Each piece is individually hand made. We specialize in benches, flower pots, lanterns, birdbaths, lawn jockeys, and other antique style statuary.
Quality: Everything we make is created with superior concrete, is vibrated down to reduce pits and increase strength, is rebar/wire reinforced, and rain sealed. Our products are the best quality possible!
Off Season: No new production in the winter. Too cold for pouring and painting. We do keep a few items in stock over the winter though. Everything in stock is 30% off. This is the epitome of the mom-and-pop operation (just two of us). Let us know about your project ASAP so we can start. We only operate on weekends, have regular jobs during the week.
Customizing: We have lots of folks asking for custom colors, dyes, stains, and special jockey silk paint schemes. Akiko is a professional artist at painting and staining concrete. If you have something in mind, contact us. If there are other options you'd like, such as reinforced concrete/extra rebar/etc., please ask.
Shipping: We only ship under special circumstances. Extremely Expensive!
Another bench for Mike, this time for Father's Day!
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Mother's Day Antiqued Bench for Mike. Thanks for the picture!
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Dave is a digital artist, graphic designer, and web developer. He is the owner of 9 Lives Design, an award-winning agency achieving recognition from the Association of Registered Graphic Designers (RGD) and Graphic Designers of Canada. His company won Northern Ontario Company of the Year in 2018 for its achievements in business, design, and community involvement. Prior to transitioning into design, Dave cross-country skied for Team Canada in eight world championships. While building his business, he earned a Bachelor of Design from York University and Sheridan College in Toronto with formal training in fine arts, graphic design, and interactive media.
Intoduction to 3D Digital Art
The Art Form
I have been an artist as long as I can remember. I started drawing and sketching, which evolved into painting with oil, acrylic, and watercolour. I decided to pursue my artist and creative talents by entering the graphic design program at York University and Sheridan College, which is how I got my start in digital art.
In 2015, I had the honour of meeting Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) at FITC Toronto. I was volunteering on the tech team which allowed me to chat with him before he started his presentation. I wasn't sure how or why he belonged at this conference as he fumbled with his oversized gaming laptop and self-deprecating humour. He asked Ash Thorp to present with him because he was "too much of a pussy" to speak alone and claimed that he didn't know how to deliver an inspiring presentation. You can actually watch this presentation (with the back of my head at the bottom of the frame) on his website. I felt bad for him as he clumsily started his presentation until he showed a reel of his work and my mind was blown. His work was like nothing I had ever seen before and this changed my career path. Prior to that day I had little to no experience with 3D software with my artistic focus on 2D graphic and web design. I've always had an interest in learning new art forms by studying the work to understand how it's created. This proved to be quite a challenge when studying Beeple's work because it was far more advanced than anything I had worked on before.
My first "Everyday" designed alongside Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) at his FITC Toronto workshop on April 8, 2018
Fast forward 3 years to 2018 when I revisited FITC Toronto to do a workshop with him. In the three years leading up to this conference, I spent some time learning Cinema 4D and applying it to client projects. My major limitation at the time was not having the proper hardware in order to perform the heavy-lifting of rendering 3D graphics—I am an Apple guy like most other graphic designers out there. I didn't know the ins and outs of realtime rendering with Octane and it felt impossible to design something of quality by using my MacBook Pro. This workshop was very inspiring and fast-tracked my learning curve. It was very interesting to understand the various pieces of software used by Beeple and other 3D artists in order to get these multi-layered graphics that, at first, seemed like an impossible feat to accomplish.
Since that workshop and after investing in the proper tools and hardware, I've gone in and out of doing "Everydays" to a point where I call them "Somedays". I've produced hundreds of renderings over the past few years but work and life tend to take the lion's share of my time. As I transition into the NFT space, I'm dedicating myself to the campaign of solely becoming a 3D Artist with support from the NFT community. Having the opportunity to design in 3D everyday will allow me to explore the art form that I love so much.
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Quantity: 100 mg in 100 ml (1 mg/ml) in PBS containing 0.02% sodium azide.
Description: Antibodies against senile plaque (SP) amyloid obtained a clone 9D2, which labeled amyloid fibrils in SPs and reacted with approximately 50/100 kDa polypeptides in Alzheimer's disease (AD) brains. The 9D2 antigen was identified as CLAC (collagen-like Alzheimer amyloid plaque component), and its precursor as CLAC-P/collagen type XXV. Both secreted and membrane-tethered forms of CLAC-P/collagen type XXV specifically bound to fibrillized Abeta, implicating these proteins in beta-amyloidogenesis and neuronal degeneration in AD.
Specificity: Reacts with residues 171-183 [NHGFLSADQQLIK] of the NC2-1 region of human and mouse CLAC-P. Detects bands of 50, 70 and 100 kDa in SPs of AD brain, but not in diffuse plaques of non-demented aged individuals, diffuse deposits in sub-cortical structures and cerebellum in AD nor in cerebral amyloid angiopathy.
Application: Western blot – Use at 1:500 dilution. However, the investigator should determine the optimal dilution for a specific application such as immunohistochemistry.
Storage: Maintain at +2-8°C for 3 months or at -20°C for longer periods. Stable for 1 year. Avoid repeated freeze-thaw cycles.
Reference: Hashimoto,T. et. al. EMBO J. 21 (7), 1524-1534 (2002).


The Government has launched negotiations for a Free Trade Agreement between New Zealand the the European Union (EU).
EU Trade Commissioner Dr Cecilia Malmstrom, described as the second most powerful woman in Europe, met with Trade Minister David Parker in Parliament on Thursday.
She wished Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern well on the birth of her child, and said: "we are also giving birth to something today, which is the launch of our Fair Trade Agreement, a very special opportunity".
Dr Malmstrom said today is an important milestone in EU-New Zealand relations.
"This agreement is an excellent opportunity to set ambitious common rules and shape globalisation, making trade easier while safeguarding sustainable development. We can lead by example."
But she acknowledged that agriculture is likely to be the biggest sticking point for any agreement.
"In all negotiations that I have been involved with during my time as Trade Commissioner, and there's quite a few, agriculture has always been the difficult thing in the very end."
"Yes there will be sensitivities on both sides, and a few other issues, but we are well aware of them. There is no hidden agenda here, we are very open about our sensitivities and we try to find a good compromise," she said.
Dr Malmstrom, a Swedish former academic, has served as Trade Commissioner since 2015. She represents the 28 member states of the European Union.
"We are standing up for rule-based world trade, based on openness and fairness," she said.
The EU is working simultaneously on a Free Trade Agreement with Australia, which launched earlier this week.
European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the talks follow successful agreements with Canada, Japan and other countries "committed to open and rules-based global trade".
The EU is New Zealand's third biggest trading partner, and last year the two-way trade in goods was worth $14.5bn and $7.4bn was exchanged in services.
The EU exports manufactured goods to New Zealand like transport equipment, machinery, appliances, chemicals, plastics and food.
The European Union says the agreement could increase overall trade in goods by almost 50 percent.
Mr Parker said there aren't many countries in the world that stand up for human rights, nuclear weapons controls, respect for minorities, support good labour laws, that hold up wages so we have high wage economy, invest in technology and believe strongly in solving environmental problems.
"But the countries that walk-the-talk includes the countries of Europe and New Zealand," he said.
The first formal round of negotiations is set to take place in Brussels next month.
While in New Zealand, Dr Malmstrom will also meet with Acting Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Winston Peters and will meet the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade select committee.
Asked whether she had any advice for the Prime Minister, who is currently in labour, Dr Malmstrom said: "I don't think it's my role to give her advice, I think she's doing formidably. It is not very often that we see sitting Prime Ministers also having babies but I think that is part of the modern world."


Last week was the start of the CH Marine Autumn Series. We were faced with a very unsure forecast, showing gusts of up to 30knots from the west. This did not leave much option for the RO's, but to set up their stalls inside the harbour. Thankfully this forecast did not materialise and we had a lovely sunny day with 10 – 15 knots from the west and all fleets got a full book of races in by 1430.
This year for the CH Marine Autumn Series we had 52 boats paid and entered, which is 6 boats up on last year. This broke down to, Class one 8 boats, class two 9 boats, class three 7 boats, Sportsboat class 10 boats, WhiteSail one 5 boats and WhiteSail two 13 boats. Its is very interesting to see that while all other classes are shrinking the WhiteSail class continues to grow, this seems to be a common trend across the country and maybe a result of the difficulty in getting crew.
With the above crew issue in mind, ICRA launched two very good programmes this year and last year, Cruiser racing training and Crew Point, both of which our club fully availed of. If you are part of the Keelboats WhatsApp group in our club, you will have seen many new crews been offered on this platform and this is a result of using crew point on the club's website. Also last week you would have seen Northsails on the water with cameras, drones and all sorts of gadgetry, they were filming the racing, so that after sailing we could all sit down and learn from what they had to tell us about the way people sailed that day. This debrief was a great success with standing room only and will be on again next week focusing on Class three and WhiteSail and some footage from other classes. Check out the Clubs Facebook page to see a short video by Isla Media, the company working with Northsails to do the videos and professional editing.
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China to loosen one-child policy, end labour camps (updated)
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By Kevin Yao and Ben Blanchard
China unwrapped its boldest set of economic and social reforms in nearly three decades on Friday, relaxing its one-child policy and further freeing up markets in order to put the world's second-largest economy on a more stable footing.
The sweeping changes helped dispel doubts about the leadership's zest for the reforms needed to give the economy fresh momentum as three decades of breakneck expansion shows signs of faltering.
A reform document released by the Communist Party following a four-day conclave of its top brass promised land and residence registration reforms needed to boost China's urban population and allow its transition to a western-style service and consumption-driven economy.
Pricing of fuels, electricity and other key resources – now a source of major distortions – would be mainly decided by markets, while Beijing also pledged to speed up the opening up of its capital account and further financial liberalisation.
"The reforms are unprecedented," said Xu Hongcai, senior economist at the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, a well-connected Beijing think tank. "Reforms in 1990s were limited to some areas, now reforms are all-round."
President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, appointed in March, announced several breakthroughs in social policy, pledging to unify rural and urban social security systems and to abolish controversial labour camps, the official Xinhua news agency reported, citing the document.
The plans, more comprehensive and specific than initially thought, also dispelled concerns that Xi would need more time to take full charge of China's vast party and government bureaucracy.
China-watchers took the establishment of a working group to lead economic reform and a new State Security Council as further signs of how effectively Xi managed to consolidate power just eight months after he officially took over.
"This is almost an unprecedented move toward unlimited power," said Zhang Lifan, a Beijing-based historian and political commentator.
The initial brief reform outline published on Tuesday triggered a stock market sell-off, with investors taking its scant details as a sign of a lack of commitment on Xi's part or his inability to convert vested interests, such as powerful state-owned companies.
But a raft of specific policy plans ranging from interest rate and currency regime liberalisation to residence registration and land reforms and the opening up of some of the protected sectors to private and foreign firms seemed to put such concerns to rest.
The commitment to abolish labour camps was also remarkable, given that several political sources had told Reuters this was an area where Xi was facing much resistance.
Few commentators had also expected any significant attempts to reform powerful state monopolies, even though many economists argue that other reforms will have only limited success if the big state-owned firms' stranglehold on key markets is not tackled.
The initial outline of the plans on Tuesday had affirmed those firms' strategic role in the economy. But the longer report on Friday raised state firm dividend payments, allowed private firms to enter some of the protected sectors and encouraged them to take part in reforming the state-owned firms.
What appeared to be an early leak of the document on Chinese social media set off a rally in Chinese stock markets hours before its official release, with investors cheering its relatively detailed language on reforms.
Still, economists said that having a good plan was only part of the success and making the ambitious agenda a reality would be the new leaders' true challenge.
"Based on the headlines … they are moving in a positive direction," said Jan von Gerich, fixed income chief analyst with Nordea Bank in Helsinki. "But one should not get too carried away as this will be a long process."
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It's been about a month since Google last opened a new branch of Google Play Books and you know what that means: it's time for another expansion.
Google Play Books is now live in an additional 5 countries in South America. Readers in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, And Venezuela can now join Brazilians in buying ebooks from Google and reading them on their iDevice, Android, or ereader (except the Kindle).
In keeping with Google's past low key announcements, the Google Play team tweeted the news, which was confirmed by Google Play's help pages. This brings the total number of countries supported by Google Play Books to 44, including a broad swath of Europe, southeast Asia, Australia,most of North America, and now most of South America.
Google Play Books is now available in more countries than any other type of content which Google is selling, and at this point Google is far in the lead in terms of local ebookstores, with over twice as many local sites as the Kindle Store but still fewer supported countries than the 51 supported by Apple. What's more, Google's pace appears to be accelerating. The intervals between launches is getting shorter, having shrunk from several months down to 5 or 6 weeks and now under a month. At this rate Google will launch local ebookstores in most of the world by the end of 2014.


The Bank of England is going to permit European financial institutions to keep selling their services in Great Britain without having to create costly subsidiaries after Brexit. That's what the BBC informed on Wednesday.
The verdict, if confirmed, would mean that EU banks providing wholesale services wouldn't come across fresh hurdles to operating in London, taking on New York for the title of the global financial capital.
As a matter of fact, a BoE spokesman refused to comment on the report. The BoE is expected to unveil its approach to future supervision of foreign financial institutions at 1300 GMT.
The BoE's proposal could be interpreted as an indication of goodwill by the UK in Brexit negotiations and also an attempt to preserve Britain's position as the financial center that hosts more financial institutions than any other.
By the way, more than 100 financial institutions working in London appear to be branches of lenders headquartered in the European Union.


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Salima Ebrahim
By Gene Kosowan | November 1, 2016
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Job Title: Executive Director, Banff Forum
Why She's Top 40: She's one of the top public-policy thinkers in Canada, and is breaking down barriers.
Unexpected Hobby: "I love watching political dramas. House of Cards, The Good Wife, you name it!"
When Salima Ebrahim became the executive director of the Banff Forum, a national public policy organization that's in the same political big leagues as the Broadbent Institute and the Trudeau Foundation, she set some records.
For starters, she's currently the only female executive director of a think tank of that magnitude. And with Ebrahim being from Edmonton, it marked the first time the Forum moved to western Canada, given that the organization bases itself in a municipality where the executive director resides – despite its Banff name.
But Ebrahim has loftier goals, such as looking to advance the leadership potential of First Nations, Metis and Inuit youth as well as attracting a younger crowd to become engaged in the world of public policy.
"We have a fairly strong focus on trying to get more individuals under the age of 40 involved in the public-policy process," she says, "And we have a strong belief that if you bring together people from different backgrounds, it actually leads to better public policy."
It's a big task for Ebrahim who earned a Master's degree in Science, Public Policy and Administration at the London School of Economics and earned a fellowship with the United Nations Office of High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Locally, she was part of the Mayor's Advisory Panel on Metro Edmonton's Future and is currently the chair of Anthology, part of the Friends of Edmonton Public Library Foundation. Despite those credentials, Ebrahim stresses that the key to the future of this city and country is in engaging more youth to pick up the reins.
"It's a generation that says 'We're here, we're ready, we're senior leaders already in the private sector and the not-for-profit sector,'" she says. "So that's going to have to be the case in the political sector as well."


LEESBURG, Fla. (Feb. 22, 2018) – Pro Jamie Horton of Centreville, Alabama, grabbed the early lead at the FLW Tour at the Harris Chain of Lakes presented by Lowrance Thursday with five bass weighing 24 pounds, 13 ounces. Horton will bring a 1-ounce advantage over second- place pro Koby Kreiger of Bokeelia, Florida, into Day Two of the event that features 368 of the world's best bass-fishing professionals and co-anglers casting for top awards of up to $125,000 cash in the Pro Division and up to $25,000 cash in the Co-angler Division.
Devere earned the day's $500 Simms Big Bass award in the Pro Division thanks to a 9-pound, 9-ounce largemouth.
Also for youth, the FLW Foundation's Unified Fishing Derby will be held at the Venetian Gardens on Saturday, Feb. 24 from 9-11 am. The event is hosted by FLW Foundation pro Cody Kelley along with other FLW Tour anglers, and is free and open to youth (18 and under) and Special Olympics athletes (all ages). Rods and reels are available for use, but youth are encouraged to bring their own if they own one. The 1st and 2nd place anglers that catch the biggest fish will be recognized Saturday on the FLW Tour stage, just prior to the pros weighing in.
Television coverage of the FLW Tour at the Harris Chain of Lakes presented by Lowrance will premiere in high-definition (HD) on NBC Sports Network (NBCSN) April 11 from Noon-1 p.m. EST. The Emmy-nominated "FLW" television show airs on NBCSN, the Pursuit Channel and the World Fishing Network and is broadcast to more than 564 million households worldwide.


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Between War and Neutrality
A reading of Edvard Munch's The Scream on Day 22 of the war in Ukraine.
Crop of Edvard Munch: The Scream. Lithograph, 1895. Photo © Munchmuseet
By Ute Falck, curator at MUNCH
Edvard Munch was living in a time which was marked by various wars, economic crises, and pandemics. We know that he was acutely aware of what was happening around him, and in the world - and yet his art is by and large remarkably unpolitical. Frustratingly unpolitical. At least, so it seems.
Munch's art is not postulating opinions, as for example Käthe Kollwitz's political artworks. Instead, Munch seems to prefer to confront the viewers with extremes, thus forcing them to position themselves. Munch's art is not about promoting a particular side, but rather challenging the viewers to reflect upon their own standpoints.
Seemingly innocent
A good example of such a wake-up-call is Munch's exhibition poster Neutralia, which he created for the Norwegian Art Exhibition held at the exhibition hall Charlottenborg in Copenhagen in 1915. According to one of the organisers, Professor Halfdan Strøm, the exhibition was probably "the best exhibition that Norwegian artists have ever had abroad". It included around 250 paintings, 150 prints and drawings and 21 sculptures, and amongst the numerous well-known participating artists were Christian Krohg, Fritz Taulow, and of course, Edvard Munch. Munch's contribution did not only include numerous artworks, but also the already mentioned exhibition poster.
The poster shows in the foreground two women picking apples. The seemingly innocent motif is a reoccurring subject in Munch's oeuvre, and he employed it, for example, for the decoration of the University Aula. Munch enjoyed playing with biblical references, such as the story of Eve tasting the forbidden fruit from the tree of knowledge. Here, the paradisiacal scene is placed by a shoreline, the background giving the view free onto a sailing ship struggling in stormy seas.
Curiously, the women in the foreground are not aware of the drama unfolding in the background. Having their backs turned towards the sea, they carry on with their task in happy unison. The poster is catalogued under the title Neutralia, which gives us a hint that there is more room for interpretation, as does the date of creation. In 1915 the War (later to be known as the First World War) was raging through Europe, presenting mankind with atrocities of previously unheard proportion. Already in 1915 it was clear that this war was not to be over soon, as initially widely believed. The general euphoria had already subsided, and the cruelties of the war were brought into every home by new technologies and mass media.
Edvard Munch: Neutralia. Lithograph, 1915. Foto © Munchmuseet
Neutrality and ignorance
Whilst England, France and Russia were united in their fight against Germany, Norway and Denmark chose to declare themselves neutral. Political neutrality is a difficult subject, and history seems to indicate that this may be better suited as an ideological concept than a liveable reality. As Munch shows us here graphically, neutrality can also be understood as an act of chosen ignorance, where one's own interests weight more than the plights of others.
Very interestingly, Munch had made the same comment 20 years earlier in his most famous motif The Scream. The key to the motif rests again in the juxtaposition of two scenes in the foreground and background.
In contrast to Neutralia, the drama is happening here in the foreground, right in front of our eyes. Whatever is happening, it is so large, so loud and so violent that everybody should notice it – no doubt about it. But instead of turning around and coming to aid the person in the foreground, the two men in the background continue their chosen path. Full of ignorance, they leave the tormented figure alone and behind.
Challenged by Munch
Before we know it, Munch has put us in the role of an observer with full view onto the whole situation. He makes us see how someone can undergo great horror, angst and pain, whilst others continue their lives.
It is as if Munch is challenging us: would we dare to help, or would we also rather keep distance and walk by? Just now these questions are more pressing than ever: there is war in Europe and humanity is crying for help – what do we do now?
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On Tuesday, July 20, 2010, 23-year-old Silvia Saldana, a resident of Los Angeles, has been arrested and booked for hit and run. A black 2003 Ford Expedition is also in custody.
LAPD South Traffic Detectives have obtained video footage which shows the suspect's car traveling eastbound 76th street approaching Hoover Street. The car continues, off screen, northbound onto Hoover Street killing Garcia.
The video footage can be viewed at LAPD Media Relations Section. Please call 213-486-5910.
Los Angeles: A child was struck and killed by a hit and run driver as he crossed a busy street in South Los Angeles.
On Thursday, July 15, 2010, at about 2:30 p.m., Natanael Garcia was walking in a marked crosswalk at 76th Street and Hoover Street. A driver travelling eastbound 76th Street made a left turn, to northbound Hoover Street, and hit Garcia. The driver stopped momentarily, but quickly drove off northbound Hoover Street, failing to render aid or identify herself as is required by law.
The driver is described as a female, Hispanic, with a long pony tail. She was driving a black or dark blue, large sports utility vehicle, with tan trim around the bottom, and stock wheels.
Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact South Traffic Division Detectives at 323-290-6063. During non-business hours or on weekends, calls should be directed to 1-877-LAPD-24-7. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous should call Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (800-222-8477). Tipsters may also contact Crimestoppers by texting to phone number 274637 (C-R-I-M-E-S on most keypads) with a cell phone. All text messages should begin with the letters "LAPD." Tipsters may also go to LAPDOnline.org, click on "webtips" and follow the prompts.


Wrapped myself up in all grey garments this weekend. My beloved Isabel Marant bomber has become a crucial part of my wardrobe and with so many brands including bomber jackets in their collections, I consider it to be a true must have in every girl's closet. I added a touch of laid-back glamour with my new shimmering Falke ankle socks and grabbed my bright pink Dior Rouge lipstick to infuse my grey look with some welcome boldness. What did your weekend look like?
I like the first picture ! Amazing bomber, pretty girl.....Perfect match for the colors I would say but.. why this Darel pants ?
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Traveling in the Carpathians
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spas, saunas, pools
treatment search
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Western Ukraine
Transcarpathian
Tyachiv district
Berehove district
Velyky Berezny district
Vynohradiv district
Volovets district
Irshava district
Mizhgirya district
Mukachevo district
Perechyn district
Rakhiv district
Svalyava district
Uzhgorod and the district
Khust district
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Bushtyno
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Hanychi
Hrushovo
Krychovo
Neresnytsya
Nyzhnya Apsha
Novobarovo
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Ruska Mokra
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Ternovo
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Chumalovo
Tyachiv district as a territorial unit was founded in 1946, with its centre located in Tyachiv village. Then in 1961 Tyachiv village became Tyachiv town.
It is situated in the south-eastern part of the Transcarpathian region, it borders with Khust, Mizhgirya and Rakhiv districts of the Transcarpathian region, on the North it borders with Ivano-Frankivsk region, on the South — with Romania. The district is one of the biggest in the Transcarpathians and in Ukraine (among village districts), its square is 1.8 thousand km2 (14% of the region's territory), its extension from the South and to the North is 100 km, and from the East to the West — 40 km. The biggest part of the territory is occupied by the mountains, the highest peak is Bratkivska mountain (1788 m). Altitude difference between the northern and the southern population centres is more than 300 m.
There are 8 rivers flowing through Tyachiv district, Tysa river (its length is 42 km) is the longest, then Tereblya river (41 km long) and Teresva river (56 km long).
Climate of the district
Climatic and relief conditions in the southern and in the northern parts of the district essentially differ from each other. Conditionally they are divided into three zones: lowlands, foothills and highlands. A strong mountain range protects the district territory from the northern winds (western and south-western winds predominate). The climate of the district is mild, temperate and damp in the foothills, and it is cold and very damp in the highlands. According to the Uholka weather service data (470 m above sea level), avarage monthly temperature in January is -4.5° C, in July +17.2° C, average annual temperature is +7.1°C. Average annual rainfall is 1390 mm.
In the district the snowiest place in Ukraine — Ruska Mokra village (Wet Kyiv Rus) is located. In average the snow cover lies there during 116 days per year. It is caused by the village specific location among the mountain ranges, which shade the village essentially.
The population is 171.8 thousand people. 27 nationalities live in Tyachiv district, among them there are Romanians (10.6%), Hungarians (3.4%) and Germans. There are places of their compact residence. For example, Nyzhnya Apsha village is almost Romanian. You will not hear Ukrainian there, and to communicate with local residents is easier in Russian. There are a lot of Hungarians in Tyachiv, some inscriptions there are doubled in Hungarian and in Ukrainian.
From the history of the district
In Tyachiv district settlements of ancient peoples of the Stone Age period were found, particularly in the Molochny Kamin cave (the Milky Stone) and nearby Dibrova village, they belong to the oldest settlements in the Transcarpathians. Nearby the village Ruske Pole (The Kyiv Rus Field) the site of an ancient settlement Kapuna was found (ХІ-ІV centuries BC), the Carpathian tumuli (IX century BC — ІІІ century AD); in Tyachiv town and in Bilovartsi village the fragments of settlements of the Kushtanovytska culture were found (VI-III centuries BC). Settlements of ancient epochs were found there: of the early paleolith (50 thousand years BC) in Dibrova village, of the late paleolith (30 thousand years BC) — in Velyka Uholka village and a settlement of the early Iron Age — in Solotvyno village.
In 1514 inhabitants took part in the antifeudal rebellion of the Hungarian peasantry under the Dyerd Dozhi guidance, and it grew into a war of all villages, which embraced the whole Hungary, including the Transcarpathians. After the peasant rebellion was put down, Tyachiv town together with other towns (Mukacheve, Uzhgorod, Vyshkove, Khust, Syhet, Solotvyno) was referred to as rebellious and was robbed, and had to pay a big contribution during two years.
The oldest German colonies in the Carpathians are located in Tyachiv district. They are Ust-Chorna village (former Konigsfeld), Ruska Mokra and Komsomolsk villages (former Nimetska Mokra). They appeared under the authority of the Austrian empress Maria Theresa in 1775. 50 loggers' families from Bud Ischl town (Upper Austria) moved to this remote nook of the Empire. Together with them, a priest, teacher and doctor moved there. Newcomers' main aim was to adjust constant woods delivery. And they managed it successfully, floating thousands of cubic metres of the woods annually. These colonies survived all the hard times, including the World War II, but they are becoming abandoned nowadays, as there are no well-paid jobs there.
The district has a high natural-recreational and tourist-health resort potential. 67 mineral springs have been found out there (including thermal springs), they contain to 20 microelements vital for the human health, and taking into consideration their medicinal properties, they are quite as good as the well-known waters of the Caucasus, the Czech Republic and France.
On the territory of the district there are 40 health resorts, tourist-recreational establishments and hotels. In Solotvyno village the health resort is located. Brine from Solotvyno salt lakes up to its properties is close to the Dead Sea brine. Round the salt lakes a score or two health resorts have been built, and there is also an allergologic hospital.
Rural tourism is being developed in Ust-Chorna, Dubove, Novoselytsya, Neresnytsya, Ternovo, Velyka Uholka and in Hanychi villages. Several pedestrian tourist routes have been paved and marked in the highlands.
Worth visiting:
Tyachiv town centre
The wooden St. Nicolas' Church (1604, beginning of ХVІІІ century), Nyzhnya Apsha
The wooden St. Nicolas' Church (1470, ХVІ century, 1770), Kolodne
The saline lakes, Solotvyno
The Allergy Clinic, Solotvyno
Hotels, hostels, campings, spa resorts
Price per person: from 100 UAH
bed only
Sunny Transcarpathians
Vernisazh
At Marta's
Dachia
Dacha-Tysa
Lvivska
Nița
Valakhiya
Astoriya
Carpathian Pearl
Dacia-Lux
Salt Crystal
Silver Paradise
Marilen - 7 Sisters
Solotvyno Resort
Pigushka Ranch
At Kozma's
Price per person: from 90 UAH
Crystal Hut
Oserel
At Shvaiher's
Hare's House
At Andriy's
Berg Wind
Restaurants, cafes, tastings
Annushka
Rybnyk
Tetyana Café
Maramurеsh
Rehabilitation, Spas, saunas, swimming pools
Ethnography Museum
Regional Museum of Ethnography
Silver Land
Tours, recreational activities
Not the Limit
Church of St. Nickolas
Nature monuments
Marmarosh tectonic area runs across the southern part of Uholka reserve within the steep middle mountains, it is piled with the low-powered limestone-marl and carbonaceous deposits of the Jurassic period. The district relief is characterised by the exotic calciferous crags 70 m high. Those are the blocks of the Jurassic limestone — klypens. They are surrounded by the younger rocks, which were deposited during the Chalky period and are named flishes. Numerous tectonic cracks in the limestone blocks, a great amount of the rainfall (to 1600 mm per year) promoted the caves and the tunnels development or their formation.
On the Uholka massif territory there are more than 30 karst cavities. Their entrances are located quite high (100-300 m high) above the valley level, and sometimes they are so overgrown with grass, that it is difficult to find them. The most caves are washed off and it is almost impossible to go through them. Probably, they present the remains of the old subterranean waterways, which remained after the Velyka Uholka and Mala Uholka river beds formation. It is also confirmed by the fact that the caves' entrances are on different levels regarding to the river beds, and their notches' roundness tells about the origin of the pressure-siphon underground waters circulation in the past. On this basis, it is possible to suppose that the caves, which are in the upper part of the water parting range are older than those, which are lower.
The Friendship Cave (Druzhba, Romania)
Druzhba is the biggest cave in the Ukrainian Carpathians and it is interesting for the modern underground channels studying, for the district's hydrology and also its karsting intensity.
The entrance to the pit is at a height of 500 m in the beech forest and on Mala Uholka suburbs. The entrance to the cave is at the bottom of a 3 m deep karst funnel of the ellipse-like shape (10х15 m) with sheer and abrupt walls. The pit is of the collapse type. It is obvious that the shaft formation began from below. Corrosion process (chemical limestone liquefying) was soaking from the top through the rifts in the rocks and it promoted the cupola formation at a certain depth, which was gradually growing up to the top. Growing higher and higher, the cupola almost reached the earth surface. Strong rains undermined a thin dike, it crumbled and formed a pit.
It is confirmed by the huge heap of the clumps at the precipice bottom. The pit walls are wet, the upper part is covered with moss. They have big and small niches, many horizontal and vertical cracks. The vertical part of the pit to the top of the cone-like bank is 21 m deep. The cone consists of the fine stones, mixed with soil and humus, which got into the pit after the collapse. 4 m from the wall cone, pits diverge almost square, forming the high hall ceiling, which is extended along the cave axis. The walls are hidden in the mysterious darkness of the cave. The lantern's ray wrests the walls fragments with thin tubes of stalactites, the enigmatic bushes with helictites, and an uneven, covered with the clumps, dirt floor from the everlasting darkness. The northern part of the hall is sown with the stalactites of different length and thickness. Many of them are enwinded by the tiny adornments of the stone tubes — helictites, which are interlaced. This part of the hall has a jut on the ceiling and looks like the jeweller's shop window, which is covered with the stone flowers, shined by the sun rays. Immediatelly behind the fairy forest with stalactites and helictites in the hall's wall there is a small slot of the northern way, it is a bit above the cave dirt floor. The slot is step by step getting narrower and forms the juts upwards. In some places it is very narrow and it is difficult to move through it. Having done several steep turns, the slope in 20 m becomes an impassable rift and a short spring flows out of it. The spring runs along the way dirt floor, forming small baths and cascades and when it reaches the hall, it disappears under the clumps heap. On the south the dirt floor abruptly gets lower and changes into the slimy talus, which leads to the slot of the mine under horizons. The way looks like a small well.
There a short spring appears again. Moving forward through new ways, going deeper and deeper, you can reach the faraway zones of the cave, in particular to its best hall named after Samanta Smith. In general, the cave presents a complex of beautiful halls and galleries, which are located on different levels. All the studied ways totally make 900 m, the depth is 45 m. Atmospheric temperature in different parts of the cave varies from 5°C to 8°C, humidity — 100%.
The Uholka Caves are a real natural science museum. It is interesting for archeologists and paleontologists because of the subterranean labyrinth in the Viv cliffs. It is a complex of caves with complicated ways interlacing, which is almost completely filled with small stones and animals' bones.
The Viv Cliff's Caves
They are located 2 km far from the forests of the Carpathian biosphere reserve. The entrances to the caves are on different levels to the north, east and south. In total 8 caves are found out. One of the biggest is the White Walls' Cave. Its ways' length is 118 m. The cave has 5 separate entrances. It is dry, just in some places there are small stalactites, and the walls are covered with the brown, yellow and white colours damp stains. Atmospheric temperature in diferrent parts of the cave varies from 3°C to 6°C, humidity — 100%.
The Viv Cave is the second by the cavities' ways length. Its ways' total length is 50 m. The cave is located in the tectonic rift between two plates, and that differs this cave from others. It is filled with clay and crushed stone of a big size (10-12 cm). The cave's average temperature is 5°C, humidity — 100%.
10 m far from one of the White Walls' Cave entrances (5 m below) there is an entrance to the Perlynova Cave (the Pearl Cave). Formerly they were connected, but later the ways became swollen and cluttered with clay and humus. Comparatively a small cave (about 38 m) is a unique example of the rifts waters influence onto the weakly soluble carbonaceous rocks. Besides stalactites, numerous calcitic globules appeared on the walls, because of their shine and beauty they remind pearls. The whole right wall of the cave is covered with the cascade excrescence, at some places it reaches the ceiling. The cave has two halls: the Hall of the Small Horseshoe Carrier and the Hall of the Fangs. In the second hall a great number of bear's fangs were found. The cave is damp, water drips somewhere and there are small amounts of water on the floor. Average atmospheric temperature is 5°C, humidity — 100%.
Having passed 200 m to the north-west from the Viv Cave, you can find an entrance to the Expeditionary well (the Uporna pit). The entrance is of an irregular lengthened shape 1.5х1 m. The cave is a karst pit of a washed type 24 m deep. At the end of it there are two halls. Somewhere the ceilings in the halls are decorated with a small amount of stalactites. The spring flows along the floor. Atmospheric temperature in the lower part of the cave is 6°C, humidity — 100%.
Other caves of the Viv Cliff are not big, their length is from 8 m to 29 m. Average atmospheric temperature is about 4°C, humidity — 100 %.
The Chur Cliff's Cavities
On the Mala Uholka river's right bank, opposite to the Viv Cliff (80 m higher), the beautiful Kopytsya and Chur rocky cliffs rise high. In the Chur cliff there are 7 karst cavities. The caves are not big, from 8 to 30 m long, they lie along the rifts in the limestone mass. Average temperature in the cavities is 5°C, humidity — 100%.
From the Chur Cliff to the northern east a hardly visible forest path runs across. It leads through the main water parting range at foot of two cliffs with small caves — the Yolkina Cave and the Sriblyasta Kraplyna Cave (the Silver Drop). Then it leads out to a new limestone massif (Hrebin), it is located between the two rivers — the Mala Uholka and the Velyka Uholka. It stretches from the west to the east, and it is 2 km long. There are 6 separate cavities on this massif. Nearby the caves, there are some other karst formations, and in particular grottoes and wells. The Crystal Walls Cave and the Bear's Fang Cave are the most interesting among them.
The Crystal Walls Cave
Nearby Mala Uholka village (close to Pohar mountain) a karst cave is located, it is located in the Jurassic limestone and is created with the help of two perpendicular chambers 5 m and 20 m long. The entrance to the Crystal Walls Cave is opposite to Uholska Plesha summit inside the cliff, which stretches from the south-east to the north-west. Walls are covered with milky-white crystal calcite and green excrescence, by their shape they remind wonderful fairy stone flowers. In the first transit chamber a well-kept bear's skull was found.
The Bear's Fang Cave
It is located 100 m to the east from the Crystal Walls Cave. It is located in a big curved rift, which intersects the limestone at an angle of 60°. A big entrance in the shape of a grotto 7х10 m is overloaded with limestone clumps, which crumbled from the right wall. Entering the cave, almost near the ceiling, you can see a slot leading to the upper floor, it is filled into the same rift. The cave is 30 m long, average atmospheric temperature is -5°C, humidity — 100%.
The Hrebin Cave
The Hrebin Cave is like an extension of the described caves, it is found out in 1958 by schoolchildren from Velyka Uholka village. It is situated on the Velyka Uholka river bank at the foot of a mountain range with the same name and it has two floors. The entrance starts with a small gallery in the shape of a keyhole. After 3 m the ceiling abruptly rises as high as 10 m. Underfoot you can see the hole which leads to a slightly inclined well 13 m deep. Inside the opposite wall, 12 m far from the well, there is a small opening. It is an extension of the cave, it first floor. The cave is beautiful — cascade waterfalls of stone go down the walls, tracery calcite curtains trail from the ceiling, and at the very beginning, immediately behind the narrow way, the view of the well opens in front of you, the ceiling is decorated with the pear-shaped and orbed ribbed excrescences. The Hrebin Cave is really big, it is 457.6 m3, and its length is 71 m. The distance between the ground and first floors is 29 m vertically. You can walk there full-length. Atmospheric temperature in the cave is 8.2°C, humidity — 100%.
The Molochny Kamin Cave (The Milky Stone Cave)
On the Velyka Uholka river bank, three great rocks rise above the forest. The biggest is the Milky Stone rock. It is compound of whitish-blue marble-like limestone, which justifies its name. The shape of the rock reminds a boomerang. It is all overgrown with forest and is dissected by a great amount of tectonic rifts. On its southern slope you can notice an elongated opening. This is the entrance to the cave, the inhabitants called the Milky Stone cave. Due to the spacious entrance (10х2.5 m) the cave is illuminated by the scattered daylight inside. After 5 m from the entrance the cave divaricates. The western way is dead ended, the eastern way crosses into a large hall 10х15 m big and 15 m high. At the height of 10 m the cave is prolonged inside the limestone massif as two perpendicular rifts combination, they end with a hall 5х10 m large. The total length of the cave is 92 m. Average atmospheric temperature in the large hall is -3°C, humidity — 100%. Primeval humnters' settlement was found out in the cave.
The caves of Mala Uholka and of Velyka Uholka differ by their inner morphological construction, by accumulating forms quantity and beauty, by floors' size and number. High caves concentration on such a small square tells about the intensity of the subterranean karst development in this district.
The Velyky Kamin mountain (The Great Stone mountain)
Bare jurassic limestones with a great amount of the fossilized fauna remnants.
The Karst or Stone Bridge
A unique natural arch, that has been created after the karst processes at the sea bottom, according to scientists. It consists of the marble-like limestone and is covered with thinned beech plantations, but the open plots of this huge clump are covered with moss and lichens, which are alternated by the rare fern turfs.
The mineral springs
The district is rich in mineral and geothermal waters.
More than 60 mineral springs in Tyachiv district contain up to 20 vital microelements. Especially rich in metals are the highland springs in Ust-Chorna, Ruska Mokra, Velyka Uholka and Tarasivka villages. There are springs with scarce in the Transcarpathians fluorine (Dobryanske and Novoselytsya villages) and with iodine (in Velyka Uholka and Ruska Mokra villages). The mineral waters are rich in silicic acid. That is a natural chemist's for prophylaxis and treatment for a range of diseases. In Velyka Uholka village there is a borehole with warm mineral water, and in Tereblya village there is one with geothermal water.
In 1558 when the ambassadors of the Moscow czar Ivan Hrozny (Ivan the Terrible) were coming back from Constantinople, they stayed at Uholka monastery, where 330 monks lived. They wrote a statement about their staying there, and mentioned about the mineral waters in the monastery's suburbs: "… In the mounatin valley there is a well, and inside — sweet water, which tastes as pear kvass. There are also other wells, but the water inside is like vinegar, or like sour cabbage soup… And in the mountains water flows from the stone, even warm water, it is possible to boil an egg… And a lot of people with different diseases come to bath in the waters and everyone recovers…»
Reserves and sanctuaries
On the territory of Tyachiv district Shyrokoluzhansky and Uholsky areas of the Carpathian reserve are located, as well as some other unique sanctuaries, where the Carpathian rare plants and animals are watched. In Bushtyno village there is a park of the ХVІІІ century.
Uholsky-Shyrokoluzhansky protected area (part of the Carpathian biosphere reserve)
It is located on the southern slopes of the Krasna mountain valley and on its powerful ramification — the Menchil mountain valley from 400 to 1280 m above sea level. The protected area is 15580 ha large. The geological base of the area is made of chalky and palaeogene periods deposits. The southern part of Uholsky forests is located in the northern rocky area. The district is characterized by big limestone blocks with a well-developed karst. Different karst shapes are represented there, and in particular there are more than 30 caves. The limestone cliffs, as high as 70 m, are original geomorphological creations.
The highest summits in the protected area are: Uholska Plesha (1108 m), Pohanska Kichera (1092 m), Vydnozhanska Kichera (1072 m), Vezha (937 m).
The area is located in the beech primeval forests, they also form the upper border of the forest at a height of 1200-1300 m. A bit higher, mostly in the coombs, the crooked forests fragments can appear. Under optimal ecological conditions, beech is characterized by a high vital capacity and it forms highly productive plantations with more than 600 m3/ha of wood reserves.
Beech primeval forests fauna of the massif is rather peculiar. You can see there such exclusive species, which are typical for taiga, as: lynx, long-tailed owl, black woodpecker, bullfinch, as well as you can see species typical for broad-leaved forests. These are black ouzel, middle, white-tergal and grey woodpeckers, spotted flycatcher, grosbeak, hazel dormouse, forest cat, wild boar, salamander. Habitual species for this territory are red deer, forest marten, red field-vole, buzzard, nuthatch, grass frog. The species are popular around the whole forest area in the Carpathians. Such animals as ermine, otter, eagle owl, black stork, forest boa, carpathian triton, etc. are among rare species, which are put down to the Red Book of Ukraine. The only river in the reserve, where danubian salmon from the Red Book can spawn is the Luzhanka river.
The fauna of the cheiroptera of the area is quite various, most of them are related to the karst caves. In total among them are 19 species, 8 of them belong to rare species. These are big and small horseshoe carriers, wide-eared regular, long-winged regular, tricoloured, long-eared and ciliate bats. In winter multitude of the bats in the subterranean shelters counts almost 1500 individuals, they are the big and prick-eared bats.
More than 1000 animals spend winter in Druzhba Cave alone, and they belong to 13 species. Insects are presented by typical Central European species. Among them there are such rare species as hermit beetle, beetle-deer, Alpine whiskered, big oak whiskered, etc. In Uholka karst caves unique fauna of the invertebrate-troglobionts* are distinguished, among them there is a chain of narrow-endemic species.
In the Carpathian biosphere reserve region there are several ethnic groups of Ukrainian mountain dwellers. They differ by their original culture, which first of all has been formed under severe mountain conditions' influence. As a result, a specific system of the environmental management has appeared. Some elements do not have analogs. In particular, a unique (for Europe) centre of highland milk sheep breeding and connected crafts have been preserved there. Mountain grasslands — mountain valleys in the VI-IX centuries were used by inhabitants for cattle pasture. Especially, local residents valued sheep, because they got everything from them: milk, cheese, brynza (a sheep milk cheese), wool, etc. Long-term pasturing, when cattle were pastured to the distant grasslands and were kept till autumn there, obtained the finished form in the Carpathians highland cattle breeding. It is connected with specific mountain valley farming existence, it has kept many archaic features untill now. All actions, which accompany it, are certainly connected with old rituals, they have partly preserved their pre-Christian meaning. Especially spectacular is the spring pasturing to the mountain grasslands, the so-called mountain valley movement, it is conducted with special solemnity and stable ceremonial.
The Arshychna sanctuary
Haying area on the water parting range (Pobyta mountain valley ramifications). It is founded to protect natural grouping of the mountain arnika, which is put down to the Red Book of Ukraine.
The Hladynsky sanctuary
It is located in the Chortiv quarter on the Gorgany southern megaslopes. It was founded to protect spruce and fir plantations from 300 to 400 years old. Both species have resonance timber, which is highly valued in musical instruments production.
The Kedrynsky sanctuary
It is located on Pobyta mountain valley spur, on the Water Parting Gorgany southern megaslope. It was founded to protect the Polish larch and European cedar pine tree, latter being a relict species. Larch grows in the reserve, isolated or in biogroups on the southern or adjacent slopes at an altitude of 1080-1240 m. Its main centre is at an altitude of 1200 m on the southern slope in a damp larch-cedar-pine bilberry place. The forest is 130-170 years old. In the upper layer you can see rare trees of a weeping birch, beech and mountain ash.
The Kernychny botanical sanctuary
Mountain pine tree, green alder tree on the stone scatterings, etc. are being protected.
Mineral resources, industry
Among important mineral resources in Tyachiv district, there is marble, almost 800 000 m3. In Novoselytsya village pink marble is mined. Marble quarries are also opened in the Krychovo, Uhlya, Kalyny, Vilhivtsi-Lazy and Hanychi villages.
Rock salt reserves in the district are 1.8 mlrd. tons. Salt reserves in Solotvyno field are almost 700 mln. tons. At first it was mined in the Bronze Age. Coins and remnants of an old salt mine were found out by the archeologists and they affirm, that salt from this region was even supplied to the Roman Empire. The salt deposits in Tereblya was being developed at the end of the XVIII century and at the beginning of the XX century; and it is temporarily closed. In Hanychi village there are also considerable deposits of lyparyth tuffs, and not far from Novoselytsya village there are deposits of limestone (more than 3 mln. tons).
In Ternovo, Hanychi, Chumalyovo, Uhlya and Dibrova villages there are brick plants, they product over 25 mln. pieces per year. In total in this district work 22 industries, among them: 9 forest and timber industries, 8 food industries, 6 machine building and metal-working industries. The local inhabitants are served by 1300 objects of trade, mode of life, industrial structures of all the forms of ownership. 6 departments, where mineral water is bottled, and 45 bakeries have been opened. Collective, 9 agricultural industrial, 84 peasant farmer's and almost 50 000 private farms have been founded and they still work succesfully.
Code for intecity telephone connection 03134
Telephone information 109, +38 (031) 99-109-11
Address/Telephone
Fire-saving service controller Tyachiv town, Armiyska St. 121
101, +38 (03134) 2-15-56, 2-21-95, 2-20-55
Militia station Tyachiv town, Zhovtneva St. 1
102, +38 (03134) 2-13-11, 3-35-90
Ambulance 103, +38 (03134) 3-35-88
Central regional hospital Tyachiv town, Zhovtneva St. 48
Stomatological hospital (state) Tyachiv town, A. Vayda St. 1
+38 (03134) 3-26-35, 3-28-34
Stomatological hospital (private) Tyachiv town, Y. Haharin St. 1
+38 (03134) 2-17-63, +38 (067) 907-11-65, 100-61-41
Twenty-four-hour pharmacy Tyachiv town, Zhovtneva St. 46
Sanitary epidemiological station Tyachiv town, Partyzanska St. 30
+38 (03134) 2-21-58 (0312) 64-28-77 (regional)
Mountain search and rescue service Ust-Chorna village, Pidhirna St. 5
+38 (03134) 3-61-83, 3-62-55, +38 (097) 933-19-76
State Motor Vehicle Inspectorate Tyachiv town, Komsomolska St. 6 A
+38 (03134) 2-13-69, 2-15-36, +38 (0312) 61-27-35 (orderly)
Regional State Administration reception room +38 (03134) 2-11-55
Tourism and Recreation Department of the Regional State Administration (RSA) +38 (03134) 3-30-92
Culture Department of the Regional State Administration (RSA) +38 (03134) 3-26-86
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